bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Fatherhood in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: An Examination of Barriers and Opportunities to Strengthen the Male Parenting Role
Authors: Reilly Lyndon , Rees Susan
Published: October 2017

Traditional Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies value men’s role as parents; however, the importance of promoting fatherhood as a key social determinant of men’s well-being has not been fully appreciated in Western medicine. To strengthen the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male parenting role, it is vital to examine current barriers and opportunities. The first author (a male Aboriginal health project officer) conducted yarning sessions in three remote Australian communities, two being Aboriginal, the other having a high Aboriginal population. An expert sample of 25 Aboriginal and 6 non-Aboriginal stakeholders, including maternal and child health workers and men’s group facilitators, considered barriers and opportunities to improve men’s parenting knowledge and role, with an aim to inform services and practices intended to support men’s parenting. A specific aim was to shape an existing men’s group program known as Strong Fathers, Strong Families. A thematic analysis of data from the project identified barriers and opportunities to support men’s role as parents. Challenges included the transition from traditional to contemporary parenting practices and low level of cultural and male gender sensitivity in maternal and child health services. Services need to better understand and focus on men’s psychological empowerment and to address shame and lack of confidence around parenting. Poor literacy and numeracy are viewed as contributing to disempowerment. Communities need to champion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male father role models. Biases and barriers should be addressed to improve service delivery and better enable men to become empowered and confident fathers.
“I’m Making the Streets Safer Ma’am”: Race, Coloniality, and the Redemptive Theologies of Pastoral Police Power
Authors: Kolia Zahir
Published: October 2017

A number of scholarly studies have focused upon mapping the relationship between race, police power, and the sovereign capacity of law onto the coordinates of repressive force. No doubt, the racialized circuits of police violence, underpinned by the mystical foundation of sovereign authority, constitute a coercive apparatus that is marshaled by risk and security. However, rather than reduce mythic police violence to the singular vector of repression, I suggest that the propensity to punish the racialized body and make it suffer through police practices of the confessional and pastoral power imbricate with the pre-liberal Christian theology of redemption and atonement. Upon consideration of decolonial and theological-political concepts, I suggest pastoral forms of racialized police power have been articulated to utilitarian secular-liberal democratic justifications to increase community safety, suppress crime, and reify social and political solidarity through the appropriate dispensation of suffering, and, potentially death.
Clinical Outcomes Following an Open Gastrocnemius Recession Combined With an Endoscopic Plantar Fasciotomy
Authors: Mulhern Jennifer L. , Protzman Nicole M. , Summers N. Jake , Brigido Stephen A.
Published: October 2017

At present, there is a paucity of literature describing the clinical outcomes following a combined gastrocnemius recession and endoscopic plantar fasciotomy. The purpose of the present report is to describe our preliminary findings following a combined gastrocnemius recession and endoscopic plantar fasciotomy for the treatment of plantar fasciitis and gastrocnemius equinus recalcitrant to conservative therapy. Twenty-five consecutive ankles in 23 patients (age 51.2 ± 12.5 years, 4 men) met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The average follow-up was 3.7 months. Compared across time, there were statistically significant improvements in pain, t(24) = 7.878, P < .001; dorsiflexion, t(24) = −6.125, P < .001; and eversion, t(23) = −3.610, P = .001. Plantar flexion and inversion remained similar across time ( P = .722 and P = .268, respectively). No statistically significant correlations were found between age and any of the postoperative outcome variables ( P ≥ .056) or body mass index and any of the postoperative outcome variables ( P ≥ .140). The authors believe that an isolated plantar fasciotomy alleviates symptoms in the majority of patients. When gastrocnemius equinus is also present, however, the authors advocate performing an open gastrocnemius recession as well. If the gastrocnemius pathology is not addressed, symptoms are likely to persist. The findings of the present report confirm the effectiveness of a combined gastrocnemius recession and endoscopic plantar fasciotomy to improve pain and range of motion.

Levels of Evidence: Case series, Level IV: Retrospective
The Contagious Effect of Deviant Behavior in Adolescence
Authors: Busching Robert , Krahé Barbara
Published: October 2017

This article investigated how the development of deviant behavior in adolescence is influenced by the variability of deviant behavior in the peer group. Based on the social information-processing (SIP) model, we predicted that peer groups with a low variability of deviant behavior (providing normative information that is easy to process) should have a main effect on the development of adolescents’ deviant behavior over time, whereas peer groups in which deviant behavior is more variable (i.e., more difficult to process) should primarily impact the deviant behavior of initially nondeviant classroom members. These hypotheses were largely supported in a multilevel analysis using self-reports of deviant behavior in a sample of 16,891 adolescents in 1,308 classes assessed at two data waves about 1-year apart. The results demonstrate the advantages of studying cross-level interactions to clarify the impact of the peer environment on the development of deviant behavior in adolescence.
A Candid Advantage? The Social Benefits of Candid Photos
Authors: Berger Jonah , Barasch Alixandra
Published: October 2017

Photos are a ubiquitous mode of social communication. Analysis of thousands of online profiles finds that people overwhelmingly post posed photos of themselves. But might candids actually lead observers to react more favorably? Five studies test this possibility. Compared to posed photos, candids made observers feel more connected to the poster, feel more interested in getting to know or date them, and like them more. This was driven by candids making people seem more genuine, which made others react more favorably. Furthermore, consistent with the hypothesized role of genuineness, the benefits of candids were diminished when observers learned that the poster realized their photo was being taken. These finding highlight the role of authenticity in person perception and a potential disconnect between photo posters and viewers. Although posters seem to post mostly posed photos, observers may prefer candids because they provide a more authentic sense of who the poster really is.
Race–Crime Congruency Effects Revisited: Do We Take Defendants' Sexual Orientation Into Account?
Authors: Petsko Christopher D. , Bodenhausen Galen V.
Published: October 2017

Decades ago, social psychologists documented a juror decision-making bias called the race–crime congruency effect: a tendency to condemn Black men more than White men for stereotypically Black crimes but to do the reverse for stereotypically White crimes. We conducted two high-powered experiments ( N = 2,520) to see whether this pattern replicates and to examine whether it is attenuated when the defendant is gay. When participants reported on what the average American juror would do (Experiment 1), we observed greater harshness toward Black defendants accused of stereotypically Black crimes but not the previously documented reversal for stereotypically White crimes. Defendant sexual orientation did not moderate this pattern. When participants reported their own judgments about the same criminal cases (Experiment 2), they expressed greater harshness toward White (vs. Black) defendants and toward heterosexual (vs. gay) defendants. These effects were not moderated by crime type. Implications for the race–crime congruency effect are discussed.
Diffusion tensor tractography in cerebral small vessel disease: correlation with cognitive function
Authors: D’Souza Maria M , Gorthi SP , Vadwala Kunal , Trivedi Richa , Vijayakumar C , Kaur Prabhjot , Khushu Subash
Published: October 2017

Background

Patients with cerebral small vessel disease may suffer from varying levels of cognitive deficit and may progress on to vascular dementia. The extent of involvement, as seen on conventional magnetic resonance (MR) measures, correlates poorly with the level of cognitive decline. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as a marker for white matter damage in small vessel disease and to assess its correlation with cognitive function.

Methods

Thirty consecutive patients with cerebral small vessel disease underwent conventional MR imaging, DTI, and neuropsychological assessment.

Results

On tractographic analysis, fractional anisotropy was significantly reduced while mean diffusivity significantly increased in several white matter tracts. The alteration in DTI indices correlated well with cognitive function. No significant correlation was identified between T2 lesion load and cognitive performance.

Conclusions

Tractographic analysis of white matter integrity is a useful measure of disease severity and correlates well with cognitive function. It may have a significant potential in monitoring disease progression and may serve as a surrogate marker for treatment trials.
Clinical Outcomes of Donor Sites After Osteochondral Graft Harvest From Healthy Knees
Authors: Nakagawa Yasuaki , Mukai Shogo , Setoguchi Yoshimasa , Goto Tadashi , Furukawa Taizo , Nakamura Takashi
Published: October 2017

Background:

The use of autologous osteochondral grafts has become popular in the treatment of small, isolated, well-contained articular cartilage defects. However, donor site morbidity is a problem, and few reports are available of donor site morbidity after mosaicplasty.

Purpose:

To examine the clinical outcomes of donor sites after osteochondral grafts from healthy knees.

Study Design:

Case series; Level of evidence, 4.

Methods:

Between September 1997 and September 2011, there were 40 patients (40 knees; 32 men, 8 women; 31 right knees, 9 left knees) with asymptomatic osteochondral graft donor sites used for autologous transfer; all had a follow-up period of >2 years. The mean patient age at surgery was 21.0 years (range, 12-58 years). The recipient sites included the elbow (n = 28), contralateral knee (n = 5), and ankle (n = 7). The mean diameter of the grafted plugs was 7.5 mm (range, 4.5-9 mm), and the mean number of grafted plugs was 2.2 (range, 1-3). At a mean follow-up of 43.1 months (range, 24-177 months), knee symptoms, return to sport, ability to sit straight in Japanese style, and radiological changes of the patellofemoral joint were evaluated. Whether operative age, follow-up period, and diameter or number of the grafted plugs were risk factors was analyzed statistically. Significance was defined as P < .05.

Results:

Thirty-four patients had no knee symptoms, and 4 patients had occasional mild knee pain. Two patients underwent reoperation for arthrofibrosis and not for cartilage defect. Twenty-seven patients had complete return to sports, and 32 patients could sit straight; donor site morbidity was not the cause of failure to return to sports or inability to sit straight. The radiological changes became worse in 3 patients, and the risk factor for degenerative change was older operative age.

Conclusion:

When osteochondral plugs were obtained from healthy knees, 34 patients (85%) were asymptomatic at follow-up. No donor site defects required surgical intervention due to persistent symptoms.
A shape grammar approach to contextual design: A case study of the Pol houses of Ahmedabad, India
Authors: Lambe Neeta Rajesh , Dongre Alpana R
Published: October 2017

In architecture, context refers to the surrounding area or setting in which the building is placed. In architectural theory and practice, context plays an important role in proposing architectural vocabulary. Since the mid-20th-century, creating harmony with traditional context amidst growing development has been a major concern and interest of designers. Contextualism theory in architecture refers to the relationship between new buildings and the existing surroundings while addressing the issue of fitting new to old structures together to achieve congruence and continuity. The analysis of traditional architectural style significantly influences a designer’s decision-making process when adopting contextual design approach. In this study, a shape grammar approach is proposed to create a harmonious environment through the generation of new designs based on the grammar of existing architectural style without curbing the designer’s creativity. This paper demonstrates the pattern-generating quality of traditional Pol row houses of Ahmedabad, India. The grammar of the traditional Pol house forms the architectural context for the new in-fill development in the area. The shape grammar approach to architectural design is examined as a process of interpreting the context as socio-cultural experience through rule schema when addressing the issue of contemporary demands and needs. Here, shape grammar is explored as a tool to analyse the existing design through the generation of new designs. The grammar differs from the previous work in terms of the derivation method and identification of the clues for rule schema in the Indian context. This method has been examined in the process of resolving the issue of unsympathetic development by providing design variations within the grammar for in-fill development to derive spatial clues for generation of new designs, which would be argued as the first step towards achieving aesthetic congruence.
In-Hospital Mortality Following Traumatic Brain Injury Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries, Comparing Statin Users With Nonusers
Authors: Khokhar Bilal , Simoni-Wastila Linda , Slejko Julia F. , Perfetto Eleanor , Zhan Min , Smith Gordon S.
Published: October 2017

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health concern for older adults. Small-scale human studies have suggested pre-TBI statin use is associated with decreased in-hospital mortality following TBI, highlighting the need for large-scale translational research. Objective: To investigate the relationship between pre-TBI statin use and in-hospital mortality following TBI. Methods: A retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older hospitalized with a TBI during 2006 to 2010 was conducted to assess the impact of pre-TBI statin use on in-hospital mortality following TBI. Exposure of interest included atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin. Beneficiaries were classified as current, recent, past, and nonusers of statins prior to TBI. The outcome of interest was in-hospital mortality. Logistic regression was used to obtain odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) comparing current, recent, and prior statin use to nonuse. Results: Most statin users were classified as current users (90%). Current atorvastatin (OR = 0.88; 95% = CI 0.82, 0.96), simvastatin (OR = 0.84; 95% CI = 0.79, 0.91), and rosuvastatin (OR = 0.79; 95% CI = 0.67, 0.94) use were associated with a significant decrease in the risk of in-hospital mortality following TBI. Conclusions: In addition to being the most used statins, current use of atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, and simvastatin was associated with a significant decrease in in-hospital mortality following TBI among older adults. Future research must include clinical trials to help exclude the possibility of a healthy user effect in order to better understand the impact of statin use on in-hospital mortality following TBI.
Depression, quality of life, and medical resource utilization in sickle cell disease
Authors: Adam Soheir S. , Flahiff Charlene M. , Kamble Shital , Telen Marilyn J. , Reed Shelby D. , De Castro Laura M.
Published: October 2017

Key Points

Depression was found in 35.2% of adult SCD patients and was strongly associated with worse physical and mental quality-of-life outcomes. Total health care costs for adult SCD patients with depression were more than double those of SCD patients without depression.
A 3D localisation method in indoor environments for virtual reality applications
Authors: Song Wei , Liu Liying , Tian Yifei , Sun Guodong , Fong Simon , Cho Kyungeun
Published: October 2017

Virtual Reality (VR) has recently experienced rapid development for human–computer interactions. Users wearing VR headsets gain an immersive experience when interacting with a 3-dimensional (3D) world. We utilise a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor to detect a 3D point cloud from the real world. To match the scale between a virtual environment and a user’s real world, this paper develops a boundary wall detection method using the Hough transform algorithm. A connected-component-labelling (CCL) algorithm is applied to classify the Hough space into several distinguishable blocks that are segmented using a threshold. The four largest peaks among the segmented blocks are extracted as the parameters of the wall plane. The virtual environment is scaled to the size of the real environment. In order to synchronise the position of the user and his/her avatar in the virtual world, a wireless Kinect network is proposed for user localisation. Multiple Kinects are mounted in an indoor environment to sense the user’s information from different viewpoints. The proposed method supports the omnidirectional detection of the user’s position and gestures. To verify the performance of our proposed system, we developed a VR game using several Kinects and a Samsung Gear VR device.
Complete genome sequence of Paenibacillus yonginensis DCY84T, a novel plant Symbiont that promotes growth via induced systemic resistance
Authors: Kim Yeon-Ju , Sukweenadhi Johan , Seok Ji Woong , Kang Chang Ho , Choi Eul-Su , Subramaniyam Sathiyamoorthy , Yang Deok Chun
Published: October 2017

This article reports the full genome sequence of Paenibacillus yonginensis DCY84T (KCTC33428, JCM19885), which is a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium isolated from humus soil of Yongin Forest in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The genome sequence of strain DCY84T provides greater understanding of the Paenibacillus species for practical use. This bacterium displays plant growth promotion via induced systemic resistance of abiotic stresses.
Letitia Landon's “The Fairy of the Fountains” And Gothic Narrative
Authors: Lokke Kari
Published: October 2017

“The Fairy of the Fountains” is one of Letitia Landon's most enigmatic and disturbing poems. It makes for particularly difficult reading because Landon sought in this poem to translate the forms of ballad and medieval lay into her own nineteenth-century poetic idiom. Her replication of the ellipses and abrupt transitions common to folkloric forms renders the poem both demanding and powerfully suggestive. These significant challenges to a coherent reading of the poem are magnified by its length. Based on the author's experience of teaching “The Fairy of the Fountains” in an upper-division course on gothic and supernatural literature, this article elucidates how placing it in the context of other, better-known Gothic texts significantly enhances students' appreciation of this long poem by helping to illuminate the most puzzling aspects of Landon's narrative. This approach implicitly asserts that Landon's poem is worthy to be read alongside these equally enigmatic canonical poems and also offers students two much more accessible prose versions of the Melusine legend. Through this comparative, intertextual approach, students gain a rich sense of the variations possible on an ancient folkloric motif and develop an understanding of the place of these texts in nineteenth-century literary history.
Teaching Amy Levy's “Xantippe”
Authors: Hughes Linda K.
Published: October 2017

This article addresses the teaching of Amy Levy's “Xantippe” (1880), a poem 279 lines long, in an upper-division survey of British literature from 1800 to the present focused on life stories. Though the poem is short enough to be read in a single sitting, it is also long enough to pose the pedagogical challenges common to teaching all long poems: asking students to read both closely and at length, to discern unifying tropes or themes across manifold details or narrative episodes, to engage in sufficient discussion commensurate with the long poem's complexity, and to discover the pleasures of the long poem (deep immersion, sweep of vistas, narrative propulsion, and more). Since Levy is not anthologized in most survey textbooks, the article also concerns teaching noncanonical poetry. The methods presented include prompts posing questions and explaining the work's poetic and cultural contexts, and student reading diaries listing what students found challenging and what they learned. The article thus incorporates real-time student responses, as well as discussion of teaching strategies.
“Let Me Count the Ways”
Authors: Boos Florence S.
Published: October 2017

At 10,938 lines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh would seem unsuited for the present-day classroom, with its focus on short, simple texts adapted for readers with little experience of long poems. Yet it teaches quite readily and, indeed, is often a student favorite. This article emphasizes the multigeneric quality of Browning's epic and the advantages of presenting its successive layers. The poem functions as a veiled autobiographical narrative of development, a fast-paced novel plot centering on gender and class relationships, and a closet drama utilizing features of the contemporary stage. Other aspects of the poem include its appeal as a travel narrative, as Aurora responds to European sites still unfamiliar to many of Browning's readers, and its self-reflexivity as a critical treatise on poetics, as Aurora attempts to enunciate the principles that have guided the poem's author. Certain aspects of the poem's imagery and characterization are especially effective in prompting classroom debate; among these are the ideologically laden symbols of a burned aristocratic manor, a blinded hero, the final vision of a New Jerusalem, and the remarkable portrayal of the aggrieved seamstress Marian, who protests her victimization by rape and rejects marriage with an upper-class suitor.
UsingWikipediato Teach Audience, Genre, and Collaboration
Authors: Bilansky Alan
Published: October 2017

This article describes a sequence of assignments to guide students through an informed effort at making contributions to Wikipedia that persist, and suggests ways this set of exercises in social informatics may also serve a number of common goals in a variety of writing, literature, and other courses: analyzing and writing for explicit editorial guidelines (“standards” in information science, “house style” in editorial practice); understanding, conforming to, and even negotiating conventions of genres and subgenres; collaborating online; writing for an audience that not only is real but also talks back; and developing deep understanding of revision and the writing, editorial, and publication processes. Students first learn Wikipedia policies and practices and analyze the historical development of articles before they make contributions. The pedagogical opportunities arguably outweigh the concerns of those who doubt the credibility of an open-authored encyclopedia.
Paradoxes in the Classroom
Authors: Propst Lisa , Loicano Jade Kierbow
Published: October 2017

Students in freshman composition classes often assume that the goal of college writing is to sound like someone else, so they struggle to frame their own questions in response to the world around them. This article analyzes the potential for student-driven learning to redress this problem. It focuses on a team-taught freshman composition course that asked students to collaborate in designing a section of their curriculum. The article argues that control over the curriculum inspired many students to push themselves intellectually and adopt the roles of teachers. On the other hand, increased autonomy sometimes disempowered students who had not yet acquired skills to assess their own strengths and weaknesses and who thus reverted to oversimplified ideas or avoided actively taking on responsibilities. If agency constitutes the power to carry out effective action, this course illustrated the capacity of autonomy both to foster and to subvert student agency.
Being Elsewhere
Authors: Chandran K. Narayana
Published: October 2017

English has a peculiar way of redefining the selves and locations of readers, especially in countries where Anglo-American texts are studied with a multicultural awareness. Ernest Hemingway's “Hills like White Elephants” creates a world elsewhere not only for the couple who travel elsewhere but also for the students who read their story in Kerala (India) when they explore the “elsewheres” they create together as a class by translating it into Malayalam. The student-translators are apt to discover that there is more to Jig's unspoken anguish and the largely unspeakable differences that surface between the two lovers. While Hemingway's lean style is understood for what infinite suggestions it evokes in English, students surprise themselves with meanings—pregnant possibilities that suggest themselves in Malayalam, and unbeknownst to English/monolingual readers. Translation, like the extremely sparse exchanges between Jig and her lover, must exercise extreme caution, however, in committing no more words than must essentially be committed. Concealing what no longer needed concealment, or was soon to be found too big for concealment anyway, is a worrisome theme here whose reflection in translation is hard to sustain unless the Malayali translators match Hemingway's superior command of language. Besides such knowledge, a translator's intertextualities are as invisible as, and perhaps much harder to share with others than, a teacher's challenges and excitement of teaching “Hills” in English in a multilingual classroom. Perhaps from such dreams begin the responsibilities of reading a story as yet unwritten in Hemingway's classic every time we read it elsewhere.
Conceiving of a Teacherly Identity
Authors: Neaderhiser Stephen
Published: October 2017

Based on a study of collected teaching statements, this article analyzes how compositionists use metaphors of writing and teaching to describe their pedagogical practice and philosophy. I argue that the interactive use of metaphors within teaching statements shows how a teacher's pedagogical identity is endorsed by disciplinary values.
The Desirable Difficulties of Studying Romanticism
Authors: Elfenbein Andrew
Published: October 2017

Academics have inherited conventions for the presentation of literature in anthologies that do not take into account difficulties in comprehension that undergraduates have with difficult material, such as Romantic poetry. This article describes two experimental surveys given to undergraduates to learn what instructional materials they find most useful.
Guest Editors' Introduction
Authors: Hart D. Alexis , Thompson Roger
Published: October 2017

Suggesting that higher education is at a pivotal time regarding the influx of veteran students on campus, this and the following essays argue that faculty have an ethical obligation to investigate and, if appropriate, respond to the veteran student demographic enrolled in two- and four-year institutions. We hope to encourage language, literature, and writing faculty to rethink their preconceptions of war, warriors, and military culture—to ask hard questions about what we know about the wars, the people who fight them, their families, and the public narratives that have controlled our access to “combat operations.” We encourage faculty to engage the complexities of war, to honor the complicated questions and dilemmas military members face, and to understand how those questions will likely filter into classrooms, social interactions, and broader national discourse. We provide our colleagues with an opportunity to hear veteran voices in the hope that classroom teachers can have some grounds on which to reconsider and engage with the culture of war. We have an opportunity to theorize classroom practices that are in clear contact with veteran experiences and, more important, an opportunity to engage with veterans and service members not simply as objects of study but as colleagues.
Pushback
Authors: Ore Ersula
Published: October 2017

This article features pushback as a rhetorical and ethical pedagogical posture for engaging whiteness in the tight space of the university elevator. In addition, it outlines how the racialized space of the historically white institutions renders the ways faculty women of color such as myself exercise pedagogical care and teacherly ethos.
No Exit
Authors: Ellwanger Adam
Published: October 2017

Critical race theory has long relied on metaphors of perception to further its critiques of white hegemonic power. However, such criticism often depends on a paradoxical logic that silences white students in classroom discussions of race. This essay suggests the dominant pedagogical approach to whiteness is obsolete, calling for new inclusive strategies to break the rhetorical stalemate.
Citizens, Soldiers, and Future Selves
Authors: Laski Gregory
Published: October 2017

This essay approaches the citizen-forming duties of literature by meditating on the military-civilian divide. Supplementing regnant accounts of the value of literary study, it argues that the democratic power of literature resides not simply in the work of imagining the other but also in imagining other versions of one's self.
Race, Region, and Ethos
Authors: Wray Amanda
Published: October 2017

This article explores the struggle to transport an ethos of white antiracism across different racial climates within two university contexts. The author analyzes the influence that students' home rhetorics of racism and their conceptualizations about “progressive” white identity have in (de)constructing a teacher's credibility to discuss racial identity and racisms in the classroom.
Exploding Rhetorics of 9/11
Authors: Ames Melissa
Published: October 2017

This essay discusses the affordances of using an affect-based approach to 9/11 discourses that facilitates teaching civic engagement. Representations and rhetoric about 9/11 are found in a range of modes—film, documentary, literature, news coverage, and official government documents. Asking students to analyze these representations using a variety of rhetorical strategies highlights the way that various sources of (competing) knowledge about the national tragedy disrupt the notion that there is an accepted, uniform way of understanding this event. Furthermore, this approach demonstrates how varied sources of meaning making construct our public sphere.
Digital Reading
Authors: Rodrigue Tanya K.
Published: October 2017

This article informs educators about the importance and challenges of teaching digital reading practices. In positioning reading as a design-oriented activity and readers as text designers, instructors can teach genre awareness as a way to help students strongly engage with and comprehend digital texts.
Distribution of H3K27me3, H3K9me3, and H3K4me3 along autophagy-related genes highly expressed in starved zebrafish myotubes
Authors: Biga Peggy R. , Latimer Mary N. , Froehlich Jacob Michael , Gabillard Jean-Charles , Seiliez Iban
Published: October 2017

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) remains the teleost fish of choice for biological investigations due to the vast array of molecular tools and resources available. To better understand the epigenetic regulation of autophagy, we utilized a primary myotube culture system generated from isolated myogenic precursor cells (MPCs) from zebrafish grown under starvation conditions using a media devoid of serum and amino acids. Here, we report starvation-induced regulation of several autophagy-related genes (atg) expression and profile the distribution of H3K27me3, H3K9me3, and H3K4me3 marks along lc3b, atg4b and p62/sqstm1 loci. These data support epigenetic regulation of autophagy in response to starvation that suggests a level of regulation that can be sustained for chronic conditions via chromatin modification.
PubRunner: A light-weight framework for updating text mining results
Authors: Anekalla Kishore R. , Courneya J.P. , Fiorini Nicolas , Lever Jake , Muchow Michael , Busby Ben
Published: October 2017

Biomedical text mining promises to assist biologists in quickly navigating the combined knowledge in their domain. This would allow improved understanding of the complex interactions within biological systems and faster hypothesis generation. New biomedical research articles are published daily and text mining tools are only as good as the corpus from which they work. Many text mining tools are underused because their results are static and do not reflect the constantly expanding knowledge in the field. In order for biomedical text mining to become an indispensable tool used by researchers, this problem must be addressed. To this end, we present PubRunner, a framework for regularly running text mining tools on the latest publications. PubRunner is lightweight, simple to use, and can be integrated with an existing text mining tool. The workflow involves downloading the latest abstracts from PubMed, executing a user-defined tool, pushing the resulting data to a public FTP or Zenodo dataset, and publicizing the location of these results on the public PubRunner website. We illustrate the use of this tool by re-running the commonly used word2vec tool on the latest PubMed abstracts to generate up-to-date word vector representations for the biomedical domain. This shows a proof of concept that we hope will encourage text mining developers to build tools that truly will aid biologists in exploring the latest publications.
Updated mtCOI reference dataset for the Bemisia tabaci species complex
Authors: Boykin Laura M. , Savill Anders , De Barro Paul
Published: October 2017

Members of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci species complex cause millions of dollars of damage globally and are considered one of the world’s most invasive species. They are capable of causing extensive damage to major vegetable, grain legume and fiber crops. All member of the species complex are morphologically identical therefore, data from the partial mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (mtCOI) gene sequence has been used to identify the various species. The current reference dataset that is widely used is found on the CSIRO data portal. However, the reference set stored on the CSIRO data does not include newly added sequences (2013-2017), therefore an updated reference dataset is needed.  All mtCOI data for the Bemisia tabaci species complex were downloaded on 22 May 2017 from GenBank and after quality checking, a dataset of 1,071 unique sequences and 696 base pairs was generated (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5437420.v1).
­­­Proteomic analysis of H3K36me3 and PSIP1/p75 (LEDGF) complexes reveal their wider role in DNA repair
Authors: Pradeepa Madapura M. , Taylor Gillian C.A. , von Kriegsheim Alex
Published: October 2017

Background: Trimethylation at histone H3 at lysine 36 (H3K36me3) is associated with expressed gene bodies and recruit proteins implicated in transcription, splicing and DNA repair. PC4 and SF2 interacting protein (PSIP1/LEDGF) is a transcriptional coactivator, possesses a  H3K36me3 reader PWWP domain. Alternatively spliced isoforms of PSIP1 binds to H3K36me3 and suggested to function as adaptor proteins to recruit transcriptional modulators, splicing factors and proteins that promote homology directed repair (HDR), to H3K36me3 chromatin.

Methods: We performed chromatin immunoprecipitation of H3K36me3 followed by quantitative mass spectrometry to identify proteins associated with H3K36 trimethylated chromatin in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). Furthermore, we performed stable isotope labelling with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) for a longer isoform of PSIP1 (p75) and MOF/KAT8 in mESCs and mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFS).

Results: Proteomic analysis of H3K36me3 chromatin show association of proteins involved in transcriptional elongation, RNA processing and DNA repair with H3K36me3 chromatin. Furthermore, we show DNA repair proteins like PARP1, gamma H2A.X, XRCC1, DNA ligase 3, SPT16, Topoisomerases and BAZ1B are predominant interacting partners of PSIP1/p75. We validated the association of PSIP1/p75 with gamma H2A.X, an early marker of DNA damage and also demonstrated accumulation of damaged DNA in PSIP1 knockout MEFs.

Conclusions: In contrast to the previously demonstrated role of H3K36me3 and PSIP1/p75 in promoting HDR in mammals, our data supports the wider role of H3K36me3 and PSIP1 in maintaining the genome integrity by recruiting several DNA repair proteins to transcribed gene bodies.
The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 Polish version: factor structure analysis among normal weight and obese adult women
Authors: Brytek-Matera Anna , Rogoza Radosław , Czepczor-Bernat Kamila
Published: October 2017

Aim of the study

In the present study, we aimed to examine the construct validity of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 (TFEQ-R18) and to investigate variables of the following phenomena such as cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating and emotional eating in normal weight women and women with obesity.

Subject or material and methods

The research sample comprised 237 participants (200 with normal weight and 37 obese): the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 was distributed to all participants at the same time.

Results

We have found that the three-factor structure is invariant at each level— configural, metric, scalar, and strict. Individuals with obesity scored significantly higher than individuals within normal weight range in uncontrolled eating (p = .005) and emotional eating (p = .053).

Discussion

Observed ambiguities between the results provided by the current and other studies may be explained in terms of the controlling of the shared variance and measurement error, since only up to date summarized scores were compared across groups.

Conclusions

These results broaden knowledge of eating behaviours in normal weight individuals as well as those with obesity.
Assimilating architectural cognitive mappings: A survey of students and architects
Authors: Roldán-Riejos Ana , Mansilla Paloma Úbeda
Published: October 2017

The aim of this article is to show a sample of elicited linguistic responses in order to identify cognitive links between academic knowledge and professional practice in architecture. We also study the composition of the identified mappings. To this end, we have analysed and compared a survey conducted among Technical University of Madrid undergraduate architecture students on the one hand and a group of architects on the other. This study is part of a major research work carried out by the research group DISCYT. The surveys presented here propose the idea of working with cognitive mappings that display understanding of important competencies in architectural practice. As a theoretical framework, we draw on cognitive linguistics theory, particularly on conceptual and linguistic metaphor theory. Since text and images are often fused in the different stages of architectural work, we have added images in the survey so as to better determine conceptual correspondences in cognitive visual input (Forceville 2010; Kress 2010; Cuadrado et al. 2016; Roldán-Riejos 2016). The method consisted of examining and comparing the results obtained in the survey from the groups of students and architects in order to infer implications for educators.
Transforming studio experience: Introducing student-centred learning and communities of practice to new design-teaching staff in Shanghai
Authors: Piper Greg
Published: October 2017

This article reflects upon the experience of a New Zealand design lecturer, invited to facilitate workshops in student-centred learning with tertiary teachers, in China. The context was a new, themed-environment design degree, which sought to integrate international design and teaching methodologies. Developing a community of practice amongst the teaching staff was considered vital to the enhancing of subsequent student learning experiences. A decentred approach was used, in which all cultural conditionings were acknowledged and reflected upon while avoiding emphasis on any particular forms. Various types of feedback were used to gain teaching staff responses to the workshop experiences. The challenge was to present alternative design teaching models in another cultural and pedagogical environment, and to encourage forms of studio teaching practice that could lie alongside traditional ways.
New approach to the resolution of triangular fuzzy linear programs: MOMA-plus method.
Authors: COMPAORE Abdoulaye , SOME Kounhinir , SOME Blaise
Published: October 2017

In this  paper,  we propose  a  new  approach to  the  resolution of linear  programs,  whose coefficients are fuzzy triangular numbers.  This new approach is an adaptation from the method MOMA-plus (Multi-Objective Metaheuristic based on Alienor method) [1] to the resolution of fuzzy linear programs. First of all it consists in using of a new procedure proposed here to the converting of the fuzzy linear program into a deterministic multi-objective linear program, secondly  of the  using  of the  MOMA-plus  procedure for resolution.  Finally, three numerical examples are given  to  explain   the  procedures and  highlight  the performances of  this  new approach.
Producing the Rigorous Design Case
Authors: Smith Kennon M.
Published: October 2017

Producing a rigorous design case, and producing a case that holds utility for designers, are not always one and the same act. The differences between rigor and utility in design cases are discussed in this article, as well as the position of the design case in the broader realm of naturalistic research. Drawing from naturalistic and action research, possible standards of rigor for cases emerge. These are presented and related to the representation of design knowledge. The article then presents issues observed among authors of traditional research in producing design cases of rigor.
Bottom Line: Defining Success in the Creation of a Business Simulation
Authors: Mulcahy Robert Sean
Published: October 2017

This paper describes Bottom Line, a hybrid technology/classroom business simulation designed to help interns at an auditing/tax/consulting firm better understand the industry they are entering and the resource trade-offs that professional services firms make to stay competitive. This paper describes the sim on three different levels, the simulation level, the game level, and the instructional level, and the design choices made at each level, some of which were influenced by significant resource constraints. Bottom Line’s learning gains and ROI were not evaluated objectively—in fact, given objectives more focused on thought provocation than content teaching, it is unlikely it would score well on any level of the Kirkpatrick scale beyond the first. Despite that, and despite significant design and development weaknesses, it was seen as an unqualified success by the sponsoring organization. A discussion of what success means concludes this paper.
Making Design Decisions Visible: Applying the Case-Based Method in Designing Online Instruction
Authors: Luo Heng , Koszalka Tiffany
Published: October 2017

The instructional intervention in this design case is a self-directed online tutorial that applies the case-based method to teach educators how to design and conduct entrepreneurship programs for elementary school students. In this article, the authors describe the major decisions made in each phase of the design and development process, explicate the rationales behind them, and demonstrate their effect on the production of the tutorial.  Based on such analysis, the guidelines for designing case-based online instruction are summarized for the design case.
Writing and Rewriting the Instructional Design Case: A View from Two Sides
Authors: Howard Craig D.
Published: October 2017

This article analyzes five problem areas educators grapple with when writing designs cases about learning interventions. The article is written from the vantage point of IJDL’s assistant editor who edited, reviewed, and coordinated the reviews of design cases over a period of two years while also writing his own design case (Howard & Myers, 2010: International Journal of Designs for Learning). The knowledge building genre of the instructional design case is viewed from the perspective of commonalities between articles published in a Tech Trends feature, the Instructional Design Portfolio, and this venue. The areas of concern common among reviews for these publications shed light on how the design case is developing into a rigorous form of educational inquiry. The areas of concern brought up in reviews of cases are discussed in light of the author’s first hand experiences of satisfying reviewers’ concerns and, in turn, coaching other educators through the process of a finalized design case. Those common areas are: (1) situating the design, (2) describing the design, (3) depicting the experience of the design, (4) developing trustworthiness through transparency, analysis, and reflection (5) removing aspects of design cases which confound their purpose. Specific examples from design cases that have gone through peer review describe how author-educators may approach the dissemination of design precedent through the careful documentation of pedagogical designs.
Models and Design Judgment: Conflicting Perspectives on Redesigning a Doctoral Readings Course
Authors: Gray Colin M. , Jung Jiyoon , Watson Carol , Jia Xiaokai , Frick Theodore W.
Published: October 2017

The purpose of this project was to document the redesign of an existing doctoral reading course for an online environment. Potential methods for actualizing the proposed course structure in an online environment, including technology tools and interactions are discussed. The design process began within the framework of the Four-Component Instructional Design (4C/ID) model (van Merriënboer, 1997; van Merriënboer & Kirchner, 2007), which advocates a shift from topic-centeredness to a task-centered course organization, but quickly evolved into a flexible, iterative design process that was informed by prototyping, the judgment of the design team, and various theories of knowledge and knowing. The 4C/ID model represented our philosophical starting point, but our focus quickly shifted to a more flexible, eclectic process as we attempted to reconcile conflicting constraints on the final design. Along with the redevelopment of course objectives to meet strategic goals within the doctoral program came a focus on facilitating research thinking of the students rather than teaching isolated research tasks. The design process resulted in changes to the current residential course, which then provided an opportunity for further investigation.