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Such Books Should be Burned! Same-Sex Parenting and the Stretchable Definition of the Family in Larysa Denysenko’s and Mariia Foya’s Maya and Her Mums
Authors: Świetlicki Mateusz 
Published: October 2019

AbstractAs there is a myriad of Anglophone picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, some Western readers familiar with them would probably see little that is ground-breaking in the visual and verbal narrative of Larysa Denysenko’s and Mariia Foya’sMaya and Her Mums(2017). The picturebook’s first-person narrator and protagonist is a ten-year-old girl who describes her 16 classmates and their families; it includes no violence, no nudity, and no sexual references. Despite the title suggesting the story to be about the eponymous heroine and her family, Maya briefly introduces readers to her two mothers in one of the last doublespreads. WhenMaya and Her Mumswas included in the programme of Ukraine’s most important book fair, the Lviv Book Forum, it became a political tool in the confrontation between homophobic Ukrainian nationalists and progressive intellectuals. In this essay, I want to examine the depiction of same-sex parenting inMaya and Her Mumsand argue that it implies gradual widening of tolerance, with households headed by lesbian parents being the most controversial. Thus, the picturebook suggests that the definition of the family is stretchable, even in a conservative socio-political climate. By familiarising readers with Denysenko’s and Foya’s picturebook, I want to show what makes it different from equivalent Anglophone picturebooks and argue that the Ukrainian book market is slowly becoming more inclusive and diverse. Hence, despite the conservative backlash, the need for for same-sex parents and their children to be represented in children’s literature can no longer be ignored.
Solubility Determination of Hydroquinone in Dichloromethane, Trichloromethane and Carbon Tetrachloride by Using the Co-solvent Calibration Method
Authors: Kiss László , Kunsági-Máté Sándor 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
In this report, the solubility of hydroquinone (1,4-dihydroxybenzene) was determined in dichloromethane, trichloromethane and carbon tetrachloride at 298 K by using cyclic voltammetry. By the proposed cosolvent calibration method a mixed solvent was used for the determination of solubility where acetonitrile was the co-solvent. The molar ratios of the two solvents were uniform during the whole procedure both in the calibration solutions and in solutions used for solubility determinations. The solubility of hydroquinone decreased by the decrease of solvent permittivity, which were in dichloromethane 5.683 mmol·L−1, in trichloromethane 2.785 mmol·L−1 and in carbon tetrachloride 0.321 mmol·L−1.
Beneficial effect of ER stress preconditioning in protection against FFA-induced adipocyte inflammation via XBP1 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
Authors: Wang Min , Chen Xi , Zheng Zhenda , Yu Shujie , Zhou Bin , Liu Yong , Liu Dinghui , Chen Yanming , Qian Xiaoxian 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Adipose tissue inflammation is closely associated with the development of obesity and insulin resistance. Free fatty acids (FFAs) are a major inducer of obesity-related insulin resistance. Previously, we reported that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress potentially mediated retinal inflammation in diabetic retinopathy. The unfolded protein response (UPR) protects cells against damage induced by oxidative stress. X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) plays a major role in protecting cells by modulating the UPR. However, the link between ER stress and adipocyte inflammation has been poorly investigated. In the present study, we found that pretreatment of 3T3-L1 adipocytes with a low dose of ER stress inducer tunicamycin inhibited FFA-induced upregulated expression of inflammatory cytokines. In addition, FFAs induced phosphorylation of the p65 subunit of NF-κB was largely inhibited by pretreatment with tunicamycin in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Knockdown of XBP1 by siRNA markedly mitigated the protective effects of preconditioning against inflammation. Conversely, overexpression of XBP1 alleviated FFA-induced phosphorylation of IκB-α, IKKα/β, and NF-κB, which was accompanied by decreased inflammatory cytokine expression. Collectively, these results imply a beneficial role of ER stress preconditioning in protecting against FFA-induced 3T3-L1 adipocyte inflammation, which is likely mediated through inhibition of the IKK/NF-κB pathway via XBP1.
Bifurcation phenomena and statistical regularities in dynamics of forced impacting oscillator
Authors: Skurativskyi Sergii , Kudra Grzegorz , Witkowski Krzysztof , Awrejcewicz Jan 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThe paper is devoted to the study of harmonically forced impacting oscillator. The physical model for oscillator is a cart on a guide connected to the support with springs and excited by the stepper motor. The support also is provided with limiter of motion. The mathematical model for this system is defined with the second-order piecewise smooth differential equation. Model’s nonlinearity is connected with the incorporation of dry friction and generalized Hertz contact law. Analyzing the classical Poincare sections and inter-impact sequences obtained experimentally and numerically, the bifurcations and statistical properties of periodic, multi-periodic, and chaotic regimes were examined. The development of impact-adding regime as a new nonlinear phenomenon when the forcing frequency varies was observed.
May, Should, or Do, Administrative Judges Participate in the Management of the Public Sphere in the Rule of Law?
Authors: Szot Adam 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The article concerns the actual impact of courts controlling the activity of public administration on the direction of its activities and the content of issued decisions. In particular, it concerns sovereign individual decisions that affect the sphere of civil rights and freedoms. The aim of the article is to seek an answer to the question of whether independent judges actually participate in the process of management in the public sphere, which is characterised by elements of politics and (regardless of the answer to this question) whether such participation is allowed or (even) necessary in modern rule of law states. The main argument is that regardless of whether the courts controlling the administration have reformatory or exclusive cassation powers, they influence the decision-making process in the public sphere. At the same time, such influence not only does not violate the fundamental values of the rule of law, but is even sometimes necessary. This does not mean that courts should interfere in the management processes in the public sphere in every case.
How do admission committees select? Do applicants know how they select? Selection criteria and transparency at a Dutch University
Authors: Kurysheva Anastasia , van Rijen Harold V. M. , Dilaver Gönül 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
In this study, we investigated the currently applied selective admission criteria and tools of the two-year research master’s programs of both the Graduate Schools of Life Sciences and Natural Sciences of Utrecht University (the Netherlands). In addition, we evaluated their transparency to applicants. Both admissions staff members and applicants participated. To determine admission criteria that are important for admission decisions, we ranked 51 admission criteria and, on their basis, combined into six domains: academic background, grades, cognitive ability, research background, personality and personal competencies, motivation factors. To evaluate transparency, we contrasted the perceptions of applicants with the actual importance of admission criteria, as reported by admission staff members. We found that admissions criteria related to personality and personal competencies are less important in admission decisions than criteria related to grades, academic background and motivation. The applicants find the admissions decisions transparent to a moderate degree. This study also revealed that selectors use criteria and tools both with and without predictive value for later graduate performance. Moreover, some of the currently applied admission instruments might be prone to admission biases. We advocate selectors to use admission criteria and tools that are evidence-based, resistant to admission biases, and transparent to the applicants.
Production of renewable fuels by blending bio-oil with alcohols and upgrading under supercritical conditions
Authors: Omar Sainab , Alsamaq Suzanne , Yang Yang , Wang Jiawei 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The work studied a non-catalytic upgrading of fast pyrolysis bio-oil by blending under supercritical conditions using methanol, ethanol and isopropanol as solvent and hydrogen donor. Characterisation of the bio-oil and the upgraded bio-oils was carried out including moisture content, elemental content, pH, heating value, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS), Fourier transform infrared radiation, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis to evaluate the effects of blending and supercritical reactions. The GCMS analysis indicated that the supercritical methanol reaction removed the acids in the bio-oil consequently the pH increased from 2.39 in the crude bio-oil to 4.04 after the supercritical methanol reaction. The ester contents increased by 87.49% after the supercritical methanol reaction indicating ester formation could be the major deacidification mechanism for reducing the acidity of the bio-oil and improving its pH value. Simply blending crude bio-oil with isopropanol was effective in increasing the C and H content, reducing the O content and increasing the heating value to 27.55 from 17.51 MJ·kg−1 in the crude bio-oil. After the supercritical isopropanol reaction, the heating value of the liquid product slightly further increased to 28.85 MJ·kg−1.
Validation of Diaporthe toxica resistance markers in European Lupinus angustifolius germplasm and identification of novel resistance donors for marker-assisted selection
Authors: Książkiewicz M. , Wójcik K. , Irzykowski W. , Bielski W. , Rychel S. , Kaczmarek J. , Plewiński P. , Rudy E. , Jędryczka M. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The fungus, Diaporthe toxica, anamorph Phomopsis sp., previously classified as P. leptostromiformis, is a plant endophyte and occasional pathogen, causing Phomopsis stem blight. This disease is damaging not only to lupins but also to the animals grazing on infected plants, due to the toxic secondary metabolites called phomopsins. The aim of this work was to validate markers for resistance to Phomopsis stem blight in narrow-leafed lupins and identify novel germplasm with increased levels of resistance to the disease. Plant inoculations were performed using ten isolates of D. toxica, originating from Australia and Poland. The European core collection of L. angustifolius was evaluated both in a controlled environment and with field experiments to classify the accessions based on their resistance to the disease. Simultaneously, the accessions were assayed with disease resistance markers to identify donors of hypothetical resistance alleles. We have found that the European lupin germplasm collection preserves wild and domesticated donors of at least two resistance genes to Phomopsis stem blight, including Phr1 and PhtjR. Molecular markers PhtjM7, InDel2, and InDel10, tagging PhtjR gene, were applicable for marker-assisted selection targeting the European gene pool with an expected accuracy of 95%. None of diagnostic markers for the Phr1 locus was found useful for European breeding programs; two existing markers Ph258M1 and Ph258M2 were unreliable, due to a high percentage of false-positive results (up to 58%) and a high recombination rate between markers (~ 30%).
MILP models and valid inequalities for the two-machine permutation flowshop scheduling problem with minimal time lags
Authors: Hamdi Imen , Toumi Saïd 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling on two-machine permutation flowshop with minimal time lags between consecutive operations of each job. The aim is to find a feasible schedule that minimizes the total tardiness. This problem is known to be NP-hard in the strong sense. We propose two mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models and two types of valid inequalities which aim to tighten the models’ representations. One of them is based on dominance rules from the literature. Then, we provide the results of extensive computational experiments used to measure the performance of the proposed MILP models. They are shown to be able to solve optimally instances until the size 40-job and even several larger problem classes, with up to 60 jobs. Furthermore, we can distinguish the effect of the minimal time lags and the inclusion of the valid inequalities in the basic MILP model on the results.
Identification of k-Most Promising Features to Set Blue Ocean Strategy in Decision Making
Authors: Kumar Ritesh , Bishnu Partha Sarathi 
Published: October 2019

AbstractCustomers demand typical type of products with multiple features. We want to develop a business intelligence system which helps the company to set the blue ocean strategy by discoveringk-most promising features (k-MPF) from the customers’ query and a set of existing products of the similar type. In this paper, we have formulatedk-MPF to set the blue ocean strategy with compatible features. We have experimented with our proposed algorithms using different synthetic and real datasets, and the results showed the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms.
Estimating PageRank deviations in crawled graphs
Authors: Holzmann Helge , Anand Avishek , Khosla Megha 
Published: October 2019

AbstractMost real-world graphs collected from the Web like Web graphs and social network graphs are partially discovered or crawled. This leads to inaccurate estimates of graph properties based on link analysis such asPageRank. In this paper we focus on studying such deviations in ordering/ranking imposed byPageRankover crawled graphs. We first show that deviations in rankings induced byPageRankare indeed possible. We measure how much a ranking, induced byPageRank, on an input graph could deviate from the original unseen graph. More importantly, we are interested in conceiving a measure that approximates the rank correlation among them without any knowledge of the original graph. To this extent we formulate theHAKmeasure that is based on computing the impact redistribution ofPageRankaccording to the local graph structure. We further propose an algorithm that identifies connected subgraphs over the input graph for which the relative ordering is preserved. Finally, we perform extensive experiments on both real-world Web and social network graphs with more than 100M vertices and 10B edges as well as synthetic graphs to showcase the utility ofHAKand ourHigh-fidelity Component Selectionapproach.
Community detection and unveiling of hierarchy in networks: a density-based clustering approach
Authors: Felfli Zineb , George Roy , Shujaee Khalil , Kerwat Mohamed 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The unveiling of communities within a network or graph, and the hierarchization of its members that results is of utmost importance in areas ranging from social to biochemical networks, from electronic circuits to cybersecurity. We present a statistical mechanics approach that uses a normalized Gaussian function which captures the impact of a node within its neighborhood and leads to a density-ranking of nodes by considering the distance between nodes as punishment. A hill-climbing procedure is applied to determine the density attractors and identify the unique parent (leader) of each member as well as the group leader. This organization of the nodes results in a tree-like network with multiple clusters, the community tree. The method is tested using synthetic networks generated by the LFR benchmarking algorithm for network sizes between 500 and 30,000 nodes and mixing parameter between 0.1 and 0.9. Our results show a reasonable agreement with the LFR results for low to medium values of the mixing parameter and indicate a very mild dependence on the size of the network.
Preparation of a Hierarchical Pore Zeolite with High-Temperature Calcination and Acid-Base Leaching
Authors: Wang Chengdong , Li Jinhong , Wang Xiang , Yang Zhiwei , Huang Kaiyue 
Published: October 2019

AbstractMicroporous structure in zeolite leads to diffusion limitation, which causes coke formation and is harmful to catalytic reactions. Hierarchical zeolite containing primary microporosity and secondary porosity at the meso- and macroscales has received much attention due to its enhanced mass transport. Hierarchical Y zeolites were obtained by treating NH4-Y zeolite with high-temperature calcining and acid-base leaching. The results demonstrated that the calcined zeolite showed great crystallinity after acid-base leaching. The mechanism of introduction of mesopores was demonstrated in detail. The calcination transformed framework Al to extra-framework Al and enlarged the defect by acid and alkali. The mesopores increased with the calcining temperature and holding time. The relationship between the heating rate and the removal of Al species was non-linear; a heating rate of 100°C/h exhibited good protection for the zeolite structure.
Testing mate recognition through reciprocal crosses of two native populations of the whiteflyBemisia tabaci(Gennadius) in Australia
Authors: Wongnikong W. , van Brunschot S. L. , Hereward J. P. , De Barro P. J. , Walter G. H. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractBemisia tabaci(Gennadius) represents a relatively large cryptic species complex. Australia has at least two native populations ofB. tabaci sensu latoand these were first found on different host plants in different parts of Australia. The species status of these populations has not been resolved, although their mitochondrial sequences differ by 3.82–4.20%. We addressed the question of whether these AUSI and AUSIIB. tabacipopulations are distinct species. We used reciprocal cross-mating tests to establish whether the insects from these different populations recognize one another as potential mating partners. The results show that the two native Australian populations ofB. tabacihave a mating sequence with four phases, each of which is described. Not all pairs in the control crosses mated and the frequency of mating differed across them. Some pairs in the AUSI-M × AUSII-F did mate (15%) and did produce female progeny, but the frequency was extremely low relative to controls. Microsatellite genotyping of the female progeny produced in the crosses showed these matings were successful. None of the AUSII-M × AUSI-F crosses mated although some of the males did search for females. These results demonstrate the critical role of the mate recognition process and the need to assess this directly in cross-mating tests if the species status of different populations is to be tested realistically. In short, AUSI and AUSIIB. tabacipopulations are distinct species because the individual males and females do not recognize individuals of the alternative population as potential mating partners.
Processes and determinants of integration of eGFR in physicians’ drug prescriptions: a qualitative study of semi-structured interviews
Authors: Lefèvre Louis , Jourdain Maud , Fournier Jean-Pascal 
Published: October 2019

AbstractAim:Our objective was to explore the processes and determinants leading physicians to integrate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in their drug prescriptionsBackground:Access to patients’ eGFR would allow primary care pharmacists to optimise their role in the procedure of safe prescribing. Some rare physicians actively integrate eGFR in their prescriptions, in a sporadically and uncoordinated manner.Methods:Qualitative study using semi-directed interviews conducted among 12 French physicians who integrated eGFR in their drug prescriptions, (February 2016–April 2017). These voluntary participants were recruited through different means: Twitter®, forums, direct contact and snowball sampling. Data analysis was based on the grounded theory approach, underpinned by a comprehensive perspective of interactionist orientation.Findings:Residency and training, professional experience – including experiences of adverse drug reactions – and the membership in various communities of professionals were key drivers for the integration of eGFR in prescriptions. The theoretical aim was above all safe prescribing in order to reduce adverse drug reactions, with the control by a dispensing pharmacist and/or other healthcare professionals. Nevertheless, none of the physicians had received any feedback from any healthcare professionals. Despite their disappointment, the physicians remained convinced of the interest of integrating eGFR in their prescriptions and would continue to do so. Characteristics associated with integration of eGFR in drug prescriptions belong partly to Roger’s theory of innovations. If a widespread diffusion of this habit takes place, it will be necessary to evaluate its adoption by both physicians and pharmacists.
Parameterization of In‐Cloud Aerosol Scavenging Due to Atmospheric Ionization: Part 4. Effects of Varying Altitude
Authors: Zhang Liang , Tinsley Brian , Zhou Limin 
Published: October 2019

AbstractWe have verified that the modified analytic solution (MAS) for aerosol scavenging designed in our previous work to parameterize in‐cloud collision rate coefficients between aerosol particles and droplets can be extended to altitudes ranging from 0 to 20.6 km, and droplet radii up to 100 μm. The MAS deals separately with the short‐range effects and long‐range effects involved in the collisions, with the short‐range effects including image electric forces, the intercept effect, and the weight effect; and the long‐range effects including Brownian diffusion, the Coulomb electric force, and phoretic forces. The effects of Brownian diffusion and Coulomb electric force increase as height increases, while the change of phoretic forces with altitude is complicated. The effects of image electric force and intercept change slightly with altitude, while the weight effect increases significantly at higher altitudes. When the short‐range effects include the irregular shape of particles, the MAS also works well. The calculations of collision rate coefficients by our Monte Carlo trajectory model for varying droplet radius, droplet charges, particle radius, particle charges, particle density, relative humidity, pressure and temperature have now been completed, and we parameterize them by the simple MAS method which makes the results user friendly and easily applicable for cloud models. Based on our results, it is now possible to build cloud models to investigate the hypothesized link between the downward current flow in the global electric circuit current and cloud microphysical changes affecting cloud development.