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Heat-induced changes in cellulose nanocrystal/amino-aldehyde biocomposite systems
Authors: Nagy Sebestyén , Fekete Erika , Móczó János , Koczka Krisztina , Csiszár Emília 
Published: August 2020

AbstractCellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were extracted from natural cellulosic fibres such as bleached cotton and flax with a controlled multi-step sulphuric acid hydrolysis. From the aqueous suspensions of CNCs, the biocomposite films were prepared by casting and evaporation, with an amino-aldehyde (AA) compound in a wide concentration range from 0 to 30%. The AA compound (dimethylol dihydroxy ethylene urea) was considered both as a cross-linker of the CNC and as a matrix polymer for the CNC-reinforced composite system. Two series of films were prepared using different polyols such as sorbitol and glycerol as plasticizers to improve tractability. Heat treatment of the films was performed at elevated temperatures ranging from 140 to 200 °C for 10 min. Results clearly proved that besides temperature, the factors affecting the response of CNC-based nanocomposites to heat treatment were the source of cellulose, the type of plasticizer and the amount of cross-linking agent. Films based on flax–CNC and plasticized with glycerol showed a higher increase in yellowness and a more significant decrease in haze than those derived from cotton–CNC and plasticized with sorbitol, respectively. The cross-linking agent (AA) had a moderating effect on the heat-induced changes of properties. Furthermore, thermal gravimetric analysis (TG) of films revealed that thermal stability of the CNC films improved considerably when AA was added and cross-linking occurred. The increase inTmaxwas more significant for the flax–CNC films (from about 230 to 290 °C) than for the cotton–CNC ones (from about 250 to 280 °C).
Ectopic hyperprolactinaemia due to a malignant uterine tumor resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROCST)
Authors: Dimitriadis Georgios K. , Wajman Delane S. , Bidmead John , Diaz-Cano Salvador J. , Arshad Sobia , Bakhit Mohamed , Lewis Dylan , Aylwin Simon J. B. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Purpose
Moderate hyperprolactinaemia (2–5 times upper limit of normal) occurring in a patient with a normal pituitary MRI is generally considered to be due to a lesion below the level of detection of the MRI scanner assuming macroprolactin and stress have been excluded. Most patients with mild-to-moderate hyperprolactinaemia and a normal MRI respond to dopamine agonist therapy. We present the rare case of a patient who had prolactin elevation typical of a prolactin-secreting pituitary macroadenoma,with a normal cranial MRI, and in whom the prolactin rose further with dopamine agonist treatment. Subsequent investigations revealed ectopic hyperprolactinaemia to a uterine tumor resembling ovarian sex cord tumor (UTROSCT) which resolved following tumor resection. Although mostly considered to be benign, the UTROSCT recurred with recurrent hyperprolactinaemia and intraabdominal metastases.

Methods
We have systematically and critically reviewed existing literature relating to ectopic hyperprolactinaemia in general and UTROCST specifically.

Results
Fewer than 80 cases of UTROSCTs have been reported globally of which about 23% have shown malignant behaviour. There are fewer than 10 cases of paraneoplastic hyperprolactinaemia originating from uterine neoplasms including one other case of ectopic hyperprolactinaemia to a UTROSCT.

Conclusions
Our case demonstrates the importance of screening for extracranial hyperprolactinaemia in the context of: (1) substantially raised prolactin (10× ULN) and (2) normal cranial MRI assuming macroprolactin has been excluded. The majority of extracranial ectopic prolactin-secreting tumors occur in the reproductive organs.
Risk factors associated with experienced stigma among people diagnosed with mental ill-health: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Nugent C. , Rosato M. , Hughes L. , Leavey G. 
Published: August 2020

AbstractPurpose: to examine the relationship between religiosity, social support, trauma, quality of life and experienced stigma of mental illness amongst a population diagnosed with mental ill-health. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of day service users in Northern Ireland (n = 295) covering a range of issues including religiosity, social support, quality of life and prior experience of trauma. Stigma was measured using a recognised stigma scale. We used multinomial logistic regression to examine risk factors associated with experienced stigma. Results: Univariate analysis showed significant associations between stigma and age, number of friends, social support, quality of life and prior experience of trauma. Age, quality of life, and trauma remained independently associated with stigma in a multivariate logistic regression model (x2(12) = 98.40, p < 0.001). Conclusion: Younger people, those with less social support, prior experience of trauma and with poorer quality of life are at increased risk of experiencing stigma related to their diagnosis of mental illness. The findings provide further understanding of stigma and are useful for those overseeing programmes to improve access to mental health treatment.
Hungarian Language and Law: Developing a Grammar for Social Inclusion, a Vocabulary for Political Emancipation. Special Issue (IJSL)—Editorial Preface
Authors: Paksy Mate , Szabó Miklós , Vinnai Edina 
Published: August 2020

AbstractHaving been invited by editor-in-chief, Professor Anne Wagner, to edit the present special issue, we decided to fulfil a longstanding wish to provide a panorama about the Hungarian Language and Law. Along with other ‘law and …’ movements, Law and Language has attracted a great deal of attention from subsequent generations of Hungarian academic lawyers, because the political transition served as a wonderful subject and context for scholarly papers and text books, for examining the putative or real influence of this or that popular social scientist or for undertaking literature overviews. Unfortunately, there have been relatively few academic papers that have sought to draw general conclusions from empirically well-founded case studies. In order to fill that important gap, this special issue has taken the opportunity to select only those interdisciplinary papers whose goals include an analysis of Hungarian legal discourse written from a critical angle and using critical empirical methodology. At the very outset of the editing process—back in 2018—for the purposes of this special issue we defined as ‘empirical’ any sufficiently coherent fact-based research that reflects the language of legal discourse. And ‘critical’ means an engagement with the values of the Rule of Law. This double methodological and axiological feature is manifest throughout the selected papers classified as ‘law and language’.
Water dynamics at the urban soil-atmosphere interface—rainwater storage in paved surfaces and its dependence on rain event characteristics
Authors: Nehls Thomas , Peters Andre , Kraus Fabian , Rim Yong Nam 
Published: August 2020

AbstractPurposeThe surface store governs the rainwater partition, e.g., water storage and evaporation on paved surfaces, especially for low-intensity and low-sum rain events, which account for the greatest part of the total rainfall in a temperate climate city like Berlin, Germany. The surface storeSis a fixed value, dependent on surface relief and pore system characteristics. Contrary, in this study, the surface storage was assumed to depend also on the rain intensity, thus being variable from event to event.Materials and methodsThe surface store filling dynamics for dense (DP), porous (PP), and highly infiltrative (IP) paving materials were studied in a rainfall simulator. Irrigation intensitiespranged from 0.016 to 0.1 mm min−1which represent the 25 to 88% quantiles of the rain event distribution in Berlin, Germany (1961 to 1990).Results and discussionThree surface stores can be separated: storage until initial runoff,Sf, at maximum filling,Sm, and for steady-state runoff,Seq—all of them can be regarded as effective stores depending on the aim of its use. The equilibrium store varies from 0.2 to 3 mm for DP, PP, and IP for the investigated rainfall intensities.ConclusionsFor all pavers, the surface store depends on rainfall intensity, which was shown experimentally and confirmed by numerical simulation of the infiltration. We introduce a simple and robust method to describeSf,Sm=f(p) for different pavers. Pavers can evaporate a multiple of their surface store per day, depending on the rainfall distribution, which implicates the need for high temporal resolutions in urban hydrology modeling. Pavers can evaporate a multiple of their surface store per day, depending on the rainfall distribution. That implicates the need for high temporal resolutions in urban hydrology modeling.
Does too much liquidity generate instability?
Authors: Calcagnini Giorgio , Gardini Laura , Giombini Germana , Carrera Edgar S. 
Published: August 2020

AbstractCorporate demand for cash is related to a number of firm-specific characteristics, like the presence of transaction costs, information asymmetry in credit markets, uncertainty and risk aversion. The purpose of this paper is to build a dynamic model that describes the potential chaotic effects of the accumulation of cash by firms over a prolonged period of time. By exploring the theoretical connections between firm financial policies and investment decisions, we show that too much liquidity might generate economic instability. When firm increases the share of cash devoted to risky investment, and reduces the share of cash distributed to shareholders as dividends, the fixed point of the system changes from being stable to being unstable. Moreover, the impact of such a policy on the stability of the system is larger the greater the investment risk. The chaotic behavior is mainly observable in the dynamics of cash, which in turn may affect all investment decisions.
Bone Mineral Density, Parathyroid Hormone, and Vitamin D After Gastric Bypass Surgery: a 10-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up
Authors: Raoof Mustafa , Näslund Ingmar , Rask Eva , Szabo Eva 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Background
The aim of the present study was to study longitudinal changes in bone mineral density (BMD), vitamin D, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels in females over a 10-year period after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB).

Methods
Twenty-three women, mean age 43.4 ± 8.7 years and mean body mass index (BMI) 44.6 ± 5.17 kg/m2 at baseline, were included. BMD, BMI, S-calcium, S-25(OH)-vitamin D, and fP-PTH were measured preoperatively and 2, 5, and 10 years postoperatively.

Results
Ten years after surgery, BMD of the spine and femoral neck decreased by 20% and 25%, respectively. Changes in serum levels of vitamin D, PTH, and calcium over the same period were small.

Conclusion
After LRYGB with subsequent massive weight loss, a large decrease in BMD of the spine and femoral neck was seen over a 10-year postoperative period. The fall in BMD largely occurred over the first 5 years after surgery.
The Emerging Role of Cardiac Conduction System Pacing as a Treatment for Heart Failure
Authors: Ali Nadine , Shin Mathew Shun , Whinnett Zachary 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
Purpose of Review
The aim of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is to improve cardiac function by delivering more physiological cardiac activation to patients with heart failure and conduction abnormalities. Biventricular pacing (BVP) is the most commonly used method for delivering CRT; it has been shown in large randomized controlled trials to significantly improve morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure. However, BVP delivers only modest reductions in ventricular activation time and is only beneficial in patients with prolonged QRS duration. In this review, we explore conduction system pacing as a method for delivering more effective ventricular resynchronization and to extend pacing therapy for heart failure to patients without left bundle branch block (LBBB).

Recent Findings
The aim of conduction system pacing is to provide physiological ventricular activation by directly stimulating the conduction system. Current modalities include His bundle and left conduction system pacing. His bundle pacing is the most established method; it has the potential to correct left bundle branch block and deliver more effective ventricular resynchronization than BVP. This translates into greater acute haemodynamic improvements and observational data suggests that His-CRT results in improvements in cardiac function and symptoms. AV-optimized His bundle pacing is being investigated in patients with heart failure and long PR interval without LBBB, to see if this improves exercise capacity. More recently, a technique for pacing the left bundle branch has been developed. Early studies show potential advantages including low and stable capture thresholds.

Summary
Conduction system pacing can deliver more effective ventricular resynchronization than BVP, which has the potential to deliver greater improvements in cardiac function. It may also provide the opportunity to extend pacing therapy for heart failure to patients who do not have LBBB. Further data is required from randomized trials to assess these promising pacing techniques.
Hypothyreose: Guidelines, neue Erkenntnisse und klinische Praxis
Authors: Pilz Stefan , Theiler-Schwetz Verena , Malle Oliver , Steinberger Eva , Trummer Christian 
Published: August 2020

ZusammenfassungEine Hypothyreose (Schilddrüsenunterfunktion) findet sich bei ca. 5 % der Bevölkerung, wobei man bei der primären Hypothyreose eine manifeste Hypothyreose mit erhöhtem Thyreoidea-stimulierendem Hormon (TSH) und reduziertem freiem Thyroxin (fT4) von einer latenten (subklinischen) Hypothyreose mit zwar erhöhtem TSH, aber im Normbereich gelegenem fT4 unterscheidet. Die Indikationen für eine TSH-Testung sind nicht klar festgelegt, wobei aber von den meisten Fachgesellschaften kein generelles Screening empfohlen wird, es jedoch in der klinischen Routine häufig eine Überdiagnostik gibt. Während eine manifeste Hypothyreose eine klare Therapieindikation für eine Schilddrüsenhormonsubstitution darstellt, wird die Therapieindikation bei der latenten Hypothyreose zunehmend infrage gestellt, da sich häufig mit Hypothyreose in Verbindung gebrachte Beschwerden wie reduzierte Lebensqualität, Müdigkeit oder Übergewicht durch eine Therapie der latenten Hypothyreose nicht verbessern. Andererseits legen neue Erkenntnisse zur Homöostase und Allostase nahe, dass eine differenzierte Betrachtung der Schilddrüsenfunktion inklusive Berücksichtigung individueller Setpoints und adaptiver Mechanismen die Diagnostik und Therapie der Hypothyreose verbessert und die lineare, TSH-zentrierte Vorgehensweise verdrängen könnte. In diesem kurzen Übersichtsartikel gehen wir auf die aktuellen Richtlinien in Bezug auf Diagnostik und Therapie der Hypothyreose ein, wobei wir diese im Hinblick auf rezente Erkenntnisse auf diesem Gebiet beleuchten und großen Wert auf praktische Handlungsempfehlungen für die tägliche Routine legen.
HybridSucc: A Hybrid-Learning Architecture for General and Species-Specific Succinylation Site Prediction
Authors: Ning Wanshan , Xu Haodong , Jiang Peiran , Cheng Han , Deng Wankun , Guo Yaping , Xue Yu 
Published: August 2020

Abstract
As an important protein acylation modification, lysine succinylation (Ksucc) is involved in diverse biological processes, and participates in human tumorigenesis. Here, we collected 26,243 non-redundant known Ksucc sites from 13 species as the benchmark data set, combined 10 types of informative features, and implemented a hybrid-learning architecture by integrating deep-learning and conventional machine-learning algorithms into a single framework. We constructed a new tool named HybridSucc, which achieved area under curve (AUC) values of 0.885 and 0.952 for general and human-specific prediction of Ksucc sites, respectively. In comparison, the accuracy of HybridSucc was 17.84%–50.62% better than that of other existing tools. Using HybridSucc, we conducted a proteome-wide prediction and prioritized 370 cancer mutations that change Ksucc states of 218 important proteins, including PKM2, SHMT2, and IDH2. We not only developed a high-profile tool for predicting Ksucc sites, but also generated useful candidates for further experimental consideration. The online service of HybridSucc can be freely accessed for academic research at http://hybridsucc.biocuckoo.org/.
Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory-making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists
Authors: Malone Karen , Logan Marianne , Siegel Lisa , Regalado Julie , Wade-Leeuwen Bronwen 
Published: August 2020

AbstractDrawing on a posthuman lens we walk — with Deborah Bird Rose and her conceptual framing ofshimmer. We explore shimmering as incorporating a sensorial richness, as beauty and grandeur, as constantly in flux, moving between past, future and back again. Shimmering has potentiality in a posthuman context in its encompassing of spiritual and ancestral energies and illumination of the human (settler) story of exceptionalism. By theorising shimmer with this posthuman lens, we acknowledge and honour the eco-ethico consciousness raised by Australian ecophilosophers and ecofeminists such as Deborah Bird Rose and Val Plumwood, and the social ecologists who have continued to walk with them. In order to disrupt anthropocentricism and present a moral wake-up call that glows from dull to brilliance in these precarious times, we bring to environmental education the potential of holding the shimmering past tracings of theory along with us on our journeys.
The social and economic origins of child abuse and neglect
Authors: Ainsworth Frank 
Published: August 2020

AbstractThis commentary aims to start a debate about various dimensions of social disadvantage and the relationship to child abuse and neglect (CAN). These dimensions include poverty, educational attainment, employment status, sub-standard housing, disadvantaged neighbourhoods and social isolation from family. Other aspects such as mental health issues, domestic violence and substance misuse are compounding factors that are critical influences on the relationship between disadvantage and CAN. New South Wales is used as the exemplar Australian state.
Verheggen on Davidson and Kripke on Rule-Following and Meaning
Authors: MILLER ALEXANDER 
Published: August 2020

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses Claudine Verheggen's account of what she takes to be Donald Davidson's response to the sceptical paradox about rule-following and meaning developed in Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's ‘rule-following considerations.’ It focusses on questions about the normativity of meaning, the social character of meaning, and the role of triangulation in Davidson's account of the determination of meaning, and invites Verheggen to compare the non-reductionism she finds in Davidson with that developed in Crispin Wright's judgement-dependent account of meaning.
Davidson's Debt to Anscombe
Authors: HURLEY PAUL 
Published: August 2020

ABSTRACTRobert Myers’ interpretation of Donald Davidson's practical philosophy gets Davidson right in many fundamental respects. Myers rightly argues that Davidson avoids inconsistencies among internalism, ethical objectivity, and the belief-desire theory by modifying central elements of the Humean belief-desire theory, and that Davidson's alternative legitimizes the extension of his interpretation and triangulation arguments into the practical sphere. But at a crucial fork in the interpretive road Myers loses his way. Davidson follows G.E.M. Anscombe down a different path, one that takes individual desires to be constituted in part by evaluative judgements.
Replies to Kirk Ludwig and Paul Hurley
Authors: MYERS ROBERT H. 
Published: August 2020

ABSTRACTIn response to Paul Hurley, I argue that Donald Davidson's triangulation argument can be applied to normative beliefs only if such beliefs are answerable to properties that are at once normative and causal. The argument thus commits Davidson to a non-reductive and strikingly non-revisionary form of naturalism. In response to Kirk Ludwig, I argue that Davidson had good reason to abandon Humean accounts of pro-attitudes because he had good reason to welcome the non-reductive and non-revisionary form of naturalism that comes into view once the triangulation argument is applied to normative beliefs.
Language abilities of children with refugee backgrounds: Insights from case studies
Authors: MacLeod Andrea A. N. , Meziane Rabia Sabah , Pesco Diane 
Published: August 2020

AbstractSince 2015, more than 58,000 Syrian refugees have settled in Canada and, at the time of the 2016 national census, more than a fifth had settled in the province of Quebec. The rising numbers of refugees and the risks associated with families’ forced displacement have underscored the need to better understand and support the language of refugee children. The article reports on the oral language of three Syrian children ages five and six years, drawing on data from parent interviews, teacher reports, measures of the children’s language, and observations of their language use in a dual-language stimulation group, StimuLER. By triangulating this data, we were able to develop a rich and realistic portrait of each child’s language abilities. For these three boys, we observed that the home language was vulnerable to delays and weaknesses, and that learning the language of school was a drawn-out process. We also documented that parents and teachers had difficulties communicating with one another, and thus had difficulty meeting the educational needs of these children. We conclude that to foster resiliency in these children who are refugees, schools must find a way to build bridges with the parents to support the children’s language learning in both the language of school and at home.
“We also can. We're not worse”: The Anglophone Wave in Russian indie music (Indi), 2008–2012
Authors: Biasioli Marco 
Published: August 2020

AbstractThis article analyses the main cultural and political factors that contributed to the emergence of local Anglophone music in Russia between 2008 and 2012. While Russian indie groups had extensively sung in English before (with scarce public recognition), a conjunction of circumstances encouraged the appearance of a conspicuous Russian Anglophone music scene in the Medvedev years. These were a perceived political relaxation, internally and in East–West relations; Russian economic growth and the subsequent renovation of Moscow; and the connectivity and expansion of the independent music community. The article also argues that the success of local Anglophone bands, as well as the appearance of an ‘indie’ sound and an ‘indie’ music scene (indi), was the result of a concerted effort by Russian music participants to bring and incorporate the Other – the West – into Russia's everyday life. The English language, correspondingly, functioned as a ‘tool’ for this operation.
Beyond the street: the institutional life of rap
Authors: Bramwell Richard , Butterworth James 
Published: August 2020

AbstractThis article draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of one year in London and Bristol to examine the performance of rap in English youth centres. Youth centres play a significant role in supporting and shaping rap culture. However, historically dominant narratives within hip-hop studies and hip-hop culture depict rap as a vernacular cultural form that emerges from ‘the street’, and which derives its authenticity through its relation to ‘the street’. We seek to move beyond such discourses and towards a recognition of the institutional processes, structures and networks that shape and sustain rap culture. Our focus on the institutional life of rap leads to an analysis of the various possibilities, limitations and tensions that arise in the coming together of public funding, and social policy priorities, local organisations and black vernacular culture.