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A Sensory Processing Hierarchy for Thermal Touch: Thermal Adaptation Occurs Prior to Thermal-Tactile Integration
Authors: Ho Hsin-Ni , Mei Chow Hiu , Tsunokake Sayaka , Roseboom Warrick 
Published: July 2018

AbstractThe brain consistently faces a challenge of whether and how to combine the available information sources to estimate the properties of an object explored by hand. Thermal referral (TR) is a phenomenon that demonstrates how thermal and tactile modalities coordinate to resolve inconsistencies in spatial and thermal information. When the middle three fingers of one hand are thermally stimulated, but only the outer two fingers are heated (or cooled), thermal uniformity is perceived across three fingers. This illusory experience of thermal uniformity in TR compensates for the discontinuity in the thermal sensation across the sites in contact. The neural loci of TR is unclear. While TR reflects the diffuse nature of the thermoceptive system, its similarities to perceptual filling-in and its facilitative role in object perception also suggest that TR might involve inference processes associated with object perception. To clarify the positioning of this thermo-tactile interaction in the sensory processing hierarchy, we used perceptual adaptation and Bayesian decision modelling techniques. Our results indicate that TR adaptation takes place at a peripheral stage where information about temperature inputs are still preserved for each finger, and that the thermal-tactile interaction occurs after this stage. We also show that the temperature integration across three fingers in TR is consistent with precision weighted averaging effect - Bayesian cue combination. Altogether, our findings suggest that for the sensory processing hierarchy of thermal touch, thermal adaptation occurs prior to thermo-tactile integration, which combines thermal and tactile information to give a unified percept to facilitate object recognition.Significance StatementThermal touch refers to the perception of temperature of objects in contact with the skin and is key to object recognition based on thermal cues. While object perception is an inference process involving multisensory inputs, thermal referral (TR) is an illusion demonstrating how the brain’s interpretation of object temperature can deviate from physical reality. Here we used TR to explore the processing hierarchy of thermal touch. We show that adaptation of thermal perception occurs prior to integration of thermal information across tactile locations. Further, we show that TR results from simple averaging of thermal sensation across locations. Our results illuminate the flexibility of the processing that underlies thermal-tactile interactions and facilitates object exploration and identification in our complicated natural environment.
A conceptual framework of ITSMCA for a building collapse accident
Authors: Yan Xiaoli , Kim Young-Chan 
Published: July 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to timely control of a construction collapse accident effectively during its development process by constructing a stage model and then aligning IT with each stage to help provide the information for decision making.

Design/methodology/approach
Through comprehensive literature review, this paper first identifies the various IT applications in on-site construction monitoring and analyzes the existed disaster/crisis stage models, also the stage models are compared with the causation models to illustrate the strengths. Then, a three-step methodology was conducted to develop and apply the conceptual framework, including the construction of the four-stage model; the establishment of the conceptual framework of information technology (IT) support for management of construction accidents (ITSMCA); and a building collapse accident used to illustrate the proposed framework.

Findings
The accident is divided into four stages, which are incubation stage, outbreak stage, spreading stage and final stage. The real-time staged information to support decision making, such as the contributing factors of on-site workers, materials, equipment and workplace, can be provided by emerging IT. Therefore, IT is aligned with the variations of contributing factors’ attributes in the four stages and ITSMCA is constructed to help accidents management.

Research limitations/implications
The focus of the framework presented in this paper is that the stage model is effective for it catches the variations of the attributes whose values can be provided by IT rather than research on the practical application of the IT system. The construction and application of the IT system will be the research focus in the future.

Originality/value
This paper presents a stage model of a building collapse accident and gives a comprehensive conceptual framework of ITSMCA, which align the IT with different stages of the collapse accident. The ITSMCA proposes a feasible ideology and practical method for real-time management of the collapse accident during the process.
Advancing real estate decision making: understanding known, unknown and unknowable risks
Authors: Higgins David , Perera Treshani 
Published: July 2018

PurposeWhilst existing literature on real estate risk management focusses almost exclusively on holistic risk management techniques, documented increases in frequency and magnitude of unforeseen, rare and extreme events can throw up sudden, unexpected shocks that can challenge recognised real estate decision-making strategies. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachTo advance real estate decision-making practice in this area, this research paper takes the skilfully conceptualised downside risk framework presented by Dieboldet al.(2010), being the known (K), the unknown (u) and the unknowable (U) risk categories, to provide a blueprint for effective real estate decision making in a changing global environment.FindingsIn recording categories of risk, managing uncertainty can be achieved by an interrelated approach of adaption, robustness and resilience. This is important part of a real estate manager’s decision-making toolkit as risk recognition and knowledge of KuU event categories can augment an effective management strategy.Originality/valueThe mastery of modern real estate risk management can be better served by understanding and managing extreme downside risk events. Creating a comprehensive risk management framework can enhance comparative real estate performance whereby unprepared competitors fail in a world increasingly affected by large, highly improbable and unpredictable events.
Factors affecting maintenance management in hospital buildings
Authors: Jandali Dana , Sweis Rateb 
Published: July 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the factors affecting maintenance management performance in public and private hospitals in Amman-Jordan.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper identified 70 items affecting maintenance management performance from the literature review. Descriptive analysis was performed to assess the practices in both sectors. Comparison between public and private hospitals was performed through conducting a Mann-Whitney U-test.

Findings
Public hospitals were found to be implementing more improved practices than private hospitals. The perception of maintenance staff in both sectors regarding the factors affecting maintenance management performance varied.

Originality/value
This paper provides an original review of the factors affecting maintenance management in public and private hospitals in Amman-Jordan. The identified factors provide a useful reference to maintenance departments to improve maintenance performance and practices.
Integrating diverse social and ecological motivations to achieve landscape restoration
Authors: Jellinek Sacha , Wilson Kerrie A. , Hagger Valerie , Mumaw Laura , Cooke Benjamin , Guerrero Angela M. , Erickson Todd E. , Zamin Tara , Waryszak Pawel , Standish Rachel J. 
Published: July 2018

Abstract

Landscape‐scale restoration requires stakeholder collaboration and recognition of diverse social and ecological motivations to achieve multiple benefits. Yet few landscape restoration projects have set and achieved shared social and ecological goals.

Mechanisms to integrate social and ecological motivations will differ in different landscapes. We provide examples from urban, agricultural, and mined landscapes to highlight how integration can achieve multiple benefits and help incentivize restoration.

Better communication of ecological and especially social benefits of restoration could increase motivation. Social and economic incentives from carbon markets are evident in agricultural landscapes, biodiversity offset schemes are unlikely to motivate restoration without proof‐of‐concept, and framing restoration in terms of ecosystem services shows promise.

Synthesis and applications. When setting restoration goals, it is important to recognize the diverse motivations that influence them. In doing so, and by evaluating both social and ecological benefits, we can better achieve desired restoration outcomes. Customizing incentives to cater for diverse stakeholder motivations could therefore encourage restoration projects.
Divergent gene expression among phytoplankton taxa in response to upwelling
Authors: Lampe Robert H. , Cohen Natalie R. , Ellis Kelsey A. , Bruland Kenneth W. , Maldonado Maria T. , Peterson Tawnya D. , Till Claire P. , Brzezinski Mark A. , Bargu Sibel , Thamatrakoln Kimberlee , Kuzminov Fedor I , Twining Benjamin S. , Marchetti Adrian 
Published: July 2018

SummaryFrequent blooms of phytoplankton occur in coastal upwelling zones creating hotspots of biological productivity in the ocean. As cold, nutrient‐rich water is brought up to sunlit layers from depth, phytoplankton are also transported upwards to seed surface blooms that are often dominated by diatoms. The physiological response of phytoplankton to this process, commonly referred to as shift‐up, is characterized by increases in nitrate assimilation and rapid growth rates. To examine the molecular underpinnings behind this phenomenon, metatranscriptomics was applied to a simulated upwelling experiment using natural phytoplankton communities from the California Upwelling Zone. An increase in diatom growth following 5 days of incubation was attributed to the genera Chaetoceros and Pseudo‐nitzschia. Here, we show that certain bloom‐forming diatoms exhibit a distinct transcriptional response that coordinates shift‐up where diatoms exhibited the greatest transcriptional change following upwelling; however, comparison of co‐expressed genes exposed overrepresentation of distinct sets within each of the dominant phytoplankton groups. The analysis revealed that diatoms frontload genes involved in nitrogen assimilation likely in order to outcompete other groups for available nitrogen during upwelling events. We speculate that the evolutionary success of diatoms may be due, in part, to this proactive response to frequently encountered changes in their environment.
Compartments with predominant ephrin‐B1 and EphB2/B4 expression are present alternately along the excurrent duct system in the adult mouse testis and epididymis
Authors: Gofur M. R. , Ogawa K. 
Published: July 2018

AbstractBackgroundEphrin receptors (Eph) and ligands are membrane‐bound cell–cell communication molecules that regulate the spatial organization of various tissues and organs by repulsive or adhesive signals arising from contact between Eph‐ and ephrin‐bearing cells. However, the expression and functions of Eph receptors in the testis and epididymis are virtually unknown.ObjectivesWe aimed to investigate the expression of several EphB receptors and ephrin‐B ligands in the testis and epididymis of adult mice.Materials and methodsmRNA and protein expression was detected via reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction amplification and immunostaining, respectively.ResultsComplementary expression patterns were observed in the epithelia along the excurrent duct system in the testis and epididymis; ephrin‐B1 was strongly expressed in the epithelia of the rete testis and segment I in the ductus epididymis, whereas EphB2 and/or EphB4 were strongly expressed in the epithelia of the straight tubules and efferent ductules. Moreover, ephrin‐B1 was expressed in the spermatogonia, Leydig cells, and peritubular myoid cells in the testis, whereas EphB2 was expressed in elongated spermatids and EphB4 was expressed in the spermatogonia and Leydig cells. Furthermore, these receptors were found to be tyrosine‐phosphorylated in the testis and/or epididymis.DiscussionReceptor localization and phosphorylation patterns suggested that EphB/ephrin‐B signaling might occur in the seminiferous tubules and epithelial junctions among the straight tubules, rete testis, efferent ductules, and ductus epididymis. Therefore, we propose that EphB/ephrin‐B signaling may regulate epithelial boundary formation in the excurrent tubule/ductule/duct system as well as modulate spermatogenesis and spermiation.ConclusionOverall, this study represents the first analysis of EphB receptor and ephrin‐B ligand expression in the normal adult testis and epididymis.
Radial Artery Tonometry to Monitor Blood Pressure and Hemodynamics in Ambulatory Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients in Comparison With Doppler Ultrasound and Transthoracic Echocardiography: A Pilot Study
Authors: Zayat Rashad , Drosos Vasileios , Schnoering Heike , Lee Ju‐Yeon , Bleilevens Christian , Musetti Giulia , Jansen‐Park So‐Hyun , Kang HeeJung , Menon Ares K. , Schmitz‐Rode Thomas , Autschbach Rüdiger , Hatam Nima , Moza Ajay 
Published: July 2018

AbstractNoninvasive measurements of blood pressure (BP) and cardiac output (CO) are crucial in the follow‐up of continuous‐flow left ventricular assist device (CF‐LVAD) patients. For our pilot study, we sought to compare BP measurements between a tonometry blood pressure pulse analyzer (BPPA) (DMP‐Life, DAEYOMEDI Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi‐do, South Korea) and Doppler ultrasound in CF‐LVAD patients, as well as to compare the BPPA estimated CO to LVAD calculated blood flow and to the patient’s intrinsic CO estimated with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Ambulatory CF‐LVAD patients (6 HeartMate, 26 HeartMate II), were included. According to TTE findings, patients were then subdivided in two groups: patients with an opening aortic valve (OAV) [n = 21] and those with an intermittent opening aortic valve (IOAV) [n = 11]. We found a very good correlation of systolic BP (SBP) measurements between the two methods, BPPA and Doppler ultrasound (r = 0.87, P < 0.0001). Bland‐Altman plots for SBP revealed a low bias of −4.6 mm Hg and SD of ±4.7 mm Hg. In CF‐LVAD patients with IOAV, the BPPA‐CO had a good correlation with the LVAD‐flow (r = 0.78, P < 0.0001), but in OAV patients, there was no correlation. After adding the patient’s intrinsic CO, estimated from TTE in patients with OAV to the LVAD‐flow, we found a very good correlation between the BPPA‐CO and LVAD‐flow + TTE‐CO (r = 0.81, P = 0.002). Our study demonstrated that compared with the standard clinical method, Doppler ultrasound, the BPPA measured BP noninvasively with good accuracy and precision of agreement. In addition, tonometry BPPA provided further valuable information regarding the CF‐LVAD patient’s intrinsic CO.
Music therapy supported the health‐related quality of life for children undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplants
Authors: Uggla L , Bonde L‐O , Hammar U , Wrangsjö B , Gustafsson B 
Published: July 2018

AbstractAimPaediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a stressful treatment with an impact on health‐related quality of life (HRQoL), and supportive interventions are needed. This study evaluated the effects of music therapy during and after HSCT.MethodsThis was a randomised clinical pilot study of 29 patients aged 0–17 years who underwent HSCT at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, between February 2013 and May 2017. The music therapy group comprised 14 children who received the music therapy during hospitalisation. Fifteen children in the control group received the intervention after discharge. Music therapy was offered twice a week for four to six weeks. The patients’ HRQoL, pain and mood were evaluated at admission, discharge and after six months. The instruments for HRQoL included the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 generic core scales.ResultsThe scales showed that the music therapy group had a higher estimated physical function (adjusted p = 0.04) at the time of discharge, and the control group showed improved results after the intervention in all domains (p = 0.015).ConclusionDespite the small sample, we found improved HRQoL after music therapy, which suggests that it could be a complementary intervention during and after paediatric HSCT.
Behavioural and emotional concerns reported by parents of children attending a neurodevelopmental diagnostic centre
Authors: Miller Anton R. , Gardiner Emily , Harding Louise 
Published: July 2018

AbstractBackgroundBehavioural and emotional problems are a salient concern for parents of children with neurodisability, but little is known about the nature of such concerns in this population, nor about the distribution of concern types across ostensibly different subpopulations.MethodsInformation about behavioural and emotional concerns was extracted from clinical reports of developmental paediatricians (N = 12) who had assessed children aged 3 to 8 years (N = 129) through three clinics at a major developmental and rehabilitation service centre. All concerns were captured at a granular level. A two‐stage, consensus‐based interdisciplinary concept‐sorting technique was used to identify and group thematically related behavioural and emotional concerns into First Stage Groupings, intended to preserve detail and specificity, and a reduced number of Second Stage Clusters.ResultsA total of 669 discrete concerns were encountered, aggregated to 58 First Stage Concern Groupings and 28 Second Stage Concern Clusters. Findings of the salience of Groupings related to Attention, Concentration and Distractibility, and Anxiousness, Shyness, and Emotional Sensitivity reflect existing literature for children with neurodevelopmental concerns. “Social Isolation/Peer Engagement,” “Tantrums/Outbursts/Meltdowns” and “Volatility/Self‐regulation Difficulties,” and “Sensory Issues” emerged as areas of significant concern and salience as well. Across clinics, three Clusters recurred among the top five observed for each clinic: “Tantrums/Outbursts/Meltdowns,” “Inflexibility/Gets Stuck or Fixated,” and “Social Behaviours.”ConclusionsThis rich descriptive dataset affords insight into the phenomenology of behaviour and emotional concerns in the daily lives of parents whose children have known or suspected neurodisability. Study findings can inform and sensitize clinicians working with this population. Usefulness is enhanced by inclusion of behavioural material that is subthreshold for a formal psychopathologic diagnosis. Certain concern types are encountered commonly across different clinical subpopulations, supporting a noncategorical view of behavioural and emotional problems as functional attributes that cross neurodisability diagnostic categories.
The development of a short form of the Test of Gross Motor Development‐2 in Brazilian children: Validity and reliability
Authors: Valentini Nadia C. , Rudisill Mary E. , Bandeira Paulo Felipe R. , Hastie Peter A. 
Published: July 2018

AbstractBackgroundAssessing children's motor skills is important for identifying children with delays, measuring learning, and determining teaching effectiveness. One popular assessment for measuring fundamental motor skills in children is the Test of Gross Motor Development‐2 (TGMD‐2). Although the TGMD‐2 long form is widely known, a short form of the TGMD‐2 has not been yet proposed and investigated. The aim of this study was to develop a short form of the TGMD‐2 and to examine its validity, interrater reliability and test–retest reliability.MethodData from 2,463 Brazilian children were analyzed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used to investigate the validity of reducing the number of TGMD‐2 skills.ResultsThe short‐form version of the TGMD‐2 with six skills has appropriate indices of confirmatory factorial validity (root mean square error of approximation: 0.06, 90% confidence interval [0.06, 0.07]; comparative fit index: 0.94; normed fit index: 0.94: Tucker–Lewis index: 0.83; goodness‐of‐fit index: 0.98; adjusted goodness‐of‐fit index: 0.95), internal consistency (α = 0.70 for the overall test), interrater and intrarater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients values from 0.81 to 0.96) and test–retest reliability (r values from 0.55 to 0.95).ConclusionsFrom these findings, practitioners now have a valid and reliable, short form of the TGMD‐2 for use in assessing children's motor skill competence; promoting wider use of the test for screening and pedagogical purposes.
Risk factor model of mechanical complications in implant‐supported fixed complete dentures: A prospective cohort study
Authors: Coltro Maria Paula L. , Ozkomur Ahmet , Villarinho Eduardo A. , Teixeira Eduardo R. , Vigo Alvaro , Shinkai Rosemary S. A. 
Published: July 2018

AbstractObjectivesThis prospective cohort study estimated the effect of technical and clinical factors on mechanical complications in implant‐supported fixed complete dentures (IFCDs). The patient's perception of the impact of oral rehabilitation on quality of life was assessed.Material and methodsA non‐probabilistic sample consisted of 88 consecutive patients treated with 94 screw‐retained, metal‐acrylic IFCDs. Data collection included sociodemographic variables, presence and intensity of bruxism, maximal occlusal force, opposing arch, design of the metallic framework, distribution of occlusal contacts, and quality of life (OHIP‐14). IFCD‐level data were analyzed using Kaplan‐Meier survival analysis and Cox regression model. Quality of life data were analyzed by paired Studentttest.ResultsDuring a mean follow‐up of 35.1 ± 18.3 months, 16/94 IFCDs (17%) had repairable mechanical complications because of loosening/fracture of artificial teeth (n = 15) and screw loosening (n = 1). Framework design (retention pins <4 mm) was a significant risk factor for complications (HR = 11.038;p = 0.027) when adjusted for sex. Mechanical complications were not associated with sex, body mass index, thickness of the acrylic resin veneering, type of opposing arch, distribution of occlusal contacts and force, protrusion interference, presence/intensity of bruxism or maximal occlusal force. OHIP‐14 total scores decreased after IFCD treatment for both patients with or without complications.ConclusionsWithin the limitations of this study, the results suggest that clinical success is associated to framework design with retention pins equal or longer than 4 mm. Quality of life improved with IFCD treatment, even in patients with mechanical complications.
The nucleus accumbens shell in reinstatement and extinction of drug seeking
Authors: Gibson Gabrielle D. , Millan E. Zayra , McNally Gavan P. 
Published: July 2018

AbstractThe contexts where drugs are self‐administered have important control over relapse and extinction of drug‐seeking behavior. The nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) is essential to this contextual control over drug‐seeking behavior. It has been consistently implicated in both the expression of context‐induced reinstatement and the expression of extinction, across a variety of drug classes and other rewards. Here, we review the evidence linking AcbSh to the extinction and reinstatement of drug seeking. We consider whether this dual role can be linked to known heterogeneities in AcbSh cell types, their major afferents, and their major efferents. We show that although these heterogeneities are each important and can determine extinction vs. reinstatement, they do not seem adequate to explain the body of findings from the behavioral literature. Rather, we suggest that this functional specialization of AcbSh may be more profitably viewed in terms of the segregation and compartmentalization of AcbSh channels.