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Joint Synoptic and Cloud Variability over the Northeast Atlantic near the Azores
Authors: Mechem David B. , Wittman Carly S. , Miller Matthew A. , Yuter Sandra E. , de Szoeke Simon P. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractMarine boundary layer clouds are modified by processes at different spatial and temporal scales. To isolate the processes governing aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions, multiday synoptic variability of the environment must be accounted for. Information on the location of low clouds relative to the ridge–trough pattern gives insight into how cloud properties vary as a function of environmental subsidence and stability. The technique of self-organizing maps (SOMs) is employed to objectively classify the 500-hPa geopotential height patterns for 33 years of reanalysis fields (ERA-Interim) into pretrough, trough, posttrough, ridge, and zonal-flow categories. The SOM technique is applied to a region of prevalent marine low cloudiness over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean that is centered on the Azores island chain, the location of a long-term U.S. Department of Energy observation site. The Azores consistently lie in an area of substantial variability in synoptic configuration, thermodynamic environment, and cloud properties. The SOM method was run in two ways to emphasize multiday and seasonal variability separately. Over and near the Azores, there is an east-to-west sloshing back and forth of the western edge of marine low clouds associated with different synoptic states. The different synoptic states also exhibit substantial north–south variability in the position of high clouds. For any given month of the year, there is large year-to-year variability in the occurrence of different synoptic states. Hence, estimating the climatological behavior of clouds from short-term field campaigns has large uncertainties. This SOM approach is a robust method that is broadly applicable to characterizing synoptic regimes for any location.
Clinical characteristics of infectious ulceration over tophi in patients with gout
Authors: Xu Jianjun , Zhu Zaihua , Zhang Wei 
Published: March 2018

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of infectious ulceration over tophi in patients with gout. Methods Participants were recruited from the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. The clinical characteristics of the patients and wound characteristics were recorded. Results Of the 38 enrolled patients, 18 were found to have infectious ulceration over tophi. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common pathogen and was identified in nine patients. Patients with infection were significantly older (69.6 vs. 60.1 years) and had a worse quality of life than those without infection. Patients with infection also had a significantly longer ulcer duration (125.6 vs. 54.2 days), larger ulcer size (2.47 vs. 1.99 cm2), a higher rate of tissue necrosis in the ulcer bed (55.6% vs. 20.0%), a lower rate of callus at the edge (27.8% vs. 70.0%), and a higher moisture level than did patients without infection. Additionally, patients with infection had significantly delayed wound healing (35.3 vs. 20.3 days) compared with patients without infection. Conclusions Older patients with a long ulcer duration and larger ulcer size are more susceptible to infection. Infection can lower patients’ quality of life and delay wound healing.
MUTYH and ORAI1 polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to osteoarthritis in the Chinese Han population
Authors: Zhang Shifeng , Guo Haohui , Chen Da , Chen Xi , Jin Qunhua 
Published: March 2018

Background This study analyzed the associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the mutY homolog gene ( MUTYH) and the calcium release-activated calcium channel gene ( ORAI1) with susceptibility to osteoarthritis in the Chinese Han population. Methods A total of 350 patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis from October 2013 to May 2016 were selected as the study group, together with 350 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. MUTYH SNP rs3219463 and ORAI1 SNPs rs712853, rs12313273, rs6486795, rs12320939, and rs7135617 were analyzed by Sanger sequencing. Serum MUTYH levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The relationship between SNPs in MUTYH and ORAI1 and osteoarthritis susceptibility was analyzed and compared with the level of serum MUTYH in the osteoarthritis and control groups. Results MUTYH rs3219463 G allele carriers (GG or GA genotypes) and ORAI1 rs7135617 T allele carriers had a higher risk of osteoarthritis than patients with other genotypes. The level of serum MUTYH in the study group was significantly higher than in the control group (22.05 ± 19.14 ng/mL vs. 14.15 ± 13.54 ng/mL). Conclusions MUTYH and ORAI1 SNPs are associated with osteoarthritis susceptibility in the Chinese Han population.
Imaging of the Tibionavicular Ligament, and Its Potential Role in Adult Acquired Flatfoot Deformity
Authors: Ormsby Neal , Jackson Gillian , Evans Paul , Platt Simon 
Published: March 2018

Background: The spring ligament is an important medial arch stabilizer. However, when disrupted, it does not cause planovalgus deformity until the foot is cyclically loaded. We propose that the tibionavicular (TN) ligament plays an important role. However, this ligament is not imaged in routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences. Methods: A prospective case-control study using a novel MRI sequence to image the TN ligament in 20 normal feet creating a baseline appearance of the ligament. We then scanned 20 patients with adult acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD). All patients had weightbearing anteroposterior and lateral radiographs. We followed up patients, the end point being surgery or 18 months’ follow-up. Results: The normal ligament was reliably identified on the novel sequences. It had a reproducible appearance in 2 views, and consistent length and width. Two groups of patients were identified in the AAFD cohort: Normal TN (11/20) (The mean Meary angle was 6.8 degrees) and Abnormal TN (9/20). The ligament was thickened proximally, with distal attenuation and intrasubstance edema. On sagittal sequence, it had dorsal bulging and high signal. The mean Meary angle was 13.2 degrees ( P = .013). All patients had posterior tibial tendon dysfunction and 8 had spring ligament complex attenuation. Five patients have undergone corrective surgery compared to none in the other group. Conclusion: This study adds to the evidence that AAFD is multifactorial. With this imaging technique, we were able to reliably image the TN ligament. We hope that including this sequence into routine scanning will help us understand its role in flatfoot deformity. This poses the question of whether this structure will play a role in reconstructive surgery in future. Level of Evidence: Level II, prospective comparative study.
Evaluation of Point-of-Care Resources for Dietary Supplement Information
Authors: Montgomery Ashley E. , Beckett Robert D. , Montagano Kaitlin J. , Kutom Samah 
Published: March 2018

Objective. To evaluate 6 tertiary, point-of-care drug information resources’ dietary supplement content. Methods. This was a cross-sectional evaluation of Lexicomp Natural Products Database, Micromedex Alternative Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Natural Medicines, The Review of Natural Products, and Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs. Each resource was evaluated for scope, completeness, consistency, and ease of use. Results. For a sample of 66 supplements, scope scores ranged from 69.7% (Micromedex) to 100% (Natural Medicines). Completeness scores were high considering uses, dose, adverse effects, and mechanism (85.7% to 100%). Overall completeness scores ranged from 82.5% ( Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs) to 100% (Clinical Pharmacology, Natural Medicines, The Review of Natural Products). Consistency scores ranged from 0% ( Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs) to 100% (Natural Medicines, The Review of Natural Products). Mean time to locate and gather information was similar among groups. Conclusions. Resources were similar for completeness and ease of use. Scope and consistency varied depending on the resource.
Hard-Boiled Literary History: Labor and Style in Fictions of the Culture Industry
Authors: Norman Will 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIn this article I argue for a new understanding of the term hard-boiled by tracing the relationship between literary style and historical shifts in intellectual labor in the mid-twentieth-century United States. Novels representing the culture industry, such as Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister (1949), Budd Schulberg’s What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), and Frederic Wakeman’s The Hucksters (1946), describe the intellectual labor of producing the commodities on which the industry subsisted, while at the same time struggling to identify and preserve regions of culture as yet unsullied by the market. This tension is crystallized in their distinctive hard-boiled style, understood here as a certain disposition toward the historical process of cultural commodification. Loosened from its genre frame and its associations with the mystery novel, hard-boiled emerges as a richer and more capacious critical term, one that can help us to understand our own work as literary historians.
“Rightly Enough Called Girls”: Melville’s Violated Virgins and Male Marketplace Fears
Authors: Wadle Meghan M. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis essay contextualizes Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” alongside antebellum portrayals of the female wage earner. Melville’s decision to measure the costs of economic change by sexualizing female wage earners typifies antebellum conversations in which men interpreted women’s labor in relation to an increasingly outdated framework for their activities, here termed the patriarchal shelter. This trope presumes that women’s activities ought to take place under conditions found in the preindustrial household and helps to explain why male authors interpreted factory operatives as women of suspect virtue. I argue that male authors who sexualized female wage earners alleviated their own anxieties about their compromised independence in the industrial marketplace. Male authors fixated on factory women’s sexual identity in an attempt to control their activities rhetorically, but in the process they symptomatized the many ways women’s labor no longer clearly evidenced male dominion.
Introduction
Authors: Praet Istvan , Salazar Juan Francisco 
Published: March 2018

AbstractA growing number of researchers in the social sciences and the environmental humanities have begun to focus on the wider universe and how it is apprehended by modern cosmology. Today the extraterrestrial has become part of the remit of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, geographers, scholars in science and technology studies, and artistic researchers, among others. And there is an emerging consensus that astronomers and other natural scientists—contrary to a common prejudice—are never simply depicting or describing the cosmos “just as it is.” Their research is always characterized by a specific aesthetic style and by a particular “cosmic imagination,” as some have called it. Scientific knowledge of the universe is based on skilled judgments rather than on direct, unmediated perception. It is science, but it is also an art. This special section focuses on two at first sight contradictory aspects of this cosmic imagination. On the one hand, there is a distinctive move toward viewing the extraterrestrial in familiar terms and comprehending it by means of conceptual frameworks that we, earthlings, are accustomed to. On the other hand, there is a tendency to understand our own planet in unfamiliar terms, especially in astrobiology, where so-called analog sites and “extreme environments” provide clues about alien planets.
A INFÂNCIA EM MOÇAMBIQUE COMO LUGAR PARATÓPICO NO DISCURSO ADI BANANA LÊ
Authors: Pastore Marina Di Napoli , Celestino Ricardo 
Published: March 2018

Tomamos o discurso Adi banana lê, de Marina Pastore, como uma voz que catalisa uma das potencialidades da criança enquanto sujeito social em Moçambique. Ao colocar a criança moçambicana em um papel social distinto dos que comumente lhe são atribuídos pelo estigma eurocêntrico, o discurso projeta uma voz paratópica já que sinaliza uma nova identidade para a criança que ao longo da enunciação é posta como não legítima a agentes como a UNICEF e outros órgãos internacionais. Pela ressignificação do termo trabalho, o discurso também explora um novo lugar para essa criança moçambicana, propondo uma espécie de nova-topia não comungada com os sistemas do capital. O trabalho não fere à liberdade da criança, mas enriquece seu senso de cidadania, seu conhecimento geográfico, entre outros aspectos. Como fundamentação teórica de base linguístico-discursiva, selecionamos a categoria de paratopia, proposta por Dominique Maingueneau e recorremos à noção de subjetivação teorizados por Judith Butler, na filosofia pós-estruturalista.
Abundance and Diversity of Bryofauna in Coffee and Tea Vegetations
Authors: Rahadian Rully , Perwati Lilih Khotim , Baskoro Karyadi 
Published: March 2018

Forest alteration into agroecosystem affect many organisms including bryofauna which their survivorship depend much on their host. Coffee and tea plantation are common agroecosystem in Indonesia. So far, the effect of habitat alteration on Bryofauna community have not been known yet. The objective of this study is to determine community structure attributes i.e., abundance, diversity and composition of bryofauna living in coffee and tea vegetation. The study was located in Ungaran Mountain, District of Semarang Indonesia. Bryofauna were extracted from moss using Tullgren funnel method and were identified until possible taxa. Bryofauna sampling was conducted both in coffee and tea vegetation. Bryofauna were extracted from the moss using Tullgren funnel method. The result shows that Acari was the most abundant both in coffee and tea area. Generally, bryofauna was more abundant in the coffee vegetation than in the tea vegetation. The diversity of bryofauna was not affected neither by altitude nor vegetation. However, the diversity of bryofauna seems affected more by their host, bryophyte. Keywords: Bryofauna, Acari, coffee and tea vegetation.
Pemuliaan Tanaman Nilam (Progestemon cablin) Lokal Melalui Perkembangbiakan Vegetatif
Authors: Kusumaningrum Hermin Pancasakti , Purbajanti Endang Dwi , Setiadi Agus 
Published: March 2018

Patchouli essential oil is an dominant product from Batang but its production has not been able to meet export needs. The main problem in the production of essential oil of patchouli is limited amount of seeds and dry season effect on the growth of patchouli. On the other hand, society units of patchouli essential oil is very dependent on the availability of raw materials of patchouli. Searching of patchouli local varieties must develop in order to encourages of sustainibility of patchouli production. The purpose of this activity is search and propagate patchouli plant from local varieties that can survive in different seasons of the year according to the climatic conditions of Batang. The study was conducted with the search and propagation of patchouli plant varieties used by farmers in Batang which is Sidikalang varieties and local varieties originating from Batang region and the surrounding area. Furthermore, the vegetative propagation using cuttings will be use followed by its growth observation during dry and rainy season. Results showed that the activities of patchouli plant local varieties of Bandungan, Kendal and Batang showed the best growth in the dry season. Key words: patchouli, vegetatif growth, essential oil.
Penggunaan Substrat Glukosa Berbagai Konsentrasi sebagaiSumber Karbon Microbial Fuel Cell Saccharomyces cerevisiae untuk Menghasilkan Energi Listrik
Authors: Nurhakim Muhammad Amal , Kusdiyantini Endang , Raharjo Budi 
Published: March 2018

The increases of human growth causes electrical energy demand’s expantion while the supply decreases drastically. Energy crisis had triggeredalternative renewable energy sourcesdevelopmentto substitutethe use ofoil that had beenmain energy resources for the people. Microorganisms utilization is used to produce electrical by researchers these years as an effort to actualize the goals. The system used is microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology which utilize metabolism activity from microorganisms to produce electrical energy. Microorganismswill perform metabolism bybreaking down glucose into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2).Hydrogen has a role as raw material that used in reduction reaction with oxygen until it releases electron in anoda as electrical flows source. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an example microorganisms that can utilize for produce electrical energy. This research aims to find optimal concentration for glucose as a carbon source in microbial fuel cell Saccharomyces cerevisiaeto form electrical energy. This research use S. cerevisiae as microorganisms and variation of glucose concentration as a carbon source. Parameters measured in this study is the voltage (mV) and current (mA). Research’s result shows that glucose in 10 % (w/v) concentrate forms higher results in voltage (mV) and current (mA) compare to glucose with 20% (w/v) concentrate and in the concentrate of 30% (w/v) which values each 561,833 mV and 105,133 mA. Analysis of variance with level of confidence 95% shows glucose concentrates don’t react significantly voltage but react significantly on current. Tukey HSD’s test show significant different between current that was formed by glucose in the concentrate of 10% (w/v) compared to glucose in the concentrate of 20% (w/v) and 30% (w/v).Keywords : Saccharomyces cerevisiae, microbial fuel cell (MFC), glucose, electrical energy
Struktur Komunitas Fitoplankton sebagai Dasar Pengelolaan Kualitas Perairan Pantai Mangrove di Tapak Tugurejo Semarang
Authors: Lathifah Nurul , Hidayat Jafron Wasiq , Muhammad Fuad 
Published: March 2018

Phytoplankton has of important role in water as of base of the food chain this is also can service a bioindicator the pollution of waters. This study aims to assess the phytoplankton community structure in Tapak Semarang, assessing the level of fertility of inshore mangrove community, and to assess the water quality of inshore. Samples were take in is in the mangrove region of Tapak Semarang. This study was conducted in May 2016 (rain season) and in September 2016 (dry season). Selection of the stations were based on different environmental conditions in the research include the pond and public waters in the waters of coastal mangrove the soles of Semarang. Analysis of index diversity, index evennes and index saprobik. The results showed that the spesies of phytoplankton obtained during the study on mangrove coastal waters Tapak Tugurejo Semarang were 13 species (rainy season) and 25 species (dry season). The most common species of phytoplankton found in all stations wereCerataulina bergonii, Nitzhcia sp, Rhizosolenia spp, Synedra ulna, Netrium digitus, Gloeotrichia echinulata, and Oscillatoria Formosa. Index of species diversity (H’) that exist in mangrove coastal waters Tapak Tugurejo Semarang were in the range of 0.73 to 1.95 low to moderate with low to moderate quality of stabilities during the rainy season. Mean while in the dry season of high species diversity index in the range of 2.24 to 2.82 which indicated stability of the ecosystem was low to moderate. The value of evennes index (e) ranged from 0.66 to 0.97 during the rainy season, and 0.90 to 0.94 in the dry seasons these indices illustrated that each station has a moderate to high similaritas. In term of saprobitas level it was at Oligosaprobik state to β-Meso/Oligosaprobik describe very mild to light polluted. The quality of mangrove coastal waters based DO, temperature, salinity and pH are still good for fish farming. Keywords: community structure, phytoplankton, Tapak, Tugurejo, Semarang..
Struktur Komunitas Mikroartropoda Tanah di Lahan Pertanian Organik dan Anorganik di Desa Batur Kecamatan Getasan Salatiga
Authors: Husna Shifa Aulia , Hadi Mochamad , Rahadian Rully 
Published: March 2018

Soil microarthropods is a arthropods that have an important role in decomposing organic materials and soil nutrients. On the farmland there is organic materials content and soil nutrients that abundants enough, because the addition of manure as a source of energy in the ground. The research was conducted in August-October 2015 took place in the field of organic and inorganic farmland in the Batur Village, Getasan Sub-district, Salatiga. This study aimed to examine the soil microarthropods community structure in organic and inorganic farmland as well as the effect of chemical and physical environmental factors to community structure of soil microarthropods. The study was conducted with samples of soil sampling method (PCT) and extracted using Barlese Funnel Extractor. Statistically show that diversity of soil microarthropods between organic and inorganic farmland are not significantly different. There is found 28 taxa of soil microarthropods in organic farmland and 23 taxa in inorganic. The highest total individual density of the taxa are exist in the organic farmland (2260 individual/ m²). The highest abundance of soil microarthropods taxa in inorganic farmland are Carabidae (26,55%) dan Prostigmata (13,27%), while in inorganic farmland are Carabidae (17,24%) dan larva Coleoptera (13,79%). The evenness of soil microarthropods taxa in organic farmland are much low compared with inorganicfarmland, because there is a dominant taxa (Carabidae). There is an influence relation between the chemical and physical environmental factors including water content, porosity, nutrient, and organic materials with community structure of soil microarthropods. Key words:Community structure, Soil microarthropods, Organic and inorganic farmland
Perbandingan Kualitas Daging Itik Magelang, Itik Pengging Dan Itik Tegal
Authors: Hidayati Nuke Nur , Yuniwarti Enny Yusuf Wachidah , Isdadiyanto Sri 
Published: March 2018

Local ducks in Indonesia there was several kinds, for example Tegal ducks, Magelang ducks and Pengging duck each having morphology different of duck. Research on the quality meat of ducks that includes ash content, water content, carbohydrate content, fat content, protein content, and muscle cell diameter of femoral ducks important to know quality meat of each duck. This study aimed to analyzed the differences types of ducks on the chemical content of meat and femoral muscle histology of diameter cell at Tegal ducks, Magelang ducks and Pengging ducks. Ducks were used in this study maintained in the Central Breeding and Raising Ducks Work Unit Non Ruminant Livestock Banyubiru, Ambarawa. The duck six month old was analyzed chemical content of meat and measuring diameter of femoral muscle cells. Duck samples taken from three different types of ducks that Tegal duck,Pengging duck and Magelang duck, of each type of sample taken many ducks as 6 tails. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). If the data were analyzed contained a real difference, continued by the Least Significant Differences Test (LSDT) at 95% confidence level. The results showed that no significant difference in all variables, from the result has been concluded that differences type of ducks not affect the chemical contents of duck meat and diameter of femoral muscle cells. Keywords: Local Ducks in Central Java, Quality of Meat, Muscle Cell Diameter Femoral Ducks.