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Heat-induced Bone Diagenesis Probed by Vibrational Spectroscopy
Authors: Marques M. P. M. , Mamede A. P. , Vassalo A. R. , Makhoul C. , Cunha E. , Gonçalves D. , Parker S. F. , Batista de Carvalho L. A. E. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractComplementary vibrational spectroscopic techniques – infrared, Raman and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) – were applied to the study of human bone burned under controlled conditions (400 to 1000 °C). This is an innovative way of tackling bone diagenesis upon burning, aiming at a quantitative evaluation of heat-induced dimensional changes allowing a reliable estimation of pre-burning skeletal dimensions. INS results allowed the concomitant observation of the hydroxyl libration (OHlibration), hydroxyl stretching (ν(OH)) and (OHlibration + ν(OH)) combination modes, leading to an unambiguous assignment of these INS features to bioapatite and confirming hydroxylation of bone’s inorganic matrix. The OHlib, ν(OH) and ν4(PO43−) bands were identified as spectral biomarkers, which displayed clear quantitative relationships with temperature revealing heat-induced changes in bone’s H-bonding pattern during the burning process. These results will enable the routine use of FTIR-ATR (Fourier Transform Infrared-Attenuated Total Reflectance) for the analysis of burned skeletal remains, which will be of the utmost significance in forensic, bioanthropological and archaeological contexts.
Novel Angiographic Scores for evaluation of Large Vessel Vasculitis
Authors: Tombetti Enrico , Godi Claudia , Ambrosi Alessandro , Doyle Frances , Jacobs Alana , Kiprianos Allan P. , Youngstein Taryn , Bechman Katie , Manfredi Angelo A. , Ariff Ben , Mason Justin C. 
Published: October 2018

AbstractArterial involvement is the cardinal feature of large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) and prevention of disease progression is the principal therapeutic goal. However, development of tools for its evaluation represents a major unmet need. To address this, a widely-applicable imaging tool for LVV, analysing arterial involvement in 17 arterial territories, has been developed and validated. Individual stenosis and dilation scores were generated and combined in a composite score. The methodology was validated cross-sectionally and longitudinally in 131 patients, 96 Takayasu arteritis (TA), 35 large-vessel giant-cell arteritis (LV-GCA). In total, 4420 arterial segments from 260 imaging studies were evaluated. The new scores allowed quantitative grading of LVV arterial involvement with high consistency, revealing inter-patient differences. TA had higher stenosis and composite scores and lower dilation scores than LV-GCA. Baseline stenotic and composite scores reflected arterial damage rather than disease-activity. Longitudinal changes in all three scores correlated with disease activity and mirrored arterial disease evolution, reflecting both progressive injury and lesion improvement. Increases ≥1 in any score were specific for arterial disease progression. The scores objectively quantify arterial involvement in LVV, providing precise definition of disease phenotype and evolution. We propose that they represent novel vascular outcome measures essential for future clinical trials.
Nonvolatile and ultra-low-loss reconfigurable mode (De)multiplexer/switch using triple-waveguide coupler with Ge2Sb2Se4Te1 phase change material
Authors: Jiang Weifeng 
Published: October 2018

AbstractMode-division multiplexing (MDM) is a promising approach to dramatically enhance the transmission capacity. A reconfigurable mode (De)multiplexer/switch (RMDS) is a key component for the flexible mode routing in the MDM network. A nonvolatile and ultra-low-loss RMDS is proposed via a triple-silicon-waveguide directional coupler with the Ge2Sb2Se4Te1 (GSST) phase change material (PCM). The nonvolatile property of GSST makes it attractive to reduce the switching power-consumption. Benefiting from the low loss of the GSST-PCM at both amorphous and crystalline states, an RMDS with an ultra-low loss and a high extinction-ratio can be realized. The proposed RMDS is optimally designed by using the full-vectorial finite element method and 3D full-vectorial finite difference time domain method. The numerically simulated results show that a compact RMDS is with the extinction ratios of 18.98 dB and 22.18 dB, ultra-low insertion losses of 0.10 dB and 0.68 dB for the “OFF” and “ON” states, respectively at the operating wavelength of 1550 nm. An ultra-wide bandwidth of 100 nm is achieved for both the “OFF” and “ON” states.
Analysis of the electromechanical coupling mechanism and torsional vibration characteristics of a high‐speed train drive system
Authors: Yang Chaoyue , Jia Jie , Zhao Jingbo 
Published: October 2018

The high‐speed train transmission system is a complex electromechanical coupling system, which consists of a motor, a universal shaft, a gearbox, and a wheel set. In order to solve dynamic problems such as torsion vibration caused by a high‐speed train transmission system, the simplified model and equivalent mechanics model of the system were established, the natural vibration frequency was solved, and the simulation results of the system under a fixed torque input were analysed. The results showed that the natural vibration frequency of the universal shaft was 4.19 Hz, the natural vibration frequency of the pinion was 7.54 Hz, the natural vibration frequency of the big gear was 35.6 Hz, and the natural vibration frequency of the wheel set was 107.45 Hz. The natural vibration frequency of each part of the system increased gradually during the transmission from the motor to the wheel set. A fixed torque was added to the input end of the simulation model. The simulation results showed that the change amplitude of the torsion angle displacement of the big gear and the wheel set decreases. It is known that the angular displacement caused by the torsional vibration is weakened by the larger torsion stiffness of the axle.
Fabrication of hybrids of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks supported zero‐valent copper nanoparticles as a non‐noble catalyst with high efficiency
Authors: Yang Meiling , Mao Mi , He Yu , Zhou Jiangang , Ge Yili , Song Gongwu 
Published: October 2018

This work integrated zero‐valent copper (ZVC) onto the surface of zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) to form hybrids of ZVC/ZIF‐8 as a non‐noble catalyst for catalytic reduction of PNP as a reliable model reaction. The ZVC/ZIF‐8 exhibited superior catalytic properties and good recyclability after the fabrication. 6%ZVC/ZIF‐8 hybrids complete the reduction process in 2 min with a rate constant estimated to be 2.39 min−1. The study’s findings explored a simple and powerful way to incorporate metal ions into the backbones of open framework materials without losing their properties.
Effect of the Air Filtration System Replacement on Embryo Quality in the Assisted Reproduction Laboratory
Authors: Poletto Karine Queiroz , de Lima Yanna Andressa Ramos , Approbato Mário Silva 
Published: October 2018

AbstractImproving infrastructural conditions of the in vitro fertilization laboratory, such as the air quality, has profound positive effects on embryo culture. Poor environmental conditions reduce the rate of embryo formation and, therefore, of pregnancy. This review article presents important publications regarding the impact of air quality in human reproduction laboratories on embryo quality, pregnancy success, and live births. The studies demonstrate that the replacing the air filtration system improves significantly the environmental air quality, and, consequently, improves laboratory parameters, such as the fertilization rate, the number of blastocysts, the embryo implantation rate, and the number of live births. On the other hand, improving air quality decreases the number of abortions. Therefore, environmental parameters that improve embryo quality and increase healthy child birth rates must be the main targets for the assisted reproduction laboratory quality control.
Kick the hive, get the bees: graffiti writers as assemblage and direct action political actors in their battle against H&M
Authors: Mitman Tyson 
Published: October 2018

AbstractIn October of 2017 fast fashion retailers H&M produced an online ad that featured some of Jason ‘REVOK’ Williams’ graffiti in the background. Revok filed a cease and desist order to get H&M to stop using his work in their ad. H&M then sued him, claiming he had no right to copyright protections because the work was produced illegally. This lawsuit became public knowledge and infuriated the global graffiti community, who began a week long worldwide uncoordinated direct action campaign against H&M. Graffiti writers wrote graffiti on H&M storefronts and ideologically attacked H&M in social media spaces until the lawsuit was dropped. This article will examine why graffiti writers responded to the lawsuit against Revok this way, considering these graffiti writers had to undertake great personal risk to commit their acts of vandalism and, because none of them had any personal or financial stake in the outcome of the lawsuit. To understand why graffiti writers acted as they did graffiti as a protest act and as a spectacle will be discussed, as will the importance of subcultural capital. Further this article will explain the motivations of graffiti writers in their fight against H&M and the ways that they use physical and virtual spaces to build their reputations and interact and communicate with each other. Ultimately, this will explain how H&M filing the lawsuit against Revok provided a crucial moment of opportunity that allowed graffiti writers to engage in dramatic public acts of self-promotion. These acts marked writers as politically aware, anti-authoritarians willing to take risks and violate the authoritative aesthetics of the clean and controlled H&M storefronts in support of Revok, which in turn made their acts of graffiti forms of contentious political participation. Through sharing their acts on social media and associating it with the Revok vs. H&M conflict through hashtags, writers further promoted themselves, clearly associated themselves with famous graffiti writer Revok and increased their general presence and their subcultural capital within the graffiti community.
Givenness and existence: On the possibility of a phenomenological philosophy of religion
Authors: Deketelaere Nikolaas 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe so-called theological turn in recent French phenomenology has been the subject of a heated debate in France and elsewhere. This article outlines a possible future for this movement by considering the possibility of a phenomenological philosophy of religion distinct from a phenomenological theology. It argues that Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of givenness does not establish this possibility, as it aims at a theophanic experience and is therefore ultimately inscribed within a logic of faith. It is then with Jean-Luc Nancy’s phenomenology of existence that a more plausible, though undeveloped, possible future for phenomenological philosophy of religion comes into view: not aimed at theophany (fromfaith), but rather at, what the article calls, theexistential situationthat facilitates or inhibits religious experience (aboutfaith). This, the article argues, is the only way of limiting phenomenological philosophy to the possibility of revelation, leaving it to theology to consider the actuality of Revelation, as Marion deems necessary. It is thus also the only way for a phenomenological philosophy of religion to have a future as distinct from theology, that is to say, for it to be possible to speak phenomenologically about religious experiences regardless of whether this is done from a position of faith or not. In establishing this possibility, the article will emphasise the often neglected phenomenological and existential aspects of Nancy’s thought.
TRAF4 binds to the juxtamembrane region of EGFR directly and promotes kinase activation
Authors: Cai Gang , Zhu Liang , Chen Xing , Sun Kevin , Liu Caini , Sen Ganes C. , Stark George R. , Qin Jun , Li Xiaoxia 
Published: October 2018

Significance
EGFR is a transmembrane cell-surface receptor tyrosine kinase crucial for regulating diverse physiological and pathological responses, but how protein function is turned on has remained elusive. Our results indicated that EGF stimulation recruits a key scaffold protein called TRAF4, which in turn recognizes the C-terminal half of the juxtamembrane segment of EGFR and promotes EGFR activation. Specific mutations in the TRAF4 binding site of EGFR resulted in significant attenuation of EGF-induced EGFR activation. These findings provide important insight into the mechanism of EGFR activation, and implicate TRAF4 as a potential therapeutic target for treating EGF/EGFR-driven cancers.
Eye gaze as a cue for recognizing intention and coordinating joint action
Authors: Amati Franco , Brennan Susan E. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

People in conversation are highly sensitive to where others are looking. It has been argued that eye gaze is such a compelling social signal that following the gaze of another person is practically reflexive. Others have demonstrated that the role of gaze in interaction is more flexible. The direction of eye gaze can be informative about what a person is searching for, monitoring, orienting toward, referring to, deciding to choose, planning, or intending. But because it can signal all of these things (or none of them, as when attention is captured inadvertently by something sudden or salient), a look is often ambiguous. In this chapter, we consider the contributions of eye gaze to recognizing intentions and coordinating joint action in spatial contexts. To the extent that gazing at an object is instrumental to what the gazer is doing, a look can provide a window for an experimenter into the gazer’s cognitive processing, a cue for an interacting partner about the gazer’s intention, or a hint for a marketer about the gazer’s preference or indecision. Patterns of looks can be interpreted by people engaged in perspective taking, or by automated pattern recognizers engaged in mind-reading. Finally, eye gaze has the potential to be deployed communicatively, as when one person intends that another recognize what she is attending to and use this information to coordinate their behavior. We discuss evidence about how observers use gaze cues (whether interactively or non-interactively) in contexts where they can see the gazer’s face, as well as during remote electronic communication by way of a shared gaze system where each partner’s gaze is represented to the other by a dynamic cursor displayed over a shared screen.
Mobile dual eye-tracking in face-to-face interaction
Authors: Stukenbrock Anja 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

In face-to-face interaction deixis, i.e. (the use of) a particular class of linguistic items that have grammaticalised the space-, time- and person-bound structure of the participants’ subjective orientation in the speech event (Bühler, 1965[1934]), is intricately connected to visible acts of demonstration (prototypically pointing) and joint attention. A growing body of publications within the field of conversation analysis and research on multimodality acknowledges the central role that pointing plays in acts of deictic reference (Eriksson, 2009; Fricke, 2007; Goodwin, 2003; Kendon, 2004; Kita, 2003; Mondada, 2012a; Stukenbrock, 2009, 2014a, 2014b, 2015). Surprisingly, eye gaze has remained an unexplored area although it serves a variety of crucial functions in the participants’ on-line organisation of a joint focus of attention on deictically foregrounded entities in the immediate spatial surroundings (Stukenbrock, 2009, 2010, 2014a, 2014b, 2015). The few existing studies mainly rely on video-recordings that do not allow a precise analysis of eye gaze.
Drawing on innovative mobile eye-tracking technology, my paper explores different forms of gaze behaviour that systematically occur when participants direct their interlocutor’s attention to visible entities in the surroundings by means of deictic pointing. My data consists of mobile eye-tracking recordings undertaken with two pairs of eye-tracking glasses worn by participants in non-laboratory, everyday settings ((1) shopping together at a market, (2) searching for a book in a library, (3) conducting an informal conversation). The analysis is based on frame-precisely synchronised split-screen videos consisting of two complementary eye-tracking videos which allow a moment-by-moment reconstruction of the way in which the participants coordinate talk, body movements and gaze in the emergent interaction.
Teacher adaptations to support students with special education needs in French immersion
Authors: Mady Callie 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
As of late, French immersion (FI) teachers have been encouraged to adapt their instruction to support the inclusion and success of
students with learning difficulties. In particular, pedagogical concepts such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (National
Center on Universal Design for Learning, 2014) and differentiated instruction (Tomlinson,
2004) have been promoted as means to do so. This study used observations of nine FI teachers’ classes with the view to
exploring their adaptations for students with learning difficulties in hopes of identifying future professional development
directions. The observations revealed that the FI teachers were aptly adapting their instruction for the class as a whole whereas
they were less apt to modify for individual students. In order to further their inclusive practices, the FI teachers in this study
would benefit from future professional development opportunities that focus on differentiating instruction for individuals and
conversations about if and how teacher language choices can provide additional means of differentiation.
Unpacking dimensions of immersion teacher educator identity
Authors: Leavy Aisling , Hourigan Mairéad , Ó Ceallaigh T. J. 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Inadequate teacher preparation for immersion programs remains a challenge. While there is a significant dearth of research on
teacher development in immersion education, research focusing on immersion teacher educators (ITEs) is even more scant. Using
self-study methodology, this study explores the professional learning and experiences of three teacher educators (TEs) as they
construct new professional identities as ITEs as part of engagement in Lesson Study. The paper particularly focuses on two
Mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) who were newcomers to the immersion education setting. A community
of practice (CoP) framework was utilised to provide insights into what Vygotsky (1987) terms the twisting path of all three
TEs as they engaged in the CoP. Critical moments of defending content as priority, negotiating an integrated space, and becoming
immersion-responsive were revealed. CoP played a vital role in facilitating new professional identities and illuminates in
multiple ways the exclusive and complex process of becoming an ITE.
Veridicality and sets of alternative worlds
Authors: Öhl Peter 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This paper explores three related phenomena. First, not all embedded formal interrogatives (i.e. clauses introduced by if or whether) have the function of an indirect question. Second, the complementizers if and that may occur in identical syntactic contexts. Third, if-clauses may be licensed by certain (discourse) semantic factors, like negation, modality, and also verum focus, where otherwise that-clauses are preferred. The approach taken is based on epistemic logic, especially on the notion of relativized veridicality, the notion of possible worlds and the formal semantics of the complementizers that and if.
On two types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation
Authors: Gyuris Beáta 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The paper provides a survey of the form types of Hungarian polar interrogatives containing the negative particle nem ‘not’ and of their interpretational features, and discusses the possibilities of formally modeling the observable distinctions. First a general review of the basic syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of polar interrogatives is provided, with special attention to the differences between two root interrogative form types in Hungarian. It is argued that the distinction between outside and inside negation readings proposed by Ladd (1981) for English can also be detected in Hungarian, with the help of particular morphosyntactic tests. The application of the tests reveals that whereas the intonationally marked negative polar interrogatives have both outside and inside negation readings, those marked by morphological means only possess the former one. The tests are also shown to detect interpretational distinctions having to do with the types of bias that the particular forms are compatible with. Without providing a fully-fledged formal modeling, the paper discusses possible strategies for capturing the above distinctions in terms of the proposals made in Romero & Han (2004), Repp (2013) and Krifka (2017).
Fromthe light of truthtothe dark alleys of tyranny
Authors: Degani Marta 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe present study aims at exploring the evocative power of metaphor in a number of remarkable American political speeches. The investigation concentrates on the metaphorical framing of political issues in terms of light and darkness. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the top 100 political speeches in the twentieth century according to a ranking given by American rhetoricians in a national survey (http://www. news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches). Overall, the study shows how the metaphorical uses of the evocative concepts of light and darkness have facilitated the communication of central political ideas, values and beliefs in twentieth century American political rhetoric.
The body politic of independent Scotland
Authors: Engström Robin 
Published: October 2018

AbstractThe creation of national personifications is a political act that informs us about ideological and cognitive strategies underpinning nation-building. Many European nations are associated with national personifications, but Scotland stands out by not having a tradition of representing the nation in this way. The 2014 independence referendum began to change that, and national personifications featured, not only in the main pro-independence campaign material, but in the visual profile of many new, radical organizations. These personifications also raise questions about the use of metaphor in political discourse. By combining multimodal metaphor and metonymy analysis with interviews with artists who have designed Scottish personifications for the independence movement, this article investigates how new Scottish body politic metaphors were constructed during the campaign. This methodology increases our understanding of the wider context of the referendum, and aids the interpretation of national personifications by providing arguments for interpretation. The analysis shows that body politic metaphors used in the campaign draw on traditional Scottish symbols, but traditional body politic metaphor types are subverted, typically concerning gender roles, in order to convey messages that are relevant in a contemporary political landscape.