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Kidney Injury and Electrolyte Abnormalities in Liver Failure
Authors: Bonavia Anthony , Singbartl Kai 
Published: November 2018

AbstractThe liver and kidney are key organs of metabolic homeostasis in the body and display complex interactions. Liver diseases often have direct and immediate effects on renal physiology and function. Conversely, acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common problem in patients with both acute and chronic liver diseases. AKI in patients with acute liver failure is usually multifactorial and involves insults similar to those seen in the general AKI population. Liver cirrhosis affects and is directly affected by aberrations in systemic and renal hemodynamics, inflammatory response, renal handling of sodium and free water excretion, and additional nonvasomotor mechanisms. Subsequent problems, for example, worsening ascites, hyponatremia, and AKI, often complicate management of patients with chronic progressive liver disease and add to their morbidity and mortality. Thus, AKI must be carefully defined and diagnosed in patients with liver disease. The kidney also plays a pivotal role in balancing acid–base disturbances resulting from advanced liver disease, making AKI in the setting of end-stage liver disease very difficult to manage clinically. While renal dysfunction in these patients often resolves following orthotopic liver transplant, dialysis may be required as a bridge to transplantation to mitigate the metabolic disarray found in these critically ill patients.
Oncological Outcomes of Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy in Ireland: A Single Surgeon's 5-Year Experience
Authors: Croghan Stefanie , Matanhelia Deep , Foran Ann , Galvin David 
Published: November 2018

Objectives There is a little published data on the outcomes of radical prostatectomy in the Irish context. We aimed to determine the 5-year oncological results of open radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) performed by a single surgeon following appointment.
Methods A retrospective review of RRPs performed between 2011 and 2016 was conducted. Patient demographics, preoperative parameters (clinical stage on digital rectal exam, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, biopsy Gleason's score and MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] findings), pathological variables (T-stage, Gleason's score, nodal status, and surgical margin status), and treatment decisions (lymphadenectomy or adjuvant radiotherapy) were recorded. Oncological outcome at last follow-up was ascertained.
Results 265 patients underwent RRP between 2011 and 2016. Median age was 62 years (range: 41–74). Mean follow-up was 32.24 months (range: 8–72) months. Pathological disease stage was T2 in 170/265 (64.15%), T3a in 65/265 (24.53%), and T3b in 30/265 (11.32%). Final Gleason's score was upgraded from diagnostic biopsy in 16.35% (43/263) and downgraded in 27% (71/263). Pelvic lymph node dissection was performed in 44.25% (118/265) patients. A positive surgical margin (PSM) was seen in 26/170 (15.2%) patients with T2 disease and in 45/95 (47.37%) patients with T3 disease. Of the 265 patients, 238 (89.81%) were disease-free at last follow-up, of whom 24/238 (10.08%) had received adjuvant and 17/238 (7.14%) received salvage radiotherapy. Adjuvant/salvage treatment was ongoing in 19/265 (7.17%) of patients.
Conclusion Good oncological outcomes of RRP in the Irish context are seen in this 5-year review, with the vast majority of patients experiencing biochemical-free survival at most recent follow-up.
Characteristic analysis of operation curve of energy storage system considering typical weather conditions to suppress photovoltaic power fluctuation
Authors: Shi Huiqing , Wang Ruolan 
Published: November 2018

By mining the typical operating curve of an energy storage system, an understanding of the overall characteristics of the charge–discharge power of the system can be attained and a decisive support for the capacity allocation of the system can be provided. This paper proposes a typical operation curve mining algorithm based on a cloud model for the application scenario of using an energy storage system to suppress the power fluctuation of a photovoltaic (PV) power station. The frequency distribution of the charge–discharge power of the energy storage system in a longitudinal time series is decomposed into several cloud models with different granularities. By weighting and summing the expected values of the normal cloud model group, the typical operating curve of the energy storage system is obtained. To analyze the power distribution of the energy storage system and the typical operating curve under six typical weather types, a nonparametric estimation method was adopted to fit the power value distribution and the fitting deviation was calculated. The rationality of the extracted typical operating curve is verified and the capacity of the energy storage system is determined according to the obtained curve. The typical operating curve is used to configure the energy storage capacity of a 40 MWp PV plant and the result is 4.4984 MW·h, i.e., approximately 4.5 MW·h, which represents 11.25% of the installed capacity of the PV plant. This energy storage capacity affords a 95% probability of meeting the daily capacity requirements of the system. This shows that mining the typical operating curve is a valid method for configuring the energy storage capacity of a PV power station. Using the simulation examples, the effectiveness and the correctness of the method proposed in this paper are verified to provide theoretical support for the capacity allocation of energy storage systems.
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Realigning alignment
Authors: Bardagil-Mas Bernat , Lindenbergh Charlotte 
Published: November 2018

AbstractWe analyse case marking in the Jê language family (Brazilian Amazonia) with the new completeness alignment typology proposed byLindenbergh & Zwart (2017). In contrast with classical alignment typology, the completeness typology first determines whether all grammatical functions participate in a grammatical process (e.g. case marking) and only then determines how these grammatical functions are aligned, adding nine incomplete alignment types to the five types of classical alignment typology. Nine of the ten Jê languages are classified as split-ergative, while Panará is seen as fully ergative, making it a typologically odd language within the family. We show that applying the completeness typology to Jê languages more accurately describes the true variation in case marking patterns across the Jê language family.
Gender-mismatching pronouns in context
Authors: Piepers Joske , Redl Theresa 
Published: November 2018

Abstract
Gender-(mis)matching pronouns have been studied extensively in experiments. However, a phenomenon common to various languages has thus far been overlooked: the systemic use of non-feminine pronouns when referring to female individuals. The present study is the first to provide experimental insights into the interpretation of such a pronoun: Limburgian zien ‘his/its’ and Dutch zijn ‘his/its’ are grammatically ambiguous between masculine and neuter, but while Limburgian zien can refer to women, the Dutch equivalent zijn cannot. Employing an acceptability judgment task, we presented speakers of Limburgian (N = 51) with recordings of sentences in Limburgian featuring zien, and speakers of Dutch (N = 52) with Dutch translations of these sentences featuring zijn. All sentences featured a potential male or female antecedent embedded in a stereotypically male or female context. We found that ratings were higher for sentences in which the pronoun could refer back to the antecedent. For Limburgians, this extended to sentences mentioning female individuals. Context further modulated sentence appreciation. Possible mechanisms regarding the interpretation of zien as coreferential with a female individual will be discussed.
Empathy for the inanimate
Authors: Trompenaars Thijs 
Published: November 2018

Abstract
Narrative fiction may invite us to share the perspective of characters which are very much unlike ourselves. Inanimate objects featuring as protagonists or narrators are an extreme example of this. The way readers experience these characters was examined by means of a narrative immersion study. Participants (N = 200) judged narratives containing animate or inanimate characters in predominantly Agent or Experiencer roles. Narratives with inanimate characters were judged to be less emotionally engaging. This effect was influenced by the dominant thematic role associated with the character: inanimate Agents led to more defamiliarization compared to their animate counterparts than inanimate Experiencers. I argue for an integrated account of thematic roles and animacy in literary experience and linguistics in general.
Have-doubling constructions in historical and modern Dutch
Authors: Wall Joanna 
Published: November 2018

Abstract

Have-doubling constructions closely resemble periphrastic perfect tense constructions but have an additional, seemingly superfluous form of the verb have. Whilst these constructions are only found in a small number of modern Dutch dialects, they appear much more broadly in historical varieties of Dutch. In this article, I present new data from a corpus study of have-doubling constructions in Early Modern Dutch (ca. 1500-1700) which reveals both similarities and an important difference with the modern dialectal phenomenon. I argue that there are two structurally distinct types of have-doubling in this older period: one which contains a canonical adjective (i.e. with one internal argument) and one with a non-canonical adjective with a vP layer (Koeneman et al. 2011). I further show that this sheds new light on the observed link between doubling constructions and the rise of the periphrastic perfect tenses, with implications for the nature of this syntactic development.
A cross-linguistic study of new populist language
Authors: Lorenzetti Maria Ivana 
Published: November 2018

Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategies of some European and American politicians associated with the inherently ambiguous concept of populism. The theoretical framework adopted combines text linguistics and critical discourse analysis and has an interdisciplinary character. The data analysed demonstrate that populist rhetorical strategies do not differ markedly from those typically employed in political rhetoric. While each populist politician evokes a specific identity narrative to create common ground with the electorate, they all emphasise a profound dualism in society between “us and them” through metaphors, hyperboles, and personifications. This dichotomous view of society is sometimes exploited to send ambivalent messages of potential discrimination.
Understanding urban intervention as a translational activity
Authors: Ayhan Ayşe , Demirel Emine Bogenç 
Published: November 2018

AbstractThis article aims to examine Yeldeğirmeni, a historically multilingual and multicultural neighborhood in Istanbul, as a translation zone. The language landscape of Yeldeğirmeni, along with its social and cultural texture, has been transformed by both social and political changes in Turkey, and as a result of urban interventions by institutional and individual actors. We discuss the Yeldeğirmeni Revitalization Project and Mural Istanbul Festival as urban interventions that transform the social and cultural texture of the city in translation zones, owing to the significant role played by cultural mediators. Yeldeğirmeni is analyzed as a discourse in the context of cultural translation, and urban intervention is viewed as a medium of translation.
Forensic Afterlives
Authors: Crossland Zoë 
Published: November 2018

AbstractThe practices involved in forensic investigation center on a search for physical clues and traces that may be used to reconstruct past events. The forensic corpse is therefore involved in a materially grounded semiotics, which provides the basis for making claims about the past. Using the examples of forensic pattern matching (such as craniofacial mapping and fingerprints) and forensic entomology, I explore the different life worlds that emerge after a person’s death and how they are mobilized by forensic investigators. In this form of inquiry, claims to the real are articulated through the signs that different beings—whether human, insect, or microbe—perceive inhering in the corpse. Such forms of forensic investigation offer a productive site for thinking about the ontological status of fact and of the corpse in the context of posthumanism. Forensic signs stretch across our divided categories of the living and the dead, human and animal, nature and culture, providing alternate ways to conceptualize the relationships at play in such assemblages.
Undecontextualizable: Performativity and the Conditions of Possibility of Linguistic Symbolism
Authors: Fleming Luke 
Published: November 2018

AbstractIn this article I argue that the canceling out (or defeasing) of performative indexical functions is a condition of possibility on linguistic symbolism. I show this to be the case by looking at words and expressions—like curse words and name taboos—whose performative functions can be canceled out only with the greatest of metalinguistic labor. I show that these indefeasible or rigid performatives are the semiotic-functional converses of J. L. Austin’s explicit performatives (e.g., “promise,” “bequeath”) in terms of (i) the orders of regimentation between semantic-symbolic and pragmatic-indexical functions, (ii) the indexical anchoring of pragmatic effects within either denotationally mediated events-of-narration (En) or interactionally mediated events-of-signaling (Es), and (iii) the articulation of indexical function with speech participant roles. The article concludes with a reflection on how the architecture of the phonology-semantics interface (or duality of patterning) safeguards symbolism by impeding the processes of runaway semiotic naturalization that produce rigid performativity.
Linguistic Prerequisites to Cultural Analysis: Lars Levander’s Reocentric Vision of Vernacular Language and Swedish Peasant Life
Authors: Karlander David 
Published: November 2018

AbstractThis article takes interest in reocentric thinking, as well as in the ways such thinking is brought to bear on research on language and social life. Reocentric thinking, understood as referential theories that treat words as standing for things, is pervasive throughout the history of (Western) linguistic thought. Yet, its manifestations in descriptive linguistic research are scantly explored. Seeking to account for how a reocentric vision of language and social life is realized and concomitantly adapted in scholarly practice, the article analyses the research of Swedish linguist and folklorist Lars Levander (1883–1950). Levander spent most of his life documenting the vernacular languages and peasant life of Sweden’s Dalarna province. His assumptions about the relationship between words and things, as this article argues, significantly guided his research practice. Furthermore, they served to conceptualize, and concomitantly capture, certain configurations of time and vernacular authenticity. The article seeks, accordingly, to grasp the dialectic between Levander’s epistemic presuppositions and his scholarly production. More broadly, the article’s historical, epistemological mode of engagement exemplifies how early and potentially ingrained apprehensions of language, as well as their epistemic prerequisites and effects, can be understood and rectified.
A structural homology approach for computational protein design with flexible backbone
Authors: Simoncini David , Zhang Kam Y J , Schiex Thomas , Barbe Sophie 
Published: November 2018

Abstract

Motivation
Structure-based Computational Protein design (CPD) plays a critical role in advancing the field of protein engineering. Using an all-atom energy function, CPD tries to identify amino acid sequences that fold into a target structure and ultimately perform a desired function. Energy functions remain however imperfect and injecting relevant information from known structures in the design process should lead to improved designs.

Results
We introduce Shades, a data-driven CPD method that exploits local structural environments in known protein structures together with energy to guide sequence design, while sampling side-chain and backbone conformations to accommodate mutations. Shades (Structural Homology Algorithm for protein DESign), is based on customized libraries of non-contiguous in-contact amino acid residue motifs. We have tested Shades on a public benchmark of 40 proteins selected from different protein families. When excluding homologous proteins, Shades achieved a protein sequence recovery of 30% and a protein sequence similarity of 46% on average, compared with the PFAM protein family of the target protein. When homologous structures were added, the wild-type sequence recovery rate achieved 93%.

Availability and implementation
Shades source code is available at https://bitbucket.org/satsumaimo/shades as a patch for Rosetta 3.8 with a curated protein structure database and ITEM library creation software.

Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Intercalibration of survey methods using paired fishing operations and log-Gaussian Cox processes
Authors: Thygesen Uffe Høgsbro , Kristensen Kasper , Jansen Teunis , Beyer Jan E 
Published: November 2018

AbstractWe present a statistical method for intercalibration of fishery surveys methods, i.e. determining the difference in catchability and size selectivity of two methods, such as trawl gears or vessels, based on data from paired fishing operations. The model estimates the selectivity ratios in each length class by modelling the size distribution of the underlying population at each station and the size-structured clustering of fish at small temporal and spatial scales. The model allows for overdispersion and correlation between catch counts in neighbouring size classes. This is obtained by assuming Poisson-distributed catch numbers conditional on unobserved log-Gaussian variables, i.e. the catch is modelled using log-Gaussian Cox processes. We apply the method to catches of hake (Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis) in 341 paired trawl hauls performed by two different vessels, viz. the RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen and the FV Blue Sea, operating off the coast of Namibia. The results demonstrate that it is feasible to estimate the selectivity ratio in each size class, and to test statistically the hypothesis that the selectivity is independent of size or species. For the specific case, we find that differences between size classes and species are statistically significant.
Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in Latin America and the Caribbean in people receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection: A systematic review
Authors: Cano-Torres J Oggun , Olmedo-Reneaum Alejandro , Esquivel-Sánchez José M , Camiro-Zuñiga Antonio , Pérez-Carrisoza Arely , Madrigal-Iberri Carlos , Flores-Miranda Rommel , Ramírez-González Luis E , Belaunzarán-Zamudio Pablo F 
Published: November 2018

Abstract
Histoplasmosis is the most clinically significant mycosis in Latin America; still it has been neglected in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There is limited information about its contribution to morbidity and mortality in this population. We conducted a systematic review of scientific literature to provide an estimation of the frequency and mortality of histoplasmosis among people with HIV receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in Latin America, and factors associated with mortality. We searched articles in PubMed, Scopus, WHO Global health library, and Scielo using different combination of terms including “histoplasmosis” and HAART. We identified 949 articles, removed 662 duplicated; screened 287 abstracts; reviewed full text of 53 articles; and selected 15 articles that provided information on the number of patients studied, included patients receiving ART, and reported any measure of frequency estimate for qualitative synthesis. Studies were conducted in Argentina (n = 4), Brazil (n = 6), Colombia (n = 2), French Guyana and the Bahamas (=2), and Guatemala (n = 1). Heterogeneity of studies characteristics precluded any aggregated estimates. Histoplamosis was frequent in these cohort studies and mortality was high despite the use of HAART. Low CD4 counts, delayed HAART initiation and poor adherence were related to increased incidence, poor prognosis and increased mortality, respectively. Histoplasmosis may be an important contributor to mortality in people with HIV in Latin America. Diagnostic delays represent an important limitation for improving care of patients suspected to have histoplasmosis. Reducing histoplasmosis diagnostic delays and therapy initiation is needed to further decrease mortality.
Neuroendoscopic Aspiration of Blood Clots in the Cerebral Aqueduct and Third Ventricle During Posterior Fossa Surgery in the Prone Position
Authors: Feletti Alberto , Stanzani Riccardo , Alicandri-Ciufelli Matteo , Giliberto Giuliano , Martinoni Matteo , Pavesi Giacomo 
Published: November 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND
During surgery in the posterior fossa in the prone position, blood can sometimes fill the surgical field, due both to the less efficient venous drainage compared to the sitting position and the horizontally positioned surgical field itself. In some cases, blood clots can wedge into the cerebral aqueduct and the third ventricle, and potentially cause acute hydrocephalus during the postoperative course.

OBJECTIVE
To illustrate a technique that can be used in these cases: the use of a flexible scope introduced through the opened roof of the fourth ventricle with a freehand technique allows the navigation of the fourth ventricle, the cerebral aqueduct, and the third ventricle in order to explore the cerebrospinal fluid pathways and eventually aspirate blood clots and surgical debris.

METHODS
We report on one patient affected by an ependymoma of the fourth ventricle, for whom we used a flexible neuroendoscope to explore and clear blood clots from the cerebral aqueduct and the third ventricle after the resection of the tumor in the prone position. Blood is aspirated with a syringe using the working channel of the scope as a sucker.

RESULTS
A large blood clot that was lying on the roof of the third ventricle was aspirated, setting the ventricle completely free. Other clots were aspirated from the right foramen of Monro and from the optic recess.

CONCLUSION
We describe this novel technique, which represents a safe and efficient way to clear the surgical field at the end of posterior fossa surgery in the prone position. The unusual endoscopic visual perspective and instrument maneuvers are easily handled with proper neuroendoscopic training.