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The modern spectrum of biopsy-proven renal disease in Chinese diabetic patients—a retrospective descriptive study
Authors: Liu Diankun , Huang Ting , Chen Nan , Xu Gang , Zhang Ping , Luo Yang , Wang Yongping , Lu Tao , Wang Long , Xiong Mengqi , Geng Jian , Nie Sheng 
Published: March 2018

BackgroundRenal biopsies performed in diabetic patients are increasing and becoming more complex. Comprehensive data on modern spectrum of biopsy-proven renal disease in Chinese diabetic patients are lacking.MethodsIn a nationwide renal biopsy survey including 71,151 native biopsies from 2004 to 2014, diabetic patients were identified according to the clinical diagnosis from referral records. The clinical data were extracted from referral records and pathological reports.ResultsA total of 1,604 diabetic patients, including 61 patients with T1DM, were analyzed in this study. The median age is 51.39 ± 11.37 years. Male patients accounted for 58% of the population. We found that only 44.7% of diabetic patients had the isolated pathological diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy (DN), while 49.1% had non-diabetic renal disease (NDRD) alone, and 6.2% had NDRD superimposed on DN. Nephrotic syndrome (n = 824, 51.4%) was the most common clinical indication for renal biopsy. Among 887 patients with NDRD, membranous nephropathy (n = 357) was the leading diagnosis, followed by IgA nephropathy (n = 179). Hypertensive renal disease (n = 32), tubulointerstitial nephropathy (n = 27) and acute tubular necrosis (n = 16) accounted for 3.5%, 2.9%, 1.7% of the NDRD cases respectively. Nearly a half (49.2%) of patients with T1DM had NDRD.DiscussionOver 55% diabetic patients with kidney disease were diagnosed as non-diabetic renal disease, among which MN and IgAN were the most common two pathological types.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Method for Studying Magnetic Behaviors in Trinuclear Cobalt(II) Compound
Authors: Wang Quan , Li Hang‐Xing , Wang Kun‐Miao , Wang Xiao , Xue Zhe , Jia Lei , Du Lin , Zhao Qi‐Hua 
Published: March 2018

AbstractA CoII coordination polymer built from a mixed azide and zwitterionic pyridinium ions and its temperature‐dependent magnetic properties are described. We used the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to fit the data, and found the following results: (1) there are strong correlations between the model parameters; (2) the data at above 28 K are well fitted by the magnetism model.
Rheoreversible Metallogels Derived from Coordination Polymers
Authors: Ganguly Sumi , Parveen Rumana , Dastidar Parthasarathi 
Published: March 2018

AbstractA series of mixed‐ligand‐based CdII/CoII coordination polymers (CPs) that were derived from two bis(pyridyl)–bis(amide) ligands, 4,4′‐oxybis(N‐(pyridin‐3‐yl)benzamide) (LP) and 4,4′‐oxybis(N‐(pyridin‐4‐yl)benzamide) (LP1), and a variety of dicarboxylates isophthalates, terephthalates, 1,2‐carboxytranscinamates, and 1,3‐ and 1,4‐phenylene dicarboxylates were synthesized based on a rationale that they would occlude solvate guests inside their crystal lattice, thereby rendering these CPs suitable as metallogelators. The CPs were characterized by using single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction, elemental analysis, powder X‐ray diffraction (PXRD), FTIR spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Structural analyses revealed that the majority of the CPs were lattice‐occluded molecular solids, which provided us with an opportunity to study their gelation behavior. We observed that, out of eight CPs that were tested, seven were able to produce metallogels. A thorough study of the rheological behavior of the metallogels was performed and CPG1, CPG2, CPG4, and CPG5 were found to exhibit rheoreversible behavior, which was further confirmed by rheological experiments. Interestingly, ligand LP was found to form an aqueous gel, which was exploited to produce silver nanoparticles.
Nafion/Titanium Dioxide‐Coated Lithium Anode for Stable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Authors: Jiang Shuang , Lu Yong , Lu Yanying , Han Mo , Li Haixia , Tao Zhanliang , Niu Zhiqiang , Chen Jun 
Published: March 2018

AbstractLithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have shown great potential as high energy‐storage devices. However, the stability of the Li metal anode is still a major concern. This is due to the formation of lithium dendrites and severe side reactions with polysulfide intermediates. We herein develop an anode protection method by coating a Nafion/TiO2 composite layer on the Li anode to solve these problems. In this architecture, Nafion suppresses the growth of Li dendrites, protects the Li anode, and prevents side reactions between polysulfides and the Li anode. Moreover, doped TiO2 further improves the ionic conductivity and mechanical properties of the Nafion membrane. Li–S batteries with a Nafion/TiO2‐coated Li anode exhibit better cycling stability (776 mA h g−1 after 100 cycles at 0.2 C, 1 C=1672 mA g−1) and higher rate performance (787 mA h g−1 at 2 C) than those with a pristine Li anode. This work provides an alternative way to construct stable Li anodes for high‐performance Li–S batteries.
Viscoelastic properties of the posterior eye of normal subjects, patients with age‐related macular degeneration, and pigs
Authors: Zhang Zhen Huan , Pan Meng Xin , Cai Jia Tong , Weiland James D. , Chen Kinon 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to measure, characterize, and compare the viscoelastic properties of the posterior eye of advanced dry age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) patients, age‐matched normal subjects, and pigs (3 groups). Ten horizontal and ten vertical strips of the macula retina and the underneath choroid and sclera were obtained for each group, respectively. They were examined by incremental stress‐relaxation cycles in body‐temperature saline. Mechanical response was characterized by the quasi‐linear viscoelastic model. All the tissues were shown to be nonlinear viscoelastic. Stiffening and isotropization, increased relaxation, and softening and isotropization were found in AMD retina, choroid, and sclera, respectively, which are the mechanical features of the atherosclerotic process. The patients’ medical records were in accordance with epidemiological studies indicating a relationship between the advanced AMD and atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASVD). Moreover, many differences were found between the viscoelastic properties of porcine and normal human retina, choroid, and sclera. The results suggest that AMD is associated with ASVD through a mechanism involving abnormal retinal, choroidal, and scleral mechanics similar to those seen in the atherosclerotic process. Moreover, researchers should be aware of mechanical differences when using porcine posterior eyes as a substitute for human posterior eyes. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 106A: 2151‐2157, 2018.
Dysregulation of metabolic‐associated pathways in muscle of breast cancer patients: preclinical evaluation of interleukin‐15 targeting fatigue
Authors: Bohlen Joseph , McLaughlin Sarah L. , Hazard‐Jenkins Hannah , Infante Aniello M. , Montgomery Cortney , Davis Mary , Pistilli Emidio E. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractBackgroundBreast cancer patients report a perception of increased muscle fatigue, which can persist following surgery and standardized therapies. In a clinical experiment, we tested the hypothesis that pathways regulating skeletal muscle fatigue are down‐regulated in skeletal muscle of breast cancer patients and that different muscle gene expression patterns exist between breast tumour subtypes. In a preclinical study, we tested the hypothesis that mammary tumour growth in mice induces skeletal muscle fatigue and that overexpression of the cytokine interleukin‐15 (IL‐15) can attenuate mammary tumour‐induced muscle fatigue.MethodsEarly stage non‐metastatic female breast cancer patients (n = 14) and female non‐cancer patients (n = 6) provided a muscle biopsy of the pectoralis major muscle during mastectomy, lumpectomy, or breast reconstruction surgeries. The breast cancer patients were diagnosed with either luminal (ER+/PR+, n = 6), triple positive (ER+/PR+/Her2/neu+, n = 5), or triple negative (ER−/PR−/Her2/neu−, n = 3) breast tumours and were being treated with curative intent either with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery or surgery followed by standard post‐operative therapy. Biopsies were used for RNA‐sequencing to compare the skeletal muscle gene expression patterns between breast cancer patients and non‐cancer patients. The C57BL/6 mouse syngeneic mammary tumour cell line, E0771, was used to induce mammary tumours in immunocompetent mice, and isometric muscle contractile properties and fatigue properties were analysed following 4 weeks of tumour growth.ResultsRNA‐sequencing and subsequent bioinformatics analyses revealed a dysregulation of canonical pathways involved in oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial dysfunction, peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor signalling and activation, and IL‐15 signalling and production. In a preclinical mouse model of breast cancer, the rate of muscle fatigue was greater in mice exposed to mammary tumour growth for 4 weeks, and this greater muscle fatigue was attenuated in transgenic mice that overexpressed the cytokine IL‐15.ConclusionsOur data identify novel genes and pathways dysregulated in the muscles of breast cancer patients with early stage non‐metastatic disease, with particularly aberrant expression among genes that would predispose these patients to greater muscle fatigue. Furthermore, we demonstrate that IL‐15 overexpression can attenuate muscle fatigue associated with mammary tumour growth in a preclinical mouse model of breast cancer. Therefore, we propose that skeletal muscle fatigue is an inherent consequence of breast tumour growth, and this greater fatigue can be targeted therapeutically.
The thermocapillary migration on rough surfaces
Authors: Dai Qingwen , Li Meng , Khonsari M.M. , Huang Wei , Wang Xiaolei 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIn tribo‐system, thermal gradients will drive the liquid lubricant to migrate from warm to cold regions, resulting in starved lubrication. This study reports an experimental investigation on the influence of surface topography on the migration behavior of paraffin oil lubricants. Experimental results are provided for specimens treated by polishing, shot‐blasting, and sandpaper grinding techniques. 3D surface parameters of average surface roughness Sa and developed interfacial area ratio Sdr are measured via a 3D optical microscope, and the influences on migration behavior are discussed. Experimental results demonstrate that shot‐blasting process is an effective approach to impede the thermocapillary migration, and that decreasing surface roughness will contribute to the obstruction effect. A particular attention is paid to the inherent correlation of the migration capacity with the contact angle and surface free energy.
Large‐Scale Movements of Postcopulatory Female Blue Crabs Callinectes sapidus in Tidal and Nontidal Estuaries of North Carolina
Authors: Darnell M. Zachary , Kemberling Adam A. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractFor migratory species, understanding the timing, direction, and mechanism of migration is critical for successful fisheries management. We investigated migratory movements of postcopulatory female blue crabs Callinectes sapidus in three estuaries with different tidal regimes in North Carolina using a mark–recapture study. All crabs tagged were within about 2 weeks of the terminal molt to maturity (mating generally takes place immediately after the molt). In general, distances traveled (mean ± SE = 6.8 ± 0.6 km) and net movement rates (0.5 ± 0.05 km/d) were quite low compared to those in previous studies of mature (but not necessarily recently molted) female crabs, suggesting that rapid seaward migration does not take place until several weeks after mating, presumably upon production of a clutch of eggs. Although most crabs moved short distances (85% moved < 15 km), movement was generally oriented seaward, indicating that some down‐estuary movement occurs prior to oviposition, especially in crabs mating in low‐salinity estuaries that would be unsuitable for embryonic and larval development. Crabs moving seaward in the weeks between molting/mating and first oviposition were likely walking rather than swimming and taking advantage of seaward currents, as indicated by the low movement rates and similarities among the three areas.
Communication, compassion, and computers: Adolescents' and adults' evaluations of online and face‐to‐face deception
Authors: O'Rourke Sean , Eskritt Michelle , Bosacki Sandra 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACTWe explored Canadian adolescents', emergent adults', and adults' understandings of deception in computer mediated communication (CMC) compared to face to face (FtF). Participants between 13 and 50 years read vignettes of different types of questionable behaviour that occurred online or in real life, and were asked to judge whether deception was involved, and the acceptability of the behaviour. Age groups evaluated deception similarly; however, adolescents held slightly different views from adults about what constitutes deception, suggesting that the understanding of deception continues to develop into adulthood. Furthermore, CMC behaviour was rated as more deceptive than FtF in general, and participants scoring higher on compassion perceived vignettes to be more deceptive. This study is a step towards better understanding the relationships between perceptions of deception across adolescence into adulthood, mode of communication, and compassion, and may have implications for how adults communicate with youth about deception in CMC and FtF contexts.
Associations between friend conflict and affective states in the daily lives of adolescents
Authors: Vannucci Anna , Ohannessian Christine McCauley , Flannery Kaitlin M. , De Los Reyes Andres , Liu Songqi 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACTThis study examined the associations between friend conflict, defined as arguments with friends, and affective states using a daily diary design in a community sample of adolescents. Participants were 100 U.S. adolescents (13–17 years; 40% girls; 79% white). Adolescents completed an online survey on 14 consecutive evenings. Adolescents reported significantly higher anger/hostility, confusion, and tension/anxiety and less friendliness on days during which they experienced friend conflict relative to no‐conflict days. However, no same‐day associations for depressed affect, fatigue, or vigor were found. Adolescents experiencing friend conflict reported increased next‐day anger/hostility, depressed affect, and tension/anxiety, but not other affective states. Higher levels of anger/hostility and depressed affect predicted an increased likelihood of next‐day friend conflict. Conversely, higher levels of friendliness and vigor predicted a decreased likelihood of next‐day friend conflict. These findings suggest that directional relationships between adolescents' friend conflicts and their affective states vary by affective domain.
Plasma rico em plaquetas e corticoide no tratamento da síndrome de impacto do manguito rotador: Ensaio Clínico randomizado
Authors: Barreto Ronald Bispo , Azevedo Arthur Rangel , Gois Mayvelise Correia de , Freire Marianna Ribeiro de Menezes , Silva Denison Santos , Cardoso Juliana Cordeiro 
Published: March 2018

ResumoObjetivo Analisar a eficácia do uso de plasma rico em plaquetas (PRP) no tratamento de pacientes portadores de síndrome de impacto do manguito rotador em comparação ao tratamento com injeção subacromial de corticosteroides.Métodos O estudo é de caráter comparativo, longitudinal, duplo cego e randomizado. A evolução clínica dos pacientes foi quantificada pelas escalas The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) outcome measure, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) shoulder rating scale e Constant-Murley shoulder outcome score (CMS) no dia da aplicação, e novamente após 1, 3, e 6 meses.Resultados Não foram encontradas diferenças etsatisticamente significativas (p < 0.05) ao comparar os resultados do DASH outcome measure, UCLA shoulder rating scale, e CMS dos dois grupos na admissão. Após o tratamento, ambos os grupos apresentaram melhora significativa tanto do DASH, quanto do UCLA (p < 0,05). Entretanto, o escore do CMS referente ao tratamento com corticoide mostrou-se pior no 6° mês em comparação com o escore à admissão.Conclusão Esses achados sugerem que o PRP é um tratamento seguro e que pode ser uma ferramenta útil no arsenal terapêutico contra doenças do manguito rotador, uma vez que não foram encontradas diferenças significativas entre os grupos que receberam PRP e injeção subacromial de corticosteroides.
The Gender Politics of Confucian Family Law: Contracts, Credit, and Creole Chinese Bilateral Kinship in Dutch Colonial Java (1850s–1900)
Authors: Seng Guo-Quan 
Published: March 2018

AbstractHow did colonial family law reshape the ethnic and gender norms of a creolized entrepreneurial minority? While the literature on colonial Indonesia has tended to view the Dutch colonial preservation ofadat(customary) law as helping to preserve Indonesian women's autonomy and property rights, this essay shows how, in the case of the Indonesian-Chinese entrepreneurial minority, the colonial government's institutionalization of Confucian “Chinese” family law gradually introduced more patriarchal norms for creole Chinese families. The Dutch colonial state's legal regulation of credit and commerce in Java took a moralistic turn in the mid-nineteenth century, giving shape to a more patriarchal and “Chinese” form of the family in Java by the century's end. This legal-moralistic turn took the form of a critique of creole Chinese women on one hand, and the Sinological construction of a body of Confucian “Chinese” private law on the other. For almost half a century, this encroaching colonial ethno-moral critique of creole Chinese credit manipulations and marriage arrangements came up against resistance from Peranakan Chinese matriarchs and patriarchs. In this article, I show how colonial Confucian family law eventually ended creole Chinese women's contract-making and credit-manipulating autonomies by subjecting the “Chinese” household to the civil law authority of the “housefather.”
Domestic Sovereignty,A‘yanDevelopmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt
Authors: Mestyan Adam 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThrough a new type of global microhistory, this article explores the remaking of the political system in Egypt before colonialism. I argue that developmentalism and the origins of Arabic monarchism were closely related in 1860s Egypt. Drawing on hitherto unknown archival evidence, I show that groups of Egyptian local notables (a‘yan) sought to cooperate with the Ottoman governor Ismail (r. 1863–1879) in order to gain capital and steam machines, and to participate in the administration. Ismail, on his side, secured a new order of succession from the Ottoman sultan.A‘yandevelopmentalism was discursively presented in petitions, poems, and treatises acknowledging the new order and naturalizing the governor as an Egyptian ruler. Consultation instead of constitutionalism was the concept to express the new relationship. The collaboration was codified in the Consultative Chamber of Representatives, often interpreted as the first parliament in the Middle East. As a consequence of the sultanic order and the Chamber, Egypt's position within the Ottoman Empire became similar to a pseudo-federal relationship. I conclude by contrasting different ways of pseudo-federalization in the global 1860s, employing a regional, unbalanced comparison with the United Principalities and Habsburg Hungary.
Building “Community” and Markets in Contemporary Cairo
Authors: El-Kazaz Sarah 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis paper interrogates the political economy of re-regulation in market-driven economies through the lens of transformations in contemporary Cairo. Focusing on property markets, the paper demonstrates that rather than reveling in the “freeing” of real estate through the reversal of rent control laws, private sector actors were working to re-regulate the real estate market. They were not turning to legal mechanisms or patronage networks, but invested in the production of local “community” in central Cairo as they worked to re-regulate the market. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from 2011–2012, the paper compares how two private sector actors with varying relationships to the market reacted to the reversal of rent control. The paper demonstrates that both actors were mobilizing urban planning and architectural design as modes of societal engineering to foster local particularistic communities as they worked to corner real estate markets both upward toward a high-end clientele and downwards towards low-income residents. In unpacking how these actors mobilized community as they worked to intervene in markets, and their interventions’ contradictions, the paper challenges the idea thattrustor relational networks are the most valued facets of community in market-transitioning economies. It shows that actors value the spatial boundary-setting and particularism of communities as they work to re-regulate markets, and accentuatedifferencerather than trust in those contexts.
Accuracy, Authenticity, Fidelity: Aesthetic Realism, the “Deficit Model,” and the Public Understanding of Science
Authors: Vidal Fernando 
Published: March 2018

Argument“Deficit model” designates an outlook on the public understanding and communication of science that emphasizes scientific illiteracy and the need to educate the public. Though criticized, it is still widespread, especially among scientists. Its persistence is due not only to factors ranging from scientists’ training to policy design, but also to the continuance of realism as an aesthetic criterion. This article examines the link between realism and the deficit model through discussions of neurology and psychiatry in fiction film, as well as through debates about historical movies and the cinematic adaptation of literature. It shows that different values and criteria tend to dominate the realist stance in different domains:accuracyfor movies concerning neurology and psychiatry,authenticityfor the historical film, andfidelityfor adaptations of literature. Finally, contrary to the deficit model, it argues that the cinema is better characterized by a surplus of meaning than by informational shortcomings.