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“A mass of anomalies”: Land, Law, and Sovereignty in an Indian Company Town
Authors: Raianu Mircea 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis article examines the emergence of Jamshedpur, site of India's first steel plant and privately governed company town, as part of an unprecedented large-scale extraction of mineral resources at the turn of the twentieth century for the purpose of industrial development. It traces the protracted acquisition of land and dispossession of mainlyadivasi(tribal) cultivators by the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) from ca. 1900 to 1930. The company pursued a distinct strategy of obtaining short-term leases from princely states andzamindars(landowners), while simultaneously appealing to the legal apparatus of the colonial state to secure absolute tenurial rights. The uneven application of laws such as the Land Acquisition Act (1894) and the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act (1908) allowed TISCO to become a quasi-sovereign power in eastern India, simultaneously acting as employer, landlord, and municipal government. Jamshedpur's continually anomalous legal status underlies the persistence of multiple, fragmented, and competing sovereignties in India, even as an ostensibly unified national economic state space emerged by the time of independence in 1947. More broadly, it suggests that the contours of the relationship between states and corporations, particularly in a postcolonial context, are determined both by preexisting political geographies and contingent legal struggles.
Continuity in Mind: Imagination and migration in India and the Gulf
Authors: CHAMBERS THOMAS 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIn the context of migration between Uttar Pradesh, other areas of India, and the Gulf, this article explores the role of the imagination in shaping subjective experiences of male Muslim migrants from a woodworking industry in the North Indian city of Saharanpur. Through attending to the dreams, aspirations, and hopes of labour migrants, the article argues that bridging the material and the imagined is critical to understanding not just patterns of migration, but also the subjective experiences of migrants themselves. Through a descriptive ethnographic account, involving journeys with woodworkers over one and a half years, the article explores the ways in which migration, its effects, and connections are shaped by the imagination, yet are also simultaneously active in shaping the imagination—a process that is self-perpetuating. Emerging from this, the article gives attention to continuity at the material, personal, and more emotive levels. This runs counter to research that situates migration as rupturing or change-driving within both the social and the subjective. These continuities play out in complex ways, providing comfort and familiarity, but also enabling the imaginations of migrants to be subverted, co-opted, influenced, and structured to meet the demands of labour markets both domestically and abroad.
Towards dynamic alternating tripod trotting of a pony-sized hexapod robot for disaster rescuing based on multi-modal impedance control
Authors: Sun Qiao , Gao Feng , Chen Xianbao 
Published: March 2018

SUMMARYHexapod robots are well suited for disaster rescuing tasks due to their stability and load capability. However, most current hexapod robots still rely on static gaits that largely limit their locomotion speed. This paper introduces a hierarchical control strategy to realize a dynamic alternating tripod trotting gait for a hexapod robot based on multi-modal impedance control. At the low level, a position-based impedance controller is developed to realize an adjustable compliant behavior for each leg. At the high level, a new gait controller is developed to generate a stable alternating tripod trotting gait, in which a gait state machine, a leg compliance modulation strategy, and a close-looped body attitude stabilizer are imposed. As a result, the alternating tripod trotting of the hexapod robot can be synchronized as the running of a bipedal robot with stable body attitude. Moreover, this control strategy was verified by experiments on a newly designed pony-sized disaster rescuing robot, HexbotIV, which successfully achieved a dynamic trotting gait with ability to resist the disturbances of mildly uneven terrains. Our control strategy as well as the experimental study can be a valuable reference for other hexapod robots and thus paves a way to the practical deployment of disaster rescuing robots.
Taking Spectacle Seriously: Wildlife Film and the Legacy of Natural History Display
Authors: Louson Eleanor 
Published: March 2018

ArgumentI argue through an analysis of spectacle that the relationship between wildlife documentary films’ entertainment and educational mandates is complex and co-constitutive. Accuracy-based criticism of wildlife films reveals assumptions of a deficit model of science communication and positions spectacle as an external commercial pressure influencing the genre. Using thePlanet Earth(2006) series as a case study, I describe spectacle's prominence within the recent blue-chip renaissance in wildlife film, resulting from technological innovations and twenty-first-century consumer and broadcast market contexts. I connect spectacle in contemporary wildlife films to its relevant precursors within natural history, situating spectacle as a central feature of natural history display designed to inspire awe and wonder in audiences. I show that contemporary documentary spectacle is best understood as an opportunity for affective knowing rather than a constraint on accuracy; as a result, spectacle contributes to the virtuous inter-reinforcement of entertainment and education at work in blue-chip wildlife films.
The Changing Nature of Modernization Discourses in Documentary Films
Authors: Tabernero Carlos 
Published: March 2018

ArgumentFranco's fascist regime in Spain (1939-1975) offers the possibility of exploring the complex relationship between media communication practices and the processes of production, circulation, and management of knowledge. The regime persistently used film, and later on television, as indoctrination and disciplining devices. These media thus served to shape the regime's representation, which largely relied on the generation of positive attitudes of adherence to the rulers through people's submission and obedience to experts. This article examines the changing nature of modernization discourses and practices, as a fundamental element of the regime's propaganda strategies, and as portrayed in documentaries produced under its rule. The rhetoric of modernization involved an explicit deficit model of knowledge management, which aimed at legitimating the regime's deeds and policies in its first decades, as we shall see regarding colonial-medical documentaries produced for the official newsreel in the 1940s. However, the focus of such rhetoric, despite its enduring political aims, had to somehow open up as the relationship between experts and non-experts changed, both in epistemological and practical terms, such as in wildlife documentary films produced for television in the 1970s, the regime's last decade.
Maternal low-quality protein diet exerts sex-specific effects on plasma amino acid profile and alters hepatic expression of methyltransferases in adult rat offspring
Authors: Akyol A. , Cetin A. Kabasakal , Gulec A. , Dasgin H. , Ayaz A. , Onbasilar I. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractNutrition during pregnancy and lactation is a critical factor in the development of the offspring. Both protein content and source in maternal diet affect neonatal health, but the long-term effects of maternal low-quality protein diet on the offspring are less clear. This study aimed to examine the effects of maternal low-quality protein diet on offspring’s growth, development, circulating metabolites and hepatic expression of methyltransferases. Virgin Wistar rats were mated at 11 weeks of age. Dams were then maintained on either a chow diet with 20% casein as the control group (C), or a low-quality protein diet with 20% wheat gluten as the experimental group (WG) throughout gestation and lactation. After weaning, all offspring were fed a control chow diet until the age of 20 weeks. Male WG offspring had significantly lower body weight and energy intake, whereas female WG offspring had significantly higher body weight and energy intake when compared with controls. Early life exposure to WG diet had no significant effect on circulating metabolites. However, fasting insulin concentrations and homoeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance were decreased in WG male and female offspring. Maternal low-quality protein diet increased plasma aspartic acid, glutamic acid, histidine, cystathione and decreased lysine in male WG offspring. Conversely, the same amino acids were reduced in female WG offspring. Adult offspring exposed to WG diet had significantly upregulated hepatic DNMT3a and DNMT3b expressions. Our study showed that there were differential effects of maternal poor-quality protein diet upon adult offspring’s metabolism.
Maternal protein malnutrition: effects on prostate development and adult disease
Authors: Rinaldi J. C. , Santos S. A. A. , Colombelli K. T. , Birch L. , Prins G. S. , Justulin L. A. , Felisbino S. L. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractWell-controlled intrauterine development is an essential condition for many aspects of normal adult physiology and health. This process is disrupted by poor maternal nutrition status during pregnancy. Indeed, physiological adaptations occur in the fetus to ensure nutrient supply to the most vital organs at the expense of the others, leading to irreversible consequences in tissue formation and differentiation. Evidence indicates that maternal undernutrition in early life promotes changes in key hormones, such as glucocorticoids, growth hormones, insulin-like growth factors, estrogens and androgens, during fetal development. These alterations can directly or indirectly affect hormone release, hormone receptor expression/distribution, cellular function or tissue organization, and impair tissue growth, differentiation and maturation to exert profound long-term effects on the offspring. Within the male reproductive system, maternal protein malnutrition alters development, structure, and function of the gonads, testes and prostate gland. Consequently, these changes impair the reproductive capacity of the male offspring. Further, permanent alterations in the prostate gland occur at the molecular and cellular level and thereby affect the onset of late life diseases such as prostatitis, hyperplasia and even prostate cancer. This review assembles current thoughts on the concepts and mechanisms behind the developmental origins of health and disease as they relate to protein malnutrition, and highlights the effects of maternal protein malnutrition on rat prostate development and homeostasis. Such insights on developmental trajectories of adult-onset prostate disease may help provide a foundation for future studies in this field.
Football and Public Opinion: A Partial Replication and Extension – CORRIGENDUM
Authors: Busby Ethan C. , Druckman James N. 
Published: March 2018

The last sentence of the abstract for “Football and Public Opinion: A Partial Replication and Extension” as published online in the Journal of Experimental Political Science on 8 November, 2017 contained the following error:While the effects clearly can occur, there relevance to politics remains unclear.It should have read as:While the effects clearly can occur, their relevance to politics remains unclear.The author and publisher apologize for this error.
The Effects of Parent Training on Vocabulary Scores of Young Children With Hearing Loss
Authors: Lund Emily 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of short-term parent training on maternal use of language stimulation strategies and vocabulary scores in children with hearing loss.

Method
Six mother–child dyads participated in the multiple-baseline study. During baseline and maintenance, children engaged in a business-as-usual model of clinician-only therapy. During intervention, mothers and children participated in parent training focused on transparent labeling and linguistic mapping strategies. Parent strategy use was measured via weekly play-based probe assessments. Child vocabulary growth was measured via parent report.

Results
A relation between parent training and use of transparent labeling was established for all mothers, and a relation between parent training and use of linguistic mapping was established for 3 of 6 mothers. Child vocabulary growth rate increased from baseline to intervention in 4 of 6 children.

Conclusions
Short-term parent training can change parent behavior. However, parents may not maintain these skills without support. Further research is needed to characterize the extent to which short-term training can make long-term changes in parent and child outcomes.
Revised historical solar irradiance forcing
Authors: Egorova T. , Schmutz W. , Rozanov E. , Shapiro A. I. , Usoskin I. , Beer J. , Tagirov R. V. , Peter T. 
Published: March 2018

Context. There is no consensus on the amplitude of historical solar forcing. The estimated magnitude of the total solar irradiance (TSI) difference between the Maunder minimum and the present time ranges from 0.1 to 6 W m−2 making the simulation of the past and future climate uncertain. One reason for this disagreement is the applied evolution of the quiet Sun brightness in solar irradiance reconstruction models. This work addresses the role of the quiet Sun model choice and updated solar magnetic activity proxies on the solar forcing reconstruction.
Aims. We aim to establish a plausible range for the solar irradiance variability on decadal to millennial timescales.
Methods. The spectral solar irradiance (SSI) is calculated as a weighted sum of the contributions from sunspot umbra, sunspot penumbra, faculae, and quiet Sun, which are pre-calculated with the NLTE Spectral SYnthesis code (NESSY). We introduce activity belts of the contributions from sunspots and faculae and a new structure model for the quietest state of the Sun. We assume that the brightness of the quiet Sun varies in time proportionally to the secular (22-yr smoothed) variation of the solar modulation potential.
Results. A new reconstruction of the TSI and SSI covering the period 6000 BCE - 2015 CE is presented. The model simulates solar irradiance variability during the satellite era well. The TSI change between the Maunder and recent minima ranges between 3.7 and 4.5 W m−2 depending on the applied solar modulation potential. The implementation of a new quietest Sun model reduces, by approximately a factor of two, the relative solar forcing compared to the largest previous estimation, while the application of an updated solar modulation potential increases the forcing difference between the Maunder minimum and the present by 25–40%.
Searching for Hα emitting sources around MWC 758
Authors: Huélamo N. , Chauvin G. , Schmid H. M. , Quanz S. P. , Whelan E. , Lillo-Box J. , Barrado D. , Montesinos B. , Alcalá J. M. , Benisty M. , de Gregorio-Monsalvo I. , Mendigutía I. , Bouy H. , Merín B. , de Boer J. , Garufi A. , Pantin E. 
Published: March 2018

Context. MWC 758 is a young star surrounded by a transitional disk. The disk shows an inner cavity and spiral arms that could be caused by the presence of protoplanets. Recently, a protoplanet candidate has been detected around MWC 758 through high-resolution L′-band observations. The candidate is located inside the disk cavity at a separation of ~111 mas from the central star, and at an average position angle of ~165.5°.
Aims. We aim at detecting accreting protoplanet candidates within the disk of MWC 758 through angular spectral differential imaging (ASDI) observations in the optical regime. In particular, we explore the emission at the position of the detected planet candidate.
Methods. We have performed simultaneous adaptive optics observations in the Hα line and the adjacent continuum using SPHERE/ZIMPOL at the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Results. The data analysis does not reveal any Hα signal around the target. The derived contrast curve in the B_Ha filter allows us to derive a 5σ upper limit of ~7.6 mag at 111 mas, the separation of the previously detected planet candidate. This contrast translates into a Hα line luminosity of LHα ≲ 5×10−5 L⊙ at 111 mas. Assuming that LHα scales with Lacc as in classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) as a first approximation, we can estimate an accretion luminosity of Lacc < 3.7 × 10−4 L⊙ for the protoplanet candidate. For the predicted mass range of MWC 758b, 0.5–5 MJup, this implies accretion rates smaller than Ṁ < 3.4 × (10−8−10−9)M⊙ yr−1, for an average planet radius of 1.1 RJup. Therefore, our estimates are consistent with the predictions of accreting circumplanetary accretion models for Rin = 1RJup. The ZIMPOL line luminosity is consistent with the Hα upper limit predicted by these models for truncation radii ≲3.2 RJup.
Conclusions. The non-detection of any Hα emitting source in the ZIMPOL images does not allow us to unveil the nature of the L′ detected source. Either it is a protoplanet candidate or a disk asymmetry.
Programmed cell death 5 suppresses AKT-mediated cytoprotection of endothelium
Authors: Lee Seung-Hyun , Seo Jaesung , Park Soo-Yeon , Jeong Mi-Hyeon , Choi Hyo-Kyoung , Lee Chan Joo , Kim Mi Jeong , Guk Garam , Lee SooYeon , Park Hyewon , Jeong Jae-Wook , Ha Chang Hoon , Park Sungha , Yoon Ho-Geun 
Published: March 2018

Significance
Programmed cell death 5 (PDCD5) plays a pivotal role in cellular apoptosis. Pathological relevance of PDCD5 is mostly found in human cancers; however, the role of PDCD5 in noncancerous diseases is not fully elucidated. Here we show that mice with endothelial PDCD5 deficiency have elevated serum nitric oxide levels and an atheroprotective effect in blood vessels. In addition, PDCD5 disrupts the HDAC3–protein kinase B (PKB/AKT) interaction and inhibits AKT-eNOS signaling and nitric oxide production in vivo and in vitro. Moreover, serum PDCD5 reflects vascular endothelial status, which is significantly correlated with cardiovascular risk. Our results demonstrate a mechanism of endothelial homeostasis and provide a potential therapeutic target for improving endothelial function.
APMP.QM-K111—propane in nitrogen
Authors: Lin Tsai-Yin , Liu Hsin-Wang , Huang Chiung-Kun , Kang Namgoo , Bae Hyun Kil , Woo Jin Chun , Bi Zhe , Zhou Zeyi , Sinweeruthai Ratirat , Wongjuk Arnuttachai , Li Hou , Keat Teo Beng , Hui Liu , Wu Thomas , Ann Chua Hock , Smeulders Damian , McCallum John Briton , Satumba Raymond Tendai , Shimosaka Takuya , Matsumoto Nobuhiro , Kadir Haslina Abdul , Ahmad Mohamad Fauzi , Nasir Noor Hidaya Abdul , Nishino Tomoe , Akima Dai , Uehara Shinji 
Published: March 2018

This document describes the result of a key comparison for propane in nitrogen. The nominal amount-of-substance fraction of propane is 1000 μmol/mol. The comparison aimed to assess the measurement capability of participants in gas analysis. Nine NMIs or DIs participated in the comparison.
CERI participated in a key comparison CCQM-K111—propane in nitrogen, and coordinated this key comparison. Therefore, every participants' results of this comparison are linking to the CCQM-K111.
Gravimetric values of the samples were used as key comparison reference values (KCRVs).
Measured values of eight participants were within ± 0.25 % of the KCRVs.
Many participants reported purity or impurity analysis of materials. These results are also able to assess the participants' capability of the analysis.

Main text

To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database kcdb.bipm.org/.
The final report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by the CCQM, according to the provisions of the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (CIPM MRA).
Robust predictive sliding mode control for input rate-constrained discrete-time system
Authors: Li Rong , Wu Qingxian 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThis paper investigates a class of uncertain linear discrete-time systems subject to input rate saturation. A predictive sliding mode control approach is proposed which guarantees the control inputs remain bounded in the input rate saturation. Furthermore, the disturbance observer is developed to compensate for the system uncertainty and disturbance. Finally, the simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed predictive sliding mode control scheme.
The Scope of Extraprofessional Caregiving Challenges Among Early Career Faculty: Findings From a University Medical Center
Authors: Hartmann Katherine E. , Sundermann Alexandra C. , Helton Rebecca , Bird Helen , Wood Ashley 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
Academic scientists work in competitive environments, and many institutions invest in career development supports. These investments may be imperiled when extraprofessional demands challenge a faculty member’s reserve capacity. This research assessed prevalence of caregiving challenges and estimated incidence of stressful life events.

Method
In 2015–2016, the authors surveyed recipients of career development awards supporting ≥ 75% effort and individuals within the funding period of their first National Institutes of Health R01 or equivalent at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Domains included family structure, hospitalizations of family members, responsibility for coordination of caregiving, and an inventory of stressful life events.

Results
Seventy-two percent (152 of 210) of early career researchers responded. Over half endorsed experiencing one or more substantial caregiving challenges in the prior year. This included 35 (23%) having a child or adult in the household hospitalized in the prior year and 36 (24%) being responsible for health care needs for a child or adult in the household, or for coordinating elder care, assisted living, or hospice care. The majority experienced one or more caregiving challenges. Stressful life events increased relative risk of “thinking about leaving academics” by 70% (risk ratio: 1.7; 95% confidence interval: 1.2, 2.4). Prevalence and incidence of caregiving demands did not differ by gender.

Conclusions
Leaders, administrators, mentors, and faculty should anticipate that most women and men early career researchers will experience substantial caregiving challenges and life events in any given year. Sufficient need exists to warrant investigation of institutional programs to address caregiving challenges.