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Client Focus, Cooperation, and Coherence: (Re)professionalising Processes for Elderly Care
Authors: Wällstedt Niklas 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis paper suggests the study of professionalism and the professionalising processes within public sector organisations. Sociologists propose that professionalism is changing into a new variant developing under the premise of organisational management and control. This paper disputes the perspective that the use of management control leads to deprofessionalisation in terms of the routinisation of reflective professional tasks or weakened professional values. This paper proposes that, with client focus, professionals and accountants can cooperate and create coherence between management control system elements and professional values. This dynamic contributes to the retention of professional values and more reflective work procedures.
Inter‐Organizational Cooperation Challenging Hierarchical Accountability: The Dominated Actors in a Municipal Joint Venture
Authors: Cäker Mikael , Nyland Kari 
Published: January 2017

AbstractNew public management offers a number of solutions to the kinds of problems that public sector organizations experience. In taking an accountability perspective, this paper elaborates on how two of these – strict responsibility for performance, and inter‐organizational cooperation – may conflict. The setting for this study is a joint venture with a dominant municipality and six dominated municipalities as owners. The article examines how horizontal accountability processes may influence the dominated owners’ hierarchical accountability. The ability to account hierarchically for the quality of service within budgetary parameters is problematized, when dominated owners may dismantle their ability to demand horizontal accountability.
Puffins reveal contrasting relationships between forage fish and ocean climate in the North Pacific
Authors: Sydeman William J. , Piatt John F. , Thompson Sarah Ann , García‐Reyes Marisol , Hatch Scott A. , Arimitsu Mayumi L. , Slater Leslie , Williams Jeffrey C. , Rojek Nora A. , Zador Stephani G. , Renner Heather M. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractLong‐term studies of predator food habits (i.e., ‘predator‐based sampling’) are useful for identifying patterns of spatial and temporal variability of forage nekton in marine ecosystems. We investigated temporal changes in forage fish availability and relationships to ocean climate by analyzing diet composition of three puffin species (horned puffin Fratercula corniculata, tufted puffin Fratercula cirrhata, and rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata) from five sites in the North Pacific from 1978–2012. Dominant forage species included squids and hexagrammids in the western Aleutians, gadids and Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) in the eastern Aleutians and western Gulf of Alaska (GoA), and sand lance and capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the northern and eastern GoA. Interannual fluctuations in forage availability dominated variability in the western Aleutians, whereas lower‐frequency shifts in forage fish availability dominated elsewhere. We produced regional multivariate indicators of sand lance, capelin, and age‐0 gadid availability by combining data across species and sites using Principal Component Analysis, and related these indices to environmental factors including sea level pressure (SPL), winds, and sea surface temperature (SST). There was coherence in the availability of sand lance and capelin across the study area. Sand lance availability increased linearly with environmental conditions leading to warmer ocean temperatures, whereas capelin availability increased in a non‐linear manner when environmental changes led to lower ocean temperatures. Long‐term studies of puffin diet composition appear to be a promising tool for understanding the availability of these difficult‐to‐survey forage nekton in remote regions of the North Pacific.
Ecological divergence among young lineages favours sympatry, but convergence among old ones allows coexistence in syntopy
Authors: Laiolo Paola , Seoane Javier , Obeso José Ramón , Illera Juan Carlos 
Published: January 2017

AbstractAimWe analyse when and why closely related species start to coexist in sympatry at the range (continental) scale, and in syntopy at the local (community) scale. We contrast the idea that limiting similarity and time constrain the transition to sympatry of sister lineages after their initial allopatric split, with the hypothesis of ecological convergence, leading to the coexistence of species with similar ecological attributes in similar environments.LocationEuropean continent, north‐west Italy and north‐west Spain.MethodsWith a comparative framework we test whether the spatial overlap of bird ranges within Europe, at the continental scale, and in two European regions at the community scale, vary with their degree of ecological similarity (trophic niche, body size, elevational preferences), when accounting for the evolutionary time available for range expansion.ResultsA larger number of sister species with recent common ancestors are found in the continent than within communities, a likely consequence of the allopatric mode of divergence of lineages. Divergence in elevational preferences and niche breadth favoured a way back to secondary sympatry of European sister species, which took place c. 2 Myr after their split. Once in sympatry, the coexistence of species at the local scale took almost twice as long and was instead favoured by ecological convergence.Main conclusionsEcological similarity poses a fundamental constraint to species coexistence, but whether it hampers or favours it depends on the scale, both spatial (sympatry versus syntopy) and temporal (young versus old lineages). Scaling issues are not independent – the reduction of the spatial scale expands the temporal one – generating mismatches between ecological patterns (within communities) and macroecological ones (within ranges).
LITERARISCHE BLÜTEN LESEN ODER BLUMEN DER FREUNDSCHAFT WEIHEN? DIE ANTHOLOGIE ELISENS UND SOPHIENS GEDICHTE UND DER LITERARISCHE FREUNDSCHAFTSKULT IM SPÄTEN 18. JAHRHUNDERT
Authors: Leyh Valérie 
Published: January 2017

ABSTRACTIn the context of the eighteenth century, during which the anthology became so discursively salient, the collection Elisens und Sophiens Gedichte (1790) assumes a peculiar significance. This anthology, which emerged from the circle of friends surrounding Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim in Halberstadt, is ostensibly devoted to poems by the two women writers and friends, Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833) and Sophie Becker (1754–89). But it is not simply a showcase of these two poets. Closer examination reveals that this work directly derives from the idea of friendship in an age of sensibility, aiming to preserve the relationships among the mixed circle of friends for posterity. In so doing, the collection conflicts with a traditional model of the anthology in the eighteenth century and its aesthetic criteria. For after Sophie Becker's death the editor decided to complete the collection with an inner anthology of poems of grief in an act of memorialisation. The present paper analyses the various tensions characterising this anthology from 1790, reconstructing its complex genesis and publication history. In closing, the following article describes a very particular and previously unknown copy of the anthology. We can read this special edition as the counterpart to the printed manuscript, and as a specific model of communication.Im literarischen Kontext des 18. Jahrhunderts, in dem ein reges Interesse für Anthologien zu beobachten ist, nimmt die Sammlung Elisens und Sophiens Gedichte (1790) eine besondere Stellung ein. Die aus dem Halberstädter Freundeszirkel um Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim hervorgegangene Sammlung widmet sich den Gedichten der beiden Dichterinnen und Freundinnen Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833) und Sophie Becker (1754–89) und erweist sich bei näherer Betrachtung als ein Werk, das dem Ideal der empfindsamen Freundschaft entspringt und die freundschaftlichen Beziehungen eines gemischten Freundeskreises verewigen soll. Dabei gerät die Sammlung zugleich in Konflikt mit dem traditionellen Anthologie‐Modell und seinen ästhetischen Ansprüchen, und zwar vor allem dann, als der ursprünglichen Sammlung nach Sophie Beckers Tod eine Binnenanthologie mit Trauergedichten in memorialer Funktion beigefügt werden soll. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht diesen verschiedenen Spannungen nach und rekonstruiert ihre komplexe Entstehungs‐ und Publikationsgeschichte, indem er zum Schluss auf ein besonderes, bislang unbekanntes Exemplar der Anthologie eingeht und anhand dieses Drucks das Kommunikationsmodell der Sonderausgabe als ein Pendant zum Manuskriptdruck definiert.
Innovation Expectations and Patenting in Private and Public R&D Projects
Authors: Haapanen Mika , Lenihan Helena , Tokila Anu 
Published: January 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we investigate how the innovation expectations of public financiers are related to realized patents. The analysis is based on a novel data set of collaborative R&D projects subsidized by the Finnish Agency of Technology and Innovation (Tekes) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) during the period 2000–2004. Innovation expectations are measured using reports submitted by Tekes experts during ex ante assessments of projects. Our probit model results reveal that Tekes' patent expectations are positively related to realized patents for projects led by private firms (but not by public organizations). For large organizations, Tekes' innovation expectations are better at predicting patenting.
Hypophosphatemia predicts a failure to recover from adefovir‐related renal injury after dose reduction in lamivudine‐resistant hepatitis B patients
Authors: Yamamoto Tatsuo , Maruyama Yasuhiko , Ohashi Naro , Yasuda Hideo , Shinozaki Masami 
Published: January 2017

AimIn chronic hepatitis B patients receiving 10 mg adefovir, dose reduction is recommended when renal injury appears. However, recovery is not always achieved and markers that recommend switching to another antiviral agent are unknown. We investigated adefovir‐related renal injury, recovery after dose reduction, and their predictors.MethodsThe renal injury in 77 chronic hepatitis B patients receiving 10 mg adefovir and recovery after dose reduction to alternate day administration in those with adefovir‐related renal injury were assessed. The predictors for >20% estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline following treatment with 10 mg adefovir and for >20% eGFR recovery after dose reduction were investigated.ResultsThe adefovir dose was reduced in 26 patients (34%) at 59 ± 30 (mean ± standard deviation) months of 10 mg adefovir treatment because of decreases in eGFR (cumulative incidence 27%), serum phosphorus (9%), and uric acid (16%) levels, and increases in alkaline phosphatase (20%), bone type alkaline phosphatase (18%), urinary α1‐microglobulin (18%), and urinary N‐acetyl‐β‐D‐glucosaminidase (18%) levels. The only significant predictor for >20% eGFR decline was age ≥50 years at the start of 10 mg adefovir treatment. The cumulative eGFR recovery rate was 42% at 42 ± 27 months after dose reduction, and ≥2.5 mg/dL serum phosphorus level at dose reduction was the only significant predictor for >20% eGFR recovery after dose reduction.ConclusionPatients aged ≥50 years are predisposed to adefovir‐related renal injury and switching to another antiviral agent rather than adefovir dose reduction is recommended when hypophosphatemia is observed.
Protective effects of tacalcitol against oxidative damage in human epidermal melanocytes
Authors: Li Qi‐Lin , Wu Yan‐Hua , Niu Mu , Lu Xiao‐Juan , Huang Yong‐Hua , He Dan‐Hua 
Published: January 2017

AbstractBackgroundOxidative damage may lead to the dysfunction of melanocytes (MCs) and is one of the causative mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of vitiligo.ObjectivesThis study was designed to investigate the protective effects of the vitamin D3 analog tacalcitol on oxidative damage induced by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in human epidermal MCs.MethodsHuman epidermal MCs were cultured and identified by l‐DOPA staining and HMB‐45 immunohistochemical staining. The model of oxidative damage induced by H2O2 was established, and the cells were treated with tacalcitol. The viability of MCs was determined using an MTS assay. Morphological changes in cell dendrites were observed by microscopy, and the rate of change of dendrites was calculated. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) level in MCs was determined using immunofluorescence microscopy. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in MCs were determined using the WST‐1 and TBA methods, respectively.ResultsIn comparison with the control group, the viability of MCs and SOD activity were significantly decreased in the H2O2 group (P < 0.05) and significantly increased in the tacalcitol group (P < 0.05). In comparison with the control group, the rate of change of cell dendrites and levels of ROS and MDA were significantly increased in the H2O2 group (P < 0.05) and significantly decreased in the tacalcitol group (P < 0.05).ConclusionsTacalcitol can reduce oxidative damage induced by H2O2 in MCs by inhibiting intracellular ROS overproduction, increasing SOD activity, and decreasing the level of MDA, thereby reducing cell apoptosis.
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis: clinical characteristics, etiologic associations, treatments, and outcomes in a series of 28 patients at Mayo Clinic, 1996–2013
Authors: Alniemi Dema T. , Wetter David A. , Bridges Alina G. , el‐Azhary Rokea A. , Davis Mark D. P. , Camilleri Michael J. , McEvoy Marian T. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractBackgroundAcute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare skin condition typically caused by medications. The objective of this study was to examine the clinical features, causes, and outcomes of AGEP at a sole tertiary care center.MethodsA retrospective review of patients with AGEP (European Study of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions score of ≥ 5) seen at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN, USA) between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2013, was conducted.ResultsOf 28 patients (mean age at onset: 56 years), 17 (61%) were women. The development of AGEP was attributed to medications in 25 patients (89%), with clindamycin the most common culprit (six patients). Three patients (11%) had mucous membrane involvement, and 21 (75%) showed systemic involvement. Ten patients (36%) received systemic corticosteroids for treatment of AGEP. Skin findings resolved within 15 days in 26 patients (93%) (mean time to resolution: 7.6 days). In three patients (11%), generalized skin eruptions or dermatitis developed weeks to months after the resolution of AGEP. Twenty‐four patients (86%) had a personal history of drug reactions before the development of AGEP.ConclusionsA previous history of drug reactions and clindamycin causation were more common in the present cohort than in prior reports. A small subset of patients experienced new‐onset non‐AGEP skin eruptions within a few months of the resolution of AGEP.
Efficacy of superficial cryotherapy on the eyebrows of patients with alopecia universalis also treated with contact immunotherapy on the scalp: a prospective, split‐face comparative study
Authors: Choe Sung Jay , Lee Won‐Soo 
Published: January 2017

AbstractBackgroundFew treatment modalities are available for treating alopecia areata (AA) of the eyebrow. Due to the anatomical proximity of the eyebrows to the eyes, safety issues and side effects should always be taken into consideration when choosing the treatment modality. This study was designed to examine the efficacy of superficial cryotherapy on patients with AA of the eyebrow.MethodsSuperficial cryotherapy was performed every other week on the right eyebrow (SC‐treated) in a total of 20 patients who had been previously treated with diphenylcyclopropenone (DPCP) immunotherapy on the scalp. No specific treatment was performed on the left eyebrows as a control. The degree of eyebrow recovery was compared in 15 patients who continued to receive more than 10 superficial cryotherapy treatments (5 months of treatment) on their right eyebrow.ResultsHair density was significantly increased on both treated and control eyebrows after 5 months of treatment compared with the pretreatment density; moreover, the SC‐treated eyebrows exhibited a significantly greater increase in density than the control eyebrows. Although hair thickness in the control eyebrows did not change significantly over the treatment period, hair thickness of the SC‐treated eyebrows showed a statistically significant increase at months 3 and 5.ConclusionsSuperficial cryotherapy is associated with minimal to no adverse events and exhibits high compliance and relatively good efficacy. Thus, this treatment is an important additional option for patients with AA of the eyebrow.
High‐Frequency Positive Feedback Trading and Market Quality: Evidence from China's Stock Market
Authors: Wan Die , Yang Xiaoguang 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis paper managed to measure the positive feedback trading intensity and its asymmetry with high‐frequency transaction data of China's individual stocks. The intraday positive feedback trading is found to be heterogeneous, and buying‐winners effect is significantly stronger than selling‐losers effect. In general, the high‐frequency asymmetric positive feedback trading's impact on market quality is mixed: The intraday positive feedback trades contribute to a liquid and active‐trading market but at the same time slow down the price discovery process and reduce the price efficiency.
Li3AlN2—a self‐activated yellow light emitting wide‐bandgap semiconductor used for LEDs
Authors: Ding Jianyan , Wu Quansheng , Li Yanyan , Long Qiang , Wang Yichao , Wang Yuhua 
Published: January 2017

AbstractIn allusion to the problems existing in the defect‐related luminescent materials, a series self‐activated light emitting semiconductors of Li3AlN2: R (R=0, Na+, Mg2+, Si4+, Tb3+, Eu3+) have been successfully synthesized by sample‐pressure sintering. Under the excitation at 422 nm, a yellow light peaked at 580 nm have been observed in the host lattice of Li3AlN2. The crystal structure and the electron structure of Li3AlN2 have been measured to investigate the defect‐related luminescent properties of Li3AlN2 using the Rietveld refinement on the basic of X‐ray diffraction data and the density functional theory (DET). The results show that Li3AlN2 crystallizes in cubic phase with full filled edge‐shared (Al/Li)N4 tetrahedrons and is a wide‐bandgap semiconductor. The impurity defects produced by ions substitution have also been investigated, which leads to the red‐shift of the emission peak. Finally, the photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectrum of Li3AlN2 with two excitation bands peaked at 300 nm and 422 nm has been detected, and the latter matches well with near‐UV LED chips. The thermal stability shows that integral intensity of Li3AlN2 at 150°C still has 60% of the initial intensity at room temperature. The results indicate their potential applications as the LED used phosphors.
Thermodynamics of the Mg‐Mn‐O system—modeling and heat capacity measurements
Authors: Dilner David , Pavlyuchkov Dmytro , Zienert Tilo , Kjellqvist Lina , Fabrichnaya Olga 
Published: January 2017

AbstractIn this study, a thermodynamic description of the Mg‐Mn‐O system is presented. Phase diagram data, structural information, and thermochemical data are used in the assessment. All solution phases are modeled using the compound energy formalism. In addition, heat capacity measurement of the MgMn2O4 and Mg6MnO8 phases are reported. The thermodynamic description reproduces thermochemical, structural, and phase diagram data.
Anomalous enhancement of photoluminescence intensity of sintered YAG:Ce particles‐embedded glasses
Authors: Shyu Jiin‐Jyh , Yang Chia‐Wei 
Published: January 2017

AbstractFor high‐power white LED applications, YAG:Ce‐based yellow phosphors were embedded in a low‐Tg Bi2O3–B2O5–ZnO–Sb2O5 glass by sintering route. Effects of sintering temperature (325‐390°C) on the microstructure and photoluminescence properties were investigated. X‐ray diffraction was used to measure the retained fraction of YAG:Ce phase after sintering. Scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope, equipped with energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectrometry, were used to examine the microstructure, including the element distribution across the phosphor–glass interface. Photoluminescence properties of the samples before and after sintering were compared. With the increasing sintering temperature, the retained fraction of YAG:Ce decreased from 83.3% to 82%. This effect tends to reduce the luminescence intensity of the samples after sintering. The increasing sintering temperature also enhances the diffusion of cations (esp. Bi) from glass matrix to YAG:Ce. This effect tends to increase the luminescence intensity of the YAG:Ce particles after sintering. When the sintering temperature was lower (325°C), the effect of YAG:Ce loss was dominant, thus the luminescence intensity was reduced after sintering. When the sintering temperature was higher (350‐390°C), the effect of solute dissolution was dominant, resulting in luminescence intensity anomalously higher than that before sintering. Similar result has not been reported in literatures. The maximum luminescence intensity of the sintered samples is 1.57 times as high as that of the samples before sintering.
First case of neonatal diabetes with KCNJ11 Q52R mutation successfully switched from insulin to sulphonylurea treatment
Authors: Ioacara Sorin , Flanagan Sarah , Fröhlich‐Reiterer Elke , Goland Robin , Fica Simona 
Published: January 2017

AbstractIn this report, we present the first known case of intermediate developmental delay, epilepsy and permanent neonatal diabetes (DEND) syndrome caused by a Q52R mutation in the KCNJ11 gene who was successfully switched (at age 1.3 years) to sulphonylurea monotherapy, namely glibenclamide. The most recent evaluation, after 2 years, showed a glycated hemoglobin level of 6.0% (42 mmol/mol). This mutation is so severe that none of the previously reported four cases were able to switch from insulin to sulphonylurea monotherapy. The Q52R mutation seems to have a chance of positive response to glibenclamide administered every 3–6 h instead of the classical 8–12 h, in doses around or above 2.5 mg/kg/day.