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Intergenerational mobility in Korea
Authors: Kim Soobin 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThis study investigates intergenerational earnings mobility in Korea for sons born between 1958 and 1973 and compares Korea’s mobility to that of other nations. It uses data from the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey conducted by the Korean National Statistics Bureau. Since no single Korean dataset includes information on both sons’ and their fathers’ adult earnings, this study follows the two-sample approach previously applied in Korea by Ueda (J Asian Econ 1–22, 2013), whose estimated intergenerational earnings elasticity is 0.22, and extends the analysis by using fathers’ earnings from a more approximal cohort. The estimate of around 0.4 is similar to estimates for some already developed countries and smaller than typical estimates for recently developing countries.
Why 3D seismic data are an asset for exploration and mine planning? Velocity tomography of weakness zones in the Kevitsa Ni-Cu-PGE mine, northern Finland
Authors: Malehmir Alireza , Tryggvason Ari , Wijns Chris , Koivisto Emilia , Lindqvist Teemu , Skyttä Pietari , Montonen Markku 
Published: December 2017

Kevitsa is a disseminated Ni-Cu-PGE (platinum group elements) ore body in northern Finland, hosted by an extremely high-velocity ([Formula: see text]) ultramafic intrusion. It is currently being mined at a depth of approximately 100 m with open-pit mining. The estimated mine life is 20 years, with the final pit reaching a depth of 500–600 m. Based on a series of 2D seismic surveys and given the expected mine life, a high-resolution 3D seismic survey was justified and conducted in the winter of 2010. We evaluate earlier 3D reflection data processing results and complement that by the results of 3D first-arrival traveltime tomography. The combined results provide insights on the nature of some of the reflectors within the intrusion. In particular, a major discontinuity, a weakness zone, is delineated in the tomography results on the northern side of the planned pit. Supported by the reflection data, we estimate the discontinuity, likely a thrust sheet, to extend down approximately 600 m and laterally 1000 m. The weakness zone terminates prominent internal reflectivity of the Kevitsa intrusion, and it is associated with the extent of the economic mineralization. Together with other weakness zones, a couple of which are also revealed by the tomography study, the discontinuity forms a major wedge block that influences the mine bench stability on the northern side of the open pit and likely will cause more issues during the extraction of the ore in this part of the mine. We argue that 3D seismic data should routinely be acquired prior to commencement of mining activities to maximize exploration efficiency at depth and also to optimize mining as it continues toward depth. Three-dimensional seismic data over mineral exploration areas are valuable and can be revisited for different purposes but are difficult to impossible to acquire after mining has commenced.
Development of Imminent Mortality Predictor for Advanced Cancer (IMPAC), a Tool to Predict Short-Term Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer
Authors: Adelson Kerin , Lee Donald K.K. , Velji Salimah , Ma Junchao , Lipka Susan K. , Rimar Joan , Longley Peter , Vega Teresita , Perez-Irizarry Javier , Pinker Edieal , Lilenbaum Rogerio 
Published: December 2017

Purpose: End-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer is aggressive and costly. Oncologists inconsistently estimate life expectancy and address goals of care. Currently available prognostication tools are based on subjective clinical assessment. An objective prognostic tool could help oncologists and patients decide on a realistic plan for end-of-life care. We developed a predictive model (Imminent Mortality Predictor in Advanced Cancer [IMPAC]) for short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with advanced cancer. Methods: Electronic health record data from 669 patients with advanced cancer who were discharged from Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital were extracted. Statistical learning techniques were used to develop a tool to estimate survival probabilities. Patients were randomly split into training (70%) and validation (30%) sets 20 times. We tested the predictive properties of IMPAC for mortality at 30, 60, 90, and 180 days past the day of admission. Results: For mortality within 90 days at a 40% sensitivity level, IMPAC has close to 60% positive predictive value. Patients estimated to have a greater than 50% chance of death within 90 days had a median survival time of 47 days. Patients estimated to have a less than 50% chance of death had a median survival of 290 days. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for IMPAC averaged greater than .70 for all time horizons tested. Estimated potential cost savings per patient was $15,413 (95% CI, $9,162 to $21,665) in 2014 constant dollars. Conclusion: IMPAC, a novel prognostic tool, can generate life expectancy probabilities in real time and support oncologists in counseling patients about end-of-life care. Potentially avoidable costs are significant.
Medical Complications of Brain Tumors
Authors: Mohile Nimish A. 
Published: December 2017

ABSTRACT

Purpose of Review: This article discusses common and emergent medical complications encountered in patients with primary brain tumors.

Recent Findings: Clinical studies and systematic reviews published in recent years have improved knowledge regarding the incidence of neurologic and medical complications occurring in patients with primary brain tumors. Studies in tumor-related epilepsy and venous thromboembolism provide data for the clinician to make evidence-based decisions about perioperative management, prophylaxis, and therapy. Patients with brain tumors experience unique toxicities related to novel drugs and chemotherapeutics that result in hematologic, infectious, and endocrine disorders. Recent work that has focused on quality of life in patients with brain tumors highlights the importance of good supportive care and optimal medical management of neurobehavioral symptoms and late complications of treatment.

Summary: A thorough understanding of the variety of medical and neurologic complications in patients with primary brain tumors improves the clinician’s ability to quickly recognize and manage common and urgent conditions.
Common Histologically Benign Tumors of the Brain
Authors: Strowd Roy E. , Blakeley Jaishri O. 
Published: December 2017

ABSTRACT

Purpose of Review: As a group, benign tumors account for the majority of primary neoplasms affecting the central nervous system (CNS). This article reviews the epidemiology, clinical presentation, neuroimaging features, and management of the most common of these tumors: meningiomas, schwannomas, and pituitary adenomas.

Recent Findings: Awareness of the most common nonmalignant tumors of the CNS and their management guidelines is important as many of these tumors are managed conservatively, with neurologists playing a primary role in both surveillance and symptom management. Knowledge of the varied neurologic consequences of these tumors allows optimizing interventions that improve quality of life in people living with these tumors without incurring treatment-related complications. Awareness of the clinical features that require surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy is imperative. Finally, important discoveries in both germline and somatic mutations underlying some of these lesions have contributed to the launch of several novel drug trials for these tumors.

Summary: As a group, nonmalignant neoplasms are the most common neoplasms affecting the CNS in adults. Because of their unique neuroanatomic location or containment within the bony skull, these histologically benign lesions can cause significant neurologic morbidity. Management with a multidisciplinary team that includes neurologists, neuro-oncologists, radiologists, neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, otolaryngologists, pathologists, neuropsychologists, physiatrists, and others is necessary for the optimal management of these lesions.
Mechanism of Soot Oxidation over CeO2–ZrO2 under O2 Flow
Authors: Kubo Hitoshi , Ohshima Yusuke , Yamashita Takeshi , Kikuhara Shunji , Saitoh Noriyuki , Yoshizawa Noriko , Nakagoe Osamu , Tanabe Shuji 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Soot oxidation over CeO2–ZrO2 (CZ) has been studied herein. The soot-CZ mixtures were observed under different contact conditions using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and evaluated using thermogravimetric-differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA). These results indicate that the soot ignition temperature depends on the soot/CZ contact degree, and the soot oxidation rate depends on the soot/CZ contact area. The TEM observation of soot-CZ mixture quenched at T50 (50% soot conversion) indicates that soot oxidation occurs only at the soot/CZ interface. Furthermore, the soot oxidation under 18O2 flow and under He flow suggests that CZ lattice oxygen is a more active oxygen species than the adsorbed oxygen on the CZ. The CZ lattice oxygen mainly oxidizes soot; however, the adsorbed oxygen on the CZ surface does not oxidize soot at lower temperatures. Thus, the adsorbed oxygen oxidizes the reaction intermediates such as adsorbed CO on the CZ surface, which shows that CZ lattice is more active than the adsorbed oxygen.
Plasma Steroid Metabolome Profiling for Diagnosis and Subtyping Patients with Cushing Syndrome
Authors: Eisenhofer Graeme , Masjkur Jimmy , Peitzsch Mirko , Di Dalmazi Guido , Bidlingmaier Martin , Grüber Matthias , Fazel Julia , Osswald Andrea , Beuschlein Felix , Reincke Martin 
Published: December 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Diagnosis of Cushing syndrome requires a multistep process that includes verification of hypercortisolism followed by identification of the cause of adrenocortical hyperfunction. This study assessed whether pituitary, ectopic, and adrenal subtypes of Cushing syndrome were characterized by distinct plasma steroid profiles that might assist diagnosis.

METHODS
In this retrospective cross-sectional study, mass spectrometric measurements of a panel of 15 plasma steroids were applied to 222 patient samples tested for Cushing syndrome. Disease was excluded in 138 and confirmed in 51 patients with pituitary Cushing syndrome, 12 with ectopic adrenocorticotropin secretion, and 21 with adrenal disease. Another 277 age- and sex-matched hypertensive and normotensive volunteers were included for comparison.

RESULTS
Compared with patients without disease, the largest increases in plasma steroids among patients with Cushing syndrome were observed for 11-deoxycortisol (289%), 21-deoxycortisol (150%), 11-deoxycorticosterone (133%), corticosterone (124%), and cortisol (122%). Patients with ectopic disease showed the most prominent increases, but there was considerable variation for other steroids according to subtype. Patients with adrenal disease had the lowest concentrations of androgens, whereas those with ectopic and pituitary disease showed the lowest concentrations of aldosterone. Plasma 18-oxocortisol was particularly low in ectopic disease. With the use of 10 selected steroids, subjects with and without different Cushing syndrome subtypes could be discriminated nearly as closely as with the use of salivary and urinary free cortisol, dexamethasone-suppressed cortisol, and plasma adrenocorticotropin (9.5% vs 5.8% misclassification).

CONCLUSIONS
Patients with different subtypes of Cushing syndrome show distinctive plasma steroid profiles that may offer a supplementary single-test alternative for screening purposes.
‘Lust, Caution’!?: Shanghai and the transnational and transgressive imaginations in classical Hollywood cinema
Authors: Xiao Ying 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The very presence of Shanghai in Hollywood film is fundamental and no accident. Not only was Shanghai an exotic, erotic geographic domain that accommodates and embodies the orientalist fantasies in juxtaposition and contrast with the western realities but also it was stylistically and symbolically crafted, transfigured and woven into the Hollywood ‘dream’ to suggest a range of complex meanings. My article examines the very image and image-making of Shanghai in classical Hollywood cinema of the 1930s and the 1940s. The orientalist strategy that identifies Shanghai as the seductive, threatening and static other is not the only way to understanding the Shanghai of Hollywood’s recreation. I depart from the conventional stereotype of a polarized Shanghai to show the complexity, ambiguity, tension and moreover dynamism in depicting Shanghai vis-à-vis the western self-representation. The very volatile, ambivalent depiction of Shanghai or the East is quite often linked to the projection of the western self, underscored by the dialectic of travelling and captivity, and materialized through the metaphorical lens of the exiled, ostracized and fallen yet challenging woman in the new modern world. Through my close analysis of the Hollywood productions such as Shanghai Express (von Sternberg, 1932), The Shanghai Gesture (von Sternberg, 1941) and The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947) and how the first film was consequently received and perceived in Republican Shanghai, I show how the construction of such a distinct space is intricately intersected with race, gender and nationality at a critical juncture and is moreover mediated through various forms of film noir and camp stylization. It furthermore sheds new light on a nuanced understanding of the Sino-Hollywood relationship during the Great Depression and the Republican era.
The discovery of storytelling and the part of overlooked poets, players and librarians in its epiphany
Authors: Ryan Patrick 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
John Masefield, sixteenth Poet Laureate of England, considered himself first and foremost a storyteller. Taking him at his word, this article focuses on what Masefield wrote and said about storytelling, and his path to discovering himself as a storyteller. A review of his publications and private papers reveals that Masefield was part of a significant but largely forgotten or now ignored storytelling movement in Britain during the early through mid twentieth century. Masefield, and through him this ‘lost’ storytelling, was much influenced by the Irish Literary Movement, the work of librarian-storytellers, experimental verse theatre and what we would now view as performance poetry. Looking at how Masefield perceived and practised storytelling suggests how knowledge of earlier storytelling movements could refocus debates regarding storytelling now, or, more productively, open new lines of enquiry and experimentation in storytelling in coming years.
Discourses of impegno and Italian colonial legacies: Reassessing times, spaces and voices in documentaries on (post)colonial mobility
Authors: Mancosu Gianmarco 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This article examines how Hotel Abyssinie (Plattner, 1996), Aulò. Roma Postcoloniale (Brioni, Guida and Chiscuzzu 2012) and Asmarina (Maglio and Paolos, 2015) explore the entangled relationship between colonial memories, migrations and belongings in contemporary Italy. Since each film addresses the temporality and spatiality of colonial legacies, the assessment of the use of old materials (mainly pictures and found footage) will enable the reflection on the complicated Italian colonial memories; this strand also deals with the analysis of the spaces of (post)colonial interaction through the concept of heterotopia. These artistic strategies, together with some other stylistic choices, will be regarded as aiming to engender either narratives or counter-narratives within the discourse of civic engagement, or postmodern impegno, that each documentary unfolds, and to which it conforms. In so doing, these documentaries stand as representative of an artistic production that is challenging the surreptitiously monolithic image of Italian identity.
Zombie urbanism and the city by the bay: What’s really eating Geelong?
Authors: Gray Fiona , Novacevski Matt 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Since the early 1900s the city of Geelong has been synonymous with Australian manufacturing. However, the protracted demise of heavy manufacturing, including the city’s renowned automotive industry after the year 2000, highlights the challenges that post-industrial modernity, characterized by economic rationalism, cultural homogenization and globalization, has posed to the city. The year 2014 marked a turning point in the city’s history with major car maker Ford announcing the closure of its Geelong plant in 2017. Yet paradoxically, the city’s mall-and-sprawl pattern of development marches on as though cars will continue to roll off the production line. A few months after Ford’s announcement, a promotional video of Geelong was released depicting the city as a zombie-ridden dystopia, salvaged by magical powers summoned forth by the city’s Mayor. The video’s portrayal of residents as the ‘living dead’ drew sharp criticism and raised questions about what this imagery was really saying about the city and its people. Over the second half of the twentieth century, zombies have become symbols of mindless consumption, alienation and fear. So while Geelong is a city seeking reinvigoration and renewal, the Geelong Reinvented video presents the obverse of its promise. This article explores the identity of the real zombies of Geelong and how they might be brought to heel in order to spearhead a true rejuvenation of the city.
A teleonomic distributed cognition approach to architectural design
Authors: Ireland Tim , Cardenas-Garcia Jaime F. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explore a newly defined concept of distributed cognition in a spatial domain and to propose how this conceptualization may be applied to how architectural space is organized. A novel view of distributed cognition is presented, which is concerned with the purposive behaviour of an organism-in-its-environment. We term this concept teleonomic distributed cognition. Teleonomic distributed cognition is the ability of an organism (including humans) to interact with its environment for the purpose of satisfying its physiological (internal and external) and social needs in order to survive and sustain itself. An implication of this approach is that the sensory capabilities that drive the teleonomic distributed cognition of the organism define its spatial domain.
Building a (virtual) Aleph: The visual transformation of a tiny cosmogony
Authors: Ayiter Elif 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This article discusses the transformation of a tiny three-dimensional artwork created in the metaverse that takes its inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’s story of ‘the Aleph’ – a tale that revolves around a minute artefact that is ‘one of the points in space that contains all other points’. The visualization of a concept as complex as ‘the Aleph’ led the author of the project through a process that started from Cartesian precepts, from where it transformed itself into an investigation of ‘code’ as a basal, life-giving presence that is abstract, enigmatic and hermetic in its essence. This correlation between ‘code’ and the magical nature of ‘the Aleph’ has led to further considerations regarding the significance of such a marvellous object within virtual worlds. Accordingly, this text will conclude with the description of an intriguing, novel usage for ‘the Aleph’ that materializes as a time machine for virtual-world avatars.
A Second-Order Time-Stepping Scheme for Simulating Ensembles of Parameterized Flow Problems
Authors: Gunzburger Max , Jiang Nan , Wang Zhu 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
We consider settings for which one needs to perform multiple flow simulations based on the Navier–Stokes equations, each having different initial condition data, boundary condition data, forcing functions, and/or coefficients such as the viscosity. For such settings, we propose a second-order time accurate ensemble-based method that to simulate the whole set of solutions, requires, at each time step, the solution of only a single linear system with multiple right-hand-side vectors. Rigorous analyses are given proving the conditional stability and establishing error estimates for the proposed algorithm. Numerical experiments are provided that illustrate the analyses.
Feasibility of a Wind-Hydrogen Energy System Based on Wind Characteristics for Chabahar, Iran
Authors: Alavi Omid , Mostafaeipour Ali , Sedaghat Ahmad , Qolipour Mojtaba 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The knowledge of wind speed characteristics of a region is among the most important aspect of wind turbines utilization for electricity production and assessing the cost of power generation. The wind spectrum and the wind power density for the city of Chabahar located in the southeastern part of Iran were modeled using Weibull distribution and power law estimation. An empirical approach was used to determine the shape parameter, k, and the scale parameter, c, of Weibull distribution function at different heights from 2014 to 2016 during two years period. Wind characteristics in Chabahar were extensively analyzed along with assessing the effects of parameters such as air humidity and temperature, surface roughness, turbulence, and wind velocity durations. The amount of wind power that can be produced by installation of eight wind turbines with different powers ranging from 2.5 kW to 8 MW at Chabahar were investigated. Additionally, the annual capacity factor for each turbine was determined. A wind-hydrogen system was considered in the analysis for evaluating the hydrogen production ability from wind energy in the station at Chabahar. The highest amount of hydrogen production was related to Vestas V164 with the yearly value of 194.36 ton-H2.
Task Scheduling in Desktop Grids: Open Problems
Authors: Chernov Ilya , Nikitina Natalia , Ivashko Evgeny 
Published: December 2017

AbstractWe survey the areas of Desktop Grid task scheduling that seem to be insufficiently studied so far and are promising for efficiency, reliability, and quality of Desktop Grid computing. These topics include optimal task grouping, “needle in a haystack” paradigm, game-theoretical scheduling, domain-imposed approaches, special optimization of the final stage of the batch computation, and Enterprise Desktop Grids.
Stopband-Extended and Size-Miniaturized Low-Pass Filter Based on Interdigital Capacitor Loaded Hairpin Resonator with Four Transmission Zeros
Authors: Wu Jia-Jia , Li Lin 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn this paper, a compact low-pass filter (LPF) with wide stopband is proposed based on interdigital capacitor loaded hairpin resonator. The structure composed of an upper high-impedance transmission line, a middle interdigital capacitor, and a pair of inter-coupled symmetrical stepped-impedance stubs. Detailed investigation into this structure based on even-odd mode approach reveals that up to four transmission zeros can be generated and reallocated by choosing the proper circuit parameters. And owing to the aid of transmission zeros, the fabricated quasi-elliptic LPFs experimentally demonstrate a wide 20dB stopband from 1.4fcto 5.1fcusing a compact size of only 0.005 λg2.