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Pituitary Tumor Suppression by Combination of Cabergoline and Chloroquine
Authors: Lin Shao Jian , Wu Ze Rui , Cao Lei , Zhang Yong , Leng Zhi Gen , Guo Yu Hang , Shang Han Bing , Zhao Wei Guo , Zhang Xun , Wu Zhe Bao 
Published: July 2017

AbstractContextThe dopamine agonist cabergoline (CAB) has been used widely in the treatment of prolactinomas and other types of pituitary adenomas, but its clinical use is hampered by intolerance in some patients with prolactinoma and lack of effectiveness in other pituitary tumor types. Chloroquine (CQ) is an old drug widely used to treat malaria. Recent studies, including our own, have revealed that CAB and CQ are involved in induction of autophagy and activation of autophagic cell death.ObjectiveTo test whether CAB and CQ can function cooperatively to suppress growth of pituitary adenomas as well as other cancers.ResultsIn vitro studies using the rat pituitary tumor cell lines MMQ and GH3, human pituitary tumor cell primary cultures, and several human cancer cell lines showed that CQ enhanced suppression of cell proliferation by CAB. These results were confirmed in in vivo xenograft models in nude mice and estrogen-induced rat prolactinomas. To understand the mechanism of combined CAB and CQ action, we established a low-CAB-dose condition in which CAB was able to induce autophagy but failed to suppress cell growth. Addition of CQ to low-dose CAB blocked normal autophagic cycles and induced apoptosis, evidenced by the further accumulation of p62/caspase-8/LC3-II.ConclusionThe data suggest that combined use of CAB and CQ may increase clinical effectiveness in treatment of human pituitary adenomas, as well as other cancers, making it an attractive option in tumor and cancer therapies.
Book Reviews
Authors: Dines Mike , Diboll Mike , Bestley Russ , Cross Rich 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Beyond No Future: Cultures Of German Punk, Mirko M. Hall, Seth Howes and Cyrus M. Shahan (eds) (2016) London: Bloomsbury, 170 pp., ISBN: 9781501314087, h/bk, £74.00
The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics And Music, Mike Dines and Matthew Worley (eds) (2016) Colchester: Minor Compositions, 322 pp., ISBN: 9781570273186, p/bk, £18.00
Post-Punk Then and Now, Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun and Mark Fisher (eds) (2016) London: Repeater Books, 302 pp., ISBN: 910924273, p/bk, £8.99
Gee Vaucher: Introspective, Stevphen Shukaitis (ed.) (2016) Colchester: Firstsite/Minor Compositions, 143 pp., ISBN: 9781570273155, p/bk, £20.00
‘Ours is a strange pornography’: Reflections on performing punk in academia
Authors: Astley Tom 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
What is the place of punk in ‘punk studies’? How can we write punk, rather than just write about punk? Can we do this in a way that is more than performative affectation? More than just a(nother) punk cliché? Do we owe a sense of authenticity to our subjects in academic writing on punk? This article offers a critical reflection on a conference paper ‘performed’ as an attempt to address (rather than answer) these questions. I discuss the processes of writing, editing and presenting this article in a way that attempted to ‘show’ punk, not just ‘explain’ it. In so doing, I hope that I can open up a discussion about performance in academia more generally.
The development of the Irish management system and the move towards directly elected mayors
Authors: Quinlivan Aodh 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The Irish local government system works on a partnership model, with powers shared between the elected members and the appointed manager or chief executive. Within this system, each local authority elects a mayor on an annual basis from among its own members. In 2001 legislation was passed which proposed a drastic change to the office of mayor, and potentially to the role of the manager. The Local Government Act, 2001, provided for the direct election of mayors with executive powers. The proposal was dropped in 2003 but resurfaced in a 2008 Green Paper. This Green Paper never proceeded to legislation but six years later Minister Phil Hogan, TD, provided for the direct election of a mayor in Dublin in the Local Government Reform Act, 2014. The minister, however, inserted a clause that each of the four Dublin local authorities would firstly have to adopt a resolution in favour of holding a plebiscite in Dublin on the issue. Fingal County Council voted against and so the issue of a directly elected mayor was shelved again. Undoubtedly it will reappear at some point in the near future and it is hoped that a meaningful debate on the issue will lead to greater clarity on details, especially the precise powers of the mayor.
College students’ perceptions of a caring climate in group physical activity classes
Authors: Newland Aubrey , Newton Maria , Stark Andrea , Podlog Leslie , Hall Morgan 
Published: July 2017

Summary
Study aim: Research suggests that physical activity rates decline sharply after high school. The pattern of activity or inactivity during college tends to persist into adulthood. A critical need exists for examination of strategies to engage college-age students in physical activity habits. One way to do this is through physical activity courses offered in colleges. This study examines the relationship between perceptions of a caring psychological climate and group connectedness, enjoyment, and attitudes toward classmates and the instructor in group physical activity courses. Material and methods: Participants were 174 students (107 males and 67 females; Mage = 21.71) enrolled in exercise, martial arts, and sports courses at a large university in the Mountain West. Results: Perceptions of a caring climate were significantly related to enhanced feelings of group connectedness, heightened enjoyment, and more positive attitudes toward classmates and instructor. Discussion: These findings suggest that a strategy to foster engagement in physical activity courses on campus is to train instructors to value, support, and welcome students.
Measurement of the shear moduli of spruce by torsional vibration tests using a pair of specimens with different aspect ratios
Authors: Yoshihara Hiroshi , Maruta Makoto 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe shear moduli (SM) of solid wood in longitudinal-radial (LR) and longitudinal-tangential (LT) planes were obtained via a torsional vibration (TV) test by varying the aspect ratios of Sitka spruce specimens and conducting subsequent numerical analyses. A pair of specimens with different aspect ratios was used to separate the SM in the LR and LT planes from each other, and the effect of the aspect ratio was examined. The experimental and numerical results indicated that the SM can be accurately obtained via TV test, when the aspect ratios of the specimens are appropriately determined.
Review of Superfinishing by the Magnetic Abrasive Finishing Process
Authors: Heng Lida , Kim Yon Jig , Mun Sang Don 
Published: July 2017

AbstractRecent developments in the engineering industry have created a demand for advanced materials with superior mechanical properties and high-quality surface finishes. Some of the conventional finishing methods such as lapping, grinding, honing, and polishing are now being replaced by non-conventional finishing processes. Magnetic Abrasive Finishing (MAF) is a non-conventional superfinishing process in which magnetic abrasive particles interact with a magnetic field in the finishing zone to remove materials to achieve very high surface finishing and deburring simultaneously. In this review paper, the working principles, processing parameters, and current limitations for the MAF process are examined via reviewing important work in the literature. Additionally, future developments of the MAF process are discussed.
Fully Automated Segmentation of Lung Parenchyma Using Break and Repair Strategy
Authors: Kumar S. Pramod , Latte Mrityunjaya V. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The traditional segmentation methods available for pulmonary parenchyma are not accurate because most of the methods exclude nodules or tumors adhering to the lung pleural wall as fat. In this paper, several techniques are exhaustively used in different phases, including two-dimensional (2D) optimal threshold selection and 2D reconstruction for lung parenchyma segmentation. Then, lung parenchyma boundaries are repaired using improved chain code and Bresenham pixel interconnection. The proposed method of segmentation and repairing is fully automated. Here, 21 thoracic computer tomography slices having juxtapleural nodules and 115 lung parenchyma scans are used to verify the robustness and accuracy of the proposed method. Results are compared with the most cited active contour methods. Empirical results show that the proposed fully automated method for segmenting lung parenchyma is more accurate. The proposed method is 100% sensitive to the inclusion of nodules/tumors adhering to the lung pleural wall, the juxtapleural nodule segmentation is >98%, and the lung parenchyma segmentation accuracy is >96%.
Circularly-polarized, large-angle reflective deflectors based on periodically patterned cholesteric liquid crystals
Authors: Kobashi Junji , Mohri Yoshinori , Yoshida Hiroyuki , Ozaki Masanori 
Published: July 2017

AbstractPatterned cholesteric liquid crystals enable the fabrication of circular-polarization sensitive, reflective diffractive optical elements based on Bragg reflection. Here we report the fabrication of large-angle reflective deflector, which show deflection angles as large as 48.9°. The devices are fabricated by polarization holography, whereby two orthogonal circular polarized beams are superimposed on a photoalignment layer to create a linear modulation of the orientational easy axis. The devices show high circular-polarization extinction ratios, making them potentially useful as functional reflectors and polarization splitters.
All the Roads to Patavium: Morphology, Genesis and Development of the Roman Road Network Around Padua
Authors: Matteazzi Michele 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This paper deals with the analysis of the ancient road network around the city of Padua, attempts to reconstruct its morphology and to define its genesis and development between the second Iron Age and Late Antiquity (6th/5th cent. BC to 6th cent. AD). The study follows a methodological approach that today we define as „archaeomorphological“, first proposed by E. Vion in the late 1980s. By applying this methodology to the Paduan territory, it was possible to identify a series of routes of probable ancient origin radially converging toward the center of Roman Patavium, and linking it to other urban centers in the region and to the minor centers located within its ager. The presence of Iron Age settlements along the path of many of these routes suggests that the development of such a road network likely begins in pre-Roman times, which also highlights the ancient strategic importance of Padua and its territory as a fundamental junction between the center and
the North-East of the Italian peninsula. On the other hand, the Roman road network somehow survived into the Late Antiqueand Early Medieval times, always influencing the distribution of settlements and the orientation of churches, until it was for the greater part restored by the Commune of Padua over the 13th century.
Modest Reflections on the Term ‘Religious Experience’
Authors: Torre Michael Durham 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The paper urges a reconsideration of the term “religious experience,” as it is presently used in textbooks in the Philosophy of Religion (to which it first refers). The term needs to include not only what might be termed “extraordinary” religious experience (as used in those texts), but the “ordinary” experience of most who practice a religion, and it needs to assess such experience not so much as a “proof” of God (or a “Transcendent Reality”), but rather as a credible witness to what it affirms. The central portion of the paper then investigates how “experience” was used and understood-as a conscious term of analysis-by Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas. It then argues that this understanding of “experience” can be applied successfully to refer to “religious experience,” whether “ordinary” or “extraordinary”: it argues that such an understanding would fit well any phenomenological description of what most people mean by their “religious experience.” It concludes that there is work to be done both to develop adequate criteria to discern how credible religious experience is, as a witness to its object, and to apply such criteria to major religions.
Applications of silver nanoparticles stabilized and/or immobilized by polymer matrixes
Authors: Tylkowski Bartosz , Trojanowska Anna , Nowak Martyna , Marciniak Lukasz , Jastrzab Renata 
Published: July 2017

AbstractNanomaterials frequently possess unique and noticeably changed physical, chemical and biological properties compared to their macro scaled corresponding item. Utilization of nanoparticles habitually requires the construction of integrated chemical systems. Most popular of these are polymer-supported nanoparticles. In this review, we provide the reader with the last developments and breakthrough technologies concerning silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), one of the most comprehensively studied nanomaterials, considering the polymer types and processes used for the nanocomposite membranes preparation.
Toy stories: On the disciplinary regime of vibration
Authors: Rossolatos George 
Published: July 2017

AbstractSex toys promote a new consumptive ethos whose significance may be adequately outlined by attending to the institutional implications of this product category’s consumption. By drawing on Foucault’s theory of sexuality and the technologies of the self that materialize with the aid of discursive formations about sexuality, as well as on relevant sociological and ethnographic insights, I undertake a qualitative content analysis on a corpus of 100 sex toys’ product reviews from popular magazines and web sites in order to identify how the discourse about sex toys is articulated in terms of three dominant categories of sexual scripts (Simon and Gagnon 2007, Sexual scripts. In Richard Parker & Peter Aggleton (eds.), Culture, society, and sexuality: A reader, 29–38. London: Routledge), namely, cultural scenarios, interpersonal and intrapsychic scripts. By opening up the discussion to a broader cultural terrain, I outline how the consumption experience of sex toys, as articulated in the reviews’ discursive formations, facilitates the emergence of new consumer trends, particularly with reference to orgasm-on-the-go and no-touch-orgasm, while redefining existing ones.
Stance markers in television news presentation: Expressivity of eyebrow flashes in the delivery of news
Authors: Han Zhengrui , Zhu Hongqiang 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe discourse of broadcast news is shifting toward being more “conversational.” As a consequence, rather than assuming the traditional poker-face style of delivering news on television, news readers as televised personae are becoming more “informal” and “dialogic” in order to better relate to audiences. Eyebrow flashes, as a communicative resource in television news presentation, play an important part in construing the expressiveness of presentation and engaging with audiences. Drawing upon insights from nonverbal communication studies (especially the pragmatics of nonverbal communication) and discourse analysis, this paper explores the pragmatics of eyebrow flashes as a marker of expressivity in news delivery, and the interaction of eyebrow flashes with the verbal context, based on data collected from Chinese broadcast news in English. The analysis shows that eyebrow flashes are widely employed to initiate the theme of the agent in news messages (implicating “I know something”), to emphasize the focus of the news statements (implying “I am thinking now”), and to respond to the attributed statement (indicating “I want to know more”). Therefore, eyebrow flashes function to assist viewers in construing alignment with authors or reporters of news, as well as alignment with audiences. In addition, they serve to distill personal emotion to hybridize the institutional voice of news, thus rendering television news more “watchable” and engaging.
The World Day of Prayer: Ecumenical Churchwomen and Christian Cosmopolitanism, 1920–1946
Authors: Kenny Gale L. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractBetween World War I and World War II, the World Day of Prayer (WDP) expressed Protestant women's Christian cosmopolitanism that combined rituals of prayer with a liberal program of social activism and humanitarianism. The WDP began as a way to unite Protestant women together across organizational denominational lines as women's missionary societies entered a period of decline in the 1920s. The WDP raised awareness of home and foreign missionary work and took up a collection to support designated home and foreign mission projects, but it quickly emerged as a site for ritual creativity. The planning committees and prayer service facilitated Protestant women's efforts to replace a traditional understanding of missionary work with a cosmopolitan Christianity that coupled American women's spirituality with a liberal program supportive of racial diversity and internationalism. The prayer services became sacred spaces to enact “unity in diversity,” even though this was always more an ideal than a reality. Churchwomen used the evident dissonance between a universalist vision of a united Christian world and the realities of racial, religious, and national difference to generate discomfort in the prayer services and to deepen participants' spiritual experiences. While the interwar era is understood as a period of theological schisms and Protestant declension, a gendered analysis of Protestantism through the World Day of Prayer shows that it was also a period of religious transformation as churchwomen formulated a modern social gospel that paired spirituality and action in ways that would shape Protestant churches for the next several decades.
KALININGRADISTIKA IR OLŠTYNO POLITOLOGŲ NIŠOS
Authors: Lopata Raimundas 
Published: July 2017

Prieš 2016-ųjų metų Šv. Kalėdas Varmijos Mozūrų universiteto Politikos mokslų institutas Olštyne išleido kolektyvinę monografiją, skirtą Rusijos Federacijos Kaliningrado (Karaliaučiaus) srities problematikai. [...]
Promoting physical activity in the workplace: A systematic meta-review
Authors: Jirathananuwat Areeya , Pongpirul Krit 
Published: July 2017

Abstract

Introduction
Physically active (PA) people have a lower risk of various diseases, compared to those with sedentary lifestyles. Evidence on the effects of PA promoting programs in the workplace is large, and several systematic reviews (SR) and/or meta-analyses (MA) have been published. However, they have failed to consider factors that could influence interventions. This paper aimed to classify and describe interventions to promote PA in the workplace based on evidence from SR/MA.

Method
A literature search for SR/MA was done using PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct (January 2006-February 2015). Quality assessment of SR/MA was performed using AMSTAR. The PRECEDE-PROCEED model was used for classifying the interventions into predisposing, enabling, reinforcing, environment, and policy domains of focus.

Results
Eleven SR/MA included 220 primary studies, of which 139 (63%) were randomized controlled trials. Of 48 interventions identified, 22 (46%) and 17 (35%) focused on predisposing or enabling employees to have more PA, respectively. Of the 22 predisposing factors, 6 were information delivery, 5 were self-motivation, and 11 were program training. The enabling approaches were 12 instrument resources and 5 health service facilities. The reinforcing approaches were 4 incentive and 3 social support. The remaining interventions focused on the environmental development and policy regulation.

Conclusions
This systematic meta-review classified interventions using appropriate framework and described the intervention pattern.
International Variability in Gastrointestinal Decontamination With Acute Poisonings
Authors: Mintegi Santiago , Dalziel Stuart R. , Azkunaga Beatriz , Prego Javier , Arana-Arri Eunate , Acedo Yordana , Martinez-Indart Lorea , Benito Javier , Kuppermann Nathan ,   on behalf of the Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) Poisoning Working Group
Published: July 2017

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Identifying international differences in the management of acute pediatric poisonings may help improve the quality of care. The objective of this study was to assess the international variation and appropriateness of gastrointestinal decontamination (GID) procedures performed in children and adolescents who present with acute poisonings to emergency departments.

METHODS:
This was an international, multicenter, cross-sectional prospective study including children &lt;18 years with poisoning exposures presenting to 105 emergency departments in 20 countries from 8 global regions belonging to the Pediatric Emergency Research Networks. Data collection started between January and September 2013 and continued for 1 year. The appropriateness of GID procedures performed was analyzed using the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists’ recommendations. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to identify independent risk factors for performing GID procedures.

RESULTS:
We included 1688 patients, 338 of whom (20.0%, 95% confidence interval 18.1%–22.0%) underwent the following GID procedures: activated charcoal (166, 49.1%), activated charcoal and gastric lavage (122, 36.1%), gastric lavage (47, 13.9%), and ipecac (3, 0.9%). In 155 (45.8%, 40.5%–51.2%), the GID procedure was considered appropriate, with significant differences between regions. Independent risk factors for GID procedures included age, toxin category, mechanism of poisoning, absence of symptoms, and the region where the intoxication occurred (P &lt; .001).

CONCLUSIONS:
Globally, there are substantial differences in the use and appropriateness of GID procedures in the management of pediatric poisonings. International best practices need to be better implemented.