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A Review of Volume 5 of the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Parts III and IV
Authors: Davidoff Thomas 
Published: October 2017

AbstractThis paper reviews parts III and IV of the recent Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Many of the surveys within the Handbook relate to two phenomena of interest: the recent boom and bust cycle in U.S. housing markets, and the striking growth of home prices in a few global “Superstar Cities.” Real Estate and Urban economists have made progress in modeling these phenomena. There is considerable room for future research, however. There is no coherent story explaining U.S. home price movements in the 2000s that does not run afoul of important stylized facts. We also have not yet identified the relative importance of supply constraints and demand growth in the rise of Superstar City prices.
Exploring nursing staff views of responsive behaviours of people with dementia in long‐stay facilities
Authors: Clifford C. , Doody O. 
Published: October 2017

Accessible summaryWhat is known on the subject?

Caring for people with dementia and responsive behaviours is challenging; however, little is known of nurses’ experiences of responsive behaviours.

What does this paper add to existing knowledge?

To demonstrate understanding nurses need to be aware of their own actions, thoughts, attitudes and reactions.

Time, education and management support are essential in enabling a person‐centred approach.

A decision regarding the place of care is difficult to come to, and given the drive to a person‐centred approach, there is a need to consider the views of people with dementia.

What are the implications for practice?

Nursing staff supporting people with dementia should engage more frequently in reflective practice, ongoing education and decision‐making.

Service providers/managers need to have an understanding of the complexities of caring for a person with dementia and responsive behaviours and provide their staff with relevant supports and education that is accessible to all staff.

AbstractIntroductionCaring for people with dementia and responsive behaviours can challenge nurses, and little is known of their experiences.AimsTo explore nurses’ views of supporting people with dementia and responsive behaviours in long‐stay facilities.MethodsA qualitative descriptive study utilizing in‐depth audio‐recorded interviews of nine nurses, recruited from private and public care facilities. Qualitative content analyses conducted involving iterative comparisons of transcripts, summaries and memos, where coding, key quotes and tables were developed to determine themes.ResultsFour themes emerged: recognizing and understanding responsive behaviour, resources and interventions to support people with dementia and responsive behaviour, the impact of education on nursing practice and the care environment.DiscussionAvailability of staff, adequate time and financial restraints hinder nurses’ ability to provide care. Access to ongoing education and being able to provide one‐to‐one care was valued as dementia‐specific education changed nursing practice.Implications for practicePlace of care was seen as dependent on the type of responsive behaviour in question, the duration of the behaviour and the impact of the behaviour on the person, other residents and staff. Dementia education needs to be accessible to all staff, and a collaborative approach is necessary in order to develop management guidelines and support strategies.
Self‐Preserving Leviathans Evidence from Local‐Level Data
Authors: Kluge Jan , Markwardt Gunther , Thater Christian 
Published: October 2017

SummaryThis paper investigates the impact of the intensity of political competition on the leviathan behavior of local politicians. While we find only weak effects of strong parties on total expenditures and, thus, only weak traces of standard leviathan behavior, we find strong evidence that the spending pattern during a legislative period depends on the distribution of power in local councils. In municipalities with weak political competition, the public spending reaches a peak in election years. If parties face politically strong opponents, they do not initiate a political budget cycle. Our results indicate that local politicians act as self‐preserving leviathans.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and theTurkish Embassy Letters: A Survey of Contemporary Criticism
Authors: Hall Jordan , Sagal Anna K. , Zold Elizabeth 
Published: October 2017

AbstractSince the publication of Robert Halsband's biography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in 1956 and his later edited collection of her letters, modern scholars have been fascinated with the network of critical discourses in Montagu's writing in the Turkish Embassy Letters. Analyzing her work on multiple axes – religious, political, scientific, and gendered – contemporary critics have made this classic text accessible to new generations of readers and thinkers. Yet as scholarship on these letters continues to flourish, certain trends persist, often at the expense of new avenues of inquiry. This article proposes that several recent threads in the scholarly conversation surrounding the Turkish Embassy Letters have the potential to be expanded in three promising new directions to more fully explore Montagu's religious identity and its relationship to her discussions of religious belief and practice; her unique role as a mother while traveling; and her place in the smallpox variolation controversy and its relationship to disability.
Style, autonomy, and ideology: Making room for late modernism in the American scene
Authors: Afflerbach Ian 
Published: October 2017

AbstractWhile the growing field of late modernist studies has established coherent geographic and temporal boundaries for its period in Britain, it has struggled to do the same for the United States. This essay proposes that ongoing critical efforts to establish an American late modernism have been organized and constrained less by national history than by a pair of aesthetic categories: style and autonomy. Scholars have deployed these categories in two competing ways: first, by defining late modernist style as a heroic escape from the reactionary autonomous art of “high” modernists like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot; second, by defining late modernism as an ideology of autonomous art established in the United States by critics like Cleanth Brooks and Clement Greenberg. Through a methodological critique of these two accounts, this essay argues for an American late modernism grounded upon a more dialectical understanding of the relationship between style and autonomy in modernist studies, one attuned to the political and cultural changes in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Living the Social Determinants of Health: Assemblages in a Remote Aboriginal Community
Authors: Chenhall Richard D. , Senior Kate 
Published: October 2017

AbstractThis article provides a critical discussion of the social determinants of health framework and compares it with theoretical perspectives, such as that offered by assemblage theory, offering an alternative view of the complex interplay between human relationships and the structures around us. We offer an ethnographic perspective, discussing the lived experiences of the social determinants in an Indigenous community in a remote part of northern Australia.
Content in a Dynamic Context
Authors: Stojnić Una 
Published: October 2017

AbstractThe standing tradition in theorizing about meaning, since at least Frege (1882), identifies meaning with propositions, which are, or determine, the truth‐conditions of a sentence in a context. But a recent trend has advocated a departure from this tradition: in particular, it has been argued that modal claims do not express standard propositional contents. This non‐propositionalism has received different implementations in expressivist semantics (Moss, 2015; Swanson, 2006; Yalcin, 2007) and certain kinds of dynamic semantics (Gillies, 2004, 2010; von Fintel and Gillies, 2007; Veltman, 1985, 1996). They maintain that the key aspect of interpretation of modal claims is the characteristic dynamic effect they have on the context. I argue that pessimism about truth‐conditions arises from an overly simplistic picture of content, context and their interaction. While I agree with the critics that an important aspect of modal meaning is the dynamic effect modals have on the context, I argue that they have mischaracterized the nature and the complexity of this effect. A more nuanced account of the interaction between modals and context shows that far from being incompatible with propositional meaning, the dynamic aspect of meaning is precisely what allows us to predict the correct propositional content of an utterance.
Homeostatic synaptic plasticity at the neuromuscular junction in myasthenia gravis
Authors: Wang Xueyong , Rich Mark M. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractA number of studies in the past 20 years have shown that perturbation of activity of the nervous system leads to compensatory changes in synaptic strength that serve to return network activity to its original level. This response has been termed homeostatic synaptic plasticity. Despite the intense interest in homeostatic synaptic plasticity, little attention has been paid to its role in the prototypic synaptic disease, myasthenia gravis. In this review, we discuss mechanisms that have been shown to mediate homeostatic synaptic plasticity at the mammalian neuromuscular junction. A subset of these mechanisms have been shown to occur in myasthenia gravis. The homeostatic changes occurring in myasthenia gravis appear to involve the presynaptic nerve terminal and may even involve changes in the excitability of motor neurons within the spinal cord. The finding of presynaptic homeostatic synaptic plasticity in myasthenia gravis leads us to propose that changes in the motor unit in myasthenia gravis may be more widespread than previously appreciated.
Halberdiers and Combat Systems in the Argaric
Authors: Lull Vicente , Micó Rafael , Rihuete Herrada Cristina , Risch Roberto , Escanilla Nicolau 
Published: October 2017

SummaryThe Argaric halberd is a specialized weapon for hand‐to‐hand combat, with its full development in the south‐east of the Iberian Peninsula between 2000 and 1800 cal BCE. This paper deals with the Argaric combat system and the factors that drove this type of confrontation, given the social order, the active and passive archaeological traces present in these weapons and their effects on the human body. This pragmatic order of directing interpersonal violence had three patriarchal socio‐political implications: the domestication of the body through the discipline of instruction and combat, a ritual of identification represented in funerary practices and a symbol of power, but only available to a small number of men. The Argaric halberdiers occupy an intermediate position in the transition between an armed man and a soldier, probably intersecting with the figures of the hero and the warrior.In Supporting Information Annexe 1, we develop a morphological description, based on the system of hafting the Argaric halberds and, in Annexe 2, we present the funerary contexts with interesting data for the combat system.
I Will Follow You into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral
Authors: Middleton Guy D. 
Published: October 2017

SummaryDespite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became a safe part of the landscape and memory of individuals and communities. In addition to anthropological and psychological research on death and grieving, we have several categories of evidence that can allow us a glimpse of the emotional world of death in LBA Greece: the Homeric poems the Iliad and Odyssey, iconographical representations of death, funeral practices and mourning, and the archaeological material itself – the tombs and offerings. In this paper, I introduce the various categories of evidence and draw on them to support an imaginative reconstruction of an event that happened, but which is not recorded in any historical sources – the death and burial of a great king of Mycenae. I argue that using emotion as a lens through which to view the evidence can sometimes allow deeper interpretation and enable fuller historical reconstructions of lived lives and experiences.
Self‐report pain assessment tools for cognitively intact older adults: Integrative review
Authors: Kang Youjeong , Demiris George 
Published: October 2017

BackgroundPain is common in older adults, but it is often underreported or undertreated partly because many consider pain to be a normal consequence of ageing. Among the plethora of available self‐report pain assessment tools, there is no synthetised evidence which tools are indicated for use among cognitively intact older adults.Purpose of the studyTo understand documented self‐report pain assessment tools that have been used among cognitively intact older adults, and to describe their characteristics including overall performance as well as studies demonstrating their use.MethodsA systematic search of the indexed databases PubMed, PsycINFO and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL Plus) was conducted to identify documented self‐report pain assessment tools through peer‐reviewed papers, including citations from January 1990 to December 2015. Thirty‐five percentage of abstracts were independently evaluated by two raters according to specific criteria.ResultsAmong identified tools, the Iowa Pain Thermometer, the 6‐point Verbal Descriptor Scale, the Numeric Rating Scale, the short form Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and the Geriatric Pain Measure (GPM) may be suitable tools for self‐reported pain by cognitively intact older adults based on the statement of the literature. Only two self‐report tools (the GPM and the Geriatric Painful Events Inventory) were designed specifically for older adults.ConclusionsMore studies are needed to evaluate pain measures' psychometric performance across different settings, racial/ethnic groups and disease categories. Since 80% of older adults have at least one chronic disease, multidimensional tools such as the GPM may need to be used more often for accurate self‐report of pain.Implications for practiceExamining the psychometric properties of comprehensive self‐report pain assessment tools informs recommendations for the selection of tools to be used in clinical practice.
Conditional reprogramming of pediatric airway epithelial cells: A new human model to investigate early‐life respiratory disorders
Authors: Wolf S. , Perez G. F. , Mukharesh L. , Isaza N. , Preciado D. , Freishtat R. J. , Pillai D. , Rose M. C. , Nino G. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractBackgroundAirway epithelial cells (AEC) are quite difficult to access in newborns and infants. It is critically important to develop robust life‐extended models to conduct translational studies in this age group. We propose the use of a recently described cell culture technology (conditionally reprogrammed cells—CRC) to generate continuous primary cell cultures from nasal and bronchial AEC of young children.MethodsWe collected nasal and/or bronchial AEC from a total of 23 subjects of different ages including newborns/infants/toddlers (0‐2 years; N = 9), school‐age children (4‐11 years; N = 6), and a group of adolescent/adult donors (N = 8). For CRC generation, we used conditioned medium from mitotically inactivated 3T3 fibroblasts and Rho‐associated kinase (ROCK) inhibitor (Y‐27632). Antiviral immune responses were studied using 25 key antiviral genes and protein production of type III epithelial interferon (IFN λ1) after double‐stranded (ds) RNA exposure.ResultsCRC derived from primary AEC of neonates/infants and young children exhibited: (i) augmented proliferative capacity and life extension, (ii) preserved airway epithelial phenotype after multiple passages, (iii) robust immune responses characterized by the expression of innate antiviral genes and parallel nasal/bronchial production of IFN λ1 after exposure to dsRNA, and (iv) induction of airway epithelial inflammatory and remodeling responses to dsRNA (eg, CXCL8 and MMP9).ConclusionConditional reprogramming of AEC from young children is a feasible and powerful translational approach to investigate early‐life airway epithelial immune responses in humans.
Spinoza's Formal Mechanism
Authors: Martin Christopher 
Published: October 2017

AbstractI defend a new reading of Spinoza's account of causation that reconciles the strengths of the mechanist and formal cause interpretations by locating instances of nature's fixed and unchanging laws inside individual natures; natures are efficacious because that's where the laws are. God's necessity, for instance, follows from certain logical principles contained within God's nature. Causes between finite particulars likewise stem entirely from finite natures. They do so, I argue, because finite instances of nature's fixed and unchanging laws are inscribed within those natures. In each of these instances, effects follow from natures on account of laws contained within them.
Differences in osmotic adjustment, foliar abscisic acid dynamics, and stomatal regulation between an isohydric and anisohydric woody angiosperm during drought
Authors: Nolan Rachael H. , Tarin Tonantzin , Santini Nadia S. , McAdam Scott A.M. , Ruman Rizwana , Eamus Derek 
Published: October 2017

AbstractSpecies are often classified along a continuum from isohydric to anisohydric, with isohydric species exhibiting tighter regulation of leaf water potential through stomatal closure in response to drought. We investigated plasticity in stomatal regulation in an isohydric (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) and an anisohydric (Acacia aptaneura) angiosperm species subject to repeated drying cycles. We also assessed foliar abscisic acid (ABA) content dynamics, aboveground/belowground biomass allocation and nonstructural carbohydrates. The anisohydric species exhibited large plasticity in the turgor loss point (ΨTLP), with plants subject to repeated drying exhibiting lower ΨTLP and correspondingly larger stomatal conductance at low water potential, compared to plants not previously exposed to drought. The anisohydric species exhibited a switch from ABA to water potential‐driven stomatal closure during drought, a response previously only reported for anisohydric gymnosperms. The isohydric species showed little osmotic adjustment, with no evidence of switching to water potential‐driven stomatal closure, but did exhibit increased root:shoot ratios. There were no differences in carbohydrate depletion between species. We conclude that a large range in ΨTLP and biphasic ABA dynamics are indicative of anisohydric species, and these traits are associated with exposure to low minimum foliar water potential, dense sapwood and large resistance to xylem embolism.
Old age and underlying interstitial abnormalities are risk factors for development of ARDS after pleurodesis using limited amount of large particle size talc
Authors: Shinno Yuki , Kage Hidenori , Chino Haruka , Inaba Atsushi , Arakawa Sayaka , Noguchi Satoshi , Amano Yosuke , Yamauchi Yasuhiro , Tanaka Goh , Nagase Takahide 
Published: October 2017

ABSTRACTBackground and objectiveTalc pleurodesis is commonly performed to manage refractory pleural effusion or pneumothorax. It is considered as a safe procedure as long as a limited amount of large particle size talc is used. However, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a rare but serious complication after talc pleurodesis. We sought to determine the risk factors for the development of ARDS after pleurodesis using a limited amount of large particle size talc.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent pleurodesis with talc or OK‐432 at the University of Tokyo Hospital.ResultsTwenty‐seven and 35 patients underwent chemical pleurodesis using large particle size talc (4 g or less) or OK‐432, respectively. Four of 27 (15%) patients developed ARDS after talc pleurodesis. Patients who developed ARDS were significantly older than those who did not (median 80 vs 66 years, P = 0.02) and had a higher prevalence of underlying interstitial abnormalities on chest computed tomography (CT; 2/4 vs 1/23, P < 0.05). No patient developed ARDS after pleurodesis with OK‐432. This is the first case series of ARDS after pleurodesis using a limited amount of large particle size talc.ConclusionOlder age and underlying interstitial abnormalities on chest CT seem to be risk factors for developing ARDS after talc pleurodesis.
Longitudinal physical activity trajectories from childhood to adulthood and their determinants: The Young Finns Study
Authors: Rovio S. P. , Yang X. , Kankaanpää A. , Aalto V. , Hirvensalo M. , Telama R. , Pahkala K. , Hutri‐Kähönen N. , Viikari J. S. A. , Raitakari O. T. , Tammelin T. H. 
Published: October 2017

Determining lifelong physical activity (PA) trajectories and their determinants is essential to promote a physically active lifestyle throughout the life‐course. We aimed to identify PA trajectories from childhood to midlife and their determinants in a longitudinal population‐based cohort. This study is a part of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. From 1980, a population‐based cohort (N = 3596; 1764 boys/1832 girls, age 3‐18 years) has been followed up for 31 years. PA indices were formed based on self‐reported data (between age 9‐49 years) on frequency, duration, and intensity of leisure (during childhood) or high‐intensity (at later age) PA and on sports club participation/competitions. PA trajectories were analyzed using group‐based trajectory modeling. Childhood (age 12 years), young adulthood (age 24 years), and early midlife (age 37 years) determinants were analyzed. Five PA trajectories were identified: persistently active (6.6%), decreasingly active (13.9%), increasingly active (13.5%), persistently low active (51.4%, reference group), persistently inactive (14.6%). In childhood, rural residential area (OR 0.45, 95% CI 0.21‐0.96) and high academic performance (OR 2.18; 95% CI 1.58‐3.00) associated with persistently active group. In early midlife, smoking (OR 1.66; 95% CI 1.07‐2.58) associated with persistently inactive group, regular alcohol drinking (OR 2.91; 95% CI 1.12‐7.55) with persistently active group and having children (OR 2.07; 95% CI 1.27‐3.38) with decreasingly active group. High adulthood education associated with both decreasingly (OR 1.87; 95% CI 1.05‐3.35) and increasingly (OR 2.09; 95% CI 1.19‐3.68) active groups. We identified five PA trajectories from childhood into midlife. Most prominent determinants were academic achievement, education, having children and health habits (i.e. smoking/alcohol use).
Welfare Regime Change in Developing Countries: Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Sumarto Mulyadi 
Published: October 2017

AbstractThis article discusses welfare regime change using two theoretical frameworks, i.e. welfare regimes in developing countries and institutional change. Using these theories as a loop to look at the Indonesian case, it suggests that the Indonesian welfare regime has experienced ‘flourishing’ development and changes. The regime has changed three times, stimulated by economic growth, global market pressures and social policy ‘universalization’. The last two changes have been loaded with thorny layering, to which the government introduced numerous government‐formal social programmes on top of community‐based informal welfare arrangements. This causes complicated consequences, including the problem of informal and formal welfare institutions harming each other. The discussion of the Indonesian case leads to a better understanding of the characteristics and changes of welfare regimes in developing countries, for which there is currently a research gap.