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Male coercive mating in externally fertilizing species: male coercion, female reluctance and explanation for female acceptance
Authors: Matsumoto Yukio , Takegaki Takeshi 
Published: April 2016

AbstractMale coercive mating exerts a strong evolutionary pressure on mating-related traits of both sexes. However, it is extremely rare in externally fertilizing species probably because the male mating behaviour is incomplete until females release their eggs. Here we showed that males of the externally fertilizing fish Rhabdoblennius nitidus coercively confine females to the nests until spawning and investigated why females accept male coercive mating. The females entered the males’ nests following male courtship displays, but they usually tried to escape when there were no eggs because males tended to cannibalize all the eggs when there were few. Most males that used small, tight nests acquired new eggs but with experimentally enlarged nests, 90% of the males without eggs failed to confine the females. Spawning tended to occur during the early/late spawning period in nests with no eggs (i.e. male coercive mating). In the nests where the first eggs were deposited in the early period, subsequent matings with other females were more likely to occur, whereas in the late period, most parental care of the eggs failed without additional matings. The females that spawned in the late period may have been compelled to accept male coercive mating due to time constraints.
Agricultural wastes as a resource of raw materials for developing low-dielectric glass-ceramics
Authors: Danewalia Satwinder Singh , Sharma Gaurav , Thakur Samita , Singh K. 
Published: April 2016

AbstractAgricultural waste ashes are used as resource materials to synthesize new glass and glass-ceramics. The as-prepared materials are characterized using various techniques for their structural and dielectric properties to check their suitability in microelectronic applications. Sugarcane leaves ash exhibits higher content of alkali metal oxides than rice husk ash, which reduces the melting point of the components due to eutectic reactions. The addition of sugarcane leaves ash in rice husk ash promotes the glass formation. Additionally, it prevents the cristobalite phase formation. These materials are inherently porous, which is responsible for low dielectric permittivity i.e. 9 to 40. The presence of less ordered augite phase enhances the dielectric permittivity as compared to cristobalite and tridymite phases. The present glass-ceramics exhibit lower losses than similar materials synthesized using conventional minerals. The dielectric permittivity is independent to a wide range of temperature and frequency. The glass-ceramics developed with adequately devitrified phases can be used in microelectronic devices and other dielectric applications.
The Association Between Parental Mean Length of Utterance and Language Outcomes in Children With Disabilities: A Correlational Meta-Analysis
Authors: Sandbank Micheal , Yoder Paul 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this correlational meta-analysis was to examine the association between parental utterance length and language outcomes in children with disabilities and whether this association varies according to other child characteristics, such as age and disability type. This association can serve as a starting point for language intervention practices for children with disabilities.

Method
We conducted a systematic search of 42 electronic databases to identify relevant studies. Twelve studies reporting on a total of 13 populations (including 257 participants) were identified. A random-effects model was used to estimate a combined effect size across all studies as well as separate effect sizes across studies in each disability category.

Results
The combined effect size across all studies suggests a weak positive association between parental input length and child language outcomes. However, subgroup analyses within disability categories suggest that this association may differ for children with autism. Results of 4 studies including 47 children with autism show that parental input length is strongly associated with positive language outcomes in this population.

Conclusions
Present evidence suggests that clinicians should reconsider intervention practices that prescribe shorter, grammatically incomplete utterances, particularly when working with children with autism.
Phenotypes of gene disruptants in relation to a putative mitochondrial malate–citrate shuttle protein in citric acid-producing Aspergillus niger
Authors: Kirimura Kohtaro , Kobayashi Keiichi , Ueda Yuka , Hattori Takasumi 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The mitochondrial citrate transport protein (CTP) functions as a malate–citrate shuttle catalyzing the exchange of citrate plus a proton for malate between mitochondria and cytosol across the inner mitochondrial membrane in higher eukaryotic organisms. In this study, for functional analysis, we cloned the gene encoding putative CTP (ctpA) of citric acid-producing Aspergillus niger WU-2223L. The gene ctpA encodes a polypeptide consisting 296 amino acids conserved active residues required for citrate transport function. Only in early-log phase, the ctpA disruptant DCTPA-1 showed growth delay, and the amount of citric acid produced by strain DCTPA-1 was smaller than that by parental strain WU-2223L. These results indicate that the CTPA affects growth and thereby citric acid metabolism of A. niger changes, especially in early-log phase, but not citric acid-producing period. This is the first report showing that disruption of ctpA causes changes of phenotypes in relation to citric acid production in A. niger.
Reconceptualizing the U.S. strategic food safety system
Authors: Wang Chao-shih "Jake" , Van Fleet David D. 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
To introduce an innovative communicative platform to be constructed to facilitate food hazard communications as new policy initiatives shift the direction of food safety management from reaction to prevention..

Design/methodology/approach
Literature from economics and management is examined for concepts that would yield potential solutions to accomplish the purpose.

Findings
An innovative synthesis of four interrelated structural elements – resource, identity, standard, and knowledge (RISK) – is proposed as the framework for hazard communication.

Practical implications
Exchanges of food hazard knowledge and information among diverse stakeholders (consumers, suppliers, public agencies) in a complex environment requires an information architecture, a “knowledge warehouse,” that explicitly organizes interactive elements in social networks to facilitate knowledge communication among those stakeholders.

Originality/value
Drawing upon the management literature and merging it with concepts from economics yields unique perspectives, creating value and contributing to a more effective and efficient market-based food safety system.
Meta-analysis of U.S. intermediated food markets: Measuring what matters
Authors: Angelo Blake E. , Jablonski Becca B.R. , Thilmany Dawn 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
A body of literature and case studies has developed as part of the reporting, outreach and evaluation of the local and regional food system projects supported by grants and other funders. Yet, there is concern that food value chains are promoted without adequately evaluating the viability of these businesses, or how these markets affect the performance and welfare of key stakeholders: farm vendors and local communities/economies.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper reviews and summarizes a comprehensive set of U.S.-based case studies focused on food value chains. We conduct a meta-analysis to systematically capture what available case study evidence tells us about: 1) trends in the viability of food value chain businesses; 2) the impact of these businesses on participating farm vendors; and, 3) the associated community economic development outcomes (framed in terms of ‘wealth creation’).

Findings
In addition to sharing findings from the meta-analysis, we demonstrate how the lack of standardized protocols for case study development is a barrier to learning about metric comparisons, best practices, and what impacts these food value chain businesses may have. We conclude with some recommendations of how the field can move forward to evaluate and share lessons learned using more uniform, project-driven case study development.

Originality/value
This is the first study to conduct a systematic meta-analysis of U.S. food value chain businesses.
Culture matters: The influence of national culture on inclusion climate
Authors: Stoermer Sebastian , Hildisch Anna Katharina , Froese Fabian Jintae 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
This paper develops a conceptual model in order to increase our understanding of the influence of national culture on the relationship between organizational diversity and inclusion management and inclusion climate.

Design/methodology/approach
Based upon a comprehensive review of diversity and inclusion management literature, we develop a conceptual model.

Findings
The model delineates how national culture influences the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion management practices in establishing an inclusion climate. In particular, we propose that low power distance, high collectivism, low uncertainty avoidance, low masculinity, high long-term orientation, and high indulgence cultures serve as a fertile context for creating an inclusion climate. Furthermore, we discuss how cultural tightness-looseness amplifies or attenuates the effects of national culture.

Research limitations/implications
The paper extends our understanding of the antecedents and boundary conditions of creating an inclusion climate. Future research could provide empirical evidence for the proposed relationships.

Practical implications
The model creates an awareness of the ease or difficulty of establishing an inclusion climate through diversity and inclusion management practices across cultures. Recommendations for developing inclusion climates in various cultural settings are provided.

Originality/value
Our multi-level model enhances our understanding of how the cultural context, i.e. national cultural values and cultural tightness-looseness, influences the emergence of an organizational inclusion climate which is further suggested to positively influence organizational innovation.
Opening up collaboration and partnership possibilities
Authors: Harp Ziegenfuss Donna , Furse Cynthia 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe a unique case of a librarian–engineering faculty partnership grounded in a faculty development National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. Authors will describe processes, lessons learned, challenges and opportunities resulting from designing, implementing and evaluating a massive open online course (MOOC) focused on teaching faculty how to flip classes.

Design/methodology/approach
This case study presents a reflective review of the process of two unlikely collaborators who work together, write a grant, design faculty development training and develop and evaluate a MOOC. Decisions made, perspectives and lessons learned will be discussed.

Findings
The evolution of an NSF grant partnership involving an engineering faculty and librarian is presented. Larger issues, such as proactivity of librarians, non-traditional librarian roles and librarian versus academic identity, are raised and discussed.

Originality/value
This case study presents a unique type of librarian–faculty partnership, one where a librarian is a Co-PI on an NSF grant. Collaborator reflections on lessons learned, challenges and implications could be applicable to other digital/technology projects, online professional development initiatives and course design projects.
“Through the looking glass: envisioning new library technologies” social media trends that inform emerging technologies
Authors: Fernandez Peter 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore recent developments in a number of relatively well-established social media platforms – Google+, Facebook, Twitter and Yik Yak –to highlight the trends that are emerging within social media.

Design/methodology/approach
These trends have implications beyond just the social media space as a host of technologies take on social attributes.

Findings
Technologies such as video games, which previously functioned more or less as stand-alone pieces of software, are increasingly embracing many of the tools of social media platforms.

Practicalimplications
As a result, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish social technology from other communication technologies (Papacharissi, 2015).

Socialimplications
By examining trends in social media, we are able to not only better understand these important platforms but also acquire insight into developments that can affect a wide range of related technologies, all of which are of interest to information professionals.

Originality/value
Many of the examples the paper gave were drawn from the various social media platforms that mediate the personal and professional lives of their users.
What’s trending in libraries from the internet cybersphere – digital clutter
Authors: Oyelude Adetoun A. 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
This is the first edition of the column for 2016.

Design/methodology/approach
The vignettes from the Internet this year will be mainly from blogs.

Findings
This edition covers issues germane mainly to libraries, technology use and maintenance of digital devices used.

Research limitations/implications
Executives in the IT industry may be looking at three major issues in 2016.

Practical implications
More often than not, internal vulnerabilities exceed external security threats.

Social implications
Businesses must define and set the standards of what good and bad security practices look like.

Originality/value
IT teams should restrict the extent that outside devices can connect and roam around on proprietary corporate networks and also work to ensure that employees are educated on the company’s security policy.
Phase I study of pegylated interferon‐alpha‐2b as an adjuvant therapy in Japanese patients with malignant melanoma
Authors: Yamazaki Naoya , Uhara Hisashi , Wada Hidefumi , Matsuda Kenji , Yamamoto Keiko , Shimamoto Takashi , Kiyohara Yoshio 
Published: April 2016

AbstractIn the adjuvant setting for malignant melanoma, interferon (IFN)‐α‐2b and pegylated (PEG) IFN‐α‐2b were approved in several countries including the USA before these were approved in Japan. To resolve the “drug‐lag” issue, this phase I study was designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability in Japanese patients with stage II or III malignant melanoma who had undergone surgery, by treating with PEG IFN‐α‐2b. As with a previously reported phase III study, patients were to receive PEG IFN‐α‐2b 6 μg/kg per week s.c. during an 8‐week induction phase, followed by a maintenance phase at a dose of 3 μg/kg per week up to 5 years. Dose‐limiting toxicity and pharmacokinetics were assessed during the initial 8 weeks. Of the nine patients enrolled, two patients had dose‐limiting toxicities that resolved after discontinuation of treatment. The most frequently reported drug‐related adverse events (DRAE) included pyrexia, decreased neutrophil and white blood cell counts, and arthralgia. Grade 3 DRAE included decreased neutrophil count. No deaths, serious adverse events and grade 4 adverse events were reported. Distant metastasis occurred in one patient. No apparent differences in area under the concentration–time curve and maximum observed serum concentration were observed between Japanese and historical non‐Japanese pharmacokinetic data, suggesting no marked racial differences. No neutralizing antibody was detected in these patient samples. PEG IFN‐α‐2b was tolerated in Japanese patients, and eventually approved in Japan in May 2015 for adjuvant therapy in patients with stage III malignant melanoma. Because the number of patients was limited, further investigation would be crucial.
Destination Memory in Korsakoff's Syndrome
Authors: El Haj Mohamad , Kessels Roy P. C. , Matton Christian , Bacquet Jean‐Eudes , Urso Laurent , Cool Gaëlle , Guidez Florence , Potier Stéphanie , Nandrino Jean‐Louis , Antoine Pascal 
Published: April 2016

BackgroundContext memory, or the ability to remember the context in which an episodic event has occurred (e.g., where and when an event took place), has been found to be compromised in Korsakoff's syndrome. This study examined whether a similar deficit would be observed for destination memory, that is, the ability to remember to whom an information was previously transmitted.MethodsPatients with Korsakoff's syndrome and healthy controls were instructed to tell proverbs to pictures of celebrities. In a subsequent recognition test, they had to indicate to which celebrity they had previously told the proverbs. Participants also completed a neuropsychological battery including a binding task in which they were required to associate letters with their correspondent locations to assess context memory.ResultsResults showed worse binding and destination memory in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome than in controls. In the Korsakoff group, destination memory was significantly correlated with and predicted by performances on the binding task.ConclusionsThe binding process seems to be impaired in Korsakoff's syndrome, a deficit that may account for the destination memory compromise in the syndrome, and probably, for the difficulty to retrieve the “where and when” of an encountered event.
‘Is gestational diabetes a severe illness?’ exploring beliefs and self‐care behaviour among women with gestational diabetes living in a rural area of the south east of China
Authors: Ge Li , Wikby Kerstin , Rask Mikael 
Published: April 2016

AbstractObjectiveThis study explores beliefs about illness and health and self‐care behaviour among women with gestational diabetes living in a rural area of the south east of China.DesignA qualitative exploratory study using semi‐structured interviews and qualitative content analysis.SettingA hospital located in the outskirts of a city in the south east of China.ParticipantsSeventeen women with gestational diabetes in 34–38th pregnant weeks.ResultsThe beliefs about gestational diabetes among the women in the present study were found to be bidirectional. Some of them feared the illness and its negative influence on health, while others believed that it was not a severe illness and disbelieved the diagnosis of gestational diabetes. They related their illness and health to the individual, social and natural factors. They mainly sought help from the professional sector, but did not fully comply with the professionals’ advice. Diet control and exercise were their main self‐care measures, but none of them self‐monitored their blood glucose. They demonstrated their misunderstanding about diet control and self‐monitoring of blood glucose.ConclusionsThis study highlighted the serious lack of knowledge, lower level of risk awareness and poor self‐care behaviour among women in this group. Health professionals were found to be the most important source of knowledge about gestational diabetes for these women. The influence of Chinese culture was demonstrated. Gestational diabetes among these women can most likely be improved by training the health professionals and by health education involving individuals, families and the rural communities.
Endocrine control of benign prostatic hyperplasia
Authors: La Vignera S. , Condorelli R. A. , Russo G. I. , Morgia G. , Calogero A. E. 
Published: April 2016

SummaryBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common benign proliferative disease among aging men. Androgens play a key role in the development and growth of the male genital tract favoring differentiation and proliferation of stromal and epithelial cells of the prostate gland. It is known that growth factors play a crucial role in the cross‐talk between stromal cells and epithelial cells. These factors, mainly secreted by stromal cells, act in an autocrine/paracrine manner to maintain prostate cellular homeostasis. A number of experimental studies support the interdependence between growth factors (IGF, FGF, TGF) and the steroid hormone milieu of the prostate. Alterations of these interactions may alter the balance between proliferation and cell death leading to the development of BPH. The onset of BPH is closely related to an inflammatory microenvironment. Chronic inflammation, which generally follows the acute inflammation because of infectious agents, is favored by hormonal or metabolic abnormalities. However, a close correlation between these mechanisms and metabolic or sexual hormones (androgen/estrogen ratio) alteration has been shown suggesting a key role of hypogonadism in the development of prostate inflammation. This review clear shows that the BPH pathogenesis and the subsequent onset of the lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) depends from different etio‐pathogenetic factors whose mechanism of action remains to be evaluated.
Low‐dose effects of bisphenol A on mammary gland development in rats
Authors: Mandrup K. , Boberg J. , Isling L. K. , Christiansen S. , Hass U. 
Published: April 2016

SummaryBisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in food contact materials, toys, and other products. Several studies have indicated that effects observed at doses near human exposure levels may not be observed at higher doses. Many studies have shown effects on mammary glands at low doses of BPA, however, because of small number of animals or few doses investigated these data have not been used by EFSA as point of departure for the newly assessed tolerable daily intake (TDI). We performed a study with perinatal exposure to BPA (0, 0.025, 0.25, 5, and 50 mg/kg bw/day) in rats (n = 22 mated/group). One of the aims was to perform a study robust enough to contribute to the risk assessment of BPA and to elucidate possible biphasic dose–response relationships. We investigated mammary gland effects in the offspring at 22, 100, and 400 days of age. Male offspring showed increased mammary outgrowth on pup day (PD) 22 at 0.025 mg/kg BPA, indicating an increased mammary development at this low dose only. Increased prevalence of intraductal hyperplasia was observed in BPA females exposed to 0.25 mg/kg at PD 400, but not at PD 100, and not at higher or lower doses. The present findings support data from the published literature showing that perinatal exposure to BPA can induce increased mammary growth and proliferative lesions in rodents. Our results indicate that low‐dose exposure to BPA can affect mammary gland development in male and female rats, although higher doses show a different pattern of effects. The observed intraductal hyperplasia in female rats could be associated with an increased risk for developing hyperplastic lesions, which are parallels to early signs of breast neoplasia in women. Collectively, current knowledge on effects of BPA on mammary gland at low doses indicates that highly exposed humans may not be sufficiently protected.