bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Ebola virus proteins NP, VP35, and VP24 are essential and sufficient to mediate nucleocapsid transport
Authors: Takamatsu Yuki , Kolesnikova Larissa , Becker Stephan 
Published: January 2018

Significance
Large complexes composed of the viral genome encapsidated by viral proteins (capsid or nucleocapsid) need to be transported from the sites of viral genome synthesis to the sites of budding within infected cells. For the highly pathogenic Ebola virus, as for many other viruses, it is not completely understood how this transport is accomplished and which viral components are necessary for transport-competent nucleocapsids. Using live-cell imaging in combination with a surrogate system to analyze nucleocapsid transport under biosafety level 2 conditions, we show that the Ebola virus proteins nucleoprotein, VP35, and VP24 are necessary and sufficient to form transport-competent nucleocapsids. The technical approach developed here is applicable to study the transport of other viruses and to characterize antivirals.
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity
Authors: Beaty Roger E. , Kenett Yoed N. , Christensen Alexander P. , Rosenberg Monica D. , Benedek Mathias , Chen Qunlin , Fink Andreas , Qiu Jiang , Kwapil Thomas R. , Kane Michael J. , Silvia Paul J. 
Published: January 2018

Significance
People’s capacity to generate creative ideas is central to technological and cultural progress. Despite advances in the neuroscience of creativity, the field lacks clarity on whether a specific neural architecture distinguishes the highly creative brain. Using methods in network neuroscience, we modeled individual creative thinking ability as a function of variation in whole-brain functional connectivity. We identified a brain network associated with creative ability comprised of regions within default, salience, and executive systems—neural circuits that often work in opposition. Across four independent datasets, we show that a person’s capacity to generate original ideas can be reliably predicted from the strength of functional connectivity within this network, indicating that creative thinking ability is characterized by a distinct brain connectivity profile.
Confirmation of intersubunit connectivity and topology of designed protein complexes by native MS
Authors: Sahasrabuddhe Aniruddha , Hsia Yang , Busch Florian , Sheffler William , King Neil P. , Baker David , Wysocki Vicki H. 
Published: January 2018

Significance
Recent advancements in computational protein design have enabled the generation of proteins and protein complexes that are not present in nature. A current major limitation of the research is in the subsequent structural characterization. The commonly used techniques—X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and cryo-EM—are time- and resource-consuming and heavily rely on sample quantity and quality. These limitations are particularly problematic for protein complexes. In this work, we show the applicability of native MS ion mobility coupled with surface-induced dissociation as a structural biology screening tool for designed proteins. We show that information about stoichiometry, intersubunit connectivity, and complex topology is rapidly gained by this SID-IM-MS methodology.
Communication in context: Interpreting promises in an experiment on competition and trust
Authors: Casella Alessandra , Kartik Navin , Sanchez Luis , Turban Sébastien 
Published: January 2018

Significance
Does competition increase deception? Competition is likely to induce inflated promises, but are these promises believed, and are they followed through? We argue that the question requires care in the definition of deception. We report on an experiment where competition does indeed inflate promises, but the promises are neither believed literally nor discarded. Bigger promises are interpreted by both sides as signals of equitable intentions, without being meant or read literally. Behavior does not follow the letter of the promise, but we argue that the deviation is not perceived as deception—the language code has changed. Analyses of competition, deception, and trust need to take into account the shared understanding of the message itself.
The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement
Authors: Preston Samuel H. , Vierboom Yana C. , Stokes Andrew 
Published: January 2018

Significance
Some have speculated that the rising prevalence of obesity may explain why the rate of mortality improvement in the United States has declined relative to other wealthy countries. This paper estimates that rising body mass index (BMI) has reduced the annual rate of improvement in US death rates between 1988 and 2011 by more than half a percentage point—equivalent to a 23% relative reduction in the rate of mortality decline—a large amount by international standards. The increase in BMI has reduced life expectancy at age 40 by 0.9 years in 2011 and accounted for 186,000 excess deaths that year. Rising BMI has prevented the United States from enjoying the full benefits of factors working to improve mortality.
Projecting one’s own spatial bias onto others during a theory-of-mind task
Authors: Bio Branden J. , Webb Taylor W. , Graziano Michael S. A. 
Published: January 2018

Significance
Most people have an intrinsic spatial bias—many are better at processing objects to the left, whereas some are biased to the right. Here, we found that this subtle bias in one’s own awareness is mirrored in one’s ability to process what is likely to be in other people’s minds. If you are biased toward processing your own right side of space, then you may be faster at recognizing when someone else processes an object to his or her right side. One possible interpretation is that we process the space around us, and understand how others process the space around them, using at least partially shared mechanisms.
Theorizing corporate-community relationships and the role of contextual factors in peacebuilding and beyond
Authors: Connaughton Stacey L. , Vibber Kelly S. , Krishna Arunima , Linabary Jasmine R. , Štumberger Neva 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The concept of relationships is one that is central to numerous subfields within communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and public relations. This conceptual paper investigates the notion of relationships and proposes a framework to understand and explicate corporate-community relationships (CCRs), a specific type of organization-public relationships (OPRs). In developing this framework, we draw upon existing literature and our experiences in Liberia related to natural resource management (NRM) as part of a multi-year collaborative peacebuilding initiative. We advance a framework of CCRs that (a) helps develop further empirical research and knowledge about these relationships and (b) contributes to the practice of more transformative relationships between Western and Asian multinational corporations (MNCs) and local communities in West Africa and beyond. This framework puts forth our conceptualization of CCRs as (a) constituted by the communicative, (b) dynamic, constantly influenced by macro and micro factors, and (c) complex. Drawing on our framework, we also advance some guiding questions for a research agenda in this area.
Language/sexuality/affect
Authors: Leap William L. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The papers in this special issue examine the relationships between language, sexuality and affect. Using examples of language use from Argentine cinema, bounce music performance, a university classroom, a BDSM community, and Black women’s urban queer space, the papers show how various forms of linguistic practice allow affect to remain comfortably nested on “the cusp of semantic availability” (Williams 1977: 134), rather than being reduced to tightly defined categories or messages. The discussions of these examples also show how various forms of linguistic practice allow sexuality to unfold as a messy formation (Giffney 2009, Manalansan 2014), thereby remaining resistant to boundaries and precise definitions. The basis for these parallels between affect and sexuality are explored in these papers, as are their implications for future studies of language, affect, and sexuality.
New Orleans bounce music, sexuality, and affect
Authors: Casey Christina Schoux 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This article explores how language, sexuality, and affect are circuited in New
Orleans bounce music. Bounce features lyrics that characterize the performers as
queer, describe sex explicitly, celebrate sex between male-bodied people, and
expose the hypocrisy of straight-acting men. Bounce lyrics are just one element
of bounce performances, however, which consist of the reciprocal relationship
between the dancers in the audience, the intensity of the MC’s exhortations, and
the rhythm of the backing musical track. Bounce performances create a fleeting
community of artists, bodies and music that is less about the expression of
discrete sociodemographic categories, and more about a collective affective
event. Using ideas of relationality from queer and affect theory, and
Stallybrass and White’s “high/low” cultural hierarchies, this article shows how
bounce challenges normative ideas about the autonomous ‘speaking subject,’ and
supports a messier understanding of the self as affectively relational.
“I don’t mean to be a dick, but”
Authors: Cooper Audrey C. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article explores the significance of paralipsis to analyses of affect and sociopolitical formation. Taking attested utterances from undergraduate anthropology courses as a point of departure, I examine how one White and female-identified student engaged in a sexualized form of paralipsis to claim distance from her own negative construal of the object-category “girls [that brag about community service].” Deploying what I termdick-rhetoric, in combination with strong affect and assertions of ideological common-sense, this student’s performance was effective at garnering stance ratification and “uptake” from classmates (Jaffe 2009), and facilitating the reproduction of gender and sexual hierarchies. Drawing onBrowne’s (2015)examination of denied racial subjectivity or “dark matter,” I argue that “dick matter” renders genderism and sexual objectification acceptable in university classrooms (among regimes, e.g., racial) – particularly for settings where professors do not engage students in critical exploration of dominant hierarchies and normalization processes. Discussion emphasizes the salience of engaging (ourselves and) students in examination of uses of paralipsis and dick-rhetoric for addressing gender and sexual inequalities.
Associative networks from L2 words in early and late Vietnamese-English bilinguals
Authors: Huynh Juliet , Witzel Naoko 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis study investigates whether highly-proficient Vietnamese-English bilinguals can activate associations in a native-like way from studying L2 words, whether these L2 associations interact with L1 words, and whether this depends on when they started learning L2 English. The results suggest that early bilinguals have native-like L2 English associative networks and these networks are interconnected with L1 Vietnamese words. Late bilinguals, in contrast, seem to indicate that their L2 English associative networks might be activated less automatically, and they are not so strongly connected with L1 words. This pattern of results are discussed in terms of how age of L2 exposure might affect the development of L2 associative networks.
Early and late learners decompose inflected nouns, but can they tell which ones are inflected correctly?
Authors: Gor Kira , Chrabaszcz Anna , Cook Svetlana 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
An auditory lexical decision task tests morphological decomposition and sensitivity to violations in inflection in late second language
learners, early learners (heritage speakers), and native speakers of Russian. Two datasets compared reaction times and error rates to real
Russian inflected nouns and nonce nouns. Two parameters of real nouns were manipulated: case (the nominative, or the oblique case), and
inflection (overt or zero). Nonce nouns had (a) real stems and inflections combined in an illegal way (lemoning), and (b)
inflected nonce stems (lemosing). Results suggest that heritage and late learners process inflectional morphology; however,
their processing of inflected words is unreliable: they are willing to accept words with incongruent inflections. While no major differences
were found in the processing patterns of early and late learners, a developmental trajectory was observed in both groups of learners: their
sensitivity to violations in inflection improved with proficiency.
Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals
Authors: Dupuy Ludivine , Stateva Penka , Andreetta Sara , Cheylus Anne , Déprez Viviane , van der Henst Jean-Baptiste , Jayez Jacques , Stepanov Arthur , Reboul Anne 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant increase in pragmatic responses in early bilingual children (preschoolers) relative to monolinguals (Siegal et al., 2007), while another (Antoniou and Katsos, 2017), testing school children, does not. We tested adult French L2 learners of English and Spanish (in their two languages) as well as French monolingual controls in Experiment 1 and Italian-Slovenian early bilingual children (in both languages) and Slovenian monolingual controls in Experiment 2. Our results were similar to those of Antoniou and Katsos (2017) in early bilingual children, but different from those of Siegal et al. (2007). We found no pragmatic bias in adult L2 leaners relative to adult monolinguals.
Esperanto as a tool in classroom foreign language learning in England
Authors: Roehr-Brackin Karen , Tellier Angela 
Published: January 2018

AbstractPrevious work has examined the potential of Esperanto as a pedagogical tool in classroom foreign language learning in England, where limited language input of sometimes as little as one hour per week is the norm. The work reviewed here focuses on child learners aged 6 to 12 and was carried out between 2006 and 2016. Two Esperanto-based language awareness programmes have provided primarily descriptive insights, suggesting that learning Esperanto may result in greater metalinguistic awareness and more positive attitudes to other languages and cultures. However, the language awareness programmes were implemented without matched comparison groups and therefore could not reveal whether the learning of Esperanto would lead to different results than the learning of other languages. Classroom-based research that included matched comparison groups has sought to address this issue. Specifically, three studies investigated the questions of whether learning Esperanto as opposed to learning other languages would help enhance children’s metalinguistic awareness and thus contribute in turn to more successful learning in a limited-input classroom context. On the one hand, results indicate that for novice child learners, Esperanto was easier to learn than French, and that learning Esperanto may have a levelling effect that compensates for individual differences between children. On the other hand, the findings also show that these apparent advantages of Esperanto did not translate into measurably greater benefits for the development of metalinguistic awareness, or greater subsequent success in learning another foreign language. Moreover, learning Esperanto could not compensate for low language learning aptitude. In view of these sobering results, a number of proposals are made on how to take forward the research agenda. These proposals include further research into the potential benefits of using form-focused instruction (based on any language) with children as well as the effects of learning Esperanto in novice adult learners.
The afterlife of an infamous gaffe
Authors: Musolff Andreas 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Kaiser Wilhelm II’s speech to a German contingent of the international expedition corps, sent to quell the so-called ‘Boxer Rebellion’ in 1900, is today remembered chiefly as an example of his penchant for boastful, sabre-rattling rhetoric that included a strange comparison of his soldiers with the ‘Huns under Attila’. According to some accounts, this comparison was the source for the stigmatizing label Hun(s) for Germans in British and US war propaganda in WW1 and WW2, which has survived in popular memory and continues to be used, though mainly in ironical senses, by British and German media to this day. This paper charts the history of the Germans-as-Huns analogy and argues first, that the usage data render highly improbable any ‘model’ function of Wilhelm’s speech for post-1914 uses. Furthermore, present-day uses presuppose an awareness of the WW1 and WW2 meaning on the part of readers, which serves as a platform for echoic allusions. In the British media these allusions often lead to the ironical (including self-ironical) subversion of preceding uses, while in German public discourse they focus more on historical commemoration and comparison.
Crossing languages – crossing discourses
Authors: Jaworska Sylvia , Leuschner Torsten 
Published: January 2018

AbstractRecent studies concerned with historical Germanisms have shown that public discourses in other languages often appropriate German loanwords as frames of reference to interpret political realities and influence collective attitudes. This paper intends to contribute to this new strand of research by investigating discursive transpositions of the historical GermanismKulturkampfin the donor language, German, and two host languages, Polish and English. Originally used mainly in reference to government attempts to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church in Prussia/Germany in the 1870s, this term has come to be used in German and other languages to signify conflicts in various political and cultural contexts. Adopting a triangulated and trilateral approach and the method of corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS), this paper examines the use ofKulturkampfin large collections of Internet and newspaper data in German, English and Polish. The results show how the meaning ofKulturkampfhas been discursively re-contextualised and appropriated to perform local ideological work in public discourses in the three different cultural contexts.
Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
Authors: Badarneh Muhammad A. , Al-Momani Kawakib , Migdadi Fathi 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model byCulpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications inCulpeper et al. (2003)andCulpeper (2005), and its alignment withSpencer-Oatey’s (2002)concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, through code-switching to English were identified in the data. Positive impoliteness and negative impoliteness strategies were employed through using English, sometimes in conjunction with Arabic impoliteness resources. Furthermore, English was used as an indirect impoliteness strategy to do off-record impoliteness to convey impolite beliefs about a third party or a particular state of affairs. These acts of impoliteness were mainly countered defensively by ignoring the attack or offensively through countering the implied face attack with face attack.
Gender marking in written L2 French
Authors: Edmonds Amanda , Gudmestad Aarnes 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine how a group of 20 learners of second-language French express gender marking in three written
tasks administered over the course of 21 months, including an academic year abroad. All full nouns modified by either a determiner
or an adjective overtly marked for gender were analyzed (n = 1,601), and each token was coded for a set of
extralinguistic and linguistic features identified in previous literature as playing a role in gender marking. The analysis
reveals that targetlike rates of use increased between pre-stay testing and in-stay testing, and that levels were maintained at
post-stay. In addition, three factors – time, noun gender, and syllable distance – were found to significantly
characterize behavior with respect to gender marking.
Assessing the influence of the English language on the professional vocabulary of Croatian dental students by analysing their word choice for the translation of medical/dental terms
Authors: Vuletić Lea , Špalj Stjepan , Peroš Kristina , Jakovac Hrvoje , Ostroški Anić Ana , Vodanović Marin 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This study was performed to investigate the influence of the English language on the medical/dental terminology of Croatian dental students. It emerged from the terminological projects of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb that had been conducted as a part of the national programme the Development of Croatian Special Field Terminology. Students were asked to translate English sentences allegedly extracted from dental literature into Croatian. The results showed that most students translated the offered English terms using anglicisms rather than choosing Croatian terms. The finding that students distinctively prefer professional literature in Croatian suggests that their professional vocabulary is mostly modelled by the Croatian educational materials and by the discourse of instruction. These results suggest the need for further activities concerning the popularization of Croatian medical/dental terminology for the purpose of preservation and development of a native professional vocabulary and of improving communication with patients and patients’ understanding of medical information.
Studying the language of Dutch audio description
Authors: Reviers Nina 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The present paper aims to combine insights from Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodality Research and Audiovisual Translation Studies in order to explore language use in a specific form of audiovisual translation, namely Audio Description (AD) for the blind and visually impaired. It is said that the communicative function of ADs and their multimodal context have a significant influence on the lexical, grammatical and syntactical choices describers make. This article aims to uncover these idiosyncratic linguistic patterns by conducting a quantitative and qualitative analysis of an annotated, audiovisual corpus of 39 Dutch films and series that have been released with AD in Flanders and the Netherlands. The paper analyses frequency lists, keywords, part-of-speech distributions and type-token ratios statistically and subsequently conducts a qualitative analysis taking systemic functional linguistics as a theoretical framework. The results confirm the hypothesis that the language of AD is idiosyncratic and highlight the most salient lexico-grammatical features characterising the language of Dutch AD.