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Male tarantula spiders’ reactions to light and odours reveal their motor asymmetry
Authors: Ruhland F. , Caudal J.‐P. , Blois‐Heulin C. , Trabalon M. 
Published: October 2016

AbstractMany vertebrates present behavioural asymmetries (i.e. functional and/or structural specializations of left and right sides of the brain); however, evidence for arthropods is scarce. Some behavioural asymmetries can be correlated with morphology. A better understanding of behavioural asymmetries would be a crucial step to understand the evolution of brain asymmetries. Here, we investigated behavioural asymmetries of adult males of a mygalomorph Brachypelma albopilosum. First, as the time budgets of these active hunting spiders had not yet been documented, we established the temporal distribution of males’ motor activity to be able to test them when they were active. Their motor activity peaks during the night and again early morning (around 3 h and 10 h local time). Then, choice tests in a T‐maze assessed the effects of light and of odours separately. Our results revealed that male tarantulas’ activity increased when they perceived light or the odour of conspecific females. Latencies to enter into the T‐maze were shorter when a light cue was present and even shorter when odour cues (of prey or of conspecifics) were present. Choice between two identical cues (light or female odours) in a T‐maze revealed, for the first time, their right behavioural laterality. Surprisingly, no significant external morphological differences could be evidenced between left and right eyes, lengths of the first legs or densities of mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors on the tarsi of males’ first legs to suggest perceptual asymmetry supporting this behavioural asymmetry. This is the first report concerning tarantulas’ behavioural laterality.
Strong coupling from the QCD static energy
Authors: Vairo Antonio 
Published: October 2016

We review the determination of [Formula: see text] that follows from comparing at short distances the QCD static energy at three loops and resummation of the next-to-next-to leading logarithms with its determination in 2+1-flavor lattice QCD provided by the HotQCD collaboration. The result that we obtain is [Formula: see text](1.5 GeV) = 0.336[Formula: see text], corresponding to [Formula: see text](MZ) = 0.1166[Formula: see text]. We outline future possible developments.
Effects of Budesonide on Cabazitaxel Pharmacokinetics and Cabazitaxel-Induced Diarrhea: A Randomized, Open-Label Multicenter Phase II Study
Authors: Nieuweboer Annemieke J.M. , de Graan Anne-Joy M. , Hamberg Paul , Bins Sander , van Soest Robert J. , van Alphen Robbert J. , Bergman Andries M. , Beeker Aart , van Halteren Henk , ten Tije Albert J. , Zuetenhorst Hanneke , van der Meer Nelly , Chitu Dana , de Wit Ronald , Mathijssen Ron H.J. 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
Purpose: Forty-seven percent of patients in the pivotal trial of cabazitaxel reported diarrhea of any grade. Aiming to reduce the incidence of diarrhea, we studied the effects of budesonide on the grade of cabazitaxel-induced diarrhea during the first two treatment cycles.
Experimental Design: Between December 2011 and October 2015, 246 metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients were randomized to receive standard-of-care cabazitaxel 25 mg/m2 every 3 weeks plus prednisone 10 mg/day (group CABA) or same dose/schedule of cabazitaxel with concomitant budesonide 9 mg daily during the first two treatment cycles (group BUD). The occurrence of diarrhea was reported by physicians and by patients in a diary. χ2 tests were used to compare incidence numbers. An intention-to-treat principle was used.
Results: In the phase II trial, 227 patients were evaluable. Grade 2–3 diarrhea occurred in 35 patients (15%) and grade 4 diarrhea was not reported. The incidence of grade 2–3 diarrhea was comparable in both treatment groups: 14 of 113 patients in group CABA (12%) versus 21 of 114 patients in group BUD (18%; P = 0.21). Seven patients were admitted to the hospital with diarrhea (n = 5 group CABA vs. n = 2 group BUD). PSA response was seen in 30% of patients and was not affected by budesonide coadministration (P = 0.29). Also, other toxicities were not affected by budesonide coadministration.
Conclusions: The incidence of cabazitaxel-induced diarrhea was notably lower than reported in the TROPIC trial and appears manageable in routine clinical practice. Budesonide coadministration did not reduce the incidence or severity of cabazitaxel-induced diarrhea. Clin Cancer Res; 23(7); 1679–83. ©2016 AACR.
Les Termes D'adresse Dans Les Operas Des Yuan (XIIIe Et XIVe Siecles)
Authors: Peyraube Alain 
Published: October 2016

The corpus of this study includes thirty-four operas of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) : literature in spoken language and which spreads over a relatively short period of time.The prinaipal option of address in Yuan drama is, like in contemporay Chinese, the choice between 1) use of kinship terms (KT), use of titles (T), 3) use of the last name (LN) and/or the first name (FN) of the addressee. KT are used muah more frequently ly popular classes. The T mode of address is used almost exclusively inside the Court. T are slightly more frequent than KT in the milieu of mandarins and courtesans.The KT can be used within the family or outside the family. Within the family, the generation relationship between the speaker and the addressee and the age criterion are essential for the choice of KT. Outside the family, age and even generation relation ships are of little importance. Social status is essential. The others parameters (respect, intimacy, etc.) are also important.T are theortically reserved for strangers or people whom one knows but not intimately. If the addressee of a specific title is an intimate friend or companion of the speaker, it means that considerable respect exists between the two persons, or that their milieu is marked by very strict social conventions as in the Imperial Court.Except under particular circumstances, the formula LN and for FN is used by a superior to address an inferior. More foten than not, the LN and FN formula indicates a certain annoyance or an obvious lock of respect. One never addresses a superior or an elder by his given name alone. The term is reserved for domestics and maids, between good friends, between husband and wife, and for parents to address their children.
Telehealth: Acceptability, clinical interventions and quality of life in peritoneal dialysis
Authors: Dey Vishal , Jones Audrey , Spalding Elaine M 
Published: October 2016

Introduction: Telehealth technologies are being widely adopted across the globe for management of long-term conditions. There are limited data on its use, effectiveness and patient experience in end-stage renal disease. The aim of this pilot project was to explore patient acceptability of technology and evaluate its effect on clinical interventions and quality of life in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Methods: Peritoneal dialysis patients were provided with computer tablets (PODs). PODs contained a knowledge database with treatment- and symptom-based questionnaires that generated alerts for the clinical team. Alerts were reviewed daily and followed up by a telephone call or clinic visit. Interventions were at the discretion of clinicians. Data were recorded prospectively and quality of life and Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology questionnaires evaluated at the start and end of the programme. Results: In all, 22 patients have participated over 15 months. The mean age was 61.6 years and PODs were utilised for an average of 341.9 days with 59.1% choosing to continue beyond the study period. We received a total of 1195 alerts with an average of 2.6 alerts per day. A total of 36 admissions were avoided and patients supported to self-manage on 154 occasions. Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology scores remained high throughout the programme although no improvement in quality of life was seen. Discussion: Telehealth is useful to monitor patients with renal failure on peritoneal dialysis. It is acceptable across age groups and provides an additional resource for patients to self-manage. Satisfaction scores and retention rates suggest a high level of acceptability.
Wolbachiaincreases the susceptibility of a parasitoid wasp to hyperparasitism
Authors: van Nouhuys Saskya , Kohonen Minna , Duplouy Anne 
Published: October 2016

ABSTRACTThe success of maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria, such as Wolbachia, is directly linked to their host reproduction but in direct conflict with other parasites that kill the host before it reaches reproductive maturity. Therefore, symbionts that have evolved strategies to increase their host’s ability to evade lethal parasites may have high penetrance, while detrimental symbionts would be selected against, leading to lower penetrance or extinction from the host population. In a natural population of the parasitoid wasp Hyposoter horticola in the Åland Islands (Finland), the Wolbachia strain wHho persists at an intermediate prevalence (∼50%). Additionally, there is a negative correlation between the prevalence of Wolbachia and a hyperparasitoid wasp, Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus, in the landscape. Using a manipulative field experiment, we addressed the persistence of Wolbachia at this intermediate level, and tested whether the observed negative correlation could be due to Wolbachia inducing either susceptibility or resistance to parasitism. We show that infection with Wolbachia does not influence the ability of the wasp to parasitize its butterfly host, Melitaea cinxia, but that hyperparasitism of the wasp increases in the presence of wHho. Consequently, the symbiont is detrimental, and in order to persist in the host population, must also have a positive effect on fitness that outweighs the costly burden of susceptibility to widespread parasitism.
Metabolic recovery from drowning by insect pupae
Authors: Woods H. Arthur , Lane Steven J. 
Published: October 2016

ABSTRACT
Many terrestrial insects live in environments that flood intermittently, and some life stages may spend days underwater without access to oxygen. We tested the hypothesis that terrestrial insects with underground pupae show respiratory adaptations for surviving anoxia and subsequently reestablishing normal patterns of respiration. Pupae of Manduca sexta were experimentally immersed in water for between 0 and 13 days. All pupae survived up to 5 days of immersion regardless of whether the water was aerated or anoxic. By contrast, fifth-instar larvae survived a maximum of 4 h of immersion. There were no effects of immersion during the pupal period on adult size and morphology. After immersion, pupae initially emitted large pulses of CO2. After a subsequent trough in CO2 emission, spiracular activity resumed and average levels of CO2 emission were then elevated for approximately 1 day in the group immersed for 1 day and for at least 2 days in the 3- and 5-day immersion treatments. Although patterns of CO2 emission were diverse, most pupae went through a period during which they emitted CO2 in a cyclic pattern with periods of 0.78–2.2 min. These high-frequency cycles are not predicted by the recent models of Förster and Hetz (2010) and Grieshaber and Terblanche (2015), and we suggest several potential ways to reconcile the models with our observations. During immersion, pupae accumulated lactate, which then declined to low levels over 12–48 h. Pupae in the 3- and 5-day immersion groups still had elevated rates of CO2 emission after 48 h, suggesting that they continued to spend energy on reestablishing homeostasis even after lactate had returned to low levels. Despite their status as terrestrial insects, pupae of M. sexta can withstand long periods of immersion and anoxia and can reestablish homeostasis subsequently.
HR-Management Practices and HR-Efficiency in Leading Food Retails in Russia
Authors: Нагибина  , Nagibina N. 
Published: October 2016

The study of a competitive advantage of the company, which is hard to copy and which belongs to HR-management along with HR-efficiency, is of great interest
in the environment of growing competition. Rapid growth of federal food retails which promote modern trade formats on the market sets new management
challenges for the management of local regional food retails which aim at the increase of business efficiency. The openness of national leading food retails to their
investors, partners and employees allowed us to study their HR-practices and evaluate their HR-efficiency. Calculations of labour efficiency indices have been made
based on the economical and HR-indices presented in the annual reports for 2014. The use of benchmarking in HR sets guidelines for developing current approaches
to human resource management and target HR-indices for the food retails management.
The Challenges of the Modes of Agrippa
Authors: Bullock Joseph B. 
Published: October 2016

AbstractThe standard “gladiatorial” interpretation of the Modes of Agrippa has undergone several recent attacks. Scholars have criticized it because it seems to portray the skeptic as a dogmatist about logical support and because it does not treat all five Modes as part of the system. Although some have attempted to patch up the standard interpretation to address these issues, I raise a further problem: The gladiatorial interpretation cannot make sense of the skeptic using the Modes on herself, to suspend her own judgment. In light of these problems, I propose a fresh interpretation: The Agrippan Modes should be understood, not as arguments (or argument forms), but as types of dialectical challenge that the skeptic can use in an endless inquiry into any dogmatic position.
Video-based detection of device interaction in the operating room
Authors: Rockstroh Max , Wittig Marco , Franke Stefan , Meixensberger Jürgen , Neumuth Thomas 
Published: October 2016

AbstractThe establishment of modern workflow management technologies requires the integration of dated devices. The extraction of the essential device data and usage time spans is a central requirement for an integrated OR environment. Therefore, methods are required that extract such information from the output provided by older generation devices, namely video signals. We developed a four-level approach for video-based device information extraction. Usually, video streams contain all relevant patient data and device usage information. We propose an approach consisting of defining regions of interest, grabbing video signals, analyzing the signals and storing the data in a centralized and structured location. The analysis considers textual information and graphical visualization. A prototype of the analysis approach was implemented and applied to a neurosurgical case. An evaluation study was conducted to measure the performance of the approach on video recordings of real interventions. Three medical devices were considered: intraoperative ultrasound, neuro-navigation and microscope. Overall, recognition rates for device usage higher than 95% were obtained. The approach is not limited to a single surgical discipline and does not require modification of medical devices. Furthermore, the analysis of microscopic video streams expands the detectable aspects of the surgical workflow beyond the recognition of device usage.
Funktionen des literarischen Lesens zwischen Abitur und Studium
Authors: Dawidowski Christian 
Published: October 2016

AbstractThe goal of this study is to demonstrate the current status quo of reading functions that are imputed to literary reading between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. Of particular interest are such reading functions that claim validity in the context of teaching situations in schools and universities. To this end, the study defines in the first part the term »reading function« and distinguishes classifications in literary studies from those that operate in the interest of empirical social sciences and literary didactics. In the process, it becomes apparent that the classifications of literary studies as a rule presuppose ideal reception situations and recipients, whereas empirical social science studies are interested in the real process of reading. The results of empirical research have identified reading functions such as entertainment, fantasy development, the development of aesthetic sensibility, reinforcement of empathy, moral consciousness, and identity formation. Werner Graf formulated seven »modes of literary reception competency« that are likewise closely related to reading functions, including instrumental reading, intimate reading, reading as participation or aesthetic reading. In light of some criticisms of Graf’s method, but above all in light of the temporal distance (Graf’s interviews were conducted before the so-called »digital turn«), Graf’s approach is confronted with prognoses regarding the transformation of reading functions from the last ten years. The latter state that reading for information would increase at the expense of literary-aesthetic reading, that the emotional stakes of literary reading would largely be supplanted by media consumption, and that a class-based differentiation would take place. The testing of these prognoses proceeds using the example of a few recent studies with youths from the generation of »digital natives«.As a whole, the prognoses prove to be confirmed according to the recent studies presented here: reading functions are located more in relation to education and information, are in this way more extrinsically motivated and part of the (educational) performance mentality. In the private realm, media presumably offer a low-threshold alternative to obtain gratification in the field of entertainment and relaxation.
Exploring Narratives’ Powers of Emotional Persuasion through Character Involvement: A Working Heuristic
Authors: Lehnen Christine 
Published: October 2016

AbstractNarratives change people’s minds. This has been shown as early as forty-five years ago, but recently, the persuasive and emotional effects of narratives have received fresh attention, as well as emotions themselves. Both psychology and literature researchers have begun to investigate the particularities of the emotional functioning of narratives and how they persuade, i. e. influence attitudes through having readers experience emotions. Their research, combined with recent apprais­al theories of vicarious (i. e. other-oriented) emotions, indicates that the emotional effects of a narrative can be hypothesized about by critics through analyzing the text itself, i. e. the textual situations that characters are placed in and how the contextualized readers may simulate and appraise these situations. These findings, however, have not yet been turned into a workable heuristic which would allow literary critics to analyse textual narratives for their emotional and persuasive effect. I set out to do so in this paper.First, I summarize recent research conducted on and theories proposed for the emotional effect of character involvement in narratives. Especially noteworthy are Howard Sklar’sSklar’s approach incorporates an everyday understanding of ›sympathy‹, i. e. of feeling sorry or pity for someone. His study – forming a hypothesis through analysis, testing it empirically, and ensuring inter-coder-variability – is to be commended, I would argue, however, that sympathy covers only a small amount of the possible vicarious emotions a reader may feel while experiencing a narrative.Keen, the only one to use empathy, not sympathy, in her title, doubts that reading narratives (in particular high-brow literature) directly leads to acts of altruism. In her study, she does not primarily develop a heuristic for hypothesizing on empirical reader response, but deconstructs researchers’, readers’ and writers’ attitudes concerning narrative and empathy, and consequently proposes a heuristic for analyzing authorial strategies of empathy, which does not seem suitable for predicting contextualized reader response.Thus I turn to empirical research on narrative emotional persuasion (Ch. 2). Scholars concerned have found that narratives are more likely than expository texts to lead to attitude changes, and they have linked the degree (quantity) of attitude change to the degree ofI propose to operationalize the text-situated character-focused conditions of appraisal and the process of appraisal itself as follows:I then sketch an analysis of Suzanne Collins’ immensely successful ›dysto­pian‹ novel
Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production
Authors: Lundquist Björn , Rodina Yulia , Sekerina Irina A. , Westergaard Marit 
Published: October 2016

Abstract
This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the Tromsø (N=46) and Sortland (N=54) dialects participated in a Visual Word experiment. The task examined whether they used indefinite articles (en, ei, et) predictively to identify nouns during spoken-word recognition, and whether they produced feminine articles in an elicited production task. Results show that all speakers used the neuter indefinite article et as a predictive cue, but no speakers used the feminine ei predictively, regardless of whether they produced it or not. The masculine article en was used predictively only by the speakers who did not produce feminine gender forms. We hypothesize that in dialects where the feminine gender is disappearing, this change in the gender system affects comprehension first, even before speakers stop producing the feminine indefinite article.
Implementation of Analytical Control of Low Volume Pediatric Cytotoxic Drugs Preparations using a UV/Raman Spectrophotometer
Authors: Chouquet Thibaut , Benoit Guy , Morand Karine 
Published: October 2016

Abstract: Pediatric chemotherapy preparations are usually not analytically controlled, for several reasons. First, they are generally made in syringe, which does not allow to take a sample without changing the final volume. Secondly, the percentage of the dose consecrated to control is important and finally low concentrations can cause sensitivity problems. This lack of quality control, greatly reduces the security of the chemotherapy circuit.: The main objective is to develop an analytical control to low volume pediatric preparations, made in syringes or in infusion bags with a final volume from 20 to 50 mL.: The development of analytical control automatons, like QCPrep+: Our protocol implies the overfilling with one milliliter of solvent followed by a sampling of one milliliter. The analysis is performed with 900 µL. Ten cytotoxic drugs commonly used in pediatric oncology have been validated according to ICH recommendations. The development of analytical control for low volume preparations allows young patients to benefit the same level of safety and quality than adult patients.
Modeling threshold effects in stock price co-movements: a vector nonlinear cointegration approach
Authors: Chlibi Souhir , Jawadi Fredj , Sellami Mohamed 
Published: October 2016

AbstractThis paper studies the hypothesis of stock price comovements between the US market and three different regions [the G6, BRICS and MENA (Middle East North Africa)] during calm and crisis periods. It extends the study by (Chlibi, S., F. Jawadi, and M. Sellami. 2016. “Analyzing Heterogeneous Stock Price Comovements through Hybrid Approaches.”