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Quality of Wood‐Pressed Rapeseed Oil
Authors: Zhang Youfeng , Zhai Xinyu , Gao Li , Jin Jun , Zhong Qianhui , Sun Chenchen , Yan Linping , Liu Ruijie , Akoh Casimir C. , Jin Qingzhe , Wang Xingguo 
Published: April 2017

AbstractThis study is the first report on the quality indices of Chinese wood‐pressed rapeseed oil. Nineteen representative wood‐pressed rapeseed oil samples (representing 80% of the factories that produce this oil in China) were collected and investigated for their physicochemical properties (acid value, peroxide value, color value, and oxidative stability index), fatty acid composition, as well as contents of tocopherols, phytosterols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), aflatoxin B1, arsenic, and lead. Significant differences were observed in the quality results of 19 wood‐pressed rapeseed oil samples. The acid value, peroxide value, and color values, as well as the oxidative stability index were found in the ranges of 1.10–3.04 mg KOH/g, 0.84–9.34 mequiv O2/kg, 3.50–5.30 (Y = 35, R), and 4.43–10.34 h (120 °C), respectively. Sixteen of the analyzed oil samples had greater than 2% erucic acid. Tocopherols content ranged from 50.93 to 97.54 mg/100 g and phytosterols content ranged from 453.86 to 735.65 mg/100 g. Meanwhile, benzo[a]pyrene and PAH4 were 1.00–13.57 and 7.47–33.55 μg/kg, respectively. Fourteen samples exceeded the maximum allowable limit of benzo[a]pyrene and PAH4 (chrysene, benz[a]anthracene, benzo[b]fluroranthene, and benzo[a]pyrene) according to the European Union (EU) standards. However, the contents of aflatoxin B1, arsenic, and lead of the tested oil samples were all in conformance with the EU, Codex Alimentarius, and China national standards. Results showed that more attention should be paid to the problem of high PAH4 contents in wood‐pressed rapeseed oil. The inspection and monitoring of raw materials and processing equipment, as well as the establishment of quality standards for the production of high‐quality wood‐pressed rapeseed oil are necessary.
Longitudinal associations between the use of sexually explicit material and adolescents' attitudes and behaviors: A narrative review of studies
Authors: Koletić Goran 
Published: April 2017

ABSTRACTThis review analyzed longitudinal studies examining the effects of sexually explicit material on adolescents' attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. The review also aimed to provide an analysis of the limitations of the existing studies, as well as recommendations for future research. To be included, publications had to employ repeated measurements, include a measure of sexually explicit material use and participants aged 18 years or under. A total of 20 papers from nine different research projects were reviewed. The results show that sexually explicit material is associated with sexual behavior, sexual norms and attitudes, gender attitudes, self‐esteem, sexual satisfaction, uncertainty and preoccupancy. In addition, the studies reported developmental effects on adolescents' behavioral, cognitive and emotional well‐being. Because experimental studies among adolescents are not feasible, more methodologically rigorous longitudinal studies—followed by a meta‐analysis—are needed to further our understanding of the effects of sexually explicit material in this population.
Lateral migration of hydrocarbons as a possible mechanism of origin of their power-law distribution by mass
Authors: Livshits V.R. 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
This paper discusses the conditions under which the lateral migration of primary oil accumulations in the near-top part of a reservoir leads to their Pareto distribution by mass. It is shown that this power-law distribution holds in a wide range of reservoir porosity, permeability, and dip angle and does not depend on the individual characteristics of the petroliferous basin.
New data on the petroleum potential of the Aldan–Maya depression
Authors: Sobolev P.N. , Shiganova O.V. , Dykhan S.V. , Akhmedova A.R. 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The Vendian–Riphean section of the Ust’-Maiskaya-366 parametric well was studied. The well is the first deep well drilled in the central part of the Aldan–Maya depression, in the southeast of the Siberian Platform. New probable oil source rocks within the Upper and Middle Riphean deposits have been identified based on core analysis supported by geological-survey data. We make a geochemical description of organic matter from these deposits and report the composition of abundant migrated bitumens discovered in the Ust’-Maiskaya-366 well section. The petroleum content in the Aldan–Maya depression has been predicted with regard to the new geological and geochemical data.
Prospective study of dietary energy density and weight gain in a Japanese adult population
Authors: Sasaki K. M. , Wada K. , Zeredo J. L. L. , Nagata C. 
Published: April 2017

AbstractHigh dietary energy density (ED) has been associated with weight gain. However, little is known about the long-term effects of ED on weight changes among free-living subjects, particularly in Japanese and other Asian populations. In this study, we assessed dietary habits and weight changes in participants (5778 males and 7440 females, 35–69 years old) of the Takayama study. ED was estimated using a validated FFQ at baseline only. Information on body weight (BW) was obtained by self-administered questionnaires at baseline and follow-up. Mean BW difference in 9·8 years was 17 (se4221) g for men and −210 (se3889) g for women. In men, ED was positively associated with BW at follow-up after controlling for age, BW, height, physical activity score, alcohol consumption, energy intake, years of education at the baseline and change of smoking status during the follow-up. On average, men in the highest quartile of ED (>5·322 kJ/g (>1·272 kcal/g)) gained 138 (se111) g, whereas men in the lowest ED (<1·057) lost 22 (se111) g (Pfor trend=0·01). The association between ED and BW gain was stronger in men with normal weight. In women, the association between ED and weight change was not statistically significant. In conclusion, contrary to some studies that report an association between ED and weight gain in the overweight only, our data suggest that high-ED diets may be associated with weight gain in the lean population as well, at least in male subjects.
This Is Not a Turn: Canadian Political Science and Social Mechanisms
Authors: Paquet Mireille , Broschek Jörg 
Published: April 2017

AbstractMechanism-based explanations are gaining in popularity in the social sciences. Canadian political science has somewhat embraced these debates. Recent work has explicitly identified with mechanismic explanation and, at the same time, there is a point to be made about the compatibility of CPS's cannons with a mechanism-based understanding of causation. In this paper, we survey past and recent work aligned with this ontological approach. We demonstrate a heterogeneous engagement with the methodological literature regarding mechanisms and different understandings as well as uses of mechanisms in political analysis. This survey allows us to argue for the potential of mechanism-based explanations for CPS while also forcing us to advocate for a sober and discerning use of this approach.
SOCIOSEXUAL ROLES IN OTTOMAN PULP FICTION
Authors: Sayers David Selim 
Published: April 2017

AbstractThe sociosexual world of the premodern Middle East has been studied through a variety of sources ranging from legal documents to shadow theater. Most such sources are either prescriptive or transgressive: they uphold or subvert a normative framework, telling us more about the framework itself than about how it was inhabited by subjects in everyday life. This study introduces the Tıfli stories as a descriptive source that transcends the prescriptive–transgressive dichotomy. An Ottoman-Turkish genre of prose fiction produced at least from the 18th to the 20th century, the Tıfli stories were a protorealist form of “pulp fiction.” Where most sources sought to stabilize specific sociosexual roles, the Tıfli stories explored the ambiguities inherent in these roles. This study employs the Tıfli stories to interrogate understandings of the Ottoman sociosexual world that rely strongly on normative sources and to stage an approximation of how norms were negotiated in practice.
GHOSTLY LABOR: ETHNIC CLASSISM IN THE LEVANTINE PRISM OF JACQUELINE KAHANOFF'SJACOB'S LADDER
Authors: Kamal Amr 
Published: April 2017

AbstractIn her writings, the Egyptian-born Israeli author Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff advocated Levantine cosmopolitanism, which she dubbed Levantinism, as a unique cultural model particular to the Eastern Mediterranean. Through an analysis of Kahanoff's novelJacob's Ladder(1951), this article questions the nostalgic image often associated with Egyptian cosmopolitanism. I argue that this text provides rare insight into the process through which Levantine culture developed amid several competing imperial and nationalist projects. In particular, I show how the novel's depiction of Levantine spaces documents the marginalized role of the working class in the education of elite Levantine society and its acquisition of cultural capital. My analysis also explores how the construction and sustenance of a celebrated image of the Levantine past depended on the racialization of labor, or what I call “ethnic classism.” Through this latter process, a labor force made up of other cosmopolitan subjects was Orientalized and relegated to the background where it served to highlight a European-like Levantine cosmopolitanism.
Agrarian Forms of Islam:Mofussildiscourses on peasant religion in the Bengal delta during the 1920s
Authors: ALI TARIQ OMAR 
Published: April 2017

AbstractDuring the 1920s, a new genre of didactic poems prescribing the proper Islamic practice of everyday peasant lives were published out of printing presses in deltaic, eastern Bengal's small towns. This article argues that these printed poems constituted a discourse of agrarian Islam that prescribed reforms in peasant material life—work, commerce, consumption, attire, hairstyle, and patriarchal authority—as a means of ensuring the viability of peasants’ market-based livelihoods. The article examines the emergence of a small-town Muslim intelligentsia that authored and financed the publications of these poems out of the Bengal delta's small-town printing industry. Eschewing communalism as an analytical frame in understanding South Asian Muslim identities, this article argues that Bengali peasant Muslim subjectivity was located in peasant engagements with agrarian markets. Agrarian Islamic texts urged Muslim cultivators to be good Muslims and good peasants, by working hard, reducing consumption, and balancing household budgets.
The socio-economics of artisanal mining and bushmeat hunting around protected areas: Kahuzi–Biega National Park and Itombwe Nature Reserve, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Spira Charlotte , Kirkby Andrew , Kujirakwinja Deo , Plumptre Andrew J. 
Published: April 2017

AbstractIn the Democratic Republic of Congo artisanal and small-scale mining is estimated to provide a source of livelihood for 14–16% of the population, or 8–10 million people. In the eastern part of the country it is one of the main threats to large mammal species and their habitats, including forest elephantsLoxodonta cyclotisand great apes, such as the Critically Endangered Grauer's gorillaGorilla beringei graueriand the Endangered eastern chimpanzeePan troglodytes schweinfurthii. We used semi-structured questionnaires to survey mining communities in and around Kahuzi–Biega National Park and the Itombwe Nature Reserve to understand better the socio-economics of artisanal mining in the region, as well as the impacts of mining on bushmeat hunting. Minerals exploited at the sites surveyed included cassiterite, gold, coltan and wolframite, and most mines were controlled by armed groups. On average, miners earned significantly higher revenue than non-miners. However, mining was seen as a short-term activity and most miners were in favour of leaving the sector for better opportunities. Almost all respondents stated openly that they consumed bushmeat regularly because of the lack of alternatives and believed that bushmeat hunting had caused declines and local extinctions of some large mammal populations, including great apes. Respondents stated they would reduce their consumption of bushmeat if domestic meats became more available. We recommend that future interventions should target mine sites to address bushmeat hunting, by improving access to sustainable meat sources, establishing micro-financing mechanisms to help miners leave the mining sector, and working towards de-militarizing these sites to facilitate law enforcement.
Adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort
Authors: van Harmelen A.-L. , Kievit R. A. , Ioannidis K. , Neufeld S. , Jones P. B. , Bullmore E. , Dolan R. ,   The NSPN Consortium, Fonagy P. , Goodyer I. 
Published: April 2017

BackgroundAdolescence is a key time period for the emergence of psychosocial and mental health difficulties. To promote adolescent adaptive (‘resilient’) psychosocial functioning (PSF), appropriate conceptualisation and quantification of such functioning and its predictors is a crucial first step. Here, we quantify resilient functioning as the degree to which an individual functions better or worse than expected given their self-reported childhood family experiences, and relate this to adolescent family and friendship support.MethodWe used Principal Component and regression analyses to investigate the relationship between childhood family experiences and PSF (psychiatric symptomatology, personality traits and mental wellbeing) in healthy adolescents (the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network;N= 2389; ages 14–24). Residuals from the relation between childhood family experiences and PSF reflect resilient functioning; the degree to which an individual is functioning better, or worse, than expected given their childhood family experiences. Next, we relate family and friendship support with resilient functioning both cross-sectionally and 1 year later.ResultsFriendship and family support were positive predictors of immediate resilient PSF, with friendship support being the strongest predictor. However, whereas friendship support was a significant positive predictor oflaterresilient functioning,familysupport had anegativerelationship with later resilient PSF.ConclusionsWe show that friendship support, but not family support, is an important positive predictor of both immediate and later resilient PSF in adolescence and early adulthood. Interventions that promote the skills needed to acquire and sustain adolescent friendships may be crucial in increasing adolescent resilient PSF.
The Historiography of Crisis: Jordanes, Cassiodorus and Justinian in mid-sixth-century Constantinople
Authors: van Hoof Lieve , van Nuffelen Peter 
Published: April 2017

ABSTRACTThis article presents a new interpretation of the historiographical production of Jordanes by situating it in the political and social environment of Constantinople of the years 550–552. It argues that these years were a period of crisis in Justinian's reign and that this is reflected in the pessimistic view of Roman power and the critique of Justinian's military and religious policy we can see in Jordanes’Romana. If this prevents us from understanding Jordanes as a mouthpiece of the court, he cannot be reduced to a mere reproducer of Cassiodorus either: while there is more evidence for a close interaction between Jordanes and Cassiodorus (in particular the use of theHistoria Tripartitain theRomana) than usually adduced, this is balanced by Jordanes’ explicit attempts to keep his distance from the senator. If the latter can be explained by Jordanes’ much lower social and literary status and his Moesian rather than Italian origin, which made him only a marginal member of Cassiodorus’ circle in Constantinople, the agreement between both men is the result of a confluence of views caused by the turn of the Italian war in 540–550. Jordanes, then, appears as a unique voice in what must have been a polyphony of opinions in mid-sixth-century Constantinople.
Genotype analysis of noroviruses associated with gastroenteritis outbreaks in childcare centres, Victoria, Australia, 2012–2015
Authors: BRUGGINK L. D. , MOSELEN J. M. , MARSHALL J. A. 
Published: April 2017

SUMMARYThe characteristics of norovirus outbreaks in children (0–5 years) in childcare centres in Victoria, Australia (2012–2015) were examined. The three most common open reading frame (ORF) 2 genotypes in childcare centre outbreaks were GII.4 (42%), GII.6 (21%) and GII.3 (14%); the remaining genotypes (GI.2, GI.3, GI.4, GI.8, GI.13, GII.1, GII.2, GII.7 and GII.13) each made up <10%. The GII.4 genotype was the only norovirus genotype seen in all 4 years of the study and was the most common genotype in 2012–2014 but in 2015 the most common genotype was GII.2. The GII.4 genotype was more common in children 0–2 years, whereas GII.2 and GII.7 were more common in children 4–5 years. ORF 1/ORF 2 recombinant forms identified were GII.P4_NewOrleans_2009/GII.4_Sydney_2012, GII.P12/GII.3, GII.Pb (GII.21)/GII.3, GII.Pe/GII.2, GII.Pe/GII.4_Sydney_2012 and GII.Pg/GII.1. The findings indicate that norovirus genotype prevalence patterns in children were influenced by the age of the children and the year in which the analysis was carried out. The majority of norovirus infections (84%) occurred after the first year of life so that vaccination before the age of one would appear to be the most efficacious.
A genome-wide association study identifies six novel risk loci for primary biliary cholangitis
Authors: Qiu Fang , Tang Ruqi , Zuo Xianbo , Shi Xingjuan , Wei Yiran , Zheng Xiaodong , Dai Yaping , Gong Yuhua , Wang Lan , Xu Ping , Zhu Xiang , Wu Jian , Han Chongxu , Gao Yueqiu , Zhang Kui , Jiang Yuzhang , Zhou Jianbo , Shao Youlin , Hu Zhigang , Tian Ye , Zhang Haiyan , Dai Na , Liu Lei , Wu Xudong , Zhao Weifeng , Zhang Xiaomin , Zang Zhidong , Nie Jinshan , Sun Weihao , Zhao Yi , Mao Yuan , Jiang Po , Ji Hualiang , Dong Qing , Li Junming , Li Zhenzhong , Bai Xinli , Li Li , Lin Maosong , Dong Ming , Li Jinxin , Zhu Ping , Wang Chan , Zhang Yanqiu , Jiang Peng , Wang Yujue , Jawed Rohil , Xu Jing , Zhang Yu , Wang Qixia , Yang Yue , Yang Fan , Lian Min , Jiang Xiang , Xiao Xiao , Li Yanmei , Fang Jingyuan , Qiu Dekai , Zhu Zhen , Qiu Hong , Zhang Jianqiong , Tian Wenyan , Chen Sufang , Jiang Ling , Ji Bing , Li Ping , Chen Guochang , Wu Tianxue , Sun Yan , Yu Jianjiang , Tang Huijun , He Michun , Xia Min , Pei Hao , Huang Lihua , Qing Zhuye , Wu Jianfang , Huang Qinghai , Han Junhai , Xie Wei , Sun Zhongsheng , Guo Jian , He Gengsheng , Eric Gershwin M. , Lian Zhexiong , Liu Xiang , Seldin Michael F. , Liu Xiangdong , Chen Weichang , Ma Xiong 
Published: April 2017

AbstractPrimary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease with a strong hereditary component. Here, we report a genome-wide association study that included 1,122 PBC cases and 4,036 controls of Han Chinese descent, with subsequent replication in a separate cohort of 907 PBC cases and 2,127 controls. Our results show genome-wide association of 14 PBC risk loci including previously identified 6p21 (HLA-DRA and DPB1), 17q12 (ORMDL3), 3q13.33 (CD80), 2q32.3 (STAT1/STAT4), 3q25.33 (IL12A), 4q24 (NF-κB) and 22q13.1 (RPL3/SYNGR1). We also identified variants in IL21, IL21R, CD28/CTLA4/ICOS, CD58, ARID3A and IL16 as novel PBC risk loci. These new findings and histochemical studies showing enhanced expression of IL21 and IL21R in PBC livers (particularly in the hepatic portal tracks) support a disease mechanism in which the deregulation of the IL21 signalling pathway, in addition to CD4 T-cell activation and T-cell co-stimulation are critical components in the development of PBC.
Exploring the complex free-energy landscape of the simplest glass by rheology
Authors: Jin Yuliang , Yoshino Hajime 
Published: April 2017

AbstractFor amorphous solids, it has been intensely debated whether the traditional view on solids, in terms of the ground state and harmonic low energy excitations on top of it, such as phonons, is still valid. Recent theoretical developments of amorphous solids revealed the possibility of unexpectedly complex free-energy landscapes where the simple harmonic picture breaks down. Here we demonstrate that standard rheological techniques can be used as powerful tools to examine nontrivial consequences of such complex free-energy landscapes. By extensive numerical simulations on a hard sphere glass under quasistatic shear at finite temperatures, we show that above the so-called Gardner transition density, the elasticity breaks down, the stress relaxation exhibits slow, and ageing dynamics and the apparent shear modulus becomes protocol-dependent. Being designed to be reproducible in laboratories, our approach may trigger explorations of the complex free-energy landscapes of a large variety of amorphous materials.
Overexpression of human NR2B receptor subunit in LMAN causes stuttering and song sequence changes in adult zebra finches
Authors: Chakraborty Mukta , Chen Liang-Fu , Fridel Emma E. , Klein Marguerita E. , Senft Rebecca A. , Sarkar Abhra , Jarvis Erich D. 
Published: April 2017

AbstractZebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) learn to produce songs in a manner reminiscent of spoken language development in humans. One candidate gene implicated in influencing learning is the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype 2B glutamate receptor (NR2B). Consistent with this idea,NR2Blevels are high in the song learning nucleus LMAN (lateral magnocellular nucleus of the anterior nidopallium) during juvenile vocal learning, and decreases to low levels in adults after learning is complete and the song becomes more stereotyped. To test for the role ofNR2Bin generating song plasticity, we manipulatedNR2Bexpression in LMAN of adult male zebra finches by increasing its protein levels to those found in juvenile birds, using a lentivirus containing the full-length coding sequence of the humanNR2Bsubunit. We found that increasedNR2Bexpression in adult LMAN induced increases in song sequence diversity and slower song tempo more similar to juvenile songs, but also increased syllable repetitions similar to stuttering. We did not observe these effects in control birds with overexpression ofNR2Boutside of LMAN or with the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in LMAN. Our results suggest that lowNR2Bsubunit expression in adult LMAN is important in conserving features of stereotyped adult courtship song.
Near band gap luminescence in hybrid organic-inorganic structures based on sputtered GaN nanorods
Authors: Forsberg Mathias , Serban Elena Alexandra , Hsiao Ching-Lien , Junaid Muhammad , Birch Jens , Pozina Galia 
Published: April 2017

AbstractNovel hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructures fabricated to utilize non-radiative resonant energy transfer mechanism are considered to be extremely attractive for a variety of light emitters for down converting of ultaviolet light and for photovoltaic applications since they can be much more efficient compared to devices grown with common design. Organic-inorganic hybrid structures based on green polyfluorene (F8BT) and GaN (0001) nanorods grown by magnetron sputtering on Si (111) substrates are studied. In such nanorods, stacking faults can form periodic polymorphic quantum wells characterized by bright luminescence. In difference to GaN exciton emission, the recombination rate for the stacking fault related emission increases in the presence of polyfluorene film, which can be understood in terms of Förster interaction mechanism. From comparison of dynamic properties of the stacking fault related luminescence in the hybrid structures and in the bare GaN nanorods, the pumping efficiency of non-radiative resonant energy transfer in hybrids was estimated to be as high as 35% at low temperatures.