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In vivo engineering of bone tissues with hematopoietic functions and mixed chimerism
Authors: Shih Yu-Ru , Kang Heemin , Rao Vikram , Chiu Yu-Jui , Kwon Seong Keun , Varghese Shyni 
Published: May 2017

Significance
Current bone marrow (BM) or hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantations require recipient conditioning that is accompanied by significant adverse effects in patients. Here, we report engineering of bone tissues with a functional BM compartment in vivo by modular assembly of mineralized and nonmineralized macroporous structures. These engineered bone tissues support maintenance of donor hematopoietic cells, respond to an HSC mobilization agent, and yield higher mixed chimerism in circulation of nonirradiated recipient mice compared with that of intravenous transplantation. Such engineered bone tissues could potentially be used as ectopic BM surrogates to treat various nonmalignant BM diseases and as a tool to study hematopoiesis, donor–host cell dynamics, tumor tropism, and hematopoietic cell transplantation.
Social propinquity in rodents as measured by tube cooccupancy differs between inbred and outbred genotypes
Authors: Tuttle Alexander H. , Tansley Shannon , Dossett Kimberly , Tohyama Sarasa , Khoutorsky Arkady , Maldonado-Bouchard Sioui , Stein Liane , Gerstein Lindsey , Crawhall-Duk Hayley , Pearl Rebecca , Sukosd Melissa , Leger Philip , Hardt Oliver M. , Yachnin David , Austin Jean-Sebastien , Chan Claire M. , Pooters Tine , Groves Isabelle , Martin Loren J. , Sonenberg Nahum , Gkogkas Christos G. , Mogil Jeffrey S. 
Published: May 2017

Significance
We developed an assay of social behavior, the tube cooccupancy test. This assay is able to identify deficits in social behavior of known “autistic-like” mouse strains. Using the test, we revealed a major difference in social behavior between inbred and outbred strains, with only the latter behaving similar to wild mice.
Hsp104 disaggregase at normal levels cures many [PSI+] prion variants in a process promoted by Sti1p, Hsp90, and Sis1p
Authors: Gorkovskiy Anton , Reidy Michael , Masison Daniel C. , Wickner Reed B. 
Published: May 2017

SignificancePrions (infectious proteins) pose a substantial risk to yeast, as they do for humans. Overproduction of the disaggregase, Hsp104, has long been known capable of curing [PSI+], a prion based on amyloid formation by the Sup35 protein. We find that most [PSI+] variants arising spontaneously in the absence of this Hsp104 overproduction curing activity are cured when that activity is restored at normal levels. This activity is thus an antiprion system, largely protecting the cells from prion formation by this protein.
Mandarinization and the construction of Chinese ethnicity in Singapore
Authors: Wong Kevin Zi-Hao , Tan Ying-Ying 
Published: May 2017

AbstractThis paper examines the process of Mandarinization in Singapore, and the effects of this process on the construction of Chinese ethnicity in Singapore. It does this through an analysis of official government speeches, followed by a questionnaire study examining the beliefs and attitudes of Chinese Singaporeans toward three varieties of Mandarin-Chinese, as well as Chinese “dialects” and English. The discourse analysis reveals an underlying assertion of a primordial relationship between Mandarin-Chinese and Chinese ethnicity. This, however, is not reflected in the beliefs of Chinese Singaporeans, who value Mandarin-Chinese for mainly instrumental reasons, and associated with a foreign standard. Chinese ethnicity in Singapore is instead constructed through a combination of Mandarin-Chinese, “dialects” and English. Ultimately, such a discrepancy results from Mandrinization’s dependence on an oversimplified understanding of language and ethnicity in Singapore.
The updated Vocabulary Levels Test
Authors: Webb Stuart , Sasao Yosuke , Ballance Oliver 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001) indicates the word frequency level that should be used to select words for learning. The present study involves the development and validation of two new forms of the test. The new forms consist of five levels measuring knowledge of vocabulary at the 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 levels. Items for the tests were sourced from Nation’s (2012) BNC/COCA word lists. The research involved first identifying quality items using the data from 1,463 test takers to create two equivalent forms, and then evaluating the forms with the data from a further 250 test takers. This study also makes an initial attempt to validate the new forms using Messick’s (1989, 1995) validity framework.
Comprehensive corrective feedback on low and high proficiency writers
Authors: Bonilla López Marisela , Van Steendam Elke , Buyse Kris 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This study investigated the effects of comprehensive feedback on learners’ grammatical accuracy during text revision and in new writing tasks in light of proficiency level. It also sought to determine to what extent learners’ proficiency level plays a role in their feedback preferences and attitudes towards the feedback. The participants were 52 low proficiency and 39 high proficiency foreign language university learners, who were randomly assigned to a direct corrective feedback, a metalinguistic feedback with rule reminders, and a self-correction group. All learners wrote four compositions and completed a questionnaire after the treatment to elicit their attitudes towards the feedback and their feedback preferences. Results showed that the treatment effectively enhanced both low and high proficiency learners’ immediate grammatical accuracy and accuracy improvement. Also, a relation between proficiency level and learners’ attitudes towards the feedback as well as an association between proficiency level and learners’ feedback preferences were found.
The linguistic reconstruction of the past
Authors: Jacquesson François , van Breugel Seino 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
I will first describe (1) the linguistic situation in modern-day Assam (Northeast India) and the historical hypotheses that might
explain it. These hypotheses are subjected to criticism. Next, I will analyse (2) in detail, the phonological concordances in the
Tibeto-Burman languages and dialects of Central Assam that form the Boro-Garo group. I will present detailed criteria – the most
detailed of all will concern the diphthongs – with examples, which will enable us to classify the languages. Using these criteria
will also allow us to take advantage of certain ancient sources of information on dialects which are, in some cases, extinct. The
study (3) of other Tibeto-Burman languages will consolidate our criteria and specify their historical development. Finally (4), I
will propose a historical reconstruction of linguistic layers, after which (5) I will emphasise the importance of the distinction,
central to our discussion, between language change and ethnic change (where cultural and physical anthropology follow distinct
paths) before proposing a basis for a more general investigation of the Boro-Garo languages.
Northeastern India is home to a great number of languages, mainly from the Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer, Tai and Indo-Aryan groups.
This paper first summarises the current historical interpretations of this plethora, and concentrates on the Tibeto-Burman
languages spoken in the lowlands, sc. the Boro-Garo subgroup. A phonological comparative assessment of the data provides a
classification with definite criteria, and suggests historical interpretation. Central to this comparative study are the vowel
systems, the analysis of which allows us to understand far better (and to use more appropriately) the older lexical lists from
1805. The result of this assessment is a new direction of research, when it appears that the Zeliangrong languages (traditionally
taken as Southern Naga) offer a remarkable and certainly unexpected linguistic link between the Boro-Garo and the Kuki Chin (and
Naga) languages. The paper exemplifies how language histories remain distinct from ethnic and political developments, and makes a
useful contribution to a finer historical understanding of complex human situations.
Picturing Pasargadae: Visual Representation and the Ambiguities of Heritage in Iran
Authors: Mozaffari Ali 
Published: May 2017

For Graham SealThis paper probes the relationship between visual representations and visitation practices at Pasargadae, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Iran. Presenting a systematic analysis of publicly available online images of Pasargadae, the paper examines the complex relationship between the place and its visual representations. Through analysis, the paper elaborates on a sense of intimacy that, while grounding Pasargadae, is also a potential common ground in pre-Islamic heritage in which the Iranian state and society could at once meet and contest versions of identity. Examining this relationship facilitates reflections into both heritage and the peculiarities of its visual representation in the Iranian context.
Molecular diversity of tuliposide B-converting enzyme in tulip (Tulipa gesneriana): identification of the root-specific isozyme
Authors: Nomura Taiji , Ueno Ayaka , Ogita Shinjiro , Kato Yasuo 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
6-Tuliposide B (PosB) is a glucose ester accumulated in tulip (Tulipa gesneriana) as a major secondary metabolite. PosB serves as the precursor of the antimicrobial lactone tulipalin B (PaB), which is formed by PosB-converting enzyme (TCEB). The gene TgTCEB1, encoding a TCEB, is transcribed in tulip pollen but scarcely transcribed in other tissues (e.g. roots) even though those tissues show high TCEB activity. This led to the prediction of the presence of a TCEB isozyme with distinct tissue specificity. Herein, we describe the identification of the TgTCEB-R gene from roots via native enzyme purification; this gene is a paralog of TgTCEB1. Recombinant enzyme characterization verified that TgTCEB-R encodes a TCEB. Moreover, TgTCEB-R was localized in tulip plastids, as found for pollen TgTCEB1. TgTCEB-R is transcribed almost exclusively in roots, indicating a tissue preference for the transcription of TCEB isozyme genes.
The effect of two different interval‐training programmes on physiological and performance indices
Authors: Sindiani Mahmood , Eliakim Alon , Segev Daria , Meckel Yoav 
Published: May 2017

AbstractThe aim of the present study was to compare the effect of an increasing‐distance, interval‐training programme and a decreasing‐distance, interval‐training programme, matched for total distance, on aerobic and anaerobic physiological indices. Forty physical education students were randomly assigned to either the increasing‐ or decreasing‐distance, interval‐training group (ITG and DTG), and completed two similar relevant sets of tests before and after six weeks of training. One training programme consisted of increasing‐distance interval‐training (100–200–300–400–500 m) and the other decreasing‐distance interval training (500–400–300–200–100 m). While both training programmes led to a significant improvement in VO2 max (ES = 0.83–1.25), the improvement in the DTG was significantly greater than in the ITG (14.5 ± 3.6 vs. 7.8 ± 3.2%, p < .05). In addition, while both training programmes led to a significant improvement in all anaerobic indices (ES = 0.83–1.63), the improvements in peak power (15.7 ± 7.8 vs. 8.9 ± 4.7), mean power (10.6 ± 5.4 vs. 6.8 ± 4.4), and fatigue index (18.2 ± 10.9 vs. 7.0 ± 14.2) were significantly greater in the DTG compared to the ITG (p < .05). The main finding of the present study was that beyond the significant positive effects of both training programmes on aerobic and anaerobic fitness, the DTG showed significant superiority over the ITG in improving aerobic and anaerobic performance capabilities. Coaches and athletes should therefore be aware that, in spite of identical total work, an interval‐training programme might induce different physiological impacts if the order of intervals is not identical.
Temporal and Spatial Occurrence of Mesopelagic Fish Larvae during Epipelagic Drift Associated with Hydrographic Features in the Gaoping Coastal Waters off Southwestern Taiwan
Authors: Hsieh Hung-Yen , Meng Pei-Jie , Chang Yun-Chen , Lo Wen-Tseng 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This study analyzed the spatiotemporal occurrences of mesopelagic fish larvae in relation to environmental forcing in the Gaoping coastal waters off southwestern Taiwan during August 22–23, 2014 (summer), December 5–6, 2014 (winter), and April 28–29, 2015 (spring). Forty taxa or morphotypes of mesopelagic fish larvae were identified. Skinnycheek Lanternfish Benthosema pterotum (19.1%), Bristlemouth Cyclothone alba (11.6%), Spinycheek Lanternfish B. fibulatum (10.8%), Benthosema spp. (9.4%), and Neoscopelus spp. (9.2%) were the five predominant taxa. Maximum abundance of these taxa generally occurred during the cold period (winter and spring). Although the temporal difference in the abundance of mesopelagic fish larvae was not significant, the assemblage of mesopelagic fish larvae was more diverse in winter than in other seasons. Cluster and distance-based linear model analysis suggested a distinctly structured assemblage of mesopelagic fish larvae. The intrusion of the Kuroshio Branch Current played an important role in the transport of mesopelagic fish larvae. The distribution of mesopelagic fish larvae was closely related to the hydrographic features, with surface temperature and mixed-layer depth being the major factors affecting the occurrence of mesopelagic fish larvae. Also, the vertical mixing of the water column in winter induced the vertical distribution of natural food favorable for mesopelagic fish larvae.
Characterization of Depth Distributions, Temperature Associations, and Seasonal Migrations of Atlantic Halibut in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags
Authors: Murphy Hannah M. , Fisher Jonathan A. D. , Le Bris Arnault , Desgagnés Mathieu , Castonguay Martin , Loher Timothy , Robert Dominique 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The fishery for Atlantic Halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Gulf) is currently experiencing its highest landings since the 1950s. However, the absence of information on adult habitat use has limited the development of new survey methodologies. The aim of this study was to use pop-up satellite archival tags on large (≥108-cm) halibut in the Gulf to provide data on seasonal temperature associations, depth distributions, and migrations. Twenty Atlantic Halibut were tagged in 2013 and 15 were tagged in 2015 at two different locations in the northern Gulf. Atlantic Halibut overwintered in the central and northern Gulf based on six tag pop-offs. In the winter in both studies, halibut were distributed at 160–440 m depth with a narrow temperature association of 5.5–6.5°C, which corresponded with the bathymetry and hydrography of the Gulf rather than the deeper and colder waters of the continental shelf where the southern stock occurs. Spawning rises were identified from the depth data for two halibut in 2013 and six halibut in 2015. In the summer, halibut had a wide range of depth (20–200 m) and temperature (−1.5°C to +15.0°C) associations, and tag pop-offs in August indicated feeding grounds off the northwestern coast of Newfoundland. There was a broad geographic distribution of final pop-offs in 2013, but in 2015 all tags popped off close (&lt;55 km) to the original tagging site. These seasonal depth distributions and temperature associations will be used to inform Atlantic Halibut stock assessments and management decisions.
Supplementary comparisons of COOMET in the field of measurements of liquids kinematical viscosity COOMET.M.V-S1
Authors: Demyanov A A , Tsurko A A 
Published: May 2017

In the comparisons three Newtonian liquid samples were used with nominal values of 20 mm2/s 100 mm2/s and 1000 mm2/s ('20', '100' and '1000' respectively) at 20 °C. Each NMI presented results of measurements values kinematic viscosity samples, uncertainty and uncertainty budget.
The purpose of these comparisons was confirmation of measurement and calibration capabilities (CMC) of the relevant NMI.
As a reference the values of kinematic viscosity reference samples were taken as average values of measurement results obtained in the research laboratory of the national standards and research in the field of measurements of viscosity and density of the D I Mendeleev Institute for Metrology (VNIIM, RF), as a participant in international comparisons CCM.V-K1, BIPM.

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Is the Association Between Late Life Morbidity and Disability Attenuated Over Time? Exploring the Dynamic Equilibrium of Morbidity Hypothesis
Authors: Hossin Muhammad Zakir , Östergren Olof , Fors Stefan 
Published: May 2017

Abstract

Objective
There is evidence suggesting that the prevalence of disability in late life has declined over time while the prevalence of chronic diseases has increased. The dynamic equilibrium of morbidity hypothesis suggests that these patterns are due to the attenuation of the morbidity-disability link over time. This study aimed to test this assumption empirically.

Methods
Data were drawn from three repeated cross-sections of SWEOLD, a nationally representative survey of the Swedish population aged 77 years and older. Poisson regression models were fitted to assess the trends in the prevalence of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) disability, Instrumental ADL (IADL) disability, and selected groups of chronic conditions. The changes in the associations between chronic conditions and disabilities were examined on both multiplicative and additive scales.

Results
Between 1992 and 2011, the prevalence of both ADL and IADL disabilities decreased whereas the prevalence of nearly all chronic morbidities increased. Significant attenuations of the morbidity-disability associations were found for cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, poor lung function, and psychological distress.

Discussion
In agreement with the dynamic equilibrium of morbidity hypothesis, this study concludes that the morbidity-disability associations among the Swedish older adults largely waned between 1992 and 2011.
Inferring the annual, seasonal, and spatial distributions of marine species from complementary research and commercial vessels’ catch rates
Authors: Bourdaud Pierre , Travers-Trolet Morgane , Vermard Youen , Cormon Xochitl , Marchal Paul 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The objective of this study is to analyse at fine scale the annual, seasonal and spatial distributions of several species in the Eastern English Channel (EEC). On the one hand, data obtained from scientific surveys are not available all year through, but are considered to provide consistent yearly and spatially resolved abundance indices. On the other hand, on-board commercial data do cover the whole year, but generally provide a biased perception of stock abundance. The combination of scientific and commercial catches per unit of effort (CPUEs), standardized using a delta-generalized linear model, allowed to infer spatial and monthly dynamics of fish distributions in the EEC, which could be compared with previous knowledge on their life cycles. Considering the scientific survey as a repository, the degree of reliability of commercial CPUEs was assessed with survey-based distribution using the Local Index of Collocation. Large scale information was in agreement with literature, especially for cuttlefish. Fine scale consistency between survey and commercial data was significant for half of the 19 tested species (e.g. whiting, cod). For the other species (e.g. plaice, thornback ray), the results were inconclusive, mainly owing to poor commercial data coverage and/or to particular aspects of the species biology.
Benefits and Limitations of Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Image-Guided Surgery for Spinal Intramedullary Tumors
Authors: Takami Toshihiro , Naito Kentaro , Yamagata Toru , Shimokawa Nobuyuki , Ohata Kenji 
Published: May 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Intraoperative image guidance using near-infrared indocyanine green videoangiography (ICG-VA) has been used to provide real-time angiographic images during vascular or brain tumor surgery, and it is also being used for spine surgery.

OBJECTIVE
To further investigate the benefits and limitations of ICG-VA image-guided surgery for spinal intramedullary tumors through retrospective study.

METHODS
ICG-VA was used in 48 cases that were treated surgically over the past 5 yr. The pathological diagnoses of the tumors included astrocytic tumor, ependymal tumor, cavernous malformation, and hemangioblastoma.

RESULTS
Localization of normal spinal arteries and veins on the dorsal surface of the spinal cord helped the surgeons determine the length or point of myelotomy. Well-demarcated tumor stain was recognized in limited cases of anaplastic or highly vascularized tumors, whereas the location of cavernous malformation was recognized as an avascular area on the dorsal surface of the spinal cord. Feeding arteries and tumor stain were well differentiated from draining veins in dorsal hemangioblastomas, but not in intramedullary deep-seated or ventral tumors. The preservation of small perforating branches of the anterior spinal artery after successful resection of the tumor could be well visualized.

CONCLUSION
ICG-VA can provide real-time information about vascular flow dynamics during the surgery of spinal intramedullary tumors, and it may help surgeons localize the normal circulation of the spinal cord, as well as the feeding arteries and draining veins, especially in highly vascular tumors. However, the benefits of intraoperative ICG-VA might be limited for intramedullary deep-seated or ventral tumors.