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Quasi-two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides: structure, synthesis, properties, and applications
Authors: Chernozatonskii L A , Artyukh A A 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
Electron states in quasi-two-dimensional (2D) metal and semiconductor crystals can have unusual characteristics and can therefore exhibit unusual electronic and optical properties. In this paper, the results recently obtained for a new class of 2D compounds—transition metal dichalcogenides—are presented, including those on the structure, preparation methods, the electronic, mechanical, and optical properties, defects and their influence on material properties, and conditions facilitating the formation of defects. We consider the unique properties of mono- and multilayer materials, examine their dependence on external factors, and discuss their further application prospects. Various applications of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are described, ranging from nanolubricants, nanocomposites, biosensors, memory cells and supercapacitors to optoelectronic, spin, and photovoltaic devices.
Batesiana et Martinezia, nouveaux genres d'Euparini (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Aphodiinae) du nouveau monde
Authors: Chalumeau Fortuné 
Published: February 2017

In this paper, the author explains how he has been lead to examine the New World Eupariini types and to revise the tribu of this area, after his antillean Scarabs usual studies and mainly from the Ataenius species inhabiting the West Indies.
Two genus (Batesiana and Martinezia) and two species owning to the second one (Martinezia dutertrei and cambeforti), all new to Science, are described. The remaining species are removed from different genus and assigned to Batesiana (one taxon) and Martinezia (six taxa). Their geographical repartition is given and the biological informations, as published by various authors and mainly for Martinezia dutertrei Chalumeau (excavaticollis Auct.), are reviewed. Two lectotypes plus two paralectotypes are labelled, and two holotypes are pointed. The species aedeagus and different body's parts are figured.
Contribution synthétique à la taxinomie phylétique des Hyménochétacées porées d'Europe, spécialement du genre Phellinus
Authors: Fiasson Jean-Louis 
Published: February 2017

Afin de contribuer à une classification phylogénétique des Hyménochétacées porées, la diversité des approches fut cultivée tant au stade des caractères étudiés qu'à celui du raisonnement taxinomique.
Dans une première partie l'auteur présente la famille botanique étudiée, puis son approche personnelle.
Dans une seconde partie sont exposés résultats expérimentaux et conclusions taxinomiques partielles.
— Données biochimiques :
= distribution des styryl-pyrones dans les basidiocarpes (préliminaire : élucida tion structurale de l'un de ces pigments, l'hypholomine B ; retombée : découverte de deux espèces nouvelles),
= activités enzymatiques des mycéliums secondaires (révélées sur extraits bruts ou après électrophorèse) ;
— Données morphologiques :
= structure macro-et microscopique des basidiocarpes,
= type de culture et comportement nucléaire des mycéliums secondaires. Dans une troisième partie est dégagée la conclusion synthétique de cette étude :
— articulation des Hyménochétacées (ales) en 3 entités Hymenochaeteae (aceae), Phaeoleae (aceae) incluant Coltricia, Phellineae (aceae), dont la microscopie électronique précisera le niveau et les relations,
— subdivision des Phellinus européens en 5 (sous-) genres dont 3 (Cyanovosporus , Fuscoporia, Ochroporus) nouveaux.
Enfin, l'auteur situe et justifie son travail par rapport à l'étude taxinomique des Hyménochétacées considérées à l'échelle mondiale.
A la recherche du patrimoine : sur quelques blés traditionnels du sud-est de la France
Authors: Mathon Claude-Charles 
Published: February 2017

L'objectif est de découvrir, d'étudier et de conserver, si possible in situ, les anciennes populations traditionnelles de Céréales de la dition * lyonnaise, et ici, plus particulièrement, de Blés du sud-est.
Quelques indications sur les vieux cultivars de Seigle, d'Avoine, d'Orge de la dition lyonnaise, une liste de Blés du second groupe (Blé dur-Triticum durum Desf. — , Poulard — Tr. turgidum L. — ) anciennement cultivés dans le sud-est, sont données.
Les anciens Froments (Tr. vulgare Vill.) du sud-est sont passés en revue. La diagnose des besoins en froid (vernalisation) est effectuée contribuant à la détermination de quelques cultivars, par exemple d'un Blé-rouge local («Touzelle-rouge-de-la-Drôme »).
Le Petit-Epeautre (Tr. monococcum L.) et d'autres speltoïdes sauvages et cultivés, sont étudiés du point de vue de leur thermophotopériodisme et comparés entre eux et avec les populations locales du Petit-Epeautre.
Génération Y, Génération postmoderne ? Les enjeux pour la GRH
Authors: Dalmas Michel , Lima Marcos 
Published: February 2017

Quels sont les systèmes de valeurs partagés ainsi que les attitudes de la génération Y vis-à-vis du postmodernisme ? 244 jeunes de 18 à 25 ans ont répondu à une enquête quantitative de type exploratoire. Des analyses en composantes principales ont permis de constater l’importance de la qualité de la vie pour la génération Y ainsi que le souci des autres et de l’environnement au sens d’une responsabilité globale, voire universelle. Les idées du postmodernisme semblent également présentes, au travers d’une volonté de voir émerger de nouveaux modèles sociaux et de la prise de conscience de la relativité des métarécits et des modes universels de socialité. Contrairement aux idéaux postmodernes, un certain individualisme rapproche cette nouvelle génération de celles qui les ont précédées. Ces résultats peuvent aider les managers RH à mieux attirer, motiver et fidéliser les jeunes talents.
Addiction sexuelle et économie de marché
Authors: Dufour Dany-Robert 
Published: February 2017

Dans cet article, l’auteur décrit à quel point l’amour a été progressivement avalé par l’économie de marché. Le capitalisme s’est mis à exploiter les mécanismes égo-grégaires à l’œuvre dans la consommation en promettant encore plus que la satisfaction des appétences passagères : la réalisation pleine et entière de tous les phantasmes. L’érotisme, jadis prodigue et gratuit, a été transformé en une activité hautement rentable, la pornographie, moyennant la mise en place de mécanismes addictifs.
Scenario outlook and adequacy forecast in bipolar power systems : the impact of a climate target
Authors: Devogelaer Danielle 
Published: February 2017

Cet article étudie l’adéquation de la production électrique en Belgique et examine non seulement son évolution à politique inchangée (scénario 1) mais aussi en supposant des réductions plus importantes des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (scénario 2). Cet article se concentre sur trois questions de recherche : les objectifs en termes d’adéquation de la production fixés par ENTSO-E seront-ils rencontrés dans les deux scénarios analysés ? Quel sera l’impact sur les investissements nécessaires ? Et peuvent-ils être financés par le seul marché de l’énergie ?
Indicators complementary to GDP: Environmental and social satellite accounts to the National Accounts
Authors: Vandille Guy 
Published: February 2017

Lorsque l’on veut compléter le PIB avec d’autres indicateurs afin d’obtenir une représentation plus complète de la qualité de la vie humaine, il est important que ces indicateurs soient comparables au PIB. Cette comparabilité peut être garantie en dérivant les indicateurs des comptes satellites environnementaux et sociaux des comptes nationaux. Les comptes sociaux ont été les premiers à être développés mais les comptes environnementaux se sont développés plus rapidement et sont à présent institutionnalisés à un niveau supérieur. En Belgique, le Bureau fédéral du Plan, une des institutions formant l’Institut des comptes nationaux, est responsable de la production des comptes satellites. À côté de la dérivation des indicateurs comparables au PIB, ces comptes satellites servent également de base de données cohérente pour différents types d’analyses qui combinent des données monétaires et physiques. Les résultats de plusieurs applications des comptes économiques belges de l’environnement sont présentés. JEL Classification Codes : E01, E16, Q01, Q56
Sublethal and transgenerational effects of alphamethrin on life history traits ofAnopheles stephensi(Diptera: Culicidae), a malaria mosquito
Authors: Hariprasad T.P.N. , Shetty N.J. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractAnopheles stephensiListon (Diptera: Culicidae), an urban malaria vector in India, is controlled by insecticides. Sublethal concentrations can be effective in reducing mosquito populations and disease transmission by reducing its reproductive fitness. In this study, sublethal effects of alphamethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, were assessed on selected fitness parameters. Late third instars of the Goraguntepalya strain, Bangalore, were exposed to three sublethal doses, LC10– 0.00006, LC30– 0.0004, and LC50– 0.0014 mg/L and their effects on fecundity, egg hatchability, sex ratio, and longevity in parental, F1and F2generations. The morphology of gonads, pattern of pupation, and adult emergence were also assessed. We found a significant reduction in fecundity and hatchability among the sublethal concentrations as well as across generations. Survival analysis showed significant reduction in lifespan of exposed groups. Delay in pupation, eclosion, and no distortion in sex ratio was observed. The results suggest that sublethal concentrations of alphamethrin may have negative effects on exposed individuals and subsequent generations.
Platelet volume indices as predictive biomarkers for diabetic complications in Type 2 diabetic patients
Authors: Buch Archana , Kaur Supreet , Nair Rahul , Jain Ambuj 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Platelet volume indices (PVI) such as mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and platelet-large cell ratio (P-LCR) are the indicators of increased platelet activity and can be considered as potential biomarkers for diabetic complications.
PURPOSE: To study PVI in Type 2 diabetics with and without complications in comparison to nondiabetic patients
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A case–control study was conducted on 300 Type 2 diabetics and 200 nondiabetics. Detailed clinical history regarding duration, hypertension, and complications was taken. PVI was obtained using automated cell counter. Fasting blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c, lipid profile, creatinine were also obtained. Diabetics were further categorized into patients with complications and without complications. Statistical analysis was performed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Version 17 (Chicago, IL) Student’s t-test and ANOVA test.
RESULTS: Platelet count was significantly decreased in diabetics (P = 0.005). MPV was significantly increased in diabetic patients with complications as compared to diabetics without complications and nondiabetic group (P < 0.0001). PDW showed statistically significant difference between diabetics with and without complications and nondiabetics (P < 0.0001). However, no statistically significant difference was observed in platelet-large cell ratio (P-LCR) among all the three study groups. We found statistically significant correlation of MPV with diabetic retinopathy (P = 0.000), nephropathy (P = 0.005), and diabetic foot (P = 0.048). PDW was significantly increased in diabetic retinopathy (P = 0.035) and nephropathy (P = 0.007). P-LCR had no statistically significant correlation with diabetic complications.
CONCLUSIONS: MPV and PDW are predictive biomarkers of diabetic vascular complications. They are more significant in microvascular complications than macrovascular complications.
Hepatitis E virus: A leading cause of waterborne viral hepatitis in Northwest Districts of Punjab, India
Authors: Kaur Maninder , Sidhu Shailpreet K. , Singh Kanwardeep , Devi Pushpa , Kaur Manpreet , Singh Nachhatar Jit 
Published: February 2017

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Acute viral hepatitis (AVH) caused by enterically transmitted hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) poses a major health problem in developing countries such as India. Despite improving sanitation, heath awareness, and socioeconomic conditions, these infections continue to occur both in sporadic as well as in epidemic forms in different parts of India
AIMS The aim of this study is to determine the total as well as age-specific prevalence rates of HAV and HEV in the outbreaks of waterborne hepatitis in districts surrounding Amritsar region of Punjab.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted in the Virology Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Government Medical College, Amritsar, during the study period of January 2015–March 2016. Samples from suspected outbreaks of AVH occurring in various districts around Amritsar were included as a part of the study. A total of 95 sera were tested for IgM antibody to HEV and HAV using IgM capture ELISA kit.
RESULTS: Out of the total 95 samples received, 73 samples (76.84%) were positive for HAV/HEV. Out of the total positive cases, 65 (68.42%) had HEV infection, 2 (2.1%) had HAV, and 6 cases (6.31%) were coinfected with both HAV and HEV. The 21–30 years age group (25 cases) was identified as the most susceptible group for HEV infection. The coinfected subjects presented a wider range of age distribution (1–10 years: 1; 11–20 years: 3; 21–30 years: 1; 31–40 years: 1). Seasonal distribution of data revealed bimodal peaks for HEV infection.
CONCLUSION: There should be some surveillance system to regularly monitor the portability of drinking water from time to time to avoid such preventable outbreaks in future.
Effective Boundary Conditions: A General Strategy and Application to Compressible Flows Over Rough Boundaries
Authors: Deolmi Giulia , Dahmen Wolfgang , Müller Siegfried 
Published: February 2017

AbstractDetermining the drag of a flowover a rough surface is a guiding example for the need to take geometric micro-scale effects into account when computing a macroscale quantity. A well-known strategy to avoid a prohibitively expensive numerical resolution of micro-scale structures is to capture the micro-scale effects through someeffective boundary conditionsposed for a problem on a (virtually) smooth domain. The central objective of this paper is to develop a numerical scheme for accurately capturing the micro-scale effects at essentially the cost of twice solving a problem on a (piecewise)smoothdomain at affordable resolution. Here and throughout the paper “smooth” means the absence of any micro-scale roughness. Our derivation is based on a “conceptual recipe” formulated first in a simplified setting of boundary value problems under the assumption of sufficient local regularity to permit asymptotic expansions in terms of the micro-scale parameter.The proposed multiscale model relies then on an upscaling strategy similar in spirit to previous works by Achdou et al. [1], Jäger and Mikelic [29, 31], Friedmann et al. [24, 25], forincompressiblefluids. Extensions tocompressiblefluids, although with several noteworthy distinctions regarding e.g. the “micro-scale size” relative to boundary layer thickness or the systematic treatment of different boundary conditions, are discussed in Deolmi et al. [16,17]. For proof of concept the general strategy is applied to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations to investigate steady, laminar, subsonic flow over a flat plate with partially embedded isotropic and anisotropic periodic roughness imposing adiabatic and isothermal wall conditions, respectively. The results are compared with high resolution direct simulations on a fully resolved rough domain.
Projected Finite Elements for Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations on Closed Evolving Spheroidal Surfaces
Authors: Tuncer Necibe , Madzvamuse Anotida 
Published: February 2017

AbstractThe focus of this article is to present the projected finite element method for solving systems of reaction-diffusion equations on evolving closed spheroidal surfaces with applications to pattern formation. The advantages of the projected finite element method are that it is easy to implement and that it provides a conforming finite element discretization which is “logically” rectangular. Furthermore, the surface is not approximated but described exactly through the projection. The surface evolution law is incorporated into the projection operator resulting in a time-dependent operator. The time-dependent projection operator is composed of the radial projection with a Lipschitz continuous mapping. The projection operator is used to generate the surface mesh whose connectivity remains constant during the evolution of the surface. To illustrate the methodology several numerical experiments are exhibited for different surface evolution laws such as uniform isotropic (linear, logistic and exponential), anisotropic, and concentration-driven. This numerical methodology allows us to study new reaction-kinetics that only give rise to patterning in the presence of surface evolution such as theactivator-activatorandshort-range inhibition; long-range activation.
Use of a 90-Minute Admission Window and Front-Fill System to Reduce Work Compression on a General Medicine Inpatient Teaching Service
Authors: Choi Youngjee , Kim Daniel , Chong Hyemi , Mallow Christopher , Bill Jason , Fojo Anthony T. , Blanchard Melvin 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACT

Background
Duty hour limits have shortened intern shifts without concurrent reductions in workload, creating work compression. Multiple admissions during shortened shifts can result in poor training experience and patient care.

Objective
To relieve work compression, improve resident satisfaction, and improve duty hour compliance in an academic internal medicine program.

Methods
In 2014, interns on general ward services were allotted 90 minutes per admission from 3 pm to 7 pm, when the rate of admissions was high. Additional admissions arriving during the protected period were directed to hospitalists. Resident teams received 2 patients admitted by the night float team to start the call day (front-fill).

Results
Of the 51 residents surveyed before and after the implementation of the intervention, 39 (77%) completed both surveys. Respondents reporting an unmanageable workload fell from 14 to 1 (P &lt; .001), and the number of residents reporting that they felt unable to admit patients in a timely manner decreased from 14 to 2 (P &lt; .001). Reports of adequate time with patients increased from 16 to 36 (P &lt; .001), and residents indicating that they had time to learn from patients increased from 19 to 35 (P &lt; .001). Reports of leaving on time after call days rose from 12 to 33 (P &lt; .01), and overall satisfaction increased from 26 to 35 (P = .002). Results were similar when residents were resurveyed 6 months after the intervention.

Conclusions
Call day modifications improved resident perceptions of their workload and time for resident learning and patient care.
Resident Dyads Providing Transition Care to Adolescents and Young Adults With Chronic Illnesses and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Authors: Chung Richard J. , Jasien Joan , Maslow Gary R. 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACT

Background
Youth with special health care needs often experience difficulty transitioning from pediatric to adult care. These difficulties may derive in part from lack of physician training in transition care and the challenges health care providers experience establishing interdisciplinary partnerships to support these patients.

Objective
This educational innovation sought to improve pediatrics and adult medicine residents' interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.

Methods
Residents from pediatrics, medicine-pediatrics, and internal medicine training programs participated in a transitions clinic for patients with chronic health conditions aged 16 to 26 years. Residents attended 1 to 4 half-day clinic sessions during 1-month ambulatory rotations. Pediatrics/adult medicine resident dyads collaboratively performed psychosocial and medical transition consultations that addressed health care navigation, self-care, and education and vocation topics. Two to 3 attending physicians supervised each clinic session (4 hours) while concurrently seeing patients. Residents completed a preclinic survey about baseline attitudes and experiences, and a postclinic survey about their transitions clinic experiences, changes in attitudes, and transition care preparedness.

Results
A total of 46 residents (100% of those eligible) participated in the clinic and completed the preclinic survey, and 25 (54%) completed the postclinic survey. A majority of respondents to the postclinic survey reported positive experiences. Residents in both pediatrics and internal medicine programs reported improved preparedness for providing transition care to patients with chronic health conditions and communicating effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

Conclusions
A dyadic model of collaborative transition care training was positively received and yielded improvements in immediate self-assessed transition care preparedness.
Between Two Betweens: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Education
Authors: Zakin Emily 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACT
This article argues that Hannah Arendt provides an illuminating perspective on the “crisis” of education. The meaning and purpose of education, in Arendt's view, its fundamental role in civilization, is to impart an old world to new beings, preparing children for “renewing a common world” by establishing an active bond to the past that does not just encumber but enables agency. Because her work does not cohere with either contemporary liberal or contemporary conservative criticisms or justifications of higher education, or with either moral or vocational promises about its merit, Arendt's understanding of education appears less as a competing approach than as simply an eclipsed perspective. By focusing on the meanings and values of the public world we ineluctably inherit, Arendt's reflections on education illuminate the temporal precarity intrinsic to the human condition.
Religion and the “Religious”: Cormac McCarthy and John Dewey
Authors: Metcalf Robert 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACT
This article brings Cormac McCarthy's novels into discussion with Dewey's thinking, particularly with an eye to the distinction, made famous from A Common Faith, between religion and “the religious.” In this work Dewey argues for emancipating what is genuinely religious from all that is adventitious to it—above all, anything wedded to ideas of the supernatural—so that “the religious aspect of experience will be free to develop freely on its own account.” He concludes by highlighting the need to make explicit and militant “the common faith of mankind”—which lies in the recognition that “the things in civilization we most prize are not of ourselves” but “exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link.” While McCarthy's novels share Dewey's broadly anti-supernatural and anti-ecclesiastical commitments, there are some areas of divergence between the two that allow us to reflect critically on the distinction between religion and “the religious.” Most significantly, whereas Dewey aims to discern the intrinsic quality of the religious apart from what is adventitious to it, McCarthy focuses on the historical givenness of religious practices so as then to imagine their repurposing and radical transformation.