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Multi‐objective control of multi‐functional grid‐connected inverter for renewable energy integration and power quality service
Authors: Zeng Zheng , Li Hui , Tang Shengqing , Yang Huan , Zhao Rongxiang 
Published: November 2015

Multi‐functional grid‐connected inverters (MFGCIs) not only interface renewable energy sources into the utility, but also provide ancillary power quality enhancement service. Therefore, extra installment of power quality conditioners can be partially avoided in a micro‐grid including MFGCIs. Because the capacity of an MFGCI employed for power quality compensation is limited, how to balance the multiple functions and optimally utilise the limited capacity becomes a challenging for MFGCI application, and this is studied in details in this paper. First, to set up a benchmark for balancing the multiple functions of the MFGCI, a comprehensive power quality evaluation (CPQE) index is presented based on the catastrophe decision theory to quantify the power quality of a micro‐grid. Then, for the strategic utilisation of the limited capacity, a multi‐objective optimal compensation model is proposed in which the objectives are to optimise the CPQE index and minimise the occupied capacity of an MFGCI for power quality compensation. Finally, the solutions of the model are derived on the basis of Pareto approach. As a result, the MFGCI can flexibly customise the power quality of the micro‐grid according to its available capacity margin and the users’ requirement. Finally, the experimental results performed on a 10 kVA MFGCI prototype have confirmed the validity of the proposed model.
Fastest predators in the plant kingdom: functional morphology and biomechanics of suction traps found in the largest genus of carnivorous plants
Authors: Poppinga Simon , Weisskopf Carmen , Westermeier Anna Sophia , Masselter Tom , Speck Thomas 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
Understanding the physics of plant movements, which describe the interplay between plant architecture, movement speed and actuation principles, is essential for the comprehension of important processes like plant morphogenesis. Recent investigations especially on rapid plant movements at the interface of biology, physics and engineering sciences highlight how such fast motions can be achieved without the presence of muscles, nerves and technical hinge analogies. The suction traps (bladders) of carnivorous bladderworts ( Utricularia spp., Lentibulariaceae, Lamiales) are considered as some of the most elaborate moving structures in the plant kingdom. A complex interplay of morphological and physiological adaptations allows the traps to pump water out of their body and to store elastic energy in the deformed bladder walls. Mechanical stimulation by prey entails opening of the otherwise watertight trapdoor, followed by trap wall relaxation, sucking in of water and prey, and consecutive trapdoor closure. Suction can also occur spontaneously in non-stimulated traps. We review the current state of knowledge about the suction trap mechanism with a focus on architectonically homogeneous traps of aquatic bladderwort species from section Utricularia (the so-called ‘ Utricularia vulgaris trap type’). The functional morphology and biomechanics of the traps are described in detail. We discuss open questions and propose promising aspects for future studies on these sophisticated ultra-fast trapping devices.
Pregnancy and Parental Leave During Graduate Medical Education
Authors: Blair Janis E. , Mayer Anita P. , Caubet Suzanne L. , Norby Suzanne M. , O’Connor Mary I. , Hayes Sharonne N. 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
To understand the pregnancy, childbirth, and parental leave plans and experiences of trainees in multiple graduate medical education (GME) programs at a single institution.

Method
In 2013, the authors developed and deployed a voluntary, Internet-based survey of trainees in 269 residency and fellowship programs across the three sites of the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. The survey assessed pregnancy-related issues, including use of relevant institutional policies, changes in work due to pregnancy, and activities during pregnancy and parental leave. The authors analyzed the responses to make comparisons across groups.

Results
Forty-two percent (644/1,516) of trainees responded. Less than half (264; 41%) had children, and 46 (7%) were currently pregnant (themselves or their partners). Among parents, 24 (of 73; 33%) women and 28 (of 81; 35%) men planned to have another child during their current training program, and 13 (18%) women and 14 (17%) men planned to do so during their next training program. Among nonparents, 40 (of 135; 30%) women and 36 (of 111; 32%) men planned pregnancies during their current training program, and 25 (19%) women and 14 (13%) men planned pregnancies during their next training program. Of respondents eligible for parental leave, 81 (of 83; 98%) women and 89 (of 101; 88%) men had used it.

Conclusions
Approximately 40% of respondents planned to have children during their GME training; most will require family leave and institutional support. GME programs should pursue policies and practices to minimize the effects of these leaves on their workforce.
Testing the concepts of market mavenism and opinion leadership in China
Authors: Zhang Jie , Lee Wei-Na 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– Market mavenism and opinion leadership are two important consumer influential concepts in marketing communication literature. The purpose of this paper is to explore two overarching research questions. First, can we separate market mavenism from opinion leadership in China? The answer to this question would solve an important issue of targeting in marketing communication. Second, if market mavenism is indeed distinctive from opinion leadership, are market mavenism and opinion leadership determined by same or different factors in China? The answer of this question would help determine how to reach each type of consumer influential and add knowledge to market segmentation.

Design/methodology/approach
– An online survey was conducted to test the hypotheses. In total, 316 Chinese respondents completed this survey.

Findings
– The results were illuminating: market mavenism and opinion leadership were indeed distinctive yet related concepts in China. Monochronicity, altruism, price-value consciousness, and income significantly influenced market mavenism after controlling for all other variables while monochronicity, price-value consciousness, and age significantly predicted opinion leadership after controlling for all other variables.

Research limitations/implications
– This study provides a richer picture of market mavenism and opinion leadership in the Chinese market.

Originality/value
– This study helps scholars and professionals efficiently and effectively reach each type of consumer influential.
Developing English
Authors: Dixon John 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– An overview of English aims, theoretical scope and methods is badly needed. Ministries throughout the English-speaking world have become dominated by a demand for testing – stimulated no doubt by regular Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) surveys – and lost sight of first principles. The purpose of this article is therefore to set out a model of English drawn from the best international experience since the 1960s, collected during seminars and practical workshops on four continents.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper uses a collection of experiences drawn from seminars and practical workshops over the past 50 years. It incorporates researches and reflections generated with the author’s former colleagues.

Findings
– The paper gives an insider’s account of the carefully designed movement for English development and teacher participation that started during that decade in England, ramifying and attracting new energies in Canadian provinces, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Founded in new theories of classroom communication and interaction, the emerging models also demonstrated the urgent need for new approaches to assessment, sampling students’ optimal achievements. The regime that is universally replacing this major work depends, it can be shown, on a model designed by ministers (disregarding professional advice) and avowedly intended to promote competition among pupils, teachers and schools – thus stifling the kinds of cooperation essential to any classroom, especially in the arts, and indeed to Education in general. But the historical foundations remain, from that creative period, and can be reclaimed.

Originality/value
– This is an original view from an author who is one of the handful of survivors and who has been active in each stage since 1960, and has been privileged to be invited to four continents to convene seminars and practical workshops over many years.
The English teacher as interdisciplinary resource
Authors: Locke Terry 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to combine conceptual and documentary research.Design/methodology/approach– Drawing on a range of New Zealand curriculum documents and on the history of English subject in the New Zealand context, it maps aspects of the contestation that has accompanied the development of various versions of the subject over time. It also explores ways in which the subject has always drawn on a range of primary disciplinary discourses through a process of recontextualization (Bernstein, 2000).Findings– Based on this analysis, it problematizes the conventional location of literary study within the English curriculum, arguing that this arrangement disadvantages English as an additional language (EAL) students with an interest in literature. As another plank in the argument, it argues that literary study is itself currently disadvantaged by being linked to narrowly conceived notions of textual practice and the pervasive power of high-stake assessment technologies in constructing content and pedagogy.Originality/value– A solution to both problems is offered, arguing a case for relocating literary study in an expanded Arts curriculum. The paper then goes on to draw on the concept of disciplinary literacy, to argue a case for the “reinvention” of the English teacher as a cross-disciplinary resource teaching a re-framed subject renamed “Disciplinary Rhetorics”. It concludes by discussing the implications of these two re-envisionments for English teacher identities and the construction of their professional content and pedagogical knowledge.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma: Summary of 11 cases from two facilities in Japan and Brazil
Authors: Oka Tomonori , Sugaya Makoto , Cury‐Martins Jade , Vasconcelos‐Berg Roberta , Suga Hiraku , Miyagaki Tomomitsu , Scheinberg Phillip , Fujita Hideki , Izutsu Koji , Sato Shinichi , Sanches José A. 
Published: November 2015

AbstractSome patients with cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma (CTCL) show a miserable clinical course and the only option that can induce long‐term remission for advanced CTCL may be hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). So far, studies on HSCT for CTCL patients have been limited. In this study, we summarized 11 cases with CTCL treated with HSCT, including nine cases in Japan and two cases in Brazil. The patients were five cases with mycosis fungoides (MF), two cases with Sézary syndrome (SS), three cases with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and one case with primary cutaneous peripheral T‐cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTL‐NOS). Currently, seven out of 11 cases are alive (at 13–108 months after transplantation) and four died at 15 days to 14 months after transplantation. When focusing on the eight patients who received allogeneic HSCT for MF/SS and PTL‐NOS, all four patients at 45 years old or under are alive at present. One case showed relapse in the skin. On the other hand, one out of the other four patients at over 45 years old survived. Engraftment failure was seen in one case and all the other three cases experienced relapse. Although this is only a case series with a small number, our study has suggested that we should be careful about age when treating patients with MF/SS by allogeneic HSCT.
Bacterial Ecology of Fermented Cucumber Rising pH Spoilage as Determined by Nonculture‐Based Methods
Authors: Medina Eduardo , Pérez‐Díaz Ilenys M. , Breidt Fred , Hayes Janet , Franco Wendy , Butz Natasha , Azcarate‐Peril María Andrea 
Published: November 2015

AbstractFermented cucumber spoilage (FCS) characterized by rising pH and the appearance of manure‐ and cheese‐like aromas is a challenge of significant economical impact for the pickling industry. Previous culture‐based studies identified the yeasts Pichia manshurica and Issatchenkia occidentalis, 4 Gram‐positive bacteria, Lactobacillus buchneri, Lactobacillus parrafaraginis, Clostridium sp., and Propionibacterium and 1 Gram‐negative genus, Pectinatus, as relevant in various stages of FCS given their ability to metabolize lactic acid. It was the objective of this study to augment the current knowledge of FCS using culture‐independent methods to microbiologically characterize commercial spoilage samples. Ion Torrent data and 16S rRNA cloning library analyses of samples collected from commercial fermentation tanks confirmed the presence of L. rapi and L. buchneri and revealed the presence of additional species involved in the development of FCS such as Lactobacillus namurensis, Lactobacillus acetotolerans, Lactobacillus panis, Acetobacter peroxydans, Acetobacter aceti, and Acetobacter pasteurianus at pH below 3.4. The culture‐independent analyses also revealed the presence of species of Veillonella and Dialister in spoilage samples with pH above 4.0 and confirmed the presence of Pectinatus spp. during lactic acid degradation at the higher pH. Acetobacter spp. were successfully isolated from commercial samples collected from tanks subjected to air purging by plating on Mannitol Yeast Peptone agar. In contrast, Lactobacillus spp. were primarily identified in samples of FCS collected from tanks not subjected to air purging for more than 4 mo. Thus, it is speculated that oxygen availability may be a determining factor in the initiation of spoilage and the leading microbiota.
‘A Laborious and Truly Useful Gentleman’: Mapping the Networks of John Nichols (1745‐1826), Printer, Antiquary and Biographer
Authors: Pooley Julian 
Published: November 2015

AbstractThe papers of John Nichols and his family of printers and antiquaries are a major source for the study of the book trade, of antiquarianism and of lives and letters in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As leading London printers and editors of the Gentleman’s Magazine, the Nicholses were at the heart of a network of information exchange between members of both national and local clubs and societies. This article shows how a database of their surviving archive is enabling us to map these networks and rebuild epistolary conversations between those contributing to eighteenth‐century networks of improvement.
Literary Communities and Commemorations in the Edinburgh Cape Club
Authors: Brown Rhona 
Published: November 2015

AbstractThis article examines the roles of literature and poets in Edinburgh's Cape Club towards the end of the eighteenth century. It examines the club's manuscript collection of songs and poems, including a long narrative poem on its history entitled ‘The Capeiad’, to demonstrate that literature had simultaneously celebratory, commemorative and moralistic functions within the Cape's private world. It analyses the club's yearly literary ‘jubilees’, which memorialise James Thomson, author of The Seasons, and William Shakespeare, to reveal the literary networks at play in the Cape, thereby demonstrating that literature is central to its community.
Translating Hemp into a Transatlantic ‘Band of Reciprocal Interest’: The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as a 1760s' Actor Network
Authors: Green Georgina 
Published: November 2015

AbstractInspired by actor‐network theory, this article begins by focusing on the Society of Arts’ overarching aims to encourage improvement and reinforce the bonds between Britain and its North American colonies, but also attends to the details of the controversy over a specific premium for encouraging North American hemp production. This controversy documents the society's negotiation of uncertainty, even as its surface rhetoric promotes a vision of inevitable improvement. This leads to a double vision of the society as a failed tool of mercantilism but also an enduring collective experiment, reinterpreting the tension between nationalism and Enlightenment in its goals.
Phthalate exposure and semen quality in fertile US men
Authors: Thurston S. W. , Mendiola J. , Bellamy A. R. , Levine H. , Wang C. , Sparks A. , Redmon J. B. , Drobnis E. Z. , Swan S. H. 
Published: November 2015

SummarySeveral experimental and observational studies have demonstrated the antiandrogenicity of several phthalates. However, there is limited evidence of an association between phthalate exposure in adult life and semen quality. The aim of this study was to examine phthalate exposure during adulthood in relation to semen quality in fertile US men. This multi‐center cross‐sectional study included 420 partners of pregnant women who attended a prenatal clinic in one of five US cities during 1999–2001. Nine phthalate metabolites [mono (2‐ethylhexyl) phthalate (MEHP), mono (2‐ethyl‐5‐hydroxyhexyl) phthalate (MEHHP), mono (2‐ethyl‐5‐oxohexyl) phthalate (MEOHP), and mono (2‐ethyl‐5‐carboxypentyl) phthalate (MECPP)], as well as mono‐n‐butyl phthalate (MBP) and mono‐isobutyl phthalate (MiBP), mono (three carboxypropyl) phthalate (MCPP), monobenzyl phthalate (MBzP), and monoethyl phthalate (MEP)] were measured in urine collected at the same time as the semen sample. We regressed natural log‐transformed (ln) sperm concentration, ln(total sperm count), ln(total motile sperm count), percent motile spermatozoa, and percent spermatozoa with normal morphology on each of the nine natural log‐transformed metabolite concentrations and on the molar‐weighted sum of DEHP metabolites in separate models. We fit unadjusted models and models that adjusted for confounders determined a priori. In unadjusted models, ln(MiBP) was significantly and positively associated with motility and ln(MBzP) significantly negatively associated with ln(total sperm count). In adjusted linear models, urinary metabolite concentrations of DEHP, DBP, DEP, and DOP were not associated with any semen parameter. We found an inverse association between ln(MBzP) concentrations and sperm motility (β = −1.47, 95% CI: −2.61, −0.33), adjusted for ln(creatinine concentration), geographic location, age, race, smoking status, stress, recent fever, time from sample collection and time to complete analysis. Several sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness of these associations. This study and the available literature suggest that impacts of adult exposure to phthalates at environmental levels on classical sperm parameters are likely to be small.
Involvement of transglutaminase 2 and voltage‐gated potassium channels in cystamine vasodilatation in rat mesenteric small arteries
Authors: Engholm Morten , Pinilla Estéfano , Mogensen Susie , Matchkov Vladimir , Hedegaard Elise Røge , Chen Hua , Mulvany Michael J , Simonsen Ulf 
Published: November 2015

Background and PurposeVasodilatation may contribute to the neuroprotective and vascular anti‐remodelling effect of the tissue transglutaminase 2 (TG2) inhibitor cystamine. Here, we hypothesized that inhibition of TG2 followed by blockade of smooth muscle calcium entry and/or inhibition of Rho kinase underlies cystamine vasodilatation.Experimental ApproachWe used rat mesenteric small arteries and RT‐PCR, immunoblotting, and measurements of isometric wall tension, intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i), K+ currents (patch clamp), and phosphorylation of myosin phosphatase targeting subunit 1 (MYPT1) and myosin regulatory light chain, in our experiments.Key ResultsRT‐PCR and immunoblotting revealed expression of TG2 in mesenteric small arteries. Cystamine concentration‐dependently inhibited responses to phenylephrine, 5‐HT and U46619 and for extracellular potassium. Selective inhibitors of TG2, LDN 27129 and T101, also inhibited phenylephrine contraction. An inhibitor of PLC suppressed cystamine relaxation. Cystamine relaxed and reduced [Ca2+]i in phenylephrine‐contracted arteries. In potassium‐contracted arteries, cystamine induced less relaxation without changing [Ca2+]i, and these relaxations were blocked by mitochondrial complex inhibitors. Blockers of Kv7 channels, XE991 and linopirdine, inhibited cystamine relaxation and increases in voltage‐dependent smooth muscle currents. Cystamine and the Rho kinase inhibitor Y27632 reduced basal MYPT1‐Thr855 phosphorylation, but only Y27632 reduced phenylephrine‐induced increases in MYPT1‐Thr855 and myosin regulatory light chain phosphorylation.Conclusions and ImplicationsCystamine induced vasodilatation by inhibition of receptor‐coupled TG2, leading to opening of Kv channels and reduction of intracellular calcium, and by activation of a pathway sensitive to inhibitors of the mitochondrial complexes I and III. Both pathways may contribute to the antihypertensive and neuroprotective effect of cystamine.
NVP‐TAE684 reverses multidrug resistance (MDR) in human osteosarcoma by inhibiting P‐glycoprotein (PGP1) function
Authors: Ye Shunan , Zhang Jianming , Shen Jacson , Gao Yan , Li Ying , Choy Edwin , Cote Gregory , Harmon David , Mankin Henry , Gray Nathanael S , Hornicek Francis J , Duan Zhenfeng 
Published: November 2015

Background and purposeIncreased expression of P‐glycoprotein (PGP1) is one of the major causes of multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer, including in osteosarcoma, which eventually leads to the failure of cancer chemotherapy. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop effective therapeutic strategies to override the expression and function of PGP1 to counter MDR in cancer patients.Experimental ApproachIn an effort to search for new chemical entities targeting PGP1‐associated MDR in osteosarcoma, we screened a 500+ compound library of known kinase inhibitors with established kinase selectivity profiles. We aimed to discover potential drug synergistic effects among kinase inhibitors and general chemotherapeutics by combining inhibitors with chemotherapy drugs such as doxorubicin and paclitaxel. The human osteosarcoma MDR cell lines U2OSR2 and KHOSR2 were used for the initial screen and secondary mechanistic studies.Key ResultsAfter screening 500+ kinase inhibitors, we identified NVP‐TAE684 as the most effective MDR reversing agent. NVP‐TAE684 significantly reversed chemoresistance when used in combination with doxorubicin, paclitaxel, docetaxel, vincristine, ET‐743 or mitoxantrone. NVP‐TAE684 itself is not a PGP1 substrate competitive inhibitor, but it can increase the intracellular accumulation of PGP1 substrates in PGP1‐overexpressing cell lines. NVP‐TAE684 was found to inhibit the function of PGP1 by stimulating PGP1 ATPase activity, a phenomenon reported for other PGP1 inhibitors.Conclusions and ImplicationsThe application of NVP‐TAE684 to restore sensitivity of osteosarcoma MDR cells to the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapeutics will be useful for further study of PGP1‐mediated MDR in human cancer and may ultimately benefit cancer patients.