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Negotiating the teaching of history in times of curriculum reform: the narrative accounts of four Australian primary teachers
Authors: Reitano Paul , Winter Satine 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis research investigates the understandings of four teachers who teach history in primary and early childhood settings. Data were gathered from participants through semi‐structured interviews. The participants were experienced teachers who were in the process of curriculum change – from teachers of studies of society and environment to teachers of history, under the auspices of the Australian Curriculum: History. The focus of the study was on their understandings of content knowledge and the pedagogies involved in classroom teaching, using a pedagogical framework, which sought to identify and categorise the nature of their knowledge base in the implementation phase of the Australian Curriculum: History. The study used narrative inquiry to show how temporality, sociality, and place play out in the lives of these teachers of history. The findings from this study indicate the challenges and opportunities for teachers’ professional knowledge landscapes in times of curriculum reform. Whilst there are a small number of participants in this study, their stories provide insight into how teachers responded to the challenges and opportunities of teaching history and how these teachers have shaped the implementation of the history curriculum.
John of God
Authors: Rocha Cristina 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis is the first ethnographic account of the global spiritual movement headed by John of God, a Brazilian faith healer. In just over a decade, John of God has become an international healer superstar—visited by thousands of the desperately ill, the wealthy, celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Ram Daas, Wayne Dyer, and Shirley MacLaine, and an increasing array of media. What sets John of God apart are his spectacular healing methods. He performs operations using kitchen knives, scissors, and scalpels without anesthetics or asepsis. He allegedly takes on “entities” (spirits) in a trance and does not remember the operations when he becomes conscious again. Most people claim they do not feel pain and do not develop infections. Drawing on a decade of multi-sited fieldwork in Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha provides a rich and important case study of religious globalization which embodies themes that are central to the spread and practice of faith and healing in the twenty-first century. Rocha explores the ways in which religion is both globalized and localized in late modernity and the strategies of cultural translation involved, the establishment of transnational communities of belief, the transformation of poor rural areas into sites of globalization, the efficacy of healing across cultures, the increasing appeal of traditional medicine in the West, and the prominent place of healing (of the body, the spirit, and the planet) in late modernity.
Introduction
Authors: Hirota Hidetaka 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The Introduction opens with the deportation of two Irish paupers from a Massachusetts almshouse to Ireland in 1855. The episode provides an entrée to the principal historical issues the book addresses: the practical impact of anti-Irish nativism, its influence on state immigration policies, how those policies laid the groundwork for later federal immigration law, and how state deportation policy unfolded in a transnational context. The Introduction emphasizes that the book focuses on the centrality of economic considerations in anti-Irish nativism. Nativists resented Irish immigrants’ inability to financially support themselves and the immigration policy they developed aimed to expel the indigent Irish dependent on public relief. This book fundamentally demonstrates how American immigration control emerged as a matter of class by tracing the institutionalization into regulatory immigration policy of an economic logic that considered paupers the antithesis of American citizens—a process driven by intense bias against people of Irish ancestry.
Style, sociolinguistic change, and political broadcasting
Authors: Lorenzo-Dus Nuria 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis chapter explores the notion of sociolinguistic change in relation to a popular news show in Spain (Salvados). The selected episode concerns the Spanish government’s controversial handling of a tragic rail accident. The analysis covers both the interviewing style of the show’s anchor (Jordi Évole) and public uptake of his style across digital media. Évole’s style is found to rely on stances of moral evaluation, mock naïvety, and ordinariness. These represent a departure from traditional forms of interviewing in Spain; they contribute to, stimulate, mediate, and evaluate sociolinguistic change within Spanish contemporary broadcasting.
Style, change, and media
Authors: Androutsopoulos Jannis 
Published: January 2017

AbstractBased on a critical reading of Chapters 2–10, this postscript discusses the present book’s contribution to the emerging framework of sociolinguistic change, which addresses a range of sociolinguistic processes beyond feature-based linguistic change. In a sociolinguistic change framework, media are theorized as spaces of sociolinguistic variation and change in their own right, and media language practices are examined in terms of their relations to non-mediatized language. These include the role of media representations in the enregisterment of speech forms, the uptake and recontextualization of media language fragments, and the circulation of linguistic innovations across modes of mediated communication and user networks. Research on sociolinguistic change offers new perspectives on the interaction between genre, style, and change, for example with regard to the impact of genre change on linguistic change, the role of highly visible media speakers, and the way media performance may reinforce enregisterment.
Gradability in Natural Language
Authors: Burnett Heather 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis monograph presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. The book argues that particular subclasses of adjectival predicates (relative adjectives (i.e. tall), total adjectives (i.e. dry), partial adjectives (i.e. wet), and non-scalar adjectives (i.e. hexagonal)) can be distinguished through looking how their criteria of application can vary depending on context; how they display the characteristic properties of vague language; and what the properties of their associated orders (a.k.a. scales) are. It has been known for a long time that there exist empirical connections between context sensitivity, vagueness, and scale structure in the adjectival domain; however, a formal system that expresses these connections has yet to be developed. By combining insights into the relationship between context sensitivity and gradability from the Delineation semantics framework with insights into the relationship between tolerance relations and the Sorites paradox from the Tolerant, Classical, Strict non-classical framework, the book proposes such a logical system (called DelTCS). Using this framework, it is shown that the association of particular classes of adjectives with their particular kinds of scales can be derived from their context sensitivity and vagueness properties. In the second part of the book, it gives a mereological extension of DelTCS to analyze vagueness and gradability outside the adjectival domain. It is shown that there exist correspondences between the major adjectival scale structure classes and certain well-known subclasses of determiner phrases, and the book shows how these correspondences can be captured within this system.
Estimation in Practice
Authors: Arndt Channing , Mahrt Kristi 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This chapter furthers the discussion by outlining how each approach translates from theory to the practical estimation of poverty/wellbeing. It provides an overview of the specific steps involved in estimation and highlights the analyst’s role in customizing procedures to individual country contexts. The procedures in focus here are implemented via sets of Stata and GAMS code. The code whose default stream is associated with the utility-consistent CBN approach is referred to as the Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe). The procedure for FOD analysis is called executing FOD (EFOD). The PLEASe and EFOD user guides contain more detailed descriptions of the technical aspects of implementation, such as data requirements and particulars of the code.
Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001–10
Authors: Stifel David , Razafimanantena Tiaray , Rakotomanana Faly 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This chapter describes how the standardized PLEASe computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to measuring consumption poverty can be adapted in order to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005, and 2010. The chapter documents how the utility-consistent approach to intertemporal and spatial deflation differs from the approach undertaken by the national statistical office to produce the official poverty estimates and how the trends in these estimates differ substantially. Further, it illustrates the importance of addressing extreme values for calculating unit prices, and how to handle redistricting when conducting revealed preference tests of the utility consistency of not only regionally estimated poverty lines (i.e. do the consumption patterns in other spatial domains cost no less than the own-domain consumption patterns when both are evaluated at own-domain prices), but also of poverty lines over time.
Methods Matter
Authors: Beck Ulrik , Mussa Richard , Pauw Karl 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This chapter decomposes differences between the ‘official’ poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by Pauw et al. (2016) with respect to five methodological differences: (i) the use of a revised set of unit conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in the two surveys; and (v) permitting a change in the food/non-food composition of the consumption basket over. Our results suggest that the decline in national poverty varies between −3.4 and −8.4 percentage points, compared to the official estimate of −1.8 per cent.
Synthesis
Authors: Arndt Channing , Mahrt Kristi , Tarp Finn 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This synthesis chapter seeks to draw general lessons from the case studies presented in the book. It does not include a review or summary of each chapter. Instead, we revert to themes that emerged from earlier in the book. Specifically, we argue that appropriately assessing living standards is challenging, and focus on the different nature of the challenges for consumption poverty line estimation and multidimensional poverty measurement. The six case studies uniformly indicate that the process of drawing appropriate absolute poverty lines is not straightforward and cannot be done mechanically. This is so principally due to five key factors: heterogeneity, volatility, vulnerability, data, and theory. The first three factors are usefully grouped together. In all of the case countries considered, poor people are heterogeneous, frequently live in environments with strikingly high levels of volatility, and are, almost by definition, vulnerable to shocks.
A digest of matrix models
Authors: Gurau Razvan 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThere are many excellent reviews on random matrices both in mathematics and in physics literature. This chapter presents only a very quick overview of some selected topics in random matrix theory: the 1/N expansion, the continuum limit, the double scaling limit and the Schwinger–Dyson equations. The results listed in this chapter for random matrices will be recovered one by one for random tensors in subsequent chapters.
The double scaling limit
Authors: Gurau Razvan 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis chapter presents the double scaling limit of quartic tensor models. In the first part of this chapter it is shown show that the melonic family in the quartic melonic tensor model can be analytically resumed and that this resummation is encoded in a translation of the intermediate matrix fields to a nontrivial vacuum. The most striking consequence of this translation is that one can now show that the continuum limit of tensor models corresponds to a genuine phase transition (in the field theory sense) associated to a symmetry breaking. In the second part of this chapter the intermediate field representation is used to derive the double scaling limit of the quartic melonic model.
Conclusions
Authors: Gurau Razvan 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis last chapter discusses some applications of tensor models as models of emergent random geometry. Tensor models generate weighted triangulations in any dimensions. The flexibility of tensor models comes from the freedom one has to choose the weight of the triangulation by choosing various vertex kernels and covariances. These choices encode the physical interpretation of a model and there exist several choices, leading to different physical interpretations. One such choice, leading to a natural interpretation of tensor models as generators of Euclidean dynamical triangulations, is discussed in detail.
Introduction
Authors: Kang S. Deborah 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The introduction presents the book’s main argument that the INS on the US–Mexico border made and remade the nation’s immigration laws over the course of the twentieth century. This claim challenges popular and scholarly notions that the INS functioned primarily as a law enforcement agency, administering laws issued by Congress and the courts, and, instead, underscores the multiple ways in which the local branches of one federal agency defined American immigration law and policy. While the INS in the Southwest often created these measures in a highly haphazard and reactive fashion, they ultimately came to shape the capacities of the American state on the US-Mexico border. The introduction further discusses the implications of this argument for the study of the American administrative state, immigration law and policy history, and borderlands history. It closes with chapter summaries of the book.
Muscle transcriptome analysis reveals molecular pathways and biomarkers involved in extreme ultimate pH and meat defect occurrence in chicken
Authors: Beauclercq Stéphane , Hennequet-Antier Christelle , Praud Christophe , Godet Estelle , Collin Anne , Tesseraud Sophie , Métayer-Coustard Sonia , Bourin Marie , Moroldo Marco , Martins Frédéric , Lagarrigue Sandrine , Le Bihan-Duval Elisabeth , Berri Cécile 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThe processing ability and sensory quality of chicken breast meat are highly related to its ultimate pH (pHu), which is mainly determined by the amount of glycogen in the muscle at death. To unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying glycogen and meat pHu variations and to identify predictive biomarkers of these traits, a transcriptome profiling analysis was performed using an Agilent custom chicken 8×60K microarray. The breast muscle gene expression patterns were studied in two chicken lines experimentally selected for high (pHu+) and low (pHu-) pHu values of the breast meat. Across the 1,436 differentially expressed (DE) genes found between the two lines, many were involved in biological processes related to muscle development and remodelling and carbohydrate and energy metabolism. The functional analysis showed an intensive use of carbohydrate metabolism to produce energy in the pHu- line, while alternative catabolic pathways were solicited in the muscle of the pHu+ broilers, compromising their muscle development and integrity. After a validation step on a population of 278 broilers using microfluidic RT-qPCR, 20 genes were identified by partial least squares regression as good predictors of the pHu, opening new perspectives of screening broilers likely to present meat quality defects.
Research on Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Patients with SCA3/MJD
Authors: Liu Zhen , Zhou Jie , Yin Xiaomeng , Shi Shuying , Sun Weining , Jiang Hong , Shen Lu , Tang Beisha , Wang Junling 
Published: January 2017

AbstractSpinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a degenerative neurological disorders caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion within the ataxin-3 gene. It is characterized by multi-system involvement and diverse clinical phenotypes, which cannot be fully explained the length of the CAG repeats. One possible explanation for the phenotypic heterogeneity could be the presence of mitochondrial DNA mutations that modify disease severity. To explore the role of Mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA) variations in SCA3 pathogenesis, we analyzed polymorphisms of six mitochondrial genes,MT-LT1, MT-ND1, MT-CO2, MT-TK, MT-ATP8andMT-ATP6, in 102 unrelated SCA3/MJD patients and 100 healthy controls. The results showed that there were 24 variations of those mtDNA genes in the SCA3 patients and only 10 in the unrelated healthy controls. There was no difference of the relative mtDNA copy number variation between the SCA3 patients and healthy controls (93.20 vs. 89.66, P>0.05). In the group of SCA3 patients, the relative mtDNA copy number showed a negative correlation between the number of CAG repeats (r=−0.210, P < 0.05), but did not correlate with the age at diagnosis, the age of onset, disease duration, ICARS scores and SARA scores. Our research demonstrated that the frequency of mutated mtDNA in SCA3 patients was higher than that in the healthy group. The mtDNA relative copy number in SCA3 patients was not significantly different compared to the healthy group. Thus, the copy number might not be treated as a biomedical indicator when measuring the severity of illness in SCA3 patients.
Visual memories are stored along a compressed timeline
Authors: Singh Inder , Oliva Aude , Howard Marc W. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractIn continuous recognition the recency effect manifests as a decrease in accuracy and a sublinear increase in response time (RT) with the lag of a repeated stimulus. The recency effect could result from the gradual weakening of mnemonic traces. Alternatively, the recency effect could result from a search through a compressed timeline of recent experience. These two hypotheses make very different predictions about the shape of response time distributions. Using highly-memorable pictures to mitigate changes in accuracy enabled a detailed examination of the effect of recency on retrieval dynamics. The recency at which pictures were repeated ranged over two orders of magnitude across three experiments. Analysis of the RT distributions showed that the time at which memories became accessible changed with the recency of the probe, as predicted by a serial search model suggesting that visual memories can be accessed by sequentially scanning along a compressed representation of the past.
HiCRep: assessing the reproducibility of Hi-C data using a stratum-adjusted correlation coefficient
Authors: Yang Tao , Zhang Feipeng , Yardımcı Galip Gürkan , Song Fan , Hardison Ross C. , Noble William Stafford , Yue Feng , Li Qunhua 
Published: January 2017

AbstractHi-C is a powerful technology for studying genome-wide chromatin interactions. However, current methods for assessing Hi-C data reproducibility can produce misleading results because they ignore spatial features in Hi-C data, such as domain structure and distance dependence. We present HiCRep, a framework for assessing the reproducibility of Hi-C data that systematically accounts for these features. In particular, we introduce a novel similarity measure, the stratum adjusted correlation coefficient (SCC), for quantifying the similarity between Hi-C interaction matrices. Not only does it provide a statistically sound and reliable evaluation of reproducibility, SCC can also be used to quantify differences between Hi-C contact matrices and to determine the optimal sequencing depth for a desired resolution. The measure consistently shows higher accuracy than existing approaches in distinguishing subtle differences in reproducibility and depicting interrelationships of cell lineages. The proposed measure is straightforward to interpret and easy to compute, making it well-suited for providing standardized, interpretable, automatable, and scalable quality control. The freely available R package HiCRep implements our approach.
Modern human origins: multiregional evolution of autosomes and East Asia origin of Y and mtDNA
Authors: Yuan Dejian , Lei Xiaoyun , Gui Yuanyuan , Wang Mingrui , Zhang Ye , Zhu Zuobin , Wang Dapeng , Yu Jun , Huang Shi 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThe neutral theory has been used as a null model for interpreting nature and produced the Recent Out of Africa model of anatomically modern humans. Recent studies, however, have established that genetic diversities are mostly at maximum saturation levels maintained by selection, therefore challenging the explanatory power of the neutral theory and rendering the present molecular model of human origins untenable. Using improved methods and public data, we have revisited human evolution and found sharing of genetic variations among racial groups to be largely a result of parallel mutations rather than recent common ancestry and admixture as commonly assumed. We derived an age of 1.86-1.92 million years for the first split in modern human populations based on autosomal diversity data. We found evidence of modern Y and mtDNA originating in East Asia and dispersing via hybridization with archaic humans. Analyses of autosomes, Y and mtDNA all suggest that Denisovan and Neanderthal were archaic Africans with Eurasian admixtures and ancestors of South Asia Negritos and Aboriginal Australians. Verifying our model, we found more ancestry of Southern Chinese from Hunan in Africans relative to other East Asian groups examined. These results suggest multiregional evolution of autosomes and replacements of archaic Y and mtDNA by modern ones originating in East Asia, thereby leading to a coherent account of modern human origins.
Predicting the structure and function of coalesced microbial communities
Authors: Sierocinski Pawel , Milferstedt Kim , Bayer Florian , Großkopf Tobias , Alston Mark , Bastkowski Sarah , Swarbreck David , Hobbs Phil J , Soyer Orkun S , Hamelin Jérôme , Buckling Angus 
Published: January 2017

ABSTRACTMicrobial communities commonly coalesce in nature, but the consequences for resultant community structure and function is unclear. Consistent with recent theory, we demonstrate using methanogenic communities that the most productive communities in isolation dominated when communities were mixed. As a corollary of this dynamic, total methane production increased with the number of inoculated communities. The cohesion and dominance of single communities was explained by more “niche-packed” communities being both more efficient at exploiting resources and resistant to invasion, rather than a function of the average performance of component species. These results are likely to be relevant to the ecological dynamics of natural microbial communities, as well as demonstrating a simple method to predictably enhance microbial community function in biotechnology, health and agriculture.