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Expanding fashion exhibition history and theory: Fashion at New Zealand’s national museum since 1950
Authors: Labrum Bronwyn 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
New Zealand museums, as opposed to art galleries, have been slow to exhibit fashion. Instead, fashion and decorative arts were part of human history collections and displays, emphasizing the country’s colonial heritage. Yet museums have increasingly focused on fashion as a distinctive mode of display. This article traces the story of fashion and its display at New Zealand’s national museum since 1950. It extends the notion of ‘fashion’ to include ‘the fashionable’. It combines social as well as cultural history, and the material as well as the visual, aiming for a more robust theorization and analysis of fashion exhibition history.
This account involves a shift from settler histories, honorary female museum professionals working in the background, and ‘decorative arts’, to the development of dedicated fashion galleries. These recognized New Zealand as situated in the Pacific with its own distinctive history of fashion and sat alongside international blockbuster exhibitions. New Zealand museums followed international trends, at a great distance from the centres of fashion and the famous world museums. They also brought a local sensibility and history that contrasts with, and sheds light on, the wider story of museum fashion.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of interleukin‐6 signaling
Authors: Fuster José J , Walsh Kenneth 
Published: May 2014

Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) is a pleiotropic cytokine with complex roles in inflammation and metabolic disease. While typically regarded as a pro‐inflammatory cytokine, multiple studies in the last 20 years have generated conflicting data on the role of IL‐6 in inflammation and metabolism. In a recent study in Nature Immunology, Brüning and collaborators demonstrate that IL‐6 signaling in myeloid cells attenuates obesity‐induced inflammation and insulin resistance by promoting macrophage alternative activation (Mauer et al, ). This study unveils a new and surprising anti‐inflammatory action of IL‐6 and further highlights the complex actions of this cytokine.
Targeted gene therapy and cell reprogramming in Fanconi anemia
Authors: Rio Paula , Baños Rocio , Lombardo Angelo , Quintana‐Bustamante Oscar , Alvarez Lara , Garate Zita , Genovese Pietro , Almarza Elena , Valeri Antonio , Díez Begoña , Navarro Susana , Torres Yaima , Trujillo Juan P , Murillas Rodolfo , Segovia Jose C , Samper Enrique , Surralles Jordi , Gregory Philip D , Holmes Michael C , Naldini Luigi , Bueren Juan A 
Published: May 2014

AbstractGene targeting is progressively becoming a realistic therapeutic alternative in clinics. It is unknown, however, whether this technology will be suitable for the treatment of DNA repair deficiency syndromes such as Fanconi anemia (FA), with defects in homology‐directed DNA repair. In this study, we used zinc finger nucleases and integrase‐defective lentiviral vectors to demonstrate for the first time that FANCA can be efficiently and specifically targeted into the AAVS1 safe harbor locus in fibroblasts from FA‐A patients. Strikingly, up to 40% of FA fibroblasts showed gene targeting 42 days after gene editing. Given the low number of hematopoietic precursors in the bone marrow of FA patients, gene‐edited FA fibroblasts were then reprogrammed and re‐differentiated toward the hematopoietic lineage. Analyses of gene‐edited FA‐iPSCs confirmed the specific integration of FANCA in the AAVS1 locus in all tested clones. Moreover, the hematopoietic differentiation of these iPSCs efficiently generated disease‐free hematopoietic progenitors. Taken together, our results demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of correcting the phenotype of a DNA repair deficiency syndrome using gene‐targeting and cell reprogramming strategies.
Archaeology and Islam in Indonesia
Authors: Wood Michael 
Published: May 2014

Some Indonesian archaeologists, however, have focused on the nation's Islamic past. Uka Tjandrasasmita is one of Indonesia's leading archaeologists and is largely behind the writing of Volume III of the Sejarah Nasional Indonesia, the national history that was the "standard text" for the teaching of history in Indonesian schools during the New Order; the volume he worked on dealt with Indonesia's Islamic history. For many years he held the position of the head of the Islamic Antiquities section of the Indonesian Archaeological Service (Bidang Arkeologi Islam, Pusat Penelitian Kepurbakalaan dan Peninggalan Nasional) and carried out survey and excavation work in West, Central and East java. He has published many reports on the Islamic archaeology of Indonesia.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v15i2.530
Computer-Based Interventions to Improve Self-management in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Pal Kingshuk , Eastwood Sophie V. , Michie Susan , Farmer Andrew , Barnard Maria L. , Peacock Richard , Wood Bindie , Edwards Phil , Murray Elizabeth 
Published: May 2014

OBJECTIVE
Structured patient education programs can reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications. However, people appear to have difficulties attending face-to-face education and alternatives are needed. This review looked at the impact of computer-based diabetes self-management interventions on health status, cardiovascular risk factors, and quality of life of adults with type 2 diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
We searched The Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and CINAHL for relevant trials from inception to November 2011. Reference lists from relevant published studies were screened and authors contacted for further information when required. Two authors independently extracted relevant data using standard data extraction templates.

RESULTS
Sixteen randomized controlled trials with 3,578 participants met the inclusion criteria. Interventions were delivered via clinics, the Internet, and mobile phones. Computer-based diabetes self-management interventions appear to have small benefits on glycemic control: the pooled effect on HbA1c was −0.2% (−2.3 mmol/mol [95% CI −0.4 to −0.1%]). A subgroup analysis on mobile phone–based interventions showed a larger effect: the pooled effect on HbA1c from three studies was −0.50% (−5.46 mmol/mol [95% CI −0.7 to −0.3%]). There was no evidence of improvement in depression, quality of life, blood pressure, serum lipids, or weight. There was no evidence of significant adverse effects.

CONCLUSIONS
Computer-based diabetes self-management interventions to manage type 2 diabetes appear to have a small beneficial effect on blood glucose control, and this effect was larger in the mobile phone subgroup. There was no evidence of benefit for other biological, cognitive, behavioral, or emotional outcomes.
Alkylphenol ethoxylates and alkylphenols – update information on occurrence, fate and toxicity in aquatic environment
Authors: Kovarova J. , Blahova J. , Divisova L. , Svobodova Z. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractAlkylphenols and their precursors, alkylphenol etoxylates, are a group of manmade chemicals used mainly as surfactants in domestic and industrial applications worldwide. It has been well established that they have endocrine disruption activity, hepatotoxic, genotoxic and other negative effects on animal and human health. In spite of the effort to reduce their use, they persist in the environment not only in industrial but also in remote regions, and were detected in the variety of natural matrices including air, water, soil as well as food products, and human blood and urine worldwide. This article summarizes their occurrence, fate in natural conditions, and toxicity including mode of action. A subject of our concern was the aquatic environment as the most important reservoir and target of their deleterious impact.
Isotonic Saline Nasal Irrigation is an Effective Adjunctive Therapy to Intranasal Corticosteroid Spray in Allergic Rhinitis
Authors: Nguyen Shaun A. , Psaltis Alkis J. , Schlosser Rodney J. 
Published: May 2014

Background This study was designed to determine if the addition of large-volume, low–positive pressure nasal irrigations delivered with isotonic sodium chloride (hereinafter “saline”) added to intranasal corticosteroid therapy improves quality of life and objective measures of nasal breathing in patients with allergic rhinitis when compared with intranasal corticosteroid alone. Methods A prospective, unblinded, single-arm pilot study was performed of patients with allergic rhinitis already on intranasal corticosteroid pharmacotherapy. Patients added large-volume low-pressure saline irrigation twice daily for 8 weeks to their ongoing regiment of nasal corticosteroid. Mini-Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of life Questionnaire (mRQLQ) assessment and nasal peak inspiratory flow (NPIF) were performed at baseline and at 4 and 8 weeks. Results A total of 40 patients were enrolled. Twice-daily nasal irrigation with isotonic saline significantly < 0.001) red d mRQLQ scores, from 36.7 ± 20.48 (baseline) to 14.9 ± 11.03 (4 weeks) to 10.10 ± 10.65 (8 weeks). No significant changes were seen in NPIF, pattern use of nasal steroid use, or adverse events. Conclusion Large-volume, low–positive pressure nasal irrigation with isotonic saline is an effective adjunctive therapy to improve quality of life in patients with allergic rhinitis already on intranasal corticosteroid therapy. This study was a part of the clinical trial NCT01030146 registered at clinicaltrials.gov.
On Being “Advantageously Unsuited” for Dealing with Evil
Authors: Bitar Ray Paul 
Published: May 2014

Abstract: I investigate epistemic limits intrinsic to the analytic method of philosophizing used by Michael Rea (Analytic Theology) and Eleonore Stump (Wandering in Darkness). Rea claims analytic tools limited strictly to the purposes of theory building make analytic accounts “advantageously unsuited to deal with the reality of evil.” Rea's interpretation is conceptually distortive and problematic. I show how his use of the logical-practical distinction is unauthentic in dealing with the challenge of tragic evil and present a broad sketch of what I mean by “tragic.” I then elucidate how Rea abuses the epistemic limits of his method by misaiming analytic tools inasmuch as philosophical doubt cuts against any knowledge garnered in the epistemic practices of human beings experiencing evil. I lastly show that Rea's epistemic problems amplify in the theodicy defence of Stump, who uses an artificial construction of evil as suffering of “mentally fully functioning adults” shorn of any socio-historical location. While Stump's artifice of evil and epistemic doubt provides her the possibility for a general reason of moral sufficiency, she is unable to integrate the biblical narratives she expects will lend added epistemic assistance to her defence, so that her project ultimately founders by never really touching ground.
Risque climatique et réactivité des populations urbaines vulnérabilisées face à la montée des eaux de mer à Gonzagueville, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
Authors: Sadia Chérif 
Published: May 2014

Du 24 au 26 août 2011, sans discontinuer, les eaux de la mer sont montées à des hauteurs supérieures à 2 m causant dégâts matériels et déplacement des populations dans le quartier littoral de Gonzagueville à Abidjan. La presse ivoirienne relèvera le caractère exclusif de ces événements. Or, ils sont liés aux changements environnementaux globaux qui exercent une pression supplémentaire sur la zone côtière des villes portuaires telles Abidjan. L’organisation socio-spatiale de la ville d’Abidjan met en évidence la vulnérabilité des populations pauvres de Gonzagueville qui occupent les parties littorales et se trouvent en première ligne au moment de marées hautes. Toutefois, leur capacité de réaction permet de trouver des solutions locales au phénomène subi. En vue de comprendre ce processus, des enquêtes informelles ont été menées auprès des sinistrés de la marée haute de Gonzagueville couplées d’une observation et d’une revue de la presse locale. À ce titre, le processus de résilience des victimes de Gonzagueville se décline en plusieurs phases suivies de l’expression de la générosité des autorités à leur égard. La spontanéité de cette forme de résilience conduit à une exposition récurrente au risque et se trouve aujourd’hui peu efficace face aux incertitudes dans l’évaluation des risques liés aux changements environnementaux. À cet effet, l’article propose plutôt la résilience préventive consistant en des mesures pour prévenir les risques encourus par les populations abidjanaises.
Évaluation et analyse du potentiel commercial dans la Communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC)
Authors: Avom Désiré , Mignamissi Dieudonné 
Published: May 2014

L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer et d’analyser le potentiel commercial des pays de la CEMAC selon l’approche de l’intégration économique par le marché. Pour y parvenir, nous adoptons une démarche en plusieurs étapes. Après une analyse des faits stylisés, un modèle de gravité est appliqué et estimé selon plusieurs variantes pour évaluer les déterminants des échanges commerciaux. Les résultats obtenus sont ensuite utilisés pour le calcul du potentiel commercial communautaire. Nous parvenons aux principaux résultats suivants : (i) les faits stylisés montrent que les pays de la CEMAC sont faiblement intégrés commercialement, extravertis et hétérogènes; (ii) les coefficients des variables traditionnelles du modèle de gravité sont globalement de signes attendus; (iii) le faible niveau de revenu par habitant et surtout la faible diversification productive réduisent fortement le potentiel commercial dans la sous-région; (iv) des épisodes de création d’échanges, quoiqu’à un niveau faible, apparaissent, notamment dans les flux bilatéraux du Cameroun avec les autres États membres.
A modeling study of the processes of surface salinity seasonal cycle in the Bay of Bengal
Authors: Akhil V. P. , Durand Fabien , Lengaigne Matthieu , Vialard Jérôme , Keerthi M. G. , Gopalakrishna V. V. , Deltel Charles , Papa Fabrice , de Boyer Montégut Clément 
Published: May 2014

AbstractIn response to the Indian Monsoon freshwater forcing, the Bay of Bengal exhibits a very strong seasonal cycle in sea surface salinity (SSS), especially near the mouths of the Ganges‐Brahmaputra and along the east coast of India. In this paper, we use an eddy‐permitting (∼25 km resolution) regional ocean general circulation model simulation to quantify the processes responsible for this SSS seasonal cycle. Despite the absence of relaxation toward observations, the model reproduces the main features of the observed SSS seasonal cycle, with freshest water in the northeastern Bay, particularly during and after the monsoon. The model also displays an intense and shallow freshening signal in a narrow (∼100 km wide) strip that hugs the east coast of India, from September to January, in good agreement with high‐resolution measurements along two ships of opportunity lines. The mixed layer salt budget confirms that the strong freshening in the northern Bay during the monsoon results from the Ganges‐Brahmaputra river discharge and from precipitation over the ocean. From September onward, the East India Coastal Current transports this freshwater southward along the east coast of India, reaching the southern tip of India in November. The surface freshening results in an enhanced vertical salinity gradient that increases salinity of the surface layer by vertical processes. Our results reveal that the erosion of the freshwater tongue along the east coast of India is not driven by northward horizontal advection, but by vertical processes that eventually overcome the freshening by southward advection and restore SSS to its premonsoon values. The salinity‐stratified barrier layer hence only acts as a “barrier” for vertical heat fluxes, but is associated with intense vertical salt fluxes in the Bay of Bengal.
Variation in the Kuroshio intrusion: Modeling and interpretation of observations collected around the Luzon Strait from July 2009 to March 2011
Authors: Yuan Yaochu , Tseng Yu‐Heng , Yang Chenghao , Liao Guanghong , Chow Chun Hoe , Liu Zenghong , Zhu Xiao‐Hua , Chen Hong 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study analyzes the observed subtidal currents, 1/12° global HYCOM model results, and the observed time series to interpret seasonal and interannual patterns in the behavior of the Kuroshio intrusion around the Luzon Strait (LS). The observations include current measurements conducted at mooring station N2 (20°40.441′N, 120°38.324′E) from 7 July 2009 to 31 March 2011, surface geostrophic currents derived from the merged absolute dynamic topography, and the trajectory of an Argo float during the winter of 2010–2011. Results from mooring station N2 confirmed the seasonal changes in the Kuroshio intrusion and the variation of the Kuroshio intrusion during El Niño event from July 2009 to April 2010 and La Niña even from June 2010 to March 2011. The strongest Kuroshio intrusion occurs in the winter, with successively weaker currents in spring, autumn, and summer. Comparison of relative differences (Δmax (z)) in the maximum absolute value of monthly average zonal velocity components |Umax (z)| showed that the Kuroshio intrusion was stronger during the 2009–2010 winter (El Niño) than the 2010–2011 winter (La Niña). Furthermore, the relative differences (Δmax (z)) in deeper layers exceed those of the surface layer. Circulation patterns in surface geostrophic currents and the Argo float trajectory confirmed the results of mooring station N2. The Kuroshio intrusion velocity variation modeled using the 1/12° global HYCOM model resembled the observation on both seasonal to interannual scales. Modeled variation in the zonal mean velocity anomaly was also consistent with Niño3, Niño4, and North Equatorial Current (NEC) bifurcation latitude indices, indicating concurrent impacts of the ENSO influence. Monsoon winds strongly affect the seasonal variation while the weak upstream Kuroshio transport induced by El Niño, strongly affects the interannual variation, such as 2009–2010 winter. In 2010–2011 winter, the impact of winter monsoon forcing still exists in the LS. However, the stronger upstream Kuroshio transport during this period did not allow the Kuroshio to penetrate into the LS deeply. This explains why the 2009–2010 winter Kuroshio intrusion (El Niño event) was stronger than that of the 2010–2011 winter (La Niña event).
Connecting wind‐driven upwelling and offshore stratification to nearshore internal bores and oxygen variability
Authors: Walter Ryan K. , Woodson C. Brock , Leary Paul R. , Monismith Stephen G. 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study utilizes field observations in southern Monterey Bay, CA, to examine how regional‐scale upwelling and changing offshore (shelf) conditions influence nearshore internal bores. We show that the low‐frequency wind forcing (e.g., upwelling/relaxation time scales) modifies the offshore stratification and thermocline depth. This in turn alters the strength and structure of observed internal bores in the nearshore. An internal bore strength index is defined using the high‐pass filtered potential energy density anomaly in the nearshore. During weak upwelling favorable conditions and wind relaxations, the offshore thermocline deepens. In this case, both the amplitude of the offshore internal tide and the strength of the nearshore internal bores increase. In contrast, during strong upwelling conditions, the offshore thermocline shoals toward the surface, resulting in a decrease in the offshore internal tide amplitude. As a result, cold water accumulates in the nearshore (nearshore pooling), and the internal bore strength index decreases. Empirical orthogonal functions are utilized to support the claim that the bore events contribute to the majority of the variance in cross‐shelf exchange and transport in the nearshore. Observed individual bores can drive shock‐like drops in dissolved oxygen (DO) with rapid onset times, while extended upwelling periods with reduced bore activity produce longer duration, low DO events.
Alteration of the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition in the Martian surface rocks due to cosmic ray exposure
Authors: Pavlov A. A. , Pavlov A. K. , Ostryakov V. M. , Vasilyev G. I. , Mahaffy P. , Steele A. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract13C/12C and15N/14N isotopic ratios are pivotal for our understanding of the Martian carbon cycle, history of the Martian atmospheric escape, and origin of the organic compounds on Mars. Here we demonstrate that the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of the surface rocks on Mars can be significantly altered by the continuous exposure of Martian surface to cosmic rays. Cosmic rays can effectively produce13C and15N isotopes via spallation nuclear reactions on oxygen atoms in various Martian rocks. We calculate that in the top meter of the Martian rocks, the rates of production of both13C and15N due to galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) exposure can vary within 1.5–6 atoms/cm3/s depending on rocks' depth and chemical composition. We also find that the average solar cosmic rays can produce carbon and nitrogen isotopes at a rate comparable to GCRs in the top 5–10 cm of the Martian rocks. We demonstrate that if the total carbon content in a surface Martian rock is <10 ppm, then the “light,” potentially “biological”13C/12C ratio would be effectively erased by cosmic rays over 3.5 billion years of exposure. We found that for the rocks with relatively short exposure ages (e.g., 100 million years), cosmogenic changes in15N/14N ratio are still very significant. We also show that a short exposure to cosmic rays of Allan Hills 84001 while on Mars can explain its high‐temperature heavy nitrogen isotopic composition (15N/14N). Applications to Martian meteorites and the current Mars Science Laboratory mission are discussed.
Knowledge Base of Language Teachers
Authors: Kubanyiova Magdalena 
Published: May 2014

AbstractLanguage teachers' knowledge base is a relatively young notion in applied linguistics. Although the professional preparation of language teachers has traditionally drawn from disciplines such as linguistics, literature, cultural studies, education, and second language acquisition (SLA), it was not until Richards and Nunan's seminal 1990 publication of second language teacher education research that a more systematic inquiry was initiated into what language teachers need to know in order to do their job well. Critical to these debates was a shift in general teacher education research from the predominantly behaviorist and transmission‐oriented conceptions of teaching to a deeper appreciation of the less observable and multidimensional knowledge base of teaching. This entry reviews selected key themes that have since then continued to shape debates in this branch of applied linguistics, focusing on language teachers' knowledge of SLA, knowledge about language, teacher identity, and moral knowledge base. It concludes with proposals for the research domain's future agendas and methodological approaches which could contribute to producing a more compelling, robust, and locally appropriate evidence base and inspire a more widespread uptake of language teacher education practices that support the development of effective language education professionals.