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Socioeconomic and environmental effects of China’s Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program after 15 years: a systematic review protocol
Authors: Gutiérrez Rodríguez Lucas , Hogarth Nick , Zhou Wen , Putzel Louis , Xie Chen , Zhang Kun 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Background
Agricultural activities on sloping lands have historically led to forest loss and degradation in China which, coupled with industrial pressures on the environment, were deemed responsible for catastrophic flooding events in the late 1990s. After these events, China’s forest policy underwent a significant reorientation towards ecological conservation and rural development, a process epitomized by the Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP). Launched in 1999, the CCFP integrates both socioeconomic and environmental objectives with the aim of reforesting smallholder cropland on sloping lands, while compensating farmers with payments for their lost income. Following 15 years of implementation, it is timely to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the state of knowledge about the CCFP’s impacts on human populations and the environment.

Methods/design
The primary research question asks “What socioeconomic and environmental effects has the Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program had on human populations and land resources during its first 15 years in China?” We use a theory of change and a Population-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome (PICO) framework to structure our systematic review, where populations of interest consist of both human populations and land resources targeted by the program, while the intervention of interest is the CCFP as defined by its component activities, including compensatory subsidies, skill-training, and enforcement with field checks. Outcomes are defined as both the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the program. We will conduct a search for relevant English and Chinese language literature on Scopus, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, AGRIS (FAO), and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure. Search results will be screened for relevance in a two stage process (titles and abstracts, followed by full texts) based on predefined eligibility criteria, and then further assessed for potential sources of bias. Extraction of data from those studies that have passed full-text screening will follow a coding protocol based on the PICO framework, and quantitative and qualitative analyses of the extracted data will be conducted and synthesized. Finally, a narrative report will present the findings of the review, alongside a geographic map illustrating the coverage of included studies compared with the actual implementation area of the CCFP.
Increased susceptibility to otitis media in a Splunc1-deficient mouse model
Authors: Bartlett Jennifer A. , Meyerholz David K. , Wohlford-Lenane Christine L. , Naumann Paul W. , Salzman Nita H. , McCray Paul B. 
Published: March 2015

ABSTRACT
Otitis media (inflammation of the middle ear) is one of the most common diseases of early childhood. Susceptibility to otitis is influenced by a number of factors, including the actions of innate immune molecules secreted by the epithelia lining the nasopharynx, middle ear and Eustachian tube. The SPLUNC1 (short palate, lung, nasal epithelial clone 1) protein is a highly abundant secretory product of the mammalian nasal, oral and respiratory mucosa that is thought to play a multifunctional role in host defense. In this study we investigated Splunc1 expression in the ear of the mouse, and examined whether this protein contributes to overall host defense in the middle ear and/or Eustachian tube. We found that Splunc1 is highly expressed in both the surface epithelium and in submucosal glands in these regions in wild-type mice. In mice lacking Splunc1, we noted histologically an increased frequency of otitis media, characterized by the accumulation of leukocytes (neutrophils with scattered macrophages), proteinaceous fluid and mucus in the middle ear lumens. Furthermore, many of these mice had extensive remodeling of the middle ear wall, suggesting a chronic course of disease. From these observations, we conclude that loss of Splunc1 predisposes mice to the development of otitis media. The Splunc1−/− mouse model should help investigators to better understand both the biological role of Splunc1 as well as host defense mechanisms in the middle ear.
Washing a patient's hair in bed: a care fundamental
Authors: Peate Ian 
Published: March 2015

Assisting the patient to care for their hair and washing the hair are two skilled activities that the healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner (HCA and AP) will need to perform. Understanding the function of hair physiologically, as well as the significance of hair from a cultural and religious perspective, will mean the HCA and AP are considering the patient's needs from a holistic perspective. This article provides the reader with an overview of personal hygiene, emphasising the fact that this activity of living is based on individual preference. There is a brief discussion of the anatomy of the skin and its ‘appendage’—the hair. An overview of how to wash a patient's hair in bed is provided. When the HCA and AP perform this important activity, the overriding aim is to provide safe and effective care.
New masculinities in Chinese and Japanese combat films
Authors: Weiss Amanda 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Through an analysis of popular combat films and television shows, this article argues that there has been a transformation in the representation of the hero-soldier in both China and Japan. Using theories of masculinity and nationalism, it suggests that recent Chinese films reveal a turn towards hybrid heroism-victimhood, increased focus on the emasculation of Japanese soldiers, and tensions between the market and the state. Meanwhile, Japanese films illustrate continued differences between the ambiguous mainstream and the straightforward nationalism of the right, albeit with an overall trend towards the rehabilitation of the problematic image of the soldier. Such shifts in the imagining of the soldier-hero demonstrate the ways in which Chinese and Japanese discourses on national identity have changed over time.
Lisa Lu interview
Authors: Williams Tony 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
This interview covers the long career of veteran actress Lisa Lu Yan in American media and Chinese cinema. Lisa Lu began acting a decade after she relocated to America following the change of government in china. Thanks to Frank Borzage, she began her prolific career in American television and became the second Chinese actress in post-war cinema to co-star in The Mountain Road (1960) with James Stewart. Among the many well-known American television series she appeared in during the 1960s were Bonanza, Cimarron City, Checkmate, and Yancy Derringer. She also appeared alongside Richard Boone in the opening segements of Have Gun Will Travel for one season in the role of “Hey Girl”, one she made her own. She returned to Hong Kong to star in The Arch (1969), the first film directed by female director Tan Shu-shuan in 1969 and later appeared in The Shaw Brothers’ 14 Amazons (1971). Run Run Shaw then offered her the title role in Li Han-hsiang’s The Empress Dowager and its sequel. She later played the same role in the opening sequences of Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor. Since then, she has continued her prolific career working in film, screen, and stage in America, China, and Taiwan.
Problems with feminine empowerment in goddess films: A feminist analysis of South Indian goddess films
Authors: Sankaran Chitra 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
The goddess genre of films, popular in South India, has traditionally been conceived of as dedicated to presenting the glory and power of the Hindu goddess as divine mother, saviour and protector. The imaging of the goddess is interesting and unique in that it seems to stand outside the normal representations of women in (Indian) cinema. This has made it worthwhile to investigate this genre from the perspective of feminism. This study begins by discussing and demonstrating ways in which the goddess figure has been imaged in extra/ordinary ways to stand outside male scopic regimes. It then establishes how despite this supreme empowerment of the goddess within the filmic diegesis there is little concomitant empowerment of the mortal female. Finally, the study argues that in recent years even the empowerment of the goddess appears compromised.
Questions begin Where the Clouds End: Ethnic identity and the documentary ‘Voice’
Authors: Hasan Daisy 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
I interviewed Wanphrang Diengdoh about his most recent film, Where the Clouds End, in Shillong on the 15th of August 2014. This day is not only nationally significant but also politically fraught in north-east India. ‘Dissident’ outfits call for bandhs to protest against the Indian state while the regional state machinery mobilizes citizens to celebrate the day and defy the bandhs. Unlike earlier years, when people silently allied with the dissidents by remaining indoors, this time round there was public movement, even celebration, as restaurants offered reduced price menus and concerts were held in public squares. As the sun went down and dusk crept up over the hills and into the city, we gathered around my tape recorder. Clutching mugs of Sharawn tea, a delicately flavoured Khasi variety that is yet to be discovered by the rest of the world, we exchanged stories and discussed complex ideas. This article is based on that wide ranging conversation as well as my critical appraisal of the film.
Book Reviews
Authors: Paul Arunima , Roy Mantra , Hariharan Veena , Walia Ramna , Duggal Vebhuti 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein (eds) (2012) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4577-0, $ 27.95 (paperback)
Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema, Sangita Gopal (2011) Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 242 pp. ISBN:13: 9780226304267/ ISBN:10: 0226304264, (paperback)
Crossover Cinema: Cross-cultural Film from Production to Reception, Sukhmani Khorana (ed.) (2013) London and New York: Routledge, 172 pp. ISBN: 9780415630924, h/bk; ISBN: 9780203097212, $89.98
Cut-pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh, Lotte Hoek (2013) New York: Columbia University Press, 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0-231-16289-0, (paperback), $27.50
More than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music, Gregory Booth and Bradley Shope (eds) (2014) London: Oxford University Press, 358 pp. ISBN; 978-0-19-992885-9, (paperback), £25.00
Häusliche Heiligkeit
Authors: Weitbrecht Julia 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
This article investigates historical conceptualizations of sanctity in medieval saints’ legends. Sanctity, in its textual representations, emerges from the interaction of traditional legendary narratives, their textual transmission, and varying models of imitability. The legend of St Oswald illustrates the versatility of the saint as persona imitabilis: While historical accounts describe Oswald as a missionary king and martyr, the ›Munich Oswald‹ links the motif of conversion by marriage to the narrative model of the bridal quest. Simultaneously, the feudal aspects of the bridal quest are questioned by references to sanctification by renunciation. This aporetical constitution of sanctity is retold and harmonized in the Berlin manuscript mgq 478. Most of the included narratives have been edited so that they lead to a happy ending. The ›Berlin Oswald‹ thus provides another new model of imitability, the socially acceptable saint, which allows for a better understanding of late medieval conceptualizations of sanctity as well as saints’ legends as a narrative genre.
A Dixmier--Douady theory for strongly self-absorbing C
*-algebras
Authors: Dadarlat Marius , Pennig Ulrich 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
We show that the Dixmier–Douady theory of continuous fields of

C
*

C^{*}

-algebras with compact operators

𝕂

{\mathbb{K}}

as fibers extends significantly to a more general theory
of
fields with fibers A

⊗

\otimes

𝕂

\mathbb{K}

where A is a strongly self-absorbing

C
*

C^{*}

-algebra.
The classification of the corresponding locally trivial fields involves a generalized cohomology theory which is computable via the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence.
An important feature
of the general theory is the appearance of characteristic classes in higher dimensions.
We also give a necessary and sufficient K-theoretical condition for local triviality of these continuous fields over spaces of finite covering dimension.
Dynamical analysis of the avian-human influenza epidemic model using the semi-analytical method
Authors: Jabbari Azizeh , Kheiri Hossein , Bekir Ahmet 
Published: March 2015

AbstractIn this work, we present a dynamic behavior of the avian-human influenza epidemic model by using efficient computational algorithm, namely the multistage differential transform method(MsDTM). The MsDTM is used here as an algorithm for approximating the solutions of the avian-human influenza epidemic model in a sequence of time intervals. In order to show the efficiency of the method, the obtained numerical results are compared with the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method (RK4M) and differential transform method(DTM) solutions. It is shown that the MsDTM has the advantage of giving an analytical form of the solution within each time interval which is not possible in purely numerical techniques like RK4M.
A Novel Smooth Gauss–Semi-Markov Mobility Model for Mobile Wireless Networks
Authors: Zhang Hengyang , Zheng Bo , Zhuo Kun 
Published: March 2015

AbstractMobility model serves as the basis of protocol design and simulation in mobile wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a novel mobility model for mobile wireless networks, named smooth Gauss–semi-Markov (SGM) mobility model. Introducing Gauss and semi-Markov processes, the model can characterize the smooth movement of mobile users in accordance with the physical law of motion in order to eliminate sharp turns, abrupt speed change and sudden stops exhibited by existing mobility models. The SGM model consists of five consecutive phases: acceleration phase, stable phase, turn phase, deceleration phase and pause phase, including almost all kinds of movement states in realistic conditions. Through stochastic analysis, we prove mathematically the time stationary average speed and uniform spatial node distribution in the SGM model. The model can be easily and flexibly applied for simulating node mobility in mobile wireless networks. By adjusting parameters, many existing mobility models widely used at present, such as the Random Walk, Random Direction, Modified Random Direction, Gauss–Markov, Semi-Markov Smooth, Smooth Random mobility models, etc., can be derived from the SGM model. We show the unity and generality of the SGM model by NS-2 simulations.
Multi-band Monopole Antennas Loaded with Metamaterial TL
Authors: Song Zhi-jie , Liang Jian-gang 
Published: March 2015

AbstractA novel metamaterial transmission line (TL) by loading complementary single Archimedean spiral resonator pair (CSASRP) is investigated and used to design a set of multi-frequency monopole antennas. The particularity is that the CSASRP which features dual-shunt branches in the equivalent circuit model is directly etched in the signal strip. By smartly controlling the element parameters, three antennas are designed and one of them covering UMTS and Bluetooth bands is fabricated and measured. The antenna exhibits impedance matching better than –10 dB and normal monopolar radiation patterns at working bands of 1.9–2.22 and 2.38–2.5 GHz. Moreover, the loaded element also contributes to the radiation, which is the major advantage of this prescription over previous lumped-element loadings. The proposed antenna is also more compact over previous designs.
National and post-national discourses and the construction of linguistic identities by students of Albanian origin in Greece
Authors: Archakis Argiris 
Published: March 2015

AbstractDrawing on Critical Discourse Analysis and, more specifically, on the relationship between the macro-level of dominant discourses and the micro-level of individual positionings, we examine the way linguistic identities are constructed by immigrant students of Albanian origin in Greece. We elaborate on two ‘competitive’ discourses: the national, homogenizing one and the post-national, deconstructing one, and the way they influence the construction of immigrant students’ linguistic identities. Our data come from lyceum immigrant students’ essays which are analyzed in order to trace their positionings towards the two ‘competitive’ discourses, and in particular, towards the linguistic dimension of these discourses. For a systematic investigation of immigrant students’ linguistic identities we employ the membership categorization device
Social Media in Archives and Libraries: A Snapshot of Planning, Evaluation, and Preservation Decisions
Authors: Liew Chern Li , King Vanessa , Oliver Gillian 
Published: March 2015

Abstract This paper reports the findings from research which explored decision making and practices underpinning the implementation or non-adoption of social media in archives and libraries worldwide. Archives and libraries continue to face demands, whether from senior management, funding agencies, the government, or taxpayers to demonstrate accountability. Evaluation provides evidence to meet such demands and to gain, validate, or sustain support for programs and activities. Being able to show success is a key step for archives and libraries that need to rationalize or win support for the continuance of their social media efforts. Related to this are questions about whether or not there should be a preservation strategy for the content of social media as well as a plan for sustainability of infrastructure to support these activities. Our survey findings suggest that archives and libraries know that they are not necessarily choosing the evaluation methods that can best demonstrate the achievement of their intentions, and furthermore that they lack strategies and policies for preservation and sustainability.
Effect of Fractionation of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement on Properties of Superpave Mixtures With Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement
Authors: Sabahfer N. , Hossain M. 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
While the necessity for cost effective and sustainable replacements for virgin paving mixtures is becoming more and more evident in recent years, particularly with asphalt binder and aggregate economics and the obligations for using greener alternatives, contradictory performance results of high percentages of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in Superpave mixtures have made the addition of RAP to hot mix asphalt (HMA) quite challenging. Obtaining RAP involves milling and processing that produces an excessive amount of fine aggregates, making it difficult to control the final HMA volumetric properties, especially when higher amounts of RAP are used. In addition, segregation in RAP stockpiles is a common phenomenon which causes difficulties in air void control of the final mix due to higher asphalt content of fine aggregates. Fractionation is a process in which RAP is separated into at least two sizes, typically one coarse and one fine fraction, in order to ensure consistency of RAP. Fractionation is now being increasingly specified for inclusion of higher volumes of RAP in Superpave mixtures; however, whether any improvements of mechanical properties of HMA can be obtained by fractionation is virtually unknown. In this study, the effect of increasing RAP percentage, source of RAP, and replacing RAP with fractionated RAP on the performance of Superpave HMA mixtures was investigated in terms of rutting, freeze-thaw resistance, and cracking resistance by conducting Hamburg wheel track device (HWTD), moisture susceptibility, and complex modulus tests. HMA mixtures in this study were made with the same virgin aggregates and virgin binder using two different sources of RAP by increasing RAP amount from 20 to 40 %. Results showed that the performance can be different based on the aged binder and quality of aggregates in RAP; moreover, the fractionation effect was found to be insignificant on enhancing the performance of Superpave mixtures with RAP.
Triiodothyronine-predominant Graves' disease in childhood: detection and therapeutic implications
Authors: Harvengt Julie , Boizeau Priscilla , Chevenne Didier , Zenaty Delphine , Paulsen Anne , Simon Dominique , Guilmin Crepon Sophie , Alberti Corinne , Carel Jean-Claude , Léger Juliane 
Published: March 2015

ObjectiveTo assess in a pediatric population, the clinical characteristics and management of triiodothyronine-predominant Graves' disease (T3-P-GD), a rare condition well known in adults, but not previously described in children.DesignWe conducted a university hospital-based observational study.MethodsAll patients with GD followed for more than 1 year between 2003 and 2013 (n=60) were included. T3-P-GD (group I) was defined as high free T3 (fT3) concentration (>8.0 pmol/l) associated with a normal free thyroxine (fT4) concentration and undetectable TSH more than 1 month after the initiation of antithyroid drug (ATD) treatment. Group II contained patients with classical GD without T3-P-GD.ResultsEight (13%) of the patients were found to have T3-P-GD, a median of 6.3 (3.0–10.5) months after initial diagnosis (n=4) or 2.8 (2.0–11.9) months after the first relapse after treatment discontinuation (n=4). At GD diagnosis, group I patients were more likely to be younger (6.8 (4.3–11.0) vs 10.7 (7.2–13.7) years) and had more severe disease than group II patients, with higher serum TSH receptor autoantibodies (TRAb) levels: 40 (31–69) vs 17 (8–25) IU/l, P<0.04, and with slightly higher serum fT4 (92 (64–99) vs 63 (44–83) pmol/l) and fT3 (31 (30–46) vs 25 (17–31) pmol/l) concentrations. During the 3 years following T3-P-GD diagnosis, a double dose of ATD was required and median serum fT4:fT3 ratio remained lower in group I than in group II.ConclusionSevere hyperthyroidism, with particularly high TRAb concentrations at diagnosis, may facilitate the identification of patients requiring regular serum fT3 determinations and potentially needing higher doses of ATD dosage during follow-up.