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Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and Interdisciplinary Engagement
Authors: Bodig Matyas 
Published: October 2015

Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and Interdisciplinary Engagement
The paper offers a legal theoretical analysis of the disciplinary character of the contemporary practice of legal scholarship. It is assumed that the challenges of interdisciplinary engagement are particularly revealing about the nature of legal scholarship. The paper argues for an understanding of legal scholarship that revolves around cultivating doctrinal knowledge about law. Legal scholarship is characterised as a normative and interpretive discipline that offers an internalist and non-instrumentalist perspective on law. The paper also argues that interdisciplinary engagement is sometimes necessary for legal scholars because some concepts and ideas built into the doctrinal structures of law cannot be made fully intelligible by way of pure normative legal analysis. This point is developed with the help of an epistemological clarification of doctrinal knowledge and anchored in an account of the practice of legal scholarship. The paper explores the implications of this account by way of analysing three paradigms of interdisciplinary engagement that respond to distinctive challenges facing legal scholarship: (1) understanding better the extra-legal origins of legal ideas, (2) managing discursive encounters that can generate frictions between disciplinary perspectives, and (3) building the knowledge base to handle challenge of validating policy initiatives that aim at changing the law. In different ways, all three challenges may require legal scholars to build competence in other disciplines. The third paradigm has particular relevance for understanding the methodological profile of legal scholarship. Legal scholarship is the only discipline with specific focus on how the social environment affects the doctrinal structures of law.
Stratégies de virtualisation de l’image filmique. L’art archivistique (post)féministe de Constanze Ruhm
Authors: Blümlinger Christa , Sicard-Cowan Hélène , Blümlinger Christa 
Published: October 2015

Cet article se consacre à une dimension virtuelle de l’art des archives liée aux processus mémoriels et perceptifs propres à l’expérience des films. Ainsi, chez l’artiste viennoise Constanze Ruhm s’avère une approche moderniste des « archives » du film, se nourrissant à la fois de l’art conceptuel et de la théorie du cinéma. Le dispositif des films « premiers » sera compris, dans cette élaboration secondaire, comme espace structurant du regard et comme relais par rapport aux formes narratives spécifiques. L’artiste conçoit dans des environnements, dans des animations numériques ou encore dans des films et installations multimédias, des reconfigurations et des réincarnations (« re-enactments ») de scènes de l’histoire du cinéma moderne. La création de nouvelles sections et connexions ouvre dans cette oeuvre des formes variées de virtualité qui ne visent pas une position fixe du spectateur, mais des modes actifs d’observation. Par la multiplication des histoire(s) dans un cut-up de scénarios, la possibilité de former des espaces narratifs homogènes s’abolit. C’est par le mode de répétition et d’actualisation du passé que chez Ruhm une image du virtuel se dessine, en tant que série de déplis et de projections. Ainsi, on cerne le virtuel comme quelque chose qui se forme au cours de processualités interminables, au-delà de stéréotypes narratifs, chaque fois différemment.
De quelques figures contemporaines de la « politisation de l’art »
Authors: Gallet Bastien 
Published: October 2015

On a en mémoire la phrase en forme d’injonction qui clôt « L’oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproductibilité technique » de Walter Benjamin : « Voilà l’esthétisation de la politique que pratique le fascisme. Le communisme y répond par la politisation de l’art. » Qu’en fut-il de cette promesse ? Quel(s) usage(s) politique(s) – et en quel sens du mot politique – les artistes ont-ils fait des possibilités que les pratiques nouvelles de l’art que décrivait Benjamin dans ce texte ouvraient à l’orée du 20e siècle ? Et qu’ont-ils fait en ce sens de ce nouveau rapport au réel qu’elles instruisaient tant du côté de la production que de celui de la réception ? Nous répondrons à ces questions en étudiant, à travers quatre grandes figures de la politisation de l’art, quatre formes exemplaires de (re)montage/(re)mixage : s’insérer/recontextualiser (Joseph Beuys), prélever/composer (Luigi Nono), enquêter/documenter (Hans Haacke), implanter/suspendre (Max Neuhaus).
Le (re)mixage musical de George Martin et Francis Dhomont : la modulation, le chevauchement, l’interférence
Authors: Dallaire Frédéric 
Published: October 2015

Cet article définit les conditions d’existence du remixage en mettant en résonance deux démarches musicales très différentes. L’écoute attentive des oeuvres Love (2006) de George Martin et Frankenstein Symphony (1997) de Francis Dhomont nous permet d’éprouver trois hypothèses. Premièrement, le remixage est une modalité de la pensée et de la pratique du mixage; c’est dans ce contexte plus large qu’apparaissent les opérations signifiantes et les idées structurantes de cette pratique. Deuxièmement, le paradigme du montage (coupure, fragment, collage) n’est pas adéquat pour comprendre la logique relationnelle du (re)mixage, qui sera ici pensée de manière sonore (modulation, résonance, interférence). Troisièmement, la pratique du (re)mixage a comme force dynamique la circulation et la transmission de l’écoute du créateur, de l’auditeur et du théoricien; la manipulation des sons fixés implique donc une structure d’adresse, une pédagogie de la perception, un geste de partage.
The Realm of the Earth: Simultaneous Broadcasting and World Politics in Interwar Cinema
Authors: Cowan Michael 
Published: October 2015

This article discusses intermedial relations between film and new technologies of broadcast—telegraph, radio and television—in interwar Europe, culminating in a reading of Abel Gance’s largely forgotten radio film La fin du monde (1931). It argues that efforts to reposition film in relation to the new technologies of broadcast helped to catalyze both new forms of montage and new understandings of film as a medium that might forge political communities on a world scale.
Rare Earth Ion Mediated Fluorescence Accumulation on a Single Microbead: An Ultrasensitive Strategy for the Detection of Protein Kinase Activity at the Single‐Cell Level
Authors: Zhang Xiaobo , Liu Chenghui , Wang Honghong , Wang Hui , Li Zhengping 
Published: October 2015

AbstractA single microbead‐based fluorescence imaging (SBFI) strategy that enables detection of protein kinase activity from single cell lysates is reported. We systematically investigated the ability of various rare earth (RE) ions, immobilized on the microbead, for specific capturing of kinase‐induced phosphopeptides, and Dy3+ was found to be the most prominent one. Through the efficient concentration of kinase‐induced fluorescent phosphopeptides on a Dy3+‐functionalized single microbead, kinase activity can be detected and quantified by reading the fluorescence on the microbead with a confocal fluorescence microscope. Owing to the extremely specific recognition of Dy3+ towards phosphopeptides and the highly‐concentrated fluorescence accumulation on only one microbead, ultrahigh sensitivity has been achieved for the SBFI strategy which allows direct kinase analysis at the single‐cell level.
One‐year results of the ICON (ionic versus non‐ionic contrast to obviate worsening nephropathy after angioplasty in chronic renal failure patients) Study
Authors: Giustino Gennaro , Baber Usman , Mastoris Ioannis , Vlachojannis Georgios J. , Yu Jennifer , Teirstein Paul S. , Downey William E. , Batchelor Wayne B. , Casterella Peter J. , Nikolsky Eugenia , Wong S. Chiu , Theodoropoulos Kleanthis N. , Dangas George D. , Mehran Roxana 
Published: October 2015

BackgroundLong‐term clinical outcomes after exposure to non‐ionic iso‐osmolar contrast medium (IOCM) or ionic low‐osmolar CM (LOCM) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing coronary angiography are unclear.MethodsThe ICON trial was a prospective, double‐blinded, multicentre study that randomly assigned 146 patients with CKD undergoing coronary angiography with or without percutaneous coronary intervention to the non‐ionic IOCM Iodixanol or the ionic LOCM Ioxaglate. We report the 1‐year clinical outcomes.ResultsAfter randomization, baseline and procedural characteristics were well‐matched between the two groups. At 1 year, three deaths (4.1%) occurred in the ioxaglate and nine deaths in the iodixanol group (13.6%, P = 0.07). The cardiac death rate at 1 year was 2.7% in the ioxaglate group and 9.1% in the iodixanol group (P = 0.07). There were no significant differences in the rates of myocardial infarction (1.4% vs. 1.5%; P = 1.00) and repeated revascularization (6.8% vs. 9.1%; P = 0.75).ConclusionsThe use of ionic LOCM ioxaglate was associated with a numerically lower mortality at 1 year as compared to iodixanol in patients who underwent cardiac catheterization. Future studies evaluating long‐term safety following exposure to different types of CM are warranted. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Social factors in informal cancer caregivers: The interrelationships among social stressors, relationship quality, and family functioning in the CanCORS data set
Authors: Litzelman Kristin , Kent Erin E. , Rowland Julia H. 
Published: October 2015

BACKGROUNDSocial and family factors can influence the health outcomes and quality of life of informal caregivers. Little is known about the distribution and correlates of such factors for caregivers of cancer patients. This study sought to fill this gap with data from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance consortium.METHODSLung and colorectal cancer patients nominated an informal caregiver to participate in a caregiving survey. Caregivers reported their sociodemographic and caregiving characteristics, social stress, relationship quality with the patient, and family functioning. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations were used to assess the distribution of caregivers' social factors. Multivariable linear regressions assessed the independent correlates of each social factor.RESULTSMost caregivers reported low to moderate levels of social stress and good relationship quality and family functioning. In multivariable analyses, older age was associated with less social stress and better family functioning but worse relationship quality, with effect sizes (Cohen's d) up to 0.40 (P < .05). Caring for a female patient was associated with less social stress and better relationship quality but worse family functioning (effect sizes ≤ 0.16, P < .05). Few caregiving characteristics were associated with social stress, whereas several were significant independent correlates of relationship quality. Finally, social factors were important independent correlates of one another.CONCLUSIONSThe results indicate the importance of personal and caregiving‐related characteristics and the broader family context to social factors. Future work is needed to better understand these pathways and assess whether interventions targeting social factors can improve health or quality‐of‐life outcomes for informal cancer caregivers. Cancer 2016;122:278–286. © 2015 American Cancer Society.
Comparison of Spring Maize Root Water Uptake Models Under Water and Salinity Stress Validated with Field Experiment Data
Authors: Wang Qingming , Huo Zailin , Feng Shaoyuan , Yuan Chengfu , Wang Jianhua 
Published: October 2015

AbstractCrop root water uptake has strong correlations with transpiration and yield. An accurate prediction of crop root water uptake can benefit understanding of the law of transpiration and soil water movement. Under water and salinity stress, maize root water uptake will decrease because of soil water pressure and osmotic head. Usually such reduction of water uptake can be expressed by models such as the additive model and the multiplicative model. Based on a field irrigation experiment, we calculated spring maize root water uptake in this study by setting different combinations of water amount and saline concentration based on the water balance method. One additive model and four multiplicative models of root water uptake were calibrated and verified in order to simulate the impact of water and salt stress on root water uptake. The result shows that multiplicative models are better than the additive model in simulating the experimental data from different treatments. Therefore, the multiplicative model is recommended as the optimal model of root water uptake of spring maize under water and salinity stress in the arid region of north‐west China. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Animal and cellular models of human disease
Authors: Arends Mark J , White Eric S , Whitelaw C Bruce A 
Published: October 2015

AbstractIn this eighteenth (2016) Annual Review Issue of The Journal of Pathology, we present a collection of 19 invited review articles that cover different aspects of cellular and animal models of disease. These include genetically‐engineered models, chemically‐induced models, naturally‐occurring models, and combinations thereof, with the focus on recent methodological and conceptual developments across a wide range of human diseases. Copyright © 2015 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Above‐Hg1−x Cdx Te‐bandgap photoluminescence and interfacial channels in Hg1−x Cdx Te–CdTe heterostructure
Authors: Zhu Liang , Chen Lu , Zhu Liangqing , Qi Zhen , Chen Xiren , Guo Shaoling , He Li , Shao Jun 
Published: October 2015

AbstractHgCdTe–CdTe heterostructures are important for HgCdTe‐based low‐dimensional structures and infrared detectors. However, studies concerning parasitic heterostructure introduced by the passivation are very limited and within electrical characterizations. In this work, temperature‐dependent infrared photoluminescence (PL) measurements are performed on CdTe–passivated‐HgCdTe interfaces with 1064‐nm laser excitation. Besides the common HgCdTe band‐edge PL, abnormal PL features are observed about 100 meV above the HgCdTe band gap, which are active at low temperatures and accompanied by the quench of near‐band‐edge ones. Photoreflectance and temperature dependent PL analysis indicate that such abnormal features are from radiative recombinations between electrons in HgCdTe and holes in the passivation layer. Such channels compete severely with the near‐band‐edge ones, and may deteriorate the detector performance.
An Integrated Model of Quality for Mass Services in the Context of the Ghanaian Retail Banking Sector
Authors: Boakye Kwabena G. , Prybutok Victor R. , Blankson Charles 
Published: October 2015

AbstractThis study draws upon the service literature and operationalizes the investment model in the services domain to examine factors that contribute to customers’ desire to maintain service relationships with firms (i.e., retail banks) in an emerging economy in sub‐Saharan Africa: Ghana. We empirically test the explanatory power and robustness of the investment model using 218 customers of various banking institutions in Ghana. Results from partial least squares—structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM)—reveal that (1) service quality is positively associated with customer satisfaction, investment size, and customer commitment; and (2) while customer satisfaction is positively associated with customer commitment, both investment size and quality of attractive alternatives are not associated with customer commitment. Interestingly, we found investment size to have a positive association with customer commitment only when fully mediated by customer satisfaction. Our model reveals that service quality and customer satisfaction predict 79.3% of the variation in customer commitment toward maintaining a service relationship with their retail banks. Discussion and managerial implications conclude the article. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Self-similar two-electron temperature plasma expansion into vacuum
Authors: Bennaceur-Doumaz D. , Bara D. , Djebli M. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractA theoretical model is developed to describe self-similar plasma expansion into vacuum with two different electron temperature distribution functions. The cold electrons are modeled with a Maxwellian distribution while the hot ones are supposed to be non-thermal obeying a kappa distribution function. It is shown that ion density and velocity profiles depend only on cold electron distribution in early stage of expansion whereas ion acceleration is mainly governed by the hot electrons at the ion front and is strongly enhanced with the proportion of kappa distributed electrons. It is also found that when the kappa index is decreasing, the critical value of temperature ratio Teh/Tec, limiting the application of quasi-neutrality, becomes larger than the $5 + \sqrt {24} \approx 9.9$ value obtained in the two-electron Maxwellian Bezzerides model [Bezzerides, B., Forslund, D. W. & Lindman, E. L. (1978). Phys. Fluids21, 2179–2185].
A sod-based cropping system for irrigation reductions
Authors: Dourte Daniel , Bartel R.L. , George S. , Marois J.J. , Wright D.L 
Published: October 2015

AbstractCotton and peanut grown under irrigation make up over 769,000 ha in the Southeast USA. The consumptive use of water for irrigation has significantly impacted groundwater resources, spring flows and streamflows in many parts of this region, particularly during severe droughts. This situation is further complicated with extreme weather events and climate variability. In this study, we compare yields and water use in a non-irrigated sod-based rotation system (SBR; bahiagrass–bahiagrass–peanut–cotton) to an irrigated conventional rotation system (ICR; peanut–cotton–cotton). Root mass of oat cover crop following peanut or cotton in a SBR and ICR system was also measured. A soil water assessment model (SWAT) was used to simulate irrigation water demands over a 34 yr period (1980–2013) under different soil types to quantify water saving potential of SBR. The average peanut yield in ICR from 2002 to 2013 was 4509 kg ha−1, while that in SBR was 4874 kg ha−1. Likewise the average cotton yield in ICR during the same period was 1237 kg ha−1, while that in SBR was 1339 kg ha−1. Oats had greater root mass in SBR than ICR. Simulation results indicate that crops in SBR consistently had substantially lower irrigation requirements (between 11 and 22 cm yr−1) than those in ICR in dry years. The water-saving potential of SBR varies positively with increasing sand content in soil.
Decomposition of spontaneous fluctuations in tumour oxygenation using BOLD MRI and independent component analysis
Authors: Gonçalves Miguel R , Johnson S Peter , Ramasawmy Rajiv , Pedley R Barbara , Lythgoe Mark F , Walker-Samuel Simon 
Published: October 2015

Abstract

Background:
Solid tumours can undergo cycles of hypoxia, followed by reoxygenation, which can have significant implications for the success of anticancer therapies. A need therefore exists to develop methods to aid its detection and to further characterise its biological basis. We present here a novel method for decomposing systemic and tumour-specific contributions to fluctuations in tumour deoxyhaemoglobin concentration, based on magnetic resonance imaging measurements.

Methods:
Fluctuations in deoxyhaemoglobin concentration in two tumour xenograft models of colorectal carcinoma were decomposed into distinct contributions using independent component analysis. These components were then correlated with systemic pulse oximetry measurements to assess the influence of systemic variations in blood oxygenation in tumours, compared with those that arise within the tumour itself (tumour-specific). Immunohistochemical staining was used to assess the physiological basis of each source of fluctuation.

Results:
Systemic fluctuations in blood oxygenation were found to contribute to cycling hypoxia in tumours, but tumour-specific fluctuations were also evident. Moreover, the size of the tumours was found to influence the degree of systemic, but not tumour-specific, oscillations. The degree of vessel maturation was related to the amplitude of tumour-specific, but not systemic, oscillations.

Conclusions:
Our results provide further insights into the complexity of spontaneous fluctuations in tumour oxygenation and its relationship with tumour pathophysiology. These observations could be used to develop improved drug delivery strategies.
Morphology-controlled construction of hierarchical hollow hybrid SnO2@TiO2 nanocapsules with outstanding lithium storage
Authors: Zhou Linzong , Guo Hong , Li Tingting , Chen Weiwei , Liu Lixiang , Qiao Jinli , Zhang Jiujun 
Published: October 2015

AbstractA novel synthesis containing microwave-assisted HCl etching reaction and precipitating reaction is employed to prepare hierarchical hollow SnO2@TiO2 nanocapsules for anode materials of Li-ion batteries. The intrinsic hollow nanostructure can shorten the lengths for both ionic and electronic transport, enlarge the electrode surface areas and improving accommodation of the anode volume change during Li insertion/extraction cycling. The hybrid multi-elements in this material allow the volume change to take place in a stepwise manner during electrochemical cycling. In particular, the coating of TiO2 onto SnO2 can enhance the electronic conductivity of hollow SnO2 electrode. As a result, the as-prepared SnO2@TiO2 nanocapsule electrode exhibits a stably reversible capacity of 770 mA hg−1 at 1 C and the capacity retention can keep over 96.1% after 200 cycles even at high current rates. This approach may shed light on a new avenue for the fast synthesis of hierarchical hollow nanocapsule functional materials for energy storage, catalyst and other new applications.
Hydrodynamics of Normal Atomic Gases with Spin-orbit Coupling
Authors: Hou Yan-Hua , Yu Zhenhua 
Published: October 2015

AbstractSuccessful realization of spin-orbit coupling in atomic gases by the NIST scheme opens the prospect of studying the effects of spin-orbit coupling on many-body physics in an unprecedentedly controllable way. Here we derive the linearized hydrodynamic equations for the normal atomic gases of the spin-orbit coupling by the NIST scheme with zero detuning. We show that the hydrodynamics of the system crucially depends on the momentum susceptibilities which can be modified by the spin-orbit coupling. We reveal the effects of the spin-orbit coupling on the sound velocities and the dipole mode frequency of the gases by applying our formalism to the ideal Fermi gas. We also discuss the generalization of our results to other situations.