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Marketing and delivering information literacy on the web, yesterday and today, from 2009 to 2012
Authors: Q. Yang Sharon 
Published: June 2014

Purpose– This study aims to ascertain the trends and changes of how academic libraries market and deliver information literacy (IL) on the web.Design/methodology/approach– The author compares the findings from two separate studies that scanned the Web sites for IL-related activities in 2009 and 2012, respectively.Findings– Academic libraries intensified their efforts to promote and deliver IL on the web between 2009 and 2012. There was a significant increase in IL-related activities on the web in the three-year period.Practical implications– The findings describe the status quo and changes in IL-related activities on the libraries’ Web sites. This information may help librarians to know what they have been doing and if there is space for improvement.Originality/value– This is the only study that spans three years in measuring the progress librarians made in marketing and delivering IL on the Web.
Evaluation of sentinel node biopsy for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Authors: Fukushima Satoshi , Masuguchi Shinichi , Igata Toshikatsu , Harada Miho , Aoi Jun , Miyashita Azusa , Nakahara Satoshi , Inoue Yuji , Jinnin Masatoshi , Shiraishi Shinya , Yamashita Yasuyuki , Ishihara Tsuyoshi , Ihn Hironobu 
Published: June 2014

AbstractSentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard care for cutaneous melanoma but its role in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has not been established. Clinical data was obtained from 54 patients with SCC who received SLNB with the usage of blue dye and radioisotope colloid methods. The positive rate of SLNB in SCC was 7.4%. If the cases were limited to more than T2, the positive rate was 12.9%. Three of 41 patients who was estimated negative LN metastasis by the preoperative tests had micrometastasis (7.3%). Among 13 patients who were suggested to have metastasis in the preoperative tests, only one patient had histological metastasis. One patient with SCC located in the lower lip showed negative SLNB and subsequently developed node recurrence. In conclusion, the efficacy of SLNB in SCC is comparable to that of melanoma in the positive rate. There are two kinds of benefit, avoidance of unnecessary complete lymph node dissection and early detection of metastasis.
Metagenomic analysis of the viral community in Namib Desert hypoliths
Authors: Adriaenssens Evelien M. , Van Zyl Lonnie , De Maayer Pieter , Rubagotti Enrico , Rybicki Ed , Tuffin Marla , Cowan Don A. 
Published: June 2014

SummaryHypolithic microbial communities are specialized desert communities inhabiting the underside of translucent rocks. Here, we present the first study of the viral fraction of these communities isolated from the hyperarid Namib Desert. The taxonomic composition of the hypolithic viral communities was investigated and a functional assessment of the sequences determined. Phylotypic analysis showed that bacteriophages belonging to the order Caudovirales, in particular the family Siphoviridae, were most prevalent. Functional analysis and comparison with other metaviromes revealed a relatively high frequency of cell wall‐degrading enzymes, ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) and phage‐associated genes. Phylogenetic analyses of terL and phoH marker genes indicated that many of the sequences were novel and distinct from known isolates, and the class distribution of the RNRs suggests that this is a novel environment. The composition of the viral hypolith fraction containing many Bacillus‐infecting phages was not completely consistent with Namib hypolith phylotypic surveys of the bacterial hosts, in which the cyanobacterial genus Chroococcidiopsis was found to be dominant. This could be attributed to the lack of sequence information about hypolith viruses/bacteria in public databases or the possibility that hypolithic communities incorporate viruses from the surrounding soil.
Effect of UGT1A1, UGT1A3, DIO1 and DIO2 polymorphisms on L‐thyroxine doses required for TSH suppression in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer
Authors: Santoro Ana B. , Vargens Daniela D. , Barros Filho Mateus de Camargo , Bulzico Daniel A. , Kowalski Luiz Paulo , Meirelles Ricardo M. R. , Paula Daniela P. , Neves Ronaldo R. S. , Pessoa Cencita N. , Struchine Claudio J. , Suarez‐Kurtz Guilherme 
Published: June 2014

AimTo evaluate the impact of genetic polymorphisms in uridine 5′‐glucuronosylytansferases UGT1A1 and UGT1A3 and iodothyronine‐deiodinases types 1 and 2 on levothyroxine (T4; 3,5,3′,5′‐triiodo‐L‐thyronine) dose requirement for suppression of thyrotropin (TSH) secretion in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).MethodsPatients (n = 268) submitted to total thyroidectomy and ablation by 131I, under T4 therapy for at least 6 months were recruited in three public institutions in Brazil. Multivariate regression modelling was applied to assess the association of T4 dosing with polymorphisms in UGT1A1 (rs8175347), UGT1A3 (rs3806596 and rs1983023), DIO1 (rs11206244 and rs2235544) and DIO2 (rs225014 and rs12885300), demographic and clinical variables.ResultsA regression model including UGT1A haplotypes, age, gender, body weight and serum TSH concentration accounted for 39% of the inter‐individual variation in the T4 dosage. The association of T4 dose with UGT1A haplotype is attributed to reduced UGT1A1 expression and T4 glucuronidation in liver of carriers of low expression UGT1A1 rs8175347 alleles. The DIO1 and DIO2 genotypes had no influence of T4 dosage.ConclusionUGT1A haplotypes associate with T4 dosage in DTC patients, but the effect accounts for only 2% of the total variability and recommendation of pre‐emptive UGT1A genotyping is not warranted.
The influence of fluid and crystallized intelligence on the development of knowledge and skills
Authors: Thorsen Cecilia , Gustafsson Jan‐Eric , Cliffordson Christina 
Published: June 2014

BackgroundCattell's Gf–Gc distinction is quite generally recognized. However, the developmental part of the Gf–Gc theory of intelligence has not gained the same recognition. Results are inconsistent, but recent discussions emphasize the importance of homogeneity of samples with regard to education and language when investigating the developmental Investment theory.AimsThe aim of this study was to investigate the influence of Gf and Gc on the development of knowledge and skills in a sample of children in compulsory school who are homogenous with regard to level of education, age, and cultural background.SampleTotally, 9,002 individuals from the evaluation through follow‐up database born in 1972 and who left compulsory school in 1988 were included. These individuals were followed up in Grades 3, 6, and 9.MethodsStructural equation modelling was used, and autoregressive path models were fitted. All modelling was performed using Mplus version 6.1.ResultsIn the first step, a path model with a simplex structure was defined. However, a second model with direct relations of Gf on Gc in Grades 6 and 9 had better model fit, suggesting a continuous influence of Gf on Gc. However, no direct influence of Gf was found for the subject grades.ConclusionDue to the continuous influence of Gf on the measures of Gc throughout compulsory school, support for Cattell's (1987) Investment theory was found.
Historical developments inWheeler diagrams and future directions
Authors: Qayyum Farrukh , Catuneanu Octavian , de Groot Paul 
Published: June 2014

AbstractThe Wheeler diagram is a type of chronostratigraphic chart and is one of the fundamental instruments available in the geologists' toolkit that is used to understand spatiotemporal relationships of strata. Over the last four decades, these diagrams have continued to improve due to advances in seismic technology. This article examines the historical developments behind Wheeler diagrams, not only stressing their merits, but also their pitfalls and the role that sequence stratigraphic principles have played in interpreting these diagrams. It is emphasized that the diagrams are only complete if one utilizes the thicknesses of a sequence stratigraphic unit (sequence, systems tracts) – a missing dimension that turns a 3D Wheeler diagram into 4D. The article also argues that the latter 4D diagrams represent the future for Wheeler diagrams.
Water as Sacrament: Tillich, Gender and Liturgical Eco‐Justice
Authors: Guðmarsdóttir Sigríður 
Published: June 2014

AbstractTheological operations of language that turn physical water into figurative and textual logos‐water are examined in the article with the help of Tillich´s “Nature and Sacrament,” where Tillich reflects the actual relationship between water and word in the sacrament of baptism. Moving to the ecological struggles of contemporary life, the article ponders the scarcity of water in the ecological struggle, and finally the gender implications of figurative water operations.
BÖLL'S WAR: CATHOLIC INNER EMIGRATION, APOCALYPTIC DYSTOPIA, AND ‘STUNDE NULL’
Authors: Tomko Helena M. 
Published: June 2014

ABSTRACTHeinrich Böll's stature in the canon of West German postwar literature grew out of his association with the so‐called cultural ‘Stunde Null’. Recent scholarship has questioned this commonplace paradigm, which suggests problematic distinctions between literature written before and after 1945 and inside and outside of the Third Reich. The posthumous publication of Böll's prewar juvenilia and wartime correspondence allows for new perspectives on his literary formation. This article demonstrates Böll's intellectual dependence on pan‐European interwar Catholic culture, in particular key German writers who became Christian ‘inner emigrants’ in the Third Reich. The motifs of this body of thought course through his wartime correspondence, so much so that his early postwar work deserves classification both as ‘Trümmerliteratur’ and as a continuation of the inner emigration. This continuity between Böll's pre‐ and post‐1945 thought contributes not just to our re‐reading of his oeuvre but also to a revision in inner emigration studies. The term deserves extension to include both writers who wrote against the grain of Nazi literary politics and their readers, with whom they formed a coherent interpretive community. Out of this shared discourse, Böll crafts a narrative of survival, foreseeing a kind of perpetual inner emigration in a dystopian and apostate postwar Germany.
‘THE CROSSING OF LOVE’: THE INOPERATIVE COMMUNITY AND ROMANTIC LOVE IN FERIDUN ZAIMOGLU’S ‘FÜNF KLOPFENDE HERZEN, WENN DIE LIEBE SPRINGT’ AND HINTERLAND
Authors: Twist Joseph 
Published: June 2014

ABSTRACTIn the short story ‘Fünf klopfende Herzen, wenn die Liebe springt’ (2004) and the novel Hinterland (2009), Feridun Zaimoglu engages with cosmopolitanism and German Romanticism – both characteristic themes of his more recent fiction. A dialogue between the ideas of love presented by Jean‐Luc Nancy and the Romantics Fr. Schlegel, Novalis and Kleist can illuminate the non‐identitarian nature of Zaimoglu's cosmopolitanism, suggesting a radical openness to the future and an ontological interrelatedness in line with Nancy's ‘communauté désœuvrée’ (‘inoperative community’), rather than a new cosmopolitan identity with its own moral code. Just as the Romantics invested in the power of love to create a harmonious world, love is equally important for Nancy in that it renders the inoperative community more accessible to us. This understanding of cosmopolitanism can be glimpsed in ‘Fünf klopfende Herzen’, in which falling in love presents the protagonist with the radical possibilities brought about by the interconnected nature of being. Similarly, in Hinterland, in which transnational sensibilities create a cosmopolitan web across Europe, it is implied that being‐with is not subordinate to being‐one. Zaimoglu's engagement with the Brothers Grimm and the more nationalist aspects of Romanticism also requires close scrutiny, and can be illuminated by an appeal to Nancy's concepts of ‘myth’ and ‘literature’.
‘WAS ZWISCHEN DEN BLÄTTERN FÄLLT’: FIGURES OF MEMORY IN THREE POEMS BY MANFRED PETER HEIN
Authors: Saunders Edward 
Published: June 2014

ABSTRACTManfred Peter Hein is a post‐war German poet who has received little critical attention. This article looks at three poems from his later work which are linked by a single image: the falling leaf. The article outlines aspects of Hein's discourse on memory and looks at formal characteristics of Hein's work such as his interest in Japanese poetry. Form and content are by no means separate: the Japanese tradition and its forms influence Hein's use of images from the natural world in discussing historical memory.The three poems in question are ‘Dann sind Namen gefallen’, ‘Kaunas 1941’, and ‘Erinnern daran’, all published in 2006. In these poems, the falling leaf is variously used to represent the victims of genocide and mass murder, together with the scale of those crimes, to allude to the insufficiency of language and the impossibility of remembrance, and to explore ideas of singularity and recurrence. The article places the poems in the context of Hein's career and explains concepts from Japanese poetics relevant to his work. The article concludes that while Hein's poems also constitute a practice of remembrance, the poet sees historical memory as something at once impossible and inescapable.
AN AWARENESS OF WHAT IS MISSING: VOYEURISM AND THE REMEDIATION OF TRANSCENDENCE IN ARNOLD STADLER'S SEHNSUCHT AND SALVATORE
Authors: Fuchs Anne 
Published: June 2014

ABSTRACTEngaging with the current debate on secularism and the new religious turn in contemporary German literature, my paper explores the interdependence of voyeurism and transcendence in Arnold Stadler's Sehnsucht. Versuch über das erste Mal and Salvatore. Stadler's works articulate a poetics of longing that encompasses both the carnal and the transcendental. While the first part analyses the enmeshing of the protagonist's sexually charged scopophilic curiosity with his desire for transcendence in Sehnsucht, the second part analyses the sublimation and remediation of voyeurism in Salvatore. Here Stadler draws on Pasolini's film The Gospel According to Matthew and on Caravaggio's The Calling of St Matthew to set in train a complex circuit of intermedial and intertextual exchange. The conversion of Biblical text into film and Renaissance art and the reconversion of visual images into fictional text emphatically appeals to the reader's imaginative participation for the recovery of transcendence. Salvatore envisages a model of participatory discipleship that aims to unleash an aesthetically engendered presence in the recipient. Faith is no longer a matter of doctrinal teaching but an intermedial experience based on the persuasiveness of aesthetic images.
Significant improvement in mild acne following a twice daily application for 6 weeks of an acidic cleansing product (pH 4)
Authors: Abels Christoph , Reich Hubert , Knie Ulrich , Werdier Dieter , Lemmnitz Gunter 
Published: June 2014

SummaryBackgroundCleansing products for acne should remove excessive sebum, reduce acne‐related bacteria and improve inflammation.AimsThe aim of the study was to investigate a topical cleansing product containing glycolic acid with pH 4 in mild acne vulgaris.MethodsSixty patients were recruited for this open uncontrolled clinical trial. The tested product was exclusively applied twice a day for 6 weeks. The efficacy was judged by a dermatologist according to the Leeds score after 3 and 6 weeks. In addition, efficacy and tolerability were judged subjectively by physician and patients.ResultsMild acne improved significantly after 6 weeks (baseline: 0.699 vs. day 42: 0.602; P < 0.001). Efficacy and tolerability were judged better by physician as compared with patients' assessment.ConclusionIn this clinical trial, a topical cleansing product containing glycolic acid with pH 4 improved mild acne significantly following twice‐daily application for 6 weeks as monotherapy.
Paternal Hostility and Maternal Hostility in European American and African American Families
Authors: Wu Ed Y. , Reeb Ben T. , Martin Monica J. , Gibbons Frederick X. , Simons Ronald L. , Conger Rand D. 
Published: June 2014

AbstractThe authors examined the hypothesized influence of maternal and paternal hostility on youth delinquency over time. The investigation addressed significant gaps in earlier research on parental hostility, including the neglect of father effects, especially in African American families. Using prospective, longitudinal data from community samples of European American (n = 422) and African American (n = 272) 2‐parent families, the authors examined the independent effects of paternal and maternal hostility on youth delinquency. The results indicated that paternal hostility significantly predicted relative increases in youth delinquent behaviors above and beyond the effects of maternal hostility; conversely, maternal hostility did not predict youth delinquency after controlling for paternal hostility. Multiple‐group analyses yielded similar results for both ethnic groups and for boys and girls. These results underscore the importance of including both parents in research on diverse families. Neglecting fathers provides an incomplete account of parenting in relation to youth development.
An Empirical Investigation of the Antecedents and Outcomes of NPD Portfolio Success
Authors: Kester Linda , Hultink Erik Jan , Griffin Abbie 
Published: June 2014

Managing new product development (NPD) portfolios is difficult and little is known about how successful NPD portfolio management can improve overall firm performance. Despite regular calls in the literature for more research on NPD portfolio management, what successful NPD portfolio management means and how firms can achieve it remains unclear. For this reason, this paper combines theory and previous empirical findings to build a model of the antecedents and outcomes of NPD portfolio success. We generate and test 12 hypotheses with empirical data from 189 paired dyads in Dutch firms.Our results show that all three dimensions of NPD portfolio decision‐making effectiveness (i.e., portfolio mindset, focus, and agility) are associated with achieving the three dimensions of NPD portfolio success (i.e., strategic alignment, maximal NPD portfolio value, and portfolio balance), which in turn influences market performance. While a portfolio mindset and agility are related to all three dimensions of NPD portfolio success, focus is related only to strategic alignment and maximal value. No one dimension of NPD portfolio decision‐making effectiveness or portfolio success is sufficient to achieve overall market performance. We also found several unexpected findings with important implications. For example, portfolio balance, one recommended measure of portfolio success, has no direct link to market performance, but operates through the other two dimensions of NPD portfolio success, i.e., strategic alignment and maximal portfolio value. We conclude our paper with implications for further theory development and testing on successful NPD portfolio decision‐making, and with implications for managerial practice.
Relevância e tratamento das lesões características da insuficiência cardíaca na musculatura esquelética
Authors: Bueno Júnior Carlos R. 
Published: June 2014

Pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca, a via final das doenças cardiovasculares e a primeira causa de internação em idosos no Brasil, apresentam deterioração do tecido muscular esquelético. Além disso, as lesões na musculatura têm relação direta com a qualidade de vida e a autonomia dos pacientes, por meio do nível de tolerância aos esforços físicos, além de constituírem um preditor independente de mortalidade na síndrome. Ao longo da presente revisão de literatura serão discutidos em relação à insuficiência cardíaca: seu conceito e um breve histórico; a importância da musculatura esquelética; as anormalidades funcionais, estruturais, bioquímicos e moleculares que acometem esse tecido; as potenciais causas dessas alterações (hiperatividade simpática, redução na ingestão alimentar, espécies reativas de oxigênio, citocinas pró-inflamatórias e diminuição do nível de atividade física e do fluxo sanguíneo); e os efeitos da principal terapia direcionada para combater essa disfunção, o treinamento físico aeróbio de intensidade moderada. Reconhecida a importância do tecido muscular esquelético na síndrome, essa é uma área da investigação científica com muitos temas ainda não estudados, como o efeito de terapias farmacológicas utilizadas pelos pacientes, de exercícios físicos aeróbios de maior intensidade e intervalados, de exercícios físicos de força, de intervenções nutricionais e de terapias celulares e gênicas. No futuro, os resultados desses estudos que serão desenvolvidos certamente contribuirão para uma menor degeneração da musculatura esquelética na doença, o que, consequentemente, vai melhorar a ualidade de vida, a autonomia e o prognóstico dos pacientes.
Associations between fear of falling and functional balance in older adults
Authors: Huang Wen-Ni Wennie , Chi Wen-Chou , Hu Li-Jing 
Published: June 2014

Aims: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the association between fear of falling and the performance of common functional balance tasks in older adults. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 43 older adults (mean age=78.8, SD=7.5) from a senior living facility. Fear of falling was assessed using a single-item question. Fourteen functional balance tasks of the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), gait speed and the Five-Times-Sit-to-Stand Test were evaluated and compared between the fearful and non-fearful older adults. Findings: Compared to the non-fearful older adults (mean=52.2, SD=3.0), the fearful older adults scored lower on BBS (mean=47.7, SD=6.2) (P<0.05). The fearful older adults had poorer performance on three functional balance tasks including sitting to standing, turning to look behind over the left and right shoulders while standing, and placing alternate feet on a step while standing unsupported (P<0.05). Conclusions: Poorer performance of specific functional balance tasks (sitting to standing, weight shifting in standing, and stepping up and down) was observed among fearful older adults. Incorporation of these functional balance tasks into intervention may help fearful older adults perform balance-related activities more confidently and thus prevent or delay the undesirable consequences of the fear of falling.
The American media and the Iraq war at its tenth anniversary: Lessons for the coverage of future wars
Authors: Najjar Orayb 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War of 2003, most scholars agree that the war had serious consequences for the Middle East and the United States. Some journalists now believe that the war coverage constituted a ‘mini-Alamo’ for American journalism. Deficient war coverage damaged the reputation of the American media as a source of reliable news about the United States because of the way it covered the Bush administration’s case for going to war, and the way it reported war’s devastating effect on the Iraqi population. This study analyses how the Bush administration managed to get media compliance for its verbal and visual narrative of the war, thus co-opting American journalism (and by extension, that of other countries that relied on it). The study also illustrates how Arab historical master narratives disseminated by the frames introduced by Al Jazeera through its reporting from the scene challenged and sometimes foiled CENTCOM’s narrative and its psychological operations. Finally, the study illustrates the role of cartoonists in culture-jamming the official narrative by publishing on the Internet, thus undermining the Bush administration’s main Orwellian message that ‘war is peace’. This study suggests that the examination of what went wrong for the media in Iraq provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of acting as government stenographers during wartime.