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Distribution of Satyrini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil
Authors: Paz Ana Luiza Gomes , Romanowski Helena Piccoli , de Morais Ana Beatriz Barros 
Published: March 2013

AbstractKnowledge of species distribution is important for effective conservation measures. Considering that habitat features and abiotic factors can influence local community structure of butterflies, this study aimed to verify the existence of a pattern in the distribution of Satyrini in southern Brazil. For this objective, we updated the regional Satyrini species list based on field studies and literature, resulting in a total of 54 species. For those studies that presented clearly defined sampling sites, we analyzed the faunal similarity by site and by phytoecological region and verified the influences of environmental (altitude, average annual temperature and precipitation, and phytoecological region) and spatial variables (PCNM) in species distribution. We analyzed 156 records of 40 species at 14 sites and eight phytoecological regions. Environmental variables—namely, differences in temperature and phytoecological region—and spatial position proved to effect the distribution of Satyrini in southern Brazil. We thus urge that the future Conservation Units should be well spaced and properly distributed through environmentally distinct units in the landscape, representing different phytoecological regions. These conclusions shall provide subsidies to biodiversity conservation.
Mammary Uptake of Fatty Acids Supplied by Intravenous Triacylglycerol Infusion to Lactating Dairy Cows
Authors: Stamey Lanier J. , Suagee J. K. , Becvar O. , Corl B. A. 
Published: March 2013

AbstractSupplementing dairy cows with n‐3 fatty acid‐rich feeds does not easily increase quantities in milk fat. Previous results demonstrated very long‐chain n‐3 fatty acids are primarily transported in the PL fraction of blood, making them largely unavailable to the mammary gland for enrichment of milk fat. Our objective was to compare mammary uptake of fatty acids of increasing chain length and unsaturation delivered intravenously as TAG emulsions. Late lactation dairy cows were assigned to a completely randomized block design. Treatments were intravenous TAG emulsions enriched with oleic acid (OLA), linoleic acid (LNA), alpha‐linolenic acid (ALA), or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and were delivered continuously at 16 mL/h for 72 h. Each treatment supplied 30 g/day of the target fatty acid. Treatment did not affect feed intake, milk yield, or milk composition, but all treatments reduced intake and yield. The proportion of DHA increased in plasma FFA, TAG, and PL with infusion. Increases of n‐3 fatty acids, ALA, EPA, and DHA, were evident in the plasma PL fraction, suggesting re‐esterification in the liver. Transfer efficiencies were 37.8 ± 4.1, 27.6 ± 5.4, and 10.9 ± 4.1 %, and day 3 total milk fatty acyl yields were 37.0 ± 3.4, 10.8 ± 0.4, and 3.3 ± 0.3 g for LNA, ALA, and DHA. Variation in oleic acyl yield prevented calculation of OLA transfer efficiency. Mammary uptake of fatty acids was reduced with increased chain length and unsaturation. Both liver and mammary mechanisms may regulate transfer of long‐chain polyunsaturates.
Perception of intimate partner violence among women seeking care in the primary healthcare network in São Paulo state, Brazil
Authors: Mathias Ana‐Karina R.A. , Bedone Aloisio , Osis Maria‐José D. , Fernandes Arlete M.S. 
Published: March 2013

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the prevalence and perception of intimate partner violence (IPV) among women in the primary healthcare network in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.MethodsIn a cross‐sectional descriptive study conducted between August 2008 and May 2009 in São Paulo state, Brazil, sociodemographic variables (age, education, ethnicity, paid employment, religion, marital status, economic stratum), experiences of IPV (physical, sexual, psychological), and women's perception of violence were compared among 2379 women attending primary healthcare units. Statistical analysis was performed via χ2 test, Student t test, and multiple logistic regression (odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals) to determine interrelations between the type and perception of violence.ResultsThe overall prevalence of IPV was 55.7%, whereas that of psychological, physical, and sexual violence was 53.8%, 32.2%, and 12.4%, respectively; however, only 48.7% of women who experienced IPV had perceived this violence. The perception of IPV was highest for sexual violence (76.3%), followed by physical (64.7%) and psychological (49.7%) violence.ConclusionThe results showed that, among women within the primary healthcare network in the state of São Paulo, a high percentage had experienced some form of IPV during their lifetime but the rate of self‐perception of IPV was low.
Distribution of HPV‐16 variants among isolates from Paraguayan women with different grades of cervical lesion
Authors: Mendoza Laura , Picconi María A. , Mirazo Santiago , Mongelós Pamela , Giménez Graciela , Basiletti Jorge , Arbiza Juan 
Published: March 2013

AbstractObjectiveTo determine the distribution of HPV‐16 variants among Paraguayan women with different grades of cervical lesions.MethodsSixty‐seven HPV‐16‐positive cervical samples obtained from women attending health centers in Paraguay between March 2007 and April 2009 were examined, including 29 low‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL), 29 high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL), 4 cervical cancer, and 5 normal cytology samples. The specimens were analyzed by PCR‐directed sequencing of a 364‐bp fragment of the long control region of HPV‐16, and a phylogenetic tree was compiled with MEGA 5.0 software.ResultsMost HPV‐16 variants belonged to the European branch (82%); these variants were detected among 25 of 29 women with LSIL, 22 of 29 women with HSIL, 3 of 4 women with cervical cancer, and all women with normal cytology. Two isolates yielded new variants of the European branch with nucleotide substitutions at positions A7752C and A7810T. Non‐European variants, such as African type 1 (1.5%) and Asian‐American (16.5%), were detected only among women with cervical lesions (4/29, LSIL; 6/29, HSIL; 1/29, cervical cancer). These variants had at least 6 nucleotide substitutions adjacent to or within transcription factor binding sites.ConclusionAll branches of HPV‐16 variants were detected among Paraguayan women with cervical lesions.
Role of programmed electrical stimulation in Brugada syndrome
Authors: Takagi Masahiko 
Published: March 2013

AbstractBrugada syndrome (BS) is a cardiac disorder characterized by typical electrocardiographic findings (type 1 Brugada ECG); it is associated with a high risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to ventricular fibrillation (VF). Risk stratification is still challenging, especially in cases in which a history of cardiac arrest or VF has not been documented. The role of programmed electrical stimulation (PES) for risk stratification remains controversial. In this article, I will review recent published data on the use of PES in the identification of high‐risk patients and discuss the value of PES for risk assessment in BS.
Mapping Sustainability Initiatives Across a Region: An Innovative Survey Approach
Authors: Somerville Margaret , Green Monica 
Published: March 2013

AbstractThe project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of research about place and sustainability education for the Anthropocene, the new geological age of human-induced planetary changes (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen, & Crutzen, 2010). The study investigated the location, nature and type of sustainability initiatives in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The purpose of the study was to trial the development of a place-based survey questionnaire to map initiatives in education for sustainability across a region in order to understand how they emerge in local places. The data from the survey was interpreted using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. This article focuses on the qualitative thematic analysis across all survey responses and assesses the findings in order to determine the usefulness of the approach. The study found that a regional place-based approach enables a different conceptualisation of the possibilities of a cross-sectoral interconnected system of sustainability education. The nonformal and informal sectors are important sites of innovation and have great potential to enrich the pedagogies of education for sustainability in the formal sector.
Bala ga lili: Meeting Indigenous Learners Halfway
Authors: Bissett Susan Zela 
Published: March 2013

AbstractThe author's experience of the day-to-day issues faced as an educator in an Aboriginal school are recounted, along with perspectives gained as part of a research project. The proposition is argued that an Education for Sustainability approach, where learning is structured around a negotiated environmental issue within local community, represents a cultural accommodation or halfway point between mainstream formal schooling and the needs of Indigenous learners. This article contends that such an educative approach meets Indigenous learners ‘halfway’, through compatibility with Indigenous values frameworks and employing culturally appropriate pedagogical methods. The argument is made that by demonstrating a willingness to negotiate worthwhile environmentally based projects that address community ecological concerns, EfS may be able to improve community support and mitigate impediments to the engagement of Indigenous learners with formal education. A critical pedagogy of place (Grunewald, 2003) is discussed as a theoretical framework that combines place-based pedagogy with empowering educational theory. Indigenous learners’ connection with place is recognised in this approach and ascribed a positive rather than negative value.
EXISTENCE RESULTS FOR A CLASS OF ABSTRACT IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Authors: HERNÁNDEZ EDUARDO , O’REGAN DONAL 
Published: March 2013

AbstractWe study the existence of solutions for a class of abstract impulsive differential equations. Our technical framework allows us to study partial differential equations with impulsive conditions involving partial derivatives and nonlinear expressions of the solution. Some applications to impulsive partial differential equations are presented.
Agreement between rectal and vaginal temperature measured with temperature loggers in dairy cows
Authors: Suthar Vishal , Burfeind Onno , Maeder Britta , Heuwieser Wolfgang 
Published: March 2013

The overall objective of this study was to evaluate agreement between rectal (RT) and vaginal temperature (VT) measured with the same temperature loggers in dairy cows. Three experiments were conducted. The study began with a validation in vitro of 24 temperature loggers comparing them to a calibrated liquid-in-glass thermometer as a reference method. The association and agreement between the 24 temperature loggers with the reference method was r=0·996 (P<0·001) with a negligible coefficient of variance (0·005) between the loggers. In-vivo temperature loggers were tested in 11 healthy post-partum cows (Experiment 2) and 12 early post-partum cows with greater body temperature (Experiment 3). Temperature loggers were set to record VT and RT at 1-min intervals. To prevent rectal and vaginal straining and potential expulsion of temperature logger an epidural injection of 2·5 ml of 2% Procain was administered. Association between RT and VT was r=0·92 (P<0·001; Experiment 2) and r=0·94 (P<0·001; Experiment 3) with a negligible difference of −0·1 and 0·01 °C. Bland-Altman plots demonstrated agreement between RT and VT for healthy and early post-partum cows with greater body temperature in Experiments 2 and 3, respectively. Furthermore the intra-class correlation coefficient between RT and VT measured with identical loggers within cows of Experiments 2 and 3 also demonstrated greater agreements (P<0·001). Therefore, continuous VT monitoring with temperature loggers can be used as a measure of body temperature in dairy cows.
State Antitakeover Laws and Voluntary Disclosure
Authors: Zhao Yijiang , Allen Arthur , Hasan Iftekhar 
Published: March 2013

AbstractWe test the relationship between takeover protection and voluntary disclosure in a setting of antitakeover laws in a firm’s state of incorporation. After correcting for the endogeneity of firms’ incorporation choices, we find that firms incorporated in states with more antitakeover laws have higher levels of voluntary disclosure and stock market liquidity. Further tests do not support shareholder demands being the driving force for this association. Our findings are consistent with takeover protection and poor disclosure serving as substitute mechanisms for deterring takeovers. Therefore, as antitakeover statutes mitigate takeover threats, they enhance managers’ incentives to disclose more in order to realize capital market benefits.
Estimation of transmission dynamics of the Ceratomyxa shasta actinospore to the salmonid host
Authors: RAY R. A. , BARTHOLOMEW J. L. 
Published: March 2013

SUMMARYTransmission dynamics of the actinospore stage of Ceratomyxa shasta to the salmonid host were investigated under field and laboratory conditions. The number of parasites transmitted and the transmission rate were compared between 2 different exposure durations and also among different water velocities, by means of field exposures. Under laboratory conditions, the number of parasites transmitted and the transmission rates were compared across a broader range of water velocities and also at different water temperatures. Transmission rate was not constant over time as the number of parasites transmitted increased non-linearly between the 2 exposure durations. Transmission was also inversely related to water velocity and there was a threshold to transmission between 0·2–0·3 m s−1. Lastly, transmission rate increased with water temperature up to 18 °C then decreased at 23 °C. These experiments provide a range of values of transmission that will be incorporated into an epidemiological model to simulate the effectiveness of different management strategies. Additionally, these experiments provided novel information on the effects of environmental conditions (i.e. water velocity and water temperature) on the transmission dynamics between the salmonid host and the actinospore stage.
The Moral Virtue of Doublemindedness
Authors: Beggs Donald 
Published: March 2013

AbstractThe conscientious are morally conflicted when their moral dilemmas or incommensurabilities, real or apparent, have not been resolved. But such doublemindedness need not lead to ethical disintegration or moral insensitivity. For one may develop the moral virtue of doublemindedness, the settled power to deliberate and act well while morally conflicted. Such action will be accompanied by both moral loss (perhaps ‘dirty hands’) and ethical gain (salubrious agental stability). In explaining the virtue's moral psychology I show, among other things, its consistency with wholeheartedness and the unity of the virtues. To broaden its claim to recognition, I show the virtue's consistency with diverse models of practical reason. In conclusion, Michael Walzer's interpretation of Hamlet's attitude toward Gertrude exemplifies this virtue in a fragmentary but nonetheless praiseworthy form.
The Good and the True (or the Bad and the False)
Authors: Whiting Daniel 
Published: March 2013

AbstractIt is commonplace to claim that it is good to believe the truth. In this paper, I reject that claim and argue that the considerations which might seem to support it in fact support a quite distinct though superficially similar claim, namely, that it is bad to believe the false. This claim is typically either ignored completely or lumped together with the previous claim, perhaps on the assumption that the two are equivalent, or at least that they stand or fall together. Such assumptions, I argue, are mistaken. While it is not always good to be right, it is always bad to be wrong. This is an interesting and overlooked asymmetry, which calls for further investigation.
Educating the design stance: Issues of coherence and transgression
Authors: Freeman Norman H. , Allen Melissa L. 
Published: March 2013

AbstractBullot & Reber (B&R) put forth a design stance to fuse psychological and art historical accounts of visual thinking into a single theory. We argue that this aspect of their proposal needs further fine-tuning. Issues of transgression and coherence are necessary to provide stability to the design stance. We advocate looking to Art Education for such fundamentals of picture understanding.
Artistic understanding as embodied simulation
Authors: Gibbs Raymond W. 
Published: March 2013

AbstractBullot & Reber (B&R) correctly include historical perspectives into the scientific study of art appreciation. But artistic understanding always emerges from embodied simulation processes that incorporate the ongoing dynamics of brains, bodies, and world interactions. There may not be separate modes of artistic understanding, but a continuum of processes that provide imaginative simulations of the artworks we see or hear.
“The anti-developmental, the anti-narrative, the anti-historical”: Mondrian as a paradigmatic artist for empirical aesthetics
Authors: McManus Chris 
Published: March 2013

AbstractIn addition to general criticisms of scientific studies on empirical aesthetics, Bullot & Reber (B&R) particularly criticise two “representative studies” that manipulated paintings by Mondrian, those studies seemingly, “fail[ing] to consider the predictions suggested by a contextualist approach to the appreciation of imbalance” (sect. 4.2, para.2). Those criticisms are unjustified, both within the approaches of empirical aesthetics and the historical context and aims of Mondrian's work.
A psycho-historical research program for the integrative science of art
Authors: Bullot Nicolas J. , Reber Rolf 
Published: March 2013

AbstractCritics of the target article objected to our account of art appreciators' sensitivity to art-historical contexts and functions, the relations among the modes of artistic appreciation, and the weaknesses of aesthetic science. To rebut these objections and justify our program, we argue that the current neglect of sensitivity to art-historical contexts persists as a result of a pervasive aesthetic–artistic confound; we further specify our claim that basic exposure and the design stance are necessary conditions of artistic understanding; and we explain why many experimental studies do not belong to a psycho-historical science of art.
Repeated games for multiagent systems: a survey
Authors: Burkov Andriy , Chaib-Draa Brahim 
Published: March 2013

AbstractRepeated games are an important mathematical formalism to model and study long-term economic interactions between multiple self-interested parties (individuals or groups of individuals). They open attractive perspectives in modeling long-term multiagent interactions. This overview paper discusses the most important results that actually exist for repeated games. These results arise from both economics and computer science. Contrary to a number of existing surveys of repeated games, most of which originated from the economic research community, we are first to pay a special attention to a number of important distinctive features proper to artificial agents. More precisely, artificial agents, as opposed to the human agents mainly aimed by the economic research, are usually bounded whether in terms of memory or performance. Therefore, their decisions have to be based on the strategies defined using finite representations. Furthermore, these strategies have to be efficiently computed or approximated using a limited computational resource usually available to artificial agents.
Variational approach to bifurcation from infinity for nonlinear elliptic problems
Authors: Byeon Jaeyoung , Lee Youngae 
Published: March 2013

For any N ⩾ 1 and sufficiently small ε > 0, we find a positive solution of a nonlinear elliptic equationwhen lim|x| → ∞V(x) = m > 0 and some optimal conditions on f are satisfied. Furthermore, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the solution as ε → 0.
Let the Little Children Come: Child Rearing as Challenge to Contemporary Christian Ethics
Authors: Wall John 
Published: March 2013

ABSTRACTA contemporary culture of market individualism in the United States today is increasingly marginalizing the lives of children. This situation requires Christian ethicists to raise once again, as in the historical past, the question of the larger meaning and purpose of child rearing as a serious disciplinary concern. This paper identifies fundamental issues of child rearing ontology, teleology, deontology, and practice, and maps out some newly emerging Christian ethical responses by communitarians, liberationists, and covenantalists. It then develops a larger social ethics of child rearing—drawing on a range of historical theological resources—able to speak to children's issues in a disciplinarily complex, publicly meaningful, and culturally transformative way. Its argument is that child rearing should be rescued from its increasing social privatization through a revised covenantal social ethic that strengthens the unique tasks of families but also places them within a larger interdependent nexus of community and state supports.
Modernity as a Stimulus of Reconciliation Between American Evangelicals and Catholics
Authors: Shea William M. 
Published: March 2013

In my day in the New York Archdiocesan seminary there was a room in the library dedicated entirely to anti-Catholic literature, with four walls, ceiling to floor, of books and pamphlets exposing the various shortcomings and infidelities of the Romish Church. That collection in the New York seminary was more extensive than the collections I found in the Buswell Library at Wheaton College and the Billy Graham Center, and in the library of Westminster Theological Seminary forty years later. In the last ten years I have closely studied only a small fraction of the extant material. Even so, the literature I have plowed through is huge, and the literature of evangelical criticism and Catholic response which I will never get to study is vaster still.While all of the material belongs in a collection of some sort, not much belongs on a library shelf. Much of it is literary and historical junk. Some of it borders on the savage: for example, H.G. Wells'Crux Ansatawith his suggestion that the allied bombers in World War II obliterate the Vatican. Wells and Jack Chick will sit in the same circle of Purgatory. But some of it is intellectually respectable, even if panic-ridden. Some of it is serious and responsible in its attempts at theological and historical criticism.
Confessions of A Fractured Catholic Theologian
Authors: Portier William L. 
Published: March 2013

In the Divine Milieu, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin talked about the “passive diminishments” that accompany the passage of time. But often time's passing also brings a growing desire to look back, to reflect, and to try to see things whole. Recently I have found myself reflecting on U.S. Catholicism, Catholic theology in the United States, and myself as an historical theologian at the University of Dayton. My reflections assess the past, address the present, and look to the future.I begin with U.S. Catholicism. The story I want to tell about it has a threefold lesson and I will state it very generally. First, as embodied mortals with immortal longings, we are rooted in particular times and places in the world. German philosophers sometimes call this our “historicity.” Second, whether we are aware of it or not, our historical sites or locations provide the forms and terms of our coming to know God. It was in Tenafly, New Jersey, for example, that my mother taught me to pray. Third, if we remain unmindful of the second lesson, we risk mistaking historical forms and terms for God. In biblical language, this would be idolatry. And finally, if my Catholic story is not your own, I ask you to allow it to stand as a figure or a type of the particular sited story you have to tell.