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Abstract On January 9, 2017, the United States (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration enacted the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) in an effort to close the world's largest seafood market for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. It also alleges to mitigate the widespread phenomenon of seafood fraud in the US by promoting traceable supply chains involved in its transnational commerce. This novel program shows the potential to complement the decades-long yet patchy seafood country-of-origin labelling in the US, as it mandates more complete and precise chain-of-custody information from harvest to arrival at the US border. In this context, this article further explores the regulatory room and fundamental pitfalls of this program to advance the human vision on sustainable fish and fisheries. It provides a legal and policy insight into the status quo and the reasons accountable for the SIMP to end up serving its narrowly-focused regulatory purposes. Upon that basis the article proposes practical ways for the system to develop and become a viable driver of ecological and social sustainability in the implementation years to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A family of composite cool thermal insulation materials has been developed as part of the DICOM research project, in order to provide building materials optimized for the retrospective insulation of existing buildings, which contribute in particular to the reduction of cooling loads in summer. An integrated evaluation of the materials was carried out in 2013-2014, by means of in vitro and in situ measurements, in order to determine and evaluate the materials’ performance and the thermal comfort conditions before and after the retrofitting. Finally, a Life Cycle Analysis was carried for the materials, in order to evaluate their environmental impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was performed to explore how direct/indirect lighting affects emotions and brain oscillations compared to the direct lighting when brightness and color temperature are controlled. Twenty-eight subjects (12 females; mean age 22.5) participated. The experimental conditions consisted of two lighting environments: direct/indirect lighting (400 lx downlight, 300 lx uplight) and direct lighting (700 lx downlight). On each trial, a luminance environment was presented for 4 min, followed by participants rated their emotional feelings of the lighting environment. EEG data were recorded during the experiment. Spectral analysis was performed for the range of delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma ranges. The participants felt cooler and more pleasant and theta oscillations on the F4, F8, T4, and TP7 electrodes were more enhanced in the direct/indirect lighting environment compared to the direct lighting environment. There was significant correlation between the “cool” rating and the theta power of the F8 electrode. The participants felt more pleasant in the direct/indirect lighting environment, indicating that space with direct/indirect lighting modulated subjective perception. Additionally, our results suggest that theta oscillatory activity can be used as a biological marker that reflects emotional status in different lighting environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Beginning with a problematic assignment in a “New Media Writing” class, this article demonstrates, first, the significant, perhaps irreconcilable differences in the writing/reading environments of print as opposed to New Media: the interiority, on one hand, of the individual text implied in the “shape” of narratives and other elaborated verbal performances and, on the other hand, the mythic exteriority of networked, information space and the market logic of its “attention economy.” These differences pose a challenge not only to the traditional practices of academic, literary, and professional discourse communities, but to what this article terms “writing culture”—that is, popular cultural practices and assumptions conditioned by the procedures and experience of textual elaboration. Examining student hypertexts, key critical works on New Media, web sites, and literary theory and history, this article suggests a solution to this challenge, arguing that the future development of online writing genres ultimately cannot depend on imposing written shapes on network space. Instead, a close analysis of a hoax from the auction site, eBay, suggests how parody can constitute a lens through which the Web''s own generic conventions filter the critical/creative consciousness that has long epitomized writing culture. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Compost can have a disease suppressive effect, but compost research is constrained by the fact that repetition of experiments with a similar batch of compost is impossible, since storage affects the organic material including the microbial communities. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that differential changes in microbial community structure and associated microbial activities after various storage methods (drying, freezing and cooling) lead to differential changes in the disease suppressive ability of compost material with respect to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lini induced by mixes of composts with peat substrate (20/80%, vol./vol.). A significant (P<0.0001) storage method × compost interaction was found with respect to suppression of Fusarium wilt of flax, indicating that the effect of storage type on disease suppression is compost-dependent. For seven composts storage had no (13 cases) or a significantly positive effect (eight cases) on disease suppression and for 1 compost there was a significant negative effect of storage on disease suppression. Significant changes in microbial activity and 16S-rDNA DGGE banding patterns of the composts were observed as a result of all tested ways of storage and these changes could be related to changes in disease suppression: relatively strong changes in microbial activity and bacterial composition due to storage had a relatively strong effect on disease suppression. The cool storage treatment (4°C) resulted in the least deviation in disease suppression from the fresh compost, although the freezing treatment gave the most reliable results with the lowest standard deviation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Weber’s silver Thaler illusion is the perception that cold objects appear heavier than warm objects. We were interested in studying the pharmacology of mechanoreceptor units that displayed increased spontaneous firing to cold stimuli. An isolated rat sinus hair preparation with intact nerve terminals was used to record the activity of two types of slowly adapting mechanoreceptors (St I and St II) during temperature ramps (0.91–1.73 °C/min) from normal bath temperature of 31±2 °C, cold to 14.5 °C and heat to 46 °C. Twenty-seven of the 43 mechanoreceptor units displayed marked increases in their spontaneous firing to cold or cooling thermal gradients, and were classified as cold mechanoreceptors. A high proportion (3:1) of St II units were responsive to cold than not, while the ratio was reversed for St I units (1:2). Most cold mechanoreceptor units showed decreases in mechanical responses to cold thermal gradients. Similar to specific cold thermoreceptors, many of the cold mechanoreceptor units briefly displayed increased spontaneous firing at higher (>41 °C) temperatures. The spontaneous firing of cold mechanoreceptor units was increased by the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel agonist icilin (30–100 μM) in a dose-dependent manner. Responses to mechanical stimulation were generally unaffected by icilin in these units, although their evoked response latencies were significantly reduced (similar to the effect of K+ channel blocker tetraethylammonium in St II units). TRPM8 channel agonist, (−) menthol 200 μM, had mixed effects on spontaneous firing but consistently enhanced cold responses. Other TRP agonists, cinnamaldehyde 1–2 mM and camphor 0.5–2 mM, reduced spontaneous and evoked responses. TRPA1 agonist allyl isothiocyanate (mustard oil) 50–100 μM and TRPV1 agonist capsaicin 1–3 μM had no effect. A broad spectrum TRP antagonist, Ruthenium Red 30 μM, had no effect. The TRPM8 antagonist, capsazepine 100–200 μM, blocked cold-evoked responses. Although these data generally provide support for the possibility that cooling responses are mediated by TRPM8 channels, the detailed profile of results suggests that another, as yet unidentified TRP channel, is involved. Multiplex coding of mechanical and thermal information by slowly adapting mechanoreceptors may play a functional role in thermal perception, and may explain Weber’s silver Thaler illusion. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This paper reports experimental studies on the ripped-rock revetment embankment and the traditional embankment in permafrost regions of the Qinghai–Tibet railroad. The laboratory embankment models were designed according to similarity theory. Preliminary results show that the temperature distribution of the traditional embankment was asymmetric; the asymmetry was changed after the ripped-rock revetment was installed and the soil under the ripped-rock was cooled. Preliminary field experiment results show that the temperature trend under the ripped-rock was consistent with the result of the laboratory tests. The thickness of the ripped-rock on the south slope should be greater than 80cm in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Experimental studies show that the ripped-rock revetment can cool the embankment and adjust the temperature distribution near the north and south slopes of embankment, and is an available technique to protect embankment from thawing settlement and longitudinal cracks in permafrost regions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This article takes as its departure point the near simultaneous work on notions of cool, technology, and composition in 1963, to begin discussion on how the juxtaposition of these moments can lead to an electronic rhetoric. Based on classroom work done at the University of Florida in two courses entitled “Writing About Cool,” the article presents juxtaposition as a method for writing electronically. Because this particular juxtaposition revolves around the word cool, the rhetoric proposed here is called a rhetoric of cool. The article frames a rhetoric of cool by describing how temporal events in the respective fields of writing, technology, and cultural studies seen in juxtaposition provide a model for electronic research. The article considers the influential 1963 Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs), writings by Albert Kitzhaber, Marshall McLuhan, Douglas Engelbart, and Amiri Baraka, and demonstrates how these works inform writing instruction in a contemporary networked writing classroom. Finally, the article examines how students working with hypertext, drawing from these works and juxtapositions, are able to not only write about cool, but are able to write cool as well. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

• Thassos marble used extensively as cool pavement at Al Masjid Al-Haram, Makkah City, Saudi Arabia. • Thassos marble provides unique thermophysical properties due to its dolomitic composition. • Thassos marble also offers unique 'snow white' color which matches sacred purity of prominent Al Masjid Al-Haram religious site at Makkah City. This paper presents a thermophysical assessment of the extraordinary 'snow white' dolomitic marble material being used for pavement, wall, and even roofing surfaces within the Al Masjid Al-Haram (i.e., Great Mosque) in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia. Extensive use of this extremely white marble with exterior pavements helps maintain a cool surface which is conducive to the site's religiously obligatory barefoot pedestrian contact. Modelled analysis of this site's expected diurnal marble pavement surface temperature during both summer and winter periods was derived using local seasonal weather data. These results conceptually confirmed this marble's remarkable ability to maintain desirable cool-surface conditions even during peak summertime solar insolation periods. Comparative analyses of surface temperatures and energy transfer were also derived for the same site and weather conditions based on the possible alternative use of conventional paving options (e.g., concrete and asphalt). In this case, modelling results indicated that either of the concrete or asphalt options would have generated far hotter surfaces which would be unacceptable, and perhaps even dangerous for bare skin contact, during summer months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Hot and cool response inhibition develop linearly from late childhood to young adulthood. • Hot response inhibition development appears to be more protracted than cool one. • Exerting response inhibition in an affectively charged context is more challenging. • Hot response inhibition is less efficient than cool inhibition in adolescents. Inhibitory control involves different types of inhibition processes, such as interference control and response inhibition. In an affectively neutral context, both inhibition processes develop linearly with age. In an affectively charged context, however, the development of these inhibition processes is still debated, and no study has investigated the development of the ability to inhibit an initiated motor response, such as in a stop signal task (SST), from late childhood to young adulthood. We asked children, adolescents and young adults to perform a cool or a hot version of the SST using neutral or emotional nonverbal vocalizations as stop signals. We showed that cool and hot response inhibition abilities develop linearly from late childhood to young adulthood. The development of this ability in an affectively charged context appears to be more protracted than in a neutral one. Exerting response inhibition in an affectively charged context is more challenging than in a neutral context especially during adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents abstracts of several studies on animals, dairy and poultry. "Development of Model Biosecurity Programs," by J. Shutske; "Catastrophic Composting: Is It Safe and Effective," by J. M. DeRouchey, J. P. Harner, and J. P. Murphy; "Country of Origin Labeling: Update and Path Forward," by J. D. Lawrence; "Cultural Issues in Processing Plants and on Farms," by W. V. Jamison.

Presents abstracts of several studies on animals, dairy and poultry. "Development of Model Biosecurity Programs," by J. Shutske; "Catastrophic Composting: Is It Safe and Effective," by J. M. DeRouchey, J. P. Harner, and J. P. Murphy; "Country of Origin Labeling: Update and Path Forward," by J. D. Lawrence; "Cultural Issues in Processing Plants and on Farms," by W. V. Jamison.