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[ { "doc_id": "80054354", "title": "Abstract P1 10 04: Elacestrant, a novel oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) decreases tumoral 18F FES uptake in a phase 1 study of ER+ HER2 advanced breast cancer patients", "abstract": "Background: The estrogen receptor (ER) expressed in approximately 70% of breast cancers, can be mapped using 16a [18F]Fluoro 17b estradiol (FES) PET, a non invasive molecular whole body imaging tool capable of assessing ER target engagement by endocrine therapy. Elacestrant (RAD1901) is a novel, non steroidal oral SERD that has demonstrated single agent activity in heavily pre treated patients with ER+ advanced breast cancer (Bardia et al. J Clin Oncol 35, 2017: suppl; abstr 1014) The primary objective of this study was the visualization and quantification of residual ER binding with FES PET after treatment with elacestrant. Methods: In the RAD1901 106 phase 1 study (NCT02650817) patients with advanced ER+/HER2 breast cancer were treated with elacestrant at two dose levels (200 mg or 400 mg qd orally) for the first 14 days. Tumoral FES uptake was measured at baseline and day 14. After FES PET scan at day 14, all patients received elacestrant 400 mg qd until disease progression or discontinuation due to another cause. Key inclusion criteria included postmenopausal women with advanced ER+/HER2 breast cancer, who have progressed after =6 months of at least 1 line of endocrine treatment in the metastatic setting, with measurable disease according to RECIST criteria v1.1 or clinically evaluable disease. The PET scan was performed 60 min after intravenous injection of 200 MBq FES. Maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) were calculated and corrected for background activity. FES positive lesions had a SUVmax >1.5. FES response was defined as a 75% median decrease of SUVmax between the two scans. ESR1 mutation status was determined from circulating tumor DNA collected at multiple time points. Results: Twenty four patients were screened and 16 patients were enrolled (8 at each dose level) Median lines of prior therapy were 3, with 6 (38% patients having previously received fulvestrant and 8 (50% patients harboring at least 1 ESR1 mutation at baseline. Elacestrant demonstrated a median of 88% (range 59 97.1% reduction in tumorFES uptake following 14 days of treatment. Eleven out of 16 patients had >75% reduction in FES uptake at day 14. At the data cutoff date of 2 May 2017, median treatment duration was 8.1 weeks and 8 (50% patients remained on study. Elacestrant was generally well tolerated, with the most common treatment related adverse events (CTCAE v4.03) being low grade nausea gr1 50% gr2 =19% gr3/4 0% dyspepsia (gr1= 25% gr2 19% gr3/4 0% and dysphagia (gr1 19% gr2 =12% gr3/4 0% Updated analyses with mature data on correlation of FES uptake reduction and tumor response, treatment duration, safety and ESR1 mutation will be presented. Conclusions: Elacestrant significantly reduced FES uptake at both 200 mg and 400 mg doses after 14 days of treatment in heavily pre treated patients with advanced ER+/HER2 breast cancer, including those harboring ESR1 mutations. Citation Format: de Vries EGE, Venema CM, Glaudemans AWJM, Jager A, Menke van der Houven van Oordt CW, Neven P, Jiang H, Wang D, O9Neill A, Patki A, Aftimos P. Elacestrant, a novel oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) decreases tumoral 18F FES uptake in a phase 1 study of ER+ HER2 advanced breast cancer patients [abstract] In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5 9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA) AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P1 10 04.", "corpus_id": 80054354, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ege de Vries", "C M Venema", "Andor Wjm Glaudemans", "Agnes Jager", "C Willemien Menke-van der Houven van Oordt", "Patrick Neven", "H Jiang", "D Wang", "Alison O'Neill", "Abhay Patki", "Philippe Georges Aftimos" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208446849", "title": "Dose escalation study of G1T48, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) in postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2 locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (ABC)", "abstract": "Background The SERD fulvestrant is a well established therapy for ER+/HER2 ABC. However, its intramuscular route of administration may be painful and limits systemic exposure. G1T48 is a highly potent and efficacious oral SERD in both mutant and WT ESR1 preclinical models with the potential to achieve higher exposure and provide clinical benefit in patients with ER+ ABC. Methods Postmenopausal women with ER+/HER2 ABC following progression on endocrine therapy are eligible for this 3 3 dose escalation and expansion study. Patients receive G1T48 QD until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. The objectives are to evaluate DLTs, safety, tolerability, PK, ER target engagement via [18F] FES PET, and anti tumor efficacy, and to determine the recommended phase 2 dose. Results Currently, 11 patients (mean age 64 years) have received G1T48 doses ranging from 200 800 mg QD for up to 7 months. Prior lines (median of 3) included chemotherapy in 45% fulvestrant in 91% and CDK4/6i in 54% of patients. G1T48 is well tolerated: no DLTs, G1T48 related SAEs, or withdrawals due to an AE have occurred. The most common Gr 1/2 G1T48 related TEAEs are diarrhea, headache, hot flush, and nausea (27% each) with a single Gr 3 TEAE (fatigue) and no Gr 4 TEAEs. G1T48 exposure increased with dose (200 to 800 mg) and minimum to moderate accumulation of G1T48 was observed following repeated doses. Median maximum standard tumor [18F] FES PET uptake values decreased (ranging from 70% (200 mg) to 88% (600 mg) after 4 weeks of treatment. Of 6 response evaluable patients (RECIST v1.1) 1 patient had a PR (600 mg, prior palbociclib/fulvestrant) and 1 patient had SD 24 weeks (200 mg, prior abemaciclib/fulvestrant) Conclusions The oral SERD G1T48 is well tolerated with no DLTs reported to date in patients with ER+/HER2 ABC. Early efficacy, safety, PK, and FES PET data are encouraging, and support continued dose escalation followed by expansion. Updated safety, anti tumor activity, and cfDNA data will be presented (NCT#03455270)", "corpus_id": 208446849, "venue": "Annals of Oncology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Elizabeth Claire Dees", "Philippe Georges Aftimos", "Houven van Oordt", "E G E de Vries", "Patrick Neven", "Mark D Pegram", "Ramsha Iqbal", "Jorianne Boers", "J P Xiao", "Christina Sipes", "Changtao Li", "Jessica A Sorrentino", "Rajesh K Malik", "Andy Beelen", "C W Menke-van der" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "220150649", "title": "Translational strategy using multiple nuclear imaging biomarkers to evaluate target engagement and early therapeutic efficacy of SAR439859, a novel selective estrogen receptor degrader", "abstract": "Purpose Preclinical in vivo nuclear imaging of mice offers an enabling perspective to evaluate drug efficacy at optimal dose and schedule. In this study, we interrogated sufficient estrogen receptor occupancy and degradation for the selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) compound SAR439859 using molecular imaging and histological techniques. Material and methods 18 F]FluoroEstradiol positron emission tomography (FES PET) 18 F]FluoroDeoxyGlucose (FDG) PET, and 18 F]FluoroThymidine (FLT) PET were investigated as early pharmacodynamic, tumor metabolism, and tumor proliferation imaging biomarkers, respectively, in mice bearing subcutaneous MCF7 Y537S mutant ERa+ breast cancer model treated with the SERD agent SAR439859. ER expression and proliferation index Ki 67 were assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) The combination of palbociclib CDK 4/6 inhibitor with SAR439859 was tested for its potential synergistic effect on anti tumor activity. Results After repeated SAR439859 oral administration over 4 days, FES tumoral uptake (SUVmean) decreases compared to baseline by 35, 57, and 55% for the 25 mg/kg qd, 12.5 mg/kg bid and 5 mg/kg bid treatment groups, respectively. FES tumor uptake following SAR439859 treatment at different doses correlates with immunohistochemical scoring for ERa expression. No significant difference in FDG uptake is observed after SAR439859 treatments over 3 days. FLT accumulation in tumor is significantly decreased when palbociclib is combined to SAR439859 64% but not different from the group dosed with palbociclib alone 46% The impact on proliferation is corroborated by Ki 67 IHC data for both groups of treatment. Conclusions In our preclinical studies, dose dependent inhibition of FES tumoral uptake confirmed target engagement of SAR439859 to ERa. FES PET thus appears as a relevant imaging biomarker for measuring non invasively the impact of SAR439859 on tumor estrogen receptor occupancy. This study further validates the use of FLT PET to directly visualize the anti proliferative tumor effect of the palbociclib CDK 4/6 inhibitor alone and in combination with SAR439859.", "corpus_id": 220150649, "venue": "EJNMMI Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Laurent Besret", "Sebastien d'Heilly", "Catherine Aubert", "Guillaume Bluet", "Florence Gruss-Leleu", "Francoise Le-Gall", "Anne Caron", "Laurent Andrieu", "Sylvie Vincent", "Maysoun Shomali", "Monsif Bouaboula", "Carole Voland", "Jeffrey Ming", "Sebastien Roy", "Srinivas Rao", "Chantal Carrez", "Erwan Benjamin Jouannot" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "80387586", "title": "A Phase 1 study of RAD1901, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader, in ER positive, HER2 negative, advanced breast cancer patients.", "abstract": "TPS627Background: RAD1901 is a novel, orally available selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) that binds to both mutant and wild type forms of the ER leading to ER degradation and inhibition of cellular proliferation. RAD1901 demonstrated greater growth inhibition of human breast cancer xenograft models compared to fulvestrant. In addition, RAD1901 inhibited the growth of patient derived xenograft (PDx) models harboring ESR1 mutations. RAD1901 was evaluated in a phase 1 dose escalation study (200 mg to 1000 mg of oral RAD1901 daily) in healthy postmenopausal female volunteers (N 52) They tolerated RAD1901 well and a dose proportional exposure was observed based on pharmacokinetic analyses. ER occupation was assessed using 18F fluoroestradiol positron emission tomography (FES PET) imaging which showed that after 6 days of RAD1901 treatment the mean decrease of FES uptake ER in the uterus was 83% for the 200 mg (n 3) and 92% at the 500 mg (n 4) dose levels. A previously published FES PET study,", "corpus_id": 80387586, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Elisabeth G E de Vries", "Clasina M Venema", "Andor Wjm Glaudemans", "Lorraine A Fitzpatrick", "Dinesh M Purandare", "G Hattersley", "Fiona Garner" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "76745999", "title": "A phase I study of RAD1901, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader, in ER positive, HER2 negative, postmenopausal advanced breast cancer patients.", "abstract": "TPS638 Background: RAD1901 is a novel, non steroidal, orally bioavailable selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) Preclinical studies demonstrated a favorable tissue selectivity profile, dose dependent ER degradation and potent inhibition of in vitro breast cancer cell proliferation. In an MCF7 xenograft model, significant tumor regression was consistently observed with RAD1901 treatment, compared to Tamoxifen or Fulvestrant. A phase I clinical study conducted in healthy postmenopausal female volunteers evaluated once daily doses up to 1000mg/day for 7 days. All dose levels were tolerated and pharmacokinetic analysis demonstrated good plasma exposure with dose proportional increases. 18F estradiol positron emission tomography (FES PET) was performed at baseline and after 6 days of treatment with RAD1901, to assess estrogen receptor engagement. Standardized uptake values (SUV) pre and post treatment demonstrated a complete attenuation of FES PET signal in ER rich tissues such as the uterus at both th.", "corpus_id": 76745999, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Wael A Harb", "Fiona Garner", "Marcie Clarkin", "Kathleen Roberge", "Alan G Harris", "Gregory C Williams", "G Hattersley" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4763889", "title": "Discovery of LSZ102, a Potent, Orally Bioavailable Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader (SERD) for the Treatment of Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer.", "abstract": "In breast cancer, estrogen receptor alpha (ERa) positive cancer accounts for approximately 74% of all diagnoses, and in these settings, it is a primary driver of cell proliferation. Treatment of ERa positive breast cancer has long relied on endocrine therapies such as selective estrogen receptor modulators, aromatase inhibitors, and selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) The steroid based anti estrogen fulvestrant (5) the only approved SERD, is effective in patients who have not previously been treated with endocrine therapy as well as in patients who have progressed after receiving other endocrine therapies. Its efficacy, however, may be limited due to its poor physicochemical properties. We describe the design and synthesis of a series of potent benzothiophene containing compounds that exhibit oral bioavailability and preclinical activity as SERDs. This article culminates in the identification of LSZ102 (10) a compound in clinical development for the treatment of ERa positive breast cancer.", "corpus_id": 4763889, "venue": "Journal of medicinal chemistry", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "George S Tria", "Tinya J Abrams", "Jason P Baird", "Heather E Burks", "Brant Firestone", "Larry Alex Gaither", "Lawrence G Hamann", "Guo He", "Christina A Kirby", "Sunkyu Kim", "Franco Lombardo", "Kaitlin J Macchi", "Donald P McDonnell", "Yuji Mishina", "John D Norris", "Jill Nunez", "Clayton Springer", "Yingchuan Sun", "Noel M Thomsen", "Chun-rong Wang", "Jianling Wang", "Bing Yu", "Choi-Lai Tiong-Yip", "Stefan Peukert" ], "n_citations": 54, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "165053669", "title": "Abstract PD1 08: Phase 1/1b study of novel oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) LSZ102 for estrogen receptor positive (ER+ advanced breast cancer (ABC) with progression on endocrine therapy (ET)", "abstract": "Background: LSZ102 is an orally bioavailable SERD that inhibits ER gene transcription, induces receptor degradation, and blocks ER dependent cell growth in preclinical models. This study is evaluating LSZ102 as a single agent and in combination with the CDK 4/6 inhibitor ribociclib (LEE011) or the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib (BYL719) in patients (pts) with ER+ ABC. The LSZ102 single agent data are presented below; combination data are not discussed. Methods: In the dose escalation phase evaluating single agent LSZ102 (Arm A) pts (age =18 years; ECOG PS 0 1) with histologically confirmed ER+ ABC and progression on endocrine therapy (ET) received LSZ102. The starting dose was 200 mg once daily. The primary objective of Arm A was to characterize the safety and tolerability of LSZ102 and identify a recommended dose for expansion (RDE) Secondary objectives included preliminary antitumor activity and pharmacokinetics (PK) Results: As of January 22, 2018, 57 pts were enrolled to Arm A (LSZ102 200 mg, n=4; 400 mg, n=6; 450 mg fasted, n=15; 450 mg with food, n=6; 600 mg, n=20; 900 mg, n=6) Median age was 60 years, 75% (n=43) of pts had an ECOG PS of 0, 56% (n=32) had received prior fulvestrant, and 58% (n=33) had received prior CDK4/6 inhibitors; median number of prior lines of therapy (all settings) was 6. At data cut off, 48 pts had discontinued treatment, most (n=45, 94% due to disease progression. Dose limiting toxicities across treatment groups included diarrhea (2 pts in the 900 mg group) vomiting (1 pt in the 600 mg group) and AST and ALT elevation (1 pt in the 450 mg with food group) The most common treatment related adverse events (AEs) in the treatment period were diarrhea (60% nausea (56% and vomiting (30% In the treatment period, treatment related grade 3 AEs (12% were infrequent, and there were no such grade 4 events. Six pts (11% required dose reduction due to AEs (nausea, vomiting or diarrhea) 4/6 of the dose reductions occurred at 900 mg. Preliminary PK assessment showed rapid absorption and dose proportional increases in LSZ102 exposure; trough concentrations were above the predicted tumorostatic concentrations at doses of =400 mg. Based on PK results for the 450 mg fasted and fed cohorts, LSZ102 exposure does not appear to be affected by dosing with a regular meal. Evidence of ER modulation by immunohistochemistry was observed in paired baseline and on treatment biopsies. 18F fluoroestradiol positron emission tomography (FES PET) analysis (n=6) demonstrated abrogation of FES PET signal for pts in the 450 mg and 600 mg dose groups. Seventeen pts (29.8% had a best response of stable disease, and 1 pt, who happened to be in the 600 mg group, achieved a partial response. Conclusion: In heavily pretreated pts, LSZ102 was well tolerated, demonstrated antitumor activity, and achieved effective exposure levels based on PK and pharmacodynamics. Food intake did not appear to significantly alter the PK profile of LSZ102. Dose escalation for LSZ102 in combination with ribociclib or alpelisib is ongoing and will be reported in a future analysis. An update on the recommended single agent dose and schedule will be presented. Citation Format: Jhaveri K, Curigliano G, Yap Y S, Cresta S, Duhoux FP, Terret C, Takahashi S, Ulaner GA, Kundamal N, Baldoni D, Liao S, Crystal A, Juric D. Phase 1/1b study of novel oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) LSZ102 for estrogen receptor positive (ER+ advanced breast cancer (ABC) with progression on endocrine therapy (ET) [abstract] In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4 8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA) AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PD1 08.", "corpus_id": 165053669, "venue": "Poster Discussion Abstracts", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Komal Jhaveri", "Giuseppe Curigliano", "Yoon Sim Yap", "Sara Cresta", "Fp Duhoux", "Catherine Terret", "S Takahashi", "Gary A Ulaner", "Nicole Kundamal", "Daniela Baldoni", "Serena Liao", "Adam S Crystal", "Dejan Juric" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "54150229", "title": "The SERM/SERD bazedoxifene disrupts ESR1 helix 12 to overcome acquired hormone resistance in breast cancer cells", "abstract": "Acquired resistance to endocrine therapy remains a significant clinical burden for breast cancer patients. Somatic mutations in the ESR1 (estrogen receptor alpha (ERa) gene ligand binding domain (LBD) represent a recognized mechanism of acquired resistance. Antiestrogens with improved efficacy versus tamoxifen might overcome the resistant phenotype in ER +breast cancers. Bazedoxifene (BZA) is a potent antiestrogen that is clinically approved for use in hormone replacement therapies. We found that BZA possesses improved inhibitory potency against the Y537S and D538G ERa mutants compared to tamoxifen and has additional inhibitory activity in combination with the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib. In addition, comprehensive biophysical and structural biology studies show BZA's selective estrogen receptor degrading (SERD) properties that override the stabilizing effects of the Y537S and D538G ERa mutations.", "corpus_id": 54150229, "venue": "eLife", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Sean W Fanning", "Rinath Jeselsohn", "Venkatasubramanian Dharmarajan", "Christopher G Mayne", "Mostafa Karimi", "Gilles Buchwalter", "Rene Houtman", "Weiyi Toy", "Colin E Fowler", "Ross Han", "Muriel Laine", "Kathryn E Carlson", "Teresa A Martin", "Jason Nowak", "Jerome C Nwachukwu", "David J Hosfield", "Sarat Chandarlapaty", "Emad Tajkhorshid", "Kendall W Nettles", "Patrick R Griffin", "Yang Shen", "John A Katzenellenbogen", "Myles Brown", "Geoffrey L Greene" ], "n_citations": 32, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "51930068", "title": "Circulating Biomarkers and Resistance to Endocrine Therapy in Metastatic Breast Cancers: Correlative Results from AZD9496 Oral SERD Phase I Trial", "abstract": "Purpose: Common resistance mechanisms to endocrine therapy (ET) in estrogen receptor (ER) positive metastatic breast cancers include, among others, ER loss and acquired activating mutations in the ligand binding domain of the ER gene (ESR1LBDm) ESR1 mutational mediated resistance may be overcome by selective ER degraders (SERD) During the first in human study of oral SERD AZD9496, early changes in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) were explored as potential noninvasive tools, alongside paired tumor biopsies, to assess pharmacodynamics and early efficacy. Experimental Design: CTC were enumerated/phenotyped for ER and Ki67 using CellSearch in serial blood draws. ctDNA was assessed for the most common ESR1LBDm by droplet digital PCR (BioRad) Results: Before starting AZD9496, 11 of 43 (25% patients had =5 CTC/7.5 mL whole blood (WB) none of whom underwent reduction to <5 CTC/7.5 mL WB on C1D15. Five of 11 patients had baseline CTC ER+ two of whom had CTC ER+ reduction. CTC Ki67 status did not change appreciably. Patients with =5 CTC/7.5 mL WB before treatment had worse progression free survival (PFS) than patients with <5 CTC (P 0.0003) Fourteen of 45 (31% patients had ESR1LBDm+ ctDNA at baseline, five of whom had =2 unique mutations. Baseline ESR1LBDm status was not prognostic. Patients with persistently elevated CTC and/or ESR1LBDm+ ctDNA at C1D15 had worse PFS than patients who did not (P 0.0007) Conclusions: Elevated CTC at baseline was a strong prognostic factor in this cohort. Early on treatment changes were observed in CTC ER+ and ESR1LBDm+ ctDNA, but not in overall CTC number. Integrating multiple biomarkers in prospective trials may improve outcome prediction and ET resistance mechanisms' identification over a single biomarker.", "corpus_id": 51930068, "venue": "Clinical Cancer Research", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Costanza Paoletti", "Gaia Schiavon", "Emily M Dolce", "Elizabeth P Darga", "T Hedley Carr", "Joseph Geradts", "Matthias Hoch", "Teresa C M Klinowska", "Justin P O Lindemann", "Gayle B Marshall", "Shethah R Morgan", "Parul Patel", "Vicky Rowlands", "Nitharsan Sathiyayogan", "Kimberly Aung", "Erika P Hamilton", "Manish R Patel", "Anne C Armstrong", "Komal Jhaveri", "Seock-Ah Im", "Nadia Iqbal", "Fouziah Butt", "Caroline Dive", "Elizabeth A Harrington", "J Carl Barrett", "Richard D Baird", "Daniel F Hayes" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55702260", "title": "The oral selective oestrogen receptor degrader (SERD) AZD9496 is comparable to fulvestrant in antagonising ER and circumventing endocrine resistance", "abstract": "BackgroundThe oestrogen receptor (ER) is an important therapeutic target in ER positive (ER+ breast cancer. The selective ER degrader (SERD) fulvestrant, is effective in patients with metastatic breast cancer, but its intramuscular route of administration and low bioavailability are major clinical limitations.MethodsHere, we studied the pharmacology of a new oral SERD, AZD9496, in a panel of in vitro and in vivo endocrine sensitive and resistant breast cancer models.ResultsIn endocrine sensitive models, AZD9496 inhibited cell growth and blocked ER activity in the presence or absence of oestrogen. In vivo, in the presence of oestrogen, short term AZD9496 treatment, like fulvestrant, resulted in tumour growth inhibition and reduced expression of ER dependent genes. AZD9496 inhibited cell growth in oestrogen deprivation resistant and tamoxifen resistant cell lines and xenograft models that retain ER expression. AZD9496 effectively reduced ER levels and ER induced transcription. Expression analysis of short term treated tumours showed that AZD9496 potently inhibited classic oestrogen induced gene transcription, while simultaneously increasing expression of genes negatively regulated by ER, including genes potentially involved in escape pathways of endocrine resistance.ConclusionsThese data suggest that AZD9496 is a potent anti oestrogen that antagonises and degrades ER with anti tumour activity in both endocrine sensitive and endocrine resistant models.", "corpus_id": 55702260, "venue": "British Journal of Cancer", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Agostina Nardone", "Hazel M Weir", "Oona Delpuech", "Henry Brown", "Carmine De Angelis", "Maria Letizia Cataldo", "Xiaoyong Fu", "Martin J Shea", "Tamika Mitchell", "Jamunarani Veeraraghavan", "Chandandeep S Nagi", "Mark A Pilling", "Mothaffar F Rimawi", "Meghana V Trivedi", "Susan G Hilsenbeck", "Gary C Chamness", "Rinath Jeselsohn", "C Kent Osborne", "Rachel Schiff" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "31196993", "title": "Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility.", "abstract": "Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their actions. In response, corporate social responsibility has emerged as an inescapable priority for business leaders in every country. Frequently, though, CSR efforts are counterproductive, for two reasons. First, they pit business against society, when in reality the two are interdependent. Second, they pressure companies to think of corporate social responsibility in generic ways instead of in the way most appropriate to their individual strategies. The fact is, the prevailing approaches to CSR are so disconnected from strategy as to obscure many great opportunities for companies to benefit society. What a terrible waste. If corporations were to analyze their opportunities for social responsibility using the same frameworks that guide their core business choices, they would discover, as Whole Foods Market, Toyota, and Volvo have done, that CSR can be much more than a cost, a constraint, or a charitable deed it can be a potent source of innovation and competitive advantage. In this article, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer propose a fundamentally new way to look at the relationship between business and society that does not treat corporate growth and social welfare as a zero sum game. They introduce a framework that individual companies can use to identify the social consequences of their actions; to discover opportunities to benefit society and themselves by strengthening the competitive context in which they operate; to determine which CSR initiatives they should address; and to find the most effective ways of doing so. Perceiving social responsibility as an opportunity rather than as damage control or a PR campaign requires dramatically different thinking a mind set, the authors warn, that will become increasingly important to competitive success.", "corpus_id": 31196993, "venue": "Harvard business review", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "Michael E Porter", "Mark R Kramer" ], "n_citations": 6898, "n_key_citations": 442, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "154086133", "title": "The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders", "abstract": "F or the better part of 30 years now, corporate executives have struggled with the issue of the firm's responsibility to its society. Early on it was argued by some that the corporation's sole responsibility was to provide a maximum financial return to shareholders. It became quickly apparent to everyone, however, that this pursuit of financial gain had to take place within the laws of the land. Though social activist groups and others throughout the 1960s advocated a broader notion of corporate responsibility, it was not until the significant social legislation of the early 1970s that this message became indelibly clear as a result of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)", "corpus_id": 154086133, "venue": "", "year": 1991, "author_names": [ "Archie B Carroll" ], "n_citations": 6251, "n_key_citations": 650, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "167780713", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective", "abstract": "We outline a supply and demand model of corporate social responsibility (CSR) Based on this framework, we hypothesize that a firm's level of CSR will depend on its size, level of diversification, research and development, advertising, government sales, consumer income, labor market conditions, and stage in the industry life cycle. From these hypotheses, we conclude that there is an \"ideal\" level of CSR, which managers can determine via cost benefit analysis, and that there is a neutral relationship between CSR and financial performance.", "corpus_id": 167780713, "venue": "", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "Abagail Mcwilliams", "Donald S Siegel" ], "n_citations": 5675, "n_key_citations": 339, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "145258410", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "abstract": "There is an impressive history associated with the evolution of the concept and definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR) In this article, the author traces the evolution of the CSR construct beginning in the 1950s, which marks the modern era of CSR. Definitions expanded during the 1960s and proliferated during the 1970s. In the 1980s, there were fewer new definitions, more empirical research, and alternative themes began to mature. These alternative themes included corporate social performance (CSP) stakeholder theory, and business ethics theory. In the 1990s, CSR continues to serve as a core construct but yields to or is transformed into alternative thematic frameworks.", "corpus_id": 145258410, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Archie B Carroll" ], "n_citations": 4440, "n_key_citations": 328, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53060887", "title": "'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility", "abstract": "We address the question of how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) differs among countries and how and why it changes. Applying two schools of thought in institutional theory we conceptualize, first, the differences between CSR in the USA and Europe and, second, the recent rise of CSR in Europe. We also delineate the potential of our framework for application to other parts of the global economy.", "corpus_id": 53060887, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Dirk Matten", "Jeremy Moon" ], "n_citations": 3184, "n_key_citations": 321, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "148311746", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study", "abstract": "Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, its local expressions are as varied as they are increasingly visible in both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a multilevel review of the literature on CSR in developing countries and highlights the key differentiators and nuanced CSR related considerations that qualify it as a distinctive field of study. This review entails a content analysis of 452 articles spanning two and a half decades (1990 2015) Based on this comprehensive review, the authors identify the key differentiating attributes of the literature on CSR in developing countries in relation to depictions of how CSR is conceived or 'CSR Thinking' and depictions of how CSR is practiced and implemented or 'CSR Doing' The authors synthesize from there five key themes that capture the main aspects of variation in this literature, namely: (1) complex institutional antecedents within the national business system (NBS) (2) complex macro level antecedents outside the NBS; (3) the salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance; (4) hybridized and other nuanced forms of CSR expressions; and (5) varied scope of developmental and detrimental CSR consequences. The paper concludes by accentuating how the nuanced forms of CSR in the developing world are invariably contextualized and locally shaped by multi level factors and actors embedded within wider formal and informal governance systems.", "corpus_id": 148311746, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Dima Jamali", "Charlotte M Karam" ], "n_citations": 340, "n_key_citations": 13, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "5678275", "title": "Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility", "abstract": "I offer an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility consisting of a series of propositions specifying the conditions under which corporations are likely to behave in socially responsible ways. I argue that the relationship between basic economic conditions and corporate behavior is mediated by several institutional conditions: public and private regulation, the presence of nongovernmental and other independent organizations that monitor corporate behavior, institutionalized norms regarding appropriate corporate behavior, associative behavior among corporations themselves, and organized dialogues among corporations and their stakeholders. Concerns about corporate social responsibility have grown significantly during the last two decades. Not only has the issue become commonplace in the business press and among business and political leaders (Buhr Graf", "corpus_id": 5678275, "venue": "", "year": 2005, "author_names": [ "John L Campbell" ], "n_citations": 3244, "n_key_citations": 328, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "59438486", "title": "What We Know and Don't Know About Corporate Social Responsibility", "abstract": "The authors review the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature based on 588 journal articles and 102 books and book chapters. They offer a multilevel and multidisciplinary theoretical framework that synthesizes and integrates the literature at the institutional, organizational, and individual levels of analysis. The framework includes reactive and proactive predictors of CSR actions and policies and the outcomes of such actions and policies, which they classify as primarily affecting internal (i.e. internal outcomes) or external (i.e. external outcomes) stakeholders. The framework includes variables that explain underlying mechanisms (i.e. relationship and value based mediator variables) of CSR outcomes relationships and contingency effects (i.e. people place price and profile based moderator variables) that explain conditions under which the relationship between CSR and its outcomes change. The authors' review reveals important knowledge gaps related to the adoption of different theoretical orientations by researchers studying CSR at different levels of analysis, the need to understand underlying mechanisms linking CSR with outcomes, the need for research at micro levels of analysis (i.e. individuals and teams) and the need for methodological approaches that will help address these substantive knowledge gaps. Accordingly, they offer a detailed research agenda for the future, based on a multilevel perspective that aims to integrate diverse theoretical frameworks as well as develop an understanding of underlying mechanisms and microfoundations of CSR (i.e. foundations based on individual action and interactions) The authors also provide specific suggestions regarding research design, measurement, and data analytic approaches that will be instrumental in carrying out their proposed research agenda.", "corpus_id": 59438486, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Herman Aguinis", "Ante Glavas" ], "n_citations": 1816, "n_key_citations": 160, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "143410839", "title": "Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Financial Performance: A Competitive Action Perspective", "abstract": "We attempt to provide a more nuanced view of the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm financial performance using a competitive action perspective. We argue that competitive action should be considered as an important contingency that determines the effects of CSR activities on firm financial performance. Using data for 113 publicly listed U.S. firms in the software industry between 2000 and 2005, we found that socially responsible activities (positive CSR) enhance firm financial performance when the firm's competitive action level is high, whereas socially irresponsible activities (negative CSR) actually improve firm financial performance when the competitive action level is low. By introducing competitive action as an important contingency, this study contributes to the literature on CSR and strategic management.", "corpus_id": 143410839, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kwang-ho Kim", "MinChung Kim", "Cuili Qian" ], "n_citations": 151, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8385030", "title": "The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts, Research and Practice", "abstract": "In this review, the primary subject is the 'business case' for corporate social responsibility (CSR) The business case refers to the underlying arguments or rationales supporting or documenting why the business community should accept and advance the CSR 'cause' The business case is concerned with the primary question: What do the business community and organizations get out of CSR? That is, how do they benefit tangibly from engaging in CSR policies, activities and practices? The business case refers to the bottom line financial and other reasons for businesses pursuing CSR strategies and policies. In developing this business case, the paper first provides some historical background and perspective. In addition, it provides a brief discussion of the evolving understandings of CSR and some of the long established, traditional arguments that have been made both for and against the idea of business assuming any responsibility to society beyond profit seeking and maximizing its own financial well being. Finally, the paper addresses the business case in more detail. The goal is to describe and summarize what the business case means and to review some of the concepts, research and practice that have come to characterize this developing idea.", "corpus_id": 8385030, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Archie B Carroll", "K M Shabana" ], "n_citations": 2603, "n_key_citations": 176, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "195939467", "title": "English for Specific Purposes", "abstract": "English for Specific Purposes is a functional variety of language belonging to a specific communications. In this article we describe the development stages of the notion <English for Specific Purposes> We are highlighting the most prominent issues of the matter with the aim of analyzing and generalizing the ideas expressed. Keywords: language, Language for Specific Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, sublanguage, discourse, academese, register.", "corpus_id": 195939467, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Anna Dudnikova" ], "n_citations": 332, "n_key_citations": 52, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "218936754", "title": "Needs Analysis English For Specific Purposes (ESP) For Vocational Pharmacy Students", "abstract": "Increased development of study programs in vocational education programs that are predicted to be a solution to increase human resources in Indonesia. This also underlies the improvement of English language competence in Indonesia as outlined in Minister of Education and Culture Decree No. 096/1967 December 12, 1967. The Ministry of Education and Culture developed the communicative abilities of English vocational education students who needed help listening, reading, writing and speaking. This study discusses the analysis of the needs of English courses (ESP) for educational students who need analysis of targets and learning needs. Data obtained from questionnaires and interviews. The results of data analysis about active communication skills (35% grammar difficulties (25% being able to read (25% difficulty in content (10% and writing (5%.Introduction to basic pharmacy (20% prescription pharmacy (20% Health and drugs (20% Healthy lifestyle (20% and microbiology and pharmacy (20% The English language used in technology is English Media (40% crosswords (20% dialogue content (20% and multiple choice (20% The results of the study constitute an analysis of needs and targets referred to as part of the English learning process The results of the analysis of learning needs and the achievement of learning English obtained by students both reading, writing, grammar and other needs in order to prepare themselves to meet their needs going forward.", "corpus_id": 218936754, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Abd Syakur", "Hanizah Zainuddin", "M Afif Hasan" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "204391820", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: A STUDY IN ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION", "abstract": "Nowadays, social media are dominating the life of p eople. Facebook has become noticeably widespread among the youth, and students in particu lar. Research has indicated that Facebook could be an effective platform for languag e learning. This study, therefore, comes to explore the effects of Facebook assisted teachin g on learning English for specific purposes by students at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabi a. A sample of 64 students from the Faculty of Business Administration, taking a Busine s Letters course in English, were divided into a Facebook tutored group and a traditi onal classroom tutored group and were given the same vocabulary content. The two groups w ere given preand post tests to measure their vocabulary learning, and were subjected to an interview to gauge their attitudes towards the instructional methods which were put to use. Ho wever, no significant difference between the two groups was found in terms of achievement in spite of the positive response and the high satisfaction level the Facebook tutored studen ts showed towards the use of such a platform.", "corpus_id": 204391820, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hadoussa Slim", "Menif Hafedh" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219682564", "title": "THE JOURNAL OF TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC AND ACADEMIC PURPOSES", "abstract": "The article discusses two approaches that are considered to be the most promising ones in today's teaching of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) The two approaches in question are Kumaravadivelu's principled pragmatic approach and the experiential learning approach. It is shown that they both help to unify into one single new paradigm the three leading paradigms in modern ESP teaching: content based instruction, English immersion, and culture specific target language learning. After defining each of the two approaches in ESP courses at tertiary schools, the paper proceeds to prove the authors' leading idea that both principled pragmatism and experiential learning are a perfect match embodying two facets of a broader pedagogical approach that is applicable not only when teaching ESP (and teaching foreign languages in general) but also when teaching other disciplines, especially at the tertiary school level. This broader pedagogical approach is constructivism, which provides students with opportunities for 'constructing' their own knowledge and skills through practical experience in real life or modeled activities. In this case, students acquire their knowledge and skills (including skills of communicating in the target language) as a by product of their real life or modeled activities, thus internalizing (appropriating) the knowledge and skills and not just learning them. The peculiarities of constructivism in ESP courses are discussed, and the guidelines are given for the practical implementation of the principled pragmatic approach through experiential learning activities in the framework of the fully constructivist ESP course (in what concerns its theoretical and methodological foundations)", "corpus_id": 219682564, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Oleg Tarnopolsky", "Svitlana P Kozhushko" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "148993840", "title": "From needs analysis to task design: Insights from an English for specific purposes context", "abstract": "Needs analysis (NA) has long been argued to be the prerequisite for the design of language curricula or syllabi and the selection of tasks. According to Long (2005) a one size fits all approach should be substituted by a careful examination of learners' needs in a particular domain or learner community. Despite the increasing practice of carrying out a NA as a first step in curriculum design, it is still unclear how exactly the insights obtained from NA can be used in meaningful ways to take informed decisions about task and syllabus design. This study attempts to fill this gap by applying the findings obtained in a NA in the domain of a hotel receptionist's job to the design of pedagogic tasks. The goals of this study were to obtain insights into what tasks are done in this domain (task selection) what kind of language use is associated with these tasks (task discourse analysis) how the information about perceived difficulty of tasks can be translated into instructionally manipulable variables (task difficulty) and in what order the resulting tasks should be presented to learners (task sequencing) The study design employed in depth qualitative data collection, including 10 semi structured interviews and three observations, and the sources were domain experts and domain novices. By linking the information obtained in the NA with a theoretical task complexity model, the study provides a detailed account of how real life tasks can be translated into an articulated set of genuine and instructionally relevant pedagogic tasks.", "corpus_id": 148993840, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Aleksandra Malicka", "Roger Gilabert Guerrero", "John M Norris" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158405188", "title": "Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education", "abstract": "This volume offers research based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world. By drawing on international studies, the book brings together diverse ESP practices and aspects of relevant issues in the development of ESP programs, teachers and learners in a coherent fashion. There is a growing need for undergraduate students to develop their proficiency of ESP skills and knowledge in the increasingly globalized world. Knowledge of ESP is an important factor in subject matter learning by students, and also closely related to the performance of university graduates in the relevant sectors. Careful planning and efficient implementation are essential to ensure the quality of the language learning process. For a variety of reasons, it proves difficult to maintain ESP instruction in higher education. These reasons include the incompetence of teachers, lack of materials for that specific context, as well as lack of opportunities for ESP teachers to develop their skills. The chapters in this book, taken from a wide variety of countries, shed light on the diversity of current practices and issues surrounding ESP.", "corpus_id": 158405188, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yasemin Kirkgoz", "Kenan Dikilitas" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "62726063", "title": "English for specific purposes a learning centred approach", "abstract": "Thanks Introduction Part I. What is ESP? 1. The origins of ESP 2. The development of ESP 3. ESP: approach not product Part II. Course Design: 4. Language descriptions 5. Theories of learning 6. Needs analysis 7. Approaches to course design Part III. Application: 8. The syllabus 9. Materials evaluation 10. Materials design 11. Methodology 12. Evaluation Part IV. The Role of the ESP Teacher: 13. Orientation Appendix Bibliography Acknowledgements Index.", "corpus_id": 62726063, "venue": "", "year": 1987, "author_names": [ "Tom A Hutchinson", "Alan Rufus Waters" ], "n_citations": 1399, "n_key_citations": 169, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "210969316", "title": "THE JOURNAL OF TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC AND ACADEMIC PURPOSES", "abstract": "The mission of higher education institutions is to prepare future professionals for a rapidly changing labor market, yet what skills we teach students, and how we teach them, is highly problematic. The ability to collaborate is crucial for success in professional and academic endeavor; the challenge for foreign language educators is to shift the focus of courses in ways that address the development of collaboration skills. Yet, this also becomes a challenge in scholarly literature on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) since research in this field has been somewhat limited, i.e. most commonly it investigates collaborative writing as a way of developing collaboration. Furthermore, the explicit teaching of collaboration, as well as the inclusion of diverse tasks to enhance collaboration, are often neglected by researchers. Also neglected in this field of research are the challenges and opportunities that students experience while learning to collaborate during ESP classes. The paper aims at acquiring more in depth insights into the phenomenon of collaboration during ESP classes to facilitate the practice of language educators who can no longer neglect the urgent need to develop collaboration through their classes. The authors of the paper, who were also the designers of ESP tasks, sought to develop collaboration skills by both engaging learners in collaborative tasks and integrating additional measures to address this skill. Qualitative data acquired via observations and semi structured interviews revealed that such tasks could contribute to students\" overall performance to improve language proficiency because they enhance motivation and engagement. Apart from collaboration skills, they contribute to the development of many essential skills vital for engagement in the twenty first century workplace. Notwithstanding, they pose challenges to students and this indicates the need for more frequent collaborative tasks and progress with additional measures that develop students\" collaboration abilities in higher education.", "corpus_id": 210969316, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Evelina Jaleniauskiene", "Robert Lescinskij", "Palmira Juceviciene" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150604428", "title": "Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific purposes (ESP) students", "abstract": "This study aims at exploring the degree of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) towards the learning of English that English for Specific Purposes students report experiencing. The participants in this study were 67 undergraduates at the University of the Balearic Islands enrolled in two university degree programs. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz et al. 1986) was used to collect data. The findings reveal that most students suffered from average to high anxiety levels. Communication apprehension was found to be the main source of participants' FLA followed by fear of negative evaluation and test anxiety. The data also showed statistically significant differences across students' university degree programs related to test anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. No statistically significant gender differences in FLA levels were observed. Finally, correlation analyses revealed significant negative associations between participants' self perceived English proficiency and their FLA levels associated with listening and speaking skills.", "corpus_id": 150604428, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marian Amengual-Pizarro" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "196021503", "title": "Integrating Information and Communication Technologies in English for Specific Purposes", "abstract": "The present volume, edited by Munoz Luna and Taillefer, wisely combines the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (henceforth ICTs) with the teaching and processing of English for Specific Purposes (henceforth, ESP) In this combination of interrelated fields, as well as in the wide coverage of their state of the art, resides the uniqueness of the book. It presents insights on methodological ESP principles in both academic and professional situations, and emphasizes authenticity in teaching and learning contexts.", "corpus_id": 196021503, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Rosa Munoz-Luna", "Lidia Taillefer" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "220479452", "title": "Teacher Immediacy and Students Classroom Participation: A relationship Study in Pakistan", "abstract": "The studywas designed to explore the relationship between teacher immediacy and their students' classroom participation. 726students,enrolled in teacher education departments at eight universities of Pakistan, participated in the present study. The adapted Teacher Immediacy (TI) and Student Classroom Participation (SCP) Questionnaires were used to collect data after ensuring the psychometric properties. Results indicated that there was no significant difference in private and public sector university students' perception regarding teacher immediacy and their own classroom participation. In addition, there was no significant difference in the male and female students'perceptionregarding teacher immediacy and their own classroom participation. The results of correlational analysis demonstrated a strong relationship between teacher immediacy and student classroom participation(r= 0.756) Teacher training institutes should add content regarding teachers' immediacy and behaviourism in their curriculum that may help students to participate in classroom activities.", "corpus_id": 220479452, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Tariq Hussain", "Mubashira Khalid", "Farooq Akbar" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216243770", "title": "Impact of Teacher's Immediacy Behavior on Student Learning", "abstract": "Teaching is an interactive process between both parties. Immediacy is a perception of physical or psychological closeness. When students feel close to teachers they can learn effectively. This is an important benefit of immediacy. The study aims to examine the impact of immediacy behavior of teachers and teacher management communication style on student learning.", "corpus_id": 216243770, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Gn Anitha Elavarasi", "N SumathiG", "L Suganthi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214127794", "title": "Going Digital", "abstract": "The purpose of this chapter is to explore teacher immediacy strategies that help online instructors form connections with students while teaching in distance learning environments. Teacher immediacy consists of both verbal and nonverbal behaviors teachers can use that generate perceptions of closeness with students, which often feels lacking in a distance learning environment. Specific examples of immediacy behaviors in online courses are provided. The chapter shares examples of student/teacher interactions in a course built around teacher immediacy principles, identifying the specific principles visible in each interaction. Finally, the chapter ends with recommendations for practice using teacher immediacy strategies to build relationships with students in online courses.", "corpus_id": 214127794, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kristal Curry" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "222077011", "title": "Using Multisensory Teaching Approach for Developing EFL Prospective Teacher's Immediacy Skills in Classroom Communication", "abstract": "The present study investigated the effectiveness of using multisensory teaching approach for developing EFL prospective teachers' immediacy skills. The problem of this study was identified in EFL prospective teachers' poor mastery of verbal and nonverbal immediacy skills in practicum classrooms. The study adopted the quasi experimental design. The subjects of this study were (38) participants, they were selected randomly from fourth year student teachers (Elementary Education) at Port Said Faculty of Education. They were divided into two groups (control and experimental) To determine the most required verbal and nonverbal immediacy skills to be developed, a questionnaire containing a list of such skills with their performance sub skills was designed for TEFL specialists. Based on the selected skills, the researcher designed a pre post observation checklist of immediacy skills approved by a jury; and EFL prospective teachers of the experimental group were taught to use multisensory teaching to support developing their immediacy skills in the classroom. The results of administering the pre post immediacy skills observation checklist (quantitative instrument) evaluation and self reflection quizzes, peer assessment checklists, and student teachers' reflective logs (qualitative instruments) showed that there was a statistically significant difference at 0.01 level between the mean ranks of the control and experimental groups on the post administration of the observation checklist in favor of the experimental group in both verbal and nonverbal immediacy skills. The findings of the present study revealed that using multisensory teaching approach had a positive effect on developing EFL prospective teachers' verbal and nonverbal immediacy skills.", "corpus_id": 222077011, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Maha Samir El- Bayaa" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "149518689", "title": "Effective Teacher Immediacy Behaviors Based on Students' Perceptions", "abstract": "The aim of this research is to determine effective teacher immediacy behaviors based on students' perceptions. The research is designed within descriptive survey model. The sample of this study was formed of via random sampling method, which covers 382 students from 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade from elementary schools. \"Teacher Immediacy Behaviors Scale\" which was developed by Crump (1996) and adapted by the researcher was used in the research in order to collect data. Research results show that out of twelve teacher immediacy behaviors, nine were found to be effective and important by students with \"friendly smiling\" ranked as the most effective and \"physical appearance\" as the least effective. The behaviors of \"eye contact\" \"friendly smiling\" and \"personal examples\" differed significantly in favor of male students according to gender variable. It can be observed from the result of this study that teachers' behaviors have impact on students.", "corpus_id": 149518689, "venue": "Universal Journal of Educational Research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Mehmet Akif Sozer" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210536313", "title": "Less Is More: Use of Video to Address the Problem of Teacher Immediacy and Presence in Online Courses.", "abstract": "Online courses are becoming more common at institutions of higher education, yet teaching online creates many challenges, including how to foster instructor immediacy in the online learning environment. Student feedback on audio and video teaching techniques were collected in two undergraduate online classes. Students thought that using video in multiple ways (weekly announcements and assignment feedback) provided increased immediacy and motivation for online students in two Communication courses: Mass Media and Society and Communication Theory. Ultimately, instructors can make a positive difference in perceived instructor immediacy and presence with small changes through general class directed videos and short weekly video announcements (roughly 3 minutes in length) periodically throughout the semester. Use of short videos for feedback as opposed to longer lecture based videos can be a useful instructional technique for a wide range of online courses within higher education.", "corpus_id": 210536313, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Anne Bialowas", "Sarah J Steimel" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150661290", "title": "The relationship between EFL Learners' Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and their teacher immediacy attributes: A structural equation modelling", "abstract": "Abstract This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between Iranian English Foreign Language (EFL) learners' Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and their teachers' immediacy attributes. The participants comprised 256 EFL learners from three private language institutes of Mashhad, Khorasan e Razavi, Iran. Their selection was based on random sampling, and the participation was entirely voluntary. The instruments used in this study consisted of 1) Willingness to Speak Questionnaire, and 2) Immediacy Questionnaire. Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling (SEM) were run to analyze the relationships among learners' WTC and their teachers' immediacy attributes components. The results demonstrated that all the subscales of WTC are positively and significantly predicted by verbal and nonverbal immediacy. Verbal immediacy has the highest positive correlation with speaking WTC, and the lowest positive correlation with listening WTC. Moreover, nonverbal immediacy has the highest positive correlation with listening WTC, and the lowest positive correlation with writing WTC.", "corpus_id": 150661290, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Mehrdad Sheybani" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "150956178", "title": "THE ROLE OF VERBAL AND NONVERBAL TEACHER IMMEDIACY: THE PERSPECTIVES FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 150956178, "venue": "INTED2019 Proceedings", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Renata Matusu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "195535798", "title": "THE ROLE OF TEACHER IMMEDIACY AS A MOTIVATIONAL FACTOR IN STUDENT LEARNING", "abstract": "This research uses the structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis to find the correlation between the variables of Teaching effectiveness, Teacher behavior and affective learning and that of Student motivation in learning, Teacher immediacy and learning outcomes and Student learning outcomes. A model is built so that to confirm that teachers produce the intermediate influence and also motivate the learning outcomes, cognitive ones especially. Data obtained here in the course of survey proves to be consistent with our initial model. The results show that the immediate teachers' function is to be the means of increasing students' motivation to learn, and that such motivation, in its turn, increases students' cognitive abilities.", "corpus_id": 195535798, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Tran Huu Ai", "Luu Hoang Giang" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "148723627", "title": "The Relation of Student Achievement with Course Attendance and Teacher Immediacy", "abstract": "In this study, the relation of student achievement with students' course attendance and teacher immediacy was investigated. The data was acquired from 871 students from four different high schools in the boundaries of Ankara province. In the research, \"Classroom Engagement Inventory\" which was adapted into Turkish by Sever (2014) and \"The Scale of Teacher Immediacy Behaviors\" which was developed by Kolburan Gecer (2002) were used to collect data. As a result of the research, it was revealed that there was a positive correlation between both general student achievement and achievement from mostly liked teacher's lesson with emotional, cognitive engagement and teacher immediacy. However, a negative correlation was found out between achievement and kind of obedience/adaptation engagement with non attendance to the lesson. Non attendance to the lesson was a variable that had a negative effect on achievement.", "corpus_id": 148723627, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Suleyman Celik", "Sultan Orenoglu Toraman", "Kevser Celik" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "225341130", "title": "Rise of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: Drivers, Approaches and Technologies", "abstract": "Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. We investigate the economic and institutional drivers of CBDC development and take stock of design efforts. We set out a comprehensive database of technical approaches and policy stances on issuance, relying on central bank speeches and technical reports. Most projects are found in digitised economies with a high capacity for innovation. Work on retail CBDCs is more advanced where the informal economy is larger. We next take stock of the technical design options. More and more central banks are considering retail CBDC architectures in which the CBDC is a direct cash like claim on the central bank, but where the private sector handles all customer facing activity. We conclude with an in depth description of three distinct CBDC approaches by the central banks of China, Sweden and Canada.", "corpus_id": 225341130, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Raphael A Auer", "Giulio Cornelli", "Jon Frost" ], "n_citations": 56, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "5115101", "title": "Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies", "abstract": "Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific interest. In this survey, we unroll and structure the manyfold results and research directions. We start by introducing the Bitcoin protocol and its building blocks. From there we continue to explore the design space by discussing existing contributions and results. In the process, we deduce the fundamental structures and insights at the core of the Bitcoin protocol and its applications. As we show and discuss, many key ideas are likewise applicable in various other fields, so that their impact reaches far beyond Bitcoin itself.", "corpus_id": 5115101, "venue": "IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Florian Tschorsch", "Bjorn Scheuermann" ], "n_citations": 1013, "n_key_citations": 65, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "213438242", "title": "Macro and Micro Implications of the Introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies: An Overview", "abstract": "After the emergence and widespread of cryptocurrencies central banks are studying how their own digital currencies may help and favor the monetary policy implementation. There are many challenges to this process both in legal and economic (financial, monetary) areas. The paper studies the potential movement from a two tier banking system (central bank and banks) to a one tier banking system in case of CBDCs emission, including the issues of competition and commercial banking profitability. More specific question is the change of the transmission of monetary policy with CBDC emission.", "corpus_id": 213438242, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Gerard Mondello", "Elena S Sinelnikova", "P V Trunin" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201327597", "title": "From cash to central bank digital currencies and cryptocurrencies: a balancing act between modernity and monetary stability", "abstract": "Purpose The paper explores the precarious balance between modernizing monetary systems by means of digital currencies (either issued by the central bank itself or independently) and safeguarding financial stability as also ensured by tangible payment (and saving) instruments like paper money. Design/methodology/approach Which aspects of modern payment systems could contribute to improve the way of functioning of today's globalized economy? And, which might even threaten the above mentioned instable equilibrium? This survey paper aims, precisely, at giving some preliminary answers to a complex therefore, ongoing debate at scientific as well as banking and political levels. Findings The coexistence of State's money (i.e. \"legal tender\" and cryptocurrencies can have a disciplining effect on central banks. Nevertheless, there are still high risks connected to the introduction of central bank digital currency, which should be by far not considered to be a perfect substitute of current cash. At the same time, cryptocurrencies issued by central banks might be exposed to the drawbacks of cryptocurrencies without benefiting from correspondingly strong advantages. A well governed two tier system to be achieved through innovation in payment infrastructures might be, in turn, more preferable. Regulated competition by new players combined with \"traditional\" deposits and central bank elements remains essential, although central banks should embrace the technologies underlying cryptocurrencies, because risk payment service providers could move to other currency areas considered to be more appealing for buyers and sellers. Research limitations/implications We do not see specific limitations besides the fact that the following is for sure a broad field of scientific research to be covered, which is at the same time at the origin of ongoing developments and findings. Originality and implications of the paper are, instead, not only represented by its conclusions (which highlight the role of traditional payment instruments and stress why the concept of \"money\" still has to have specific features) but also by its approach of recent literature's review combined with equally strong logical analytical insights. Practical implications In the light of these considerations, even the role of traditional payment systems like paper money is by far not outdated or cannot be at this point, at least replaced by central bank digital currencies (whose features based on dematerialization despite being issued and guaranteed by a public authority are very different) Social implications No matter which form it might assume is what differentiates economic from barter transactions. This conclusion is by far not tautological or self evident since the notion of money has historically been a great object of scientific discussion. In the light of increasingly modern payment instruments, there is no question that money and the effectiveness of related monetary policies have to be also explored from a social perspective according to different monetary scenarios, ranging from central bank digital currencies to private currencies and cash restrictions/abolition. Originality/value The originality/value of the following article is represented by the fact that it (1) refers to some of the most relevant and recent contributions to this research field, (2) moves from payment systems in general to their newest trends like cryptocurrencies, cash restrictions (or, even, abolition proposals) and monetary policy while (3) combining all elements to reach a common picture. The paper aims at being a comprehensive contribution dealing with \"money\" in its broadest but also newest sense.", "corpus_id": 201327597, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ansgar Belke", "Edoardo Beretta" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "51817233", "title": "Central bank digital currencies", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 51817233, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Lewis Sun" ], "n_citations": 102, "n_key_citations": 10, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219719741", "title": "A Compendium of Practices for Central Bank Digital Currencies for Multinational Financial Infrastructures", "abstract": "Over five thousand digital currencies have been issued by private sector actors since the release of the Bitcoin digital currency in 2009. Private sector issuance of distributed ledger technology (DLT) based digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other altcoins threaten the stability of financial market infrastructures and preservation of monetary policy. Consequently, many central banks and monetary authorities have begun research and experimentation on central bank issued digital currencies (CBDCs) to mitigate this threat. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of publicly available DLT based CBDC experiments with completed proof of concept prototypes from across the world to enable an understanding of the motivations and best practice approaches for undertaking CBDC experiments. We provide a classification and generic framework for CBDCs and highlight existing DLT platform limitations and use cases in the financial services industry. Overall, our paper organizes in one place, all the relevant, publicly available DLT based CBDC experiments with completed proof of concept prototypes to serve as a reference point for central banks, monetary authorities and researchers desiring to undertake research on DLT based CBDCs. Ultimately, we present a survey on the technical feasibility and challenges of leveraging DLT to issue the selected CBDC experiments surveyed in this paper.", "corpus_id": 219719741, "venue": "IEEE Access", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Edwin Ayisi Opare", "Kwangjo Kim" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221758295", "title": "Eggs in One Basket: Security and Convenience of Digital Currencies", "abstract": "Digital currencies store balances in anonymous electronic addresses. We analyze the trade offs between safety and convenience of aggregating balances in addresses, electronic wallets and banks. In our model agents balance the risk of theft of a large account with the cost to safeguarding a large number of passwords of many small accounts. Account custodians (banks, wallets and other payment service providers) have different objectives and tradeoffs on these dimensions; we analyze the welfare effects of differing industry structures and interdependencies, and in particular the consequences of \"password aggregation\" programs which in effect consolidate risks across accounts.", "corpus_id": 221758295, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Charles M Kahn", "Francisco Rivadeneyra", "Tsz-Nga Wong" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "228311704", "title": "The Digital Euro and the Role of DLT for Central Bank Digital Currencies", "abstract": "Digitization has reached the monetary system. The advent of crypto assets, such as Bitcoin and Ether, revealed numerous advantages these digital assets based on distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) can bring: Using DLT can enhance the security of sensitive financial transaction data, increase transaction speed through faster processing and settlement and automate numerous business processes through smart contracts. These advantages ought to be realized in the conventional monetary system as well not only in the \"crypto industry\" DLT can be used both to digitally represent bank deposits and to tokenize central bank money via central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) Current DLT based CBDC projects and prototypes among others by the Chinese and Swedish central banks, but also initiatives by the European Central Bank (ECB) show that DLT will be an essential pillar of the digitization of the monetary system in particular and the financial system in general in the future.", "corpus_id": 228311704, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Manuel Klein", "Jonas Gross", "Philipp G Sandner" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219528795", "title": "Regulating Central Bank Digital Currencies: Towards a Conceptual Framework", "abstract": "Due to technological change and the rise of private digital currencies more and more central banks investigate the possibility of issuing their own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) This paper develops a conceptual framework, which shows how the issuance of CBDC and the provision of access can be regulated. Therefore, theoretical CBDC designs and existing jurisdictions from around the world are considered. The framework points out that the regulation of CBDC encompasses two components: on the one hand, the regulation of the legal form of CBDC. On the other hand, the level of obligation, which indicates how legally binding the issuance and provision of access is for the central bank and potentially involved third parties. Besides, this paper discusses the pros and cons of different regulatory options to find out how CBDC should be regulated. It concludes that only a right to CBDC for everyone is non discriminatory and therefore favorable in the view of consumers. Furthermore, it is favorable to let third parties provide access to CBDC since this potentially increases competition and reduces operational duties for the central bank. While payment service providers are more suitable as third parties for CBDC stored on a central ledger, technical service providers are for CBDC stored on a distributed ledger.", "corpus_id": 219528795, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Simon Hess" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219322874", "title": "Interoperable Payment Systems and the Role of Central Bank Digital Currencies", "abstract": "I explain the meaning of an interoperable payment system and why interoperability is crucial for efficiency. I review some alternative approaches to interoperability, including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) hybrid CBDCs, and two ledger upgrades of bank based payment systems.", "corpus_id": 219322874, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Darrell Duffie" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "17476930", "title": "MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access and Permission Management", "abstract": "Years of heavy regulation and bureaucratic inefficiency have slowed innovation for electronic medical records (EMRs) We now face a critical need for such innovation, as personalization and data science prompt patients to engage in the details of their healthcare and restore agency over their medical data. In this paper, we propose MedRec: a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EMRs, using blockchain technology. Our system gives patients a comprehensive, immutable log and easy access to their medical information across providers and treatment sites. Leveraging unique blockchain properties, MedRec manages authentication, confidentiality, accountability and data sharing crucial considerations when handling sensitive information. A modular design integrates with providers' existing, local data storage solutions, facilitating interoperability and making our system convenient and adaptable. We incentivize medical stakeholders (researchers, public health authorities, etc. to participate in the network as blockchain \"miners\" This provides them with access to aggregate, anonymized data as mining rewards, in return for sustaining and securing the network via Proof of Work. MedRec thus enables the emergence of data economics, supplying big data to empower researchers while engaging patients and providers in the choice to release metadata. The purpose of this short paper is to expose, prior to field tests, a working prototype through which we analyze and discuss our approach.", "corpus_id": 17476930, "venue": "2016 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD)", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Asaph Azaria", "Ariel Ekblaw", "Thiago Vieira", "Andrew Lippman" ], "n_citations": 1029, "n_key_citations": 50, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "115196942", "title": "MedRec: A Network for Personal Information Distribution", "abstract": "MedRec is a simple, distributed system for personal control of identity and distribution of personal information. The work is done in the context of a medical information distribution system where patients retain control over who can access their data. We present a new architecture for the MedRec project, creating a network of trusted data repositories, the access to which are determined by a set of \"smart contracts\" These contracts are stored on a distributed ledger maintained by those who generate data. The distributed nature of the system allows unified access from diverse sources in a single application with no intermediary. This increases patient control while retaining a measure of privacy of both data content and source. MedRec is amenable to extensions for decentralized messaging and distribution of information to third parties such as medical researchers, healthcare proxies, and other institutions. The system is based on a blockchain that contains smart contracts defining user identity and distribution specifics.", "corpus_id": 115196942, "venue": "2019 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Nchinda Nchinda", "Agnes Cameron", "Kalli Retzepi", "Andrew Lippman" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "27517929", "title": "A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare \" MedRec \" prototype for electronic health records and medical research data", "abstract": "A long standing focus on compliance has traditionally constrained development of fundamental design changes for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) We now face a critical need for such innovation, as personalization and data science prompt patients to engage in the details of their healthcare and restore agency over their medical data. In this paper, we propose MedRec: a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs, using blockchain technology. Our system gives patients a comprehensive, immutable log and easy access to their medical information across providers and treatment sites. Leveraging unique blockchain properties, MedRec manages authentication, confidentiality, accountability and data sharing crucial considerations when handling sensitive information. A modular design integrates with providers' existing, local data storage solutions, facilitating interoperability and making our system convenient and adaptable. We incentivize medical stakeholders (researchers, public health authorities, etc. to participate in the network as blockchain \"miners\" This provides them with access to aggregate, anonymized data as mining rewards, in return for sustaining and securing the network via Proof of Work. MedRec thus enables the emergence of data economics, supplying big data to empower researchers while engaging patients and providers in the choice to release metadata. The purpose of this paper is to expose, in preparation for field tests, a working prototype through which we analyze and discuss our approach and the potential for blockchain in health IT and research.", "corpus_id": 27517929, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ariel Ekblaw", "Asaph Azaria", "John D Halamka", "Andrew Lippman" ], "n_citations": 289, "n_key_citations": 16, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "201589408", "title": "Structure of Inter Professional Knowledge Exchange Related to \"EHR MedRec\" within an SKN System", "abstract": "Similar to issues faced in health systems across U.S. AU Health faced a scenario of low physician engagement in, and limited use of its EHR Medication Reconciliation (MedRec) technology. In fall 2.", "corpus_id": 201589408, "venue": "Academy of Management Proceedings", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Pavani Rangachari", "Karl Rethemeyer" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201425559", "title": "Dynamics of Inter Professional Learning Related to \"EHR MedRec\" within an SKN System", "abstract": "Similar to issues faced in health systems across U.S. AU Health faced a scenario of low physician engagement in, and limited use of its Electronic Health Record (EHR) Medication Reconciliation (Me.", "corpus_id": 201425559, "venue": "Academy of Management Proceedings", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Pavani Rangachari", "Karl Rethemeyer" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "64787948", "title": "MedRec blockchain for medical data access, permission management and trend analysis", "abstract": "Years of heavy regulation and a long standing focus on compliance have co opted the ability of the healthcare industry to implement novel data sharing approaches. We now face a critical need for such innovation, as personalization and data science prompt patients to engage in the details of their healthcare and restore agency over their medical data. This thesis proposes MedRec: a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs (Electronic Health Records) using blockchain technology. The system design gives patients a comprehensive, immutable log and access to their medical information across providers and treatment sites. Leveraging unique blockchain properties, MedRec manages authentication, data retrieval, update tracking for existing records, data entry (both for patients and providers) and data sharing. MedRec accomplishes record management without creating any centralized data repositories; a modular system design integrates with providers' existing, local data storage solutions, facilitating interoperable data exchange between data sources and the patients. We incentivize healthcare industry stakeholders (government funded researchers, public health authorities, etc. to participate in the network as blockchain \"miners\" This provides them with access to aggregate, anonymized data as mining rewards, in return for sustaining and securing the MedRec network via Proof of Work. We emphasize the flexibility and extensibility of our system components to other dimensions of the healthcare industry and to applications beyond healthcare as well. This thesis describes the MedRec technical design and early stage prototype, our pilot with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an analysis of MedRec's contribution in the context of national healthcare priorities. This work is supported by the MIT Media Lab Consortium. Thesis Supervisor: Andrew Lippman Title: Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab", "corpus_id": 64787948, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Ariel Ekblaw" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "189333375", "title": "medrec 2.0", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 189333375, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andrew Lippman", "Nchinda Nchinda", "Agnes Cameron", "Kalli Retzepi" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199005589", "title": "MedRec patient centered medical records using a distributed permission management system", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 199005589, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Nchinda Nchinda" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "189521511", "title": "MedRec IEEE submission", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 189521511, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andrew Lippman", "Nchinda Nchinda", "Kalli Retzepi", "Agnes Cameron" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53379593", "title": "MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain", "abstract": "Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) crave innovation. Years of regulation have stied tech development in medical data management, while an array of incompatible back end systems and fragmented data trails limit patients' ability to engage with their medical history. We demonstrate MedRec as a solution tuned to the needs of patients, the treatment community, and medical researchers. MedRec applies novel, blockchain smart contracts to create a decentralized content management system for your healthcare data, across providers. The MedRec authentication log governs medical record access, while providing means for auditability and data sharing. A modular design integrates with providers' existing, local data storage solutions, enabling interoperability and making our system convenient and adaptable. As a key feature of our work, we engage the medical research community with an integral MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain Ariel Ekblaw, Asaf Azaria Follow Pub 14 Content 5 Versions 7 Contributors 1 Journal Search PubPub Login Signup 2/27/2017 MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain PubPub https:/www.pubpub.org/pub/medrec 2/16 role in the protocol. Medical researchers provide the \"mining\" necessary to secure and sustain the authentication log on a private, Ethereum network, in return for privacypreserving, medical metadata in the form of \"transaction fees.\" Our Motivation Approach From fragmented access to comprehensive access Patients interact with a staggering number of health care providers through the course of their lives from pediatrician, to university physician, dentist, employer health plan provider, specialists, and more. At each stage, they leave data scattered across a particular jurisdiction's system [1] This leads to a fragmented data trail and decaying ease of access, as providers often retain primary data stewardship (either via default practices or explicit legal provisions in over 21 states) [2] Our MedRec prototype enables patients with one stop shop access to their medical history across multiple providers: smart contracts on an Ethereum blockchain [2] aggregate data pointers (references to medical records that are stored elsewhere) into \"patient provider relationships.\" These contract data structures 2/27/2017 MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain PubPub https:/www.pubpub.org/pub/medrec 3/16 are stored on the blockchain and associate references to disparate medical data with ownership and viewership permissions and record retrieval location. This provides an immutable data lifecycle log, enabling later auditing. We include a cryptographic hash of the record in the smart contract to establish a baseline of the original content and thus provide a check against content tampering. The raw medical record content is never stored on the blockchain, but rather kept securely in providers' existing data storage infrastructure. MedRec facilitates reviewing, sharing and posting of new records via a exible user interface, designed to reect best practices from the Blue Button health record competition [1] We abstract away the blockchain technology to focus on usability for the medical record use case. The interface includes a notications system to alert users when a new record has been posted on their behalf or shared with them. From data rigidity to data sharing Interoperability challenges between dierent provider systems pose signicant barriers to eective data sharing. Patients face hurdles in authorizing data exchange (with other consulting physicians or even family members) due to the lack of a common interface or standard system that orchestrates record access across databases [1] MedRec provides streamlined data sharing functionality by updating viewership 2/27/2017 MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain PubPub https:/www.pubpub.org/pub/medrec 4/16 permissions on the relevant data pointers. With pointers to patient data aggregated in smart contracts on the blockchain, we can oer a single, common interface where patients chose when, and with whom, they share their data. From obscurity to clarity While most valuable to the patient and provider, medical records also prove critical for research. A recent report from the Oce of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology emphasizes that biomedical and public health researchers \"require the ability to analyze information from many sources in order to identify public health risks, develop new treatments and cures, and enable precision medicine\" [1] Though some data trickles through to researchers from clinical studies, surveys and teaching hospitals, we note a growing interest among patients, care providers and regulatory bodies to responsibly share more data, and thus enable better care for others [1] With MedRec, we incentivize medical researchers and other healthcare stakeholders to participate in the blockchain network as \"miners\" (see Appendix: Bitcoin Basics for more on mining and the fundamentals of blockchain) These researchers can now obtain greater clarity in their investigations by earning census level, anonymized metadata in return for contributing the computational resources that sustain the network. MedRec enables the emergence of data economics between data consumer and data producer, as 2/27/2017 MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain PubPub https:/www.pubpub.org/pub/medrec 5/16 the system supplies big data to empower researchers while engaging patients and providers in the choice of how much metadata to release. Designing for patient agency When designing new systems to overcome current EMR challenges, we must prioritize patient agency. Patients benet from a holistic, transparent view of their medical history, and in the age of online banking and social media, patients are increasingly willing, able and desirous of managing their data on the web and on the go [4] MedRec restores patient agency by empowering users with a focal point for access and review of their medical history, and an easy mechanism for sharing their data across medical jurisdictions. Patients can authorize a new doctor to review their record and obtain a second opinion, or grant viewership rights to a guardian they trust. Grandparents can seamlessly share medical data with their families, to reduce the mystery of family health history. Furthermore, the authorization log persists in the distributed network, providing crucial back up and restore functionality. Patients can leave and rejoin the system multiple times, for arbitrary periods, and regain access to their history by downloading the latest blockchain from the network. Summary of MedRec contributions: 2/27/2017 MedRec: Medical Data Management on the Blockchain PubPub https:/www.pubpub.org/pub/medrec 6/16 Comprehensive, immutable log of authentication permissions for ease of data access and auditing Data sharing authorization, with oblockchain content syncing Interoperability with providers' existing data storage infrastructure Blockchain mining incentives for medical researchers via anonymized metadata rewards Custom API for handling smart contract content and posting to a private, Ethereum blockchain Intuitively designed user interface for patient and provider use", "corpus_id": 53379593, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ariel Ekblaw", "Asaf Azaria" ], "n_citations": 30, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "24531129", "title": "Robotic assisted Reconstruction of the Cervix and Vagina by Small Intestinal Submucosa Graft and Fusion of the Hemiuterus.", "abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe our technique of robotic assisted reconstruction of the cervix and vagina using a small intestinal submucosa (SIS) graft and fusion of the hemiuterus. DESIGN A step by step explanation of the procedure using video. SETTING Congenital complete vaginal and cervical atresia is rare. Some patients have urinary system abnormality. No standardized surgical treatment guideline was available, and the performance varies for each patient. INTERVENTIONS We performed a robotic assisted reconstruction of the cervix and vagina using an SIS graft (Cook Medical, Bloomington, IN) and fusion of the hemiuterus for a 12 year old girl from China diagnosed with congenital vaginal and cervical atresia (U4C4V4) She complained of severe abdominal periodic pain for 2 months. Mammary development and her serum sex hormone were within normal range. The patient has a single kidney. The diagnosis was made according to clinical characteristics, physical examination, and magnetic resonance imaging and classified using the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology /European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESHRE/ESGE) system. There was a hematometra of 7 cm diameter in her pelvis. We constructed a novel vagina by sharp and blunt separation and connected it to the uterine cavity. With the SIS graft, we reconstructed her cervix and vagina, and we fused the hemiuterus to make the uterine cavity spacious. The operating time was 260 minutes, and blood loss was 300 mL. She recovered well after the operation without any complications. After surgery, the patient has had normal menstruation without pain. She insists on wearing the vaginal mold 24 hours per day. The follow up was 10 months. The length of the vagina was 9 cm and the width was 3 cm. CONCLUSION Robotic assisted reconstruction of the cervix and vagina using an SIS graft and fusion of the hemiuterus is feasible and safety. However, additional studies are required.", "corpus_id": 24531129, "venue": "Journal of minimally invasive gynecology", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Ying Zhang", "Yisong Chen", "Ke-qin Hua" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "80088814", "title": "Vaginal lithiasis in a 9 year old young girl with female genital mutilations: A case report.", "abstract": "Background: Female genital mutilations are among the most common widespread traditional practices in sub Saharan Africa and Mali particularly. The mutilations cause dramatic psychosomatic disorders and may severely compromise the external genital structures with eventual obstetric complications. Infibulation is one of the most fatal complications. It is a major and advanced type of female genital mutilation with small and large lips or partial resection and suture narrowing of the vaginal opening therefore responsible of serious structural sexual and functional complications. We report a rare complication of vaginal lithiasis in a 9 year old young girl who had infibulation following external genitals excision at younger age. Surgical reconstruction of the vagina and urethra recanalization were performed; and the patient recovered well but remained with high risk obstetrical complications.", "corpus_id": 80088814, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mohamed Lamine Diakite", "F Byiringiro", "Ibrahim Moussa Sissoko", "Ouattara Az", "Djibril Sangare", "Berthe Hj", "A S Diakite" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "44940678", "title": "VAGINAl lIThIASIS IN A 9 yEAR OlD yOuNG GIRl wITh FEMAlE GENITAl MuTIlATIONS A CASE REPORT", "abstract": "Background: Female genital mutilations are among the most common widespread traditional practices in sub Saharan Africa and Mali particularly. The mutilations cause dramatic psychosomatic disorders, and may severely compromise the external genital structures with eventual obstetric complications. Infibulation is one of the most fatal complications. It is a major and advanced type of female genital mutilation with small and large lips, or partial resection and suture narrowing of the vaginal opening therefore responsible of serious structural, sexual and functional complications. We report a rare complication of vaginal lithiasis in a 9 year old young girl who had infibulation following external genitals excision at younger age. Surgical reconstruction of the vagina, and urethra recanalization were performed; and the patient recovered well but remained with high risk obstetrical complications.", "corpus_id": 44940678, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "L DiakiteM" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "206231699", "title": "An earring incidentally diagnosed and removed through two step vaginoscopy in a pubertal virgin girl with miliary tuberculosis.", "abstract": "A vaginal foreign body is detected in approximately 4% of pediatric gynecologic outpatient examinations [1] Vaginoscopy using small diameter hysteroscopes is a safe, convenient, and efficient diagnostic and therapeutic method in such cases [2,3] Herein is reported an exceptional case of an earring in the vagina, which was incidentally detected at abdominopelvic radiography in a virgin adolescent girl and removed via 2 step vaginoscopy using miniature instruments.", "corpus_id": 206231699, "venue": "Journal of minimally invasive gynecology", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo", "Costantino di Carlo", "Marialuigia Spinelli", "Brunella Zizolfi", "Loredana Mara Sosa Fernandez", "Carmine Nappi" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "76511686", "title": "The primary experience of single incision laparoscopic sigmoid colpopoiesis in the treatment of congenital absence of vagina", "abstract": "(Objective) To report our primary experience of single incision laparoscopic sigmoid colpopoiesis in the treatment of congenital absence of vagina and to discuss its technical feasibility,effect and operative techniques.(Methods) The clinical data of our first case single incision laparosciopic sigmoid colpopoieses performed in 2010 was collected.A 21 girl with congenital absence of vagina underwent this new operation.Only one small incision was created on the umbilicus.A segment of sigmoid colon was transplanted to the pelvic as an artificial vagina.No other unnecessary scar besides the umbilical incision was left on the abdominal wall.(Results) The operation duration was 160 min.The blood lose in operation was 100 mL.The postoperative hospitalization was 11 days.No anastomotic leakage or sigmoid colon graft ischemic necrosis occurred.The umbilical incision showed a satisfactory cosmetic effect.(Conclusion) Single incision laparoscopic sigmoid colpopoiesis is safe and feasible and has a better cosmetic effect.", "corpus_id": 76511686, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Su Yan" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "204548797", "title": "A Rare Case of Labial Fusion Presenting with Urinary Retention", "abstract": "A 13 year old, premenarchal girl had urinary retention for 3 days, which was due to chronic local inflammation. Local examination showed labial fusion. Urethral opening was not seen. A small 0.5 mm punctum was present in the centre which was gradually dilated to relieve retention. Estrogen application with surgical lysis was done. Normal vagina, urethra and cervix visualized. Local Estrogen application for 1 month was advised. Follow up showed normal vulva and urethra (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4)", "corpus_id": 204548797, "venue": "The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Mukta Singh", "Kiran Kaul" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208393273", "title": "1655 Laparoscopic Unification of Non Communicating Horn with Hemi Uterus", "abstract": "Video Objective To demonstrate new idea of laparoscopic unification of functional non communicating horn with hemi uterus instead of removal to improve obstetric outcome in future. Setting an academic tertiary care hospital. A 14 year old girl presented with complaints of pain in lower abdomen, on and off for 2 months. Her previous 2 cycles were regular; she had cyclic dysmenorrhoea since her menarche which was now become intolerable and continuous. Secondary sexual characteristic was normal. hormone profile normal and on local examination normal external genitalia found. A thin dilator passed into vagina to confirm patent vagina. ultrasound suggested a unicornuate hemi uterus and right non communicating horn with a turbid collection. MRI also confirm the same. Interventions On Hysteroscopy a small right uterine cavity with only one ostium on right. Cervical canal was normal with normal crypts. vagina also normal and spacious. On diagnostic laparoscopy: A unicornuate right hemi uterus with a non communicating left horn was noted on the right side of the round ligament, tube and ovary were seen normal with small hemi uterus. On the left, small uterine horn seen with absent tube but normal ovary and round ligament attachment. First, we were planned resection of non communicating horn as described in literature but after assessing the anatomical proximity and good size of horn and small size of hemi uterus we decided for unification of both. After injecting diluted inj. vasopressin, linear medial incision given in full thickness of myometrium with monopolar energy and opening the cavity with scissors. Both the walls sutured together first posteriorly and then anteriorly in double layer with no. 1 polyglactin 910 suture. Conclusion Good normal size, shape and contour of uterus appreciated after completion of procedure. After surgery patient had one normal menses without any pain suggest success of surgery.", "corpus_id": 208393273, "venue": "Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "S Saini" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "2832904", "title": "Laparoscopic assisted uterovaginal anastomosis for uterine cervix atresia with vaginal aplasia using a silicone stent lined with acellular porcine small intestinal submucosa graft inserted using a 16F Foley catheter.", "abstract": "Herein is reported a novel technique for cervical reconstruction of congenital cervicovaginal atresia. The patient was a 16 year old girl with congenital atresia of the cervix and vagina, didelphic uterus, and right hematosalpinx. At laparoscopic assisted creation of a neocervix, a silicone stent was inserted using a 16F Foley catheter and lined with an acellular porcine small intestinal submucosa graft under ultrasound guidance. At 3 month clinical follow up after placement of the stent, the patient had regular menstrual flow. The neocervix was completely mucosalized on the inner surface at 4 months after surgery. There were no complications related to the silicone stent or the cervical stent. Cervical reconstruction using a vaginal mucosa lined silicone stent is accessible and effective, and provides an alternative option to preserve reproductive potential in patients with cervicovaginal atresia.", "corpus_id": 2832904, "venue": "Journal of minimally invasive gynecology", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Qiong-Jie Zhou", "Xiaojun Chen", "Xuezhen Luo", "Jinxin Ding", "Guofu Zhang", "Yun-Yun Ren", "Zhi Chen Liu", "Ke-qin Hua" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "52052529", "title": "Hematometrocolpos Due to an Imperforate Hymen", "abstract": "A 14 year old girl presented to the emergency department. She complained of chronic back pain that recently started to irradiate towards the abdomen. The pain was persistent and progressive. The blood analysis showed a slight increase in white blood cell count and C reactive protein (CRP) Subsequently abdominal ultrasound (US) was requested. A large well circumscribed hypogastric mass was seen. The mass had a hyporeflective content and a small amount of hyperreflective material posteriorly, compatible with debris in a midline cyst (Figure 1) The day after, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed. The mass appeared to be a dilatation of the vagina, in continuity with the uterine cavity (Figure 2A, sagittal image: arrow uterine cervix) The content was T2 hyperto iso intense and T1 hyperintense (Figure 2B, axial image) The hyperreflective material seen on ultrasound, showed susceptibility artifacts on T2* weighted images, which corresponds to hemosiderin (Figure 2C, axial image) There was no pathologic diffusion restriction. After MRI, the patient was seen by a gynecologist. He found out that the abdominal pain had a cyclic pattern on a monthly base, and that the patient never had menses. On clinical examination, a mass was felt and the hymen was bombed and painful. Based on these findings, the diagnosis of a hematometrocolpos, due to an imperforate hymen, was made. The patient underwent hymenotomy to remove the large amount of blood. Figure 1: Sagittal US image showing a large hypogastric mass with hyporeflective content and a small amount of hyperreflective material posteriorly.", "corpus_id": 52052529, "venue": "Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Thomas Bekaert", "Kristof Ramboer" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58110873", "title": "Uterine conserving surgery in a case of cervicovaginal agenesis with cloacal malformation", "abstract": "Cervico vaginal agenesis (MRKHS) with normally formed uterus along with cloacal malformation is a very rare mullerian anomaly. We report a case, of a 13 year old girl who was admitted at our tertiary care center with complaints of primary amenorrhea and cyclical lower abdominal pain for 3 months. Clinical examination and radiological investigations revealed complete cervico vaginal agenesis with normal uterus with hematometra with horse shoe kidney. Vaginoplasty was done by McIndoe's method with uterovaginal anastomosis and neocervix formation. Malecot's catheter was inserted in uterine cavity. Vaginal mould was kept in the neovagina. Mould was removed after 10 days under anaesthesia and repeat hysteroscopy with insertion of a small piece of malecot's catheter was performed under hysteroscopic guidance into the uterine cavity through neocervix and lower end fixed to the vagina. After 3 months, the malecot's catheter was removed. During follow up, she was menstruating normally at 6 months post operatively and had a completely healed vaginal mucosa. Earlier hysterectomy was considered as a definitive surgery for this condition; however, it has been replaced with more conservative approach, like uterovaginal anastomosis with creation of neovagina. In literature, successful pregnancy has been reported in these patients who underwent conservative surgery.", "corpus_id": 58110873, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Vineet V Mishra", "Suwa Ram Saini", "Priyankur Roy", "Rohina S Aggarwal", "Ruchika A Verneker", "Shaheen Hokabaj" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "167948773", "title": "Conflict Resolution in the Senior High Schools in Ghana and its Implications for Educational Administration: A Case Study of Ashanti Region, Ghana", "abstract": "The specific objective of this research is to look at conflict resolution in institution as being experienced in Ghanaian Senior High School. The researcher used descriptive research design to collect data from forty three (43) Senior High Schools in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The result indicated that when conflict is managed well, there is performance and better output; increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the school system. Despite limitations of the study, the general results depicted the core role conflict resolution plays in achieving institutional aims, objectives, aspiration and goals", "corpus_id": 167948773, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Ernest Kwabena Gyan" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "148658067", "title": "Expansion and Consolidation of the Educational Activities of the Seventh day Adventist (SDA) Mission at Asante Bekwai in Ghana from 1932 1955: Achievements and Challenges", "abstract": "The article focuses on the activities of the Seventh day Adventist (SDA) Church at Asante Bekwai, a popular traditional township in Ashanti Region of Ghana. Historical documents such as archival data from Public Records and Archival Administration (PRAAD) Office in Kumasi, files at SDA Educational Unit, Kumasi, log books and board of governors' meeting minutes of some SDA Schools in Ashanti constituted the major sources of information for the study. Secondary sources including books, scholarly writings and oral interviews with persons of considerable knowledge about the early activities of the Mission were also utilised to augment the discussions. The major findings of the study were that the SDA Church at Asante Bekwai utilized the favourable local conditions there to promote theological studies, teacher and secondary education; contingent on the philosophy of idealism, which largely stressed on moral development and character training. However, financial difficulties, which impeded the provision of adequate infrastructure and other educational equipment, were the major obstacles which confronted the educational efforts of the Mission during the period. It was therefore anticipated that the Church from 1955 onwards would take measures to surmount the challenges. Key Words Asante Bekwai, SDA Mission, Bekwai SDA Training College, Missionaries, Jesse Clifford", "corpus_id": 148658067, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Philip Oti-Agyen", "Fredrick Kwaku Sarfo", "Samuel Kofi Assoah" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "168453181", "title": "The impact of customer care on consumer purchasing behaviour in the life assurance industry in Ghana: a moderating effect of educational background", "abstract": "A thesis submitted to the Department of Marketing and Corporate Strategy of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfillment of the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration (Marketing) 2016", "corpus_id": 168453181, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Naomi Othelia Dadzie" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "159052073", "title": "The status of decentralization of educational administration in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese district in the central region of Ghana", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 159052073, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Isaac Kwame Adjah" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "202273648", "title": "Attaining Work Life Balance as in Modeling the Way among Female Teachers in Ghana", "abstract": "This study investigates the extent to which female teachers in Ghana are able to balance their careers and social roles, while acting as role models in career progression. Work life balance (WLB) is a phenomenon gaining much interest in educational administration and management in Ghana. The Ghana Education Service (GES) employs a significant number of female teachers, yet evidence shows practical policy issues when it comes to WLB. Study respondents indicated their perceptions of significant sociocultural challenges in trying to balance domestic roles and teaching. Some support systems were identified, but they were not found to have a significant effect on female teachers' resilience and determination to consolidate their career in GES. The results have several implications for GES policy direction, practices for performance, and recommendations for scaling up WLB research in Ghana.", "corpus_id": 202273648, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Alexander Kyei Edwards", "Rita Oteng" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214387185", "title": "ENTERING THE EDU TECH MARKET IN GHANA", "abstract": "Author(s) ADIAMAH, MAWUSI PHILIP Type of publication Bachelor's thesis Published Autumn 2019 Number of pages 50 Title of publication Entering the Edu Tech Market in Ghana Case: SkillSafari Oy Name of Degree Bachelor of Business Administration, International Business Abstract The African continent is a developing continent due to several reasons, paramount among these reasons are the access to basic education and the quality of this education. The objective of this research work was to determine how a small Finnish company SkillSafari and the concept of digital badges should penetrate the Ghanaian educational market and how it should utilize its experiences from other African markets into the Ghanaian market. The research used the qualitative approach, primary data for the research was gotten from a series of interviews with relevant and knowledgeable focus groups who will be the primary market target for SkillSafari in Ghana. This study also focused on the various market entry strategies by analyzing the Hollensen International marketing strategies. The study included an analysis of the company, an analysis of the target market and also utilized analysis tools such as the SWOT Analysis and PESTEL Analysis. The various relevant players in the education industry and the types of partnerships SkillSafari should be forming. The research work concluded that SkillSafari should expand to the Ghanaian market and this expansion should be through a joint venture approach, a joint venture will give the company the advantages of having a local partner with years of knowledge and experience in the market, knowing the players in the market and most importantly understanding how the marketing aspect of the business should be, the selection of this local partner will be important and a lot of attention should be placed on selecting the right partner with both parties clearly understanding the MOU.The African continent is a developing continent due to several reasons, paramount among these reasons are the access to basic education and the quality of this education. The objective of this research work was to determine how a small Finnish company SkillSafari and the concept of digital badges should penetrate the Ghanaian educational market and how it should utilize its experiences from other African markets into the Ghanaian market. The research used the qualitative approach, primary data for the research was gotten from a series of interviews with relevant and knowledgeable focus groups who will be the primary market target for SkillSafari in Ghana. This study also focused on the various market entry strategies by analyzing the Hollensen International marketing strategies. The study included an analysis of the company, an analysis of the target market and also utilized analysis tools such as the SWOT Analysis and PESTEL Analysis. The various relevant players in the education industry and the types of partnerships SkillSafari should be forming. The research work concluded that SkillSafari should expand to the Ghanaian market and this expansion should be through a joint venture approach, a joint venture will give the company the advantages of having a local partner with years of knowledge and experience in the market, knowing the players in the market and most importantly understanding how the marketing aspect of the business should be, the selection of this local partner will be important and a lot of attention should be placed on selecting the right partner with both parties clearly understanding the MOU.", "corpus_id": 214387185, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Philip Adiamah" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "195472804", "title": "STAFF PARTICIPATION IN FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION", "abstract": "Financial Administration has become a vital and a crucial function in modern organizations and educational institutions. This is because financial resources are scarce in relation to the demand for them. As a result, it is imperative to have a very sound administration of public funds allocated to educational institutions. The study sought to investigate \"Staff Participation in Financial Administration of Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region, Ghana.\" The study was conducted in three Colleges with a sample size of One Hundred and Twenty (120) respondents, selected by using simple randomization and purposive sampling procedures. The main instrument used in the collection of data for the study was questionnaire but at certain instances, an interview guide was employed. The researcher made use of descriptive analysis approach to discuss the data in order to make conclusions. The study unveiled a closed nature of financial administration of the Colleges. As against this discovery, most of the respondents overwhelmingly emphasized that staff participation in financial administration has great significance on the Colleges' development and as a result, were in favour of the practice of open college financial administration. It is therefore recommended that financial administration of the Colleges be made open to involve staff members. Staff members need to have access to financial information to inform their decisions, and also to motivate them for high performance to improve the Colleges. Article visualizations:", "corpus_id": 195472804, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Peter Reindorf Okyere", "Anthony Daayeng" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158913371", "title": "Effect of multiple roles on persistence of female students in distance education programmes in selected public universities in ghana", "abstract": "A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of doctor of philosophy (educational administration) in the school of education of Kenyatta University. March, 2018", "corpus_id": 158913371, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Priscilla Njoki Somuah" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56053747", "title": "Reform of Educational Systems in Ghana: The Case of Polytechnic Education", "abstract": "Over the last few decades, the educational system in Ghana has undergone a series of educational reforms to enhance teaching and learning in the country for high skills acquisition and national development. The Ghana Educational Reforms, initiated in 1987 recognized the need for relevant practical education for the solution of problems for the country's overall development. In line with these reforms, Ghana's polytechnics were upgraded from Second Cycle Technical Institution to Tertiary Institutions in 1992. This was on account of the growing need to produce more middle level manpower for the industries in Ghana. In September 2007, another educational reform took placed and the polytechnics were mandated to train graduates for industry, commence, business and administration in Ghana. Competency Based Training (CBT) therefore has been introduced in the polytechnics in order to help in achieving this goal and objective. The paper highlights on the educational reform that has taken placed in Ghana and the need for polytechnics to reform their programmes and run them on the principles of CBT. It also outlines the importance of CBT in the polytechnic education. Keywords: Educational Reform, Tertiary Institution, Polytechnic, Ghana", "corpus_id": 56053747, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Samuel Kwame Ansah" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "74405425", "title": "Educational audiology in Ghana developing screening tools for hearing in infants and children", "abstract": "Abstract The following objectives were set for this thesis: 1. To investigate the appropriateness of the LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire as a screening tool for hearing loss and other related educationally significant disorders in Ghanaian children aged 4 36 months. 2. To adapt and evaluate the multiple Frequency Animal Sound Test (mFAST) as an alternative to pure tone audiometry in screening children. 3: To construct, norm and validate four (4) language versions (Asante, Akuapem, Fante and Ghanaian English) of the Adaptive Auditory Speech Test (AAST) in quiet and in noise. In order to attain the set objectives, six (6) research questions were raised. Design: A cross sectional design was used to select a total of 1820 participants for the study. This sample included parents, younger and older children as well as adults. For validation of LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire, norm data were collected for N=448 children. The effect of 'administration mode' was investigated by collecting data from N=152 parents (respondents) and the feasibility of using LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire as a screening tool between 24 36 months was investigated by collecting data from N=513 respondents. Validation data for mFAST were collected from N=45 students aged between 20 and 30 years with normal hearing. In order to determine the Akan AAST norm, data were collected from (N=581) children who spoke Asante, Akuapem and Fanti as their native language. Finally, in order to determine learning effects data were collected from (N= 81) children. Results: Results show that the Ghanaian and German norm curves are comparable and it does not make any difference whether LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire is administered via self administration or by interview. The data also supports the use of the LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire to screen for hearing loss in Ghanaian infants and children from 4 months old up to the age of 3 years. Overall the results support the proposition that the LittlEARS(r) Auditory Questionnaire, the multiple Frequency Animal Sound Test (mFAST) and the Adaptive Auditory Speech Test (AAST) are appropriate tools for the early identification of Ghanaian children with hearing loss.", "corpus_id": 74405425, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Yaw Nyadu Offei" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "13688999", "title": "Perceived barriers and facilitators to goals of care discussions in the emergency department: A descriptive analysis of the views of emergency medicine physicians and residents.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Few studies have examined the challenges faced by emergency medicine (EM) physicians in conducting goals of care discussions. This study is the first to describe the perceived barriers and facilitators to these discussions as reported by Canadian EM physicians and residents. METHODS A team of EM, palliative care, and internal medicine physicians developed a survey comprising multiple choice, Likert scale and open ended questions to explore four domains of goals of care discussions: training; communication; environment; and patient beliefs. RESULTS Surveys were sent to 273 EM staff and residents in six sites, and 130 (48% responded. Staff physicians conducted goals of care discussions several times per month or more, 74.1% (80/108) of the time versus 35% (8/23) of residents. Most agreed that goals of care discussions are within their scope of practice (92% they felt comfortable having these discussions (96% and they are adequately trained (73% However, 66% reported difficulty initiating goals of care discussions, and 54% believed that admitting services should conduct them. Main barriers were time (46% lack of a relationship with the patient (25% patient expectations (23% no prior discussions (21% and the inability to reach substitute decision makers (17% Fifty four percent of respondents indicated that the availability of 24 hour palliative care consults would facilitate discussions in the emergency department (ED) CONCLUSIONS Important barriers to discussing goals of care in the ED were identified by respondents, including acuity and lack of prior relationship, highlighting the need for system and environmental interventions, including improved availability of palliative care services in the ED.", "corpus_id": 13688999, "venue": "CJEM", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Niran Argintaru", "Kieran L Quinn", "Lucas B Chartier", "Jacques Simon Lee", "Pauline M Hannam", "Erin L O'Connor", "Leah Steinberg", "Howard Ovens", "Melissa McGowan", "Samuel Vaillancourt" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "53218497", "title": "Did a Goals of Care Discussion Happen? Differences in the Occurrence of Goals of Care Discussions as Reported by Patients, Clinicians, and in the Electronic Health Record.", "abstract": "CONTEXT Goals of care discussions are associated with improved end of life care for patients and therefore may be used as a process measure in quality improvement, research, and reimbursement programs. OBJECTIVES To examine three methods to assess occurrence of a goals of care discussion patient report, clinician report, and documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) at a clinic visit for seriously ill patients and determine whether each method is associated with patient reported receipt of goal concordant care. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of a multicenter cluster randomized trial, with 494 patients and 124 clinicians caring for them. Self reported surveys collected from patients and clinicians two weeks after a clinic visit assessed occurrence of a goals of care discussion. Documentation of a goals of care discussion was abstracted from the EHR. Patient reported receipt of goal concordant care was assessed by survey two weeks after the visit. RESULTS Fifty two percent of patients reported occurrence of a goals of care discussion at the clinic visit; clinicians reported occurrence of a discussion at 66% of visits. EHR documentation occurred in 42% of visits (P 0.001 for each compared with other two) Patients who reported occurrence of a goals of care discussion at the visit were more likely to report receipt of goal concordant care than patients who reported no discussion (b 0.441, 95% CI 0.190 0.692; P 0.001) Neither occurrence of a discussion by clinician report nor by EHR documentation was associated with goal concordant care. CONCLUSION Different approaches to assess goals of care discussions give differing results, yet each may have advantages. Patient report is most likely to correlate with patient reported receipt of goal concordant care.", "corpus_id": 53218497, "venue": "Journal of pain and symptom management", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Matthew E Modes", "Ruth A Engelberg", "Lois Downey", "Elizabeth L Nielsen", "J Randall Curtis", "Erin K Kross" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "143424810", "title": "Review article: Goals of care discussions for adult patients nearing end of life in emergency departments: A systematic review", "abstract": "Goals of care discussions at end of life are associated with increased patient satisfaction and reduced treatment burdens, reduced family and healthcare worker distress and healthcare costs, while achieving equal life expectancy. It is unclear how goals of care discussions should occur. The objective of the study was to determine which patients could benefit, requirements, content, documentation, and harms and benefits of emergency medicine goals of care discussions. We sought primary evidence on goals of care discussions in EDs with adult patients nearing end of life, published in English after 1989. Data sources included Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science and reference lists of included articles. One thousand nine hundred and twenty abstracts were screened, five articles selected. There was no consensus on the meaning of goals of care, which is often confused with advanced care planning and treatment limitation. Emergency clinicians can identify most patients needing discussions following training. There was no evidence for how to involve stakeholders, nor how to adapt conversations to meet cultural and linguistically diverse needs. Expert panels have suggested requirements and content for conversations with little supporting evidence. There was no evidence for how emergency conversations differ to those in other settings, nor for harms or benefits for holding goals of care conversations in EDs. Increased ED goals of care conversations increased hospice referral and reduced in patient admissions. Most studies were of moderate quality only, outcomes were not standardised and sample sizes were small. 'Goals of care' is used inconsistently across the literature. This is the first systematic review regarding goals of care discussions in EDs. Further research is needed on all aspects of these conversations.", "corpus_id": 143424810, "venue": "Emergency medicine Australasia EMA", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jennifer Hanning", "K J Walker", "Diane Horrigan", "Michele Levinson", "Amber Mills" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "208215809", "title": "Medical students' experiences with goals of care discussions and their impact on professional identity formation", "abstract": "Goals of care (GoC) discussions occur amongst patients, family members and clinicians in order to establish plans of care and are invaluable aspects of end of life care. In previous research, medical learners have reported insufficient training and emotional distress about end of life decision making, but most studies have focused on postgraduate trainees and have been quantitative or have evaluated specific educational interventions. None have qualitatively explored medical students' experiences with GoC discussions, their perceptions of associated hidden curricula, and the impacts of these on professional identity formation (PIF) the individualised developmental processes by which laypersons evolve to think, act and feel like, and ultimately become, medical professionals.", "corpus_id": 208215809, "venue": "Medical education", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Xuyi Mimi Wang", "Marilyn Swinton", "John J You" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "59617326", "title": "Breaking silence: a survey of barriers to goals of care discussions from the perspective of oncology practitioners", "abstract": "BackgroundCancer is the leading cause of death in the developed world, and yet healthcare practitioners infrequently discuss goals of care (GoC) with hospitalized cancer patients. We sought to identify barriers to GoC discussions from the perspectives of staff oncologists, oncology residents, and oncology nurses.MethodsThis was a single center survey of staff oncologists, oncology residents, and inpatient oncology nurses. Barriers to GoC discussions were assessed on a 7 point Likert scale (1 extremely unimportant; 7 extremely important).ResultsBetween July 2013 and May 2014, of 185 eligible oncology clinicians, 30 staff oncologists, 10 oncology residents, and 28 oncology nurses returned surveys (response rate of 37% The most important barriers to GoC discussions were patient and family factors. They included family members' difficulty accepting poor prognoses (mean score 5.9, 95% CI [5.7, 6.2] lack of family agreement in the goals of care (mean score 5.8, 95% CI [5.5, 6.1] difficulty understanding the limitations of life sustaining treatments (mean score 5.8, 95% CI [5.6, 6.1] lack of patients' capacity to make goals of care decisions (mean score 5.7, 95% CI [5.5, 6.0] and language barriers (mean score 5.7, 95% CI [5.4, 5.9] Participants viewed system factors and healthcare provider factors as less important barriers.ConclusionsOncology practitioners perceive patient and family factors as the most limiting barriers to GoC discussions. Our findings underscore the need for oncology clinicians to be equipped with strong communication skills to help patients and families navigate GoC discussions.", "corpus_id": 59617326, "venue": "BMC Cancer", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Katrina L Piggott", "Sukhbinder K Dhesy-Thind" ], "n_citations": 13, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199548500", "title": "Application of Kern's 6 Step Approach in the Development of a Novel Anesthesiology Curriculum for Perioperative Code Status and Goals of Care Discussions.", "abstract": "Background Code status discussions, goals of care discussions, and shared decision making in the perioperative setting are of great importance. As perioperative physicians, anesthesiologists are uniquely poised to handle these discussions. Yet formal training for anesthesiology residents in how to approach these scenarios is currently lacking. Methods Using Kern's 6 step approach to curriculum development, we describe an innovative curriculum for anesthesiology residents designed to teach the necessary skills to successfully conduct code status and goals of care discussions and to assess its efficacy. Results Our curriculum is composed of the following educational components: (1) formal, online learning modules, (2) selected journal articles describing code status and goals of care discussions skills and communication strategies, and (3) 2 objective structured clinical examination experiences, with 1 occurring prior to and the other occurring after completion of the educational content. The educational content focuses on evidence based best practices content covering professional guidelines, current literature, shared decision making, and effective communication strategies. We also describe the potential methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed educational interventions. Conclusion Using Kern's framework, we developed a curriculum focusing on code status discussions, goals of care discussions, and shared decision making in the perioperative setting which provides trainees with the opportunity to practice communication skills and receive feedback from a standardized patient through participation in an objective structured clinical examination.", "corpus_id": 199548500, "venue": "The journal of education in perioperative medicine JEPM", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Amy C Robertson", "Leslie C Fowler", "Jonathan A Niconchuk", "Michael T Kreger", "Elizabeth M Rickerson", "Nicholas Sadovnikoff", "David L Hepner", "Angela M Bader", "Matthew D McEvoy", "Richard D Urman" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "207948802", "title": "Clarifying Core Content of Goals of Care Discussions", "abstract": "A recent review 1 reveals what many of us observe in practice: clinicians use the phrase \"goals of care\" in a variety of ways, often with a definition more assumed than revealed. The phrase is of particular importance when it is used to refer to a certain kind of conversation between a clinician and patient (or family) often called a \"goals of care discussion.\" Sometimes the need for such a discussion is a clinician's shorthand way of indicating it is time to clarify a patient's code status or shift the focus of care to palliation. At other times, goals of care discussions refer to the need for a specific approach to conversation about a more general plan of care. For instance, one task force recommends that goals of care discussions in serious illness should address not only prognosis and goals, but also decision making preferences, family involvement, fears, function, and tradeoffs. Others suggest that goals of care discussions should help patients' establish \"agreed on, desired health expectations that are appropriate, documented and communicated,\" that these conversations should clarify patients' values, goals, and priorities in light of information about their diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment options, or that these conversations should include a leading emphasis on the decision that needs to be made and the likelihoods of different possible outcomes regarding survival, symptoms, and functional ability. Such differences in approach are reflected in another recent review that assessed elements of goals of care discussions and their operationalization and concluded that consensus is lacking on the question of content. Moreover, some authors suggest these discussions may be less about goals directed at treatment decisions, and more about emotional issues, management of symptoms, and rapport building. In defense of such diversity, we can accept the need for flexibility in the content of goals of care discussions given the many differences among patients, their conditions, and their circumstances. But we also do well to consider the content that should form the consistent core of these conversations when significant clinical decisions need to be made especially when we are trying to explain and model for trainees practices that are clinically meaningful and feasible within the demands of clinical practice. To this end, based on literature and experience, I suggest the core content of goals of care discussions should include diagnosis, prognosis, goals of care, treatment or test, burdens of treatment or test, and probabilities of outcomeswith or without treatment or test (Fig. 1) These are key dimensions of decision making we need to comprehend and remember to communicate so that shared decision making with patients is facilitated by shared understanding. Not surprisingly, these dimensions have much in common with elements of informed consent. By making the patient's most important goals of care the conversational focal point, decision making is patient centered, purpose oriented, and premised on the patient's beliefs, values, priorities, preferences, and circumstances. Specific goals of care can be elicited by open ended and closedended questions regarding goals, expectations, or hopes. For many patients, preferred goals of care will fall within one of the following categories: cure, live longer, improve or maintain function, comfort, achieve life goals, or provide support for family. The core content I suggest endeavors to capture what is most essential and feasible in other approaches, and to keep goals at the center of goals of care discussions. This content is fundamental enough to be consistent with the risks, benefits, and likelihoods of informed consent discussions. As a clinician and teacher, I believe this approach satisfies the need for a clinically practical way to articulate (and sometimes even diagram in front of patients) the dimensions that guide reasoning about decisions, and to communicate that these different dimensions are inter related and therefore need to be taken together. One of the hallmarks of a successful goals of care discussion is that it allows everyone to take a step back from the intense focus on a specific intervention (such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation) by considering the broader purpose and context of that intervention. While interventionoriented decision making tends to focus on the most readily available means of addressing the most immediate medical problem, goal oriented discussions take a larger, longer view. Framed by goals of care, conversation about decision making moves the question from \"Would you like us to do this, or not?\" to \"Will this help us achieve your goals of care, or not?\" In this way, goal oriented decision making draws our attention Received September 20, 2019 Accepted October 25, 2019 35(3):913 5", "corpus_id": 207948802, "venue": "Journal of General Internal Medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Lauris C Kaldjian" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "44107351", "title": "Effect of a Patient and Clinician Communication Priming Intervention on Patient Reported Goals of Care Discussions Between Patients With Serious Illness and Clinicians: A Randomized Clinical Trial", "abstract": "Importance Clinician communication about goals of care is associated with improved patient outcomes and reduced intensity of end of life care, but it is unclear whether interventions can improve this communication. Objective To evaluate the efficacy of a patient specific preconversation communication priming intervention (Jumpstart Tips) targeting both patients and clinicians and designed to increase goals of care conversations compared with usual care. Design, Setting, and Participants Multicenter cluster randomized trial in outpatient clinics with physicians or nurse practitioners and patients with serious illness. The study was conducted between 2012 and 2016. Interventions Clinicians were randomized to the bilateral, preconversation, communication priming intervention (n 65) or usual care (n 67) with 249 patients assigned to the intervention and 288 to usual care. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome was patient reported occurrence of a goals of care conversation during a target outpatient visit. Secondary outcomes included clinician documentation of a goals of care conversation in the medical record and patient reported quality of communication (Quality of Communication questionnaire [QOC] 4 indicator latent construct) at 2 weeks, as well as patient assessments of goal concordant care at 3 months and patient reported symptoms of depression (8 item Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ 8) and anxiety (7 item Generalized Anxiety Disorder survey; GAD 7) at 3 and 6 months. Analyses were clustered by clinician and adjusted for confounders. Results We enrolled 132 of 485 potentially eligible clinicians (27% participation; 71 women [53.8% mean [SD] age, 47.1 [9.6] years) and 537 of 917 eligible patients (59% participation; 256 women [47.7% mean [SD] age, 73.4 [12.7] years) The intervention was associated with a significant increase in a goals of care discussion at the target visit (74% vs 31% P .001) and increased medical record documentation (62% vs 17% P .001) as well as increased patient rated quality of communication (4.6 vs 2.1; P .01) Patient assessed goal concordant care did not increase significantly overall (70% vs 57% P .08) but did increase for patients with stable goals between 3 month follow up and last prior assessment (73% vs 57% P .03) Symptoms of depression or anxiety were not different between groups at 3 or 6 months. Conclusions and Relevance This intervention increased the occurrence, documentation, and quality of goals of care communication during routine outpatient visits and increased goal concordant care at 3 months among patients with stable goals, with no change in symptoms of anxiety or depression. Understanding the effect on subsequent health care delivery will require additional study. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01933789", "corpus_id": 44107351, "venue": "JAMA internal medicine", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "J Randall Curtis", "Lois Downey", "Anthony L Back", "Elizabeth L Nielsen", "Sudiptho Paul", "Alexandria Z Lahdya", "Patsy D Treece", "Priscilla Armstrong", "Ronald Peck", "Ruth A Engelberg" ], "n_citations": 74, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 4 }, { "doc_id": "201700638", "title": "Narrative Approach to Goals of Care Discussions: A Novel Curriculum.", "abstract": "CONTEXT Innovative patient centered approaches to goals of care (GOC) communication training are needed. Teaching a narrative approach, centered on the patient's unique story, is conceptually sound but has not been evaluated with respect to objective skills attainment. We developed a curriculum based on a novel, easily remembered narrative approach to GOC, the 3 Act Model, and piloted it with a cohort of Internal Medicine (IM) interns. OBJECTIVES To describe the development of the 3 Act Model curriculum and to assess its impact on the GOC communication skills of IM interns. METHODS The curriculum was developed with input from multidisciplinary experts, IM residents, and patient/family representative. Notable elements included instrument development with validity evidence established, determination of proficiency standards, and creation of role play scenarios. In two 3 hour workshops, interns participated in role plays as both providers and patients, before and after teaching (which included narrative reflection, didactics, and video demonstration) RESULTS 22 interns played the role of provider in 5 unique scenarios; 106 proficiency ratings were analyzable. Interns objectively rated as proficient increased from 30% (pre test) to 100% (final role play) By the end of the training, 96% of interns strongly agreed or agreed that they felt ready to independently lead basic GOC discussions, and the percentage who strongly agreed increased with successive role plays. All interns indicated they would recommend the training. CONCLUSION This pilot demonstrates that the 3 Act Model is teachable and appreciated by learners. This GOC curriculum is the first based on a narrative approach to demonstrate objective skills improvement.", "corpus_id": 201700638, "venue": "Journal of pain and symptom management", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "David Shih Wu", "David E Kern", "Sydney Morss Dy", "Scott M Wright" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "204739810", "title": "Goals of Care Discussions for the Imminently Dying Trauma Patient.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND A structured family meeting (FM) is recommended within 72 h of admission for trauma patients with high risk of mortality or disability. Multidisciplinary FMs (MDFMs) may further facilitate decision making. We hypothesized that FM within three hospital days (HDs) or MDFM would be associated with increased use of comfort measures. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed all adult trauma deaths at an academic level 1 trauma center from December 2014 to December 2017. Death in the first 24 h or on nonsurgical services were excluded. Demographics, injury characteristics, FM characteristics, and outcomes such as length of stay (LOS) were recorded. Early FM was defined as occurring within three HDs; MDFM required attendance by two or more specialty teams. RESULTS A total of 177 patients were included. Median LOS was 6 d (interquartile range 4 12) FMs were documented in 166 patients (94% with 57% occurring early. MDFM occurred in 49 (28% but usually occurred later (median HD 5 and interquartile range 2 8) Early FM was associated with reduced LOS (5 versus 11 d, P 0.001) ventilator days (4 versus 9 d, P 0.001) and deaths during a code (1.2% versus 13.2% P 0.001) MDFM was associated with higher use of comfort measures (88% versus 68% P 0.05) Of patients who transitioned to comfort care status (n 130, 73.4% code status change occurred earlier if an early FM occurred (5 versus 13 d, P 0.001) CONCLUSIONS MDFM is associated with increased comfort care measures, whereas early FM is associated with reduced LOS, ventilator days, death during a code, and earlier comfort care transition.", "corpus_id": 204739810, "venue": "The Journal of surgical research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jasmin K Bhangu", "Brian T Young", "Sarah E Posillico", "Husayn A Ladhani", "S J Zolin", "Jeffrey A Claridge", "Vanessa P Ho" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "159255722", "title": "Leadership for public value: Political astuteness as a conceptual link", "abstract": "Both leadership and public value are increasingly seen as concepts highly relevant to public administration, not only because of complex societal challenges but also as ways to address pluralistic interests in society. This article explores in detail the varied conceptualizations of public value and of public leadership. Furthermore, we argue that political astuteness provides an important conceptual linkage between leadership and public value, enabling actors to read, understand and foster coalitions around diverse and sometimes competing interests. In this introduction to the symposium, we analyse the different conceptualizations of public value, of leadership, and also show how the six articles explicitly or implicitly draw on the linking concept of political astuteness. The article assesses how the six articles of the symposium contribute to each of these three concepts.", "corpus_id": 159255722, "venue": "Public Administration", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jean Hartley", "Alessandro Sancino", "Mark Bennister", "Sandra L Resodihardjo" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "198820373", "title": "From marketing to public value: towards a theory of public service ecosystems", "abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper applies a service ecosystems perspective on the public service logic to evaluate the benefits and challenges this view brings to the management of public services. First, the article clarifies the concepts of private and public value, as well as co production and co creation. Second, the article presents an overview of the service dominant logic, public service dominant logic, and public service logic. Third, the paper analyses the potential of merging public service logic with a service ecosystems framework in a technology based context, cross fertilising public management and marketing research. This can lead to the development of a theory of public service ecosystems.", "corpus_id": 198820373, "venue": "Public Management Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Maria Petrescu" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "157637067", "title": "Supreme Audit Institutions and Public Value: Demonstrating Relevance", "abstract": "Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) have an important role in ensuring public sector accountability; their main activities being managing the audit of public sector entities' financial statements and assessing probity/compliance, providing advice to parliamentary committees, and undertaking performance audits. Standards issued by the International Organisation of SAIs encourage SAIs to recognise the value they deliver through their activities and to demonstrate that to citizens, Parliament and other stakeholders. The recognition of the need to be democratically accountable for efficiency and effectiveness is one aspect of public value, which is also concerned with the just use of authority (Moore, 2013) The purpose of this paper is to develop the components of a SAI's public value and, through a comparative international study, to analyse how SAIs report on the public value they deliver. Analysing reporting against the model developed in this paper indicates that SAIs' reporting prioritises critiques to increase public sector efficiency and effectiveness, rather than government policy. In addition, it finds SAIs generally fail to discuss any negative consequences of their work. SAIs are encouraged to develop new ways to demonstrate their ongoing relevance.", "corpus_id": 157637067, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Carolyn J Cordery", "David Hay" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "159237790", "title": "Leading and recognizing public value", "abstract": "This article examines the relationship between leadership and public value, which is particularly challenging in a context of explicit contest and conflict. The theoretical framework is illustrated through a case study of policing rural crime. The study reveals that the police worked with multiple and competing publics rather than a single homogeneous public, and that part of their leadership role was to create and convene a public space in which different voices and divergent views could be expressed. The study notes that research needs to pay attention to the loss and displacement of public value, not solely its creation and recognition. The need to convene multiple publics required the police to lead, as part of a leadership constellation, and with political astuteness. The findings have wider relevance for other public services, and for studies of leadership and public value at the intersection between the state and civil society.", "corpus_id": 159237790, "venue": "Public Administration", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jean Hartley", "Steven A Parker", "Jim Beashel" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "225746510", "title": "Public Value Capture", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 225746510, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Andreas Hendricks" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159181137", "title": "Neoliberal governing through social enterprise: Exploring the neglected roles of deviance and ignorance in public value creation", "abstract": "This article makes a case for paying greater attention to how informal relationships between government officials and civil society practitioners impact processes of public value creation. Drawing on data from a five year qualitative longitudinal study, we illuminate how civil society practitioners deviate from the formal objectives of social enterprise policies in order to create what they see as having public value. Through a process of theory elaboration, we demonstrate how government officials' wilful ignorance of, or informal collaboration in, such deviance, precipitates forms of public value that are consistent with wider political objectives. Our analysis adds nuance and granularity to the debate on public value by drawing attention to the arcane ways it may be informally negotiated and created outside of the public sphere. This opens up new empirical and theoretical opportunities for understanding how deviance and ignorance might be symbiotically related in processes of public value creation.", "corpus_id": 159181137, "venue": "Public Administration", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Simon Teasdale", "Pascal Dey" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "209387611", "title": "Government as a platform, orchestration, and public value creation: The Italian case", "abstract": "Abstract E Government literature has discussed how the adoption of the Government as a Platform (GaaP) can help public administration to produce more efficient public services. However, since little attention has been given to the impact of GaaP on public value creation more research is needed to analyse whether the GaaP is effective to help the government to deliver public services that fulfil social expectations and, hence, public value. Indeed, efficiency does not guarantee public value. Besides efficiency, public value incorporates citizens' variegated expectations and needs that change over time and that are sometimes rival. For these reasons, the delivery of public value is often challenging for public agencies. The aim of this paper is to explain how the GaaP configuration can help public administration to deliver public value better. The paper finds that the modularity of the platform configuration and different ecosystems that support public agencies need to be orchestrated to support the effective creation of public value. The authors analyse the case of the Italian GaaP initiative to discuss the importance of the orchestration of the GaaP characteristics to improve the coordination among public agencies and enable the co production of services with external actors, in order to deliver public value better. The findings show that the orchestration of the GaaP configuration characteristics can enable Italian public administration to deliver public value, but also that, if the GaaP is not properly orchestrated, it can constrain the creation of public value.", "corpus_id": 209387611, "venue": "Gov. Inf. Q.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Antonio Cordella", "Andrea Paletti" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158517151", "title": "Navigating tensions in co production: A missing link in leadership for public value", "abstract": "New forms of public leadership are needed to design and implement co production of public value. We draw on narrative analysis to explore the barriers to developing the capacity for co production of public value in disadvantaged and vulnerable Indigenous communities and find that existing norms not only crowd out efforts at reform, but can work against them. In particular, we find that upward accountability and a focus on expert knowledge are the most problematic for co production of public value. We focus on how more traditional practices of public administration mediated the achievements of public leaders in their co production efforts when Australian governments introduced strategies for partnership with Indigenous communities for services design and delivery. The analysis suggests that creating a broader enabling environment of supportive logics would allow public leaders to engage more productively with inherent tensions between old and new ways of working.", "corpus_id": 158517151, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Prudence Brown", "Brian W Head" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158411021", "title": "Sustainable public value reporting of electric utilities", "abstract": "Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the status quo of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) based sustainable public value (SPV) reporting by electric utilities. Furthermore, the study attempts to find out whether a stock exchange listing and/or a public ownership are positively associated with electric utilities' reporting regarding their contributions to a sustainable development (SD) or not. Design/methodology/approach An empirical analysis of sustainability reports published by electric utilities from 28 different countries all over the world is carried out. The investigation is based on a documentary analysis of 83 GRI G4 reports. Findings The findings show that electric utilities' coverage of GRI indicators of the electric utilities sector disclosures varies between, as well as within, the different categories of the GRI guidelines and that the coverage of sector specific indicators is often lacking behind the general coverage rates. Furthermore, the study reveals that a stock exchange listing is positively associated with electric utilities' GRI based SPV reporting. In contrast, public ownership does not show a significant association. Originality/value Electric utilities have a significant influence on SD. They operate in a regulated environment that is targeted at utilizing electric utilities for economic and environmental public policy objectives. Against that background, the study discusses which issues of SPV creation are reported by electric utilities that use the GRI guidelines and therefore brings together the public value (PV) and the sustainability community.", "corpus_id": 158411021, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Albert Anton Traxler", "Dorothea Greiling" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "157646171", "title": "Towards a multi actor theory of public value co creation", "abstract": "ABSTRACT This essay suggests changes to the theory of public value and, in particular, the strategic triangle framework, in order to adapt it to an emerging world where policy makers and managers in the public, private, voluntary and informal community sectors have to somehow separately and jointly create public value. One set of possible changes concerns what might be in the centre of the strategic triangle besides the public manager. Additional suggestions are made concerning how multiple actors, levels, arenas and/or spheres of action, and logics might be accommodated. Finally, possibilities are outlined for how the strategic triangle might be adapted to complex policy fields in which there are multiple, often conflicting organizations, interests and agendas. In other words, how might politics be more explicitly accommodated. The essay concludes with a number of research suggestions.", "corpus_id": 157646171, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "John M Bryson", "Alessandro Sancino", "John Benington", "Eva Sorensen" ], "n_citations": 184, "n_key_citations": 11, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "5778488", "title": "LIME: Low Light Image Enhancement via Illumination Map Estimation", "abstract": "When one captures images in low light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. Besides degrading the visual aesthetics of images, this poor quality may also significantly degenerate the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for high quality inputs. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective low light image enhancement (LIME) method. More concretely, the illumination of each pixel is first estimated individually by finding the maximum value in R, G, and B channels. Furthermore, we refine the initial illumination map by imposing a structure prior on it, as the final illumination map. Having the well constructed illumination map, the enhancement can be achieved accordingly. Experiments on a number of challenging low light images are present to reveal the efficacy of our LIME and show its superiority over several state of the arts in terms of enhancement quality and efficiency.", "corpus_id": 5778488, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Xiaojie Guo", "Yu Li", "Haibin Ling" ], "n_citations": 509, "n_key_citations": 162, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "116858873", "title": "Behavior of Fiber Reinforced and Lime Stabilized Clayey Soil in Triaxial Tests", "abstract": "The beneficial role of combining fiber reinforcement with lime stabilization in altering soil behavior has been established in the literature. However, the coupling effect of their combination still remains unclear in terms of its magnitude and microscopic mechanism, especially for natural fibers with special microstructures. The objective of this study was to investigate the coupling effect of wheat straw fiber reinforcement and lime stabilization on the mechanical behavior of Hefei clayey soil. To achieve this, an experimental program including unconsolidated undrained (UU) triaxial tests and SEM analysis was implemented. Static compaction test samples were prepared on untreated soil, fiber reinforced soil, lime stabilized soil, and lime stabilized/fiber reinforced soil at optimum moisture content with determining of the maximum dry density of the untreated soil. The lime was added in three different contents of 2% 4% and 6% and 13 mm long wheat straw fiber slices with a cross section one quarter that of the intact ones were mixed in at 0.2% 0.4% and 0.6% by dry weight of soil. Analysis of the derived results indicated that the addition of a small amount of wheat straw fibers into lime stabilized soil improved the intensity of the strain softening behavior associated with mere lime stabilization. The observed evidence that the shear strength increase brought by a combination of 0.4% fiber reinforcement and 4% lime stabilization was smaller than the summation of the shear strength increases brought by their presence alone in a sample demonstrated a coupling effect between fiber reinforcement and lime stabilization. This coupling effect was also detected in the comparisons of the secant modulus and failure pattern between the combined treatment and the individual treatments. These manifestations of the coupling effect were explained by a microscopic mechanism wherein the fiber reinforcing effect was made more effective by the ways in which lime chemically stabilized the soil and lime stabilization development was quickened by the water channels passing through the surfaces and honeycomb pores of the wheat straw fibers.", "corpus_id": 116858873, "venue": "Applied Sciences", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yixian Wang", "Panpan Guo", "Xian Li", "Hang Lin", "Yan Liu", "Haiping Yuan" ], "n_citations": 41, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "136012501", "title": "Extended MTSN criterion for fracture analysis of soda lime glass", "abstract": "Abstract This paper investigates brittle fracture in soda lime glass subjected to mixed mode I/II loading using different fracture criteria. Different sets of mixed mode I/II fracture test data from literature, conducted by cracked Brazilian disk specimen, are utilized to study brittle fracture in soda lime glass. The fracture initiation conditions in soda lime glass is examined by different traditional fracture criteria including Strain Energy Density, Maximum Tangential Stress, and Maximum Tangential Strain criteria. It is shown that the traditional criteria, which only consider singular stress (strain) terms, are not able to properly predict the fracture test data. The test data are then predicted by an extended version of the maximum tangential strain (EMTSN) criterion which takes into account the effect of first nonsingular strain term as well as the singular strain terms. It is found that the mixed mode fracture toughness of the soda lime glass as well as the crack initiation direction can be predicted successfully by the EMTSN criterion.", "corpus_id": 136012501, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Mirmilad Mirsayar", "V A Joneidi", "Relly Victoria Petrescu", "Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu", "Filippo Berto" ], "n_citations": 101, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "99394044", "title": "Physicochemical characterization of chitosan nanoparticles and nanocapsules incorporated with lime essential oil and their antibacterial activity against food borne pathogens", "abstract": "Abstract Lime oil has recognized fungicidal and antibacterial properties. Nanoparticles and nanocapsules are structures that have been developed to overcome the high volatility of essential oils. Chitosan nanoparticles and chitosan nanocapsules incorporated with lime essential oil were synthesized by nanoprecipitation and nanoencapsulation methods, respectively. The samples were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Z potential was measured. Also, particle size distribution was analyzed by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and the antibacterial activity was studied. According to TEM, the average size of nanocapsules was higher than for nanoparticles. When lime essential oil was incorporated, the particle size increased. Lime essential oil incorporation was evidenced by FTIR. Chitosan nanocapsules showed higher Z potential value compared to chitosan nanoparticles. The antibacterial activity was tested against four food borne pathogens, being higher for nanoparticles than for nanocapsules. The highest antibacterial activity was observed for chitosan nanoparticles incorporated with lime essential oil applied against Shigella dysenteriae attaining an inhibition halo (IH) value of 3.5 cm for 40 mL of minimum inhibitory volume (MIV) The novelty of incorporating lime essential oil into chitosan nanoparticles and nanocapsules and the study of their enhancing effect on antibacterial activity are shown in this paper.", "corpus_id": 99394044, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Maria Elena Sotelo-Boyas", "Zormy Nacary Correa-Pacheco", "Silvia Bautista-Banos", "Maria Luisa Corona-Rangel" ], "n_citations": 96, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "139248194", "title": "Air lime mortars: What else do we need to know to apply them in conservation and rehabilitation interventions? A review", "abstract": "Abstract Air lime mortars were used in construction since immemorial times until at least the beginning of the 20th century. This material may tell the history of construction, in large parts of the world, as perhaps no other may. To retrieve the lost knowledge of air lime mortars preparation techniques and application methodologies, many scientific studies were carried out, beginning with the analysis of old mortars and the study of old treatises and continuing with research about new air lime mortars. In spite of all those efforts and of the evidences that lime mortars are the most adequate for the conservation of old buildings, their use in conservation interventions is still rare. What is lacking in knowledge in order to make it possible their generalized use? And what is lacking in action?", "corpus_id": 139248194, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Rosario Veiga" ], "n_citations": 53, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "100126896", "title": "Multi scale analysis and time evolution of pozzolanic activity of lime treated clays", "abstract": "Abstract A multi scale investigation on the influence of clay mineralogy on the pozzolanic activity of lime treated clays has been presented. Two clays of different mineralogy have been considered for this study, namely kaolin and bentonite. The time dependent mineralogical and microstructural changes induced by lime addition have been monitored at increasing curing time by means of X ray diffraction (XRD) thermogravimetric analysis, 29 Si NMR spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and nitrogen adsorption/desorption measurements. Different lime contents of the treated samples have been considered in order to highlight the ongoing of pozzolanic reactions. The time scale of chemical reactions taking place after the addition of lime depends on clay mineralogy. In the short term, flocculation phenomena due to the cation exchange reactions control the microstructural features of lime treated kaolin. The low reactivity of kaolinite clay minerals to pozzolanic reactions was detected as a delay in precipitation of new hydrated phases. The chemo physical evolution of lime treated bentonite depends on the combined effect of cation exchange and pozzolanic reactions which develop with a comparable time scale. The results of micro scale investigations were directly linked to the experimental evidences at volume scale of the samples, allowing an interpretation of the mechanical improvement of the treated clays in the short and long term as a function of the chemo physical evolution of the system.", "corpus_id": 100126896, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Enza Vitale", "Dimitri Deneele", "Michael Paris", "Giacomo Russo" ], "n_citations": 47, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "100697881", "title": "Reactions of lime under high temperature Bayer digestion conditions", "abstract": "Abstract This paper collates existing information from the literature on the reactions of lime added directly to high temperature Bayer digestions. It examines the reaction of calcium in lime with liquor components to form reaction products. Reactions are considered individually and in competition with each other. Because of the scarcity of information about competing reactions involving calcium/lime, the paper contains some speculation, drawing on different pieces of evidence from the literature to suggest possible reaction pathways. Three lime types have been considered slaked lime (Ca(OH) 2 calcite (CaCO 3 and tri calcium aluminate (TCA, Ca 3 Al 2 (OH) 12 Individual reactions of calcium in lime have been considered with alumina and carbonate, fluorine, vanadium, phosphorus, silica, titanium and iron. Consideration has also been given to the \"catalytic\" actions of lime in transforming goethite to hematite and enhancing boehmite dissolution.", "corpus_id": 100697881, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Peter G Smith" ], "n_citations": 36, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "11098052", "title": "Roles of iron species and pH optimization on sewage sludge conditioning with Fenton's reagent and lime.", "abstract": "Conditioning sewage sludge with Fenton's reagent could effectively improve its dewaterability. However, drawbacks of conditioning with Fenton's reagent are requirement of acidic conditions to prevent iron precipitation and subsequent neutralization with alkaline additive to obtain the pH of the filtrate close to neutrality. In this study, roles of pH were thoroughly investigated in the acidification pretreatment, Fenton reaction, and the final filtrate after conditioning. Through the response surface methodology (RSM) the optimal dosages of H2SO4, Fe(2+ H2O2, and lime acted as a neutralizer were found to be 0 (no acidification) 47.9, 34.3 and 43.2 mg/g DS (dry solids) With those optimal doses, water content of the dewatered sludge cakes could be reduced to 55.8 0.6 wt% and pH of the final filtrate was 6.6 0.2. Fenton conditioning without initial acidification can simplify the conditioning process and reduce the usage of lime. The Fe(3+ content in the sludge cakes showed a close correlation with the dewaterability of conditioned sludge, i.e. the water content of sludge cakes, SRF (specific resistance to filtration) CST (capillary suction time) bound water content, and specific surface area. It indicated that the coagulation by Fe(3+ species in Fenton reaction could play an important role, compared to traditional Fenton oxidation effect on sludge conditioning. Thus, a two step mechanism of Fenton oxidation and Fe(III) coagulation was proposed in sewage sludge conditioning. The mechanisms include the following: (1) extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) were firstly degraded into dissolved organics by Fenton oxidation; (2) bound water was converted to free water due to degradation of EPS; (3) the sludge particles were disintegrated into small ones by oxidation; (4) Fe(3+ generated from Fenton reaction acted as a coagulant to agglomerate smaller sludge particles into larger dense particles with less bond water; (5) finally, the dewatered sludge cakes were obtained, with less small pores (1 10 nm) that contributed to water affinity, but with more large pores >10 nm) that contributed to a permeable, rigid lattice structure. Morphology of the Fenton conditioned sludge cake exhibited a porous structure. The estimated cost of the composite conditioner, Fenton's reagent and lime, is USD$ 43.8/t DS, which is less than that of ferric chloride and lime (USD$ 54/t DS) Furthermore, pH of the final filtrate using this composite conditioner is about 6.6. Comparatively, that using ferric chloride and lime is as high as 12.4.", "corpus_id": 11098052, "venue": "Water research", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Wenbo Yu", "Jiakuan Yang", "Yafei Shi", "Jian Song", "Yao Shi", "Jun Xiao", "Chao Li", "Xinyu Xu", "Shu He", "Sha Liang", "Xu Wu", "Jingping Hu" ], "n_citations": 123, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "38212", "title": "Influence of zeolite and lime as additives on greenhouse gas emissions and maturity evolution during sewage sludge composting.", "abstract": "This study aimed to evaluate the role of different amount of zeolite with low dosage of lime amendment on the greenhouse gas (GHGs) emission and maturity during the dewatered fresh sewage sludge (DFSS) composting. The evolution of CO2, CH4, NH3 and N2O and maturity indexes were monitored in five composting mixtures prepared from DFSS mixed with wheat straw, while 10% 15% and 30% zeolite+1% lime were supplemented (dry weight basis of DFSS) into the composting mass and compared with treatment only 1% lime amended and control without any amendment. The results showed that addition of higher dosage of zeolite+1% lime drastically reduce the GHGs emissions and NH3 loss. Comparison of GHGs emissions and compost quality showed that zeolite amended treatments were superior than control and 1% lime amended treatments. Therefore, DFSS composting with 30% zeolite+1% lime as consortium of additives were found to emit very less amount of GHGs and gave the highest maturity than other treatments.", "corpus_id": 38212, "venue": "Bioresource technology", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mukesh Kumar Awasthi", "Quan Wang", "Hui Huang", "Xiuna Ren", "Altaf Hussain Lahori", "Amanullah Mahar", "Amjad Ali", "Feng Shen", "Ronghua Li", "Zengqiang Zhang" ], "n_citations": 100, "n_key_citations": 14, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "22736991", "title": "Influence of lime on struvite formation and nitrogen conservation during food waste composting.", "abstract": "This study aimed at investigating the feasibility of supplementing lime with struvite salts to reduce ammonia emission and salinity consequently to accelerate the compost maturity. Composting was performed in 20 L bench scale reactors for 35days using artificial food waste mixed with sawdust at 1.2:1 (w/w dry basis) and Mg and P salts (MgO and K2HPO4, respectively) Nitrogen loss was significantly reduced from 44.3% to 27.4% during composting through struvite formation even with the addition of lime. Lime addition significantly reduced the salinity to less than 4mS/cm with a positive effect on improving compost maturity. Thus addition of both lime and struvite salts synergistically provide advantages to buffer the pH, reduce ammonia emission and salinity, and accelerate food waste composting.", "corpus_id": 22736991, "venue": "Bioresource technology", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Xuan Jun Wang", "Ammaiyappan Selvam", "Jonathan Woon Chung Wong" ], "n_citations": 76, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "196112648", "title": "Dota 2 Bot Competition", "abstract": "Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games are a recent huge success both in the video game industry and the international eSports scene. These games encourage team coordination and cooperation, short and long term planning, within a real time combined action and strategy gameplay. Artificial intelligence (AI) and computational intelligence (CI) in games research competitions offer a wide variety of challenges regarding the study and application of AI techniques to different game genres. These events are widely accepted by the AI/CI community as a sort of AI benchmarking that strongly influences many other research areas in the field. This paper presents and describes in detail the Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) Bot competition and the Dota 2 AI framework that supports it. This challenge aims to join both the MOBAs and AI/CI game competitions, inviting participants to submit AI controllers for the successful MOBA Dota 2 to play in 1v1 matches, which aims for fostering research on AI techniques for real time games. The Dota 2 AI framework makes use of the actual Dota 2 game modding capabilities to enable to connect external AI controllers to actual Dota 2 game matches using the original F2P game.", "corpus_id": 196112648, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Games", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jose M Font", "Tobias Mahlmann" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "55890121", "title": "Evolving Bots AI in Unreal TM", "abstract": "A bot is an autonomous enemy which tries to beat the human player and/or some other bots in a game. This chapter describes the design, implementation and results of a system to evolve bots inside the PC game UnrealTM. The default artificial intelligence (AI) of this bot has been improved using two different evolutionary methods: genetic algorithms (GAs) and genetic programming (GP) The first one has been applied for tuning the parameters of the hard coded values inside the bot AI code. The second method has been used to change the default set of rules (or states) that defines its behaviour. Moreover, the first approach has been considered at two levels: individual and team, performing different studies at the latter level, looking for the best cooperation scheme. Both techniques yield very good results, evolving bots (and teams) which are capable of defeating the default ones. The best results are obtained for the GA approach, since it just performs a refinement considering the default behaviour rules, while the GP method has to redefine the whole set of rules, so it is harder to get good results. This chapter presents one possibility of AI programming: building a better model from a standard one. DOI: 10.4018/978 1 4666 1634 9.ch007", "corpus_id": 55890121, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "113642828", "title": "PREDIKSI KEMENANGAN BOT DOTA 2 MENGGUNAKAN METODE NAIVE BAYES", "abstract": "Dota 2 adalah salah satu game multiplayer yang banyak dimainkan saat ini. Dalam memainkan game dota 2, pemain dibagi menjadi dua kelompok yang saling bertempur, terdiri dari Radiant dan Dire. Masing masing kelompok terdiri dari lima pemain. Didalam game dota 2 terdapat jenis permainan custom scenario dimana hero musuh dijalankan oleh artificial intelligences (AI) Ketika memainkan versi scenario, pemain bisa dibantu oleh hero dota sekutu yang dijalankan oleh AI game. Masing masing team memiliki markas utama yang harus dilindungi, markas ini disebut Ancient. Ketika ancient salah satu team hancur, maka pertandingan selesai. Naive bayes adalah algoritma data mining klasifikasi yang digunakan untuk prediksi kemenangan bot dalam pertandingan dota 2. Dengan pembobotan statistik pada masing masing bot akan dilakukan prediksi kemenangan bot pada game dota 2 sehingga akan diketahui team radiant atau dire yang akan memenangkan pertandingan dalam game dota 2. Akurasi yang dihasilkan naive bayes untuk memprediksi kemenangan team dota 2 adalah sebesar 54.17%", "corpus_id": 113642828, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Kurniawan Budi Nanang" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "71150889", "title": "A Pilot Study Integrating an AI driven Chatbot in an Introductory Programming Course", "abstract": "As AI software tools become more commonplace, their potential to transform the student experience has greatly increased. By integrating these tools into a course, students can begin to receive real time, around the clock, instructor moderated support. The potential benefits for students are significant. In addition to increasing their ability to work constructively on their schedule, it has the potential to engage students who might otherwise avoid directly interacting with another person. Before these tools can be meaningfully actualized into a course, work must be done to build a knowledge base about the course. For this research, the team sought to develop an intelligent chatbot interface for an introductory computer programming course. The interface had an initially limited knowledge base with the intent that it would be populated based on students' interactions with the chatbot. This model allowed the bot to evolve with the needs of the students. This paper seeks to present the methodology for how the chatbot was developed and integrated into the course, how the knowledge base was developed, the usage during the pilot, and the next steps for improving the chatbot's interface. Additionally, the paper will discuss the mechanisms added to handle issues such as false positive responses and how faculty may be able to integrate such tools into their own courses as supplementary assistance.", "corpus_id": 71150889, "venue": "2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Matthew A Verleger", "James J Pembridge" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "12365036", "title": "Prolog Scripted Tactics Negotiation and Coordinated Team Actions for Counter Strike Game Bots", "abstract": "k labs is a research project exploring the possibilities of the logic programming paradigm in bot behavior programming for first person shooter (FPS) games. The focus of previous work was to make Prolog a usable tool for bot programming and a baseline for further extensions. This paper presents one such extension, which makes it possible to script tactics of the entire team of bots. The algorithm was tested by bot to bot computer tests and by running surveys among human players who volunteered to take part in the research. The results of the both tests are presented in this paper. The extension itself demonstrates the flexibility of the framework. Although the proposed method for defining team behaviors relies solely on the knowledge of the bot's designer, alternative approaches, which use rules that are obtained by computational techniques, can also be developed. Such approaches are also being investigated as part of the k labs project.", "corpus_id": 12365036, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Grzegorz Jaskiewicz" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53985190", "title": "The awakening of conscious bots Conscious Robots team winner of the 2 K BotPrize 2010 contest", "abstract": "Most of current efforts in the development of believable bots bots that behave like human players are based on classical AI techniques. These techniques are based on relatively old principles, which nevertheless are being progressively improved or wisely adapted increasing their performance in order to satisfy new game requirements. Taking a different perspective, the approach that we adopted for the design of our bot (CC Bot2) was rather opposed to this trend. Specifically, we implemented a computational model of the Global Workspace Theory (Baars, 1988) a kind of shared memory space where different agents that we call specialized processors can collaborate and compete with each other dynamically (see Figure 1) We believe that applying new techniques from the field of Machine Consciousness might also provide good results, even in the short term.", "corpus_id": 53985190, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Raul Arrabales", "Jorge Munoz" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3492969", "title": "DotA 2 bots win prediction using naive bayes based on adaboost algorithm", "abstract": "DotA 2 is a multiplayer game that is widely played today. In DotA 2, the players are divided into two teams, i.e. radiant and dire to against each other. Each team consists of five heroes. One hero is played by human and four heroes are controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) In our prediction, we only collect the statistical data of AI heroes. Each team has the main headquarters, which needs to be protected; the headquarters is a called ancient. When the ancient of a team is destroyed, then the game is over. The features of prediction are collected from the statistical value in each bot. Therefore, the player knows which team (radiant or dire) is going to be the winning team. To predict the winning team, we use Naive Bayes (NB) as a classifier in data mining algorithm. NB is the appropriate algorithm. Since NB works on probability, it can predict the winning team, not only the winning heroes. However, NB has a shortcoming, e.g. imbalance data, this study proposes to implement NB+Adaboost. This study evaluates some approaches of NB, i.e. discretization and Gaussian distribution kernel function. Both are used to treat the numerical attribute. The results of the experiment show that the highest accuracy of the win prediction by using NB+Adaboost with Gaussian distribution kernel achieves 80%", "corpus_id": 3492969, "venue": "ICCIP", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Pulung Nurtantio Andono", "Nanang Budi Kurniawan", "Catur Supriyanto" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "60099971", "title": "Performance Evaluation of a Semantic Perception Classifier", "abstract": "Abstract In order to assess the technology developed by members of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory s Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA) RCTA s Integration and Assessment team conducts experiments to test the limits of developed technologies. We conducted such an assessment in October 2013 to evaluate the performance of a semantic labeling system developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The system consists of a Basler AC1300gc camera with Fujinon TF28DA8 lens and processing software, which runs on a laptop computer. The apparatus functions on small robotic platforms, such as a K bot. This report details the design for our data collection and our assessment of the technology by examining precision, recall, and F measure via exploratory data analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA)", "corpus_id": 60099971, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Craig T Lennon", "Barry A Bodt", "Marshal A Childers", "Richard S Camden", "Arne J Suppe", "Luis E Navarro-Serment", "Nicoleta Valentina Florea" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "15300441", "title": "Evolving the cooperative behaviour in Unreal(tm) bots", "abstract": "This paper presents an approach to the evolution of the cooperative behaviour of some bots inside the PC game Unreal(tm) We intend to create bots that cooperate as a team trying to beat other teams (composed of human players or bots) So, in addition to the improvement of the default artificial intelligence (AI) of bots, we have performed an improvement of the 'team AI' We have applied an evolutionary algorithm which optimizes the parameters considered in the hard coded states inside the bot AI code, mainly those related to the cooperation. Two different approaches have been tested inside some different battle arenas: one considering a different set of parameters for every bot in the team, and the other one considering the same set of parameters for all the teammates. The results show that both methods yield better teams than the standard ones. The teams which share the same behaviour parameters, get a higher score than those with bots playing with different parameters.", "corpus_id": 15300441, "venue": "Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Antonio Mora Garcia", "M A Moreno", "Juan Julian Merelo Guervos", "Pedro A Castillo", "Maribel Garcia Arenas", "Juan Luis Jimenez Laredo" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21388430", "title": "Internal and contextual factors, knowledge processes and performance: From the Chinese provider's perspective", "abstract": "This paper explores the influences of two internal factors, i.e. supplier team's IT based skills and communication with client's team, and two contextual factors, i.e. supplier team's understanding of client's culture and collaboration with client's team, on knowledge processes and performance in global sourcing of IT services from the Chinese provider's perspective. Knowledge processes are characterized by knowledge sharing, knowledge based coordination and expertise management, and performance is measured by product success and personal satisfaction. Data have been collected in 13 companies in Xi'an Software Park, with 26 in depth, semi structured interviews held with top and middle managers, and 200 structured questionnaires distributed to knowledge workers who are involved in global sourcing projects. The results indicate that supplier team's IT based skills, communication with client's team, cultural understanding of client's culture and collaboration with client's team are positively associated with knowledge process and performance. Also, knowledge sharing, knowledge based coordination and expertise management are found to be crucial for those influential factors to function positively and contribute to the performance. The findings of this study suggest that the effects of key factors on knowledge processes and performance in global sourcing of IT services appear to transcend the social and cultural differences; however, contextual factors seem to have more significant influences on knowledge processes and performance in global sourcing of IT services.", "corpus_id": 21388430, "venue": "Expert Syst. Appl.", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Shizhong Ai", "Rong Du", "Pamela Y Abbott", "Yingqin Zheng" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "17250930", "title": "Presidential Address: A simple model of capital market equilibrium with incomplete information", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 17250930, "venue": "", "year": 1987, "author_names": [ "R C Merton" ], "n_citations": 5306, "n_key_citations": 472, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "36720630", "title": "CAPITAL ASSET PRICES: A THEORY OF MARKET EQUILIBRIUM UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK*", "abstract": "One of the problems which has plagued thouse attempting to predict the behavior of capital marcets is the absence of a body of positive of microeconomic theory dealing with conditions of risk/ Althuogh many usefull insights can be obtaine from the traditional model of investment under conditions of certainty, the pervasive influense of risk in finansial transactions has forced those working in this area to adobt models of price behavior which are little more than assertions. A typical classroom explanation of the determinationof capital asset prices, for example, usually begins with a carefull and relatively rigorous description of the process through which individuals preferences and phisical relationship to determine an equilibrium pure interest rate. This is generally followed by the assertion that somehow a market risk premium is also determined, with the prices of asset adjusting accordingly to account for differences of their risk.", "corpus_id": 36720630, "venue": "", "year": 1964, "author_names": [ "William F Sharpe" ], "n_citations": 17323, "n_key_citations": 1047, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21728948", "title": "The Economic Consequences Associated with Integrated Report Quality: Capital Market and Real Effects", "abstract": "The International Integrated Reporting Council's Framework identifies two goals for integrated reporting: improved information for outside providers of financial capital and better internal decision making. We extend prior research that finds a positive association between integrated report quality (IRQ) and firm value by examining two channels through which this association may arise a capital market channel and a real effects channel. To conduct these tests, we disaggregate firm value into three components: liquidity, cost of capital, and expected future cash flows. Using data from South Africa where integrated reporting is mandatory and an IRQ measure based on proprietary EY data, we find a positive association between IRQ and liquidity, which supports the capital market channel. We find no evidence of a relation between IRQ and cost of capital. We also find a positive association between IRQ and expected future cash flows. Because this association could reflect better investor cash flow forecasts a capital market effect, better internal decisions a real effect, or both, we attempt to distinguish these explanations. We find higher IRQ is (not) associated with higher realized future operating cash flows (greater analyst target price forecast accuracy) and is associated with less over and under investment. These findings support the real effects channel. Together, our findings are consistent with integrated reporting achieving its dual objective of improved external information and better internal decisions.", "corpus_id": 21728948, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Mary E Barth", "Steven F Cahan", "Lily Chen", "Elmar Retief Venter" ], "n_citations": 125, "n_key_citations": 35, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "157484960", "title": "Does Integrated Reporting Matter to the Capital Market?", "abstract": "Integrated reporting &lt;IR&gt; is an emerging international corporate reporting initiative to address limitations to extant corporate reporting approaches, which are commonly criticized for being both voluminous and disjointed. While &lt;IR&gt;#160;is gaining in popularity, current momentum has been limited due to a lack of clear evidence of its benefits. Utilizing the most suitable setting currently available, being discretionary disclosures made by listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, this study provides evidence that analyst forecast error reduces as a company's level of alignment with the &lt;IR&gt;#160;framework increases. Further, the improved alignment is associated with a subsequent reduction in the cost of equity capital for certain reporting companies. The results are obtained after controlling for factors relating to financial transparency and the issuance of standalone non&#8208;financial reports, which suggests that &lt;IR&gt;#160;is providing incrementally useful information to the capital market over and above existing reporting mechanisms.", "corpus_id": 157484960, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Shangsi Zhou", "Roger Simnett", "Wendy Green" ], "n_citations": 160, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "154576888", "title": "Capital Market Imperfections and Investment", "abstract": "Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business fixed investment to incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining investment. This paper reviews developments and challenges in this empirical research, and uses advances in models of information and incentive problems to motivate those developments and challenges. First, I describe analytical underpinnings of models of capital market imperfections in the investment process, and illustrate the principal testable implications of those models. Second, I motivate tests and describe and critique existing empirical studies. Third, the review considers applications of the underlying models to a range of investment activities, including inventory investment, R&D, employment demand, pricing by imperfectly competitive firms, business formation and survival, and risk management. Fourth, I discuss implications of this research program for analysis of effects of investment on monetary policy and tax policy. Finally, I examine some potentially fruitful avenues for future research.", "corpus_id": 154576888, "venue": "", "year": 1997, "author_names": [ "Robert Glenn Hubbard" ], "n_citations": 2726, "n_key_citations": 232, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "157059759", "title": "Capital Market and Economic Growth Nexus: Evidence from Turkey", "abstract": "This study explores the relations between the development level of capital market sub components, involving mutual/pension funds, corporate bond, stock and government bond markets, and economic growth over the period of 2006:M1 and 2016:M6 in Turkey. We find that there is a long run cointegrating relationship between capital market development and economic growth and also a unidirectional causality running from capital market development to economic growth. Using ARDL, Markov Switching Regression and Kalman Filter models, we also find that capital market development has asymmetric effects on economic growth where government bond market development is negatively but the aggregated index of other sub components is positively associated with economic growth.", "corpus_id": 157059759, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Yener Coskun", "Unal Seven", "Hasan Murat Ertugrul", "Talat Ulussever" ], "n_citations": 38, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "220428596", "title": "Capital market effects of securities regulation: Prior conditions, implementation, and enforcement", "abstract": "We examine the capital market effects of changes in securities regulation in the European Union aimed at reducing market abuse and increasing transparency. To estimate causal effects for the population of E.U. firms, we exploit that for plausibly exogenous reasons, such as national legislative procedures, E.U. countries adopted these directives at different times. We find significant increases in market liquidity, but the effects are stronger in countries with stricter implementation and traditionally more stringent securities regulation. The findings suggest that countries with initially weaker regulation do not catch up with stronger countries, and that countries diverge more upon harmonizing regulation.Received August 3, 2015; accepted April 25, 2016, by Editor Andrew Karolyi.", "corpus_id": 220428596, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Hans B Christensen", "Luzi Hail", "Christian Leuz" ], "n_citations": 83, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55474410", "title": "Nonmarketable assets and capital market equilibrium under uncertainty", "abstract": "Master Student's Name Lasha Bokuchava Master Thesis Title Nonmarketable Assets and Capital Market Equilibrium under Uncertainty Faculty Graduate School of Management Main field of study Corporate Finance Year 2016 Academic Advisor's Name Alexander V. Bukhvalov Description of the goal, tasks and main results In this paper, the author pays special attention to the model developed by Mayers (1972) who challenged the assumption of marketability of all assets by introducing the effect of 5 nonmarketable assets. Mayers examined the role of returns to human capital as a proxy for nonmarketable asset. Mayers' extended model suggests that since any individual investor's human capital is unique, the covariance between the market portfolio and payoffs to human capital will have an impact on the optimal weight of the market portfolio, therefore, the covariance explains why investors hold different portfolios in reality. This research aims to understand whether the CAPM with nonmarketable assets has meaningful implications in the Russian market. The following objectives are met to realize the ultimate goal of the paper: 1. Theoretical and empirical background of the traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model are covered; 2. Theoretical and empirical background of the CAPM model with nonmarketable assets are covered; 3. Methodologies for the calculation of differences between the Mayers and SLM risk measures are derived; 4. The data on 50 most liquid stocks of Russia's largest companies is obtained. The companies are further segmented into 10 different sectors of economy to precisely evaluate the effect of returns to human capital on different classes of assets; 5. Regressions are run to estimate risk measures for respective classes of assets; 6. Differences between the Mayers and SLM risk measures are calculated to check whether this differences lead to significant deviations in final estimations of the required returns on risky assets in Russia; 7. Interpretation of results and limitations of the approach are elaborated. Contrary to the SLM model, the expanded model implies that not all maximizing investors hold the identical (except for scale) portfolio of marketable assets. It implies that each investor holds a portfolio of marketable assets that solves his personal (and possibly unique) portfolio problem and, therefore, allows investors to maintain unique portfolios. Empirical analysis of the CAPM with nonmarketable assets has shown significant difference of the estimates of the models for Innovations sectors. The beta predicted by extended model is 9.2% higher than the SLM 6 beta. Unfortunately, the research has failed to prove the validity of the model for other sectors of companies and for the market in general, which may be attributable to the limitations stated in the paper. These limitations include: 1) the quarrels about the way to define human capital, 2) the controversy of using human capital as a proxy, and 3) the imperfection of data on Russian stock market.", "corpus_id": 55474410, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Bokuchava Lasha Zurabovich", "Bokuchava Lasha" ], "n_citations": 69, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "154027593", "title": "Does Integrated Reporting Matter to the Capital Market?", "abstract": "Integrated reporting (IR) is an emerging international corporate reporting initiative arising to address, inter alia, the limitations of the current corporate reporting suite which are commonly criticized for being both voluminous and disjointed. While IR is gaining in popularity, current momentum is limited until there is clear evidence of benefits. Utilising the most suitable setting currently available, being disclosures in accordance with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange IR listing requirements, this study provides evidence of such benefits by finding that analysts' forecast error and dispersion reduces as the level of alignment with the IR framework increases. Further, the improved alignment is associated with a subsequent reduction in the cost of equity capital for certain reporting companies. The results are obtained after controlling for factors relating to financial transparency and the issue of standalone non financial reports, suggesting that IR is providing incrementally useful information over existing reporting mechanisms to the capital market.", "corpus_id": 154027593, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Shangsi Zhou", "Roger Simnett", "Wendy Green" ], "n_citations": 120, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158494078", "title": "Chinese Capital Market: An Empirical Overview", "abstract": "The Chinese capital market, despite its relative short history in its modern form, has experienced a tremendous growth and is now the second largest in the world. Due to China's tight capital controls, the development of its capital market has mostly been isolated from and hence not been well understood by the rest of the world. Yet, this state of isolation is bound to change substantially as China becomes more integrated into the global financial system. In this paper, we provide an empirical overview of the Chinese capital market: its historical development and main empirical characteristics.", "corpus_id": 158494078, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Grace Xing Hu", "Jun Pan", "Jiang Wang" ], "n_citations": 25, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "21524705", "title": "Environmental exposure to endotoxin and its relation to asthma in school age children.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND In early life, the innate immune system can recognize both viable and nonviable parts of microorganisms. Immune activation may direct the immune response, thus conferring tolerance to allergens such as animal dander or tree and grass pollen. METHODS Parents of children who were 6 to 13 years of age and were living in rural areas of Germany, Austria, or Switzerland where there were both farming and nonfarming households completed a standardized questionnaire on asthma and hay fever. Blood samples were obtained from the children and tested for atopic sensitization; peripheral blood leukocytes were also harvested from the samples for testing. The levels of endotoxin in the bedding used by these children were examined in relation to clinical findings and to the cytokine production profiles of peripheral blood leukocytes that had been stimulated with lipopolysaccharide and staphylococcal enterotoxin B. Complete data were available for 812 children. RESULTS Endotoxin levels in samples of dust from the child's mattress were inversely related to the occurrence of hay fever, atopic asthma, and atopic sensitization. Nonatopic wheeze was not significantly associated with the endotoxin level. Cytokine production by leukocytes (production of tumor necrosis factor alpha, interferon gamma, interleukin 10, and interleukin 12) was inversely related to the endotoxin level in the bedding, indicating a marked down regulation of immune responses in exposed children. CONCLUSIONS A subject's environmental exposure to endotoxin may have a crucial role in the development of tolerance to ubiquitous allergens found in natural environments.", "corpus_id": 21524705, "venue": "The New England journal of medicine", "year": 2002, "author_names": [ "Charlotte Braun-Fahrlander", "Josef Riedler", "Udo Herz", "Waltraud Eder", "Marco Waser", "Leticia Grize", "Soyoun Maisch", "David Carr", "Florian Gerlach", "Albrecht Bufe", "Roger Lauener", "Rudolf Schierl", "Harald Renz", "Dennis Nowak", "Erika von Mutius" ], "n_citations": 1190, "n_key_citations": 21, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "215741038", "title": "Risk factors for severity and mortality in adult COVID 19 inpatients in Wuhan", "abstract": "Abstract Background In December 2019, COVID 19 outbreak occurred in Wuhan. Data on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with severe COVID 19 are limited. Objective The severity on admission, complications, treatment, and outcomes of COVID 19 patients were evaluated. Methods Patients with COVID 19 admitted to Tongji Hospital from January 26, 2020 to February 5, 2020 were retrospectively enrolled and followed up until March 3, 2020. Potential risk factors for severe COVID 19 were analyzed by a multivariable binary logistic model. Cox proportional hazard regression model was used for survival analysis in severe patients. Results We identified 269 (49.1% of 548 patients as severe cases on admission. Elder age, underlying hypertension, high cytokine levels (IL 2R, IL 6, IL 10, and TNF a) and high LDH level were significantly associated with severe COVID 19 on admission. The prevalence of asthma in COVID 19 patients was 0.9% markedly lower than that in the adult population of Wuhan. The estimated mortality was 1.1% in nonsevere patients and 32.5% in severe cases during the average 32 days of follow up period. Survival analysis revealed that male, elder age, leukocytosis, high LDH level, cardiac injury, hyperglycemia, and high dose corticosteroid use were associated with death in patients with severe COVID 19. Conclusions Patients with elder age, hypertension, and high LDH level need careful observation and early intervention to prevent the potential development of severe COVID 19. Severe male patients with heart injury, hyperglycemia, and high dose corticosteroid use may have high risk of death.", "corpus_id": 215741038, "venue": "Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xiaochen Li", "Shuyun Xu", "Mu-qing Yu", "Ke Wang", "Yu Tao", "Ying Zhou", "Jing Shi", "Min Zhou", "Bo Wu", "Zhenyu Yang", "Cong Zhang", "Junqing Yue", "Zhiguo Zhang", "Harald Renz", "Xiansheng Liu", "Jungang Xie", "Min Xie", "Jianping Zhao" ], "n_citations": 1148, "n_key_citations": 37, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "218973033", "title": "SARS CoV 2 antibody testing questions to be asked", "abstract": "ABSTRACT SARS CoV 2 infection and development of COVID 19 disease presents a major healthcare challenge of global dimensions. Laboratory diagnostics of infected patients, and the assessment of immunity against the SARS CoV 2 virus presents a major cornerstone in handling the pandemic. Currently there is an increase in demand of antibody testing and a large number of tests are already marketed or in the late stage of development. However, the interpretation of test results depends on many variables and factors, including sensitivity, specificity, potential cross reactivity and cross protectivity; the diagnostic value of antibodies of different isotypes, the use of antibody testing in identification of acutely ill patients or in epidemiological settings. In this article the recently established COVID 19 Task Force of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) addresses these issues based on the currently available datasets in this rapidly moving field.", "corpus_id": 218973033, "venue": "Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mustafa K Ozcurumez", "Andreas Ambrosch", "Oliver Frey", "Verena Haselmann", "Stefan Holdenrieder", "Michael Kiehntopf", "Michael Neumaier", "Michael Walter", "Folker Wenzel", "Roman Wolfel", "Harald Renz" ], "n_citations": 65, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "5138957", "title": "Allergen induced asthmatic responses modified by a GATA3 specific DNAzyme.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND The most prevalent phenotype of asthma is characterized by eosinophil dominated inflammation that is driven by a type 2 helper T cell (Th2) Therapeutic targeting of GATA3, an important transcription factor of the Th2 pathway, may be beneficial. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of SB010, a novel DNA enzyme (DNAzyme) that is able to cleave and inactivate GATA3 messenger RNA (mRNA) METHODS We conducted a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, multicenter clinical trial of SB010 involving patients who had allergic asthma with sputum eosinophilia and who also had biphasic early and late asthmatic responses after laboratory based allergen provocation. A total of 40 patients could be evaluated; 21 were assigned to receive 10 mg of SB010, and 19 were assigned to receive placebo, with each study drug administered by means of inhalation once daily for 28 days. An allergen challenge was performed before and after the 28 day period. The primary end point was the late asthmatic response as quantified by the change in the area under the curve (AUC) for forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) RESULTS After 28 days, SB010 attenuated the mean late asthmatic response by 34% as compared with the baseline response, according to the AUC for FEV1, whereas placebo was associated with a 1% increase in the AUC for FEV1 (P=0.02) The early asthmatic response with SB010 was attenuated by 11% as measured by the AUC for FEV1, whereas the early response with placebo was increased by 10% (P=0.03) Inhibition of the late asthmatic response by SB010 was associated with attenuation of allergen induced sputum eosinophilia and with lower levels of tryptase in sputum and lower plasma levels of interleukin 5. Allergen induced levels of fractional exhaled nitric oxide and airway hyperresponsiveness to methacholine were not affected by either SB010 or placebo. CONCLUSIONS Treatment with SB010 significantly attenuated both late and early asthmatic responses after allergen provocation in patients with allergic asthma. Biomarker analysis showed an attenuation of Th2 regulated inflammatory responses. (Funded by Sterna Biologicals and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01743768.", "corpus_id": 5138957, "venue": "The New England journal of medicine", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Norbert Krug", "Jens M Hohlfeld", "Anne M Kirsten", "Oliver Kornmann", "Kai Michael Beeh", "Dominik Kappeler", "Stephanie Korn", "Stanislav Ignatenko", "Wolfgang Timmer", "Cordelia Rogon", "Jana Zeitvogel", "Nan Zhang", "Joachim Bille", "Ursula Homburg", "Agnieszka Turowska", "Claus Bachert", "T Werfel", "Roland Buhl", "Jonas Renz", "Holger Garn", "Harald Renz" ], "n_citations": 227, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "1199904", "title": "Maternal TLR signaling is required for prenatal asthma protection by the nonpathogenic microbe Acinetobacter lwoffii F78", "abstract": "The pre and postnatal environment may represent a window of opportunity for allergy and asthma prevention, and the hygiene hypothesis implies that microbial agents may play an important role in this regard. Using the cowshed derived bacterium Acinetobacter lwoffii F78 together with a mouse model of experimental allergic airway inflammation, this study investigated the hygiene hypothesis, maternal (prenatal) microbial exposure, and the involvement of Toll like receptor (TLR) signaling in prenatal protection from asthma. Maternal intranasal exposure to A. lwoffii F78 protected against the development of experimental asthma in the progeny. Maternally, A. lwoffii F78 exposure resulted in a transient increase in lung and serum proinflammatory cytokine production and up regulation of lung TLR messenger RNA. Conversely, suppression of TLRs was observed in placental tissue. To investigate further, the functional relevance of maternal TLR signaling was tested in TLR2/3/4/7/9 knockout mice. The asthma preventive effect was completely abolished in heterozygous offspring from A. lwoffii F78 treated TLR2/3/4/7/9 homozygous mother mice. Furthermore, the mild local and systemic inflammatory response was also absent in these A. lwoffii F78 exposed mothers. These data establish a direct relationship between maternal bacterial exposures, functional maternal TLR signaling, and asthma protection in the progeny.", "corpus_id": 1199904, "venue": "The Journal of experimental medicine", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Melanie L Conrad", "Ruth Ferstl", "Rene Teich", "Stephanie Brand", "Nicole Blumer", "Ali Onder Yildirim", "Cecilia C Patrascan", "Anna Hanuszkiewicz", "Shizuo Akira", "Hermann Wagner", "Otto Holst", "Erika von Mutius", "Petra Ina Pfefferle", "Carsten J Kirschning", "Holger Garn", "Harald Renz" ], "n_citations": 305, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212741217", "title": "A WAO ARIA GA2LEN consensus document on molecular based allergy diagnosis (PAMD@ Update 2020", "abstract": "Precision allergy molecular diagnostic applications (PAMD@ is increasingly entering routine care. Currently, more than 130 allergenic molecules from more than 50 allergy sources are commercially available for in vitro specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) testing. Since the last publication of this consensus document, a great deal of new information has become available regarding this topic, with over 100 publications in the last year alone. It thus seems quite reasonable to publish an update. It is imperative that clinicians and immunologists specifically trained in allergology keep abreast of the new and rapidly evolving evidence available for PAMD@ PAMD@ may initially appear complex to interpret; however, with increasing experience, the information gained provides relevant information for the allergist. This is especially true for food allergy, Hymenoptera allergy, and for the selection of allergen immunotherapy. Nevertheless, all sIgE tests, including PAMD@ should be evaluated within the framework of a patient's clinical history, because allergen sensitization does not necessarily imply clinical relevant allergies.", "corpus_id": 212741217, "venue": "The World Allergy Organization journal", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ignacio J Giovanni Giorgio Walter R Maximiliano Erika Mo Ansotegui Melioli Canonica Gomez Jensen-Jarolim Eb", "Ignacio J Ansotegui", "Giovanni Melioli", "Giorgio Walter Canonica", "Rene Maximiliano Gomez", "Erika Jensen-Jarolim", "Motohiro Ebisawa", "Olga Luengo", "Luis Caraballo", "Giovanni Passalacqua", "Lars Kaergaard Poulsen", "Eleonora Savi", "Torsten Zuberbier", "Elisa Villa", "J Oppenheimer", "Riccardo Jonathan Jean Victoria Lindo Pascal Fatima Pedro S Asero Bernstein Bousquet Cardona Cox Demoly Ferrei", "Riccardo Asero", "Jonathan A Bernstein", "Jean Bousquet", "Victoria Cardona", "L Cox", "Pascal Demoly", "Fatima Ferreira", "Pedro Giavina Bianchi", "Sandra Nora Gonzalez Diaz", "Thilo Jakob", "Luciana Kase Tanno", "Jorg Kleine-Tebbe", "Michael E Levin", "Bryan L Martin", "Paolo Maria Matricardi", "Olga Patricia Monge Ortega", "Mario Morais Almeida", "Carlos Nunes", "Jose Antonio Ortega Martell", "Harald Renz", "Nelson Augusto Rosario Filho", "Philip W Rouadi", "Alessia Ruiba", "Hugh A Sampson", "Mario A Sanchez Borges", "Enrico Scala", "Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier", "Gianenrico Senna", "Juan Carlos Sisul", "Mimi L K Tang", "Rudolf Valenta", "Marianne van Hage", "Gary Wk Wong", "Anahi Yanez" ], "n_citations": 57, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219958096", "title": "Laboratory characteristics of patients infected with the novel SARS CoV 2 virus", "abstract": "Summary A subgroup of COVID 19 patients develop very severe disease with requirement for ICU treatment, ventilation, and ECMO therapy. Laboratory tests indicate that the immune and clotting system show marked alterations with hyper activation, hyper inflammation, cytokine storm development. Furthermore, organ specific biomarkers demonstrate the involvement of cardiac muscle, kidney, and liver dysfunction in many patients. In this article the use of laboratory biomarkers is discussed with regard to their use for diagnosis, disease progression, and risk assessment.", "corpus_id": 219958096, "venue": "Journal of Infection", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chrysanthi Skevaki", "Paraskevi C Fragkou", "Chongsheng Cheng", "Min Xie", "Harald Renz" ], "n_citations": 45, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "73512687", "title": "Molecular diagnosis for allergen immunotherapy.", "abstract": "The extensive use of allergen molecules in birth cohort studies revealed that atopic sensitization is a sequential IgE response to distinct non cross reacting molecules from the same allergenic source (ie, molecular spreading) starting with an initiator molecule. This phenomenon reaches different degrees of progression (monomolecular, oligomolecular, and polymolecular) according to the individual atopic propensity and allergen exposure, thus producing an extreme heterogeneity of IgE sensitization profiles in patient populations. In patients with allergic rhinitis, the broader the IgE molecular sensitization profile, the greater is the risk of asthma and other allergic comorbidities, such as oral allergy syndrome. Hence it has been proposed to anticipate immunologic intervention at disease onset (early allergen immunotherapy) or even earlier during the preclinical sensitization stage (allergen immunoprophylaxis) Diagnostic algorithms based on singleplex or multiplex molecular IgE tests allow the discrimination of genuine from cross reacting sensitization and the selection of the right extracts for allergen immunotherapy composition. Patients with extreme molecular poly sensitization and greater risk of asthma or other IgE mediated comorbidities, can be easily identified by means of allergen microarray or macroarray procedures and might benefit from anti IgE treatment. IgE molecular tests have opened the era of precision allergology, and their routine use should aim at cost effectiveness, according to the principles of the Choosing Wisely initiative.", "corpus_id": 73512687, "venue": "The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Paolo Maria Matricardi", "Stephanie Dramburg", "Ekaterina Potapova", "Chrysanthi Skevaki", "Harald Renz" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8812347", "title": "The gut microbiota and inflammatory noncommunicable diseases: associations and potentials for gut microbiota therapies.", "abstract": "Rapid environmental transition and modern lifestyles are likely driving changes in the biodiversity of the human gut microbiota. With clear effects on physiologic, immunologic, and metabolic processes in human health, aberrations in the gut microbiome and intestinal homeostasis have the capacity for multisystem effects. Changes in microbial composition are implicated in the increasing propensity for a broad range of inflammatory diseases, such as allergic disease, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) obesity, and associated noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) There are also suggestive implications for neurodevelopment and mental health. These diverse multisystem influences have sparked interest in strategies that might favorably modulate the gut microbiota to reduce the risk of many NCDs. For example, specific prebiotics promote favorable intestinal colonization, and their fermented products have anti inflammatory properties. Specific probiotics also have immunomodulatory and metabolic effects. However, when evaluated in clinical trials, the effects are variable, preliminary, or limited in magnitude. Fecal microbiota transplantation is another emerging therapy that regulates inflammation in experimental models. In human subjects it has been successfully used in cases of Clostridium difficile infection and IBD, although controlled trials are lacking for IBD. Here we discuss relationships between gut colonization and inflammatory NCDs and gut microbiota modulation strategies for their treatment and prevention.", "corpus_id": 8812347, "venue": "The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Christina E West", "Harald Renz", "Maria C Jenmalm", "Anita L Kozyrskyj", "Katrina J Allen", "Peter J Vuillermin", "Susan L Prescott" ], "n_citations": 189, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "25858861", "title": "Epigenetics and allergy: from basic mechanisms to clinical applications.", "abstract": "Allergic diseases are on the rise in the Western world and well known allergy protecting and driving factors such as microbial and dietary exposure, pollution and smoking mediate their influence through alterations of the epigenetic landscape. Here, we review key facts on the involvement of epigenetic modifications in allergic diseases and summarize and critically evaluate the lessons learned from epigenome wide association studies. We show the potential of epigenetic changes for various clinical applications: as diagnostic tools, to assess tolerance following immunotherapy or possibly predict the success of therapy at an early time point. Furthermore, new technological advances such as epigenome editing and DNAzymes will allow targeted alterations of the epigenome in the future and provide novel therapeutic tools.", "corpus_id": 25858861, "venue": "Epigenomics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Daniel P Potaczek", "Hani Harb", "Sven Michel", "Bilal Alashkar Alhamwe", "Harald Renz", "Jorg Tost" ], "n_citations": 124, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "104574864", "title": "Systematic analysis of interfacial resistance between the cathode layer and the current collector in lithium ion batteries by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy", "abstract": "Abstract Lithium ion batteries are required to have high power density, that is to reduce impedance, for use in electric vehicles. This paper focuses on interfacial resistance between the cathode layer (CL) and the current collector (CC) observed at high frequencies, which is generally attributed to a resistance of surface film like SEI. To investigate the interfacial resistance systematically, different interfaces between the CL and the CC were prepared by controlling the press rate for the cathode preparation, or by introducing a carbon under coating layer (CUL) followed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) The interfacial resistance between the CL and the CC prepared with an insufficient press rate or without a CUL was extremely high for the entire cathode. From the cathode cross sectional observation, it was observed that this high interfacial resistance was caused by low contact rate at the interface. Using a pouch type symmetric cell, EIS revealed that the interfacial resistance is attributed to electric resistance, that is, contact resistance at the interface. Also, the other resistances were attributed to be the ionic resistance of the electrolyte and pores in the cathode, and the charge transfer resistance of the cathode. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the CUL was shown to decrease the cathode impedance.", "corpus_id": 104574864, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hiroki Nara", "Daikichi Mukoyama", "Ryosuke Shimizu", "Toshiyuki Momma", "Tetsuya Osaka" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "141384805", "title": "Binder free carbon coated TiO2@graphene electrode by using copper foam as current collector as a high performance anode for lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract Anatase TiO2 is widely used in lithium ion batteries (LIBs) due to its excellent safety and excellent structural stability. However, due to the poor ion and electron transport and low specific capacity (335 mAh g 1) of TiO2, its application in LIBs is severely limited. For the first time, we report a binder free, carbon coated TiO2@graphene hybrid by using copper foam as current collector (TG CM) to enhance the ionic and electronic conductivity and increase the discharge specific capacity of the electrode material without adding conductive carbon (such as super P, etc. and a binder (such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) etc. When serving as an anode material for LIBs, TG CM displays excellent electrochemical performance in the voltage range of 0.01 3.0 V. Moreover, the TG CM hybrid delivers a high reversible discharge capacity of 687.8 mAh g 1 at 0.15 A g 1. The excellent electrochemical performance of the TG CM hybrid is attributed to the increased lithium ion diffusion rate due to the introduction of graphene and amorphous carbon layer, and the increased contact area between the active material and electrolyte, and small resistance with copper foam as the current collector without an additional binder (PVDF) and conductivity carbon (super P)", "corpus_id": 141384805, "venue": "Ceramics International", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Chang-sheng An", "Bao Zhang", "Linbo Tang", "Zhenjiang He", "Junchao Zheng" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "106381756", "title": "Stress relieved Si anode on a porous Cu current collector for high performance lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract To overcome the mechanical stress generated during the cycling process in lithium ion batteries, Si anode is fabricated on a porous Cu current collector with holes using sputtering deposition method. The porous Cu/Si shows superior high rate and cycling performance in lithium ion batteries compared to the Si anode on the flat Cu. The excellent high rate performance and stable cyclability of the porous Cu/Si can be predominantly attributed to the efficient relief of the stress generated by the volumetric expansion of the Si anode on the porous Cu current collector.", "corpus_id": 106381756, "venue": "Materials Chemistry and Physics", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sang-Hyun Moon", "Si-Jin Kim", "Min-Cheol Kim", "Jinyoung So", "Ji-Eun Lee", "Yeon-Kyung Shin", "Won-Gyu Bae", "Kyung-Won Park" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "139582167", "title": "Bio inspired, nitrogen doped CNT graphene hybrid with amphiphilic properties as a porous current collector for lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract Carbon based materials have been proposed as current collectors for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) however few of them have successfully integrated sp2 carbon and reach in sp3 carbon into one monolithic structure: in a way that sp2 carbon is responsible for electron transfer and sp3 carbon is capable for a high loading of active materials. Here we report an in situ growth of a nitrogen doped carbon nanotube (NCNT) on a three dimensional (3D) graphene network. The proposed structure (NCNT 3DG) is a bio inspired nanomaterial with a design of a \"natural forest\" The in situ growth of NCNT on 3D graphene guarantees a fast electron transfer between NCNT and 3DG. The hydrophilic nature of NCNTs insures a high loading of the active materials, such as Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) The designed LTO NCNT 3DG electrode achieves an active materials loading of 74 wt% of the overall electrode mass, compared to about 20 wt% on traditional metal foil and 55 wt% on other reported carbon current collectors. Such a hybrid electrode delivers a higher specific capacity of 158 mAh g 1 at 5C. The specific capacity retains 94% after 2000 cycles at 10 C. The proposed NCNT 3DG current collector is a novel strategy for fast charging LIBs.", "corpus_id": 139582167, "venue": "Carbon", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yu-Yun Hsieh", "Yanbo Fang", "Jeremy L Daum", "Sathya N Kanakaraj", "Guangqi Zhang", "Siddharth Mishra", "Seyram Gbordzoe", "Vesselin N Shanov" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "104470427", "title": "Characterisation of lithium ion battery anodes fabricated via in situ Cu6Sn5 growth on a copper current collector", "abstract": "Abstract Li ion batteries (LIBs) are favoured in many applications due to their high energy density and good cyclic performance. However, some safety concerns remain with respect to the risk of fires and explosions with LIBs. Carbon based anode materials in LIBs operate close to the Li metal reduction potential, therefore Li dendrites can grow during voltage fluctuations, causing short circuits which may lead to fires. The Cu6Sn5 anodes has the lithiation potential at about 0.4 V vs Li/Li+ and therefore less prone to Li metal plating. A new manufacturing method involving direct in situ formation of Cu6Sn5 on a Cu current collector via melt solid contact is proposed. This method combines the active material production and the anode fabrication into a single process. Lithiation and delithiation mechanisms of the anode produced are studied by in situ synchrotron X ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and ex situ high voltage transmission electron microscope (HV TEM) The in situ XRPD study shows a reversible two step reaction during cycling, and also reveals the differences in the reaction mechanisms at higher charge/discharge rates than those in published data.", "corpus_id": 104470427, "venue": "Journal of Power Sources", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Xin Fu Tan", "Stuart D McDonald", "Qinfen Gu", "Yuxiang Hu", "Lianzhou Wang", "Syo Matsumura", "T Nishimura", "Kazuhiro Nogita" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "139256901", "title": "Interface modification of an Al current collector for ultrafast lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract The ability to provide a reasonable design and a practical modification of the interfacial structure in lithium ion batteries (LIBs) is a key technology to enhance electrochemical kinetics and to improve ultrafast cycling performances. However, in recent years, despite considerable structural engineering efforts focused on active materials, in practice, ultrafast LIB performances still are characterized by low ultrafast cycling capacity and poor stability at the current density above 6 C. To solve these problems, in the present study, we propose a unique interface modification of the Al foil having crater porous interface using the electrochemical etching process. The cathode fabricated with a crater porous interface of the Al foil exhibits a remarkably enhanced ultrafast storage performance, such as high ultrafast cycling capacity (91.0 mAh g 1 at 10 C) and superb ultrafast cycling stability (76.2 mAh g 1 with the capacity retention of 84.8% at 10 C after 250 cycles) as compared to those of the cathode fabricated with the bare Al foil and commercial etched Al foil. These improved electrochemical performances can be explained by the combined effects of improved electrical conductivity related to fast charge transport and increased interface contact area between the active material and the current collector related to enhanced interface adhesion during ultrafast cycling performance.", "corpus_id": 139256901, "venue": "Applied Surface Science", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Dong-Yo Shin", "Dongsu Park", "Hyo-Jin Ahn" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "22410450", "title": "A Novel and Generalized Lithium Ion Battery Configuration utilizing Al Foil as Both Anode and Current Collector for Enhanced Energy Density.", "abstract": "A novel battery configuration based on an aluminum foil anode and a conventional cathode is developed. The aluminum foil plays a dual role as both the active anode material and the current collector, which enhances the energy density of the packaged battery, and reduces the production cost. This generalized battery configuration has high potential for application in next generation lithium ion batteries.", "corpus_id": 22410450, "venue": "Advanced materials", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Bifa Ji", "Fan Zhang", "Maohua Sheng", "Xuefeng Tong", "Yongbing Tang" ], "n_citations": 82, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "139348755", "title": "3D cathode design with foam like aluminum current collector for high energy density lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract Increasing the area specific capacity and reducing the inactive/active material ratio of cathodes and anodes is considered to be a promising approach to improve the energy density of lithium ion batteries. In principle, this can be achieved by increasing the thickness and the active material mass loading of the electrodes. However, the fabrication of thick electrodes with good electrochemical performance is challenging regarding the drying process, mechanical stability, electronic conductivity, etc. The application of Al foams as current collector provides a 3D electronic conductive network, which can host high loadings of active material combined with high mechanical stability. Herein, we demonstrate a slurry infiltration process capable to fabricate cathodes with high active material loading. A variety of LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 (NMC111) based cathodes with thicknesses up to 260 mm and area specific capacities high as 7 mAh cm 2 are investigated comprehensively. The electrodes exhibit good cycle life and rate capability performance due to the unique 3D current collector concept. Even at the 2.0C discharge rate, an area specific capacity of 2.3 mAh cm 2 is obtained, which is high in comparison to conventional Al foil concepts. The design freedom of the presented approach is illustrated by the fabrication of cathodes optimized for high rate capability.", "corpus_id": 139348755, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "M Fritsch", "Gisela Standke", "Christian Heubner", "Ulrike Langklotz", "Alexander Michaelis" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "51713167", "title": "First Principles Study on the Adsorption and Dissociation of Impurities on Copper Current Collector in Electrolyte for Lithium Ion Batteries", "abstract": "The copper current collector is an important component for lithium ion batteries and its stability in electrolyte impacts their performance. The decomposition of LiPF6 in the electrolyte of lithium ion batteries produces the reactive PF6, which reacts with the residual water and generates HF. In this paper, the adsorption and dissociation of H2O, HF, and PF5 on the Cu(111) surface were studied using a first principles method based on the density functional theory. The stable configurations of HF, H2O, and PF5 adsorbed on Cu(111) and the geometric parameters of the admolecules were confirmed after structure optimization. The results showed that PF5 can promote the dissociation reaction of HF. Meanwhile, PF5 also promoted the physical adsorption of H2O on the Cu(111) surface. The CuF2 molecule was identified by determining the bond length and the bond angle of the reaction product. The energy barriers of HF dissociation on clean and O atom preadsorbed Cu(111) surfaces revealed that the preadsorbed O atom can promote the dissociation of HF significantly.", "corpus_id": 51713167, "venue": "Materials", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Jian Chen", "C Li", "Jian Zhang", "Cong Li", "Jianlin Chen", "Yanjie Ren" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "102748072", "title": "Nano porous copper metal current collector for lithium ion batteries", "abstract": "Abstract A low cost and scalable ultrasonic synthetic method to produce copper metal current collector with uniform nanopores on the surface is achieved for the first time. A layer of silicon active material was sputtered on the surface of as prepared metal current collector (vs. metal lithium) as an innovative current collecting material for lithium ion battery. The assembled battery with this current collector showed an areal capacity of 2.2 mAh/cm2, comparable to that of commercially available lithium ion batteries. Due to the nano porous structure of current collector, the silicon active material electrochemical capacity retention and cycling stability also improved significantly.", "corpus_id": 102748072, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yuan Chen", "Huajun Feng", "Yihua Wang", "Zhe Tang", "Daniel H C Chua" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "159109882", "title": "Do board characteristics drive firm performance? An international perspective", "abstract": "The aim of our research is to analyze how board characteristics influence firm performance. In this paper, we specifically examine how board size, board independence, CEO duality, female directors and board compensation affect firm performance in a sample of international firms. The final panel data sample is composed of 10,314 firm year observations belonging to 34 countries that have been grouped into six geographic zones: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Oceania. Drawing on agency theory and dependence resource theory, we posit five hypotheses. The results show that some board characteristics, such as board size, board independence and having a female director, are positively associated with firm performance, whereas CEO duality, contrary to our expectations, also impacts positively on firm performance. Moreover, board compensation is not associated with firm performance. Tobin's Q was used to measure firm performance, although an accounting measure was also employed for robustness analyses and to provide more validity to our results.", "corpus_id": 159109882, "venue": "Review of Managerial Science", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Maria Consuelo Pucheta-Martinez", "Isabel Gallego-Alvarez" ], "n_citations": 25, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229128537", "title": "Board characteristics and firm performance", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 229128537, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Lauri Vaatainen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "197804744", "title": "Board characteristics and corporate social responsibility: Does family involvement in management matter?", "abstract": "Abstract Prior research on corporate governance has mixed views on board effectiveness. We argue that boards can be functional or dysfunctional depending on a family's involvement in management in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) We hypothesize that, when boards have independence and diversity, firms with weak family involvement will engage in CSR, since boards monitor executives and provide relevant resources to promote CSR as intended functional view whereas firms with strong family involvement will disengage from CSR, since boards reinforce the family's interests, merely serving as a means to signal positive corporate image to external stakeholders dysfunctional view Using a dataset of Korean firms, we find, when a board is composed of outside directors with equity ownership and directors with diverse education backgrounds, CSR engagement increases among professionally managed firms, but decreases among family managed firms. Overall, board characteristics have different implications depending upon the extent of a family's involvement in management.", "corpus_id": 197804744, "venue": "Journal of Business Research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Won-yong Oh", "Young Kyun Chang", "Rami Jung" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201346588", "title": "The impact of corporate social responsibility disclosure and board characteristics on corporate performance", "abstract": "Abstract The study aims to investigate the impacts of corporate social responsibility disclosure and board characteristics such as (board independence, the board size, and gender diversity) on corporate performance. In order to find out the impact, this study employed a quantitative method using secondary data collection and analysed data using smart partial least squares (PLS) The population for this study is the global energy corporations which are the top two hundred fifty corporations in the world for a year period, 2016, 2017, and 2018. This study showed that the impact of corporate social responsibility disclosure on corporate performance is not significant, and board independence. Accordingly, the board size and gender diversity have a significant impact on corporate performance.", "corpus_id": 201346588, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hosam Alden Riyadh", "Eko Ganis Sukoharsono", "Salsabila Aisyah Alfaiza" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "169742132", "title": "The Impact of Board Characteristics on Earnings Management in the International Oil and Gas Corporations", "abstract": "This study examined whether the Board Characteristics have any impact on Earnings Management among the international Oil and Gas Corporation in the world. The Board Characteristics such as (board independence, board size, board diversity, and CEO duality) This study applied a quantitative research approach, secondary data, a sample of 71 corporations were selected from Top 250 corporations for one year (2016) The findings of this study indicated that the board independence has a significant impact on the reduction of earnings management. In contrast, the board size does not have any impact on the reduction of earnings management, due the larger the board size less efficient on monitoring of the board, when there are more members on the board it is more difficult for the board members to monitor the management, While gender diversity has a significant impact on the reduction of earnings management, Finally, The CEO Duality has a significant impact on the increase of earnings management, which means the separating the functions of CEO and Chair of the Board may enhance the Board of Directors' monitoring and control ability, and improve Directors' information processing capacities.", "corpus_id": 169742132, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hosam Alden Riyadh Al Azeez", "Eko Ganis Sukoharsono", "", "Wuryan Andayani" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158285029", "title": "Board Characteristics and Credit Union Performance", "abstract": "We examine the role of board characteristics on the performance of Australian credit unions during the period 2004&#8211;2012. Credit unions are unique as they are member&#8208;owned institutions, and their directors are democratically elected by their members #8211; an unusual governance structure that poses challenges for board effectiveness. We find that board remuneration, board expertise and attendance at meetings are associated with increased credit&#8208;union performance and are consistent with the goal of maximising member benefits. While the unique features of credit unions limit the presence of external monitoring mechanisms, we provide evidence that these board characteristics are relevant for credit unions.", "corpus_id": 158285029, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Luisa Unda", "Kamran Ahmed", "Paul R Mather" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219344443", "title": "Board Characteristics and Financial Reporting", "abstract": "The past corporate accounting scandals have left the accounting profession in doubts of its integrity and relevance. Against this backdrop, we investigated the impact of board characteristics on financial reporting quality of listed manufacturing firms. The study was driven by the positivist research philosophy and a deductive research approach using a multi method quantitative research design. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to summarize the data and to draw inference on the population studied. We employed the Generalized Linear Model Regression in testing the hypotheses stated. Findings revealed that board expertise was statistically significant and positively related to financial reporting quality at 5% level of significance, while board independence and board diversity was found to be insignificantly related to financial reporting quality at 5% level of significance. The study concluded that board characteristics partially affect financial reporting quality. Hence, we recommended that non executive directors on the board should be reduced to cut excessive management cost.", "corpus_id": 219344443, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hope Osayantin Aifuwa", "Keme Embele" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158714741", "title": "Do board characteristics affect bank performance? Evidence from the Bahrain Islamic banks", "abstract": "Purpose Although most previous studies interested in Islamic banks have focused on quantitative aspects such as performance, risk and stability, this paper aims to deal with the institutional dimension and focus precisely on the link between board characteristics and bank performance. Design/methodology/approach Based on a data related to 13 banks in Bahrain observed over the period of 2005 2011, this study investigates the impact of board directors on the level of performance. To this end, the authors have used two empirical approaches. The first one is the panel data analysis with regard to random effect (RE) regression. The second one is the generalized method of moments (GMM) in system, which checked the soundness of the first result. Findings The result of RE regression indicates that the board duality is positively and significantly correlated with the bank performance for both ROA (return on assets) and ROE (return on equity) However, the board size exerts a positive and significant impact only when profitability is measured by ROE. The authors find that regression with GMM in system confirms the RE result exclusively for ROE. Findings also indicate that a financial crisis exerts a negative but not significant effect on bank performance. Practical implications These findings are relevant to both policymakers and regulators. Islamic banks in Bahrain should grant more importance to the structure and the quality of the board to improve their performance. Originality/value This study aims to extend the existing literature by focusing about the role of the Shariah board in bank performance.", "corpus_id": 158714741, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Abdelaziz Hakimi", "Houssem Rachdi", "Rim Ben Selma Mokni", "Houda Hssini" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "144940128", "title": "Exploring the Relationship Between Board Characteristics and CSR: Empirical Evidence from Korea", "abstract": "Previous studies in Western contexts have examined the relationships between various board characteristics and CSR, yet the relationships need to be re examined in non Western contexts given differential theoretical premises across contexts. We specifically propose that the effects of board characteristics on CSR in Korea should be patterned distinctively from Western based existing literature, focusing on three important board characteristics, such as a board's independence, social ties, and diversity. Using a panel dataset from large Korean firms, we found that various relationships between board characteristics and CSR were non linear, whereas most of the previous research on Western contexts found that the same relationships were linear. Specifically, curvilinear relationships were found between CSR and board independence (i.e. exponentially growing shape) CEO outside director social ties (i.e. inverted U shape) and educational diversity (i.e. U shape) Our findings suggest that there is no universal feature of CSR supportive board characteristics due to the unique characteristics of various institutional contexts.", "corpus_id": 144940128, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Young Kyun Chang", "Won-yong Oh", "Jee Hyun Park", "Myoung-Gyun Jang" ], "n_citations": 122, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158123436", "title": "Board characteristics and firm value for Indian companies", "abstract": "Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between board characteristics and firm performance for Indian companies. Design/methodology/approach Corporate governance structures of 391 Indian companies out of CNX 500 companies listed on National Stock Exchange have been studied for their impact on performance of companies. Panel data regression methodology has been used on data for five financial years from 2010 to 2014 for the selected companies. Performance measures considered are market based measure (Tobin's Q) and accounting based measure (return on asset [ROA] Findings The empirical findings indicate that the market based measure (Tobin's Q) is more impacted by corporate governance than the accounting based measure (ROA) There is a significant positive association between board size and firm performance. Board independence is found significantly related to firm performance. Number of board meetings is found to be sending positive signal to the market creating firm value. Separation of chief executive officer and chairman of the board is found to be value creating, and overburdened directors affect firm performance adversely. Research limitations/implications Limitations of the study are in terms of methodology and possible omission of some variables. It is understood that the qualitative dynamics happening inside board meetings impact corporate performance. The strategic decision making process adopted by the boards to fight competition or to increase market share is not easily available in public domain. The decision making processes and monitoring for implementation of those decisions could impact corporate governance performance relationship. These parameters and their impact on corporate performance are not covered under the scope of the present study. Originality/value The paper adds to the emerging body of literature on corporate governance performance relationship in the Indian context by using a reasonably wider and newer data set.", "corpus_id": 158123436, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Rakesh Kumar Mishra", "Sheeba Kapil" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "225253921", "title": "Affective field during collaborative problem posing and problem solving: a case study", "abstract": "Educators in mathematics have long been concerned about students' motivation, anxiety, and other affective characteristics. Typically, research into affect focuses on one theoretical construct (e.g. emotion, motivation, beliefs, or interest) However, we introduce the term affective field to account for a person's various affective factors (emotions, attitudes, etc. in their intraplay. In a case study, we use data from an extracurricular, inquiry oriented collaborative problem posing and problem solving (PP&PS) program, which took place as a 1 year project with four upper secondary school students in Sweden (aged 16 18) We investigated the affective field of one student, Anna, in its social and dynamic nature. The question addressed in this context is: In what ways does an affective field of a student engaging in PP&PS evolve, and what may be explanations for this evolvement? Anna's affective field was dynamic over the course of the program. Her initial anxiety during the PP&PS program was rooted in her prior affective field about mathematics activities, but group collaboration, the feeling of safety and appreciation, together with an increased interest in within solution PP and openness for trying new things went hand in hand with positive dynamics in her affective field.", "corpus_id": 225253921, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Maike Schindler", "Arthur Bakker" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "228978742", "title": "Collaborative Problem based Learning: An Analysis of Problem Solving Skills in Vocational Schools", "abstract": "This study aims to analyze the effect of using Collaborative Problem Based Learning (CPBL) on students' problem solving skills. This study used a 2x2 factorial design, in which the selection of experimental and control groups was determined with convenience sampling. The data analysis technique of this research is divided into two types, namely the prerequisite analysis test and hypothesis testing. The findings of this study concluded that students who studied with CPBL had significantly higher problem solving skills than students who studied with Direct Instruction (DI) In addition, high problem solving skills were generally owned by students with high initial skills. Meanwhile, the complete the results of the hypothesis test this study also showed a significant interaction between the learning model and initial skills on students' problem solving skills in internal combustion motor competences. This shows that the selection of the right learning model is needed according to the initial skills of students so that problem solving skills can be adequately developed. Thus, it is hoped that vocational school students can become graduates who can compete in the world of work.", "corpus_id": 228978742, "venue": "IJORER International Journal of Recent Educational Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "", "Husni Mubarok", "Abebayehu Yohannes" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "149529761", "title": "Exploring social and cognitive dimensions of collaborative problem solving in an open online simulation based task", "abstract": "Abstract Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a complex construct comprised of skills associated with social and cognitive dimensions. The diverse set of skills within these dimensions make CPS difficult to measure. Typically, research on measuring CPS has used highly constrained environments that help narrow the problem space. In the current study, we applied the in task assessment framework to support the exploration of CPS skills at a deep level in an open digital environment in which three students worked together to solve an electronics problem. The construct of CPS was defined in depth prior to the implementation of the environment through the development of a complex, hierarchical ontology. The features from the ontology were identified in the data and four theoretically grounded profiles of types of collaborative problem solvers were produced high social/high cognitive, high social/low cognitive, low social/high cognitive, and low social/low cognitive. Results showed that students in the low social/low cognitive profile group demonstrated poorer performance than students in other profile groups. Further, having at least one high social/high cognitive member in a team facilitated performance. This study offers groundwork for future studies in measuring CPS with an approach suitable for less constrained collaborative environments.", "corpus_id": 149529761, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jessica Andrews-Todd", "Carol Forsyth" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150299872", "title": "The assessment of collaborative problem solving in PISA 2015: Can computer agents replace humans?", "abstract": "Abstract Despite the relevance of collaborative problem solving (CPS) there are limited empirical results on the assessment of CPS. In 2015, the large scale Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) first assessed CPS with virtual tasks requiring participants to collaborate with computer simulated agents (human to agent; H A) The approach created dynamic CPS situations while standardizing assessment conditions across participating countries. However, H A approaches are sometimes regarded as poor substitutes for natural collaboration, and only a few studies have identified if the collaborations with agents capture real dynamics of human interactions. To address this, we validated the original PISA 2015 CPS assessment by investigating the effects of replacing computer agents with real students in classroom tests (human to human; H H) We obtained the original PISA 2015 CPS tasks from the OECD and replaced agents with real students to provide more real life collaboration environments with less control over conversations; the H H was less constrained than the H A but still limited by predefined sets of possible answers from which the humans' would make selections. The interface remained nearly identical to the original PISA 2015 CPS assessment. Students were told the types of collaboration partners, namely humans versus agents. We applied structural equation modeling and multivariate analyses of variance to a sample of 386 students to identify the dimensionality of the CPS construct and compared the effects in CPS performance accuracy and number of behavioral actions. Results indicated no significant differences between type of collaboration partner. However, students performed a larger number of actions when collaborating with a human agent.", "corpus_id": 150299872, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Katharina Herborn", "Matthias Stadler", "Maida Mustafic", "Samuel Greiff" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "201879412", "title": "Towards a generalized competency model of collaborative problem solving", "abstract": "Abstract Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is an essential skill in the 21st century. There is a need for an appropriate framework and operationalization of CPS to guide its assessment and support and across multiple domains. Accordingly, we synthesized prior research on CPS to construct a generalized CPS competency model (i.e. skills and abilities) consisting of the following core facets: constructing shared knowledge, negotiation/coordination, and maintaining team function. Each facet has two sub facets, which in turn, have multiple verbal and nonverbal indicators. We validated our model in two empirical studies involving triadic CPS, but in very different contexts middle school students playing an educational game in a 3 h, face to face session vs. college students engaging in a visual programming task for 20 min via videoconferencing. We used principal component analysis to investigate whether the empirical data aligned with our theorized model. Correlational analyses provided evidence on the orthogonality of the facets and their independence to individual differences in prior knowledge, intelligence and personality and regression analyses indicated that the facets predicted both subjective and objective outcome measures controlling for several covariates. Thus we provide initial evidence for the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of our model by using two different CPS contexts and student populations. This shows promise towards generalizing across various human human CPS interactive environments.", "corpus_id": 201879412, "venue": "Comput. Educ.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chen Sun", "Valerie J Shute", "Angela E B Stewart", "Jade Yonehiro", "Nicholas D Duran", "Sidney K D'Mello" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212688208", "title": "Focused or stuck together: multimodal patterns reveal triads' performance in collaborative problem solving", "abstract": "Collaborative problem solving (CPS) in virtual environments is an increasingly important context of 21st century learning. However, our understanding of this complex and dynamic phenomenon is still limited. Here, we examine unimodal primitives (activity on the screen, speech, and body movements) and their multimodal combinations during remote CPS. We analyze two datasets where 116 triads collaboratively engaged in a challenging visual programming task using video conferencing software. We investigate how UI interactions, behavioral primitives, and multimodal patterns were associated with teams' subjective and objective performance outcomes. We found that idling with limited speech (i.e. silence or backchannel feedback only) and without movement was negatively correlated with task performance and with participants' subjective perceptions of the collaboration. However, being silent and focused during solution execution was positively correlated with task performance. Results illustrate that in some cases, multimodal patterns improved the predictions and improved explanatory power over the unimodal primitives. We discuss how the findings can inform the design of real time interventions for remote CPS.", "corpus_id": 212688208, "venue": "LAK", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Hana Vrzakova", "Mary Jean Amon", "Angela E B Stewart", "Nicholas D Duran", "Sidney K D'Mello" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149976299", "title": "Monitoring patterns of social and cognitive student behaviors in online collaborative problem solving assessments", "abstract": "Abstract Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a complex skill composed of multiple subskills. While there are several definitions and frameworks for the measurement of CPS, the relationships between the subskills remain unclear. Understanding these relationships can have a direct impact on how assessments are designed, how the measures are developed, and how teaching interventions are planned. The approach outlined here represents use of an inference model in assessment rather than a model in which direct responses to questions with correct and incorrect responses are used to identify abilities. Inferences about capabilities are made based on student behaviors in an online environment as represented through log files generated during test administration. In this study, identified behaviors are common across student, CPS task and assessment. Through the application of an Item Response Theory model, the behaviors can be evaluated much like items on a traditional test. In comparing the difficulty and ordering of items, differences and similarities for each behavior within and across assessments can be examined. This paper presents findings from data collected from over 3000 students that identifies shifts in patterns of student behaviors. The patterns across students, during testing, and across testing situations for CPS subskills such as negotiation, responsiveness, perseverance and communication are presented and discussed. The extent to which assessment design differences between assessments may lead to differences in how students respond to them are highlighted.", "corpus_id": 149976299, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Claire Scoular", "Esther Care" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150309291", "title": "Assessing individual contributions to Collaborative Problem Solving: A network analysis approach", "abstract": "Abstract Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) is an interactive, interdependent, and temporal process. However, current methods for measuring the CPS processes of individuals, such as coding and counting, treat these processes as sets of isolated and independent events. In contrast, Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) models how the contributions of a given individual relate to the contributions of others. This article examines the communications of air defense warfare teams from an experiment comparing two different computer based decision support systems, using this data to ask whether ENA provides a more ecologically valid quantitative model of CPS than coding and counting. Qualitative analysis showed that commanders using one system asked questions to understand the tactical situation, while commanders using an experimental system focused more on actions in response to the tactical situation. Neither of the coding and counting approaches we tested corroborated these findings with statistically significant results. In contrast, ENA created models of the individual contributions of commanders that (a) showed statistical differences between commanders using the two systems to corroborate the qualitative analysis, and (b) revealed differences in individual performance. This suggests that ENA is a more powerful tool for CPS assessment than coding and counting approaches.", "corpus_id": 150309291, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zachari Swiecki", "Andrew R Ruis", "Cayley Farrell", "David Williamson Shaffer" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214231345", "title": "Exploring Factors that Influence Collaborative Problem Solving Awareness in Science Education", "abstract": "This study designed a science course following collaborative problem solving (CPS) processes, and examined the effect on students' CPS awareness. The Limnic Eruption CPS course was implemented using a Moodle system in a tenth grade class. Considering the complex and coordinated nature of CPS, in order to improve CPS skills, it is important to identify what are related with the development of all sub skills of CPS. Thus this study aimed to determine potential factors that affect the use of CPS skills in students' motivational and behavioral dimensions. Multiple data sources including learning tests, questionnaire feedback, and learning logs were collected and examined by learning analytics approach. The relationships between students' CPS awareness with their learning motivation and learning behaviors were explored. The research findings indicated a significant positive correlation between CPS awareness and certain learning motivation factors and learning behavior factors. Considering the students' individual differences in learning abilities, we also compared the results of high and low performance groups. As a result, low performers' learning motivation and learning behaviors were correlated with the social domain of CPS awareness, while those of high performers were correlated with their cognitive awareness.", "corpus_id": 214231345, "venue": "Technol. Knowl. Learn.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Li'e Chen", "Koichi Inoue", "Yoshiko Goda", "Fumiya Okubo", "Yuta Taniguchi", "Misato Oi", "Shin'ichi Konomi", "Hiroaki Ogata", "Masanori Yamada" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "86593564", "title": "Incorporation of Collaborative Problem Solving and Cognitive Tools to Improve Higher Cognitive Processing in Online Discussion Environments", "abstract": "During collaborative learning in online learning communities, teachers usually guide their students through the learning process by means of discussion based didactics. According to relevant research, an uncontrolled, nonintrusive discussion environment is usually insufficient for promoting higher cognitive processing (HCP) To address this insufficiency, we adopted a collaborative problem solving approach as a teaching strategy to tutor students in online discussion activities using concept maps as a cognitive tool and using Facebook for communication within the learning community. We examined the system using quantitative content analysis and lag sequential analysis to verify the feasibility of the system for improving HCP. The results of this study indicate that the system is capable of guiding cognition and improving HCP. However, the results with respect to improvement must be evaluated after taking into account the appropriateness and difficulty of the questions that were posed to the learners. Moreover, by incorporating a scaffolding function as a teaching strategy and through the application of cognitive tools, learners were better able to concentrate on the learning activities.", "corpus_id": 86593564, "venue": "Journal of Educational Computing Research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sheng-Yi Wu" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "225408222", "title": "Corporate governance: five factor theory based financial fraud identification", "abstract": "Abstract The frequent occurrences of financial fraud in listed companies have had a serious impact on the stable development of the capital market. The Chinese company, Luckin Coffee, listed in the USA, recently confessed to fabricating transactions worth RMB2.2 billion and has received a delisting notice from NASDAQ. It can be seen that the detection and analysis of financial fraud behavior is very important not only for the internal governance of companies and for their external investors but also for regulatory agencies. This article uses a research method combining normative analysis with empirical research, utilizes a targeted selection of data from the listed companies penalized due to fictitious profits, uses the CRIME theory as the basis for normative analysis, and establishes a financial fraud identification model by means of empirical analysis. Finally, based on the research results of this article, we propose rational governance measures for countering the problems of fraud in financial statements of listed companies.", "corpus_id": 225408222, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mengshuang Du" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229279641", "title": "The strategy and financial analysis of Luckin Coffee", "abstract": "Luckin breaks through the traditional mode and creates the miracle of the new retail mode of coffee.We analyze this new retail mode from different aspects: LuckinYe s operating strategy, competitor, SWOT analysis and so on, and we also give some suggestions that can help Luckin deal with some potential problems and seize the opportunity.", "corpus_id": 229279641, "venue": "Economics and Management Science", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ming Chao Yang", "Yinghan Lv" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212723430", "title": "Research on Financial Analysis of Luckin Coffee", "abstract": "Choosing Luckin Coffee as the research object, this paper analyzed its financial statements. More specifically, it stated the solvency, the operating ability, the profitability and the development ability of Luckin Coffeein detail. It is found that the advantages and disadvantages of Luckin Coffee can lead to some typical attributes, including the corporate profitability low in potential and efficiency, high development cost, the high risk of short term debt. This paper also put forward several strategies to settle these problems, targeting in improving the future financial benefit of the enterprise.", "corpus_id": 212723430, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Menghao Wang" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225799848", "title": "The Story of Luckin", "abstract": "In the early 21st century, China is labeled as fake and counterfeit by people around the world. But with the emergence of a series of Chinese companies in the world, people are starting to change their minds about Chinese companies. Although some companies are not very good, some powerful companies such as Alibaba still shock investors in the world. However, Luckin's financial fraud has ignited doubts about the Chinese concept stocks, and this time we mainly analyze the business logic and outlet of the company.", "corpus_id": 225799848, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "yongyuan qu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "13817933", "title": "Big Five Audits and Accounting Fraud", "abstract": "Empirical studies of earnings management, audit pricing, and audit reporting provide extensive evidence that the Big Five public accounting firms are associated with higher quality financial statements (Francis 2004) Nevertheless, the recent high profile financial reporting failures that roiled the U.S. capital markets cast doubt on whether this proposition remains valid. Indeed, many commentators interpret the steep upward trend during the late 1990s and early 2000s in accounting misstatements by companies with Big Five auditors as almost conclusive evidence that their assurance services have deteriorated over time (e.g. Coffee 2002; Imhoff 2003; Zeff 2003) Measuring trends in absolute audit quality is typically infeasible, so we more narrowly focus on discriminating between the relative performance of the Big Five and non Big Five audit firms in preventing companies from orchestrating accounting fraud. Contrary to recent criticisms of the Big Five firms, we provide compelling evidence that they were consistently associated with a lower incidence of accounting fraud, even in the years shortly prior to the sweeping corporate governance reforms. Moreover, this finding is robust to controlling for the endogenous effects of screening by audit firms and selection by their clients.", "corpus_id": 13817933, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Clive Lennox", "Jeffrey A Pittman" ], "n_citations": 324, "n_key_citations": 21, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "73669245", "title": "Can John Coffee Rescue the Private Attorney General? Lessons from the Credit Card Wars", "abstract": "Partisans on one side of the class action debates argue that the class device is a critical enforcement tool that increases much needed access to justice. Combatants on the other side scoff that class actions are tools for shaking down corporations for settlement payments and attorneys' fees in unmeritorious cases. In his most recent book, Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall and Future, John C. Coffee puts both sides in their place, providing an account that, he aptly tells us, \"has long been missing in the literature, in large part because academics writing in this area either have been so ideologically committed to the private attorney general concept or so implacably opposed to it\" that they've failed to fully examine its consequences. If it is a virtue of the class device that it can aggregate a large number of small interests and that surely is a virtue for Coffee then a corresponding detriment is that the named plaintiffs' interests are too small to warrant any substantial investment in monitoring the lawyers. And for Coffee, the predictable result is what he terms \"abusive litigation\" the attempt by lawyers to leverage the scale of class cases to coerce unwarranted settlements. Reform, according to Coffee, \"requires that the merits need to matter more.\" To ensure that plaintiffs' counsel make investment decisions based on case merit, rather than exploitable cost asymmetries, Coffee would have lawyers assume a measure of financial responsibility for the fees and expenses incurred in unmeritorious actions. This book review assumes that Professor Coffee's proposals would solve the \"abusive litigation problem,\" and then examines, in this hypothetical post reform world, how we really regard the private attorney general model that is at the core of class actions. The inquiry focuses on consequential class cases that seek structural institutional reform through injunctive relief, because it is mandatory non opt out class claims under Rule 23(b)(2) that bring into starkest relief concerns about the assumption of power by private actors. And the ongoing Payment Card class actions brought by merchants against Visa, MasterCard and American Express (the author's extraordinary personal connection to which is disclosed in the essay) form an almost perfect laboratory for examining these issues. This essay explores concerns with self nominated class counsel assuming public functions including, for example, the negotiation of rules that bind entire industries and the prosecution of cases that public enforcers have affirmatively elected not to pursue. And centrally, this essay investigates the unease that the traditional bar and commentariat feel with the on the ground, actual practice of complex class litigation. We are afforded a rare backstage pass to observe these practices because of the extraordinary fact that a Willkie Farr partner was arrested for perpetrating an unrelated fraud upon her client, MasterCard, leading to the disclosure of thousands of emails, including many with plaintiffs' lead counsel in the Amex case. And the reactions of all concerned to those unvarnished communications illustrate a high impact collision of realism and formalism. The realist, emblemized by John Coffee, asks what the entrepreneurial lawyer actually does and why and, in this case, would find a lawyer intent on achieving industrial reform for his clients, practicing all the politics and diplomacy necessary to get there. The formalist, embodied here by the district judge in the Amex case, relies on ex ante rules and precepts regarding proper lawyer comportment, in order to obviate nettlesome ex post inquiry into whether the attorney has indeed rendered loyal and able service to his principal. Professor Coffee may yet solve the abusive litigation problem. But even so, deep skepticism of the private attorney general model born of long experience with abusive litigation will surely persist, vestigial, like a phantom limb.", "corpus_id": 73669245, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Myriam E Gilles" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "154644137", "title": "A Theory of Corporate Scandals: Why the U.S. And Europe Differ", "abstract": "A wave of financial irregularity in the USA in 2001 2 culminated in the Sarbanes Oxley Act. A worldwide stockmarket bubble burst over this same period, with the actual market decline being proportionately more severe in Europe. Yet, no corresponding wave of financial scandals involving a similar level of companies occurred in Europe. Given the higher level of public and private enforcement in the USA for securities fraud, this contrast seems perplexing. This paper submits that different kinds of scandals characterize different systems of corporate governance. In particular, dispersed ownership systems of governance are prone to the forms of earnings management that erupted in the USA, but concentrated ownership systems are much less vulnerable. Instead, the characteristic scandal in such systems is the appropriation of private benefits of control. This paper suggests that this difference in the likely source of, and motive for, financial misconduct has implications both for the utility of gatekeepers as reputational intermediaries and for design of legal controls to protect public shareholders. The difficulty in achieving auditor independence in a corporation with a controlling shareholder may also imply that minority shareholders in concentrated ownership economies should directly select their own gatekeepers. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.", "corpus_id": 154644137, "venue": "", "year": 2005, "author_names": [ "John C Coffee" ], "n_citations": 296, "n_key_citations": 21, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "14586491", "title": "MVE 220 Financial Risk Reading Project WorldCom", "abstract": "To write this report both members of the group have contributed equally. Conclusions were made through discussion within the group. Introduction The story of WorldCom started with a plan on how to create a long distance telephone service provider, sketched on a napkin in a coffee shop back in 1983. The company started out as Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) the following year, and grew through acquisitions and mergers into United State's second largest long distance telephone company by the end of the 20th century. With a worldwide presence it seemed poised to become one of the world largest telecommunications corporations. Instead, it filed the largest bankruptcy, of some $79.5bn, in the U.S. history at the time. The question is then how could this happen and why did it happen? There are of course several key factors leading up to the huge amount of money filed in the bankruptcy, and these will be discussed here. From Nothing to Everything It all started back in 1984 when the LDDS was founded, in the following year, the CEO up to the bankruptcy, Mr Bernhard Ebbers was appointed. [1] Described as likable and colorful by supporters and greedy and incompetent by others [2] he will play part of the upcoming ruin of WorldCom. But at the time he helped LDDS grow into a huge worldwide renowned company, renamed to WorldCom in the early 1990's. He managed this by pursuing an aggressive policy of mergers and acquisitions. The 1990's were a time of growth and immense expansion in many areas, but especially the telephone and internet traffic, which were the main areas of focus for WorldCom. A capacity planner at WorldCom, Tom Stluka, created a model to predict the growth of the traffic handled by WorldCom. However, his model was a best case scenario, which suggested that the total internet traffic would double every 100 days. For reasons unknown, this model ended up at top of the company, and they chose to believe in the model. Therefore WorldCom went through with not less than 65 acquisitions and mergers during a seven year period from 1991 to 1997. These deals cost WorldCom almost $60 billion, and at the same time, accumulating a debt of $41 billion. [3] These sums are huge, and in order to live through these kinds of investments there has to be a good coordination and integration between new parts and old parts of the company this was not the case at WorldCom. Instead of actually integrating the assets, so expensively purchased, profit was created through sketchy bookkeeping and accounting fraud. This will be covered more extensively shortly, but first a short digression about the relation between Mr. Ebbers and a telecommunication analyst at the brokerage Solomon Smith Barney,", "corpus_id": 14586491, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Daniel Pettersson", "Zoran Maracic" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "167451728", "title": "Reforming the Securities Class Action: An Essay on Deterrence and its Implementation", "abstract": "The securities class action cannot be justified in terms of compensation, but only in terms of deterrence. Currently, the damages recovered through private enforcement dwarf the financial penalties levied by public enforcement. Yet, the evidence is clear that corporate officers and insiders rarely contribute to securities class action settlements, with the settlement funds coming instead from the corporation and its insurers. As a result, the cost of such actions in the aggregate falls on largely diversified shareholders. Such a system is akin to punishing the victims of burglary for their negligence in suffering a burglary and does little to deter corporate officials who have private motives for engaging in securities fraud. The present structure of securities class actions benefits a trio of interest groups corporate officials, plaintiff's attorneys, and insurers but not shareholders. To reform the securities class action and give it a true deterrent orientation, this article proposes a variety of steps none requiring legislation or the reversal of well established precedents to shift the costs of the securities class action to the culpable. These steps proceed from the twin premises that (1) the settlement of a securities class action is a conflict of interest transaction requiring independent directors to exercise oversight over the allocation process, and (2) enterprise liability is an ineffective approach for misconduct that is privately motivated and easily concealed. To incentivize private enforcers, a basic change in the judicial approach to attorney's fees is proposed.", "corpus_id": 167451728, "venue": "", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "", "C John" ], "n_citations": 165, "n_key_citations": 15, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "154790588", "title": "The Development of Securities Law in the United States", "abstract": "Given the existence of contract, property, fraud, and company law, what is the purpose of securities laws? Broadly speaking, they can serve either of two functions, or some mix of both. The first is to facilitate contracting among entrepreneurs, managers, shareholders, and financial intermediaries by providing a standardized set of rights and obligations (La Porta et al. 2005) Such laws are motivated by the desire to reduce transaction costs where contracting parties are widely dispersed and both writing complete contracts ex ante and renegotiating ex post are difficult. A second possible function is to restrict contracting by limiting the set of legally available terms. Such laws reflect the view that securities markets are beset by market failures stemming from externalities or investor irrationality (Coffee 1984; Fox 1999; Langevoort 2002) For the sake of simplicity, we can call the first a \"contracting\" paradigm and the second a \"regulatory\" paradigm.", "corpus_id": 154790588, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Paul G Mahoney" ], "n_citations": 83, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "49484260", "title": "A phenomenological research study: Perspectives of student learning through small group work between undergraduate nursing students and educators.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Small group work is an effective teaching learning approach in nursing education to enhance students' learning in theoretical knowledge and skill development. Despite its potential advantageous effects on learning, little is known about its actual effects on students' learning from students' and educators' perspectives. OBJECTIVES To understand students' learning through small group work from the perspectives of students and educators. DESIGN A qualitative study with focus group interviews was carried out. METHODS Semi structured interviews with open ended questions were performed with 13 undergraduate nursing students and 10 educators. RESULTS Four main themes, \"initiative learning\" \"empowerment of interactive group dynamics\" \"factors for creating effective learning environment\" and \"barriers influencing students' learning\" were derived regarding students' learning in small group work based on the perspectives of the participants. The results showed the importance of learning attitudes of students in individual and group learning. Factors for creating an effective learning environment, including preference for forming groups, effective group size, and adequacy of discussion, facilitate students' learning with the enhancement of learning engagement in small group work. The identified barriers, such as \"excessive group work\" \"conflicts\" and \"passive team members\" can reduce students' motivation and enjoyment of learning. CONCLUSION Small group work is recognized as an effective teaching method for knowledge enhancement and skill development in nursing education. All identified themes are important to understand the initiatives of students and group learning, factors influencing an effective learning environment, and barriers hindering students' learning. Nurse educators should pay more attention to the factors that influence an effective learning environment and reduce students' commitment and group dynamics. Moreover, students may need further support to reduce barriers that impede students' learning motivation and enjoyment.", "corpus_id": 49484260, "venue": "Nurse education today", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Florence Mei Fung Wong" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "41042084", "title": "Collaborative group work: Effects of group size and assignment structure on learning gain, student satisfaction and perceived participation", "abstract": "Background: Collaborative group sessions in Nijmegen include 15 students who work all together on a group assignment. Sometimes, the group is split up in three and every subgroup elaborates a part of the assignment. At the end, they peer teach each other. It is believed that the split up enhances participation and therefore learning gain. Aims: To establish the effect of group size and structure of the assignment on the perceived participation, the satisfaction and learning gain of collaborative group sessions. Methods: In this study, 27 groups of 15 students were equally divided into: A group: all 15 students working on the complete assignment. B group: subgroups of 5 students working on the complete assignment. C group: subgroups of 5 students working on a smaller part, and peer teaching each other at the end of the group session. All students took a pre test, a post test and a follow up test and completed a questionnaire. Questionnaires were analyzed with a one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc by multiple comparisons. Learning gain was analyzed using a repeated measures ANOVA. Results: A group size effect is observed in favor of working in subgroups. Perceived participation of the students differs between A and B (p 0.001) and between A and C (p 0.001) but not between B and C. Also, an assignment effect is found in favor of the smaller assignment combined with peer teaching. The students' satisfaction differs between A and C (p 0.003) and between B and C (p 0.001) but not between A and B. The C group also shows higher test results (p 0.043) Conclusions: The students prefer smaller groups as well as smaller assignments including peer teaching. A possible larger learning gain of this format needs to be re investigated.", "corpus_id": 41042084, "venue": "Medical teacher", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "J G M Kooloos", "Tim Klaassen", "Mayke W C Vereijken", "Sascha van Kuppeveld", "Sanneke M Bolhuis", "Marc A T M Vorstenbosch" ], "n_citations": 55, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "147526288", "title": "Teachers' self efficacy in 14 OECD countries: Teacher, student group, school and leadership effects", "abstract": "Abstract Going beyond previous studies of Teacher Self Efficacy (TSE) we investigated the effects of personal characteristics, student group and school contextual features, and leadership effects on teachers' self efficacy among 44,701 teachers in 2648 schools in 14 OECD countries (in the TALIS 2007 dataset) 88.7% of the variance in TSE resided between teachers, 2.9% between schools, and 8.5% between countries. Going beyond previous single country studies, we show that students' achievement and SES are relevant internationally. Furthermore, the principal's work experience and the leadership style were significant predictors of TSE, and thus suggest a new direction for research in TSE.", "corpus_id": 147526288, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Sina Fackler", "Lars-Erik Malmberg" ], "n_citations": 85, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "141519017", "title": "Improving Student Confidence in Using Group Work Standards", "abstract": "Objective: This is a replication of a study that examined the effects of teaching foundation competencies in group work to social work students and assessed their self confidence in applying these skills. This study improves on the first by utilizing a controlled design. Method: Twenty six master of social work students were taught group work competencies derived from the International Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups' (IASWG) Standards for Social Work Practice with Groups using didactic activities and micro skill exercises. Students were assessed 4 times on their confidence in group work competencies using a validated 70 item inventory. Group work skills were divided into three blocks and taught successively in an abbreviated multiple baseline design. Results: The t tests indicated significant increases in confidence ratings after training on the respective skills but not before skills training. Conclusion: The results provide additional support for the effectiveness of the teaching approach in building student confidence in using IASWG Standards.", "corpus_id": 141519017, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Mark Macgowan", "Stephen E Wong" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "144661854", "title": "Assessing the reliability of self and peer rating in student group work", "abstract": "Peer and self ratings have been strongly recommended as the means to adjust individual contributions to group work. To evaluate the quality of student ratings, previous research has primarily explored the validity of these ratings, as indicated by the degree of agreement between student and teacher ratings. This research describes a Generalizability Theory framework to evaluate the reliability of student ratings in terms of the degree of consistency among students themselves, as well as group and rater effects. Ratings from two group projects are analyzed to illustrate how this method can be applied. The reliability of student ratings differs for the two group projects considered in this research. While a strong group effect is present in both projects, the rater effect is different. Implications of this research for classroom assessment practice are discussed.", "corpus_id": 144661854, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Bo Zhang", "Lucy Johnston", "Gulsen Bagci Kilic" ], "n_citations": 57, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "151795423", "title": "Groups That Work: Student Achievement in Group Research Projects and Effects on Individual Learning", "abstract": "Group research projects frequently are used to teach undergraduate research methods. This study uses multivariate analyses to examine the characteristics of higher achieving groups (those that earn higher grades on group research projects) and to estimate the effects of participating in higher achieving groups on subsequent individual learning (grade on final paper) The sample includes 257 students who completed a sociology research methods course at a small liberal arts institution between 2004 and 2015. Group achievement (grade on group research project) is predicted by group size, gender composition of the group, and group's average grade on midterm exams. Group achievement on the research project contributes to subsequent individual learning (grade on final paper) even after controlling for individual characteristics (student's gender, race, and average grade on midterm exams) and group characteristics. The findings support claims that group research projects are an effective pedagogy for undergraduate sociology research methods courses and point to some guidelines for instructors' composition of groups for research projects.", "corpus_id": 151795423, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Renee A Monson" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "67808737", "title": "The Effects of Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) on Motivation of Saudi EFL Adult Learners", "abstract": "Students Teams Achievement Division (STAD) is a cooperative learning strategy in which learners work in heterogeneous groups to achieve a common goal. It has been widely used in teaching different subject areas under different settings. This study aimed at investigating the effects of STAD on motivation of Saudi EFL learners. Two intact groups of 1st semester students were selected. One group worked as the experimental group and the other one as the control group. A questionnaire was administered to both groups at the beginning of the semester. The experimental group was taught with STAD whereas the control group was taught with the traditional whole class teacher fronted method. The treatment was administered for two weeks. The same questionnaire was re administered after the treatment. The data was analyzed using independent samples t test. Findings revealed that there was no significant difference (p 0.36 0.05) between the experimental and the control groups in terms of motivation. Keywords: Cooperative learning; Motivation; Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD)", "corpus_id": 67808737, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Muhammad Ishtiaq", "M Salem", "Zuraina Ali" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "58643162", "title": "The effects of computer based simulations on speech language pathology student performance.", "abstract": "PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of a computer based simulated learning environment on student learning in speech language pathology. Despite a growing trend in the implementation of computer based simulated learning environments, no research yet supports its efficacy. In addition, although over half of the United States' speech language pathologists work in school systems, no studies have investigated simulated learning environments that focus on pediatric developmental language disorders as the disorder to be exemplified by the simulations. METHOD Four different cohorts of students (103 total students) received either a traditional learning experience or a computer based simulation experience in a graduate level school aged language disorders course. Groups were equivalent in academic performance and pre experimental knowledge. Pre and post experimental measures of learning were obtained. RESULTS Findings demonstrated that the group that was involved with the simulated learning environment outperformed the traditional instruction group in several key areas associated with clinically based educational outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Simulated learning environments continue to be a positive innovation in the clinical education of speech language pathology students. Implications potentially affect educational models of speech language pathology.", "corpus_id": 58643162, "venue": "Journal of communication disorders", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Matthew D Carter" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13678594", "title": "Effects of Discovery, Iteration, and Collaboration in Laboratory Courses on Undergraduates' Research Career Intentions Fully Mediated by Student Ownership", "abstract": "Course based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) provide a promising avenue to attract a larger and more diverse group of students into research careers. CUREs are thought to be distinctive in offering students opportunities to make discoveries, collaborate, engage in iterative work, and develop a sense of ownership of their lab course work. Yet how these elements affect students' intentions to pursue research related careers remain unexplored. To address this knowledge gap, we collected data on three design features thought to be distinctive of CUREs (discovery, iteration, collaboration) and on students' levels of ownership and career intentions from ~800 undergraduates who had completed CURE or inquiry courses, including courses from the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) which has a demonstrated positive effect on student retention in college and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We used structural equation modeling to test relationships among the design features and student ownership and career intentions. We found that discovery, iteration, and collaboration had small but significant effects on students' intentions; these effects were fully mediated by student ownership. Students in FRI courses reported significantly higher levels of discovery, iteration, and ownership than students in other CUREs. FRI research courses alone had a significant effect on students' career intentions.", "corpus_id": 13678594, "venue": "CBE life sciences education", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Lisa A Corwin", "Christopher Runyon", "Eman Ghanem", "Moriah Sandy", "Greg Clark", "Gregory C Palmer", "Stuart Reichler", "Stacia E Rodenbusch", "Erin L Dolan" ], "n_citations": 57, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "147586136", "title": "How to structure group work? Conditions of efficacy and methodological considerations in physical education", "abstract": "This article is grounded in social constructivist perspectives of learning: its purpose is to provide an overview of the 'Interactions Sociales et Acquisition' (ISA) [Social Interactions and Acquisition] French group's research that examines how a peer assisted learning (PAL) group context facilitates students' acquisition of motor and social skills in physical education (PE) Issues addressed include the pairing of students in dyads and how training them to endorse tutor and tutee roles facilitates students to work in small groups. The effects of peer interaction on social relations and the inclusion of students with special needs are also overviewed. Findings regarding the influence of student interactions on learning were derived using a variety of data collection methodologies, including quantitative data used to test the effectiveness of various interactive procedures and qualitative analyses of verbal protocols to better understand the interactive dynamics involved in such learning devices. The ISA work highlights the complementary value of both of these methodological approaches for studying group work effects. ISA findings suggest that PE teachers prepare students for functional interaction group work by taking into consideration the students' characteristics (like gender or desire for control) in the constitution of dyads and then effectively training the tutors to deliver the expected content. Cooperative learning (CL) contexts also provided a viable alternative for facilitating the inclusion of students with disabilities or those with lower initial skill levels.", "corpus_id": 147586136, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Lucile Lafont", "Camille Riviere", "Florence Darnis", "Pascal Legrain" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "209356621", "title": "Classification of Mammogram Images Using Multiscale all Convolutional Neural Network (MA CNN)", "abstract": "Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women in worldwide. Early diagnosis of breast cancer improves the chance of survival by aiding proper clinical treatments. The digital mammography examination helps in diagnosing the breast cancer at its earlier stage. In this paper, Multiscale All Convolutional Neural Network (MA CNN) is developed to assist the radiologist in diagnosing the breast cancer effectively. MA CNN is a convolutional neural network based approach that classifies mammogram images accurately. Convolutional neural networks are excellent in extracting the task specific features, since the feature learning is associated with classification task in order to attain the improved performance. The proposed approach automatically categorizes the mammographic images on mini MIAS dataset into normal, malignant and benign classes. This model improves the accuracy of the classification system by fusing the wider context of information using multiscale filters without negotiating the computation speed. Experimental results show that MA CNN is a powerful tool for diagnosing breast cancer by means of classifying the mammogram images with overall sensitivity of 96% and 0.99 AUC.", "corpus_id": 209356621, "venue": "Journal of Medical Systems", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "S Akila Agnes", "J Anitha", "S Immanuel Alex Pandian", "J Dinesh Peter" ], "n_citations": 23, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "27836074", "title": "A novel classification scheme to decline the mortality rate among women due to breast tumor", "abstract": "Early screening of skeptical masses or breast carcinomas in mammograms is supposed to decline the mortality rate among women. This amount can be decreased more on development of the computer aided diagnosis with reduction of false suppositions in medical informatics. Our aim is to provide a robust tumor detection system for accurate classification of breast masses using normal, abnormal, benign, or malignant classes. The breast carcinomas are classified on the basis of observed classes. This is highly dependent on feature extraction process. In propose work, a novel algorithm for classification based on the combination of top Hat transformation and gray level co occurrence matrix with back propagation neural network. The aim of this study is to present a robust classification model for automated diagnosis of the breast tumor with reduction of false assumptions in medical informatics. The proposed method is verified on two datasets MIAS and DDSM. It is observed that rate of false positives decreased by the proposed method to improve the performance of classification, efficiently.", "corpus_id": 27836074, "venue": "Microscopy research and technique", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Bushra Mughal", "Muhammad Sharif", "Nazeer Muhammad", "Tanzila Saba" ], "n_citations": 51, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "208030842", "title": "Intellectual detection and validation of automated mammogram breast cancer images by multi class SVM using deep learning classification", "abstract": "Abstract Breast cancer is an important cause of death in females. Early recognition of this disease with the assistance of mammography reduces the death rate. Deep learning (DL) is an approach being utilized and requested by radiologists to assist in making an accurate diagnosis, and it can help to improve outcome predictions. This paper includes a new approach, applied on the Mini MIAS dataset of 322 images, involving a pre processing method and inbuilt feature extraction using K means clustering for Speed Up Robust Features (SURF) selection. A new layer is added at the classification level, which carries out a ratio of 70% training to 30% testing of the deep neural network and Multiclass Support Vector Machine (MSVM) The outcome described herein demonstrates that the accuracy rate of the proposed automated DL method using K means clustering with MSVM is improved as compared with a decision tree model. Experimental results show that the average accuracy (ACC) rates of the three classes, i.e. normal, benign and malignant cancer, using the proposed method, are 95% 94% and 98% respectively. The increased sensitivity rate is 3% specificity is 2% and Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) area is 0.99 using SVM compared to the Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) and J48+K mean clustering WEKA manual approach. A 10 fold cross validation was used, and the obtained results for the Support Vector Machine (SVM) K nearest neighbour (KNN) linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and Decision Tree were 96.9% 93.8% 89.7% and 88.7% respectively.", "corpus_id": 208030842, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Prabhpreet Kaur", "Gurvinder Singh", "Parminder Kaur" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "86738983", "title": "Intellectual Detection and Validation of Automated Mammogram Breast Cancer Images by Multi Class SVM using Deep Learning Classification", "abstract": "Abstract Breast cancer is an important cause of death in females. Early recognition of this disease with the assistance of mammography reduces the death rate. Deep learning (DL) is an approach being utilized and requested by radiologists to assist in making an accurate diagnosis, and it can help to improve outcome predictions. This paper includes a new approach, applied on the Mini MIAS dataset of 322 images, involving a pre processing method and inbuilt feature extraction using K means clustering for Speed Up Robust Features (SURF) selection. A new layer is added at the classification level, which carries out a ratio of 70% training to 30% testing of the deep neural network and Multiclass Support Vector Machine (MSVM) The outcome described herein demonstrates that the accuracy rate of the proposed automated DL method using K means clustering with MSVM is improved as compared with a decision tree model. Experimental results show that the average accuracy (ACC) rates of the three classes, i.e. normal, benign and malignant cancer, using the proposed method, are 95% 94% and 98% respectively. The increased sensitivity rate is 3% specificity is 2% and Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) area is 0.99 using SVM compared to the Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) and J48+K mean clustering WEKA manual approach. A 10 fold cross validation was used, and the obtained results for the Support Vector Machine (SVM) K nearest neighbour (KNN) linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and Decision Tree were 96.9% 93.8% 89.7% and 88.7% respectively.", "corpus_id": 86738983, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Prabhpreet Kaur", "Gurvinder Singh", "Parminder Kaur" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4076284", "title": "Breast Density Classification Using Local Quinary Patterns with Various Neighbourhood Topologies", "abstract": "This paper presents an extension of work from our previous study by investigating the use of Local Quinary Patterns (LQP) for breast density classification in mammograms on various neighbourhood topologies. The LQP operators are used to capture the texture characteristics of the fibro glandular disk region F G D r o i instead of the whole breast area as the majority of current studies have done. We take a multiresolution and multi orientation approach, investigate the effects of various neighbourhood topologies and select dominant patterns to maximise texture information. Subsequently, the Support Vector Machine classifier is used to perform the classification, and a stratified ten fold cross validation scheme is employed to evaluate the performance of the method. The proposed method produced competitive results up to 86.13 and 82.02 accuracy based on 322 and 206 mammograms taken from the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) and InBreast datasets, which is comparable with the state of the art in the literature.", "corpus_id": 4076284, "venue": "J. Imaging", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andrik Rampun", "Bryan W Scotney", "Philip J Morrow", "Hui Wang", "Robert John Winder" ], "n_citations": 37, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "202582543", "title": "Multiscale connected chain topological modelling for microcalcification classification", "abstract": "Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can be employed to help classify mammographic microcalcification clusters. In this paper, a novel method for the classification of the microcalcification clusters based on topology/connectivity has been introduced. The proposed method is distinct from existing techniques which concentrate on morphology and texture of microcalcifications and surrounding tissue. The proposed approach used multiscale morphological relationship of connectivity between microcalcifications where connected chains between nearest microcalcifications were generated at each scale. Subsequently, graph connectivity features at each scale were extracted to estimate the topological connectivity structure of microcalcification clusters for benign versus malignant classification. The proposed approach was evaluated using publicly available digitized datasets: MIAS and DDSM, in addition to the digital OPTIMAM dataset. The classification of features using KNN obtained a classification accuracy of 86.47+ 1.30% 90.0+ 0.00% 82.5+ 2.63% 76.75+ 0.66% for the DDSM, MIAS manual, MIAS auto and OPTIMAM datasets respectively. The study showed that topological/connectivity modelling using a multiscale approach was appropriate for microcalcification cluster analysis and classification; topological connectivity and distribution can be linked to clinical understanding of microcalcification spatial distribution.", "corpus_id": 202582543, "venue": "Comput. Biol. Medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Minu George", "Zhili Chen", "Reyer Zwiggelaar" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "86514221", "title": "Extraction of spiculated parts of mammogram tumors to improve accuracy of classification", "abstract": "Spiculated parts of masses are significant features to classify tumors in digital mammography; however, segmentation, which is used to extract the shape and contour of a tumor, eliminates them. To address this problem, the current study proposes a novel algorithm for extraction of the spiculated pixels of a tumor that are of similar intensity along a line. It first applies the sums of the differences between the central pixel and neighboring pixels in different symmetric orthogonal directions. The minimum difference between two symmetric orthogonal directions specifies the similarity of pixels in one direction as denoting a spiculated part of the mass. These parts then are added to the segmented image to enhance the shape of tumor. The features of the tumor are extracted from the final segmented image to allow its classification as benign or malignant. Simulation results showed that the accuracy and the area under the ROC curve of the proposed method for mini MIAS and DDSM databases were 91.37% and 93.22% and 0.9776 and 0.9752, respectively. This confirms the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for extraction of the spiculated parts of a malignant tumor with the aim of increasing the classification accuracy.", "corpus_id": 86514221, "venue": "Multimedia Tools and Applications", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hamed Pezeshki", "Maryam Rastgarpour", "Arash Sharifi", "Samaneh Yazdani" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201692292", "title": "Comparison Analysis of Linear Discriminant Analysis and Cuckoo Search Algorithm in the Classification of Breast Cancer from Digital Mammograms", "abstract": "Objective: Breast cancer is the most common invasive severity which leads to the second primary cause of death among women. The objective of this paper is to propose a computer aided approach for the breast cancer classification from the digital mammograms. Methods: Designing an effective classification approach will assist in resolving the difficulties in analyzing digital mammograms. The proposed work utilized the Mammogram Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database for the analysis of breast cancer. Five distinct wavelet families are used for extraction of features from the mammograms of MIAS database. These extracted features are statistical in nature and served as input to the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) classifiers. Results: Error rate, Sensitivity, Specificity and Accuracy are the performance measures used and the obtained results clearly state that the CSA used as a classifier affords an accuracy of 97.5% while compared with the LDA classifier. Conclusion: The results of comparative performance analysis show that the CSA classifier outperforms the performance of LDA in terms of breast cancer classification.", "corpus_id": 201692292, "venue": "Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention APJCP", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sannasi Chakravarthy S R", "Harikumar Rajaguru" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199490575", "title": "Breast Density Classification using Local Septenary Patterns: A Multi resolution and Multi topology Approach", "abstract": "We present an extension of our previous work in [1] by investigating the use of Local Septenary Patterns (LSP) for breast density classification in mammograms. The LSP operator is a variant of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) inspired by Local Ternary Patterns (LTP) and Local Quinary patterns (LQP) The main extensions in our work are i) we investigate the use of a multi resolution technique when extracting micro texture information, ii) we investigate different neighbourhood topologies as different ways of extracting texture features, and iii) we use an additional dataset called InBreast as well as the most popular dataset in the literature, which is the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) to further evaluate the performance of the LSP operator.", "corpus_id": 199490575, "venue": "2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS)", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Andrik Rampun", "Bryan W Scotney", "Philip J Morrow", "Haibo Wang" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56483353", "title": "Fuzzy C means and region growing based classification of tumor from mammograms using hybrid texture feature", "abstract": "Abstract Identifying abnormality using breast mammography is a challenging task for radiologists due to its nature. A more consistent and precise imaging based CAD system plays a vital role in the classification of doubtful breast masses. In the proposed CAD system, pre processing is performed to suppress the noise in the mammographic image. Then segmentation locates the tumor in mammograms using the cascading of Fuzzy C Means (FCM) and region growing (RG) algorithm called FCMRG. Features extraction step involves identification of important and distinct elements using Local Binary Pattern Gray Level Co occurrence Matrix (LBP GLCM) and Local Phase Quantization (LPQ) The hybrid features are obtained from these techniques. The mRMR algorithm is employed to choose suitable features from individual and hybrid feature sets. The nominated feature sets are analysed through various machine learning procedures to isolate the malignant tumors from the benign ones. The classifiers are probed on 109 and 72 images of MIAS and DDSM databases respectively using k fold (10 fold) cross validation method. The enhanced classification accuracy of 98.2% is achieved for MIAS dataset using hybrid features classified by Decision Tree. Whereas 95.8% accuracy is obtained for DDSM dataset using KNN classifier applied on LPQ features.", "corpus_id": 56483353, "venue": "J. Comput. Sci.", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Tariq Sadad", "Asim Munir", "Tanzila Saba", "Ayyaz Hussain" ], "n_citations": 37, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "214382877", "title": "Closing the green finance gap A systems perspective", "abstract": "Abstract Meeting its climate policy objectives requires the UK to rapidly decarbonise its energy sector. This demands high levels of investments into low carbon energy infrastructure, which are currently not undertaken at required scale, leading to a green finance gap. We explore (1) key investment barriers, (2) a theoretical framework for investigation and (3) possible solutions, drawing on a review of academic literature and policy reports, and interviews conducted with financial investors and experts. Our study confirms that policy uncertainty and short termism in the financial system are the two main investment barriers. Our results show that identified barriers form a complex system characterised by path dependency, lock in and non linearity. We recommend the adoption of systems theory as an analytical framework to inform the related policy debate and propose the expansion or development of sustainable investment vehicles as a useful near term solution while preparing a long term policy intervention based on a systems perspective.", "corpus_id": 214382877, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Sarah Hafner", "Aled Jones", "Annela Anger-Kraavi", "J Pohl" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159124579", "title": "The way to induce private participation in green finance and investment", "abstract": "Establishment of green credit guarantee schemes (GCGSs) and returning a portion of the tax revenue originally generated from spillover effect of green energy supply to investors. It can reduce the risk of green finance and increase the rate of return of green energy projects, respectively. In addition, technical developments in the sphere of distributed ledger technologies provide the opportunity to increase the transparency in green finance and investments. This paper contributes to literature by proposing two applied frameworks, backed by theoretical models on green finance and investment based on projects size. The objective is to induce the private participation in green finance and investment.", "corpus_id": 159124579, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary", "Naoyuki Yoshino" ], "n_citations": 96, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214696266", "title": "Impact of green finance on economic development and environmental quality: a study based on provincial panel data from China", "abstract": "The goal of green finance is to pursue the coordinated development of financial activities, environmental protection, and ecological balance. This study aims to examine the impact of green finance on economic development and environmental quality. Data concerning green finance, economic development, and environmental quality for 30 provinces and municipalities in China from 2010 to 2017 are used. First, the global principal component analysis is adopted to develop a green finance development index. Second, a model of the impact of green finance on economic development is constructed, which indicates that the development of green finance plays a role in promoting economic development. Next, emissions of industrial smoke (powder) dust, industrial solid waste, and carbon dioxide are used to represent the environmental variables, and a model of the impact of green finance on environmental quality is proposed. The model shows that green finance has a positive effect on environment improvement. However, the impact of green finance on environmental quality varies for different levels of economic development. Finally, based on the theory of the environmental Kuznets curve, a model of the impact of green finance on the relationship between economic development and environmental quality is developed. The model indicates that green finance can significantly improve this relationship, creating a win win situation regarding economic development and the environment.", "corpus_id": 214696266, "venue": "Environmental Science and Pollution Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xiaoguang Zhou", "Xinmeng Tang", "Rui Zhang" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "219413866", "title": "An evolutionary analysis of green finance sustainability based on multi agent game", "abstract": "Abstract Green finance development, which enhances innovation capacity and economic green transformation, helps people deal with the challenges of climate change, ecological crisis and energy security. It is important to achieve sustainable and balanced development for green finance. In this paper, an evolutionary game model is built with four participants, which include governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and consumers. Analogue simulation is applied to analyze the influences of each parameter on changes and development in green financial market. Equilibrium strategy and influence mechanism of participating entities are investigated. The result shows that: first, the integrity of the green financial system has a positive impact on sustainability developments and cleaner production. Second, it is critical to strengthen the government regulation, slash financial institutions and enterprises' green finance production cost, increase the compensation for consumer pollution, and reduce the supervision cost of government. Accordingly, to integrity green financial system, governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and consumers needs participation and cooperation among each other.", "corpus_id": 219413866, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "He-rui Cui", "Ruoyao Wang", "Haoran Wang" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "230662375", "title": "The Global Green Finance Index 4", "abstract": "The sixth edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI 6) was published on 27 October 2020. GGFI 6 provides evaluations of the depth and quality of the green finance offerings of 74 major financial centres around the world. The GGFI serves as a valuable reference into the development of green finance for policy and investment decision makers. The GGFI is updated and published every March and September. 120 financial centres were researched for GGFI 6 of which 74 now feature in the index. The GGFI is compiled using 135 instrumental factors. These quantitative measures are provided by third parties including the World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the OECD and the United Nations. The instrumental factors are combined with financial centre assessments provided by respondents to the GGFI online questionnaire. GGFI 6 uses 4,219 assessments from 617 respondents. The Results Of GGFI 6 include: Amsterdam retained its leading position in the depth index. Zurich has risen to second place. In the quality index, these positions are reversed, with Zurich leading and Amsterdam second. San Francisco was the leading centre outside Western Europe, ranking seventh for depth and equal 10th for quality. New entrant, Helsinki, ranked 19th equal for depth and 12th for quality. On depth, San Francisco and Oslo moved into the top 10, while Montreal and Hamburg fell back. On quality, Oslo rose nine places to fourth, Munich and San Francisco moved into the top 10, and Hamburg and Vienna fell back. Narrow margins separate centres at top of the tables. Among the top 10 centres the spread of ratings is 31 out of 1,000 for depth (44 in GGFI 5) and 43 for quality (44 in GGFI 5) Western Europe Western Europe continues to improve its ratings across depth and quality, with all centres receiving improved ratings for both depth and quality, although a number of centres fell in the rankings as other centres improved faster. Oslo moved into the top 10 for depth and quality. Stockholm, Vienna, Brussels, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Jersey, Isle Of Man, and Malta fell in the rankings for both depth and quality. North America USA centres have gained ground on Canadian centres in GGFI 6. San Francisco replaced Montreal as the top ranking centre for depth and continued to lead the region for quality, now featuring in the top 10 globally in both rankings. Vancouver also moved up in both measures, and now takes second position in both measures in the region. Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary fell in the rankings for depth. Toronto also fell in the quality rankings", "corpus_id": 230662375, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Gregory Andrew Ford", "Mireille Martini", "Simon Mills", "Mike Wardle" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214708499", "title": "Literature Review and Content Analysis: Internet Finance, Green Finance, and Sustainability", "abstract": "Internet finance, green finances, and sustainable development have not only become an important breakthrough in the reform of financial supply side, but also a hot topic of academic research. Based on the MDPI journal \" Sustainability \" in May 2019 deadlines for the special issue \" Internet Finance, Green Finance and Sustainability \" this paper uses a content analysis method to make a literature review and test cross analysis of 23 papers in this special issue. The analysis shows that the paper in this special issue does not fully demonstrate the trend of green finance and sustainable development to readers.", "corpus_id": 214708499, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chung-Lien Pan", "Jingjing Qiu", "Zizhen Chen", "Yu-chun Pan" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229163280", "title": "Research on the Impact of Green Finance and Fintech in Smart City", "abstract": "The green development level reflected in the green finance index and the evaluation of the degree of green development in smart cities have important practical effects on economic transformation. For promoting the transformation and upgrading of finance, we select 2013 2019 data and construct a distributed lag model to analyse the important role played by green finance and financial technology in the construction of smart cities. In the paper, we find green finance promotes the construction of smart cities, and only it will not appear until nine months late. Financial technology has an opposite impact on the construction of smart cities, this is mainly because the research and marketization of financial technology are higher, and the cost is also higher. This influence will appear in the next 14 months.", "corpus_id": 229163280, "venue": "Complex.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zheng He", "Zhengkai Liu", "Hui Wu", "Xiaomin Gu", "Yuanjun Zhao", "Xiaoguang Yue" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213240828", "title": "The political and institutional constraints on green finance in Indonesia", "abstract": "ABSTRACT The ADB estimates Asia's infrastructure needs from 2016 to 2030 will exceed US $26 trillion. This ballooning demand for infrastructure, coupled with rising investor awareness of the importance of sustainable development, is driving the nascent green finance sector. In emerging markets, raising capital for green projects is often the easy part; identifying and implementing suitable projects and structuring the financing is more challenging. This paper draws on the school of institutional economics to analyse the potential of green finance in underwriting renewable energy development in Indonesia. The paper argues that even if there is strong demand on capital markets for green bonds backing clean energy projects, the institutional design of the renewable energy sector has created a misaligned incentive structure for Indonesia's political class. The paper concludes by discussing Ministerial Regulation 50/2017 which has created a regulatory framework that side steps some of these constraints.", "corpus_id": 213240828, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "James Guild" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221884099", "title": "The spatial spillover effects of green finance on ecological environment empirical research based on spatial econometric model", "abstract": "Correct understanding of the positive role and mechanism of green finance in promoting ecological environment is an important premise and guarantee for promoting green finance to better serve the improvement of ecological environment. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in China from 2009 to 2017, this paper constructs a spatial Dubin model based on the distance weight matrix and empirically analyzes the impact of green finance on the ecological environment and its spatial spillover effects. The empirical results show that (1) the development of green finance promotes the improvement of the ecological environment in this region and (2) the influence of green finance on the ecological environment has a significant positive spatial spillover effect, that is, the development of green finance in this region will promote the improvement of the ecological environment in the surrounding areas.", "corpus_id": 221884099, "venue": "Environmental Science and Pollution Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chenggang Li", "Yong Gan" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "222001556", "title": "Evaluating the Coupling Coordination Degree of Green Finance and Marine Eco environment Based on AHP and Grey System Theory", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Zhu, F. 2020. Evaluating the coupling coordination degree of green finance and marine eco environment based on AHP and grey system theory. In: Al Tarawneh, O. and Megahed, A. (eds. Recent Developments of Port, Marine, and Ocean Engineering. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 110, pp. 277 281. Coconut Creek (Florida) ISSN 0749 0208. The authors attempt to study the coupling coordination degree (CCD) between green finance and marine ecoenvironment. To this end, it constructs a composite evaluation index system of green finance and marine ecoenvironment based on the domestic and foreign literatures, and then evaluates the comprehensive development level of the two systems using the combination method of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and grey system theory. Meanwhile, the coupling degree model, and model were introduced to measure the coupling degree, CCD and comprehensive coordination index of China's green finance and marine eco environment. The results showed that as China gradually began to attach importance to green development, the coupling coordination between green finance and the marine eco environment system are both slowly increasing. The research findings provide a scientific basis for the practice of green finance and marine sustainable development in China.", "corpus_id": 222001556, "venue": "Journal of Coastal Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Feng Zhu" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "212656559", "title": "Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID 19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study", "abstract": "Summary Background Since December, 2019, Wuhan, China, has experienced an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID 19 have been reported but risk factors for mortality and a detailed clinical course of illness, including viral shedding, have not been well described. Methods In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included all adult inpatients =18 years old) with laboratory confirmed COVID 19 from Jinyintan Hospital and Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital (Wuhan, China) who had been discharged or had died by Jan 31, 2020. Demographic, clinical, treatment, and laboratory data, including serial samples for viral RNA detection, were extracted from electronic medical records and compared between survivors and non survivors. We used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in hospital death. Findings 191 patients (135 from Jinyintan Hospital and 56 from Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital) were included in this study, of whom 137 were discharged and 54 died in hospital. 91 (48% patients had a comorbidity, with hypertension being the most common (58 [30% patients) followed by diabetes (36 [19% patients) and coronary heart disease (15 [8% patients) Multivariable regression showed increasing odds of in hospital death associated with older age (odds ratio 1*10, 95% CI 1*03 1*17, per year increase; p=0*0043) higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score (5*65, 2*61 12*23; p<0*0001) and d dimer greater than 1 mg/mL (18*42, 2*64 128*55; p=0*0033) on admission. Median duration of viral shedding was 20*0 days (IQR 17*0 24*0) in survivors, but SARS CoV 2 was detectable until death in non survivors. The longest observed duration of viral shedding in survivors was 37 days. Interpretation The potential risk factors of older age, high SOFA score, and d dimer greater than 1 mg/mL could help clinicians to identify patients with poor prognosis at an early stage. Prolonged viral shedding provides the rationale for a strategy of isolation of infected patients and optimal antiviral interventions in the future. Funding Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences; National Science Grant for Distinguished Young Scholars; National Key Research and Development Program of China; The Beijing Science and Technology Project; and Major Projects of National Science and Technology on New Drug Creation and Development.", "corpus_id": 212656559, "venue": "The Lancet", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Fei Zhou", "Ting Yu", "Ronghui Du", "Guohui Fan", "Ying Liu", "Zhibo Liu", "Jie Xiang", "Ye-ming Wang", "Bin Song", "Xiaoying Gu", "Lulu Guan", "Yuan Wei", "Hui Li", "Xudong Wu", "Jiuyang Xu", "Shengjin Tu", "Yi Zhang", "Hua Chen", "Bin Cao" ], "n_citations": 14201, "n_key_citations": 484, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "211262395", "title": "Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19) Outbreak in China: Summary of a Report of 72 314 Cases From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.", "abstract": "Background: Hospitalised COVID 19 patients are frequently elderly subjects with co morbidities receiving polypharmacy, all of which are known risk factors for d", "corpus_id": 211262395, "venue": "JAMA", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zunyou Wu", "Jennifer M McGoogan" ], "n_citations": 10012, "n_key_citations": 339, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "211245138", "title": "Pathological findings of COVID 19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome", "abstract": "bPortuguese Abstract:O surto do novo coronavArus (COVID 19) em Wuhan, China, iniciado em dezembro de 2019, evoluiu para se tornar uma pandemia global A", "corpus_id": 211245138, "venue": "The Lancet Respiratory Medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zhe Xu", "Lei Shi", "Yijin Wang", "Jiyuan Zhang", "Lei Huang", "Chao Zhang", "Shuhong Liu", "Peng Zhao", "Hongxia Liu", "Li Zhu", "Yanhong Tai", "Changqing Bai", "Tingting Gao", "Jinwen Song", "Peng Xia", "Jinghui Dong", "Jingmin Zhao", "Fu-Sheng Wang" ], "n_citations": 4946, "n_key_citations": 140, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212721438", "title": "COVID 19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression", "abstract": "www.thelancet.com Published online March 13, 2020 https:/doi.org/10.1016/S0140 6736(20)30628 0 1 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http:/ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ However, in hyperinflammation, immunosuppression is likely to be beneficial. Re analysis of data from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial of IL 1 blockade (anakinra) in sepsis, showed significant survival benefit in patients with hyperinflammation, without increased adverse events. A multicentre, randomised con trolled trial of tocilizumab (IL 6 receptor blockade, licensed for cytokine release syndrome) has been approved in patients with COVID 19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression", "corpus_id": 212721438, "venue": "The Lancet", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Puja Mehta", "Daniel Francis McAuley", "Michael Brown", "Emilie Sanchez", "Rachel Tattersall", "Jessica Manson" ], "n_citations": 5239, "n_key_citations": 136, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211253616", "title": "An interactive web based dashboard to track COVID 19 in real time", "abstract": "The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID 19) has induced a considerable degree of fear, emotional stress and anxiety among individuals around t", "corpus_id": 211253616, "venue": "The Lancet Infectious Diseases", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ensheng Dong", "Hongru Du", "Lauren Gardner" ], "n_citations": 4717, "n_key_citations": 226, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216075793", "title": "Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID 19 in the New York City Area.", "abstract": "Importance There is limited information describing the presenting characteristics and outcomes of US patients requiring hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) Objective To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID 19 hospitalized in a US health care system. Design, Setting, and Participants Case series of patients with COVID 19 admitted to 12 hospitals in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York, within the Northwell Health system. The study included all sequentially hospitalized patients between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020, inclusive of these dates. Exposures Confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) infection by positive result on polymerase chain reaction testing of a nasopharyngeal sample among patients requiring admission. Main Outcomes and Measures Clinical outcomes during hospitalization, such as invasive mechanical ventilation, kidney replacement therapy, and death. Demographics, baseline comorbidities, presenting vital signs, and test results were also collected. Results A total of 5700 patients were included (median age, 63 years [interquartile range {IQR} 52 75; range, 0 107 years] 39.7% female) The most common comorbidities were hypertension (3026; 56.6% obesity (1737; 41.7% and diabetes (1808; 33.8% At triage, 30.7% of patients were febrile, 17.3% had a respiratory rate greater than 24 breaths/minute, and 27.8% received supplemental oxygen. The rate of respiratory virus co infection was 2.1% Outcomes were assessed for 2634 patients who were discharged or had died at the study end point. During hospitalization, 373 patients (14.2% (median age, 68 years [IQR, 56 78] 33.5% female) were treated in the intensive care unit care, 320 (12.2% received invasive mechanical ventilation, 81 (3.2% were treated with kidney replacement therapy, and 553 (21% died. Mortality for those requiring mechanical ventilation was 88.1% The median postdischarge follow up time was 4.4 days (IQR, 2.2 9.3) A total of 45 patients (2.2% were readmitted during the study period. The median time to readmission was 3 days (IQR, 1.0 4.5) for readmitted patients. Among the 3066 patients who remained hospitalized at the final study follow up date (median age, 65 years [IQR, 54 75] the median follow up at time of censoring was 4.5 days (IQR, 2.4 8.1) Conclusions and Relevance This case series provides characteristics and early outcomes of sequentially hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID 19 in the New York City area.", "corpus_id": 216075793, "venue": "JAMA", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Safiya Richardson", "Jamie S Hirsch", "Mangala Narasimhan", "James M Crawford", "Thomas G McGinn", "Karina W Davidson", "Douglas P Barnaby", "Lance B Becker", "John Chelico", "Stuart Lance Cohen", "Jennifer Cookingham", "Kevin Coppa", "Michael A Diefenbach", "Andrew J Dominello", "Joan Duer-Hefele", "Louise Falzon", "Jordan S Gitlin", "Negin Hajizadeh", "Tiffany G Harvin", "David Hirschwerk", "Eun Ji Kim", "Zachary Kozel", "Lyndonna Marrast", "Jazmin N Mogavero", "Gabrielle A Osorio", "Michael Qiu", "Theodoros P Zanos" ], "n_citations": 4929, "n_key_citations": 128, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212665208", "title": "Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19) Epidemic among the General Population in China", "abstract": "Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID 19) epidemic is a public health emergency of international concern and poses a challenge to psychological resilience. Research data are needed to develop evidence driven strategies to reduce adverse psychological impacts and psychiatric symptoms during the epidemic. The aim of this study was to survey the general public in China to better understand their levels of psychological impact, anxiety, depression, and stress during the initial stage of the COVID 19 outbreak. The data will be used for future reference. Methods: From 31 January to 2 February 2020, we conducted an online survey using snowball sampling techniques. The online survey collected information on demographic data, physical symptoms in the past 14 days, contact history with COVID 19, knowledge and concerns about COVID 19, precautionary measures against COVID 19, and additional information required with respect to COVID 19. Psychological impact was assessed by the Impact of Event Scale Revised (IES R) and mental health status was assessed by the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21) Results: This study included 1210 respondents from 194 cities in China. In total, 53.8% of respondents rated the psychological impact of the outbreak as moderate or severe; 16.5% reported moderate to severe depressive symptoms; 28.8% reported moderate to severe anxiety symptoms; and 8.1% reported moderate to severe stress levels. Most respondents spent 20 24 h per day at home (84.7% were worried about their family members contracting COVID 19 (75.2% and were satisfied with the amount of health information available (75.1% Female gender, student status, specific physical symptoms (e.g. myalgia, dizziness, coryza) and poor self rated health status were significantly associated with a greater psychological impact of the outbreak and higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression (p 0.05) Specific up to date and accurate health information (e.g. treatment, local outbreak situation) and particular precautionary measures (e.g. hand hygiene, wearing a mask) were associated with a lower psychological impact of the outbreak and lower levels of stress, anxiety, and depression (p 0.05) Conclusions: During the initial phase of the COVID 19 outbreak in China, more than half of the respondents rated the psychological impact as moderate to severe, and about one third reported moderate to severe anxiety. Our findings identify factors associated with a lower level of psychological impact and better mental health status that can be used to formulate psychological interventions to improve the mental health of vulnerable groups during the COVID 19 epidemic.", "corpus_id": 212665208, "venue": "International journal of environmental research and public health", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Cuiyan Wang", "Riyu Pan", "Xiaoyang Wan", "Yilin Tan", "Linkang Xu", "Cyrus Su Hui Ho", "Roger C M Ho" ], "n_citations": 3737, "n_key_citations": 228, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "214627660", "title": "Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID 19: results of an open label non randomized clinical trial", "abstract": "Abstract Background Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been found to be efficient on SARS CoV 2, and reported to be efficient in Chinese COV 19 patients. We evaluate the role of hydroxychloroquine on respiratory viral loads. Patients and methods French Confirmed COVID 19 patients were included in a single arm protocol from early March to March 16th, to receive 600mg of hydroxychloroquine daily and their viral load in nasopharyngeal swabs was tested daily in a hospital setting. Depending on their clinical presentation, azithromycin was added to the treatment. Untreated patients from another center and cases refusing the protocol were included as negative controls. Presence and absence of virus at Day6 post inclusion was considered the end point. Results Six patients were asymptomatic, 22 had upper respiratory tract infection symptoms and eight had lower respiratory tract infection symptoms. Twenty cases were treated in this study and showed a significant reduction of the viral carriage at D6 post inclusion compared to controls, and much lower average carrying duration than reported of untreated patients in the literature. Azithromycin added to hydroxychloroquine was significantly more efficient for virus elimination. Conclusion Despite its small sample size our survey shows that hydroxychloroquine treatment is significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID 19 patients and its effect is reinforced by azithromycin.", "corpus_id": 214627660, "venue": "International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Philippe Gautret", "Jean-Christophe Lagier", "Philippe Parola", "Van Thuan Hoang", "Line Meddeb", "Morgane Mailhe", "Barbara Doudier", "Johan Courjon", "Valerie Giordanengo", "Vera Esteves Vieira", "Herve Tissot Dupont", "Stephane Honore", "Philippe Colson", "Eric Chabriere", "Bernard La Scola", "J M Rolain", "Philippe Brouqui", "Didier Raoult" ], "n_citations": 3541, "n_key_citations": 114, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212650690", "title": "The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application", "abstract": "Background: A novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) was identified in China in December 2019. There is limited support for many of its key epidemiologic features, including the incubation period for clinical disease (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID 19] which has important implications for surveillance and control activities. Objective: To estimate the length of the incubation period of COVID 19 and describe its public health implications. Design: Pooled analysis of confirmed COVID 19 cases reported between 4 January 2020 and 24 February 2020. Setting: News reports and press releases from 50 provinces, regions, and countries outside Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Participants: Persons with confirmed SARS CoV 2 infection outside Hubei province, China. Measurements: Patient demographic characteristics and dates and times of possible exposure, symptom onset, fever onset, and hospitalization. Results: There were 181 confirmed cases with identifiable exposure and symptom onset windows to estimate the incubation period of COVID 19. The median incubation period was estimated to be 5.1 days (95% CI, 4.5 to 5.8 days) and 97.5% of those who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days (CI, 8.2 to 15.6 days) of infection. These estimates imply that, under conservative assumptions, 101 out of every 10 000 cases (99th percentile, 482) will develop symptoms after 14 days of active monitoring or quarantine. Limitation: Publicly reported cases may overrepresent severe cases, the incubation period for which may differ from that of mild cases. Conclusion: This work provides additional evidence for a median incubation period for COVID 19 of approximately 5 days, similar to SARS. Our results support current proposals for the length of quarantine or active monitoring of persons potentially exposed to SARS CoV 2, although longer monitoring periods might be justified in extreme cases. Primary Funding Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.", "corpus_id": 212650690, "venue": "Annals of Internal Medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Stephen A Lauer", "Kyra H Grantz", "Qifang Bi", "Forrest K Jones", "Qulu Zheng", "Hannah R Meredith", "Andrew S Azman", "Nicholas G Reich", "Justin Lessler" ], "n_citations": 3694, "n_key_citations": 157, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "215551338", "title": "Incidence of thrombotic complications in critically ill ICU patients with COVID 19", "abstract": "Abstract Introduction COVID 19 may predispose to both venous and arterial thromboembolism due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilisation and diffuse intravascular coagulation. Reports on the incidence of thrombotic complications are however not available. Methods We evaluated the incidence of the composite outcome of symptomatic acute pulmonary embolism (PE) deep vein thrombosis, ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction or systemic arterial embolism in all COVID 19 patients admitted to the ICU of 2 Dutch university hospitals and 1 Dutch teaching hospital. Results We studied 184 ICU patients with proven COVID 19 pneumonia of whom 23 died (13% 22 were discharged alive (12% and 139 (76% were still on the ICU on April 5th 2020. All patients received at least standard doses thromboprophylaxis. The cumulative incidence of the composite outcome was 31% (95%CI 20 41) of which CTPA and/or ultrasonography confirmed VTE in 27% (95%CI 17 37% and arterial thrombotic events in 3.7% (95%CI 0 8.2% PE was the most frequent thrombotic complication (n 25, 81% Age (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 1.05/per year, 95%CI 1.004 1.01) and coagulopathy, defined as spontaneous prolongation of the prothrombin time 3 s or activated partial thromboplastin time 5 s (aHR 4.1, 95%CI 1.9 9.1) were independent predictors of thrombotic complications. Conclusion The 31% incidence of thrombotic complications in ICU patients with COVID 19 infections is remarkably high. Our findings reinforce the recommendation to strictly apply pharmacological thrombosis prophylaxis in all COVID 19 patients admitted to the ICU, and are strongly suggestive of increasing the prophylaxis towards high prophylactic doses, even in the absence of randomized evidence.", "corpus_id": 215551338, "venue": "Thrombosis Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "F A Klok", "Marieke J H A Kruip", "Nardo J M van der Meer", "M S Arbous", "Diederik Gommers", "K Merijn Kant", "F H J Kaptein", "J van Paassen", "Mam Stals", "Menno V Huisman", "Henrik Endeman" ], "n_citations": 2750, "n_key_citations": 68, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "18314644", "title": "The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover, Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance", "abstract": "This study comprehensively evaluated the links between systems of High Performance Work Practices and firm performance. Results based on a national sample of nearly one thousand firms indicate that these practices have an economically and statistically significant impact on both intermediate employee outcomes (turnover and productivity) and short and long term measures of corporate financial performance. Support for predictions that the impact of High Performance Work Practices on firm performance is in part contingent on their interrelationships and links with competitive strategy was limited. The impact of human resource management (HRM) policies and prac", "corpus_id": 18314644, "venue": "", "year": 1995, "author_names": [ "Mark A Huselid" ], "n_citations": 8508, "n_key_citations": 1007, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "1604854", "title": "Human resource management.", "abstract": "The occupational health physician can take advantage of the broad functions of human resource management to offer care and treatment in a very practical way in the day to day workplace. Understanding the capabilities and services of the human resource department can aid the occupational health practitioner in maintaining employee health and productivity. Thus, the individual is helped as well as the organization. This article describes the functions of the human resource department and delineates the close connection between it and the occupational health physician.", "corpus_id": 1604854, "venue": "Occupational medicine", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "de Borst", "L Fleming Fallon" ], "n_citations": 4921, "n_key_citations": 360, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "143652470", "title": "Modes of theorizing in strategic human resource management: Tests of universalistic, contingency, and configurational performance predictions", "abstract": "The field of strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been criticized for lacking a solid theoretical foundation. This article documents that, contrary to this criticism, the SHRM literature", "corpus_id": 143652470, "venue": "", "year": 1996, "author_names": [ "John E Delery", "D Harold Doty" ], "n_citations": 3933, "n_key_citations": 349, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158854634", "title": "The effect of green human resource management on hotel employees' eco friendly behavior and environmental performance", "abstract": "Abstract The subject of human resource management in hotels' environmentally friendly management remains relatively underexplored. This study examines how to improve employees' eco friendly behavior and hotels' environmental performance through green human resource management. The findings show that green human resource management enhances employees' organizational commitment, their eco friendly behavior, and hotels' environmental performance. This study suggests that hotel top management and HR managers should establish green human resource management policies.", "corpus_id": 158854634, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yong Joong Kim", "Woo Gon Kim", "Hyung-Min Choi", "Kullada Phetvaroon" ], "n_citations": 187, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "109879757", "title": "A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice", "abstract": "This ninth edition of the best selling \"Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice\" has been fully updated to take account of the latest developments in HRM. Entailing every aspect of the human resource function, this highly comprehensive handbook considers the function in relation to the needs of the business as a whole. Recognizing HRM as a strategic process, Michael Armstrong offers clear practical advice on how companies can maximize the effectiveness of the HRM function and ensure that it makes a major contribution to organizational success. Covering a wide range of topics, this new edition is packed with all the essential information on HRM theory and best practice. In the light of new concepts of good practice and the outcomes of fresh research, the following areas have been either wholly replaced or substantially revised: HRM characteristics, impact and context; HRM development and issues; role of the HR function; role of the HR practitioner; strategic human resource management; competency based HRM; how people learn; the delivery of learning and training; reward management fundamentals; job evaluation; grade and pay structures; and involvement and participation. This Handbook is an essential guide for both students taking a Master's degree in HRM, as well as CIPD students. In this edition, there are new additional chapters on: talent management; e learning; and facilitating change.", "corpus_id": 109879757, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "M Armstrong" ], "n_citations": 3161, "n_key_citations": 454, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "157782965", "title": "Green human resource management practices: scale development and validity", "abstract": "Previous studies on green human resource management (GHRM) are mainly positioned at theoretical or qualitative level. There is urgent need to develop a valid measurement of GHRM and then to offer more insights into the implication of it on individual or organizational performance. The aim of this study was to propose and validate an instrument to measure GHRM. Based on exploratory analysis (study 1) it was established that GHRM includes five dimensions: green recruitment and selection, green training, green performance management, green pay and reward, and green involvement. Confirmatory factor analysis (study 2) was used to confirm the factor structure of study 1. The results indicated that the proposed measurement is valid. This study is the first and also the most comprehensive one to measure main human resource practices for environmental management, which can provide broader focus for further research and for practitioners.", "corpus_id": 157782965, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Guiyao Tang", "Yang Chen", "Yuan-sheng Jiang", "Pascal Paille", "Jin Jia" ], "n_citations": 182, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158583176", "title": "The impact of green human resource management and green supply chain management practices on sustainable performance: An empirical study", "abstract": "Abstract This study aims at investigating the linkage between green human resource management bundle practices and green supply chain management (i.e. external and internal practices) as well as their impact on the Triple Bottom Lines of sustainability performance (i.e. environmental, social, and economic performance) A quantitative method is applied in which data is collected from a customized survey with 121 firms functioning in the most pollutant manufacturing sectors (i.e. food, chemical, and pharmaceutical sectors) in Palestine. The data analysis was conducted using the partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results from data analysis show that both of green human resource management and green supply chain management practices have a positive effect to sustainable performance in a joint manner. In fact, the results revealed that green human resource management practices have a direct effect on the sustainable performance, with the green supply chain management practices mediating this effect. In particular, internal green supply chain management practices positively mediate between green human resources management practices and sustainable performance, whereas external green supply chain management practices mediate only the relationship between GHRM bundle practices and environmental dimension of sustainable performance, thus suggesting absence of awareness among manufacturers regarding the effectiveness of this type of GSCM practices for an improved economic and social dimensions of sustainable performance, and calling for more attention from green training programs. This study is considered as the first empirical study exploring the impact of green human resource management and green supply chain management on components of sustainable performance in Palestine, adding great value to the current green human resource management green supply chain management literature via responding to recent calls to test the combined impact of both practices on TBL of sustainability performance. At the end, the theoretical and managerial implications, limitations of the current study and future research directions have been discussed.", "corpus_id": 158583176, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ahmed A Zaid", "Ayham A M Jaaron", "Abdul Talib Bon" ], "n_citations": 152, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "198871296", "title": "The Impact of Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance: Progress and Prospects", "abstract": "We describe why human resource management (HRM) decisions are likely to have an important and unique influence on organizational performance. Our hope is that this research forum will help advance", "corpus_id": 198871296, "venue": "", "year": 1996, "author_names": [ "Brian E Becker", "Barry A Gerhart" ], "n_citations": 3044, "n_key_citations": 184, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211165417", "title": "Human Resource Management", "abstract": "Obviously, due to scarcity of skilled workforce organizations are establishing and consistently modifying HR Plan to stand out in order to attract and retain the best talented workforce necessary for efficiency, enhanced organizational productivity and profitability. Scrummy Food, Inc. is a young company that has the desire to increase its market share and beating competitive edge through a systematic market system enhanced by talented and skilled workforce but lacks the capacity of well established human resource department with goal oriented HR manager. The human resource plan (HRP) is the paramount responsibilities of the human resource department headed by the HR manager who is responsible for the establishment and execution of the HR Plan which is a scheme that enables companies to plan ahead in order to maintain a steady supply of skilled workforce, evaluate organizational needs and as well plan ahead to meet those obligations. HR planning plays a significant role in an organization because since employees are the most internal valuable assets of the company, they should be available when needed, placed in appropriate positions, given trainings, benefits, compensations and be rewarded adequately.", "corpus_id": 211165417, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ositadinma Emeka Alozie" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "153966710", "title": "Strategic Human Resource Management", "abstract": "ENVIRONMENT, STRATEGY, AND ORGANIZATION. The External Context of Human Resource Management (C. Fombrun) The Organizational Context of Strategic Human Resource Management (N. Tichy, et al. A Framework for Strategic Human Resource Management (M. Devanna, et al. THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE SYSTEMS. Strategic Staffing (E. Miller) Strategic Staffing at Chase Manhattan Bank (C. Borucki and A. Lafley) The Appraisal System as a Strategic Control (G. Latham) STRATEGIC ISSUES IN HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. Bringing Human Resources into Strategic Planning: Systems Design Considerations (P. Lorange and D. Murphy) Managing Human Resources in a Declining Context (T. Gimore and L. Hirschhorn) Human Resource Policies for the Innovating Organization (J. Galbraith) HUMAN RESOURCES: THE CEO's PERSPECTIVE. An Interview with Reginald Jones and Frank Doyle (C. Fombrun) An Interview with Edson Spencer and Doston Boyle (N. Tichy) References. Index.", "corpus_id": 153966710, "venue": "", "year": 1984, "author_names": [ "Charles J Fombrun", "Noel M Tichy", "Mary Anne Devanna" ], "n_citations": 3626, "n_key_citations": 18, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "182349109", "title": "Assessing Radicalization and Deradicalization", "abstract": "This chapter presents a new evaluation tool for determining the degree of success of deradicalization programs. This battery consists of elements that represent the 3N pillars: It contains tools for assessing individuals' quest for significance, their adherence to an ideological narrative that supports violence, and their membership in social networks that adhere to those narratives. The proposed tool consists of a triangulation of two methodologies, each with its own advantages and disadvantages that collectively compensate for each other. One methodology consists of a self report measure in form of a survey that target individuals (suspected or at risk of radicalization) fill out. The second methodology consists of an observational system focused on the same 3N elements and carried out by persons in close contact with those target individuals.", "corpus_id": 182349109, "venue": "The Three Pillars of Radicalization", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Arie W Kruglanski", "Jocelyn J Belanger", "Rohan Kumar Gunaratna" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "189976244", "title": "Efficiency of deradicalization programs in the field of penology", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 189976244, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "M Marko Krstic" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "150734756", "title": "Deradicalization of Religion in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Through Character Education", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 150734756, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Linda Indiyarti Putri", "Ali Imron" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159368928", "title": "Promoting Deradicalization in Higher Education through Reconstruction of Islamic Learning", "abstract": "One of the problems that had received the attention of almost all universities in Indonesia was the radicalization of thought which resulted in anarchism, intolerance and even violence in the name of religion. Radicalism at least at the level of thought had received support from the campus community. On several campuses, the tendency of students to support radicalism was also very high. Terror events that often occurred lately involve a lot of educated people including students or alumni from a college. The experimental research which compare the pretest and posttest were if the subject matter of deradicalization include in Islamic learning and use the method of active learning of jigsaw models and assignments could reduce radicalism in", "corpus_id": 159368928, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Aziza Aryati" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201374651", "title": "Deradicalization Programs Daliemain the Western States", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 201374651, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Emad Al-Hammadin" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211392685", "title": "DISENGAGEMENT, DERADICALIZATION, AND COUNTER RADICALIZATION: AN EXAMINATION OF GLOBAL PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS EXTREMISM", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 211392685, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Casie Elizabeth Daugherty" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213517024", "title": "Desistance, disengagement and deradicalization how the research on quitting crime can inform the study of leaving violent extremism behind", "abstract": "Thus far, debates surrounding the subject of renouncing violent extremism have generally produced more heat than light. By contrast, desisting from crime, a process that is in many ways kindred to that of ending one's involvement in violent extremist activities, is the subject of a much more mature research tradition. However, while the theoretical distance between both phenomena is fairly minimal, there have been few attempts to connect these two research domains in a systematic way. In this context, the present paper intends to trace the outlines of both bodies of knowledge, thereby effectively juxtaposing the cumulative insights on desistance from crime with the current academic work on giving up violent extremism. Drawing comparisons between these processes, then, should inform us on what aspects desisting violent extremist offenders might differ from or, alternatively, conform with their criminal counterparts. Tracking these theoretical similarities and differences most certainly bears implications for how the process of violent extremist discontinuation is to be understood and, ultimately, for how we should deal with this offender population.", "corpus_id": 213517024, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sigrid Raets" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "213177638", "title": "Policy and Strategy of Deradicalization", "abstract": "The radical Islamic movement in Indonesia is not a new phenomenon but has been present since the colonial era. The fundamental reason for a Muslim to be radical is because of feelings of isolation from politics and a feeling of gaining great injustice committed by the West. This caused hatred towards the West. It is also important to note that Indonesia's radical movement originated from the reform movement in the Middle East. The fall of Suharto in 1998 continued with the Reformation period which did not imply further political restrictions on the establishment of radically inspired Muslim organizations. Even so, radical Islamic based political parties did not get a significant number of votes, thus forcing radicals to use extreme tactics to try to make a difference. Extreme actions by radicals are carried out with bomb terror to achieve their political goals. This paper uses a descriptive qualitative approach as the main writing approach, and uses the soft power theory approach by Joseph Nye, that the most common forms of soft power employed daily include basic diplomacy, information efforts (including public diplomacy) and intelligence (Forest, 2007) The results of this study are: (1) Government policy makers need to understand the boundaries of public diplomacy, use efficient feedback mechanisms to assess the impact of certain policies, build and encourage forums to interact with community groups, frame important issues about radicalism in a more constructive way, and carry out reforms in the education sector especially where networks of radicalism are rooted; (2) An effective public diplomacy agenda requires a commitment to educate the public to understand radicalism and responsible communication, and to motivate grassroots community campaigns to develop and disseminate effective anti radicalism messages; and (3) It is very clear that intelligence plays an important role in effective strategies and tactics to determine where, when and how to apply hard power and soft power in responding to terrorist threats, and accurate and strong international cooperation in intelligence collection and analysis is needed to deal with the movement of radical clandestine groups that have global networks. Date of Submission: 10 12 2019 Date of Acceptance: 25 12 2019", "corpus_id": 213177638, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "", "Aris Sarjito" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210374206", "title": "UNDERSTANDING DERADICALIZATION: METHODS, TOOLS AND PROGRAMS FOR COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM Author: Daniel Koehler Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2016", "abstract": "Daniel Kohler, director of the German Institute for Radicalization and De Radicalization Studies (GIRDS) in Berlin, based on an authentic personal practical experience in the field of derading, as well as a number of empirical case studies, in this book for the first time, overcomes the gap between academic and practical perspectives on ,deradalisation\"", "corpus_id": 210374206, "venue": "Facta Universitatis, Series: Law and Politics", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "M Marko Krstic" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "203166230", "title": "Outgroup Contact in the Process of Leaving Terrorism Qualitative Study of Deradicalization and Disengagement Among Former Jamaah Islamiyah Members in Indonesia", "abstract": "Leaving terrorism is a real thing that happened among Indonesian terrorists. Nevertheless, some experts and laypersons often do not believe that terrorists will leave their groups and their ideology. This study scrutinized leaving terrorism among Indonesia terrorists and push factors that lead to their transformation to be moderate and refuse violence in the pursuit of their goals. This study is based on interviews with five members Jamaah Islamiyah and twenty five people that are related to them from friends and families. This study confirms that out groups contact, including the targeted out groups contact, becomes an important push factor for the subject to leave terrorism. Banyak ahli dan masyarakat umumnya tidak percaya bahwa teroris dapat meninggalkan ideologi dan kelompoknya. Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang beberapa mantan teroris Jamaah Islamiah yang meningalkan kegiatan teror serta kelompoknya. Selain itu, penelitian ini menjelaskan faktor yang mendorong perubahan mereka menjadi kaum moderat dan bahkan menolak kekerasan sebagai cara meraih tujuan politik dan keagamaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan wawancara mendalam dan telaah literatur sebagai instrumen utama pengumpul data dan informasi. Narasumber penelitian ini adalah lima mantan anggota Jamaah Islamiyah dan dua puluh lima orang yang dianggap memiliki kaitan yang relevan dengan kelima orang tersebut. Temuan penelitian menjelaskan bahwa kontak dengan individu di luar jaringan merupakan faktor pendorong krusial yang mendorong individu keluar dari jaringan dan ideologi teror", "corpus_id": 203166230, "venue": "AHKAM Jurnal Ilmu Syariah", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Gazi Saloom" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "85457048", "title": "The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU GEI) a multicentre case control study", "abstract": "Summary Background Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of later psychotic disorder but whether it affects incidence of the disorder remains unclear. We aimed to identify patterns of cannabis use with the strongest effect on odds of psychotic disorder across Europe and explore whether differences in such patterns contribute to variations in the incidence rates of psychotic disorder. Methods We included patients aged 18 64 years who presented to psychiatric services in 11 sites across Europe and Brazil with first episode psychosis and recruited controls representative of the local populations. We applied adjusted logistic regression models to the data to estimate which patterns of cannabis use carried the highest odds for psychotic disorder. Using Europe wide and national data on the expected concentration of D9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the different types of cannabis available across the sites, we divided the types of cannabis used by participants into two categories: low potency (THC <10% and high potency (THC =10% Assuming causality, we calculated the population attributable fractions (PAFs) for the patterns of cannabis use associated with the highest odds of psychosis and the correlation between such patterns and the incidence rates for psychotic disorder across the study sites. Findings Between May 1, 2010, and April 1, 2015, we obtained data from 901 patients with first episode psychosis across 11 sites and 1237 population controls from those same sites. Daily cannabis use was associated with increased odds of psychotic disorder compared with never users (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3*2, 95% CI 2*2 4*1) increasing to nearly five times increased odds for daily use of high potency types of cannabis (4*8, 2*5 6*3) The PAFs calculated indicated that if high potency cannabis were no longer available, 12*2% (95% CI 3*0 16*1) of cases of first episode psychosis could be prevented across the 11 sites, rising to 30*3% (15*2 40*0) in London and 50*3% (27*4 66*0) in Amsterdam. The adjusted incident rates for psychotic disorder were positively correlated with the prevalence in controls across the 11 sites of use of high potency cannabis (r 0*7; p=0*0286) and daily use (r 0*8; p=0*0109) Interpretation Differences in frequency of daily cannabis use and in use of high potency cannabis contributed to the striking variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across the 11 studied sites. Given the increasing availability of high potency cannabis, this has important implications for public health. Funding source Medical Research Council, the European Community's Seventh Framework Program grant, Sao Paulo Research Foundation, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London and the NIHR BRC at University College London, Wellcome Trust.", "corpus_id": 85457048, "venue": "The lancet. Psychiatry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Marta di Forti", "Diego Quattrone", "Tom P Freeman", "Giada Tripoli", "Charlotte Gayer-Anderson", "Harriet Quigley", "Victoria Rodriguez", "Hannah E Jongsma", "Laura Ferraro", "Caterina La Cascia", "Daniele la Barbera", "Ilaria Tarricone", "Domenico Berardi", "Andrei Szoke", "Celso Arango", "Andrea Tortelli", "Eva Velthorst", "Miguel Bernardo", "Cristina Marta Del-Ben", "Paulo Rossi Menezes", "Jean-Paul Selten", "Peter B Jones", "James Bowes Kirkbride", "Bart P F Rutten", "Lieuwe de Haan", "Pak Chung Sham", "Jim van os", "Cathryn M Lewis", "Michael T Lynskey", "Craig Morgan", "Robin M Murray", "Silvia Amoretti", "Manuel Arrojo", "Gregoire Baudin", "Stephanie Beards", "Miquel Bernardo", "Julio Bobes", "Chiara Bonetto", "Bibiana Cabrera", "Angel Carracedo", "Thomas Charpeaud", "Javier Costas", "Doriana Cristofalo", "Pedro Cuadrado", "Covadonga M Diaz-Caneja", "Aziz Ferchiou", "Nathalie Franke", "Flora Frijda", "Enrique Garcia Bernardo", "Paz Garcia-Portilla", "Emiliano Gonzalez", "Kathryn Hubbard", "Stephane Jamain", "Estela Jimenez-Lopez", "Marion Leboyer", "Gonzalo Lopez Montoya", "Esther Lorente-Rovira", "Camila Marcelino Loureiro", "G Marrazzo", "Covadonga Martinez", "Mario Matteis", "Elles Messchaart", "Maria Dolores Molto", "Juan Nacher", "Ma Soledad Olmeda", "Mara Parellada", "Javier Gonzalez Penas", "Baptiste Pignon", "Marta Rapado", "Jean Romain Richard", "Jose Juan Rodriguez Solano", "Laura Roldan Diaz", "Mirella Ruggeri", "Pilar A Saiz", "Emilio Sanchez", "Julio Sanjuan", "Crocettarachele Sartorio", "Franck Schurhoff", "Fabio Seminerio", "Rosana Shuhama", "Lucia Sideli", "Simona A Stilo", "Fabian Termorshuizen", "Sarah Tosato", "Anne Marie Tronche", "Daniella S van Dam", "Els van der Ven" ], "n_citations": 257, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "73438241", "title": "Association of Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Risk of Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality in Young Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta analysis", "abstract": "Importance Cannabis is the most commonly used drug of abuse by adolescents in the world. While the impact of adolescent cannabis use on the development of psychosis has been investigated in depth, little is known about the impact of cannabis use on mood and suicidality in young adulthood. Objective To provide a summary estimate of the extent to which cannabis use during adolescence is associated with the risk of developing subsequent major depression, anxiety, and suicidal behavior. Data Sources Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and Proquest Dissertations and Theses were searched from inception to January 2017. Study Selection Longitudinal and prospective studies, assessing cannabis use in adolescents younger than 18 years (at least 1 assessment point) and then ascertaining development of depression in young adulthood (age 18 to 32 years) were selected, and odds ratios (OR) adjusted for the presence of baseline depression and/or anxiety and/or suicidality were extracted. Data Extraction and Synthesis Study quality was assessed using the Research Triangle Institute item bank on risk of bias and precision of observational studies. Two reviewers conducted all review stages independently. Selected data were pooled using random effects meta analysis. Main Outcomes and Measures The studies assessing cannabis use and depression at different points from adolescence to young adulthood and reporting the corresponding OR were included. In the studies selected, depression was diagnosed according to the third or fourth editions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or by using scales with predetermined cutoff points. Results After screening 3142 articles, 269 articles were selected for full text review, 35 were selected for further review, and 11 studies comprising 23 317 individuals were included in the quantitative analysis. The OR of developing depression for cannabis users in young adulthood compared with nonusers was 1.37 (95% CI, 1.16 1.62; I2 0% The pooled OR for anxiety was not statistically significant: 1.18 (95% CI, 0.84 1.67; I2 42% The pooled OR for suicidal ideation was 1.50 (95% CI, 1.11 2.03; I2 0% and for suicidal attempt was 3.46 (95% CI, 1.53 7.84, I2 61.3% Conclusions and Relevance Although individual level risk remains moderate to low and results from this study should be confirmed in future adequately powered prospective studies, the high prevalence of adolescents consuming cannabis generates a large number of young people who could develop depression and suicidality attributable to cannabis. This is an important public health problem and concern, which should be properly addressed by health care policy.", "corpus_id": 73438241, "venue": "JAMA psychiatry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Gabriella Gobbi", "Tobias Atkin", "Tomasz Zytynski", "Shouao Wang", "Sorayya Askari", "Jill T Boruff", "Mark A Ware", "Naomi R Marmorstein", "Andrea Cipriani", "Nandini Dendukuri", "Nancy E Mayo" ], "n_citations": 218, "n_key_citations": 12, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58948808", "title": "New trends in cannabis potency in USA and Europe during the last decade (2008 2017)", "abstract": "Through the potency monitoring program at the University of Mississippi supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) a total of 18108 samples of cannabis preparations have been analyzed over the last decade, using a validated GC/FID method. The samples are classified as sinsemilla, marijuana, ditchweed, hashish, and hash oil (now referred to as cannabis concentrate) The number of samples received over the last 5 years has decreased dramatically due to the legalization of marijuana either for medical or for recreational purposes in many US states. The results showed that the mean D9 THC concentration has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, from 8.9% in 2008 to 17.1% in 2017. The mean D9 THC:CBD ratio also rose substantially from 23 in 2008 to 104 in 2017. There was also marked increase in the proportion of hash oil samples (concentrates) seized (0.5 4.7% and their mean D9 THC concentration (6.7 55.7% from 2008 to 2017. Other potency monitoring programs are also present in several European countries such as The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, and Italy. These programs have also documented increases in D9 THC concentrations and D9 THC:CBD ratios in cannabis. These trends in the last decade suggest that cannabis is becoming an increasingly harmful product in the USA and Europe.", "corpus_id": 58948808, "venue": "European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Suman Chandra", "Mohamed M Radwan", "Chandrani G Majumdar", "James C Church", "Tom P Freeman", "Mahmoud A Elsohly" ], "n_citations": 154, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "86384825", "title": "The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research", "abstract": "Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the medical and recreational use of cannabis: a broad term that can be used to describe the various products and chemical compounds (e.g. marijuana, cannabinoids) derived from different species of the cannabis plant. Despite increased cannabis use and a changing state level policy landscape, conclusive evidence regarding the shortand long term health effects both harms and benefits of cannabis use remains elusive.", "corpus_id": 86384825, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Eric Groce" ], "n_citations": 693, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "204851430", "title": "Public health implications of legalising the production and sale of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use", "abstract": "We assess the current and describe possible future public health impacts of the legalisation of cannabis production, sale, and use in the Americas. First, we describe global patterns of cannabis use and their most probable adverse health effects. Second, we summarise evidence regarding the effectiveness of cannabinoids for medicinal use and describe approaches that have been used to regulate the use of medicinal cannabis and how these approaches might have affected medicinal and recreational use and harms (eg, road crashes) Third, we describe how jurisdictions that have legalised recreational use have regulated production and sale of cannabis. Fourth, we evaluate the effects of cannabis legalisation on cannabis use and harms and on the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Fifth, we use alcohol and tobacco policy examples to identify possible long term public health effects of cannabis legalisation. Finally, we outline policy approaches that could minimise harms to public health arising from the legalisation of a commercial cannabis industry.", "corpus_id": 204851430, "venue": "The Lancet", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Wayne D Hall", "Daniel Stjepanovic", "Jonathan P Caulkins", "Michael T Lynskey", "Janni Leung", "Gabrielle Campbell", "Louisa Degenhardt" ], "n_citations": 81, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58646851", "title": "Increasing potency and price of cannabis in Europe, 2006 16", "abstract": "Abstract Aims To quantify changes in (i) potency (concentration of D9 tetrahydrocannabinol; %THC) (ii) price (euros/g of cannabis) and (iii) value (mg THC/euro) of cannabis resin and herbal cannabis in Europe. Design Repeated cross sectional study. Setting and participants Data collected from 28 European Union (EU) member states, Norway and Turkey by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Measurements Outcome variables were potency, price and value for cannabis resin and herbal cannabis in Europe, 2006 16. Inflation was estimated using the Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices. Mixed effects linear regression models were used to estimate linear and quadratic time trends, with a random intercept and slope fitted to account for variation across countries. Findings Resin potency increased from a mean [95% confidence interval (CI) of 8.14% THC (6.89, 9.49) in 2006 to 17.22 (15.23, 19.25) in 2016. Resin price increased from 8.21 euros/g (7.54, 8.97) to 12.27 (10.62, 14.16) Resin increased in value, from 11.00 mg THC per euro (8.60, 13.62) to 16.39 (13.68, 19.05) Quadratic time trends for resin potency and value indicated minimal change from 2006 to 2011, followed by marked increases from 2011 to 2016. Herbal cannabis potency increased from 5.00% THC (3.91, 6.23) to 10.22 (9.01, 11.47) Herbal price increased from 7.36 euros/g (6.22, 8.53) to 12.22 (10.59, 14.03) The value of herbal cannabis did not change from 12.65 mg of THC per euro (10.18, 15.34) to 12.72 (10.73, 14.73) All price trends persisted after adjusting for inflation. Conclusions European cannabis resin and herbal cannabis increased in potency and price from 2006 to 2016. Cannabis resin (but not herbal cannabis) increased in the quantity of D9 tetrahydrocannabinol per euro spent. Marked increases in resin potency and value from 2011 to 2016 are consistent with the emergence of new resin production techniques in European and neighbouring drug markets.", "corpus_id": 58646851, "venue": "Addiction", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Tom P Freeman", "Teodora Groshkova", "Andrew Cunningham", "Roumen Sedefov", "Paul Griffiths", "Michael T Lynskey" ], "n_citations": 65, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "57757115", "title": "The Case for the Entourage Effect and Conventional Breeding of Clinical Cannabis: No \"Strain,\" No Gain", "abstract": "The topic of Cannabis curries controversy in every sphere of influence, whether politics, pharmacology, applied therapeutics or even botanical taxonomy. Debate as to the speciation of Cannabis, or a lack thereof, has swirled for more than 250 years. Because all Cannabis types are eminently capable of cross breeding to produce fertile progeny, it is unlikely that any clear winner will emerge between the \"lumpers\" vs. \"splitters\" in this taxonomical debate. This is compounded by the profusion of Cannabis varieties available through the black market and even the developing legal market. While labeled \"strains\" in common parlance, this term is acceptable with respect to bacteria and viruses, but not among Plantae. Given that such factors as plant height and leaflet width do not distinguish one Cannabis plant from another and similar difficulties in defining terms in Cannabis, the only reasonable solution is to characterize them by their biochemical/pharmacological characteristics. Thus, it is best to refer to Cannabis types as chemical varieties, or \"chemovars.\" The current wave of excitement in Cannabis commerce has translated into a flurry of research on alternative sources, particularly yeasts, and complex systems for laboratory production have emerged, but these presuppose that single compounds are a desirable goal. Rather, the case for Cannabis synergy via the \"entourage effect\" is currently sufficiently strong as to suggest that one molecule is unlikely to match the therapeutic and even industrial potential of Cannabis itself as a phytochemical factory. The astounding plasticity of the Cannabis genome additionally obviates the need for genetic modification techniques.", "corpus_id": 57757115, "venue": "Front. Plant Sci.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ethan B Russo" ], "n_citations": 101, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53036118", "title": "The neuropsychopharmacology of cannabis: A review of human imaging studies", "abstract": "Abstract The laws governing cannabis are evolving worldwide and associated with changing patterns of use. The main psychoactive drug in cannabis is &Dgr;9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) a partial agonist at the endocannabinoid CB1 receptor. Acutely, cannabis and THC produce a range of effects on several neurocognitive and pharmacological systems. These include effects on executive, emotional, reward and memory processing via direct interactions with the endocannabinoid system and indirect effects on the glutamatergic, GABAergic and dopaminergic systems. Cannabidiol, a non intoxicating cannabinoid found in some forms of cannabis, may offset some of these acute effects. Heavy repeated cannabis use, particularly during adolescence, has been associated with adverse effects on these systems, which increase the risk of mental illnesses including addiction and psychosis. Here, we provide a comprehensive state of the art review on the acute and chronic neuropsychopharmacology of cannabis by synthesizing the available neuroimaging research in humans. We describe the effects of drug exposure during development, implications for understanding psychosis and cannabis use disorder, and methodological considerations. Greater understanding of the precise mechanisms underlying the effects of cannabis may also give rise to new treatment targets.", "corpus_id": 53036118, "venue": "Pharmacology therapeutics", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Michael A P Bloomfield", "Chandni Hindocha", "Sebastian F Green", "Matthew B Wall", "Rachel Lees", "Katherine Petrilli", "Harry Costello", "M Olabisi Ogunbiyi", "Matthijs G Bossong", "Tom P Freeman" ], "n_citations": 88, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "184485973", "title": "Association between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality has reversed over time", "abstract": "Medical cannabis has been touted as a solution to the US opioid overdose crisis since Bachhuber et al. [M. A. Bachhuber, B. Saloner, C. O. Cunningham, C. L. Barry, JAMA Intern. Med. 174, 1668 1673] found that from 1999 to 2010 states with medical cannabis laws experienced slower increases in opioid analgesic overdose mortality. That research received substantial attention in the scientific literature and popular press and served as a talking point for the cannabis industry and its advocates, despite caveats from the authors and others to exercise caution when using ecological correlations to draw causal, individual level conclusions. In this study, we used the same methods to extend Bachhuber et al.'s analysis through 2017. Not only did findings from the original analysis not hold over the longer period, but the association between state medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality reversed direction from 21% to +23% and remained positive after accounting for recreational cannabis laws. We also uncovered no evidence that either broader (recreational) or more restrictive (low tetrahydrocannabinol) cannabis laws were associated with changes in opioid overdose mortality. We find it unlikely that medical cannabis used by about 2.5% of the US population has exerted large conflicting effects on opioid overdose mortality. A more plausible interpretation is that this association is spurious. Moreover, if such relationships do exist, they cannot be rigorously discerned with aggregate data. Research into therapeutic potential of cannabis should continue, but the claim that enacting medical cannabis laws will reduce opioid overdose death should be met with skepticism.", "corpus_id": 184485973, "venue": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Chelsea L Shover", "Corey S Davis", "Sanford Clark Gordon", "Keith N Humphreys" ], "n_citations": 86, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "132531181", "title": "Terpenes in Cannabis sativa From plant genome to humans.", "abstract": "Cannabis sativa (cannabis) produces a resin that is valued for its psychoactive and medicinal properties. Despite being the foundation of a multi billion dollar global industry, scientific knowledge and research on cannabis is lagging behind compared to other high value crops. This is largely due to legal restrictions that have prevented many researchers from studying cannabis, its products, and their effects in humans. Cannabis resin contains hundreds of different terpene and cannabinoid metabolites. Many of these metabolites have not been conclusively identified. Our understanding of the genomic and biosynthetic systems of these metabolites in cannabis, and the factors that affect their variability, is rudimentary. As a consequence, there is concern about lack of consistency with regard to the terpene and cannabinoid composition of different cannabis 'strains' Likewise, claims of some of the medicinal properties attributed to cannabis metabolites would benefit from thorough scientific validation.", "corpus_id": 132531181, "venue": "Plant science an international journal of experimental plant biology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Judith K Booth", "Jorg Bohlmann" ], "n_citations": 76, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "169758264", "title": "The rhetoric of romanticism", "abstract": "Preface1. Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image2. The Image of Rousseau in the Poetry of Holderlin3. Wordsworth and Holderlin4. Autobiography As De Facement5. Wordsworth and the Victorians6. Shelley Disfigured7. Symbolic Landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats8. Image and Emblem in Yeats9. Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric10. Aesthetic Formalization: Kleist's Uber das MarionettentheaterNotesBibliography for Essay 8Notes on PermissionsIndex", "corpus_id": 169758264, "venue": "", "year": 1984, "author_names": [ "Paul de Man" ], "n_citations": 592, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "170385025", "title": "Romanticism Against The Tide Of Modernity", "abstract": "Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Lowy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers from \"restitutionist\" to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.", "corpus_id": 170385025, "venue": "", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "Michael Lowy", "Robert Woods Sayre", "Catherine Porter" ], "n_citations": 109, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "163927211", "title": "Byron and Romanticism: Milton and Byron", "abstract": "I am too happy in being coupled in any way with Milton, and shall be glad if they find any points of comparison between him and me. Byron to Thomas Medwin W hen we think of Milton's influence upon English Romanticism the poets who first come to mind are Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and perhaps Shelley. As for Byron, Milton rightly seems an altogether less dominating forebear since we remember only too well his distaste for blank verse, even Milton's blank verse: Blank verse, [except] in the drama, no one except Milton ever wrote who could rhyme I am aware that Johnson has said, after some hesitation, that he could not \"prevail upon himself to wish that Milton had been a rhymer\" but, with all humility, I am not persuaded that the Paradise Lost would not have been more nobly conveyed to posterity in the Stanza of Spenser or of Tasso, or in the terza rima of Dante, which the powers of Milton could easily have grafted on our language. Byron had a number of other criticisms of Milton's poetic craftsmanship, so one is not surprised that Milton did not haunt his work. Nevertheless, Milton's importance for Byron, both in his art and his life, was by no means insignificant. To speak of Milton's influence upon Byron is, I believe, immediately to close the discussion under two principal headings.", "corpus_id": 163927211, "venue": "", "year": 2002, "author_names": [ "Jerome McGann", "James Soderholm" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "163101161", "title": "English Romanticism and the Celtic World", "abstract": "Introduction: romancing the Celt Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes 2. 'And the Celt Knew the Indian' Sir William Jones, the Celtic Revival and the Oriental Renaissance Michael Franklin 3. 'Our Names may be Heard in Song. But what avails it when our strength has ceased? the critical response to Ossian's Romantic bequest Dafydd R. Moore 4. Blake and Gwendolen: territory, periphery and the proper name David Punter 5. The Welsh American Dream: Iolo Morganwg, Robert Southey and the Madoc Legend Caroline Franklin 6. Wordsworth, north Wales, and the Celtic landscape J. R. Watson 7. 'My Mother's Gordons' the force of 'Celtic memories' in Byron's thought Bernard Beatty 8. 'The Revolt of Erin' Ireland and Islam in Shelley's oriental poetry Arthur Bradley 9. Byron and 'The Ariosto of the North' Andrew Nicholson 10. Scott and the British tourist Murray G. H. Pittock 11. Felicia Hemans, Byronic cosmopolitanism, and the ancient Welsh bards William D. Brewer 12. Writing which nation? Luttrell of Arran and the Romantic invention of Ireland Malcolm Kelsall 13. 'Shining in Modest Glory' Contemporary Northern Irish poets and Romantic poetry Michael O'Neill.", "corpus_id": 163101161, "venue": "", "year": 2003, "author_names": [ "Gerard Carruthers", "A N Rawes" ], "n_citations": 62, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169819143", "title": "The relevance of Romanticism essays on German romantic philosophy", "abstract": "Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part 1. German Romanticism as a Philosophical Movement Chapter 1. Manfred Frank, What is Early German Romantic Philosophy? Chapter 2. Frederick Beiser, Romanticism and Idealism Part 2. History, Hermeneutics and Sociability Chapter 3. Karl Ameriks, History and German Romanticism Chapter 4. Michael N. Forster, Romanticism and Language Chapter 5. Kristin Gjesdal, Hermeneutics, Individuality, and Tradition: Schleiermacher's Idea of Bildung in the Landscape of Hegelian Thought Chapter 6. Jane Kneller, Sociability and the Conduct of Philosophy: What philosophers can learn from early German Romanticism Part 3. Literature, Art and Mythology Chapter 7. Richard Eldridge,\"Doch sehnend stehst /Am Ufer du\"\"But longing you stand on the shore\" Holderlin, Philosophy, Subjectivity, and Finitude Chapter 8. Brady Bowman, On the Defense of Literary Value: From Early German Romanticism to Analytic Philosophy of Literature Chapter 9. Keren Gorodeisky, \"No Poetry, No Reality\" Schlegel, Wittgenstein, Fiction and Reality Chapter 10. Laure Cahen Maurel, \"A Simple Wheat Field\" A New Picturing of the Sublime in Caspar David Friedrich Chapter 11. Bruce Matthews, The New Mythology: Romanticism Between Religion and Humanism Part 4. Science and Nature Chapter 12. Paul Redding, Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis Paradox Chapter 13. John H. Smith, The Romantic Calculus: Infinity, Continuity, Infinitesimal Chapter 14. David W. Wood, The Wissenschaftslehre as Mathematics: On a Late Fichtean Reflection of Novalis Chapter 15. Amanda Jo Goldstein, Irritable Figures: Romantic Philosophy of Science by way of Johann Gottfried Herder Chapter 16. Dalia Nassar, Romantic Empiricism after the 'End of Nature' Contributions to Environmental Philosophy", "corpus_id": 169819143, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Dalia T Nassar" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "142724664", "title": "Spiritualities of Life: New Age Romanticism and Consumptive Capitalism", "abstract": "Preface. Introduction. PART I: PORTRAYING SPIRITUALITIES OF LIFE 1 From the Romantics: The Repertoire. 2 Wellbeing Spirituality Today. PART II: THE 'CONSUMING GROWTH' DEBATE 3 The Debate. 4 The Language of Consumption and Consumeristic Aspects of Mind Body Spiritualities of Life. 5 The Sacred and the Profane: Spiritual Direction or Consumer Preference? 6 The Matter of Personal Significance: Profaned Superficiality? 7 Work: Consumptive or Productive? PART III: TO WORK BEYOND THE CONSUMING SELF 8 A 'Fag Ending' of the Sacred or Fit for the Future? 9 Inside Out. Epilogue: Birthright Spirituality Beyond the West. Appendix: Evidence Indicative of Inner Life 'Beliefs' Notes. References. Name Index. Subject Index: Some Main Themes and Arguments", "corpus_id": 142724664, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Paul Heelas" ], "n_citations": 183, "n_key_citations": 14, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "191003077", "title": "The Roots of Romanticism", "abstract": "Foreword by John Gray xi Editor's Preface xix 1 In Search of a Definition 1 2 The First Attack on Enlightenment 26 3 The True Fathers of Romanticism 54 4 The Restrained Romantics 79 5 Unbridled Romanticism 107 6 The Lasting Effects 137 Appendix to the Second Edition 171 References 181 Index 201", "corpus_id": 191003077, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Isaiah Sir Berlin", "Henry Hardy" ], "n_citations": 194, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55434103", "title": "Romanticism and the Body", "abstract": "Romantic scholarship in the last decade of the twentieth century effectively transformed the object of study, bringing not only new attention to women writers and issues of slavery, empire, and colonialism into the field but making slave narratives, antislavery writing, and writing by women in many genres integral to a newly expanded and configured Romantic canon. At the same time, certain leading descriptions of the older canon, dominated by poetry and a handful of male writers, remained current, especially the notion that Romantic poetry sought transcendence and an ideal realm at the price of denying the body and material nature. This essay looks at a variety of new work on Romanticism and the body that challenges and revises that description, eliciting a pronounced materialist tendency found in a number of Romantic era discourses, authors, and texts. The new emphasis on the body and on the embodiment of mind brings together several subfields within Romantic scholarship, including literature and medicine, literature and scientific psychology, ecocriticism, environmental and diet studies, recent developments in colonial discourse studies and feminist criticism, and cognitive and neuroscientific approaches to reading Romanticism. Two of the most exciting developments in British Romantic scholarship during the 1990s not only contributed to new critical and theoretical perspectives on the field, but have changed the very way that the field is constituted: what \"counts\" as a Romantic text, what gets anthologized, what gets taught. The recovery and revaluation of Romantic era texts written by women, growing out of the feminist critique of canonical, male authored texts in the 1980s, effectively transformed and rejuvenated the field: dozens of authors barely mentioned for over a century came back into focus not to mention into print in ways that challenged reigning descriptions of Romanticism and threw \"Romanticism\" itself as a descriptive term into crisis. Even authors who had long remained available, most notably Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, became newly central to the field: for the first time, a young Romanticist might be expected to know and teach Emma as well as The Prelude Alongside of (and overlapping with) the new scholarship on women writers, came an unprecedented attention to the relation of Romantic era culture to matters of empire and colonialism, nation and ethnicity, slavery, and \"race.\" This newly globalized", "corpus_id": 55434103, "venue": "", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Alan Francis F Richardson" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "171014231", "title": "The Ethics of Romanticism", "abstract": "Acknowledgments Editions and abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Will to Value: 1. In pursuit of the ethical 2. British Romanticism, Coleridge, and European moral traditions Part II. Agent, Power, Scene: 3. Blake: the poetry of violence 4. The tragic Wordsworth 5. De Quincey and Romantic decadence Part III. The Pressure of Reality: 6. Shelley and the poetry of life 7. Hazlitt: common sense of a dissenter 8. Keats and the ethics of immanence 9. Byron: the world as glorious blunder 10. The ethical bearing of literature Select biblilography.", "corpus_id": 171014231, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Laurence S Lockridge" ], "n_citations": 32, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "153365071", "title": "The emergence of romanticism", "abstract": "Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a longtime student of European Romanticism. In this book, Riasanovsky offers a refreshing and appealing new interpretation of Romanticism's goals and influence. He searches for the origins of the dazzling vision that made the great early Romantic poets in England and Germany Wordsworth, Coleridge, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel look at the world in a new way. He stresses that Romanticism was produced only by Western Christian civilization, with its unique view of humankind's relationship to God. The Romantic's frantic and heroic striving after unreachable goals mirrors Christian beliefs in human inability to adequately address God, speak to God, or praise God. Further, Riasanovsky argues that Romantic thought had important political implications, playing a key role in the rise of nationalism in Europe. Offering a historical examination of an area often limited to literary analysis, this book gracefully makes a larger historical statement about the nature and centrality of European Romanticism.", "corpus_id": 153365071, "venue": "", "year": 1992, "author_names": [ "Nicholas V Riasanovsky" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "211477817", "title": "COVID 19: Real time dissemination of scientific information to fight a public health emergency of international concern.", "abstract": "Rapidly sharing scientific information is an effective way to reduce public panic about COVID 19, and doing so is the key to providing real time guidance to epidemiologists working to contain the outbreak, clinicians managing patients, and modelers helping to understand future developments and the possible effectiveness of various interventions. This issue has rapidly reviewed and published articles describing COVID 19, including the drug treatment options for SARS CoV 2, its clinical characteristics, and therapies involving a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, the efficacy of chloroquine phosphate in the treatment of COVID 19 associated pneumonia according to clinical studies, and reflections on the system of reserve medical supplies for public health emergencies. As an academic journal, we will continue to quickly and transparently share data with frontline healthcare workers who need to know the epidemiological and clinical features of COVID 19.", "corpus_id": 211477817, "venue": "Bioscience trends", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Peipei Song", "Takashi Karako" ], "n_citations": 88, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "54550967", "title": "Dissemination of Misinformative and Biased Information about Prostate Cancer on YouTube.", "abstract": "YouTube is a social media platform with more than 1 billion users and >600000 videos about prostate cancer. Two small studies examined the quality of prostate cancer videos on YouTube, but did not use validated instruments, examine user interactions, or characterize the spread of misinformation. We performed the largest, most comprehensive examination of prostate cancer information on YouTube to date, including the first 150 videos on screening and treatment. We used the validated DISCERN quality criteria for consumer health information and the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool, and compared results for user engagement. The videos in our sample had up to 1.3 million views (average 45223) and the overall quality of information was moderate. More videos described benefits (75% than harms (53% and only 50% promoted shared decision making as recommended in current guidelines. Only 54% of the videos defined medical terms and few provided summaries or references. There was a significant negative correlation between scientific quality and viewer engagement (views/month p=0.004; thumbs up/views p=0.015) The comments section underneath some videos contained advertising and peer to peer medical advice. A total of 115 videos (77% contained potentially misinformative and/or biased content within the video or comments section, with a total reach of >6 million viewers. PATIENT SUMMARY: Many popular YouTube videos about prostate cancer contained biased or poor quality information. A greater number of views and thumbs up on YouTube does not mean that the information is trustworthy.", "corpus_id": 54550967, "venue": "European urology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Stacy Loeb", "Shomik Sengupta", "Mohit Butaney", "Joseph N Macaluso", "Stefan W Czarniecki", "Rebecca Robbins", "Ronald S Braithwaite", "Lingshan Gao", "Nataliya Byrne", "Dawn Walter", "Aisha T Langford" ], "n_citations": 107, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "131255640", "title": "Agricultural information dissemination using ICTs: A review and analysis of information dissemination models in China", "abstract": "Abstract Over the last three decades, China's agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Information processing and dissemination have played a critical role in this transformation process. Many studies in relation to agriculture information services have been conducted in China, but few of them have attempted to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of different information dissemination models and their applications. This paper aims to review and identify the ICT based information dissemination models in China and to share the knowledge and experience in applying emerging ICTs in disseminating agriculture information to farmers and farm communities to improve productivity and economic, social and environmental sustainability. The paper reviews and analyzes the development stages of China's agricultural information dissemination systems and different mechanisms for agricultural information service development and operations. Seven ICT based information dissemination models are identified and discussed. Success cases are presented. The findings provide a useful direction for researchers and practitioners in developing future ICT based information dissemination systems. It is hoped that this paper will also help other developing countries to learn from China's experience and best practice in their endeavor of applying emerging ICTs in agriculture information dissemination and knowledge transfer.", "corpus_id": 131255640, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Yun Zhang", "Lei Wang", "Yanqing Duan" ], "n_citations": 95, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "20362496", "title": "A Social Aware Framework for Efficient Information Dissemination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", "abstract": "In wireless ad hoc networks, each node participates in routing by forwarding data to other nodes without a pre existing infrastructure. Particularly, with the wide adoption of smart devices, the concept of smartphone ad hoc networks (SPANs) has evolved to enable alternate means for information sharing. Using unlicensed frequency spectrum and short range wireless technologies, a SPAN enables a new paradigm of applications and thus is seen as an attractive component in future wireless networks. In a SPAN, smartphones form local peer to peer networks to cooperate and share information efficiently. Recent studies have shown that if the users' social relations are considered while designing cooperation schemes and protocols in SPANs, the cooperation initialization and content dissemination can be notably improved to increase the overall network efficiency and communications reliability. In this article, we present a social aware framework for optimizing SPANs by exploiting two layers: users' relationships in the online social network layer and users' offline connections and interactions in the physical wireless network layer. The online content popularity distribution is also studied as a result of the users' online interaction profiles. In the end, we integrate both online and offline layers, and discuss possible applications to further enhance the network performance.", "corpus_id": 20362496, "venue": "IEEE Communications Magazine", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Yanru Zhang", "Lingyang Song", "Chunxiao Jiang", "Nguyen H Tran", "Zaher Dawy", "Zhu Han" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "42894205", "title": "User satisfaction with microblogging: Information dissemination versus social networking", "abstract": "Microblogging is growing in popularity and significance. Although many researchers have attempted to explain why and how people use this new medium, previous studies have produced relatively inconclusive results. For instance, in most of these studies, microblogging has been considered a social networking activity; however, quantitative analyses of microblogging usage have shown that people use microblogging as an information broadcasting platform. In this study, we identified the factors that drive microblogging and which of them lead to user satisfaction. We developed a theoretical framework and then empirically validated the factors and the emergent mechanisms (value evaluation processes) We empirically tested our research model using a sample of 230 microbloggers, and the results showed that content and technology gratifications are the two key factors that drive user satisfaction with microblogging. That is, it is the value of information dissemination rather than social networking that makes people feel satisfied with the use of microblogging. We believe that this study will generate interest among researchers in social media. The results also provide platform administrators with insights into how people use microblogging and why they are satisfied with the technology.", "corpus_id": 42894205, "venue": "J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ivy L B Liu", "Christy M K Cheung", "Matthew K O Lee" ], "n_citations": 55, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "32019670", "title": "Online dissemination of information on sustainability in regional governments. Effects of technological factors", "abstract": "Abstract Developers and managers of websites are key players in conveying the transparency of governments. Although previous research has highlighted the need for further progress in transparency on sustainability, very few studies have considered how websites can better contribute to providing sustainability information. This paper identifies determinant factors that can help website developers and managers enhance the online transparency on sustainability provided by regional governments. In an empirical study of 17 Spanish regional governments, we identified technological factors (such as broadband availability and the online compilation of information) and transparency stimulating factors (such as convergence with the information society, accessibility and usability) that can be useful to increase the volume of social, economic and environmental information published on their websites.", "corpus_id": 32019670, "venue": "Gov. Inf. Q.", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Andres Navarro-Galera", "Francisco Jose Alcaraz-Quiles", "David Ortiz-Rodriguez" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "3796569", "title": "Information and Communication Technologies for the Dissemination of Clinical Practice Guidelines to Health Professionals: A Systematic Review", "abstract": "Background The transfer of research knowledge into clinical practice can be a continuous challenge for researchers. Information and communication technologies, such as websites and email, have emerged as popular tools for the dissemination of evidence to health professionals. Objective The objective of this systematic review was to identify research on health professionals' perceived usability and practice behavior change of information and communication technologies for the dissemination of clinical practice guidelines. Methods We used a systematic approach to retrieve and extract data about relevant studies. We identified 2248 citations, of which 21 studies met criteria for inclusion; 20 studies were randomized controlled trials, and 1 was a controlled clinical trial. The following information and communication technologies were evaluated: websites (5 studies) computer software (3 studies) Web based workshops (2 studies) computerized decision support systems (2 studies) electronic educational game (1 study) email (2 studies) and multifaceted interventions that consisted of at least one information and communication technology component (6 studies) Results Website studies demonstrated significant improvements in perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, but not for knowledge, reducing barriers, and intention to use clinical practice guidelines. Computer software studies demonstrated significant improvements in perceived usefulness, but not for knowledge and skills. Web based workshop and email studies demonstrated significant improvements in knowledge, perceived usefulness, and skills. An electronic educational game intervention demonstrated a significant improvement from baseline in knowledge after 12 and 24 weeks. Computerized decision support system studies demonstrated variable findings for improvement in skills. Multifaceted interventions demonstrated significant improvements in beliefs about capabilities, perceived usefulness, and intention to use clinical practice guidelines, but variable findings for improvements in skills. Most multifaceted studies demonstrated significant improvements in knowledge. Conclusions The findings suggest that health professionals' perceived usability and practice behavior change vary by type of information and communication technology. Heterogeneity and the paucity of properly conducted studies did not allow for a clear comparison between studies and a conclusion on the effectiveness of information and communication technologies as a knowledge translation strategy for the dissemination of clinical practice guidelines.", "corpus_id": 3796569, "venue": "JMIR medical education", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Gino De Angelis", "Barbara Davies", "Judy King", "Jessica McEwan", "Sabrina Cavallo", "Laurianne Loew", "George A Wells", "Lucie Brosseau" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "15639693", "title": "Social relationships and information dissemination in virtual social network systems: An attachment theory perspective", "abstract": "Web based communication via social networking sites has become an integral method of communication, raising the question of whether the well established Attachment Theory remains applicable to modern relationships. This communication shift is also likely to affect the information dissemination dynamic; i.e. how internal attachment working models relate to virtual modes of communication. Three studies (354 participants in total, median age 27) examined the applicability of Attachment Theory to web based social network communications. Using self report measures (Study 1) and an experimental simulation (Study 2) the results indicate that attachment security level predicts an individual's number of social ties and willingness to initiate web based relationships. Secure individuals emerged as best situated to become social hubs. Study 3 reveals that a decrease in avoidance scores predicts an increased willingness to deliver information to others. Anxious participants exhibited less willingness to deliver highly threatening information but more willingness to deliver neutral information to others. These findings support the applicability of attachment internal working models to predicting web based social network communication, and suggest that Attachment Theory can be a predictor of the dynamics of web based dissemination of information.", "corpus_id": 15639693, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Erez Yaakobi", "Jacob Goldenberg" ], "n_citations": 38, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "18558465", "title": "Roadside unit deployment for information dissemination in a VANET: an evolutionary approach", "abstract": "A VANET is a network where each node represents a vehicle equipped with wireless communication technology. This type of network enhances road safety, traffic efficiency, Internet access and many others applications to minimize environmental impact and in general maximize the benefits for the road users. This paper studies a relevant problem in VANETs, known as the deployment of RSUs. A RSU is an access points, used together with the vehicles, to allow information dissemination in the roads. Knowing where to place these RSUs so that a maximum number of vehicles circulating is covered is a challenge. We model the problem as a Maximum Coverage with Time Threshold Problem (MCTTP) and use a genetic algorithm to solve it. The algorithm is tested in four real world datasets, and compared to a greedy approach previously proposed in the literature. The results show that our approach finds better results than the greedy in all scenarios, with gains up to 11 percentage points.", "corpus_id": 18558465, "venue": "GECCO '12", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Evellyn Cavalcante", "Andre L L Aquino", "Gisele Lobo Pappa", "Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro" ], "n_citations": 72, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13313319", "title": "A content centric approach to dissemination of information in vehicular networks", "abstract": "Data dissemination in dynamic environments such as vehicular networks has been a critical challenge. One of the key characteristics of vehicular networks is the high intermittent connectivity. Recent studies have investigated and proven the feasibility of a content centric networking paradigm for vehicular networks. Content centric information dissemination has a potential number of applications in vehicular networking, including advertising, traffic and parking notifications and emergency announcements. It is clear and evident that knowledge about the type of content and its relevance can enhance the performance of data dissemination in VANETs. In this paper we address the problem of information dissemination in vehicular network environments and propose a model and solution based on a content centric approach of networking. We leverage the expansion properties of interacting nodes in a cluster to be interpreted in terms of social connections among nodes and perform a selective random network coding approach. We compare the reliability performance of our method with a conventional random network coding approach and comment on the complexity of the proposed solution.", "corpus_id": 13313319, "venue": "DIVANet '12", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Peyman TalebiFard", "Victor C M Leung" ], "n_citations": 45, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "25215315", "title": "Geriatric comanagement reduces perioperative complications and shortens duration of hospital stay after lumbar spine surgery: a prospective single institution experience.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Geriatric patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery have unique needs due to the physiological changes of aging. They are at risk for adverse outcomes such as delirium, infection, and iatrogenic complications, and these complications, in turn, contribute to the risk of functional decline, nursing home admission, and death. Whether preoperative and perioperative comanagement by a geriatrician reduces the incidence of in hospital complications and length of in hospital stay after elective lumbar spine surgery remains unknown. METHODS A unique model of comanagement for elderly patients undergoing lumbar fusion surgery was implemented at a major academic medical center. The Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) program was launched with the aim of improving outcomes in elderly patients 65 years old) undergoing complex lumbar spine surgery. In this model, a geriatrician evaluates elderly patients preoperatively, in addition to performing routine preoperative anesthesia surgical screening, and comanages them daily throughout the course of their hospital stay to manage medical comorbid conditions and coordinate multidisciplinary rehabilitation along with the neurosurgical team. The first 100 cases were retrospectively reviewed after initiation of the POSH protocol and compared with the immediately preceding 25 cases to assess the incidence of perioperative complications and clinical outcomes. RESULTS One hundred twenty five patients undergoing lumbar decompression and fusion were enrolled in this pilot program. Baseline characteristics were similar between both cohorts. The mean length of in hospital stay was 30% shorter in the POSH cohort (6.13 vs 8.72 days; p 0.06) The mean duration of time between surgery and patient mobilization was significantly shorter in the POSH cohort compared with the non POSH cohort (1.57 days vs 2.77 days; p 0.02) and the number of steps ambulated on day of discharge was 2 fold higher in the POSH cohort (p 0.04) Compared with the non POSH cohort, the majority of patients in the POSH cohort were discharged to home (24% vs 54% p 0.01) CONCLUSIONS Geriatric comanagement reduces the incidence of postoperative complications, shortens the duration of in hospital stay, and contributes to improved perioperative functional status in elderly patients undergoing elective spinal surgery for the correction of adult degenerative scoliosis.", "corpus_id": 25215315, "venue": "Journal of neurosurgery. Spine", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Owoicho Adogwa", "Aladine A Elsamadicy", "Victoria D Vuong", "Jessica R Moreno", "Joseph S Cheng", "I O Karikari", "Carlos A Bagley" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210709463", "title": "Traumatic vertebral artery injuries in the geriatric population: a retrospective cohort study.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Traumatic vertebral artery injuries (TVAIs) are a common finding in cervical spine trauma and can predispose patients to posterior circulation infarction. While extensive research has been conducted regarding the management and criteria for imaging in patients with suspected blunt vascular injury, little research has been conducted highlighting these injuries in the geriatric population. METHODS The authors performed a retrospective review of all patients evaluated at a level 1 trauma center and found to have TVAIs between January 1, 2010, and January 1, 2018. Biometric, clinical, and imaging data were obtained from a trauma registry database. Patients were divided into 2 groups on the basis of age, a geriatric group (age 65 years) and an adult group (age 18 to 65 years) Variables evaluated included type of trauma, mortality, Injury Severity Score (ISS) and ICU length of stay. The Student t test was used for continuous variables, and Pearson's chi square test was used for categorical variables. RESULTS Of the 2698 of patients identified with traumatic cervical spine injuries, 103 patients demonstrated evidence of TVAI. Of these patients, 69 were 65 and 34 were 65 years old at the time of their trauma. There was no difference in the incidence of TVAIs between the 2 groups. The ICU length of stay (4.71 vs 4.32 days, p 0.05) hospital length of stay (10.71 vs 10.72 days, p 0.05) and the ISS (21.50 vs 21.32, p 0.05) did not differ significantly between the 2 groups. Mortality was significantly higher in the geriatric group, occurring in 9 of 34 patients (26.5% compared with only 3 of 69 patients (4.4% in the adult group (p 0.001) Ground level falls were the most common inciting event in the geriatric group (44% vs 14.5% p 0.001) whereas motor vehicle accidents were the most common etiology in the younger population (72.5% vs 38.2% p 0.001) Incidence of ischemic stroke did not vary significantly between the 2 groups (p 0.05) CONCLUSIONS TVAI in the older adult population is associated with a significantly greater risk of mortality than in the younger adult population, despite the 2 groups having similar ISSs. Additionally, low velocity mechanisms of injury, such as ground level falls, are a greater risk factor for acquired TVAI in older adults than in younger adults, in whom it is a significantly less common etiology.", "corpus_id": 210709463, "venue": "Journal of neurosurgery. Spine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Paul S Page", "Darnell T Josiah" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "210085507", "title": "Evaluation of Postoperative Delirium: Validity and Reliability of the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale in the Turkish Language", "abstract": "Purpose: Postoperative delirium is the most well known form of postoperative cognitive impairment in all patient groups, especially in the elderly. Delirium is a syndrome that causes serious consequences, increasing mortality and morbidity rates and extending the length of hospital stay. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Nursing Delirium Screening Scale (Nu DESC) Method: One hundred twelve patients who were hospitalized for a surgical operation in the orthopedics, neurosurgery, and general surgery clinic of a state hospital for 3 months were evaluated concurrently (and independently for delirium) Patients were observed by clinical nurses 3 times over a 24 h period. The presence of delirium was diagnosed by 2 neurologists according to DSM IV criteria. Student's t test, the kh2 test, and the Mann Whitney U test were used, and construct validity, intrascale factor analysis, interrater reliability, and specificity and sensitivity (ROC) analyses were performed for descriptive analysis. SPSS 25.0 and MedCalc18.6 were used for statistical analysis. Results: Delirium was detected in 28 patients according to the Nu DESC. The ICC (intraclass correlation) is 0.97 in the 95% confidence interval from 0.96 to 0.98 for agreement between nurses and neurologists for the total Nu DESC score. Weighted k rates were between 0.78 and 0.92. In the ROC analysis of the Nu DESC scale, the optimum cutoff value calculated for the 1,344 observations and 112 patients was determined as >1 according to the maximum sensitivity and the specific situation. Sensitivity at the cut off point was 92.27; specificity was determined as 92.72. The Youden index was found to be J 0.845 (0 J 0.845 1) Conclusion: We believe that Turkish translation of Nu DESC is valid and reliable for clinicians, nurses, and researchers and will contribute to delirium studies.", "corpus_id": 210085507, "venue": "Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Fadime Cinar", "Fatma Eti Aslan" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "51907487", "title": "Outcomes of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly with a History of Minor or No Previous Trauma.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Subdural hematoma (SDH) in the elderly is an increasingly common entity because of increased use of antithrombotic medications, an aging population, and increasing frequency of geriatric trauma. The present study describes the functional outcomes and mortality of SDH in an elderly population and to identify potential prognostic factors. METHODS Patients >65 years of age with SDH who were treated at our institution from 2005 to 2015 were identified. Patients with a history of preceding high velocity trauma were excluded. Electronic medical records were retrospectively reviewed. The outcomes of interest were mortality, length of stay, and discharge Glasgow Outcome Score. RESULTS A total of 671 patients were included in final statistical analyses. For patients with acute SDH, survival was 74.9% 72.3% and 69.8% at 30, 60, and 100 days, respectively. With respect to chronic SDH, survival was 87.0% 83.7% and 80.3% at 30, 60, and 100 days, respectively. On multivariate analysis, admission Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score was significantly predictive of mortality in both the acute and chronic populations. In the acute cohort, admission GCS score was a significant predictor of increased length of stay, whereas age >80 years, admission GCS score, contusion volume >10 cm3, SDH volume >50 cm3, and antiplatelet use were significant predictors of discharge functional status. CONCLUSIONS SDH in the elderly carries high morbidity and mortality and several prognostic factors were identified. These results can be used to guide discussions with family regarding prognosis and perhaps aid in treatment decisions.", "corpus_id": 51907487, "venue": "World neurosurgery", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Elizabeth N Kuhn", "Matthew S Erwood", "Robert A Oster", "Matthew C Davis", "H Evan Zeiger", "Bruce C Pittman", "Winfield S Fisher" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "14740639", "title": "Preoperative pulmonary assessment of the older adult.", "abstract": "Postoperative pulmonary complications in the elderly are common and are a significant source of morbidity, mortality, and prolonged length of stay. Risk factors differ from the well known risk factors for cardiac complications and can be divided into patient and procedure related factors. Patient related factors include COPD, recent cigarette use, poor general health status as defined by Goldman or ASA class, dependent functional status, and laboratory parameters including abnormal chest radiograph, renal insufficiency, and low serum albumin. Age is a minor risk factor when adjusted for comorbidities and confers approximately a two fold increase in risk. Elderly patients who are otherwise acceptable surgical candidates should not be denied surgery based solely on age and concern for postoperative pulmonary complications. The surgical site is the single most important predictor of pulmonary complications. High risk surgeries include thoracic, upper abdominal, aortic, neurosurgery, and peripheral vascular. Other procedure related risk factors include surgery lasting longer than 3 hours, the use of general anesthesia, pancuronium use, and emergency surgery. Clinicians should not recommend routine preoperative spirometry before high risk surgery because it is no more accurate in predicting risk than clinical evaluation. Patients who might benefit from preoperative spirometry include those who have unexplained dyspnea or exercise intolerance and those who have COPD or asthma in whom uncertainty exists as to the status of airflow obstruction when compared with baseline. After identifying patients at risk for postoperative pulmonary complications, clinicians can recommend strategies to reduce risk throughout the operative period. In addition to minimizing or avoiding the above risk factors, optimization of COPD or asthma, deep breathing exercises, incentive spirometry, and epidural local anesthetics reduce the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications in elderly surgical patients.", "corpus_id": 14740639, "venue": "Clinics in geriatric medicine", "year": 2003, "author_names": [ "Gerald W Smetana" ], "n_citations": 63, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "30799203", "title": "[Neurosurgery in the elderly patient: Geriatric neurosurgery]", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double, and the number of people aged 80 and older will quadruple. Health professional training does not include instructions about specific care for older people. The World Health Organization maintains that all health providers should be trained on ageing issues. Thus, it is proposed to analyse the effect of ageing on Neurosurgery in our country. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective historical cohort study was performed on individuals age 70 years or older admitted to the Neurosurgery or the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital, with neurosurgical disease, between two periods: 1999 2000 and 2010 2011. An analysis was made on variables such as: age, pathology, length of stay, comorbidity, performance status, re admissions and mortality. RESULTS Similar numbers of patients were admitted during the two periods: 409 and 413. However, there was an increase of 77.5% in patients older than 70 years: 80 versus 142. Statistically significant differences were observed in the Charlson Comorbidity Index, the admission Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score, length of stay, and re admissions. Comorbidity and admission GCS score were particularly worse in the second period. Nevertheless, the mean length of stay was lower in that period, but showing more hospital re admissions. After multivariate analysis, it was observed that re admissions were associated with comorbidity, but not with early hospital discharge. No differences were found in performance status or mortality. CONCLUSIONS A very considerable increase in percentage of patients older than 70 years old was found. There were no differences in performance status or mortality, which was probably due to the multidisciplinary management of these patients. The results of this study support the development of an interdisciplinary work group dedicated to Geriatric Neurosurgery.", "corpus_id": 30799203, "venue": "Neurocirugia", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Luis German Gonzalez-Bonet", "Francisco Jose Tarazona-Santabalbina", "Luis Lizan Tudela" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "86498571", "title": "P50 The role of care of the elderly in neurosurgery", "abstract": "Objectives Assess the volume of frailty in a neurosurgical centre and role of geriatric liaison. Design Retrospective Review. Subjects All patients admitted to Charing Cross Hospital in Jan 2018. Methods We reviewed patient notes to assess frailty score using the Clinical Frailty Scale (Dalhousie University) and differences with emergency vs elective admissions and length of stay (LoS) Results More than 50% of patients admitted to the unit were above 65 years old. 30% of all admissions met the criteria for mild to moderate frailty moreover 34% were classed as severely frail. These findings are comparable to acute medical wards. Two third of patients had an average LoS above 10 days, of these 50% were severely frail. Emergency admissions demonstrated a greater burden of frailty and expectedly LoS in severely frail patients was significantly higher 15 vs 40 days in elective and emergency admissions. Conclusions Neurosurgery units would benefit from a geriatric liaison service given the burden of frailty is equivalent to medical wards in order to improve patient care, experience, turnover and LoS.", "corpus_id": 86498571, "venue": "Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "M Rafi Ullah Awan", "D Bhagawati" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216131282", "title": "How safe are elective craniotomies in elderly patients in neurosurgery today? A prospective cohort study of 1452 consecutive cases.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE With global aging, elective craniotomies are increasingly being performed in elderly patients. There is a paucity of prospective studies evaluating the impact of these procedures on the geriatric population. The goal of this study was to assess the safety of elective craniotomies for elderly patients in modern neurosurgery. METHODS For this cohort study, adult patients, who underwent elective craniotomies between November 1, 2011, and October 31, 2018, were allocated to 3 age groups (group 1, 65 years [n 1008] group 2, 65 to 75 [n 315] and group 3, 75 [n 129] Primary outcome was the 30 day mortality after craniotomy. Secondary outcomes included rate of delayed extubation 1 hour) need for emergency head CT scan and reoperation within 48 hours after surgery, length of postoperative intensive or intermediate care unit stay, hospital length of stay (LOS) and rate of discharge to home. Adjustment for American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA PS) class, estimated blood loss, and duration of surgery were analyzed as a comparison using multiple logistic regression. For significant differences a post hoc analysis was performed. RESULTS In total, 1452 patients (mean age 55.4 14.7 years) were included. The overall mortality rate was 0.55% (n 8) with no significant differences between groups (group 1: 0.5% [95% binominal CI 0.2% 1.2% group 2: 0.3% [95% binominal CI 0.0% 1.7% group 3: 1.6% [95% binominal CI 0.2% 5.5% Deceased patients had a significantly higher ASA PS class (2.88 0.35 vs 2.42 0.62; difference 0.46 [95% CI 0.03, 0.89] p 0.036) and increased estimated blood loss (1444 1973 ml vs 436 545 ml [95% CI 618, 1398] p <0.001) Significant differences were found in the rate of postoperative head CT scans (group 1: 6.65% [n 67] group 2: 7.30% [n 23] group 3: 15.50% [n 20] p 0.006) LOS (group 1: median 5 days [IQR 4; 7 days] group 2: 5 days [IQR 4; 7 days] and group 3: 7 days [5; 9 days] p 0.001) and rate of discharge to home (group 1: 79.0% [n 796] group 2: 72.0% [n 227] and group 3: 44.2% [n 57] p 0.001) CONCLUSIONS Mortality following elective craniotomy was low in all age groups. Today, elective craniotomy for well selected patients is safe, and for elderly patients, too. Elderly patients are more dependent on discharge to other hospitals and postacute care facilities after elective craniotomy.Clinical trial registration no. NCT01987648 (clinicaltrials.gov)", "corpus_id": 216131282, "venue": "Journal of neurosurgery", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ralph T Schar", "Shpend Tashi", "Mattia Branca", "Nicole Soll", "Debora Cipriani", "Christa Schwarz", "Claudio Pollo", "Philippe Schucht", "C T Ulrich", "Jurgen Beck", "Werner Josef Z'Graggen", "Andreas Raabe" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "132385558", "title": "A predictive model for increased hospital length of stay following geriatric hip fracture.", "abstract": "Background The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors that are significantly associated with hospital length of stay (LOS) following geriatric hip fracture and to use these significant variables to develop a LOS calculator. Materials and methods This was a retrospective study examining 614 patients treated for geriatric hip fracture between January 2000 and December 2009 at an urban, Level 1 trauma center. A negative binomial regression analysis was used to identify perioperative variables associated with hospital LOS. Results 614 patients met the inclusion criteria, presenting with a mean age of 78 10) years. The most common pre operative comorbidity was hypertension, followed by diabetes and COPD. After controlling for all collected comorbidities as well as demographics and operative variables, hypertension (IRR: 1.10, p 0.029) and disseminated cancer (IRR: 1.24, p 0.007) were found to be significantly associated with LOS. In addition, two demographic/presenting variables, admission to the medicine service (IRR: 1.48, p 0.001) and male sex (IRR: 1.09, p 0.034) were shown to be independent risk factors for prolonged LOS. These variables were synthesized into a LOS formula, which estimated LOS to within 3 days of the true length of stay for 0.758 of the series (95% confidence interval: 0.661 to 0.855) Conclusions This study identified several comorbidity and perioperative variables that were significantly associated with LOS following geriatric hip fracture surgery. The resulting LOS model may have utility in the risk stratification of orthopaedic trauma patients presenting with hip fracture.", "corpus_id": 132385558, "venue": "Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Olivia M Knoll", "Nikita Lakomkin", "Michelle S Shen", "Moses Adebayo", "Parth Kothari", "Ashley C Dodd", "Basem Attum", "Nathan J Lee", "Deepak V Chona", "Manish K Sethi" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53025822", "title": "Predictive Modeling for Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients: Early Surgery and Delirium Have the Largest Influence on Length of Stay", "abstract": "Background: Averaging length of stay (LOS) ignores patient complexity and is a poor metric for quality control in geriatric hip fracture programs. We developed a predictive model of LOS that compares patient complexity to the logistic effects of our institution's hip fracture care pathway. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on patients enrolled into a hip fracture co management pathway at an academic level I trauma center from 2014 to 2015. Patient complexity was approximated using the Charlson Comorbidity Index and ASA score. A predictive model of LOS was developed from patient specific and system specific variables using a multivariate linear regression analysis; it was tested against a sample of patients from 2016. Results: LOS averaged 5.95 days. Avoidance of delirium and reduced time to surgery were found to be notable predictors of reduced LOS. The Charlson Comorbidity Index was not a strong predictor of LOS, but the ASA score was. Our predictive LOS model worked well for 63% of patients from the 2016 group; for those it did not work well for, 80% had postoperative complications. Discussion: Predictive LOS modeling accounting for patient complexity was effective for identifying (1) reasons for outliers to the expected LOS and (2) effective measures to target for improving our hip fracture program. Level of Evidence: III", "corpus_id": 53025822, "venue": "The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Garin Hecht", "Christina A Slee", "Parker B Goodell", "Sandra L Taylor", "Philip R Wolinsky" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "209978784", "title": "Analyzing the ages of south polar craters on the Moon: Implications for the sources and evolution of surface water ice.", "abstract": "Abstract Surface water ice in the permanently shadowed polar regions of the Moon has a patchy surficial distribution and is not found within all available cold trapping areas. To date it is not well understood when the ice was delivered, which has important implications for the surficial characteristics of the ice as well as for possible delivery mechanisms. Here we present absolute model ages for 20 south polar craters that host surface water ice, providing maximum estimates of the ages of surface ice contained within these craters. We quantify the amount of available cold trapping surface area that is occupied by water ice in order to examine the relationship between the patchiness of ice within each crater and the age of each host crater. The majority of surface ice is contained in old craters ~3.1 Gyr, where the majority of cold trapping area on the pole exists. The ice is these ancient craters is very patchy in surficial distribution, occupying Siegler et al. (2016) If true polar wander did occur on the Moon, then the ages of ice bearing craters presented here set an upper limit for the age of post true polar wander hydrogen emplacement of 4.1 0.1 Gyr.", "corpus_id": 209978784, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ariel N Deutsch", "James W Head", "Gregory A Neumann" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "198175917", "title": "Thick ice deposits in shallow simple craters on the Moon and Mercury", "abstract": "Permanently shadowed regions near the poles of Mercury and the Moon may cold trap water ice for geologic time periods. In past studies, thick ice deposits have been detected on Mercury, but not on the Moon, despite their similar thermal environments. Here we report evidence for thick ice deposits inside permanently shadowed simple craters on both Mercury and the Moon. We measure the depth/diameter ratio of approximately 2,000 simple craters near the north pole of Mercury using Mercury Laser Altimeter data. We find that these craters become distinctly shallower at higher latitudes, where ice is known to have accumulated on their floors. This shallowing corresponds to a maximum infill of around 50 m, consistent with previous estimates. A parallel investigation of approximately 12,000 lunar craters using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data reveals a similar morphological trend near the south pole of the Moon, which we conclude is also due to the presence of thick ice deposits. We find that previously detected surface ice deposits in the south polar region of the Moon are spatially correlated with shallow craters, indicating that the surface ice may be exhumed or linked to the subsurface via diffusion. The family of lunar craters that we identify are promising targets for future missions, and may also help resolve the apparent discrepancy between the abundance of frozen volatiles on Mercury and the Moon.Ice deposits up to around 50 m thick infill some craters near the Moon's south pole and Mercury's north pole, as inferred from the poleward shallowing of simple craters.", "corpus_id": 198175917, "venue": "Nature Geoscience", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Lior Rubanenko", "Jaahnavee Venkatraman", "David A Paige" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "125701474", "title": "Morphometric studies of the Copernicus and Tycho secondary craters on the moon: Dependence of crater degradation rate on crater size", "abstract": "Abstract This paper considers depth/diameter ratios and values of maximum inner slopes of two groups of relatively small secondary impact craters on the Moon associated with the 800 Ma old Copernicus crater and 100 Ma old Tycho crater. Secondary craters have the same formation age as their primary craters, but different sizes. This enables the study of how the rate of morphologic evolution of small craters depends on the crater size. Using the high resolution images obtained by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera we selected 15 craters of ~350 950 m and 8 craters ~250 650 m in diameter being secondaries of Copernicus and Tycho, respectively, and measured their depth/diameter ratios and maximum angles of crater inner slopes. Analysis of the measurement results showed distinct dependence of craters' morphologic degradation with time on their sizes. Assuming that the pristine craters are geometrically similar, we conclude that larger craters degrade slower. Application of the model of topographic diffusion to our observations showed that the modeling results reasonably agree with observations for the crater relative depths suggesting that the time scale of crater elimination is proportional to the square of the crater diameter. Meanwhile, for the crater inner slope steepness, the agreement of the model to observations is not so good, which demands additional studies.", "corpus_id": 125701474, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Alexander T Basilevsky", "Natalia Kozlova", "Ivan Zavyalov", "Irina Karachevtseva", "Mikhail A Kreslavsky" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "55085468", "title": "Oblique impact cratering experiments in brittle targets: Implications for elliptical craters on the Moon", "abstract": "Abstract Most impact craters observed on planetary bodies are the results of oblique impacts of meteoroids. To date, however, there have only been very few laboratory oblique impact experiments for analogue targets relevant to the surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies. In particular, there is a lack of laboratory oblique impact experiments into brittle targets with a material strength on the order of 1 MPa, with the exception of ice. A strength on the order of 1 MPa is considered to be the corresponding material strength for the formation of craters in the 100 m size range on the Moon. Impact craters are elliptical if the meteoroid's trajectory is below a certain threshold angle of incidence, and it is known that the threshold angle depends largely on the material strength. Therefore, we examined the threshold angle required to produce elliptical craters in laboratory impact experiments into brittle targets. This work aims to constrain current interpretations of lunar elliptical craters and pit craters with sizes below a hundred meters. We produced mortar targets with compressive strength of 3.2 MPa. A spherical nylon projectile (diameter 7.14 mm) was shot into the target surface at a nominal velocity of 2.3 km/s, with an impact angle of 5deg 90deg from horizontal. The threshold angle of this experiment ranges from 15deg to 20deg. We confirmed that our experimental data agree with previous empirical equations in terms of the cratering efficiency and the threshold impact angle. In addition, in order to simulate the relatively large lunar pit craters related to underground cavities, we conducted a second series of experiments under similar impact conditions using targets with an underground rectangular cavity. Size and outline of craters that created a hole are similar to those of craters without a hole. Moreover, when observed from an oblique angle, a crater with a hole has a topography that resembles the lunar pit craters. The relation between the impact velocity of meteoroids on the Moon and the probability of elliptical crater formation was investigated based on our experimental results and an existing empirical equation. The results suggest a distinct possibility that most craters in the 100 m size range on the Moon, given their elliptical shape, originated as secondary craters.", "corpus_id": 55085468, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Tatsuhiro Michikami", "A Hagermann", "Tomokatsu Morota", "Jun'ichi Haruyama", "Sunao Hasegawa" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "129821006", "title": "The Geologic History of the Moon", "abstract": "More than two decades of study have established the major features of lunar geologic style and history. The most numerous and significant landforms belong to a size morphology series of simple craters, complex craters, and ringed basins that were formed by impacts. Each crater and basin is the source of primary ejecta and secondary craters that, collectively, cover the entire terra. The largest impacts thinned, weakened, and redistributed feldspathic terracrustal material averaging about 75 km in thickness. Relatively small volumes of basalt, generated by partial remelting of mantle material, were erupted through the thin subbasin and subcrater crust to form the maria that cover 16 percent of the lunar surface. Tectonism has modified the various stratigraphic deposits relatively little; most structures are confined to basins and large craters. This general geologic style, basically simple though complex in detail, has persisted longer than 4 aeons (1 aeon 109 yr) Impacts began to leave a visible record about 4.2 aeons ago, after the crust and mantle had differentiated and the crust had solidified. At least 30 basins and 100 times that many craters larger than 30 km in diameter were formed before a massive impact created the Nectaris basin about 3.92 aeons ago. Impacts continued during the ensuing Nectarian Period at a lesser rate, whereas volcanism left more traces than during pre Nectarian time. The latest basin forming impacts created the giant and still conspicuous Imbrium and Orientale basins during the Early Imbrian Epoch, between 3.85 and 3.80 aeons ago. The rate of crater forming impacts continued to decline during the Imbrian Period. Beginning in the Late Imbrian Epoch, mare basalt flows remained exposed because they were no longer obscured by many large impacts. The Eratosthenian Period (3.2 1.1 aeons ago) and the Copernican Period (1.1 aeons ago to present) were times of lesser volcanism and a still lower, probably constant impact rate. Copernican impacts created craters whose surfaces have remained brighter and topographically crisper than those of the more ancient lunar features.", "corpus_id": 129821006, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Don E Wilhelms", "Newell J Trask" ], "n_citations": 237, "n_key_citations": 26, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "123857689", "title": "Impact spallation processes on the Moon: A case study from the size and shape analysis of ejecta boulders and secondary craters of Censorinus crater", "abstract": "Abstract Impact spallation is a fundamental process responsible for formation of ejecta boulders from impact craters. Although theoretical spallation models were developed about three decades ago, only limited geological observations have been made so far to test these models. The 3.8 km Censorinus crater on the Moon provides an excellent opportunity for studying the impact spallation processes associated with a fresh simple crater formed by oblique impact. Using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera images, we prepared the ejecta boulder distribution map of Censorinus crater and measured the boulder sizes and shapes. Mapping of about 242,000 ejecta boulders enabled us to document the size distribution of boulders both radial and concentric to the impact crater. Larger size boulders dominate the crater rim areas, while they become smaller away from the crater. The boulder distribution exhibits a radial asymmetry suggesting Censorinus is a oblique impact, in which the uprange ejecta have smaller ranges with larger concentration of boulders near the southwestern crater rim, while the downrange ejecta are in general characterized by smaller boulders with high spatial dispersion. The cumulative size frequency distribution (CSFD) of boulders shows a highly variable fragmentation history in which the uprange boulders suffered more complex fragmentation. The ejecta boulders also exhibit a variety of shapes that are gleaned from their axial ratios and edge angle characteristics. There is a general decrease of axial ratios away from the crater rim. Rectangular boulders dominate the crater rim and they become more equant away from the crater. In addition to the boulder sizes, the boulder shape distribution also exhibits a mild asymmetry in response to the oblique impact. Small size fresh impact craters (84,000 craters) are abundant on the Censorinus ejecta and post date Censorinus. These craters are found in two morphologic types in which a large majority of craters have subdued ejecta (rayless craters) while some possess bright rayed ejecta (bright rayed craters) The CSFD of rayless craters show a steep power law slope with a b value of 4.0, similar to the secondary craters produced by the impact of ejecta from primary craters. We therefore interpret the rayless craters as the secondary craters of Censorinus. On the other hand, the CSFD of bright rayed craters have smaller power law slope b value 2.7) which is a characteristic of primary craters, and thus provide 3 Ma age for Censorinus crater. When the characteristics of Censorinus boulders are compared with the theoretical spallation models that are sensitive to the petrophysical properties of the target (lunar highland) the models generally agree with the Censorinus boulders. However, the observed shape and size characteristics of the Censorinus boulders are found to be more complex than the theoretical spallation models. The ejecta boulders suffered more complex fragmentation and asymmetric distribution in response to the oblique impact. The spallation models accounting oblique impacts have not yet been developed. Therefore, our Censorinus boulder observations can be used to develop and validate the new theoretical spallation models for the effects of oblique impacts.", "corpus_id": 123857689, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "N Krishna", "P Senthil Kumar" ], "n_citations": 38, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "130919707", "title": "The morphology of small fresh craters on Mars and the Moon", "abstract": "The depth/diameter ratio for new meter to decameter scale Martian craters formed in the last ~20 years averages 0.23, only slightly deeper than that expected for simple primary craters on rocky surfaces. Large variations in depth/diameter (d/D) between impact sites indicate that differences between the sites such as target material properties, impact velocity, angle, and physical state of the bolide(s) are important in determining the depth of small craters in the strength regime. On the Moon, the d/D of random fresh small craters with similar diameters averages only 0.10, indicating that either the majority of them are unrecognized secondaries or some proportion are degraded primaries. Older craters such as these may be shallower due to erosional infilling, which is probably not linear over time but more effective over recently disturbed and steeper surfaces, processes that are not yet acting on the new Martian craters. Brand new meter to decameter scale craters such as the Martian ones studied here are statistically easily distinguishable as primaries, but the origins of older craters of the same size, such as the lunar ones in this study, are ambiguous.", "corpus_id": 130919707, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Ingrid J Daubar", "Corwin Atwood-Stone", "Shane Byrne", "Alfred S McEwen", "Phillip St J Russell" ], "n_citations": 49, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "14608607", "title": "Explosive volcanism in complex impact craters on Mercury and the Moon: Influence of tectonic regime on depth of magmatic intrusion", "abstract": "Vents and deposits attributed to explosive volcanism occur within numerous impact craters on both the Moon and Mercury. Given the similarities between the two bodies it is probable that similar processes control this spatial association on both. However, the precise morphology and localization of the activity differs on the two bodies, indicating that the nature of structures beneath impact craters and/or volcanic activity may also be different. To explore this, we analyze sites of explosive volcanism within complex impact craters on the Moon and Mercury, comparing the scale and localization of volcanic activity and evidence for post formation modification of the host crater. We show that the scale of vents and deposits is consistently greater on Mercury than on the Moon, indicating greater eruption energy, powered by a higher concentration of volatiles. Additionally, while the floors of lunar craters hosting explosive volcanism are commonly fractured, those on Mercury are not. The most probable explanation for these differences is that the state of regional compression acting on Mercury's crust through most of the planet's history results in deeper magma storage beneath craters on Mercury than on the Moon. The probable role of the regional stress regime in dictating the depth of intrusion on Mercury suggests that it may also play a role in the depth of sub crater intrusion on the Moon and on other planetary bodies. Examples on the Moon (and also on Mars) commonly occur at locations where flexural extension may facilitate shallower intrusion than would be driven by the buoyancy of the magma alone.", "corpus_id": 14608607, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Rebecca J Thomas", "David A Rothery", "Susan J Conway", "Mahesh Anand" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "16012295", "title": "Comparisons of fresh complex impact craters on Mercury and the Moon: Implications for controlling factors in impact excavation processes", "abstract": "The impact cratering process is usually divided into the coupling, excavation, and modification stages, where each stage is controlled by a combination of different factors. Although recognized as the main factors governing impact processes on airless bodies, the relative importance of gravity, target and projectile properties, and impact velocity in each stage is not well understood. We focus on the excavation stage to place better constraints on its controlling factors by comparing the morphology and scale of crater exterior structures for similar sized fresh complex craters on the Moon and Mercury. We find that the ratios of continuous ejecta deposits, continuous secondaries facies, and the largest secondary craters on the continuous secondaries facies between same sized mercurian and lunar craters are consistent with predictions from gravity regime crater scaling laws. Our observations support that gravity is a major controlling factor on the excavation stage of the formation of complex impact craters on the Moon and Mercury. On the other hand, similar sized craters with identical background terrains on Mercury have different spatial densities of secondaries on the continuous secondaries facies, suggesting that impactor velocity may also be important during the excavation stage as larger impactor velocity may also cause greater ejection velocities. Moreover, some craters on Mercury have more circular and less clustered secondaries on the continuous secondaries facies than other craters on Mercury or the Moon. This morphological difference appears not to have been caused by the larger surface gravity or the larger median impact velocity on Mercury. A possible interpretation is that at some places on Mercury, the target material might have unique properties causing larger ejection angles during the impact excavation stage. We conclude that gravity is the major controlling factor on the impact excavation stage of complex craters, while impact velocity and target properties also affect the excavation stage but to a lesser extent than gravity.", "corpus_id": 16012295, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Zhiyong Xiao", "Robert Strom", "Clark R Chapman", "James W Head", "Christian Klimczak", "Lillian Rose Ostrach", "J Helbert", "P D'Incecco" ], "n_citations": 33, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "117932991", "title": "Large rock slides in impact craters on the Moon and Mercury", "abstract": "Abstract Impact craters are the most common surface features on the Moon and Mercury. On these two bodies, we recognized and mapped large landslides on the walls of impact craters. Through visual inspection of high resolution imagery, we compiled an inventory of 60 landslides on the Moon and a second inventory of 58 landslides on Mercury. Adopting categories used to catalog terrestrial mass movements, we classified the landslides on the Moon and Mercury as rock slides. We determined the probability density distribution of their planimetric area, and we compared the distributions with similar distributions for terrestrial and martian landslides using data from the literature. We found that rock slides mapped in impact craters on the Moon are, on average, larger than analogous rock slides on Mercury. The relationship between the area of the individual rock slides and the area of the hosting crater suggests that rock slides on Mercury initiate in smaller craters. We hypothesize that the above findings are an effect of the weaker surface gravity of the Moon compared to that of Mercury and/or an effect of the rock material properties.", "corpus_id": 117932991, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Maria Teresa Brunetti", "Zhiyong Xiao", "Goro Komatsu", "Silvia Peruccacci", "Fausto Guzzetti" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "198270535", "title": "The management of occupational disease", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 198270535, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Anthony Seaton", "Raymond M Agius" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "664525", "title": "Management of nosocomial scabies, an outbreak of occupational disease.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND The optimal approach to managing institutional scabies outbreaks has yet to be defined. We report on outbreak managements are needed. METHODS We report on a large outbreak of scabies in three acute care wards in a tertiary university teaching hospital in the Netherlands. RESULTS The outbreak potentially effected 460 patients and 185 health care workers who had been exposed to the index patient. CONCLUSION Containment of an outbreak relies on a quick and strict implementation of appropriate infection control measures and should include simultaneous treatment of all infested persons and exposed contacts to prevent secondary spread and prolonged post intervention surveillance.", "corpus_id": 664525, "venue": "American journal of industrial medicine", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "F H W Jungbauer", "Yanka K Veenstra-Kyuchukova", "Jacqueline Koeze", "Martijn R KruijtSpanjer", "Sylvia Helena Kardaun" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58616050", "title": "Update on the Management of Occupational Asthma and Work Exacerbated Asthma", "abstract": "Work related asthma is the most common occupational lung disease encountered in clinical practice. In adult asthmatics, work relatedness can account for 15% 33% of cases, but delays in diagnosis remain common and lead to worse outcomes. Accurate diagnosis of asthma is the first step to managing occupational asthma, which can be sensitizer induced or irritant induced asthma. While latency has traditionally been recognized as a hallmark of sensitizer induced asthma and rapid onset a defining feature of irritant induced asthma (as in Reactive Airway Dysfunction Syndrome) there is epidemiological evidence for irritant induced asthma with latency from chronic moderate exposure. Diagnostic testing while the patient is still in the workplace significantly improves sensitivity. While specific inhalational challenges remain the gold standard for the diagnosis of occupational asthma, they are not available outside of specialized centers. Commonly available tests including bronchoprovocation challenges and peak flow monitoring are important tools for practicing clinicians. Management of sensitizer induced occupational asthma is notable for the central importance of removal from the causative agent: ideally, removal of the culprit agent; but if not feasible, this may require changes in the work process or ultimately, removal of the worker from the workplace. While workers' compensation programs may reduce income loss, these are not universal and there can be significant socio economic impact from work related asthma. Primary prevention remains the preferred method of reducing the burden of occupational asthma, which may include modification to work processes, better worker education and substitution of sensitizing agents from the workplace with safer compounds.", "corpus_id": 58616050, "venue": "Allergy, asthma immunology research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ambrose Lau", "Susan M Tarlo" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "44698700", "title": "[DRGs and standardization management of the occupational disease list and coding]", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 44698700, "venue": "Zhonghua lao dong wei sheng zhi ye bing za zhi Zhonghua laodong weisheng zhiyebing zazhi Chinese journal of industrial hygiene and occupational diseases", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Xiaogang Wang", "H Y Zhao", "Y H Feng" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "57730788", "title": "DRGs and standardization management of the occupational disease list and coding", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 57730788, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Wang Xf", "Zhao Hy", "Feng Yh" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "18139780", "title": "An Occupational Disease Assessment of the Mining Industry's Occupational Health and Safety Management System Based on FMEA and an Improved AHP Model", "abstract": "In order to effectively analyze, control, and prevent occupational health risk and ensure the reliability of the weight, a method based on FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and an improved AHP (analytic hierarchy process) model was established. The occupational disease of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS18001) of the mining industry in the southwest of Hubei Province is taken as an example, the three most significant risk factors (dust, noise, and gas) are selected as the research objects, the FMEA method is used, an expert questionnaire is carried out to establish the comprehensive assessment matrix of each indicator according to the RPN (risk priority number) value, and, finally, a case study is conducted through the FMEA and the improved AHP model The results show that the occupational disease of the mining industry's occupational health and safety management system belongs to a \"general\" grade, which is in line with the physical examination results of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ezhou City in 2015. The improved AHP and FMEA comprehensive assessment model of occupational disease is proved feasible. This method can be incorporated in the process management of the enterprise for the purpose of occupational disease prevention in advance and continuous improvement on the occupational health and safety of employees. Additionally, the area research on this integrated model should be optimized continually in actual situations.", "corpus_id": 18139780, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jiangdong Bao", "Jan Johansson", "Jingdong Zhang" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "6996480", "title": "[A cost benefit analysis of occupational disease reporting in China]", "abstract": "Objective: To perform a cost benefit analysis of the occupational disease reporting system in China, and to provide a basis for effective resource allocation. Methods: The data on the cost of occupational diseases were collected from China Health Statistics Yearbook 2013, the estimated benefit data were collected from published articles in China and foreign countries, and the probability data were collected from the occupational diseasereports published by health and family planning administrative departments. Adecision making tree was used for the cost benefit analysis. Results: The estimated cost of occupational disease reporting was about 102.47 million yuan/year, consisting of a cost of reporting in national medical institutions of 1.25 million yuan/year, a management cost of 30.35 million yuan/year, a management cost in local public health institutions of 69.80 million yuan/year, a management cost in national public health institutions of 370 thousand yuan/year, and a cost of construction and maintenance of reporting system of 700 thousand yuan/year. The results of the decision tree analysis showed that when an occupational disease monitoring system was established, the incremental input for occupational disease monitoring and prevention/control was 2.1 billion yuan/year, the output was 6.5 billion yuan/year, and the benefit of occupational disease reporting system was 4.4 billion yuan/year. Conclusion: The benefit of occupational disease reporting system depends on the cost benefit of occupational disease prevention and control measures, and proper prevention and control measures are extremely important for improving the benefit of occupational disease reporting system.", "corpus_id": 6996480, "venue": "Zhonghua lao dong wei sheng zhi ye bing za zhi Zhonghua laodong weisheng zhiyebing zazhi Chinese journal of industrial hygiene and occupational diseases", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "X Tang", "Q Zeng", "D Liu" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "146075685", "title": "Critical factors of success and barriers to the implementation of occupational health and safety management systems: A systematic review of literature", "abstract": "Abstract Occupational accidents and disease are events that can and should be controlled preventively by planning, organization and assessment of the performance of the means of control implemented. Excellence in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) depends on models that allow the adoption of preventive measures to reduce work related risks by proactive action to improve the workers' health, safety and satisfaction. The objective of this article was to verify success factors, barriers and indicators present in the process of implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System. A systematic review of literature was performed by two independent researchers, based on the protocol of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) After a search in the databases Scopus, Science Direct and Web of Science, applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 21 articles in English language, published between the years 2007 and 2018, remained in the final analysis. The results allowed evidencing the methodologies, tools and indicators used in OHS management. The analyses pointed out weaknesses in the existing models, particularly about the use of epidemiological indicators that allow helping the organizations to manage the occurrences with their workers proactively. A predominance of analysis was observed focusing on matters related to occupational safety to the detriment of analysis referring to occupational health which are given less enphasis.", "corpus_id": 146075685, "venue": "Safety Science", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sabrina Leticia Couto da Silva", "Fernando Goncalves Amaral" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "57758277", "title": "Risk factors and control strategies for silicotuberculosis as an occupational disease", "abstract": "Silicotuberculosis is critical in community settings among workers and employees exposed to silica dust. Older age of entry >30 years) male sex, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exposure duration, smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, migration, the severity of the silicosis and the intensity of the exposure are potential risk factors. Lack of timely diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) may also raise the rate of infection; previous treatment of TB is possibly associated with the development of silicotuberculosis in more than half of patients, increasing with age >40 years) Identification of risk factors benefits not only the academic research community, but also the workers or employees and policy making. Some strategies can be implemented, such as controlling or reducing exposure to silica dust, ensuring continuity of treatment of TB or extended anti TB treatment, management of the situation by occupational health professionals, prevention of oscillating migration, providing workers with compensation, training and education in occupational health, improving the quality of life of miners and workers, intensive medical surveillance and TB screening in routine health check ups, and policy making for higher immunity to inhibit inhalation of dust by workers or employees.", "corpus_id": 57758277, "venue": "New microbes and new infections", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Mohammad Shafiei", "Abdolmajid Ghasemian", "Majid Eslami", "Farshad Nojoomi", "Hossein Rajabi-vardanjani" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "58615472", "title": "Breast cancer risk by occupation and industry in women and men: Results from the Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS)", "abstract": "BACKGROUND The recently established Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS) was used to examine breast cancer risk in women and men by occupation and industry. METHODS Ontario workers in the ODSS cohort (1983 2016) were followed up for breast cancer diagnosis through the Ontario Cancer Registry. Cox proportional hazard models were used to calculate age adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) RESULTS A total of 17 865 and 492 cases were identified in working women (W) and men (M) respectively. Elevated risks were observed in management (W: HR 1.54, 95% CI 1.40 1.70; M: HR 2.79, 95% CI 1.44 5.39) administrative/clerical (W: HR 1.16, 95% CI 1.11 1.21; M: HR 1.45, 95% CI 1.06 1.99) and teaching (W: HR 1.54, 95% CI 1.44 1.63; M: HR 3.00, 95% CI 1.49 6.03) Other elevated risks were observed in nursing/health, social sciences, and janitor/cleaning services for both genders. CONCLUSIONS Common occupational associations in both genders warrant investigation into job related risk factors, such as sedentary behavior, shift work, ionizing radiation, and chemical exposures.", "corpus_id": 58615472, "venue": "American journal of industrial medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jeavana Sritharan", "Jill S Macleod", "Mamadou Dakouo", "Maria Qadri", "Christopher B McLeod", "Alice Peter", "Paul A Demers" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "214627845", "title": "Menopausal women's experiences of husband's support: A negative view.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE This study explores how menopausal women perceived supports provided by their husbands. METHODOLOGY Total of 13 menopausal women recruited using a combination of purposive and snowball techniques from two sources, tertiary hospital and local communities in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. The in depth semi structured interview guided was used to explore how they perceived supports provided by their husbands. The data were then analysed using a thematic analysis. RESULTS Five (5) themes have emerged which comprises of emotional, instrumental, appraisal, guidance, and sexual supports. One of which was a new theme (sexual intimacy support) that had not been existed previously in other literature reviews. CONCLUSION Majority of menopausal women perceived the supports provided by their husband were negative, rather than positive supports that they had hoped. These findings suggest that an education program tool for husbands as a support person is much needed to ensure women walk through the menopause phase in a more meaningful life.", "corpus_id": 214627845, "venue": "Enfermeria clinica", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain", "Zaharah Sulaiman", "Azidah Abdul Kadir", "Mohd Zarawi Mat Nor" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "232761399", "title": "Coping Strategies for Sexual Problems and Sexual Dysfunction Amongst Malay Women With Breast Cancer. A Qualitative Study", "abstract": "Introduction Women' sexuality becomes complex after breast cancer diagnosis and sexual health is highly neglected in the management of the illness. Aims To explore the coping and strategies to overcome sexuality problems and sexual dysfunction among women with breast cancer. Material and Methods Using the in depth and photo elicitation interview methods, this qualitative study following phenomenological analysis was conducted on fourteen married female respondents with breast cancer and had the positive result for female sexual dysfunction (FSD) screened by Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI 6 items) from Kelantan, Malaysia. The interviews data were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and managed in analytic computer software NVivo11 Pro. The transcriptions were analyzed using thematic analysis by referring to the meaning making theory. Main Outcome Measures We identified overlapping themes of coping and strategies among women with breast cancer to overcome sexual problems and sexual dysfunction which correspond with meaning making theory. Results Three themes have emerged. Women with breast cancer that developed sexuality problem and sexual dysfunction strived to accept the illness using religious belief and conform by altering sexual practices. These individuals positively look for a solution by seeking formal healthcare advice, modify their physical appearance, active discussion with the husband and support from other survivors. A few of them passively struggle with the subject by averting the intimacy and receptive toward polygamy. Conclusion This study highlighted the various mechanisms that emphasized the pivotal role of religious belief and relationship context as key factors in the coping strategies among women with breast cancer in Malaysia. The finding may not be generalized to other countries. Che Ya SN, Muhamad R, Zain NM, et al. Coping Strategies for Sexual Problems and Sexual Dysfunction Amongst Malay Women With Breast Cancer. A Qualitative Study. Sex Med 2021;9:100336.", "corpus_id": 232761399, "venue": "Sexual medicine", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Siti Nuryati Che Ya", "Rosediani Muhamad", "Norhasmah Mohd Zain", "Rosnani Zakaria", "Azlina Ishak", "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Imi Sairi Ab Hadi", "Maya Mazuwin Yahya", "Wah Yun Low", "Pranee Liamputtong" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "53780269", "title": "Long term effects of honey on cardiovascular parameters and anthropometric measurements of postmenopausal women.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE To investigate the long term effects of Tualang Honey versus Honey Cocktail (mixture of honey, bee bread, and royal jelly) on cardiovascular markers and anthropometric measurements of postmenopausal women. METHODS We conducted a randomised, double blinded, two armed parallel study comparing 20 g/day of Tualang Honey versus 20 g/day Honey Cocktail among postmenopausal women aged 45 65 years. The cardiovascular parameters and anthropometrics measurements were assessed at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months of the intervention. RESULTS 100 subjects were successfully randomised into the groups. There was a significant decrease in the diastolic blood pressure from 77.92 mmHg at baseline to 73.45 mmHg at 12 months (F statistic 2.55, p value 0.047) in the Tualang Honey group compared to Honey Cocktail. There was also a significant decrease in the fasting blood sugar from 6.11 mmol/L at baseline to 5.71 mmol/L at 12 months (F statistic 4.03, p value 0.021) in the Tualang Honey group compared to the Honey Cocktail group. The body mass index remained unchanged at 27 kg/m2 (F statistic 1.60, p value 0.010) throughout 12 months of the intervention in the Honey Cocktail group. CONCLUSION Subjects who received Honey Cocktail showed remarkable effects on body mass index. However, Tualang Honey supplementation showed superior effect in lowering diastolic blood pressure and fasting blood sugar compared to Honey Cocktail. Further studies are required to ascertain the underlying mechanism(s) of Tualang Honey and Honey Cocktail on each observed parameter.", "corpus_id": 53780269, "venue": "Complementary therapies in medicine", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Siti Zubaidah Ab Wahab", "Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain", "Rahimah Zakaria", "Azidah Abdul Kadir", "Norazlina Mohamed", "Noorlaili Mohd Tohit", "Mohd Noor Norhayati", "Intan Idiana Hassan" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "198294045", "title": "A Review of Spouse's Reactions to Menopausal Related Changes", "abstract": "Challenges faced by women during their menopausal phases do not only revolve around them, but also their respective spouse. Even though a considerable amount of literature has been published on menopausal context, to date, there is no published review paper regarding spouse's reaction toward menopausal related changes. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review literature and studies conducted that related to spouse's reaction to menopausal related changes. This review paper is based on multiple databases focusing on spouse's reactions and menopause. As a result, of the thoroughly reviewed literature, three classifications related to the context of spouse's reactions in menopausal phases have been found as the following; (i) types of reactions, (ii) internal and external factors and (iii) impacts on menopausal women and spouse. In conclusion, this review paper will provide useful information to develop effective health education module which involving spouses to ensure that menopausal women have a meaningful life throughout the menopausal phases.", "corpus_id": 198294045, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain", "Zaharah Sulaiman", "Mohd Zarawi Mat Nor", "Azidah Abdul Kadir" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "80364342", "title": "Effect of Health Education Program on Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Menopausal Women in Malaysia", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 80364342, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Hassan Intan Idiana", "Muhammad Irham Nordeena", "Ismail Shaiful Bahari", "KadirA Abdul", "Noor Norhayati Mohd", "Hussain Nik Hazlina Nik" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 4 }, { "doc_id": "49479552", "title": "Adaptation and Validation of the Malay Version of the Osteoarthritis Knee and Hip Quality of Life Questionnaire among Knee Osteoarthritis Patients", "abstract": "Objective To adapt and validate the Malay version of Osteoarthritis Knee and Hip Quality of Life (OAKHQOL) questionnaire. Design The OAKHQOL was adapted into Malay version using forward backward translation methodology. It was then validated in a cross sectional study of 191 patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) Patients completed the OAKHQOL and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) questionnaire. Confirmatory analysis, reliability analysis, and Pearson correlation test were performed. Results The new five factor model of 28 items demonstrated an acceptable level of goodness of fit (comparative fit index 0.915, Tucker Lewis index 0.905, incremental fit index 0.916, chi squared/degree of freedom 1.953, and root mean square error of approximation 0.071) signifying a fit model. The Cronbach's alpha value and the composite reliability of each construct ranged from 0.865 to 0.933 and 0.819 to 0.921, respectively. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the OAKHQOL and the WOMAC showed adequate criterion validity. Known groups validity showed statistical difference in body mass index in physical activity, mental health, and pain construct. The pain domain was statistically different between the age groups. Conclusion The Malay version OAKHQOL questionnaire is a valid and reliable instrument to assess health related quality of life in knee OA patients.", "corpus_id": 49479552, "venue": "BioMed research international", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Azidah Abdul Kadir", "Mohd Faizal Mohd Arif", "Azlina Ishak", "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Norhayati Mohd Noor" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "73005531", "title": "Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) A comparative study between nursing and medical students", "abstract": "In recent years, the popularity of using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a health care option has increased dramatically all over the world especially in developing countries. As Malaysian statistics showed an increased in chronic diseases among our population, the demand to consume CAM for healing process as well as in pursuit of health and well being also has increased. Thus it increased patient's interest to request more information from medical practitioners and nurses who are front health care providers. The objective of this study is to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of CAM among final year nursing and medical students in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) A cross sectional comparative study was conducted among final year medical and nursing students using self administered questionnaire. This study utilized the Knowledge Attitude Practice (KAP) model to explain how level of knowledge may reflect nursing and medical students' attitudes and practice of CAMs. There were 74 students participated where 33 of them were nursing students, and 41 were medical students. Independent t test was used to compare the KAP of CAM between both groups of students and there was a significant different. As a conclusion, this study revealed that nursing students were more knowledgeable about CAM, possessed positive attitudes, and more willing to practice CAM compared to medical students.", "corpus_id": 73005531, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Nurul Husna Abd Hadi", "Lean Keng Soon" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "19026719", "title": "The Effect of Channa striatus (Haruan) Extract on Pain and Wound Healing of Post Lower Segment Caesarean Section Women", "abstract": "Channa striatus has been consumed for decades as a remedy to promote wound healing by women during postpartum period. The objectives of this study were to compare postoperative pain, wound healing based on wound evaluation scale (WES) wound cosmetic appearance based on visual analogue scale (VAS) scores and patient satisfaction score (PSS) and safety profiles between C. striatus group and placebo group after six weeks of lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) delivery. A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study was conducted. Subjects were randomised in a ratio of 1 1 into either the C. striatus group (500 mg daily) or placebo group (500 mg of maltodextrin daily) 76 subjects were successfully randomised, with 38 in the C. striatus group and 35 in the placebo group. There were no significant differences in postoperative pain (p 0.814) and WES (p 0.160) between the C. striatus and placebo groups. However, VAS and PSS in the C. striatus group were significantly better compared with the placebo group (p 0.014 and p 0.001, resp. The safety profiles showed no significant differences between the groups. In conclusion, six week supplementation of 500 mg of C. striatus extract showed marked differences in wound cosmetic appearance and patient's satisfaction and is safe for human consumption.", "corpus_id": 19026719, "venue": "Evidence based complementary and alternative medicine eCAM", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Siti Zubaidah Ab Wahab", "Azidah Abdul Kadir", "Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain", "Julia Omar", "Rohaizan Yunus", "Saringat Baie", "Norhayati Mohd Noor", "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Wan Haslindawani Wan Mahmood", "Asrenee Abd Razak", "Wan Zahanim Wan Yusoff" ], "n_citations": 32, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "14184848", "title": "The Effect of Labisia pumila var. alata on Postmenopausal Women: A Pilot Study", "abstract": "This is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study comparing the effects of a water extract of Labisia pumila var. alata at 280 mg/day with placebo, given for 6 months in postmenopausal Malay women. There were 29 patients treated with Labisia pumila and 34 patients in the placebo group. Menopausal symptoms were assessed at baseline and at 6 months. The blood pressure, body mass index, waist circumference, fasting blood sugar, lipid profile, and hormonal profile (follicle stimulating hormone/luteinizing hormone/estradiol) were measured during visits every two months. ANCOVA model analysis showed significantly lower triglycerides levels in LP subjects at 6 months after treatment as compared to placebo (1.4 versus 1.9 mmol/L; adj. mean difference 0.5, 95% CI: 0.02, 0.89 after adjusted for the baseline values, age, BMI, and duration of menopause placebo) Other parameters in both groups did not differ significantly. In conclusion, daily intake of Labisia pumila at 280 mg/day for six months was found to provide benefit in reducing the triglyceride (TG) values.", "corpus_id": 14184848, "venue": "Evidence based complementary and alternative medicine eCAM", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Azidah Abdul Kadir", "Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain", "Wan Mohamad Wan Bebakar", "Dayang Marshitah Mohd", "Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Wan Mohammad", "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Norlela Shukor", "Nor Azmi Kamaruddin", "Wan Nazaimoon wan Mohamud" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "58655849", "title": "Complementary Alternative Medicines", "abstract": "This comparative study aims to identify and compare nursing and medical student's knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) There were 74 students (33 nursing students and 41 medical students) randomly selected to participate in this study and a self administered questionnaire was given and collected at the same time. Independent t test was used and p value 0.05 was accepted statistically significant. The finding from this study revealed that overall, nursing students were more knowledgeable about CAMs, possessed positive attitudes, and more willing to practice CAMs in clinical area compared to medical students. Null hypothesis was rejected at 5% significant level. It is suggested that the inclusion of CAM in nursing curriculum will prepare nursing student as a good future nurses who is knowledgeable to respond patient's questions related to CAM therapies.", "corpus_id": 58655849, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Intan Idiana Hassan", "Nurul Husna Abd Hadi", "Soon Lean Keng" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "37298732", "title": "What Secondary School Career Advisors in New Zealand Know about Pharmacy and How that Knowledge Affects Student Career Choices", "abstract": "Objective. To explore what career advisors at secondary schools (high schools) in New Zealand know about the pharmacy profession, how they obtain that knowledge, and what their potential influence is on students' decisions to study pharmacy. Methods. This study employed a cross sectional questionnaire design. A postal questionnaire was sent to 250 randomly selected secondary schools in New Zealand. Results. The response rate was 112/248 (45% Responding career advisors were familiar with many of the roles of pharmacists (mean knowledge score 11.5 out of 16) Over 90% of career advisors were familiar with the roles of pharmacists in the community setting; however, many had a poorer understanding of other pharmacist roles. One suggestion for improving the promotion of pharmacy within secondary schools was a greater involvement of pharmacists and pharmacy students in the promotion of pharmacy as a profession. Conclusion. Career advisors need a broader understanding of the potential roles of pharmacists. Increasing contact from practicing pharmacists and undergraduate pharmacy students are potential ways of increasing student interest in pharmacy.", "corpus_id": 37298732, "venue": "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Trudi J Aspden", "Rachel Cooper", "Yue Liu", "Munyaradzi Marowa", "Christine Rubio", "E J Waterhouse", "Janie L Sheridan" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "144688161", "title": "Ethical Learning Experiences and Engagement in Academic Dishonesty: A Study of Asian and European Pharmacy and Medical Students in New Zealand", "abstract": "In higher education in New Zealand, there is a burgeoning interest in, and concern with, the way students conduct themselves in their learning practices. Engagement in academically honest and dishonest behaviours is a crucial area of study within higher education. To operationalize effective teaching and assessment, it is critically important to consider how different ethnic groups operate within the learning environment when preparing for, and completing, assessments. The present study investigated differences between two ethnic groups studying in New Zealand (Asian and European) with respect to their disclosures of academic dishonesty and engagement with ethical learning experiences (ELE) Responses from 312 pharmacy and medical students were analysed in this study. A questionnaire was designed to elicit responses about engagement in academic dishonesty and ELEs. The findings emphasise that there were low rates of engagement in academically dishonest behaviours by both groups and there were no differences in disclosure of cheating and ELE. The findings showed small but significant differences between Asian and European students with respect to disclosure in the areas of copying and collusion. Subtle interactions were also noted for ethnicity and year of study, and ethnicity and gender, indicating that later year students diverged more than earlier year students and differences were more apparent amongst male students. Lastly, the findings showed that those students who read the student code of conduct were more likely to engage in academically 'honest' behaviours. These findings have implications for educationalists throughout the world, and it is possible that the hidden curriculum is playing a strong role in reframing the notion and practice of ethical conduct.", "corpus_id": 144688161, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Marcus A Henning", "Phillipa J Malpas", "Emmanuel Manalo", "Sanya Ram", "V Vijayakumar", "Susan J Hawken" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "19271480", "title": "The state of quality improvement and patient safety teaching in health professional education in New Zealand.", "abstract": "AIM To investigate how quality and patient safety domains are being taught in the pre registration curricula of health profession education programmes in New Zealand. METHODS All tertiary institutions providing training for medicine, nursing, midwifery, dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, dietetics and 11 other allied health professions in New Zealand were contacted and a person with relevant curriculum knowledge was invited to participate. Interviews were conducted using a semi structured interview guide to explore nine quality and safety domains; improvement science, patient safety, quality and safety culture, evidence based practice, patient centred care, teamwork and communication, leadership for change, systems thinking and use of information technology (IT) Transcribed data were extracted and categorised by discipline and domain. Two researchers independently identified and categorised themes within each domain, using a general inductive approach. RESULTS Forty nine institutions were contacted and 43 (88% people were interviewed. The inclusion and extent of quality and safety teaching was variable. Evidence based practice, patient centred care and teamwork and communication were the strongest domains and well embedded in programmes, while leadership, systems thinking and the role of IT were less explicitly included. Except for two institutions, improvement science was absent from pre registration curricula. Patient safety teaching was focused mainly around incident reporting, and to a lesser extent learning from adverse events. Although a 'no blame' culture was articulated as important, the theme of individual accountability was still apparent. While participants agreed that all domains were important, the main barriers to incorporating improvement science and patient safety concepts into existing programmes included an 'already stretched curriculum' and having faculty with limited expertise in these areas. CONCLUSIONS Although the building blocks for improving the quality and safety of healthcare are present, this national study of multiple health professional pre registration education programmes has identified teaching gaps in patient safety and improvement science methods and tools. Failure to address these gaps will compromise the ability of new graduates to successfully implement and sustain improvements.", "corpus_id": 19271480, "venue": "The New Zealand medical journal", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Gillian Robb", "Iwona H Stolarek", "Susan Wells", "Gillian Bohm" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "30853870", "title": "Veterinary Pharmaceutics: An Opportunity for Interprofessional Education in New Zealand?", "abstract": "Globally pharmacists are becoming increasingly involved in veterinary medicine; however, little is known about the level of interest for pharmacists playing a larger role in animal treatment in New Zealand. A key stakeholder in any progression of pharmacists becoming more involved in the practice of veterinary pharmacy is the veterinary profession. The aim of this study was to investigate views of veterinarians and veterinary students on the role of pharmacists supporting veterinarians with advice on animal medicines. Open interviews were conducted with veterinarians in Dunedin, New Zealand. Veterinary students at Massey University completed an online survey. Most veterinarians do not have regular communication with pharmacists regarding animal care, but believe it may be beneficial. In order to support veterinarians, pharmacists would need further education in veterinary medicine. Veterinary students believe there is opportunity for collaboration between professions provided that pharmacists have a better working knowledge of animal treatment. Most of the veterinary students surveyed perceive a gap in their knowledge concerning animal medicines, specifically pharmacology and compounding. While there is support for pharmacists contributing to veterinary medicine, particularly in the area of pharmaceutics, this is currently limited in New Zealand due to a lack of specialized education opportunities.", "corpus_id": 30853870, "venue": "Pharmaceutics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Arlene McDowell", "R Beard", "A D Brightmore", "Lisa W Lu", "A McKay", "Maadhuri Mistry", "Kate Owen", "Emma Swan", "Jessica Young" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "44806491", "title": "Inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) teaching into pharmacy curricula a cross sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand Schools/Department of pharmacy", "abstract": "Background: With the increased usage of CAM worldwide comes the demand for its integration into health professional education. As primary care providers pharmacists are at the forefront, providing information and guidance to patients about safe and effective use of all medicines, including complementary medicines. Surveys of Australian community pharmacists show that their CAM training does not meet their professional needs and that their lack of suitable training prevents information provision on CAM. Similarly, student surveys mostly show that graduates don't feel comfortable with CAM counselling. Although most pharmacy Schools in Australia and New Zealand offer some form of CAM training, the extent to which CAM is taught and integrated varies widely due to the fact that its integration is not a unifying requirement and is handled quite differently at amongst institutions. This study evaluates the scope of CAM teaching in pharmacy programs in Australia and New Zealand's Schools of Pharmacy. Methods: All 18 Schools/Departments offering Pharmacy programs in New Zealand and Australia were invited to participate in a 30 item cross sectional survey in 2010. Ethical clearance for the study was obtained through Griffith University's Human Research Ethics Committee. Survey Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 18.0. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means standard deviations and ranges were used to summarise the data. For the Likert responses, all responses with any degree of agreement were grouped together as positive responses, and all responses with any degree of disagreement were grouped together as negative response. T tests and chi square were used to analyse differences as appropriate. Results were considered significant when the p value was less than 0.05. Results: Ten Schools responded, 9 from Australia and 1 from a New Zealand. All except 1 reported integrating CAM teaching into the curriculum. Three Schools stated that they will be changing content, but no school was going to decrease the CAM content. During the whole pharmacy degree on average only 22h (including lectures, workshops, tutorials etc. were taught on CAM with a larger proportion of Schools (67% offering less than 22h of CAM content. Similarly, in the majority of Schools CAM content was included in less than 50% of assessment items. Only 5 Schools included CAM tasks into placement exercises. A thorough content analysis showed that the CAM content varied significantly between Schools in some areas, and that content currently taught was quite different from what the participating academics thought was essential. As CAM information sources the majority of Schools recommended professional pharmacy reference books and general websites rather than specific evidence based CAM websites. Academics responsible for CAM teaching had very different levels of employment and expertise with only one School reporting on a dedicated chair in the CAM discipline. Participating academics did not agree on the necessity of preceptor and school staff CAM training. Conclusion: The findings in this study suggest that more consideration should be given to appropriate and comprehensive CAM content in pharmacy curricula across Australia and New Zealand to meet the professional and care needs of pharmacists and their patients, respectively. At a minimum it should provide the impetus for an open debate regarding what level of CAM education is sufficient in pharmacy curricula.", "corpus_id": 44806491, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Evelin Tiralongo" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "72146922", "title": "Undergraduate Pharmacy Education in the United States and New Zealand: Towards a Core Curriculum?", "abstract": "In recent years, bodies such as the World Health Organisation have attempted to provide guidance to pharmacyeducators on the preparation of students for future careers in pharmacy. Although a global core curriculum has not been defined, there appears to be wide consensus on the knowledge, skills and attributes that a modern pharmacygradu ate should possess. The undergraduate pharmacy programmes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC CH) and at the Universityof Otago (Otago) are described and evaluated here in the context of global developments. These programmes broadly represent the \"American\" and \"British\" models of pharmacy education, respectively. Despite many similarities,there are also major differences. These include:a separatepreregistration year (Otago) a high degree of in course experiential Work (UNC CH) a greater\"practice\"orientationat UNC CH and a corresponding\"science\" orientation at Otago; and the nature of the qualification (PharmD at UNC CH, BPharm at Otago)", "corpus_id": 72146922, "venue": "", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "John P Shaw" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "7154406", "title": "Observations on pharmacy practice and advanced pharmacy education in New Zealand.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 7154406, "venue": "American journal of hospital pharmacy", "year": 1991, "author_names": [ "John E Murphy", "Peter F Coville", "Rosemary Beresford", "B Ellis" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "76616853", "title": "Study on Accreditation of Pharmacy Degree Course in Australia and New Zealand", "abstract": "Pharmaceutical education in Australia has been 100 years old.Australia began the accreditation in 2000. The standards and procedures of the accreditation provide a good reference to the scheme design of accreditation in China.", "corpus_id": 76616853, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Wu Xiaoming" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "35238928", "title": "Smoking cessation education increases interventions in a New Zealand hospital: World No Tobacco Day revisited.", "abstract": "AIM To review the impact of educational and other measures on smoking cessation interventions delivered in a New Zealand hospital setting. METHODS The usage of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for inpatients was assessed by data gathered from the hospital pharmacy for a period before and after these educational measures. RESULTS Quarterly teaching sessions for house surgeons, monthly Effective Brief Intervention sessions for clinical staff and quarterly respiratory nurse training were delivered based on The New Zealand Guidelines for Smoking Cessation. In addition the Hutt Valley District Health Board (HVDHB) Smokefree Policy was revised from a business model to a treatment model. Over the 18 months after the educational initiatives were commenced the numbers of NRT units used in Hutt Hospital rose from a baseline of 768 to 3712 a fourfold increase. CONCLUSION The increase in NRT usage could be attributed to educative measures put in place. There is an opportunity for similar smoking cessation interventions to exist New Zealand wide; this could have a significant impact on reducing chronic disease.", "corpus_id": 35238928, "venue": "The New Zealand medical journal", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Stephen Vega", "Iwona Stolare" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13688257", "title": "Service provision in the wake of a new funding model for community pharmacy", "abstract": "BackgroundRecently, New Zealand has taken a system wide approach providing the biggest reform to New Zealand community pharmacy for 70 years with the aim of providing more clinically orientated patient centred services through a new funding model. The aim of this study was to understand the types of services offered in New Zealand community pharmacies since introduction of the new funding model, what the barriers are to providing these services.MethodA survey of all community pharmacies were undertaken between August, 2014 and February, 2015. Basic descriptive statistics were completed and group comparisons were made using the chi squared test with significance set at p 0.05.Results528 responses were received. Education and advice on prescription and non prescription medicines were the two top listed services provided. There were no significant differences in service provision between rural and metro based pharmacies. Many pharmacies were considering introducing new patient centred services. Four of the top ten frequently provided services have no public funding attached. Costs and staff availability are the most common barriers to undertake services, more predominantly in patient centred services.ConclusionThis study was the first to provide an evaluation of service provision in response to a new funding model for New Zealand Community Pharmacies. A broad range of services are being undertaken in New Zealand community pharmacies including patient centred services. A number of barriers to service provision were identified. This study provides a baseline for the current levels of service provision upon which future studies can compare to and evaluate any changes in service provision with differing funding models going forward.", "corpus_id": 13688257, "venue": "BMC Health Services Research", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Alesha J Smith", "Shane L Scahill", "Jeff Harrison", "Tilley Carroll", "Natalie J Medlicott" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "54167075", "title": "M2 macrophages and regulatory T cells in lethal prostate cancer", "abstract": "Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the world. Emerging evidence suggests that inflammatory cells such as M2 macrophages and regulatory T cells (Tregs) can contribute to cancer progression by suppressing the anti tumor immune response. This study investigated the number of CD163 positive M2 macrophages in PCa tissue. It also investigated the correlation and interaction of M2 macrophages and Tregs.", "corpus_id": 54167075, "venue": "The Prostate", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ann Erlandsson", "Jessica Carlsson", "Marie Lundholm", "Anna Falt", "Sven-Olof Andersson", "Ove Andren", "Sabina Davidsson" ], "n_citations": 53, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58014293", "title": "The anticancer potential of metformin on prostate cancer", "abstract": "BackgroundProstate cancer (PCa) is characterized as the most frequent type of cancer in males. Recent research has suggested patients who have diabetes mellitus taking metformin (MF) have a lower risk of PCa. MF has antineoplastic effects such as adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK) dependent and independent mechanisms, suppression of androgen signaling pathway, and alterations of insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF 1) signaling pathways that cause the growth and proliferation of PCa. Based on epidemiological factors, patients with diabetes mellitus may have a protective effect on PCa.MethodsA literature search on MEDLINE(r) was conducted using a combined query of \"prostate cancer\" and \"metformin\" to yield publications unveiling the mechanisms of action, biological effects, epidemiological evidence, and research advances of MF with respect to PCa.ResultsEvidence has shown that MF has multiple antineoplastic effects through AMPK dependent and independent mechanisms, the alteration of IGF 1 signaling pathways, suppression of the androgen receptor pathway, inhibition of the mTOR pathway, and lipogenesis. Conduction of meta analysis suggests mortality benefit to patients who exhibit PCa when taking MF. Clinical trials have shown evidence, demonstrating MF to improving significantly.ConclusionsHerewith we review the literature regarding the numerous mechanisms of action of MF on PCa in order to decrease or repress the growth, proliferation, and differentiation of PCa cells. We analyze the molecular impacts of MF as well as adjunct therapies such as androgen deprivation therapy, aspirin, statin, or chemotherapy, proposing that MF may have a future role in the treatment protocol of PCa whether as a monotherapy or in combination with other drugs.", "corpus_id": 58014293, "venue": "Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Saher Zaidi", "Jason Gandhi", "Gunjan Joshi", "Noel L Smith", "Sardar Ali Khan" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "52056439", "title": "Androgen targeted therapy in men with prostate cancer: evolving practice and future considerations", "abstract": "BackgroundAndrogen deprivation therapy (ADT) is foundational in the management of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) and has benefitted from a recent explosion in scientific advances. These include approval of new therapies that suppress testosterone (T) levels or inactivate its function, improvements in diagnostic and assay technologies, identification of lower therapeutic targets for T, discovery of the relevance of germline genetic mutations and identification of the benefits of sequential and combination therapies.MethodsThis review discusses the clinical profiles of the most up to date options for ADT, best practices for managing patients with advanced PCa and future directions in therapy.Results and conclusionsModern assay technologies reveal that bilateral orchiectomy results in a serum T level of approximately 15 ng/dL as compared to the historical definition of castration of T 50 ng/dL. Evidence shows that lowering T levels to <20 ng/dL improves patient survival and delays disease progression. Routine monitoring of T in addition to prostate specific antigen throughout treatment is important to ensure continuing efficacy of T suppression. New drugs that inhibit androgen signaling in combination with traditional ADT suppress T activity to near zero and have significantly improved patient survival. When personalizing ADT regimens physicians should consider a number of factors including initiation and duration of ADT, monitoring of T levels and PSA, the possibility of switching monotherapies if a patient does not achieve adequate T suppression, and consideration of intermittent vs. continuous ADT according to patients' lifestyles, comorbidities, risk factors and tolerance to treatment.", "corpus_id": 52056439, "venue": "Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "E David Crawford", "Axel Heidenreich", "Nathan L Lawrentschuk", "Bertrand Tombal", "Antonio Carlos L Pompeo", "Arturo Mendoza-Valdes", "Kurt Miller", "Frans M J Debruyne", "Laurence H Klotz" ], "n_citations": 77, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "40083005", "title": "Estrogen receptor signaling in prostate cancer: Implications for carcinogenesis and tumor progression", "abstract": "The androgen receptor (AR) is the classical target for prostate cancer prevention and treatment, but more recently estrogens and their receptors have also been implicated in prostate cancer development and tumor progression.", "corpus_id": 40083005, "venue": "The Prostate", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Helmut Bonkhoff" ], "n_citations": 67, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3407704", "title": "Intraductal/ductal histology and lymphovascular invasion are associated with germline DNA repair gene mutations in prostate cancer", "abstract": "Germline mutations in genes mediating DNA repair are common in men with recurrent and advanced prostate cancer, and their presence may alter prognosis and management. We aimed to define pathological and clinical characteristics associated with germline DNA repair gene mutations, to facilitate selection of patients for germline testing.", "corpus_id": 3407704, "venue": "The Prostate", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Pedro Isaacsson Velho", "Jonathan L Silberstein", "Mark C Markowski", "Jun Luo", "Tamara L Lotan", "William B Isaacs", "Emmanuel S Antonarakis" ], "n_citations": 56, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "44108679", "title": "68Ga PSMA PET/CT vs. mpMRI for locoregional prostate cancer staging: correlation with final histopathology", "abstract": "BackgroundProstate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) can be used to locate lesions based on PSMA avidity, however guidelines on its use are limited by its infancy. We aimed to compare multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) and PSMA PET/CT to prostatectomy histopathology.MethodsWe conducted a chart review from February 2015 to January 2017 of 50 male patients staged for prostate cancer using PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI who then underwent radical prostatectomy. Pre operative PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI were paired with corresponding histopathology. Correlations, sensitivity, and specificity were used for comparisons.ResultsA total of 81 lesions were confirmed by histopathology. Fifty index lesions were detected by histopathology, all of which were detected by PSMA PET/CT (100% detection) and 47 by mpMRI (94% detection) Thirty one histologically confirmed secondary lesions were detected, 29 of which were detected by PSMA PET/CT (93.5% detection) and 16 by mpMRI (51.6% detection) PSMA had better sensitivity for index lesion localization than mpMRI (81.1 vs. 64.8% Specificity was similar for PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI (84.6 vs. 82.7%.SUVmax of index lesions ranged from 2.9 to 39.6 (M 9.27 6.41) Index lesion SUVmax was positively correlated with PSA (rho 0.48, p 0.001) and ISUP grade (rho 0.51, p 0.001).ConclusionsPSMA PET/CT provided superior detection of prostate cancer lesions with better sensitivity than mpMRI. PSMA PET/CT can be used to enhance locoregional mpMRI to provide improved detection and characterization of lesions.", "corpus_id": 44108679, "venue": "Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Israel Berger", "Chandra Annabattula", "J Lewis", "Deepa Shetty", "Jonathan Kam", "Fiona M MacLean", "Mohan Arianayagam", "Bertram Canagasingham", "Richard Ferguson", "Mohamed H Khadra", "Raymond Ko", "Matthew W Winter", "Han Loh", "Celi Varol" ], "n_citations": 51, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "51908944", "title": "Movember GAP1 PDX project: An international collection of serially transplantable prostate cancer patient derived xenograft (PDX) models", "abstract": "While it has been challenging to establish prostate cancer patient derived xenografts (PDXs) with a take rate of 10 40% and long latency time, multiple groups throughout the world have developed methods for the successful establishment of serially transplantable human prostate cancer PDXs using a variety of immune deficient mice. In 2014, the Movember Foundation launched a Global Action Plan 1 (GAP1) project to support an international collaborative prostate cancer PDX program involving eleven groups. Between these Movember consortium members, a total of 98 authenticated human prostate cancer PDXs were available for characterization. Eighty three of these were derived directly from patient material, and 15 were derived as variants of patient derived material via serial passage in androgen deprived hosts. A major goal of the Movember GAP1 PDX project was to provide the prostate cancer research community with a summary of both the basic characteristics of the 98 available authenticated serially transplantable human prostate cancer PDX models and the appropriate contact information for collaborations. Herein, we report a summary of these PDX models.", "corpus_id": 51908944, "venue": "The Prostate", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Nora M Navone", "Wytske M van Weerden", "Robert L Vessella", "Elizabeth D Williams", "Yuzhuo Wang", "John T Isaacs", "Holly M Nguyen", "Zoran Culig", "Gabri van der Pluijm", "Cyrill A Rentsch", "Rute B Marques", "Corrina M A de Ridder", "Lukas Bubendorf", "George N Thalmann", "W Nathaniel Brennen", "Frederic R Santer", "Patrizia Lucia Moser", "Peter Shepherd", "Eleni Efstathiou", "Hui Xue", "Dong xian Lin", "Jeroen T Buijs", "Tjalling Bosse", "Anne T Collins", "Norman J Maitland", "Mark Buzza", "Michelle M Kouspou", "Ariel H Achtman", "Renea A Taylor", "Gail P Risbridger", "Eva Corey" ], "n_citations": 48, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "49666728", "title": "Compositional differences in gastrointestinal microbiota in prostate cancer patients treated with androgen axis targeted therapies", "abstract": "BackgroundIt is well known that the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota can influence the metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and toxicity of cancer therapies. Conversely, the effect of cancer treatments on the composition of the GI microbiota is poorly understood. We hypothesized that oral androgen receptor axis targeted therapies (ATT) including bicalutamide, enzalutamide, and abiraterone acetate, may be associated with compositional differences in the GI microbiota.MethodsWe profiled the fecal microbiota in a cross sectional study of 30 patients that included healthy male volunteers and men with different clinical states of prostate cancer (i.e. localized, biochemically recurrent, and metastatic disease) using 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing. Functional inference of identified taxa was performed using PICRUSt.ResultsWe report a significant difference in alpha diversity in GI microbiota among men with versus without a prostate cancer diagnosis. Further analysis identified significant compositional differences in the GI microbiota of men taking ATT, including a greater abundance of species previously linked to response to anti PD 1 immunotherapy such as Akkermansia muciniphila and Ruminococcaceae spp. In functional analyses, we found an enriched representation of bacterial gene pathways involved in steroid biosynthesis and steroid hormone biosynthesis in the fecal microbiota of men taking oral ATT.ConclusionsThere are measurable differences in the GI microbiota of men receiving oral ATT. We speculate that oral hormonal therapies for prostate cancer may alter the GI microbiota, influence clinical responses to ATT, and/or potentially modulate the antitumor effects of future therapies including immunotherapy. Given our findings, larger, longitudinal studies are warranted.", "corpus_id": 49666728, "venue": "Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Karen S Sfanos", "Mark C Markowski", "Lauren B Peiffer", "Sarah E Ernst", "James Robert White", "Kenneth J Pienta", "Emmanuel S Antonarakis", "Ashley E Ross" ], "n_citations": 44, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "23599503", "title": "GOLM1 promotes prostate cancer progression through activating PI3K AKT mTOR signaling", "abstract": "Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men. Various molecular mechanisms account for PCa progression and elucidation of these mechanisms is key for selection of optimal therapies and improvement of patient outcome. Golgi membrane protein 1 (GOLM1) has been identified as a novel biomarker for PCa, but its biological functions and molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood.", "corpus_id": 23599503, "venue": "The Prostate", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Guang Yan", "Yi Ru", "Kerong Wu", "Fengqi Yan", "Qin-hao Wang", "Jingxiang Wang", "Tao Pan", "Mei Zhang", "Hua Han", "Xia Li", "Lian Zou" ], "n_citations": 42, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13790239", "title": "Annual Report to the Nation on the status of cancer, 1975 2010, featuring prevalence of comorbidity and impact on survival among persons with lung, colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer", "abstract": "The American Cancer Society (ACS) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States. This year's report includes the prevalence of comorbidity at the time of first cancer diagnosis among patients with lung, colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer and survival among cancer patients based on comorbidity level.", "corpus_id": 13790239, "venue": "Cancer", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Brenda K Edwards", "Anne-Michelle Noone", "Angela B Mariotto", "Edgar P Simard", "Francis P Boscoe", "S Jane Henley", "Ahmedin Jemal", "Hyunsoon Cho", "Robert Nelson Anderson", "Betsy Kohler", "Christie R Eheman", "Elizabeth M Ward" ], "n_citations": 1465, "n_key_citations": 26, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "216554877", "title": "A novel cyber security framework leveraging programmable capabilities in digital services", "abstract": "The introduction of new computing and networking paradigms, which leverage virtualization and service oriented architectures, has brought far more agility than ever in the creation and concatenation of digital services. Yet it raises new security and privacy concerns that cannot be properly tackled by existing tools and models. In this paper, we briefly review the main characteristics of emerging digital services, point out open cyber security challenges, and discuss the need to include cyber security programmable capabilities in every digital component. We also describe a novel framework for managing such functions and implement multiple security services for complex business chains.", "corpus_id": 216554877, "venue": "ITASEC", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Matteo Repetto", "Alessandro Carrega", "Armend Duzha" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "218549951", "title": "On the Performance of Detecting Injection of Fabricated Messages into the CAN Bus", "abstract": "There have been several public demonstrations of attacks on connected vehicles showing the ability of an attacker to take control of a targeted vehicle by injecting messages into their CAN bus. In this paper, using injected speed reading and RPM reading messages in in motion vehicle, we examine the ability of the Pearson correlation and the unsupervised learning methods k means clustering and HMM to differentiate 'no attack' and 'under attack' states of the given vehicle. We found that the Pearson correlation distinguishes the two states, the k means clustering method has an acceptable accuracy but high false positive rate and HMM detects attacks with acceptable detection rate but has a high false positive in detecting attacks from speed readings when there is no attack. The accuracy of these unsupervised learning methods are comparable to the ones of the supervised learning methods used by CAN bus IDS suppliers. In addition, the paper shows that studying CAN anomaly detection techniques using off vehicle test facilities may not properly evaluate the performance of the detection techniques. The results suggest using other features besides the data content of the CAN messages and integrate knowledge about how the ECU collaborate in building effective techniques for the detection of injection of fabricated message attacks.", "corpus_id": 218549951, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Lotfi Ben Othmane", "Lalitha Dhulipala", "Nicholas J Multari", "Manimaran Govindarasu" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "214215373", "title": "Efecto de la suspension en la estabilidad al vuelco y direccionamiento de robots moviendose sobre discontinuidades de terreno", "abstract": "This article studies the effect produced by the suspension system in tip over stability and steerability of a Skid Steer mobile robot, when it faces different terrain discontinuities: descent (front and side) and ascent on steps, plus displacement over ditches. Specifically, the moment was studied when impact loads producted by the robot's movement on the irregularity of the terrain are generated. In each case, a correlational analysis was made about the effect in tip over stability and steerability (quantified with metrics based on the reaction forces of the wheels with the ground) by varying four parameters that define the suspension system: stiffness constant in the springs, damping constant in the dampers and the stiffness and damping constants in the wheels. Finally, it was estimated for each case, what magnitudes these parameters should acquire to ensure better stability and steerability of robot.", "corpus_id": 214215373, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "A Valero", "A Bohorquez" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212671625", "title": "Dismantling DST80 based Immobiliser Systems", "abstract": "Car manufacturers deploy vehicle immobiliser systems in order to prevent car theft. However, in many cases the underlying cryptographic primitives used to authenticate a transponder are proprietary in nature and thus not open to public scrutiny. In this paper we publish the proprietary Texas Instruments DST80 cipher used in immobilisers of several manufacturers. Additionally, we expose serious flaws in immobiliser systems of major car manufacturers such as Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Tesla. Specifically, by voltage glitching the firmware protection mechanisms of the microcontroller, we extracted the firmware from several immobiliser ECUs and reverse engineered the key diversification schemes employed within. We discovered that Kia and Hyundai immobiliser keys have only three bytes of entropy and that Toyota only relies on publicly readable information such as the transponder serial number and three constants to generate cryptographic keys. Furthermore, we present several practical attacks which can lead to recovering the full 80 bit cryptographic key in a matter of seconds or permanently disabling the transponder. Finally, even without key management or configuration issues, we demonstrate how an attacker can recover the cryptographic key using a profiled side channel attack. We target the key loading procedure and investigate the practical applicability in the context of portability. Our work once again highlights the issues automotive vendors face in implementing cryptography securely.", "corpus_id": 212671625, "venue": "IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Lennert Wouters", "Jan Van den Herrewegen", "Flavio D Garcia", "David Oswald", "Benedikt Gierlichs", "Bart Preneel" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211561060", "title": "Novel Deception Techniques for Malware Detection on Industrial Control Systems", "abstract": "To maintain the availability of industrial control systems (ICS) it is important to robustly detect malware infection that spreads within the ICS network. In ICS, a host often communicates with the determined hosts; for instance, a supervisory control host observes and controls the same devices routinely via the network. Therefore, a communication request to the unused internet protocol (IP) address space, i.e. darknet, in the ICS network is likely to be caused by malware in the compromised host in the network. That is, darknet monitoring may enable us to detect malware that tries to spread indiscriminately within the network. On the other hand, advanced malware, such as malware determining target hosts of infection with reference to host lists in the networks, infects the confined hosts in the networks, and consequently evades detection by security sensors or honeypots. In this paper, we propose novel deception techniques that lure such malware to our sensor, by embedding the sensor information continuously in the lists of hosts in the ICS networks. In addition, the feasibility of the proposed deception techniques is shown through our simplified implementation by using actual malware samples: WannaCry and Conficker.", "corpus_id": 211561060, "venue": "IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Takanori Machida", "Dai Yamamoto", "Yuki Unno", "Hisashi Kojima" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216230805", "title": "Trump's Foreign Policy and International Trade Law", "abstract": "Donald Trump has based his Foreign Policy in the area of international trade on two main objectives. The first one seeks to promote \"fair trade\" in order to bring down trade deficits, restore reciprocity and balance in the trade relations of the United States with its trading partners and defend American commercial interests against and/or beyond other countries interests. On the second place, Trump's Foreign Policy intends to stop the de location of productive activities from the United States and create new jobs to foster a strong and growing domestic economy. The concrete fulfilment of these objectives have shaken deeply the most central foundations of International Trade Law: a normative system build after the Second World War to give legal basis and regulate the economic relations between states in the new international liberal order. In the first place, Trump's Foreign Policy's neo protectionism represents a frontal attack on free trade, as a dominant paradigm of International Trade Law. In the second place, the avowed bilateralism of this Policy is the exact opposite of the multilateralism, promoted by the norms and institutions of International Trade Law. Both neo protectionism and bilateralism manifest a broader crisis of States' cooperation in the Post World War II international liberal order.", "corpus_id": 216230805, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Virdzhiniya Petrova Georgieva" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216111105", "title": "Evaluation of CAN Bus Security Challenges", "abstract": "The automobile industry no longer relies on pure mechanical systems; instead, it benefits from many smart features based on advanced embedded electronics. Although the rise in electronics and connectivity has improved comfort, functionality, and safe driving, it has also created new attack surfaces to penetrate the in vehicle communication network, which was initially designed as a close loop system. For such applications, the Controller Area Network (CAN) is the most widely used communication protocol, which still suffers from various security issues because of the lack of encryption and authentication. As a result, any malicious/hijacked node can cause catastrophic accidents and financial loss. This paper analyses the CAN bus comprehensively to provide an outlook on security concerns. It also presents the security vulnerabilities of the CAN and a state of the art attack surface with cases of implemented attack scenarios and goes through different solutions that assist in attack prevention, mainly based on an intrusion detection system (IDS)", "corpus_id": 216111105, "venue": "Sensors", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mehmet Bozdal", "Mohammad Samie", "Sohaib Aslam", "Ian K Jennions" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "215733875", "title": "Integration of Novel Sensors and Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance in Medium Voltage Switchgear to Enable the Energy and Mobility Revolutions", "abstract": "The development of renewable energies and smart mobility has profoundly impacted the future of the distribution grid. An increasing bidirectional energy flow stresses the assets of the distribution grid, especially medium voltage switchgear. This calls for improved maintenance strategies to prevent critical failures. Predictive maintenance, a maintenance strategy relying on current condition data of assets, serves as a guideline. Novel sensors covering thermal, mechanical, and partial discharge aspects of switchgear, enable continuous condition monitoring of some of the most critical assets of the distribution grid. Combined with machine learning algorithms, the demands put on the distribution grid by the energy and mobility revolutions can be handled. In this paper, we review the current state of the art of all aspects of condition monitoring for medium voltage switchgear. Furthermore, we present an approach to develop a predictive maintenance system based on novel sensors and machine learning. We show how the existing medium voltage grid infrastructure can adapt these new needs on an economic scale.", "corpus_id": 215733875, "venue": "Sensors", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Martin W Hoffmann", "Stephan Wildermuth", "Ralf Gitzel", "Aydin Boyaci", "Jorg Gebhardt", "Holger Kaul", "Ido Amihai", "Bodo Forg", "Michael Suriyah", "Thomas Leibfried", "Volker Stich", "Jan Hicking", "Martin Bremer", "Lars Kaminski", "Daniel Beverungen", "Philipp zur Heiden", "Tanja Tornede" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219106531", "title": "Five Maturity Levels of Managing AI: From Isolated Ignorance to Integrated Intelligence", "abstract": "To guide future discussions about managing artificial intelligence (AI) this article suggests an AI management framework with five maturity levels, which are comparable to the five levels of the autonomous driving framework from no automation to complete automation. If companies move beyond Isolated Ignorance (Level 0) they are characterized by an Initial Intent (Level 1) which typically evolves towards an Independent Initiative (Level 2) A more advanced management leads to Interactive Implementation (Level 3) and Interdependent Innovation (Level 4) On this basis, a close combination of AI and human knowledge enables a sustainable competitive advantage with Integrated Intelligence (Level 5) This framework draws on the intelligence based approach to company performance, and it provides the basis for an AI maturity assessment in organizations. It further helps to identify many firms' managerial challenges as well as major organizational limitations even in those firms that are often considered as AI leaders.", "corpus_id": 219106531, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ulrich Lichtenthaler" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216156871", "title": "Threats and Alert Analytics in Autonomous Vehicles", "abstract": "Autonomous vehicles or self driving cars emerged with a promise to deliver a driving experience that is safe, secure, law abiding, alleviates traffic congestion and reduces traffic accidents. These self driving cars predominantly rely on wireless technology, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) networks, Road Side Units (RSUs) Millimeter Wave radars, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors and cameras, etc. Since these vehicles are so dexterous and equipped with such advanced driver assistance technological features, their dexterity invites threats, vulnerabilities and hacking attacks. This paper aims to understand and study the technology behind these self driving cars and explore, identify and address popular threats, vulnerabilities and hacking attacks to which these cars are prone. This paper also establishes a relationship between these threats, trust and reliability. An analysis of the alert systems in self driving cars is also presented. keywords: Self driving cars, advanced driver assistance systems, trust, reliability, ethics, security, threats, vulnerabilities", "corpus_id": 216156871, "venue": "CATA", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Aakanksha Rastogi", "Kendall E Nygard" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "52157368", "title": "A Deep Neural Network Sentence Level Classification Method with Context Information", "abstract": "In the sentence classification task, context formed from sentences adjacent to the sentence being classified can provide important information for classification. This context is, however, often ignored. Where methods do make use of context, only small amounts are considered, making it difficult to scale. We present a new method for sentence classification, Context LSTM CNN, that makes use of potentially large contexts. The method also utilizes long range dependencies within the sentence being classified, using an LSTM, and short span features, using a stacked CNN. Our experiments demonstrate that this approach consistently improves over previous methods on two different datasets.", "corpus_id": 52157368, "venue": "EMNLP", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Xingyi Song", "Johann Petrak", "Angus Roberts" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "12863166", "title": "Multi Label Classification of Patient Notes a Case Study on ICD Code Assignment", "abstract": "In the context of the Electronic Health Record, automated diagnosis coding of patient notes is a useful task, but a challenging one due to the large number of codes and the length of patient notes. We investigate four models for assigning multiple ICD codes to discharge summaries taken from both MIMIC II and III. We present Hierarchical Attention GRU (HA GRU) a hierarchical approach to tag a document by identifying the sentences relevant for each label. HA GRU achieves state of the art results. Furthermore, the learned sentence level attention layer highlights the model decision process, allows easier error analysis, and suggests future directions for improvement.", "corpus_id": 12863166, "venue": "AAAI Workshops", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Tal Baumel", "Jumana Nassour-Kassis", "Michael Elhadad", "Noemie Elhadad" ], "n_citations": 117, "n_key_citations": 17, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4625114", "title": "AttnConvnet at SemEval 2018 Task 1: Attention based Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi label Emotion Classification", "abstract": "In this paper, we propose an attention based classifier that predicts multiple emotions of a given sentence. Our model imitates human's two step procedure of sentence understanding and it can effectively represent and classify sentences. With emoji to meaning preprocessing and extra lexicon utilization, we further improve the model performance. We train and evaluate our model with data provided by SemEval 2018 task 1 5, each sentence of which has several labels among 11 given emotions. Our model achieves 5th/1st rank in English/Spanish respectively.", "corpus_id": 4625114, "venue": "*SEMEVAL", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yanghoon Kim", "Hwanhee Lee", "Kyomin Jung" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "49207810", "title": "Translations as Additional Contexts for Sentence Classification", "abstract": "In sentence classification tasks, additional contexts, such as the neighboring sentences, may improve the accuracy of the classifier. However, such contexts are domain dependent and thus cannot be used for another classification task with an inappropriate domain. In contrast, we propose the use of translated sentences as context that is always available regardless of the domain. We find that naive feature expansion of translations gains only marginal improvements and may decrease the performance of the classifier, due to possible inaccurate translations thus producing noisy sentence vectors. To this end, we present multiple context fixing attachment (MCFA) a series of modules attached to multiple sentence vectors to fix the noise in the vectors using the other sentence vectors as context. We show that our method performs competitively compared to previous models, achieving best classification performance on multiple data sets. We are the first to use translations as domain free contexts for sentence classification.", "corpus_id": 49207810, "venue": "IJCAI", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Reinald Kim Amplayo", "K Lee", "Jinyeong Yeo", "Seung-won Hwang" ], "n_citations": 13, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "16923495", "title": "Automatic Classification of Sentences in Dutch Laws", "abstract": "The work described here builds on [1] where we presented a categorisation of norms or provisions in legislation. We claimed that the categories are characterized by the use of typical sentence structures and that this would enable automatic detection and classification. In this paper we present the results of experiments in such automatic classification of provisions. We have defined fourteen different categories of provisions, and compiled a list of 81 sentence structures for those categories from twenty Dutch laws. Based on these structures, a parser was used to classify the sentences in fifteen different Dutch laws, classifying 94% of 476 sentences correctly. It compares well with other, statistical approaches. An important improvement of our classifier will be the distinction of principal and auxiliary sentences.", "corpus_id": 16923495, "venue": "JURIX", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Emile de Maat", "Radboud Winkels" ], "n_citations": 30, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "53081503", "title": "Sentiment Classification towards Question Answering with Hierarchical Matching Network", "abstract": "In an e commerce environment, user oriented question answering (QA) text pair could carry rich sentiment information. In this study, we propose a novel task/method to address QA sentiment analysis. In particular, we create a high quality annotated corpus with specially designed annotation guidelines for QA style sentiment classification. On the basis, we propose a three stage hierarchical matching network to explore deep sentiment information in a QA text pair. First, we segment both the question and answer text into sentences and construct a number of [Q sentence, A sentence] units in each QA text pair. Then, by leveraging a QA bidirectional matching layer, the proposed approach can learn the matching vectors of each [Q sentence, A sentence] unit. Finally, we characterize the importance of the generated matching vectors via a self matching attention layer. Experimental results, comparing with a number of state of the art baselines, demonstrate the impressive effectiveness of the proposed approach for QA style sentiment classification.", "corpus_id": 53081503, "venue": "EMNLP", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Chenlin Shen", "Changlong Sun", "Jingjing Wang", "Yangyang Kang", "Shoushan Li", "Xiaozhong Liu", "Luo Si", "Min Zhang", "Guodong Zhou" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4876730", "title": "Movie Genre Classification from Plot Summaries Using Bidirectional LSTM", "abstract": "Movie plot summaries are expected to reflect the genre of movies since many spectators read the plot summaries before deciding to watch a movie. In this study, we perform movie genre classification from plot summaries of movies using bidirectional LSTM (Bi LSTM) We first divide each plot summary of a movie into sentences and assign the genre of corresponding movie to each sentence. Next, using the word representations of sentences, we train Bi LSTM networks. We estimate the genres for each sentence separately. Since plot summaries generally contain multiple sentences, we use majority voting for the final decision by considering the posterior probabilities of genres assigned to sentences. Our results reflect that, training Bi LSTM network after dividing the plot summaries into their sentences and fusing the predictions for individual sentences outperform training the network with the whole plot summaries with the limited amount of data. Moreover, employing Bi LSTM performs better compared to basic Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Logistic Regression (LR) as a baseline.", "corpus_id": 4876730, "venue": "2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ali Mert Ertugrul", "Pinar Senkul" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "151184", "title": "PubMed 200k RCT: a Dataset for Sequential Sentence Classification in Medical Abstracts", "abstract": "We present PubMed 200k RCT, a new dataset based on PubMed for sequential sentence classification. The dataset consists of approximately 200,000 abstracts of randomized controlled trials, totaling 2.3 million sentences. Each sentence of each abstract is labeled with their role in the abstract using one of the following classes: background, objective, method, result, or conclusion. The purpose of releasing this dataset is twofold. First, the majority of datasets for sequential short text classification (i.e. classification of short texts that appear in sequences) are small: we hope that releasing a new large dataset will help develop more accurate algorithms for this task. Second, from an application perspective, researchers need better tools to efficiently skim through the literature. Automatically classifying each sentence in an abstract would help researchers read abstracts more efficiently, especially in fields where abstracts may be long, such as the medical field.", "corpus_id": 151184, "venue": "IJCNLP", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Franck Dernoncourt", "Ji Young Lee" ], "n_citations": 66, "n_key_citations": 14, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "35618061", "title": "Extractive Summarization Using Multi Task Learning with Document Classification", "abstract": "The need for automatic document summarization that can be used for practical applications is increasing rapidly. In this paper, we propose a general framework for summarization that extracts sentences from a document using externally related information. Our work is aimed at single document summarization using small amounts of reference summaries. In particular, we address document summarization in the framework of multi task learning using curriculum learning for sentence extraction and document classification. The proposed framework enables us to obtain better feature representations to extract sentences from documents. We evaluate our proposed summarization method on two datasets: financial report and news corpus. Experimental results demonstrate that our summarizers achieve performance that is comparable to state of the art systems.", "corpus_id": 35618061, "venue": "EMNLP", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Masaru Isonuma", "Toru Fujino", "Junichiro Mori", "Yutaka Matsuo", "Ichiro Sakata" ], "n_citations": 56, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8626402", "title": "Portable automatic text classification for adverse drug reaction detection via multi corpus training", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Automatic detection of adverse drug reaction (ADR) mentions from text has recently received significant interest in pharmacovigilance research. Current research focuses on various sources of text based information, including social media where enormous amounts of user posted data is available, which have the potential for use in pharmacovigilance if collected and filtered accurately. The aims of this study are: (i) to explore natural language processing (NLP) approaches for generating useful features from text, and utilizing them in optimized machine learning algorithms for automatic classification of ADR assertive text segments; (ii) to present two data sets that we prepared for the task of ADR detection from user posted internet data; and (iii) to investigate if combining training data from distinct corpora can improve automatic classification accuracies. METHODS One of our three data sets contains annotated sentences from clinical reports, and the two other data sets, built in house, consist of annotated posts from social media. Our text classification approach relies on generating a large set of features, representing semantic properties (e.g. sentiment, polarity, and topic) from short text nuggets. Importantly, using our expanded feature sets, we combine training data from different corpora in attempts to boost classification accuracies. RESULTS Our feature rich classification approach performs significantly better than previously published approaches with ADR class F scores of 0.812 (previously reported best: 0.770) 0.538 and 0.678 for the three data sets. Combining training data from multiple compatible corpora further improves the ADR F scores for the in house data sets to 0.597 (improvement of 5.9 units) and 0.704 (improvement of 2.6 units) respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our research results indicate that using advanced NLP techniques for generating information rich features from text can significantly improve classification accuracies over existing benchmarks. Our experiments illustrate the benefits of incorporating various semantic features such as topics, concepts, sentiments, and polarities. Finally, we show that integration of information from compatible corpora can significantly improve classification performance. This form of multi corpus training may be particularly useful in cases where data sets are heavily imbalanced (e.g. social media data) and may reduce the time and costs associated with the annotation of data in the future.", "corpus_id": 8626402, "venue": "J. Biomed. Informatics", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "A Sarker", "Graciela Gonzalez" ], "n_citations": 279, "n_key_citations": 20, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "19068739", "title": "Convergence of philosophy and science: the third international congress on vegetarian nutrition.", "abstract": "Populations of vegetarians living in affluent countries appear to enjoy unusually good health, characterized by low rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and total mortality. These important observations have fueled much research and have raised 3 general questions about vegetarians in relation to nonvegetarians: Are these observations the result of better nondietary lifestyle factors, such as lower prevalences of smoking and higher levels of physical activity? Are they the result of lower intakes of harmful dietary components, in particular meat? and Are they the result of higher intakes of beneficial dietary components that tend to replace meat in the diet? Current evidence suggests that the answer to all 3 questions is \"Yes.\" Low smoking rates contribute importantly to the low rates of cardiovascular disease and many cancers, probably including colon cancer, in Seventh day Adventists and other vegetarian populations. Also, avoidance of red meat is likely to account in part for low rates of cardiovascular disease and colon cancer, but this does not appear to be the primary reason for general good health in these populations. Evidence accumulated in the past decade emphasizes the importance of adequate consumption of beneficial dietary factors rather than just the avoidance of harmful factors including an abundance of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains and regular consumption of vegetable oils, including those from nuts. Although current knowledge already provides general guidance toward healthy diets, accumulated evidence now strongly indicates that diet has a powerful yet complex effect on health and that further investigation is needed.", "corpus_id": 19068739, "venue": "The American journal of clinical nutrition", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Walter C Willett" ], "n_citations": 51, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21296837", "title": "Delivering sustainable urban water management: a review of the hurdles we face.", "abstract": "Sustainable urban water management (SUWM) requires an integrated, adaptive, coordinated and participatory approach. Current urban water policies are beginning to reflect this understanding yet the rhetoric is often not translated to implementation. Despite the 'new' philosophy, urban water management remains a complex and fragmented area relying on traditional, technical, linear management approaches. Despite widespread acknowledgement of the barriers to change, there has been little systematic review of what constitutes the scope of such barriers and how these should be addressed to advance SUWM. To better understand why implementation fails to occur beyond ad hoc project interventions, an extensive literature review of observed and studied barriers was conducted. Drawing on local, national and international literature from the field of integrated urban water management and other similar fields, 53 studies were assessed, resulting in a typology of 12 barrier types. The analysis revealed the barriers are largely socio institutional rather than technical, reflecting issues related to community, resources, responsibility, knowledge, vision, commitment and coordination. Furthermore, the meta analysis demonstrated a paucity of targeted strategies for overcoming the stated institutional barriers. Evaluation of the typology in relation to capacity building suggests that these systemic issues require a sophisticated programme of change that focuses on fostering social capital, inter sectoral professional development, and inter organisational coordination.", "corpus_id": 21296837, "venue": "Water science and technology a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Rebekah R Brown", "Megan A Farrelly" ], "n_citations": 304, "n_key_citations": 28, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "153414964", "title": "A transdisciplinary review of the role of economics in life cycle sustainability assessment", "abstract": "PurposeThis paper reviews the use of economic values in life cycle assessment (LCA) and the justification for environmental life cycle costing (ELCC) as the 'economic pillar' of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA).MethodsA transdisciplinary review of economic values in LCA was undertaken and structured with a series of research questions. The review considered the philosophy of science and focussed on the concept of value as a point of synthesis among the disciplines of LCA, economics and ethics. An example from the ELCC Code of Practice was reviewed to highlight the challenges and alternative approaches explored.Results and discussion'Value choices' and the role of decision makers have been a long standing and largely unresolved discussion in LCA. Over the past two decades, LCA has been dominated by a utilitarian concept of ethics and valuation based on willingness to pay. This has a number of limitations which are further exacerbated in ELCC and its accounting definition of cost. ELCC struggles to address social costs, and the focus on the decision maker may define values that are not compatible with sustainability. John Rawls' 'justice as fairness' and Amartya Sen's capability approach were considered to reappraise the use of UN Conventions considered in early LCA literature on values. It was argued that there is an ethical basis to prioritise minimum standards in LCSA to address primary social goods as well as uncertainty in evaluations.ConclusionsThis paper questioned the reliance of LCA on utilitarianism and valuation using willingness to pay and, in particular, the claim of ELCC as the economic pillar of LCSA. Concepts of fairness and capability may overcome some of these limitations and provide a basis for integration of social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability. Although the ethical justification of prescriptive values may only reach agreement on minimum conditions for social and economic cooperation, it was argued that this may provide a reasonable starting point given the global sustainability challenges over the coming decades. A two stage approach for the implementation of economic values in LCSA was suggested for further debate and discussion.", "corpus_id": 153414964, "venue": "The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Murray R Hall" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "25577378", "title": "Philosophical determinants of obesity as a disease", "abstract": "Is obesity a disease? Much ink has been spilled over this debate and for good reasons. The global prevalence of obesity has more than doubled since the 1980s and is now of pandemic proportions. Whether obesity is a disease has consequences for what kind of treatments are appropriate, as well as how we ought to allocate funding and access to healthcare resources. In most cases, there is no dispute over the medical facts, yet disagreement persists. This is because whether obesity is a disease is not determined by medical facts alone; the issue is, in part, conceptual. Science relies on careful argumentation and conceptual analysis as part of its armamentarium. In this review, we will examine the two concepts of disease most often employed in the philosophy of medicine: the naturalistic and constructivist. We will argue that, whichever definition of a disease is used, obesity fits the criteria for disease definition. Those seeking to meet the challenge of managing obesity will, therefore, need to embrace chronic disease models of care suited to addressing the lifelong challenge posed by this disease and its associated complications.", "corpus_id": 25577378, "venue": "Obesity reviews an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Daniel Kilov", "Gary Kilov" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "20398751", "title": "In Praise of the Humanities in Academic Medicine", "abstract": "As the world looks to the promise of biomedical science against the backdrop of fi scal austerity, policymakers are ever more prone to look to quantitative outcome measures to steward resources and assess programs. Such review is necessary but certainly not suffi cient given the complexity of the tasks ahead. We will need more than the quantitative language of outcome measures to talk about values and not numbers, patient care and not effi ciency, and the balance between access and quality. Although policymakers have enveloped themselves in jargon that purports to answer such questions, the language of the clinic and health policy is often ill equipped to deal with these themes. Philosophy, history, literature, and the arts already offer a discourse instrumental to refl ective practice. These disciplines encourage introspection and a deeper understanding of how medicine operates within society. Such refl ection has a \"transformative power,\" enabling practitioners to, in John Dewey's words, \"reconstruct\" the world. 1 In order to learn from the humanities, as profound organizational changes in the healthcare system begin, we must take several steps to sustain these disciplines in the healthcare setting. First, we must remind our medical and academic colleagues of the importance of the humanities writ large. Regaining a proper place for the humanities in medical school poses a signifi cant challenge, as some think it is achieved by displacing the sciences or by being oppositional to them. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation, and it must be stressed that the additional perspective offered by the humanities is not a zero sum gain. It enriches, and grows from, scientifi c discovery. A deeper perspective on our shared work is achieved not by denigrating the sciences but by responding to them and by adopting a more inclusive approach that engenders support from our friends and colleagues in the sciences. Second, in order to garner this widespread support, we must assert the evolving place of the humanities, while sustaining the beachhead that medical or clinical ethics has already secured. We do not want to swap out one soft discipline for", "corpus_id": 20398751, "venue": "Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Joseph J Fins", "Barbara Pohl", "David John Doukas" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "113827413", "title": "Can social research paradigms justify the diversity of approaches to social life cycle assessment?", "abstract": "PurposeThe present paper aims to offer an explanation for the diversity of methodological approaches proposed up to the present for social life cycle assessment (sLCA) tracking down its roots in the cultural and scientific heritage of social sciences and especially management sciences. A second aim is to shift the current debate on methodologies to an epistemological level, presenting the first results of an ongoing critical review about which underlying paradigms have been applied in sLCA literature.MethodsThis paper moves from the hypothesis that the diversity of positions in philosophy of science and the \"multiparadigmatic\" character of social sciences have had repercussions on sLCA literature since its beginnings, probably in an unconscious manner. Therefore, a discriminating reflection on the scientific and disciplinary inheritance that can represent the roots of sLCA has been conducted. The philosophy of science and the role of different research paradigms in social sciences have been deepened to provide an overview of the main elements of a paradigm (in terms of ontology, epistemology, and methodology) Finally, a brief but critical review of 133 selected scientific contributions on sLCA has been conducted to highlight which paradigms have been applied in sLCA studies.Results and discussionRecognizing that boundaries between paradigms are subtle and that researchers are rarely conscious of which paradigm underpins their works, a distinction between the interpretivist and post positivist approaches used by the studies has been carried out on the basis of a text analysis conducted by identifying the main \"literal\" criteria. From an initial population of 209 studies, we excluded those concerning reviews of sLCA literature and those with selected criteria that were insufficient to catch the epistemological viewpoint of the authors. Among the remaining papers (133) 73 has been ascribed to the group of interpretivism oriented paradigms and only 24 could be ascribed to the post positivist one; the remaining 3 is represented by studies with both characteristics. This data deserves some attention because, since the beginnings of sLCA methodologies, most sLCA publications explicitly suggest having the same underlying perspectives as environmental life cycle assessment (eLCA).ConclusionsIn light of the reflections carried out, we argue that it is important, before going into methodological questioning issues, to be aware of which paradigm is underlying. Indeed, in this phase of sLCA development, scholars should go beyond the simple methodological debate and recognize the \"multilayered\" nature of social phenomena and the multiparadigmatic characteristics of social and management sciences.", "corpus_id": 113827413, "venue": "The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Nathalie Iofrida", "Anna Irene De Luca", "Alfio Strano", "Giovanni Gulisano" ], "n_citations": 36, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "12088823", "title": "A confusion of tongues between psychoanalysis and philosophy: Is the controversy over drive versus relational theory a philosophical one?", "abstract": "In recent years the controversy over Drive versus Relational models of the psyche has become entangled in a philosophical controversy over epistemology. Some have argued that the Drive model was a relic of an age of positivistic science, while Relational models are a product of a postmodern condition. This paper argues that the controversy need not be a philosophical one, and that Relational views are not, in fact, a product of postmodernism, nor are they necessarily dependent on a postmodern epistemology. Separating the epistemological from the psychological more carefully may help return the debate to its proper, psychoanalytic domain, and perhaps contribute to a more fruitful dialogue across what, at times, seems like an abyss between Relational views and Drive theory.", "corpus_id": 12088823, "venue": "The International journal of psycho analysis", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Gadi Taub" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "26415242", "title": "What can philosophy do for psychiatry?", "abstract": "This article illustrates the practical impact of recent developments in the philosophy of psychiatry in five key areas: patient centred practice, new models of service delivery, neuroscience research, psychiatric education, and the organisation of psychiatry as an international science led discipline focused on patient care. We conclude with a note on the role of philosophy in countering the stigmatisation of mental disorder.", "corpus_id": 26415242, "venue": "World psychiatry official journal of the World Psychiatric Association", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Kenneth W M Fulford", "Giovanni Stanghellini", "Matthew R Broome" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21016459", "title": "How is the brain working? Research on brain oscillations and connectivities in a new \"Take Off\" state.", "abstract": "The present report is a trial to survey analysis and applications of brain oscillations in cognitive impairment for opening the way to a new take off in research on brain oscillation. Although the number of papers related to brain oscillations rapidly increases, it is important to indicate the common principles governing the functioning of brain oscillations in the brain and body. Research scientists need a global view on the types of analysis, applications and existing oscillations. Further, scientists dealing with brain oscillations must have some knowledge from theoretical physics, system theory, and also general philosophy. The neuroscientists working on brain oscillations can mentally integrate several papers in the present report, and try to discover new avenues to augment knowledge on brain functions. A new take off in the search of brain oscillations indicates the strong need to survey this brunch of neuroscience in a broad panoply of science.", "corpus_id": 21016459, "venue": "International journal of psychophysiology official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Erol Basar", "Aysel Duzgun" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8505254", "title": "Genetics and right: a methodology", "abstract": "Abstract The theme of the free availability of genetic information is, by its nature, the heart of attention in most areas of investigation. From biology to medicine, from philosophy to law, from theology to biotechnology there isn't an area of science that cannot be said to be interested in the subject, nor has not, in recent years, tried to deepen it.", "corpus_id": 8505254, "venue": "The journal of maternal fetal neonatal medicine the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Alberto Marchese" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "177833603", "title": "Rdzeniowy zanik miesni bydla", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 177833603, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Magdalena Pieszka", "Agnieszka Janik" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "69169048", "title": "Dosiebny dzieciecy i mlodzienczy rdzeniowy zanik miesni podloze molekularne a fenotyp choroby", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 69169048, "venue": "", "year": 2003, "author_names": [ "Maria Jedrzejowska" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "82040829", "title": "Rdzeniowy zanik miesni podloze molekularne choroby.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 82040829, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "G J Zimowski" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 4 }, { "doc_id": "72271471", "title": "Fizjoterapia dzieci z rdzeniowym zanikiem miesni", "abstract": "Streszczenie Rdzeniowy zanik miesni (SMA) stanowi grupe chorob, ktorych wspolna cecha jest uszkodzenie komorek ruchowych rogow przednich rdzenia kregowego. Sa to choroby uwarunkowane genetycznie, dziedziczone w sposob autosomalny recesywny. Rozpoznanie choroby opiera sie na badaniu molekularnym (analiza DNA) elektromiograficznym i histopatologicznym. Fizjoterapia stanowi podstawe leczenia objawowego. Glowne problemy wynikajace z choroby to postepujace oslabienie miesni, przykurcze miesniowe, skrzywienie kregoslupa, deformacja tulowia i osteoporoza. Celem fizjoterapii stosowanej w leczeniu objawowym SMA jest spowolnienie postepu uposledzenia ruchowego, podtrzymanie funkcji oraz utrzymanie maksymalnej niezaleznosci chorego. W usprawnianiu pacjentow z rdzeniowym zanikiem miesni wykorzystuje sie cwiczenia ogolnorozwojowe, metody NDT Bobath i PNF, masaz i fizykoterapie.", "corpus_id": 72271471, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Jerzy Tomczynski", "Bozena Werner", "Izabela Bartosiak" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "188320772", "title": "Rdzeniowy zanik miesni nowe terapie, nowe wyzwania", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 188320772, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Maria Jedrzejowska", "Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "115115187", "title": "Problemy diagnostyczne w przypadku wtretowego zapalenia miesni", "abstract": "Wtretowe zapalenie miesni (IBM, inclusion body myositis nalezy do grupy miopatii zapalnych pochodzenia autoimmunologicznego o nieznanej przyczynie. Pierwsze przypadki choroby opisano w 1967 roku. Wtretowe zapalenie miesni wystepuje czesciej u mezczyzn i ujawnia sie glownie po 50. roku zycia. Przebieg choroby jest przewlekly i prowadzi do znacznego uposledzenia ruchowego. Glownymi objawami sa oslabienie i zanik miesni (przewaznie asymetryczny) W ciezkich przypadkach moze wystapic niewydolnosc oddechowa. Wiekszosc przypadkow IBM jest sporadyczna, ale opisywano rowniez postacie o podlozu genetycznym. W badaniach laboratoryjnych oraz elektrofizjologicznych nie ma charakterystycznych zmian. Podstawa rozpoznania jest badanie histopatologiczne (szczegolnie pod mikroskopem elektronowym) ktore ujawnia w komorce miesniowej charakterystyczne wakuole z ziarnistosciami oraz kwasochlonne wtrety. Leczenie choroby jest objawowe. Autorzy przedstawiaja pacjenta, u ktorego poczatkowymi objawami bylo oslabienie sily miesniowej konczyn dolnych i gornych z postepujacym zanikiem miesni czworoglowych ud, do ktorego po 6 miesiacach dolaczyly drzenia miesniowe, glownie w miesniach proksymalnych. Poczatkowo podejrzewano proces pierwotnie miesniowy, nastepnie chorobe neuronu ruchowego. Badania elektromiograficzne, laboratoryjne i rezonans magnetyczny nie wykazaly charakterystycznych zmian. Dopiero badanie histopatologiczne miesnia pod mikroskopem elektronowym pozwolilo ustalic prawidlowe rozpoznanie. Autorzy ukazuja, ze diagnostyka IBM jest zmudna i dlugotrwala. Badanie histopatologiczne pozwala postawic diagnoze, natomiast pozostale badania odgrywaja istotna role w diagnostyce roznicowej. Polski Przeglad Neurologiczny 2008; 4 (1) 32 35", "corpus_id": 115115187, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Marcin Rogoziewicz", "Malgorzata Wiszniewska" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "187818942", "title": "Stan koscca u kobiet z zespolem ciesni nadgarstka badanie retrospektywne", "abstract": "Wstep: Zespol ciesni nadgarstka jest najczestsza obwodowa neuropatia uciskowa powodujaca uposledzenie czucia oraz zanik miesni reki, co prowadzi do ograniczenia funkcji ruchowych konczyny. Celem badania bylo sprawdzenie, czy zespol ciesni nadgarstka ma wplyw na stan kosci przedramion i paliczkow rak. Material i metody: Retrospektywne badanie przeprowadzono w grupie 32 kobiet w srednim wieku 59,0 8,43 lata z rozpoznaniem zespolu ciesni nadgarstka, leczonych operacyjne. Do oceny stopnia nasilenia objawow klinicznych przed operacja zastosowano skale Levine'a oraz badanie elektroneurograficzne (ENG) Po operacji wykorzystano skale Levine'a, a stan koscca oceniano za pomoca badania densytometrycznego (DXA) kosci przedramion, szyjki kosci udowej i kregoslupa ledzwiowego oraz badaniem predkosci fali ultradzwiekowej (Ad SoS, m/s) metoda ultradzwiekowa (QUS) w obrebie paliczkow proksymalnych obu rak. Metoda DXA mierzy gestosc mineralna kosci. Wynik pomiaru metoda QUS jest odzwierciedleniem cech strukturalnych tkanki kostnej. Wyniki dla konczyny operowanej porownano z wynikami konczyny zdrowej. Wyniki: W porownaniu wynikow badania DXA przedramion nie uzyskano istotnych statystycznie roznic pomiedzy strona zdrowa i chora. Predkosc fali ultradzwiekowej dla strony operowanej i nieoperowanej wyniosla odpowiednio 1993,4 64,0 m/s i 2006,7 66,2 m/s, i byla istotnie wyzsza po stronie nieoperowanej (p 0,05) Wnioski: Przeprowadzone badanie potwierdza ipoteze, ze zespol ciesni nadgarstka moze miec negatywny wplyw na cechy jakosciowe tkanki kostnej odzwierciedlone badaniem QUS paliczkow, choc nie prowadzi do zaburzen mineralizacji szkieletu w obrebie dystalnej czesci konczyny gornej. Forum Reumatol. 2018, tom 4, nr 2: 126 134", "corpus_id": 187818942, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Aleksander Kisala", "Wojciech Pluskiewicz", "Piotr Adamczyk" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "172116092", "title": "Choroba Kennedy'ego opis przypadku", "abstract": "Opuszkowo rdzeniowy zanik miesni (choroba Kennedy'ego) jest rzadka choroba sprzezona z chromosomem X, w ktorej dochodzi do dysfunkcji receptora androgenowego. Charakteryzuje sie powoli postepujacym oslabieniem i zanikiem miesni konczyn oraz miesni opuszkowych. Pierwsze objawy pojawiaja sie zazwyczaj w 3. 4. dekadzie zycia, a po uplywie 20 30 lat wiekszosc pacjentow porusza sie za pomoca wozka inwalidzkiego. Mimo dominujacych w obrazie klinicznym objawow uszkodzenia dolnego neuronu ruchowego u niektorych pacjentow obserwuje sie rowniez cechy uszkodzenia nerwow czuciowych oraz objawy zespolu niewrazliwosci na androgeny. Wielu chorych nadal nie jest prawidlowo diagnozowanych. W niniejszej pracy przedstawiono przypadek 55 letniego mezczyzny z postepujacym od okolo 10 lat oslabieniem konczyn dolnych, ginekomastia, niespecyficznym wywiadem rodzinnym oraz potwierdzona genetycznie choroba Kennedy'ego.", "corpus_id": 172116092, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Konrad Gorzelnik", "Mieszko Zagrajek", "Malgorzata Bilinska", "Katarzyna Lewczuk", "Anna Marzena Sulek", "Boguslaw Paradowski" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "78753648", "title": "Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) clinical and electrophysiological analysis", "abstract": "Padaczka miokloniczna z czerwonymi wloknami ,poszarpanymi\" ,szmatowatymi\" (myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers, MerrF) jest ultrarzadka choroba mitochondrialna, typowo zwiazana z punktowa mutacja nukleotydu 8344 mitochondrialnego DNa. U chorych z MerrF opisano takze inne mutacje, np. t8356C, G8361a, G8363a, mutacje w genie polimerazy gamma (PolG) jadrowego DNa. Podlozem procesu chorobowego sa zaburzenia w funkcjonowaniu i strukturze mitochondriow, ktorych efektem jest niedostateczna wydajnosc oksydacyjnej fosforylacji oraz niedobor atP. Badania biochemiczne wykazaly izolowane lub kombinowane uszkodzenie kompleksu i i iV lancucha oddechowego. Glowne objawy MerrF dotycza narzadow o wysokim zapotrzebowaniu na atP, zwlaszcza ukladu nerwowego i miesni. klasyczny obraz kliniczny choroby obejmuje mioklonie, napady padaczkowe, postepujaca ataksje mozdzkowa oraz charakterystyczne uszkodzenie miesni szkieletowych. Do rzadziej obserwowanych objawow naleza: gluchota, wolno postepujace otepienie, niski wzrost, kardiomiopatia, oftalmoplegia. W zdecydowanej wiekszosci przypadkow MerrF stwierdza sie tzw. poszarpane wlokna miesniowe (ragged red fibers, rrF) w materiale biopsyjnym miesni. Badania obrazowe mozgowia (tk i Mr) wykazuja zanik mozgu, mozdzku i pnia mozgu, ktory jest wynikiem ubytku neuronow. U chorych z MerrF, jak i ich bezobjawowych czlonkow rodziny stwierdza sie w stanie spoczynku podwyzszony poziom kwasu mlekowego w surowicy i plynie mozgowo rdzeniowym. autorzy przedstawiaja aktualny stan wiedzy na temat MerrF, ze szczegolnym uwzglednieniem diagnostycznych badan pomocniczych, rowniez neuroelektrofizjologicznych, takich jak eeG, eMG czy potencjaly wywolane. Slowa kluczowe: MerrF, padaczka miokloniczna, neurofizjologia.", "corpus_id": 78753648, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Maria Ejma", "Marta Waliszewska-Prosol" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "78872225", "title": "Neuralgic amyotrophy diagnostic and therapeutic problems", "abstract": "neuralgia amiotroficzna jest stosunkowo rzadka jednostka. charakteryzuje sie naglym wystapieniem silnego bolu barku, lopatki i gornej czesci ramienia, ktory ustepuje samoistnie w przeciagu dwoch tygodni. Po tym okresie pojawiaja sie niedowlady i zaniki miesni w obrebie zajetej konczyny. Bardzo rzadko moga byc zajete nerwy spoza splotu ramiennego: nerwy czaszkowe, nerw przeponowy, splot ledzwiowy. roznorodnosc objawow klinicznych i stopien zajecia nerwow utrudnia rozpoznanie. Mechanizm patofizjologiczny powodujacy uszkodzenie nerwow jest wciaz nie wyjasniony. Przypuszcza sie, ze reakcja autoimmunologiczna jest wyzwalana przez infekcje, zabieg operacyjny lub inny czynnik pobudzajacy uklad odpornosciowy. U okolo 10% przypadkow stwierdza sie podloze dziedziczne, a u wielu sposrod tych pacjentow zidentyfikowano rozne mutacje genu SEPT9. Postac dziedziczna charakteryzuje sie wysoka czestoscia nawrotow i obecnoscia cech dysmorficznych, takich jak syndaktylia i rozszczep podniebienia. Diagnoza opiera sie na charakterystycznych objawach klinicznych i badaniu elektrofizjologicznym, ktore potwierdza uszkodzenie nerwow i dostarcza informacji o ciezkosci procesu i jego dynamice. zwykle obserwuje sie powolne ustepowanie niedowladow i stopniowa poprawe sprawnosci konczyny, w ciagu kilku miesiecy lub lat. aktualnie, nie ma standardow leczenia. W ostrej fazie nLPz i opiaty moga zlagodzic bol, a sterydy przyspieszyc wyzdrowienie. rehabilitacja ruchowa jest korzystna, przy zachowaniu ostroznosci, aby nie przeciazac szczegolnie uszkodzonych miesni. niniejszy artykul podsumowuje obraz kliniczny, wskazowki diagnostyczne, patogeneze i mozliwosci terapeutyczne. Slowa kluczowe: bol, neuralgia amiotroficzna, oslabienie i zanik miesni, splot ramienny.", "corpus_id": 78872225, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Joanna Perzynska-Mazan", "Bartlomiej Bartoszcze" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "32994770", "title": "Contributions of plasma physics to chaos and nonlinear dynamics", "abstract": "This topical review focusses on the contributions of plasma physics to chaos and nonlinear dynamics bringing new methods which are or can be used in other scientific domains. It starts with the development of the theory of Hamiltonian chaos, and then deals with order or quasi order, for instance adiabatic and soliton theories. It ends with a shorter account of dissipative and high dimensional Hamiltonian dynamics, and of quantum chaos. Most of these contributions are a spin off of the research on thermonuclear fusion by magnetic confinement, which started in the fifties. Their presentation is both exhaustive and compact. [15 April 2016]", "corpus_id": 32994770, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Dominique Frank Escande" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "118839028", "title": "RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER WORKSHOP ON GAUGE INVARIANT VARIABLES IN GAUGE THEORIES, VOLUME 20", "abstract": "This four day workshop focused on the wide variety of approaches to the non perturbative physics of QCD. The main topic was the formulation of non Abelian gauge theory in orbit space, but some other ideas were discussed, in particular the possible extension of the Maldacena conjecture to nonsupersymmetric gauge theories. The idea was to involve most of the participants in general discussions on the problem. Panel discussions were organized to further encourage debate and understanding. Most of the talks roughly fell into three categories: (1) Variational methods in field theory; (2) Anti de Sitter space ideas; (3) The fundamental domain, gauge fixing, Gribov copies and topological objects (both in the continuum and on a lattice) In particular some remarkable progress in three dimensional gauge theories was presented, from the analytic side by V.P. Nair and mostly from the numerical side by O. Philipsen. This work may ultimately have important implications for RHIC experiments on the high temperature quark gluon plasma.", "corpus_id": 118839028, "venue": "", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "Pierre van Baal", "Peter Orland", "Robert D Pisarski" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "237239762", "title": "Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies Spectral and Geometric Methods", "abstract": "In the past decades there has been significant progress in the theory of the nonlinear evolution equations that could be solved through some inverse scattering techniques (soliton equations or completely integrable equations) These equations have many applications to various physical theories (both classical and quantum) such as hydrodynamics, plasma physics, nonlinear optics, solid state physics etc. Their study also boosted the mathematical research in Hamiltonian dynamics and more generally in the theory of the dynamical systems and in the spectral theory of operators. The mentioned progress, together with interesting applications, increased the number of research monographs dedicated to the subject of soliton equations. The variety of approaches used in these monographs reflects the variety of the methods used in the study of the soliton equations. In general however, most of them are dedicated to the development of one particular approach and the interrelations with other approaches and ideas frequently remains obscure. The book under review is one of the few exceptions. It develops in parallel spectral and geometric methods to the topic and also encompasses many algebraic ideas related to these fields. The fist edition has been published in 2008, by the same publisher. The appearance of this soft cover reprint shows that the readers appreciated the integral approach of the book and that the topic itself remains popular. The book has two parts: I) Spectral Theory of the Recursion Operators and II) Geometry of the Recursion Operators, treating the so called Recursion Operators (also known as generating operators or L operators) from spectral and geometric viewpoint respectively. The recursion operators are one of the essential tools of the soliton equations theory, in fact their study reveals almost everything related to the soliton equations except the exact solutions. Finding the exact solutions requires other techniques which are also treated in the book. The authors contributed to the development of both aspects of the recursion operator theory, discussed in", "corpus_id": 237239762, "venue": "", "year": null, "author_names": [ "R Ivanov" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "122246436", "title": "Plasma based studies on 4th generation light sources", "abstract": "The construction of a short pulse tunable x ray laser source will be a watershed for plasma based and warm dense matter research. The areas we will discuss below can be separated broadly into warm dense matter (WDM) research, laser probing of near solid density plasmas, and laser plasma spectroscopy of ions in plasmas. The area of WDM refers to that part of the density temperature phase space where the standard theories of condensed matter physics and/or plasma statistical physics are invalid. Warm dense matter, therefore, defines a region between solids and plasmas, a regime that is found in planetary interiors, cool dense stars, and in every plasma device where one starts from a solid, e.g. laser solid matter produced plasma as well as all inertial fusion schemes. The study of dense plasmas has been severely hampered by the fact that laser based methods have been unavailable. The single most useful diagnostic of local plasma conditions, e.g. the temperature (Te) the density (ne) and the ionization", "corpus_id": 122246436, "venue": "", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "R W Lee", "Hector Alberto Baldis", "Robert C Cauble", "O L Landen", "Justin S Wark", "Andrew Ng", "Steven J Rose", "Ciaran L S Lewis", "D Riley", "Jean-Claude J Gauthier", "Pierre Audebert" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "109769011", "title": "9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics", "abstract": "The use for mathematical models of natural phenomena has underpinned science and engineering for centuries, but until the advent of modern computers and computational methods, the full utility of most of these models remained outside the reach of the engineering communities. Since World War II, advances in computational methods have transformed the way engineering and science is undertaken throughout the world. Today, theories of mechanics of solids and fluids, electromagnetism, heat transfer, plasma physics, and other scientific disciplines are implemented through computational methods in engineering analysis, design, manufacturing, and in studying broad classes of physical phenomena. The discipline concerned with the application of computational methods is now a key area of research, education, and application throughout the world. In the early 1980's, the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) was founded to promote activities related to computational mechanics and has made impressive progress. The most important scientific event of IACM is the World Congress on Computational Mechanics. The first was held in Austin (USA) in 1986 and then in Stuttgart (Germany) in 1990, Chiba (Japan) in 1994, Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1998, Vienna (Austria) in 2002, Beijing (China) in 2004, Los Angeles (USA) in 2006 and Venice, Italy; in 2008. The 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics is held in conjunction with the 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics under the auspices of Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM) Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) and International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) The 1st Asian Pacific Congress was in Sydney (Australia) in 2001, then in Beijing (China) in 2004 and Kyoto (Japan) in 2007. The WCCM/APCOM 2010 publications consist of a printed book of abstracts given to delegates, along with 247 full length peer reviewed papers published with free access online in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. The editors acknowledge the help of the paper reviewers in maintaining a high standard of assessment and the co operation of the authors in complying with the requirements of the editors and the reviewers. We also would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Local Organising Committee and the International Scientific Committee for helping make WCCM/APCOM 2010 a successful event. We also thank The University of New South Wales, The University of Newcastle, the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) IACM, APCAM, AACM for their financial support, along with the United States Association for Computational Mechanics for the Travel Awards made available. N. Khalili S. Valliappan Q. Li A. Russell 19 July 2010 Sydney, Australia", "corpus_id": 109769011, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Nasser Khalili", "Somasundaram Valliappan", "Qing Li", "Adrian R Russell" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "112509037", "title": "IV European Congress on Computational Mechanics (ECCM IV):Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering", "abstract": "The use for mathematical models of natural phenomena has underpinned science and engineering for centuries, but until the advent of modern computational methods and devices, the full utility of most of these models stood outside the reach of the scientific and engineering communities. Since World War II, advances in computational methods have transformed the way engineering and science is done throughout the world. Today, theories of mechanics of solids and fluids, electromagnetism, heat transfer, plasma physics, and other scientific disciplines are implemented through computational methods in engineering design, manufacturing, and in studying broad classes of physical phenomena. The discipline concerned with the application of computational methods and devices to these ends is called computational mechanics, and it has emerged as a key area of research, education, and application throughout the world. The international group of scholars and practitioners of this new discipline founded the international Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) to promote advances in computational mechanics. To establish the breadth of this activity IACM defines in its constitution the field of Computational Mechanics as follows: \"For the purposes of the Association we define the subject of Computational Mechanics as the development and application of numerical methods and digital computers to the solution of problems posed by Engineering and Applied Science with the objectives of understanding and harnessing the resources of nature. While Computational Solid Mechanics (CSM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are at the core of our activity, such subjects as Thermodynamics, Electro Magnetism, Rigid Body Mechanics, Control Systems and some aspects of Particle Physics fall naturally within the scope of the definition. Indeed the provision of a common forum for discussion, education and research information transfer between the diverse disciplines represented is the main \"raison d'etre\" of the Association.\" The first attempt to bring together this community followed a letter from three leading scientists working in this field, R.H. Gallagher, J.T. Oden and O.C. Zienkiewicz who called a meeting of 12 persons at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. in April 1981 to form a group of International Centers of Computational Mechanics. This led to the formal announcement of IACM and the establishment of a Founding Council and a Constitution. IACM was formally established, the General and Executive Councils confirmed and the Constitution approved. With the Constitution giving equal emphasis to the three geographical Regions of Americas, Euro Africa and Australia Asia a rotation of such World Congresses between the regions on a four year cycle was established. The International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) was founded to promote advances in computational mechanics by the international group of scholars and practitioners of this new discipline. IACM has since 1984 been affiliated to the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)", "corpus_id": 112509037, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Eugenio Onate", "He Mang" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "184760651", "title": "Dynamics of Ar metastables in RF CCP discharge: PIC/MCC/DSMC simulation", "abstract": "Submitted for the GEC10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Dynamics of Ar metastables in RF CCP discharge: PIC/MCC/DSMC simulation LU JING HOU, MIKHAIL PUSTYLNIK, ALEXEI IVLEV, H.M. THOMAS, G.E. MORFILL, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Metastables have long been expected to play an important role in determining properties of an argon (Ar) RF plasma discharge. In the past two decades, extensive experimental, theoretical and numerical research had been conducted to reveal their importance in RF discharge. However, obvious contradictions, which cannot be easily accommodated for different discharge conditions, are found between experiments and theories/simulations and between simulations using different models as well. This clearly indicates an insufficient understanding of physical processes involving metastables in RF discharge. To shed new light on the role of metastables on RF discharge, the present work employs combined PIC/MCC and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) methods to study the dynamics of metastables in RF discharge. Both plasmas (ions and electrons) and metastables are treated as particles in the simulation and are coupled though various collision processes, such as metastable excitation, pooling, electron quenching, step ionization, metastable wall secondary electron emission, neutral metastable elastic collisions, in addition to those included in typical PIC/MCC simulation, such as direct ionization and excitation. Lu Jing Hou Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Date submitted: 02 Jun 2010 Electronic form version 1.4", "corpus_id": 184760651, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Lujing Hou", "Mikhail Pustylnik", "Alexei V Ivlev", "H M Thomas", "Gregor Eugen Morfill" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "63508795", "title": "Verification and validation of plasma physics", "abstract": "Plasma Modeling: Methods and Applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. The book is intended to assist and direct students and researchers, who want to develop research activity in the field of plasma physics, in the choice of the best model for the problem of interest. The book is organised in three parts. The first describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, consisting of the solution of the Boltzmann equation using different approaches. The second part develops the theory of fluid equations and of hybrid models, and the third part is devoted to applications, considering some practical problems of interest in different fields.", "corpus_id": 63508795, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ivo Furno", "Paolo Ricci", "A Fasoli", "Fabio Riva", "Christian Theiler" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "125559296", "title": "Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics", "abstract": "Plasma Modeling: Methods and Applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. The book is intended to assist and direct students and researchers, who want to develop research activity in the field of plasma physics, in the choice of the best model for the problem of interest. The book is organised in three parts. The first describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, consisting of the solution of the Boltzmann equation using different approaches. The second part develops the theory of fluid equations and of hybrid models, and the third part is devoted to applications, considering some practical problems of interest in different fields.", "corpus_id": 125559296, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Gianpiero Colonna" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "217641100", "title": "Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space, Laboratory and Astrophysical Applications", "abstract": "Introducing basic principles of plasma physics and their applications to space, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, this new edition provides updated material throughout. Topics covered include single particle motions, kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics, small amplitude waves in hot and cold plasmas, and collisional effects. New additions include the ponderomotive force, tearing instabilities in resistive plasmas and the magnetorotational instability in accretion disks, charged particle acceleration by shocks, and a more in depth look at nonlinear phenomena. A broad range of applications are explored: planetary magnetospheres and radiation belts, the confinement and stability of plasmas in fusion devices, the propagation of discontinuities and shock waves in the solar wind, and analysis of various types of plasma waves and instabilities that can occur in planetary magnetospheres and laboratory plasma devices. With step by step derivations and self contained introductions to mathematical methods, this book is ideal as an advanced undergraduate to graduate level textbook, or as a reference for researchers.", "corpus_id": 217641100, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Donald A Gurnett", "Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "212737822", "title": "Evolutionary multiobjective optimization to target social network influentials in viral marketing", "abstract": "Abstract Marketers have an important asset if they effectively target social networks' influentials. They can advertise products or services with free items or discounts to spread positive opinions to other consumers (i.e. word of mouth) However, main research on choosing the best influentials to target is single objective and mainly focused on maximizing sales revenue. In this paper we propose a multiobjective approach to the influence maximization problem with the aim of increasing the revenue of viral marketing campaigns while reducing the costs. By using local social network metrics to locate influentials, we apply two evolutionary multiobjective optimization algorithms, NSGA II and MOEA/D, a multiobjective adaptation of a single objective genetic algorithm, and a greedy algorithm. Our proposal uses a realistic agent based market framework to evaluate the fitness of the chromosomes by simulating the viral campaigns. The framework also generates, in a single run, a set of non dominated solutions that allows marketers to consider multiple targeting options The algorithms are evaluated on five network topologies and a real data generated social network, showing that both MOEA/D and NSGA II outperform the single objective and the greedy approaches. More interestingly, we show a clear correlation between the algorithms' performance and the diffusion features of the social networks.", "corpus_id": 212737822, "venue": "Expert Syst. Appl.", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Juan Francisco Robles", "Manuel Chica", "O Cordon" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225831000", "title": "Viral Marketing and How to Make a Viral Bomb in the Digital Space to Invest the Pandemic COVID 19", "abstract": "Viral marketing is one of the contemporary strategies and it is one of the most important strategies that organizations must rely on in marketing their products and services. Viral marketing is important in times of crisis for the organization to maintain its continuity in providing its products and services, and viral marketing depends on the strength of social relations between the organization and its customers. The higher the levels of trust by the public towards the organization, the more successful it will be in viral marketing. Progress in the field of information technology and the disappearance of electronic trade restrictions have contributed to the expansion of viral marketing.", "corpus_id": 225831000, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ali Abdulhassan Abbas", "Rajaa Hussein Abd Ali" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "169313199", "title": "Viral Marketing and Social Networks", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 169313199, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Maria Petrescu" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "1487845", "title": "Scalable influence maximization for prevalent viral marketing in large scale social networks", "abstract": "Influence maximization, defined by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003) is the problem of finding a small set of seed nodes in a social network that maximizes the spread of influence under certain influence cascade models. The scalability of influence maximization is a key factor for enabling prevalent viral marketing in large scale online social networks. Prior solutions, such as the greedy algorithm of Kempe et al. (2003) and its improvements are slow and not scalable, while other heuristic algorithms do not provide consistently good performance on influence spreads. In this paper, we design a new heuristic algorithm that is easily scalable to millions of nodes and edges in our experiments. Our algorithm has a simple tunable parameter for users to control the balance between the running time and the influence spread of the algorithm. Our results from extensive simulations on several real world and synthetic networks demonstrate that our algorithm is currently the best scalable solution to the influence maximization problem: (a) our algorithm scales beyond million sized graphs where the greedy algorithm becomes infeasible, and (b) in all size ranges, our algorithm performs consistently well in influence spread it is always among the best algorithms, and in most cases it significantly outperforms all other scalable heuristics to as much as 100% 260% increase in influence spread.", "corpus_id": 1487845, "venue": "KDD", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Wei Chen", "Chi Wang", "Yajun Wang" ], "n_citations": 1456, "n_key_citations": 187, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199018156", "title": "A Novel Scene of Viral Marketing for Complementary Products", "abstract": "Viral marketing, the method of using a small set of users in social networks to propagate products through cascades, is a well known and extreme research problem in recent years. Then, influence maximization (IM) is formulated, which aims to select the most influential seeds to maximize the expected total adoption eventually. IM expresses viral marketing perfectly. However, almost all prior work focused on cardinality constraint or considers only simple comparative products model. They neglected that composite complementary products (CCP) are widespread. In other words, when a customer adopts products <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$A$ /tex math>/inline formula> and <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$B$ /tex math>/inline formula> at the same time, it is possible for him to adopt product <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$C$ /tex math>/inline formula> Therefore, we design a multi layer network model under independent cascade (IC) model to adapt to multiple complementary products and define the seed selection problem for complementary products model [IM for complementary products (IMCP) and CCP model (IMCCP) under knapsack constraint. Here, the seed for different products has a different cost. In this paper, we propose two efficient techniques to solve IMCP problem, called Greedy and general TIM. The Greedy uses simple Greedy Hill Climbing algorithm under knapsack constraint and obtain <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"{1}{2}(1 {1}{e} /tex math>/inline formula> approximation, but the time complexity is hard to accept. The second algorithm, general TIM, forms a weighted set cover problem by means of randomized sampling (close to Greedy in practice) which reduces the time consuming significantly. For IMCCP problem, it is difficult to handle because no ready made algorithms exist to optimize a function that is nonsubmodular and nonsupermodular. Then, we need to get help from sandwich method by finding an upper and lower bound. Finally, our algorithms are evaluated on several real data sets, which prove the correctness of our algorithms.", "corpus_id": 199018156, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jianxiong Guo", "Weili Wu" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "224865529", "title": "A Combination of Self Reported Data and Social Related Neural Measures Forecasts Viral Marketing Success on Social Media", "abstract": "Abstract Consumers often share product related content (e.g. advertising) and highly shared advertising has a huge impact on consumer behavior. Despite its apparent effectiveness, prediction of whether such advertising will be highly shared is a poorly understood area of marketing. Advances in brain imaging techniques may allow researchers to forecast aggregate consumer behavior beyond subjective reports. Using neuroimaging techniques, previous research has established models showing that expectations of self related outcomes (potential for self enhancement) and the social impact of sharing (potential for social approval) contribute to the likelihood of users sharing non commercial static content (i.e. text based health news) However, whether this finding can be applied to forecasting the virality of dynamic commercial stimuli, which is more relevant to interactive marketing (i.e. video ads) remains unknown. Combining brain imaging techniques, cross validation methods, and real world data regarding sharing on social media, the present study investigated whether brain data can be used to forecast the viral marketing success of video ads. We used neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging: fMRI) to measure neural activity during three sets of theory driven neural measures implicated in value, self, and social (mentalizing) processes while 40 participants viewed video ads that brands had posted on Facebook. Contrary to previous findings regarding value related virality in non commercial static content, our results indicate that social related neural activity contributes significantly to forecasting the virality of dynamic marketing related content. The model that included both social related neural measures and subjective intentions to share forecasted viral marketing success better than the model that included only social related neural measures. The model that included only subjective intention to share did not forecast viral marketing success. Overall, these findings provide a novel connection between neurophysiological measures and real world dynamic commercial content. Contrary to previous neuroforecasting findings, social related but not value related neural measures can significantly improve our ability to predict market level sharing of video ads.", "corpus_id": 224865529, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kosuke Motoki", "Shinsuke Suzuki", "Ryuta Kawashima", "Motoaki Sugiura" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169304427", "title": "Celebrity fashion brand endorsement in Facebook viral marketing and social commerce", "abstract": "PurposeIn light of Facebook based viral marketing and social commerce, the purpose of this paper is to test the moderating role of social identification with the Facebook profile owner (celebrity as aspirational reference group vs ingroup member (college student, same school) vs outgroup member (college student, different school) in Facebook based fashion brand marketing and management.Design/methodology/approachA randomized between subjects experiment (celebrity's Facebook profile vs ingroup member's Facebook profile vs outgroup member's Facebook profile vs control condition,n=73) was conducted. The sample was composed of college students recruited from a subject pool in a US university.FindingsResults of multiple regression analyses indicate that social identification with the Facebook profile owner and ingroup vs outgroup perception moderate the influence of consumers' materialism, fashion involvement and opinion leadership on interpersonal attraction to the celebrity, wishful identification with the celebrity, emotional quotient, involvement with the ads, advertising believability and willingness to buy the advertised fashion products. Furthermore, the results of structural equation modeling analyses show that source credibility perception (both the celebrity who endorses her own brand and the Facebook profile owner) mediates the relationship between experimental conditions (celebrity as aspirational outgroup vs same school student as an ingroup member vs different school student as an outgroup member) and the outcome variables (interpersonal attraction to the celebrity, involvement with ads, and advertising believability) in viral marketing leveraging a social media platform.Originality/valueThis study makes several theoretical contributions to consumer psychology and provides managerial implications for Facebook based fashion marketing and fashion brand management.", "corpus_id": 169304427, "venue": "Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Seunga Venus Jin", "Ehri Ryu" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "334978", "title": "Stop and Stare: Optimal Sampling Algorithms for Viral Marketing in Billion scale Networks", "abstract": "Influence Maximization (IM) that seeks a small set of key users who spread the influence widely into the network, is a core problem in multiple domains. It finds applications in viral marketing, epidemic control, and assessing cascading failures within complex systems. Despite the huge amount of effort, IM in billion scale networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and World Wide Web has not been satisfactorily solved. Even the state of the art methods such as TIM+ and IMM may take days on those networks. In this paper, we propose SSA and D SSA, two novel sampling frameworks for IM based viral marketing problems. SSA and D SSA are up to 1200 times faster than the SIGMOD'15 best method, IMM, while providing the same (1 1/e e) approximation guarantee. Underlying our frameworks is an innovative Stop and Stare strategy in which they stop at exponential check points to verify (stare) if there is adequate statistical evidence on the solution quality. Theoretically, we prove that SSA and D SSA are the first approximation algorithms that use (asymptotically) minimum numbers of samples, meeting strict theoretical thresholds characterized for IM. The absolute superiority of SSA and D SSA are confirmed through extensive experiments on real network data for IM and another topic aware viral marketing problem, named TVM.", "corpus_id": 334978, "venue": "SIGMOD Conference", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Hung T Nguyen", "My T Thai", "Thang N Dinh" ], "n_citations": 235, "n_key_citations": 48, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "159043275", "title": "A Heuristic Mixed Model for Viral Marketing Cost Minimization in Social Networks", "abstract": "The Influence maximization (IM) aims at estimating a small number of influential users that maximize the viral marketing profit whereas, the Reverse Influence Maximization (RIM) deals with the minimization of Viral Marketing (VM) cost in social networks. Here, the VM cost is measured by the minimum number of nodes that are required to activate seed nodes and the profit is defined by the maximum number of nodes influenced by seed users when they are initially activated. However, most of the existing works focus on the profit maximization without considering the VM cost. Thus, in this research, we introduce a Viral Marketing Cost (VMC) Minimization problem and propose a Heuristic Mixed (HM) approach under mixed Reverse Independent Cascade (RIC) and Reverse Linear Threshold (RLT) diffusion models. The proposed HM model employs the greedy technique along with a heuristic approach to optimize the VM cost. Moreover, our model resolves the challenging issues of the RIM problem more efficiently. Finally, we simulate our model using data sets of two real social networks, and the result shows that our model outperforms the baseline and existing models.", "corpus_id": 159043275, "venue": "2019 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ashis Talukder", "Dohyeong Kim", "Choong Seon Hong" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199705196", "title": "Interrelationships between Viral Marketing and Purchase Intention via Customer Based Brand Equity", "abstract": "The advent of the Internet has presented several challenges as well as opportunities for marketers. Marketers have found more innovative methods of communicating effectively with their target market, and viral marketing is one of these methods. This study tries to explore interrelationships between viral marketing and purchase intention via customer based brand equity. The empirical results reveal that viral marketing is made up of interesting, useful and informative subjects; message interaction; message reception; and offensive content, in which each had differing effects on customer based brand equity and purchase intention. Additionally, we also find that the interaction with viral marketing messages is extremely important in order to positively influence either brand equity or purchase intentions, because mere message reception have detrimental effects on brand equity and purchase intention. Furthermore, by including brand equity as a mediator, the negative effect of message reception on consumer purchase intentions can be transformed into a positive effect.", "corpus_id": 199705196, "venue": "Journal of Business and Management Sciences", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hsiang-Hsi Liu", "Yu-Ning Wang" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "158386635", "title": "Does cargo matter? The impact of air cargo operations on departure on time performance for combination carriers", "abstract": "Airline business models are under constant development. Combination carriers generate revenues from passenger and cargo operations jointly. This study makes use of an econometric model to investigate how air cargo operations impact on the quality of service perceived by passengers. Building on empirical data from the U.S. it indicates that air cargo operations increase departure delays. Hence, passenger and cargo business are tied together in terms of revenue as well as operational complexity. To address this trade off, airline business models must be considered within the entire continuum of passenger and cargo operations.", "corpus_id": 158386635, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Anne Lange" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "59604936", "title": "The air cargo load planning problem a consolidated problem definition and literature review on related problems", "abstract": "Abstract This work describes the operational load planning problems of air cargo carriers. In the literature the term air cargo loading is used ambiguously for different subproblems that appear during the load planning process for a flight. In its entirety the problem has not yet been the subject of published research. This work introduces the overall problem, the planning decisions, the objectives of the involved stakeholders, and the restrictions occurring in practice. It reviews and categorizes related literature dealing with similar problems or subproblems. The typical problem setting in practice is analyzed to get insights into the real world problem and a large benchmark dataset is presented. Finally, challenges of the current planning practice and research gaps are highlighted.", "corpus_id": 59604936, "venue": "Eur. J. Oper. Res.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Felix Brandt", "Stefan Nickel" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "203085667", "title": "Optimal Pricing Decisions of Competing Air Cargo Carrier Systems Impacts of Risk Aversion, Demand, and Cost Uncertainties", "abstract": "Air cargo transportation has become increasingly important for global logistics systems nowadays. However, due to the intensive market competition and diverse uncertainties arising from demand and operating costs, the pricing decisions for air cargo carriers are extremely challenging but underexplored. Besides, many airlines are holding risk averse attitudes in decision making in order to survive in the highly volatile and competitive market. Therefore, in this paper, we apply the mean variance theory to characterize the risk averse behaviors of decision makers, and analytically derive the equilibrium prices for two competing risk averse air cargo carriers under demand and cost uncertainties. Then, we uncover how the crucial factors, like risk sensitivity coefficients, market competition, market share, demand uncertainty, and cost uncertainty, affect the carriers' optimal prices. In addition, important cost thresholds and relative risk averse attitude thresholds are identified. Our analytical results demonstrate the symmetry in the optimal prices and critical thresholds for the two carriers. Besides, we reveal the importance to consider both carrier's own and the competitor's risk attitudes and operating characteristics in decision making when market competition exists. Moreover, we reveal the direct and indirect impacts of risk attitudes on the optimal prices, thus highlighting the importance to integrate risk considerations into the optimal pricing decision framework. Finally, we show that market situations play a critical role in characterizing the effects of diverse parameters on the equilibrium prices, which should be carefully evaluated by decision makers in air cargo carriers.", "corpus_id": 203085667, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xin Wen", "Xiaoyan Xu", "Tsan-Ming Choi" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159203583", "title": "Co opetition effect of promised delivery time sensitive demand on air cargo carriers' big data investment and demand signal sharing decisions", "abstract": "We study two competing air cargo carriers' incentives of cooperation with promised delivery time (PDT) sensitive demand, where Carrier 1 may invest in big data and share demand signal with Carrier 2. When the carriers focus on demand competition, Carrier 1's big data investment may benefit itself and the rival, while Carrier 1 never shares its updated demand signal. When the carriers focus on PDT competition, Carrier 2 does not prefer Carrier 1's big data investment when the PDT competition is fierce. Interestingly, Carrier 1 may be willing to share its updated demand signal and a \"win win\" situation occurs.", "corpus_id": 159203583, "venue": "Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Baozhuang Niu", "Zhipeng Dai", "Xiaopo Zhuo" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159343749", "title": "Economic costs of air cargo flight delays related to late package deliveries", "abstract": "Abstract We consider the cost of air cargo flight delay related to late package deliveries, which has received scant attention in previous research. We developed two models to estimate the costs of flight delay. First, we estimate a mixed logit model to investigate the factors that influence late deliveries, with specific emphasis on flight on time performance. Then we build a regression model to monetize the loss of late deliveries, using the hedonic approach to estimate the degradation in product value resulting from less reliable on time package delivery. Estimates of flight delay costs for four representative US airports range from $8000 to $38,000 per flight hour, with an average of about $20,000, which is roughly three times the direct operating cost per block hour for air cargo flights estimated by GRA (2007) and also much higher than the unit flight delay cost related to passenger delay.", "corpus_id": 159343749, "venue": "Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yulin Liu", "Mogeng Yin", "Mark Hansen" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199684502", "title": "A data driven air cargo redistribution model based on multiple programming", "abstract": "Air cargo transportation is an essential mode of cargo transportation. How to distribute air cargo into flights better is an important operational problem. In this paper, air cargo data collected by CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) during the first three months of 2018 are analyzed. We find that the available capacity for cargo transportation shows great variations, and the cargo compartment utilization rates of flights are heterogeneously distributed. Next, a data driven air cargo redistribution model is developed based on multiple programming (MP) The proposed model can effectively transport high priority goods and balance cargo compartment utilization rates of flights. In addition, the proposed model framework can provide a new solution to multi objective or multi stage optimization problems.", "corpus_id": 199684502, "venue": "International Journal of Modern Physics B", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yang Peng", "Pu Wang", "Xiaolong Zhao", "Meilin Chen", "Jingmin Zhang", "Fan Zhang" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158640442", "title": "Improving the Sustainable Competitiveness of Service Quality within Air Cargo Terminals", "abstract": "In Taiwan, the air cargo terminal business is a government franchise. Due to changing order and delivery modes, the volume of cargo exports has gradually decreased in recent years, generating increasing competitiveness within the air cargo terminal industry. Previous studies of air cargo terminals have largely focused on manpower supply planning and business performance. When a company pursues sustainable development and growth, it can improve the quality of the service provided, promote better customer satisfaction and enhance its competitiveness and customer loyalty in order to enjoy sustained development and higher profits. Having carried out a literature review, exploration and interviews with experts, this study develops a preliminary structure that is based on theory and practice and develops a framework for air cargo terminal service quality using the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method combined with the analytic network process (ANP) Eight key criteria are examined, namely, 'New facilities or high tech equipment, 'Professional spirit, 'Security and safety, 'Sense of trust, 'Ability to handle unusual cargo, 'Professional, 'Standard operation processes, and 'Customer equity. The causality among each of these principles is also evaluated using the D ANP questionnaire that was completed by 25 business forwarders. With respect to the quality of service demanded by forwarders, different strategies were drafted separately and provide a frame of reference for air cargo terminal operators.", "corpus_id": 158640442, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yi-Chung Hu", "Ping-Chuan Lee", "Yuh-Shy Chuang", "Yu-Jing Chiu" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55080556", "title": "Cooperating to Compete in the Global Air Cargo Industry: The Case of the DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo A.G. Joint Venture Airline 'AeroLogic'", "abstract": "This paper presents a case study of the DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo strategic joint venture cargo airline 'AeroLogic' the global air cargo industry's largest operative joint venture between an airline and a leading international express and logistics provider. The study used a qualitative research approach. The data gathered for the study was examined by document analysis. The strategic analysis of the AeroLogic joint venture was based on the use of Porter's Five Forces framework. The study found that the AeroLogic joint venture airline has provided synergistic benefits to both partners and has allowed the partners to access new markets and to participate in the evolution of the air cargo industry. The new venture has also enabled both joint venture partners to enhance their competitive position in the global air cargo industry through strengthened service offerings and has provided the partners with increased cargo capacities, a larger route network, and greater frequencies within their own route networks. The study also found that the AeroLogic business model is unique in the air cargo industry. A limitation of the study was that AeroLogic's annual revenue or freight traffic data was not available. It was, therefore, not possible to analyse the business performance of the joint venture.", "corpus_id": 55080556, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Glenn Baxter", "Panarat Srisaeng" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169791365", "title": "Analysis model to quantify potential factors in the growth of air cargo logistics in airports", "abstract": "Abstract This paper presents an analysis model that allows evaluating the growth opportunities of air cargo in an airport. For this, a model which identifies the elements that affect the capacity of an airport to attract cargo operations and air cargo airlines has been developed. The identification of the elements of the model has been performed through a sectoral review of air cargo, an analysis of the entire logistics chain including the physical flow, the documentary flow, and all the agents involved in it. The analysis of the logistics chain has been carried out from the operational, technological, socio economic and environmental standpoint, considering all the factors that influence the competitiveness of the logistics chain. Specifically, the operational characteristics that an air cargo transport requires both at the airport infrastructure and the logistics operators level, the technologies for the handling of freight and its control (on land and on board) have been examined. Other characteristics include the different types of products transported according to their characteristics, the associated supply chains considering locations and routes with their origins and destinations, and the existing markets with the main demands of each type of merchandise. The model has been developed by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process methodology with absolute measurements. This methodology considers the judgements of experts in terms of the weightings of the different factors and attributes that constitute the model. The Zaragoza airport has been used for the model assessment. Furthermore, minimum thresholds were established for the attributes. Thus, it is obtained a model that allows an analysis of the improvement capabilities of airports focused on air cargo activity.", "corpus_id": 169791365, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Emilio Larrode", "Victoria Muerza", "Victor Villagrasa" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4713493", "title": "Game theoretic Analysis of Air cargo Allotment Contract", "abstract": "Consider an air cargo carrier and a freight forwarder, which may establish an allotment contract at the start of the season. The allotment size needs to be determined, before their stochastic demands materialize. The forwarder hopes to receive a discount rate, lower than the spot rate. The carrier hopes to increase capacity utilization by handling not only its own direct ship demand but also the forwarder's demand. We formulate a Stackelberg game, in which the carrier is the leader and offers contract parameters such as the wholesale price and the refund rate for the unused allotment as well as the minimum allotment utilization. Given the carrier's offer, the forwarder decides how much to book as an allotment, in order to maximize its own expected profit. We analyze the game and identify conditions, in which an equilibrium contract coordinates the air cargo chain. We show that the minimum allotment utilization is needed to construct a coordinating contract. In our numerical examples, we illustrate how to apply our approach to the case study of one of the biggest forwarders in Thailand. The contract can improve both parties' profits, compared to the scenario without any contract, where the forwarder purchases all capacity from the spot market.", "corpus_id": 4713493, "venue": "ICORES", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kannapha Amaruchkul" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "159580429", "title": "Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights (review)", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 159580429, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Gordon M Freeman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "141701388", "title": "With Donna Litman, Jewish and American Inheritance Law: Commonalities, Clashes, and Estate Planning Consequences (forthcoming in Jewish Law Association Studies)", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 141701388, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Steven H Resnicoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "159499484", "title": "The Consequences of Unintentional Incest in Jewish Law and Modern Society", "abstract": "This article first describes Jewish law's teachings on matters concerning lineage. The Gemara establishes the fundamental importance of genealogy. It leads us to see that matters of genealogy require a higher standard of care than other matters and that human interventions in this area should be undertaken with great circumspection. In this way, the Gemara provides a prophetic basis for addressing current concerns. Genealogy is of fundamental importance to Jewish cosmology and social thought. Inheritance and the kinship system are of fundamental importance in Jewish law. Thus it is crucial to protect the integrity of the kinship system, to preserve clarity about parentage and all matters of ancestry, and to preserve liceity, that is, fidelity to law, in kinship. Surrogacy, gamete donation, and other assisted reproduction techniques present new genealogical issues that demand consideration in the context of Jewish tradition. Incest is seen as repugnant today, as it was in ancient times. Incest can have devastating medical consequences for children whose parents are close relatives. The closer the genetic relationship, the greater the likelihood of a genetic mutation. Under Jewish law, Halacha, if the parents are first degree relatives (that is, fully or partially siblings) the child born from the union will have the added stigma of the status of a mamzer.", "corpus_id": 159499484, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Julia Feuer" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56448698", "title": "Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 56448698, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Pek Esq", "Ayibakuro Noah Matthew" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "159484034", "title": "Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 159484034, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Bernard S Jackson" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "165632476", "title": "Jonathan S. Milgram. From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 164. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. xxi 201 pp.", "abstract": "atively ambiguous. (The quotation ends the book. I was left wanting a more formal conclusion in its wake, especially since here her reasons for rejecting the alleged interpolation identify wider assumptions and problems affecting the field of ancient Jewish literature (e.g. the Damascus Document) more broadly. By relegating these points mostly to footnotes and providing no concluding reflections on their broader implications, Halpern Amaru undersells the significance of her work. Halpern Amaru's meticulous footnotes thoroughly engage the manuscript evidence, acknowledging when she must (propose and) rely on a reconstruction of the Hebrew based on a particular medieval Ethiopic reading. She transliterates and translates the Ge'ez, but often leaves Hebrew untranslated, a logical and handy approach for most scholars of ancient Judaism. Halpern Amaru juggles so much linguistic, literary, and exegetical data that her arguments would be obscured (and her book too lengthy) if she consistently rendered things intelligible for those who cannot read Hebrew. But this obviously limits accessibility for scholars more skilled in New Testament literature that, like Jubilees, is similarly saturated with representative allusions and implicit exegesis. Halpern Amaru's willingness to engage and consider Jubilees as \"a unitary text that may reflect the work of a single author or the hand of a final editor\" (21) allows her to see and account for nuanced details of biblical exegesis, theology, and literary expression that the source critical approaches of other scholars have missed. This holistic \"literary approach\" to the text (20) provides a model not only for future work in Jubilees, but, in the eyes of this reviewer, for study of 1 2 Chronicles, the Damascus Document, and other works of Second Temple literature. In both substance of argument and method of approach, Halpern Amaru consistently and convincingly conveys what the author of Jubilees is doing (that is, what goes into and is conveyed by the composition) and how we, as scholars, should talk about it at the micro level of a particular passage of narrative or legislation, at the macro level of the more prolonged literary efforts sustained across the book as a unity, and at so many intervening loci where such micro and macro efforts converge.", "corpus_id": 165632476, "venue": "AJS Review", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Shaye J D Cohen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "144233122", "title": "Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure and Inheritance Rights By Jeffrey I. Roth", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 144233122, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Shaul Stamfer" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "152389067", "title": "Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights", "abstract": "A comprehensive legal history of changing remuneration practices among the rabbinate. In his legal history of the rabbinic profession from biblical to modern times, Jeffrey I. Roth traces the development of principles governing compensation and related benefits for rabbis, scholars, teachers, and judges under Jewish law. Roth focuses on the disconnect that evolved as rabbis wished to serve God and their communities yet needed to provide for the material needs of their families. He charts the shift from the Talmudic ideal of uncompensated service and follows the development of four material advantages sought by the rabbinic profession compensation, protection against competition, principles of tenure in office, and inheritance rights. Roth assesses how Jewish legal authorities dealt with seemingly conflicting material and spiritual requirements. Analyzing two millennia of legal and intellectual history, he depicts the struggle of rabbinical authorities and scholars of the Torah to answer questions about their profession in a way that allowed the rabbinate to survive while limiting compromises with received standards. Through vivid historical vignettes, Roth tells a story of legal ingenuity and religious courage, of flexibility in Jewish law, and of a responsiveness to changing circumstances that ultimately, although often hesitantly, laid the foundation for the modern rabbinate. In one of the few studies of the rabbinate cutting across countries and movements, Roth places rabbis in the social and economic contexts of their times and depicts them not just as religious leaders but as wage earners, providers for their dependents, and competitors in the provision of fee based services for the more lucrative and prestigious positions. He also draws thoughtful parallels between rabbinic tenure and university academic tenure, noting that both protect the teacher and scholar from ever changing political winds.", "corpus_id": 152389067, "venue": "", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "Jeffrey I Roth" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159383244", "title": "The Jewish law of family and inheritance and its application in Palestine", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 159383244, "venue": "", "year": 1947, "author_names": [ "Erwin Elchanan Scheftelowitz" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "182351485", "title": "The Jewish Law of Inheritance: Problems and Solutions in Making a Jewish Will. By Dayan S. Grunfeld [Targum Press, Oak Park Michigan and Feldheim, Jerusalem and New York, 1987, xxi 146 pp.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 182351485, "venue": "", "year": 1989, "author_names": [ "Shmuel Shilo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "213802090", "title": "DESIGNING ENGLISH SPEAKING MATERIALS USING TASK BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING (TBLT) FOR ISLAMIC ECONOMICS STUDENTS", "abstract": "This research aimed to 1) describe the steps of designing English speaking materials using Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) for Islamic Economics Students of IAIN Metro 2) determine the students' responses toward English Speaking Materials using Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) The type of this research was Research and Development (R&D) This research was conducted within 5 months. The subjects were students of the Islamic Economics Department of IAIN Metro. The results showed that 1) the steps in designing English speaking materials using Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) are potency and problem, data collection, product design, design validation, design revision, product testing, product revision. Product testing was used to determine the students' responses toward the product. and 2) The results of students' responses analysis towards English speaking materials using Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) which distributed to 24 Islamic Economics students were very good. It can be seen from the the average score after being converted into quantitative data that was 3.46. Therefore, English speaking materials using Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) are considered reasonable to use.", "corpus_id": 213802090, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Linda Septiyana" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "216408812", "title": "CONTEXTUAL TEACHING LEARNING (CTL) APPROACH IN SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR STUDENTS' 21ST CENTURY SKILL: DOES IT HAVE ANY EFFECT?", "abstract": "In this era, having only speaking competence is not adequate for the students. They also need to possess some other skills like critical thinking which is also known as the 21st century skill. The 21st century learners must possess both self direction and an ability to collaborate with individuals, groups, and machines. To support this, new speaking materials based on the context of the real world need to be used in teaching the students to ensure the EFL thinking critically is urgently needed. This paper is aimed at knowing the effect English speaking material which is based on contextual teaching learning towards EFL critical thinking in speaking. To achieve this purpose, the students were taught using speaking material which is based on contextual teaching learning before the speaking test was taken at the end. To analyze the data t test was applied. The data analysis showed that CTL had a significant effect on students' critical thinking after being treated.", "corpus_id": 216408812, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Muliani Muliani", "Dedi Sumarsono" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "200054848", "title": "Developing English Speaking Materials for Nursing Students", "abstract": "Good quality students' learning outcomes are dependent on good teaching materials. Good teaching materials are those developed based on an appropriate needs analysis. In this era of globalization, nurses must be skillful not only in nursing, but also in communicating in English with non Indonesian patients. Therefore, one of the goals of nursing education is the mastery of spoken English. Related to this issue, the research reported in this paper aims to develop the appropriate speaking materials for the second semester students of nursing program based on their needs. This is a research and development study conducted at a nursing school in Yogyakarta. The development of the materials went through seven steps: conducting needs analysis, designing the course grid, developing the first draft of the textbook, getting the expert judgment, revising the product, implementing the product, and evaluating the product. The data were obtained from questionnaires and interview. The questionnaires were analyzed using quantitative data analysis, while the interview data were analyzed using qualitative data analysis. The research findings reveal the real needs of nursing students, the teacher's viewpoints on the practice of instructions, and the descriptions of English for nurses used in their field of work. Keywords english for nursing, speaking, speaking material development.", "corpus_id": 200054848, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Unun Fadliah", "" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "115447680", "title": "DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR STUDENTS OF OFFICE ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM OF VOCATIONAL SCHOOL", "abstract": "The objective of this study was to develop English speaking materials based on students' needs. This study followed the steps of research and development proposed by Borg and Gall, which are 1) need analysis; 2) planning(writing syllabus) 3) designing materials; 4) material evaluation; 5) revising (writing final product) It was found that 82.85% students agreed that the existing materials currently used by the students were irrelevant with office administration program. The more relevant materials were then developed based on scientific approach and relevant with their study program and work life situation. The learning materials were developed into 3 units of speaking materials. The learning materials were then validated by two experts. The average score of the validation was 85. It showed that the developed learning materials were very good, relevant and feasible.", "corpus_id": 115447680, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Dumora Malina Sijabat And Sortha Silitonga" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "195573958", "title": "Pecha Kucha based speaking materials for critical listening and speaking I", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 195573958, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kartika Eva Rahmawati" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210262064", "title": "DEVELOPING TASK BASED SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR SECRETARY STUDENTS", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 210262064, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ayu Fitrianifa" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "113714833", "title": "Designing Task Based English Speaking Materials for the Staff of Bank Mandiri Yogyakarta", "abstract": "Most of the staff of Bank Mandiri in Yogyakarta have some difficulties to communicate with the foreign customers, which hinder the process of the service. Therefore, this study attempted to develop English speaking materials for the staff of Bank Mandiri in Yogyakarta using the principles of task based learning. The writer adapted Kemp's instructional design model (1977) comprising eight flexible, interdependent steps. Those steps, subsequently, were put under the umbrella of Borg Gall's (1986) Research and Development (R&D) method. Due to time and resource limitations, only three out of ten steps of the R&D model were employed, which were: (1) Research and information collecting, (2) Planning and (3) Developing preliminary form of product. To acquire required information for developing the materials, the writer distributed needs analysis questionnaire to twenty staff of Bank Mandiri, Yogyakarta. The designed materials covered eight units. Each unit consisted of five sections, namely \"Do You Remember?\" \"Prepare Yourself!\" \"Can You Do These?\" \"Let's Learn!\" and \"It's Time to Write\" It was expected that the materials could improve the speaking skill of the staff of Bank Mandiri Yogyakarta. DOI: https:/doi.org/10.24071/llt.2017.200108", "corpus_id": 113714833, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Patricia Angelina" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "117197279", "title": "Developing English Speaking Materials for Tenth Grade Students of Hotel Accommodation Study Program at SMKN 1 Sukadana", "abstract": "Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan materi berbicara Bahasa Inggris untuk siswa kelas X jurusan akomodasi perhotelan, berkenaan dengan terbatasnya materi berbicara bahasa ingrris untuk jurusan ini. Desain penelitian ini ada Research and Development subjek penelitian adalah 30 siswa kelas X jurusan akomodasi perhotelan di SMKN 1 Sukadana Lampung Timur. Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa instrumen pengumpulan data seperti kuesioner, wawancara, dan observasi menggunakan ceklis Data yang dikumpulkan kemudian digunakan untuk mengembangkan dan mengevaluasi tiga unit materi berbicara Bahasa Inggris. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah materi berbicara Bahasa Inggris yang sesuai dan efektif untuk siswa kelas X jurusan akomodasi perhotelan di SMKN 1 Sukadana. Penemuan dan proses dari penelitian ini dapat digunakan dalam proses belajar mengajar. This reseach is aimed at developing English speaking material for the tenth grade students of hotel accommodation study program since speaking material for hotel accommodation is still limited. The design used Research and Development, the subjects were the 30 tenth grade students of hotel accommodation study program in SMKN 1 Sukadana Lampung Timur. This study used various instruments such as questionnaires, interview guide, and observation checklist. The data are used to develop and evaluate the three units of English speaking material. It was found that English speaking materials developed in this study are appropriate and effective for the tenth grade students of hotel accommodation study program in SMKN 1 Sukadana. The findings and the process of the study can be used in teaching learning activity. Keywords: Speaking, Material, English for Hotel Accommodation", "corpus_id": 117197279, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Retno Prabandari", "Cucu Sutarsyah", "Mahpul Mahpul" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56270012", "title": "DEVELOPING EFL SPEAKING MATERIALS FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF STAIN SAMARINDA", "abstract": "The objective of this study was to develop the speaking materials for the second semester students of STAIN Samarinda. This is a research and development (R&D) study. The instruments were questionnaires, interview, and field notes. The procedure of the study was conducting needs survey, developing materials, experts' validation, revising, and getting the final product. The speaking topics of the draft are introducing oneself and others, telling the time, describing things, describing someone, daily activities, asking for and giving information, asking for and giving opinion, expressing likes and dislikes. The experts' validation showed that the content and style of delivery were acceptable. However, revision had to be done in terms of cultural aspects, situational context, and the gradation of the materials should be come from the easiest one into the most difficult materials. They also suggested use this speaking materials, it's necessary to provide the format of evaluation and a criteria to be evaluated should involve the peer assessment of the students. Then, the revision was done accordingly. Keywords: research and development, speaking materials", "corpus_id": 56270012, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "F Mashabi Umar" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "114782662", "title": "Developing English Speaking Materials for Students of Culinary Study Program at Vocational School through Task Based Learning", "abstract": "The objectives of this study are: 1) to evaluate the existing English speaking materials used currently by the culinary students; 2) to find out the relevant English speaking materials; 3) to develop the English speaking materials through task based learning. This study was conducted by applying the four phases of educational research and development Gall, Gall and Borg. The technique of collecting the data are questionnaire and documentation. The technique of analyzing the data is descriptive technique. The source of the data is culinary students and existing syllabus and speaking materials. The result is all the students (100% agree that the objective of the existing speaking materials is less relevant with the objective of the culinary study program. The score for the existing syllabus is 0.9, it means generally most of the element in the existing syllabus are less relevant with the culinary study program. The result is in grade ninety (90) it means that generally the whole package of the speaking materials are good, relevant and feasible to be learning source. Therefore, it is suggested for the English teacher to use the speaking materials in this study for the culinary students at SMKN 2 Kutacane. Keywords: English speaking materials, culinary study, vocational school", "corpus_id": 114782662, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Fitri Erawati", "Eddy Setia" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "210702688", "title": "Generative Adversarial Network Rooms in Generative Graph Grammar Dungeons for The Legend of Zelda", "abstract": "Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their ability to learn patterns in data and produce new exemplars similar to, but different from, their training set in several domains, including video games. However, GANs have a fixed output size, so creating levels of arbitrary size for a dungeon crawling game is difficult. GANs also have trouble encoding semantic requirements that make levels interesting and playable. This paper combines a GAN approach to generating individual rooms with a graph grammar approach to combining rooms into a dungeon. The GAN captures design principles of individual rooms, but the graph grammar organizes rooms into a global layout with a sequence of obstacles determined by a designer. Room data from The Legend of Zelda is used to train the GAN. This approach is validated by a user study, showing that GAN dungeons are as enjoyable to play as a level from the original game, and levels generated with a graph grammar alone. However, GAN dungeons have rooms considered more complex, and plain graph grammar's dungeons are considered least complex and challenging. Only the GAN approach creates an extensive supply of both layouts and rooms, where rooms span across the spectrum of those seen in the training set to new creations merging design principles from multiple rooms.", "corpus_id": 210702688, "venue": "2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jake Gutierrez", "Jacob Schrum" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "194280112", "title": "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 194280112, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jonathan LaCour" ], "n_citations": 46, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "224938869", "title": "The Legend of Zelda and the Portrayal of Women in Gaming History", "abstract": "This paper aims to analyze the change in the cultural depictions of female characters in video gaming history through the developments of the character Princess Zelda over the course of ten games from The Legend of Zelda Series, spanning from 1986 to 2017. The ten games were divided into three categories by the developers that managed the series, games by Shigeru Miyamoto (1986 1998),Takashi Tezuka (2002 2009) and Eiji Aonuma. (2008 2019) respectively. Under each developers' tunure, Princess Zelda's portrayal was altered to adapt the cultural view of women during their time. The results of this literary analysis was that Princess Zelda's constantly evolving depiction represents two events in the gaming industry: the transition from an eastern perspective to a western perspective regarding the view of women in the gaming industry, and the changing demographics in the video game market to more female consumers.", "corpus_id": 224938869, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Norachase Prom" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "216277027", "title": "Link Is Not Silent: Queer Disability Positivity in Fan Readings of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", "abstract": "This chapter uses the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the transnational online communities surrounding it as a case study to explore the intersections between configurations of queerness and disability. It discusses how fan artists and writers have created stories of the game's protagonist negotiating trauma and disability through his queer relationships and friendships while envisioning a positive yet nuanced representations of a society in which difference is enthusiastically accepted. Through an analysis of the visual and narrative strategies employed in fancomics, this chapter argues that multilingual fannish conversations on social media are capable of constructing and normalizing progressive frameworks for how difference is portrayed and accommodated within global gaming cultures.", "corpus_id": 216277027, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kathryn Hemmann" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "224932111", "title": "The hero of time: a propagacao de conteudos miticos em The legend of Zelda: ocarina of time The hero of time: the propagation of mythic content in The legend of Zelda: ocarina of time", "abstract": "Analisando os arranjos narrativos das producoes midiaticas atuais, e possivel perceber que os mitos ainda se constituem como parte essencial de sua diegese e do imaginario coletivo. Partindo disso, esse artigo busca compreender como se dao a utilizacao de estruturas miticas na construcao da narrativa e do universo do jogo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Atraves de uma analise exploratoria da estrutura diegetica do jogo, foi possivel concluir que a franquia agrega estruturas miticas referentes a criacao do Universo e a Jornada do Heroi para criar sua propria mitologia, atualizando e perpetuando conceitos culturais e arquetipicos presentes no dominio do simbolico.", "corpus_id": 224932111, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Arthur Carlos de Oliveira", "Hertz Wendel de Camargo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "216264278", "title": "Literatura para ler. literatura para ver: reverberacoes do discurso literario na estrutura do manga The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time", "abstract": "Este artigo tem o escopo de aviar uma proposicao teorica que consiste na leitura dos mangas como expressoes literarias, preterindo a usual postura de se designar as historias em quadrinhos aos segmentos de subcultura, subliteratura ou como produto cultural de valor social infimo, desqualificando as como produto condigno a receber o rotulo literatura. Em contrapartida, a imputacao desse rotulo precisa ser justificada, e, para tal, demonstra se como as caracteristicas mais comuns de um romance ecoam livremente na estrutura do manga, em outros termos, as reverberacoes do discurso literario na tessitura textual das historias em quadrinhos, constituindo um texto imagem marcado pela hibridez, uma especie de quadrinho romance. Seccionado em duas etapas, o texto, inicialmente, aborda o complexo conceito de literatura, expondo definicoes variadas e consistentes oriundas de alguns estudiosos. Em seguida, apresenta se o enredo do manga selecionado, The legend of Zelda: ocarina of time (2017) para ser nosso corpus ficcional e inicia se a analise literaria em que se aponta as similitudes entre a estrutura do romance e a estrutura do manga. A fim de atingir os objetivos demarcados, recorre se a estudiosos como Aristoteles (2005) Antonio Candido (1970) Roberto Acizelo (2007) Terry Eagleton (2001) Antoine Compagnon (2010) e Sonia Luyten (2011)", "corpus_id": 216264278, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jhonatan Rodrigues Peixoto da Silva" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "201495702", "title": "The Journey of a Hero: Musical Evocations of the Hero's Experience in The Legend of Zelda", "abstract": "Jillian Wyatt: The Journey of a Hero Musical Evocations of the Hero's Experience in The Legend of Zelda Under the supervision of Dr. Graham Hunt The research in this study explores concepts in the music from select games in The Legend of Zelda franchise. The paper utilizes topic theory and Schenkerian analysis to form connections between concepts such as adventure in the overworld, the fight or flight response in an enemy encounter, lament at the loss of a companion, and heroism by overcoming evil. This thesis identifies and discusses how Koji Kondo's compositions evoke these concepts, and briefly questions the reasoning. The musical excerpts consist of (but are not limited to) The Great Sea (Windwaker; adventure) Ganondorf Battle (Ocarina of Time; fight or flight) Midna's Lament (Twilight Princess; lament) and Hyrule Field (Twilight Princess; heroism) The article aims to encourage readers to explore music of different genres and acknowledge that conventional analysis tools prove useful to video game music. Additionally, the results in this study find patterns in Koji Kondo's work such as (to identify a select few) modal mixture, military topic, and lament bass to perpetuate an in game concept. The most significant aspect of this study suggests that the music in The Legend of Zelda reflects in game ideas and pushes a musical concept to correspond with what happens on screen while in gameplay.", "corpus_id": 201495702, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jill Wyatt" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219652356", "title": "History and Reception in the Music of The Legend of Zelda Peritexts", "abstract": "This article argues that the music of opening peritexts within two The Legend of Zelda games reflects their reception history and continuity within the series mythology. On the one hand, \"The Legendary Hero\" peritext of The Wind Waker mirrors the game's reception history as one of departure from a Zelda tradition established by Ocarina of Time, which caused controversy initially yet gained acceptance in the long term. The audiovisual components of \"The Legendary Hero\" all position gamers to consider the events of Ocarina of Time as old, submerged under the Great Sea. Textual references to \"legend\" and \"myth,\" visual cues of antique art and runes, and musical cues harkening to medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque tropes within Western music all these serve to depart from Zelda tropes. On the other hand, the title screen peritext of Twilight Princess restores the legacy of Ocarina of Time. Reception of the former always includes its nostalgic, intimately connected relationship to the latter. Consequently, Twilight Princess garnered immediate praise but became problematic in the long term. The audiovisual components of the title screen peritext position gamers to reestablish continuity with Zelda tropes. Visual and musical cues reach across several previous games and as far back as the original The Legend of Zelda game, all of which orient players back to traditions from which the franchise had departed for years. Thus the music of the peritext enables players to engage in Zelda's potential for self reference more apparently than its adoption of Western music tropes, as in Wind Waker. The peritexts of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess complement each other and allow us to understand more critically the reception and historiography of each game, how the music can reveal a deeper understanding of narrative themes characteristic of each game, and their placement within the Zelda mythology.", "corpus_id": 219652356, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Vincent E Rone" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225212605", "title": "\"Wear People's Faces\"", "abstract": "This article discusses fan adaptations of music from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000) arguing that the creators of these adaptations pick up on semiotic meaning in the game's original music and maintain this meaning while changing some structural features of the music to place the original pieces into new stylistic and generic contexts. The musical meaning in the works is sometimes subtle, but it can be determined through a combination of semiotic and hermeneutic methods. In both the original soundtrack and the adaptations, the meaning of the music is also tied to the in game narrative context associated with it, which is often sad or anxious in emotional character. Remaking the music into adaptations helps fans of the game contextualize the meaning in new ways and understand how it relates to their own social and emotional circumstances. The adaptations help fans with \"world building\" and \"organizing social life.\"1 After an overview of Majora's Mask that situates it within Nintendo's corpus, the Zelda series and its fandom, and composer Koji Kondo's oeuvre, the article discusses and analyzes multiple adaptations of three specific pieces from the game: \"Clock Town,\" \"Song of Healing,\" and \"Stone Tower Temple.\" The adaptations discussed include amateur remixes and mashups, professional studio productions, covers in different genres, and a full length opera by composer M. Bulteau. When making this new content, creators \"wear people's faces\" (like the protagonist Link does with masks in the game) by taking on the emotional meaning of the works and putting it into new contexts that imitate, but do not replicate, the original music.", "corpus_id": 225212605, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jeremy Smith" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216227115", "title": "Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 216227115, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Anthony G Cirilla", "Vincent E Rone" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "212599212", "title": "Minimizing Execution Time of Bubble Sort Algorithm", "abstract": "Sorting is an important data structure which finds its place in many real life applications. A number of sorting algorithms are in existence till date. In this paper the we have tried to improve upon execution time of the Bubble Sort algorithm by implementing the algorithm using a new algorithm .An extensive analysis has been done by us on the new algorithm and the algorithm has been compared with the traditional method of Bubble Sort. Observations have been obtained on comparing this new approach with the existing approaches of Bubble Sort. The new algorithm was tested on random data of various ranges from small to large. It has been observed that the new approach has given efficient results in terms of execution time. Hence we have reached to the conclusion through the experimental observations that the new algorithm given in this paper is better than the traditional Bubble Sort.", "corpus_id": 212599212, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Ms Jyoti Mundra" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "18911323", "title": "Run Time Bubble Sort An Enhancement of Bubble Sort", "abstract": "In many real applications, sorting plays an important role as it makes easy to handle the data by arranging it in ascending or descending order, according to requirements. Bubble sort is most common sorting algorithm, but not efficient for many applications. There are number of other sorting algorithms and still, research is going for new sorting algorithms to improve the complexities of existing algorithms whether it is space complexity or it is time complexity. This paper introduces a new algorithm named RTBS (Run Time Bubble Sort) This sorting technique is very simple to implement. It is helpful to reduce the elapsed time when to sort the data. RTBS is compared with original bubble sort algorithm. This sorting technique is tested for average case, best case and the worst case. KeywordsSorting algorithm, Bubble sort.", "corpus_id": 18911323, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Harish Rohil", "Man Sha" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "203598451", "title": "Implementing Bubble Sort Using a New Approach", "abstract": "Sorting is an important data structure which finds its place in many real life applications. A number of sorting algorithms are in existence till date and ample of research is still going on to make an extensive analysis of the existing algorithms to reduce their time complexity up to the extent possible. Research is also going on for finding the algorithms which are fast enough than the existing ones. In this paper the authors have tried to improve upon the Bubble Sort technique by implementing the algorithm using a new approach of implementation .An extensive analysis has been done by the authors on the new approach and the approach has been compared with the traditional method of Bubble Sort| along with its popular variation Bi Directional Sort| Interesting observations have been obtained on comparing this new approach with the existing approaches of Bubble Sort. The approach was tested for Average Case analysis, Best Case analysis and Worst case analysis. It has been observed that the new approach has given wonderful results on Average Case and Worst Case analysis. Hence the authors have reached to the conclusion through the experimental observations that the new approach as suggested in this paper is better than the traditional Bubble Sort and its Bi Directional variation.", "corpus_id": 203598451, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Vibhakar Mansotra", "Kr Sourabh" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "17694342", "title": "UPC SPIN A Framework for the Model Checking of UPC Programs", "abstract": "This paper presents a software framework for the model check ing of the inter thread synchronization functionalities of Un ified Parallel C (UPC) programs. The proposed framework includes a fron tend compiler that generates finite models of UPC programs in t he modeling language of the SPIN model checker. The model gener ation is based on a set of abstraction rules that transform th e UPC synchronization primitives to semantically equivalent c ode snippets in SPIN's modeling language. The back end includes SPI N that verifies the generated model. If the model checking succ eeds, then the UPC program is correct with respect to properties of interest such as data race freedom and/or deadlock freedom. Oth erwise, the back end provides feedback as sequences of UPC instructions that lead to a data race or a deadlock from initial states called counterexamples Using the UPC SPIN framework, we have detected design flaws in several real world UPC applications, including a program simulating heat flow in metal rods, parallel bub ble sort, parallel data collection, and an integer permutation program. More importantly, for the first time (to the best of our knowle dg we have mechanically verified data race freedom and deadloc kfreedom in a UPC implementation of the Conjugate Gradient (C G) kernel of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) We believe that UPC SPIN provides a valuable tool for developers towards in creasing their confidence in the computational results generated by UPC applications.", "corpus_id": 17694342, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Ali Ebnenasir" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "60267440", "title": "RANK BASED OPTIMIZED SORTING NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROF", "abstract": "In this paper an optimized architecture for implementation of ROF is presented. The architecture is based on sorting network architecture algorithm optimized for each rank and consists of significantly fewer comparators than the existing architectures that are based on bubble sort and quick sort (Cardells Tormo and Molinet, 2006) The reduction in comparators is obtained by sorting the columns of the window only once, and then merging the elements based on the range of the ranks the column sorted elements would occupy. The design of architecture is further optimized using the concepts of parallelism and pipelining to store the sorted columns of one window for processing the next successive overlapping windows (Gonzalez and Woods, 2000 and Archana et al. 2005).The architecture is pipelined which processes one pixel per clock cycle, thus to process an image of size 256 x 256 it requires 0.65ms when a clock of 100MHz is used and hence is suitable for real time applications.", "corpus_id": 60267440, "venue": "", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "S M Meena", "K Linganagouda" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "62687911", "title": "Current dynamics based macro model for power simulation in a complex VLIW DSP processor", "abstract": "A methodology and a macro modelling approach are presented for analysing low level current dynamics at the instruction and program level for a complex VLIW DSP processor core. An instruction level macro model, whose input parameters can be extracted from the DSP core's assembly level program, is introduced for power modelling. For the first time, dynamic power models of algorithms are introduced and verified with real power measurements of a DSP processor core in a VLSI chip. Results from both cryptographic and bubble sort applications show that dynamic power can be modelled with an average error in energy estimation ranging from 0.3% to 9.7% The instruction level macro model of power also supports different clock frequencies and compressed algorithmic traces, important for security aware compilers. In general, the research is important for analysing and modelling the impact of software on power, the design of embedded cryptographic VLSI systems that are safe from power attacks, and for reliable design by detecting the peak current values generated by the software application.", "corpus_id": 62687911, "venue": "", "year": 2002, "author_names": [ "Radu Muresan", "Catherine H Gebotys" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13602733", "title": "Bubble Entropy: An Entropy Almost Free of Parameters", "abstract": "Objective: A critical point in any definition of entropy is the selection of the parameters employed to obtain an estimate in practice. We propose a new definition of entropy aiming to reduce the significance of this selection. Methods: We call the new definition Bubble Entropy. Bubble Entropy is based on permutation entropy, where the vectors in the embedding space are ranked. We use the bubble sort algorithm for the ordering procedure and count instead the number of swaps performed for each vector. Doing so, we create a more coarse grained distribution and then compute the entropy of this distribution. Results: Experimental results with both real and synthetic HRV signals showed that bubble entropy presents remarkable stability and exhibits increased descriptive and discriminating power compared to all other definitions, including the most popular ones. Conclusion: The definition proposed is almost free of parameters. The most common ones are the scale factor r and the embedding dimension m In our definition, the scale factor is totally eliminated and the importance of m is significantly reduced. The proposed method presents increased stability and discriminating power. Significance: After the extensive use of some entropy measures in physiological signals, typical values for their parameters have been suggested, or at least, widely used. However, the parameters are still there, application and dataset dependent, influencing the computed value and affecting the descriptive power. Reducing their significance or eliminating them alleviates the problem, decoupling the method from the data and the application, and eliminating subjective factors.", "corpus_id": 13602733, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "George Manis", "Md Aktaruzzaman", "Roberto Sassi" ], "n_citations": 49, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219843995", "title": "Implementing real time image processing algorithm on FPGA", "abstract": "FPGA is popular for real time image process attributed to its flexibility and parallelism. In this paper, a parallel fast median filtering algorithm is implemented by FPGA. The times of comparison can be reduced by half compared to the bubble sort method. To keep more border information of image, an efficient implement of border management is proposed in detail. Meanwhile, a speed up method presented is more effective in the real time application. The proposed method shows good performance in eliminating noise. The low resource consuming and the low latency is meaningful for real time image processing application.", "corpus_id": 219843995, "venue": "International Conference on Digital Image Processing", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jin Xu", "Jian Geng", "Xinfeng Yan", "Hongkai Wang", "Huang Xia" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "62688753", "title": "A nine input 1.25 mW, 34 ns CMOS analog median filter for image processing in real time", "abstract": "In this paper an analog voltage mode median filter, which operates on a 3 x 3 kernel is presented. The filter is implemented in a 0.35 mm CMOS technology. The proposed solution is based on voltage comparators and a bubble sort configuration. As a result, a fast (34 ns) time response with low power consumption (1.25 mW for 3.3 V) is achieved. The key advantage of the configuration is relatively high accuracy of signal processing, which allows the calculation of the median of signals with the difference in amplitude as small as 10 mV. This feature allows the application of the filter to vision systems with up to 7 bit equivalent resolution. The analytical and statistical analysis of the filter resolution, and analysis of its speed limitations are presented and compared to measurement results. Based on the achieved results, a set of guidelines for the filter design and optimisation is presented.", "corpus_id": 62688753, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Waldemar Jendernalik", "Grzegorz Blakiewicz", "Jacek Jakusz", "Stanislaw Szczepanski" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "24301221", "title": "Enhanced Model and Real Time Simulation Architecture for Modular Multilevel Converter", "abstract": "This paper presents i) an equivalent model of the half bridge modular multilevel converter (HB MMC) which is suitable for real time applications, ii) a hybrid central processing unit/field programmable gate array (CPU/FPGA) based architecture for real time simulation of electromagnetic transients of systems which include HB MMC, and iii) a novel arrangement for sorting results referred to as the \"sub module (SM) rank list\" which tackles the bottleneck for parallel implementation of the MMC arm model solver on the FPGA. The Adam Bashforth (AB) method is used for numerical integration of the HB SM capacitor model. The second order AB method provides a constant admittance matrix of the HB MMC and, thus, reduces computational burden while offering the same accuracy as that of the widely used Trapezoidal method. The CPU/FPGA based architecture is optimized to obtain maximum parallelism of the HB MMC model implementation, adopting a standard, single precision, floating point computational engine. The proposed sorting arrangement is independent of the utilized sorting algorithm and its application to the odd even bubble sorting scheme is presented in this paper. The proposed architecture offers a simulation time step of 825 ns while including the sorting module as the SM capacitor voltage balancing control unit. This enables accurate analysis of MMC controls based on either software in the loop or hardware in the loop approaches. Performance and accuracy of the MMC model and the hybrid CPU/FPGA based architecture are evaluated based on a set of case studies on a 401 level HB MMC based HVDC station and verified based on offline simulation results in the PSCAD/EMTDC environment.", "corpus_id": 24301221, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mojtaba Ashourloo", "Ramin Mirzahosseini", "Reza Iravani" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "25099398", "title": "Beta alanine supplementation enhances judo related performance in highly trained athletes.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVES In official judo competitions, athletes usually engage in 5 7 matches in the same day, performing numerous high intensity efforts interspersed by short recovery intervals. Thus, glycolytic demand in judo is high and acidosis may limit performance. Carnosine is a relevant intracellular acid buffer whose content is increased with beta alanine supplementation. Thus, we hypothesized that beta alanine supplementation could attenuate acidosis and improve judo performance. DESIGN Twenty three highly trained judo athletes were randomly assigned to receive either beta alanine (6.4gday 1) or placebo (dextrose, same dosage) for 4 weeks. METHODS Performance was assessed before (PRE) and after (POST) supplementation through a 5 min simulated fight (randori) followed by 3 bouts of the Special Judo Fitness Test (SJFT) Blood samples were collected for blood pH, bicarbonate (HCO3 and lactate determination. RESULTS Beta alanine supplementation improved the number of throws per set and the total number of throws (both p<0.05) Placebo did not change these variables (both p>0.05) Blood pH and HCO3 reduced after exercise (all p<0.001) with no between group differences (all p>0.05) However, the lactate response to exercise increased in the beta alanine group as compared to placebo (p<0.05) CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, 4 weeks of beta alanine supplementation effectively enhance judo related performance in highly trained athletes.", "corpus_id": 25099398, "venue": "Journal of science and medicine in sport", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Caroline de Andrade Kratz", "Vitor de Salles Painelli", "Kleiner Marcio de Andrade Nemezio", "Rafael Pires da Silva", "Emerson Franchini", "Alessandro Moura Zagatto", "Bruno Gualano", "Guilherme Giannini Artioli" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221641120", "title": "Oiling Out Crystallization of Beta Alanine on Solid Surfaces Controlled by Solvent Exchange", "abstract": "Droplet formation in oiling out crystallization has important implication for separation and purification of pharmaceutical active ingredients by using an antisolvent. In this work, we report the crystallization processes of oiling out droplets on surfaces during solvent exchange. Our model ternary solution is beta alanine dissolved in isopropanol and water mixture. As the antisolvent isopropanol displaced the alanine solution pre filled in a microchamber, liquid liquid phase separation occurred at the mixing front. The alanine rich subphase formed surface microdroplets that subsequently crystallized with progression of solvent exchange. We find that the flow rates have significant influence on the droplet size, crystallization process, and growth rate, and final morphology of the crystals. At fast flow rates the droplets solidified rapidly and formed spherical cap structures resembling the shape of droplets, in contrast to crystal microdomains or thin films formed at slow flow rates. On a highly hydrophilic surface, the crystals formed thin film without droplets formed on the surface. We further demonstrated that by the solvent exchange crystals can be formed by using a stock solution with a very low concentration of the precursor, and the as prepared crystals can be used as seeds to trigger crystallization in bulk solution. Our results suggest that the solvent exchange has the potential to be an effective approach for controlling oiling out crystallization, which can be applied in wide areas, such as separation and purification of many food, medical, and therapeutic ingredients.", "corpus_id": 221641120, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xuehua Zhang", "Zixiang Wei", "Howon Choi", "Hao Hao", "Huaiyu Yang" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221117549", "title": "The Muscle Carnosine Response to Beta Alanine Supplementation: A Systematic Review With Bayesian Individual and Aggregate Data E Max Model and Meta Analysis", "abstract": "Beta alanine (BA) supplementation increases muscle carnosine content (MCarn) and has many proven, and purported, ergogenic, and therapeutic benefits. Currently, many questions on the nature of the MCarn response to supplementation are open, and the response to these has considerable potential to enhance the efficacy and application of this supplementation strategy. To address these questions, we conducted a systematic review with Bayesian based meta analysis of all published aggregate data using a dose response (Emax) model. Meta regression was used to consider the influence of potential moderators (including dose, sex, age, baseline MCarn, and analysis method used) on the primary outcome. The protocol was designed according to PRISMA guidelines and a three step screening strategy was undertaken to identify studies that measured the MCarn response to BA supplementation. Additionally, we conducted an original analysis of all available individual data on the MCarn response to BA supplementation from studies conducted within our lab (n 99) The Emax model indicated that human skeletal muscle has large capacity for non linear MCarn accumulation, and that commonly used BA supplementation protocols may not come close to saturating muscle carnosine content. Neither baseline values, nor sex, appeared to influence subsequent response to supplementation. Analysis of individual data indicated that MCarn is relatively stable in the absence of intervention, and effectually all participants respond to BA supplementation (99.3% response [95%CrI: 96.2 100]", "corpus_id": 221117549, "venue": "Frontiers in Physiology", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Nathalia Saffioti Rezende", "Paul Alan Swinton", "Luana Farias de Oliveira", "Rafael Pires da Silva", "Vinicius da Eira Silva", "Kleiner Nemezio", "Guilherme de Carvalho Yamaguchi", "Guilherme Giannini Artioli", "Bruno Gualano", "Bryan Saunders", "Eimear Dolan" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229116827", "title": "Exploring Energy Systems and Supplementation of Beta Alanine in Athletic Populations", "abstract": "This review of literature examined the performance effects of beta alanine supplementation in an athletic population. For the purpose of this study \"athletic population\" was defined as anyone who is exercising and supplementing beta alanine, the goal was to determine if there was improvement in athletic performance within each of the three energy systems. Energy systems were defined by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as the phosphocreatine system, glycolysis system, and oxidative system. The research that was included determined how much beta alanine was supplemented, the duration of supplementation, and whether it increased performance. A cost analysis was based on an average of three leading retailers for the supplementation of beta alanine. In conclusion, there is evidence to indicate that beta alanine supplementation increases performance within two of the three systems, but would encompass the entire range given for the glycolysis system and would slightly range in the lower end with the oxidative system. There was no determination regarding how much of an increase in performance was seen. With the analysis of cost compared with increased performance given the range of dosages and length of supplementation in the various studies it would cost approximately $12.16 to $25.20 a month to see an increase in performance.", "corpus_id": 229116827, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "William Hall" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221724950", "title": "Beta alanine supplementation in patients with COPD receiving non linear periodised exercise training or neuromuscular electrical stimulation: protocol of two randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trials", "abstract": "Introduction Exercise intolerance is common in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and, although multifactorial, it is largely caused by lower limb muscle dysfunction. Research has shown that patients with severe to very severe COPD have significantly lower levels of muscle carnosine, which acts as a pH buffer and antioxidant. Beta alanine (BA) supplementation has been shown to consistently elevate muscle carnosine in a variety of populations and may therefore improve exercise tolerance and lower limb muscle function. The primary objective of the current studies is to assess the beneficial effects of BA supplementation in enhancing exercise tolerance on top of two types of exercise training (non linear periodised exercise (NLPE) training or neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in patients with COPD. Methods and analysis Two randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trials have been designed. Patients will routinely receive either NLPE (BASE TRAIN trial) or NMES (BASE ELECTRIC trial) as part of standard exercise based care during their 8 to 10 week pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programme. A total of 222 patients with COPD (2x77 154 patients in the BASE TRAIN trial and 2x34 68 patients in the BASE ELECTRIC trial) will be recruited from two specialised PR centres in The Netherlands. For study purposes, patients will receive 3.2 g of oral BA supplementation or placebo per day. Exercise tolerance is the primary outcome, which will be assessed using the endurance shuttle walk test (BASE TRAIN) or the constant work rate cycle test (BASE ELECTRIC) Furthermore, quadriceps muscle strength and endurance, cognitive function, carnosine levels (in muscle) BA levels (in blood and muscle) markers of oxidative stress and inflammation (in blood, muscles and lungs) physical activity and quality of life will be measured. Ethics and dissemination Both trials were approved by CMO Regio Arnhem Nijmegen, The Netherlands (NL70781.091.19. and NL68757.091.19) Trial registration number NTR8427 (BASE TRAIN) and NTR8419 (BASE ELECTRIC)", "corpus_id": 221724950, "venue": "BMJ Open", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Roy Meys", "Anouk A F Stoffels", "Jana de Brandt", "H W Jeroen van Hees", "Frits M E Franssen", "Maurice J H Sillen", "Emiel F M Wouters", "Chris Burtin", "Peter H C Klijn", "Eline bij de Vaate", "Bram van den Borst", "Jacqueline Otker", "Jos Donkers", "Florence Schleich", "Maurice Hayot", "Pascal Pomies", "Inge Everaert", "Wim Derave", "Martijn A Spruit" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219477452", "title": "Effects of supplementation with creatine monohydrate and beta alanine, alone or combined, on repeated sprint performance and physiological parameters in amateur team and racket sport players", "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to compare the combined effects of creatine monohydrate (Cr) and beta alanine (BA) with their isolated use on performance and physiological parameters during repeated sprint sequences (RSS) Forty four male (n=34) and female (n=10) amateur team and racket sport players (25.1+ 3.1 years; 175.2+ 9.8 cm; 76.0+ 10.3 kg; 15.2+ 6.8% body fat) performed ten repetitions of 6 s sprints with departure every 30 s, before and after a 28 day supplementation period with either Cr (n=11, 5 g.day 1) BA (n=10, 6 g.day 1) combined Cr and BA (n=12, 5 g.day 1 of Cr plus 6g.day 1 of BA) or placebo (11 g.day 1 of rice flour) Peak (PP) and mean power (MP) performance decrement %Dec) heart rate (HR) blood lactate concentration (LA) and perceived exertion (RPE) were measured. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine the effects of groups (Cr, BA, CrBA, P) sprint number (1 to 10) and time (pre vs. post supplementation) on all variables. A significant increase in PP was shown in the post compared to pre supplementation in Cr +5.2% and BA +5.2% groups only (p<0.05) and significant decreases in MP in all groups (3.7% to 6.4% p<0.05) except BA. %Dec was significantly decreased post supplementation in the Cr group only (17.4% p<0.05) No effects were shown on HR, RPE and LA (p<0.05) These results show no additional benefits of the combination of Cr and BA on RSS performance and suggest that longer sprint or total exercise duration might be necessary to observe benefits of the combined supplementation.", "corpus_id": 219477452, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Anne Delextrat", "Nese Targen", "Georgina Impson-Davey", "Daniel Kapsis", "James Bateman", "Nicolas Terrados", "Julio Calleja Gonzalez" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221238329", "title": "Effects of Beta Alanine Supplementation on Physical Performance in Aerobic Anaerobic Transition Zones: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis", "abstract": "Beta alanine supplementation (BA) has a positive impact on physical performance. However, evidence showing a benefit of this amino acid in aerobic anaerobic transition zones is scarce and the results controversial. The aim of this systematic review and meta analysis is to analyze the effects of BA supplementation on physical performance in aerobic anaerobic transition zones. At the same time, the effect of different dosages and durations of BA supplementation were identified. The search was designed in accordance with the PRISMA(r) guidelines for systematic reviews and meta analyses and performed in Web of Science (WOS) Scopus, SPORTDiscus, PubMed, and MEDLINE between 2010 and 2020. The methodological quality and risk of bias were evaluated with the Cochrane Collaboration tool. The main variables were the Time Trial Test (TTT) and Time to Exhaustion (TTE) tests, the latter separated into the Limited Time Test (LTT) and Limited Distance Test (LDT) The analysis was carried out with a pooled standardized mean difference (SMD) through Hedges' g test (95% CI) Nineteen studies were included in the systematic review and meta analysis, revealing a small effect for time in the TTT (SMD, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.87 0.16; I2 59% p 0.010) a small effect for LTT (SMD, 0.25; 95% CI, 0.01 0.51; I2 0% p 0.53) and a large effect for LDT (SMD, 4.27; 95% CI, 0.25 8.79; I2 94% p 0.00001) BA supplementation showed small effects on physical performance in aerobic anaerobic transition zones. Evidence on acute supplementation is scarce (one study) therefore, exploration of acute supplementation with different dosages and formats on physical performance in aerobic anaerobic transition zones is needed.", "corpus_id": 221238329, "venue": "Nutrients", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Alvaro Huerta Ojeda", "Camila Tapia Cerda", "Maria Fernanda Poblete Salvatierra", "Guillermo Barahona-Fuentes", "Carlos Jorquera Aguilera" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216028049", "title": "Short Duration Beta Alanine Supplementation Did Not Prevent the Detrimental Effects of an Intense Preparatory Period on Exercise Capacity in Top Level Female Footballers", "abstract": "Purpose: High intensity activity is an important aspect of football performance during competitive match play. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of beta alanine supplementation throughout a short duration intense football specific training period prior to an international competition on measures of high intensity running performance. Methods: Twenty four elite international U20 female footballers (age 18 1 y, height 1.67 0.07 m, body mass 62.7 7.4 kg) volunteered to perform the YoYo Intermittent Recovery Test Level 1 (YoYo IR1) the Running Anaerobic Sprint Test (RAST) and a 20 m maximal sprint test on two separate occasions, separated by 3 weeks of training and supplementation. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either 6.4 g*day 1 sustained release beta alanine (BA, N 12) or an equivalent dose of maltodextrin (placebo, PL, N 12) throughout a 3 week standardized training camp. Results: There was a main effect of group (P 0.05) and time (P 0.004) on YoYo IR1; overall values were lower in PL and distance covered was lower post vs. pre supplementation. There was no group x time interaction (P 0.07) There was an effect of sprint number for RAST, but no further main effects and there were no effect for the 20 m sprint. Conclusions: Top level female footballers involved in this intense 3 week training period prior to a competition worsened their high intensity intermittent exercise capacity, and this negative result was not attenuated by a short duration BA supplementation protocol throughout the same period. Further work is necessary to elucidate whether adapted training protocols and BA dosing regimens could lead to better results.", "corpus_id": 216028049, "venue": "Frontiers in Nutrition", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Rafael Viana Ribeiro", "Breno Duarte", "Andre Guedes da Silva", "Guilherme Passos Ramos", "Andreia Rossi Picanco", "Eduardo Macedo Penna", "Victor Silveira Coswig", "Matheus Barbalho", "Paulo Roberto Viana Gentil", "Bruno Gualano", "Bryan Saunders" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221308993", "title": "Reduced Dose of Beta Alanine Is Sufficient to Maintain Performance in Repeated Sprints.", "abstract": "Zandona, BA, Ramos, RA, de Oliveira, CdS, McAnulty, SR, Ferreira, LHB, Smolarek, AC, Enes, AAN, Urbinati, KMdSS, Aragon, AA, Schoenfeld, BJ, and de Souza Junior, TP. Reduced Dose of Beta Alanine Is Sufficient to Maintain Performance in Repeated Sprints. J Strength Cond Res XX(X) 000 000, 2020 Beta alanine (BA) supplementation has been shown to be effective in improving physical performance by increasing carnosine concentration. However, it is still necessary to know the effect of a maintenance dose on performance. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the effects of a maintenance dose of BA supplementation on performance. Forty four anaerobically trained men with 23.9 3.8 years of age, 176.0 0.05 cm height, 81.2 7.5 kg body mass, and 15.5 2.9% of body fat performed a cycle ergometer test consisting of 4 sprints of 30 s with 4 minutes of active recovery. The study comprised 3 phases: (a) presupplementation, (b) supplementation with 6.4 g*d BA or placebo, and (c) postsupplementation with a maintenance dose of 1.2 g*d of BA or interruption of supplementation. Data were analyzed using generalized estimated equations with a priori 0.05 level of significance. The placebo group and interruption group presented a lower power (7.28 0.66 and 7.71 0.42 W*kg vs. 8.04 0.84 and 9.25 1.18 W*kg, respectively; p 0.05) during the third sprint in postsupplementation, whereas the maintenance group maintained the required power (7.47 1.03 vs. 8.74 1.07 W*kg; p 0.05) The placebo group also presented higher percentage of fatigue (44.5% 12.3 and 44.8% 7.7 vs. 37.6 7.2% p 0.021) and higher subjective perception of exertion (8.92 0.90 vs. 8.00 1.60; p 0.028) Therefore, the maintenance dose of 1.2 g*d BA was effective in maintaining performance, whereas a reduction in performance was observed after supplementation interruption.", "corpus_id": 221308993, "venue": "Journal of strength and conditioning research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Bruna Amorim Zandona", "Renan A Ramos", "Cleyton Dos Santos de Oliveira", "Steven R Mcanulty", "Luis Henrique Boiko Ferreira", "Andre de Camargo Smolarek", "Alysson Enes", "K S Urbinati", "Alan Albert Aragon", "Brad Jon Schoenfeld", "Tacito P de Souza Junior" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "228101859", "title": "Beta alanine fails to improve on 5,000 m running time despite increasing PAT1 expression in long distance runners.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Beta alanine has become a dietary supplement widely used by athletes due to its ergogenic effect. However, there is still no consensus on the performance benefit of beta alanine on exercise lasting longer than ten minutes. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of beta alanine supplementation on running performance and the expression of TauT and PAT1. METHODS This double blind, randomized study enrolled 16 long distance runners (37 8 years) who were randomly allocated to two groups: Placebo (PLA) and Beta alanine (BA) (4.8 g*day 1) for four weeks. Maximal oxygen consumption, anthropometry, body composition, and food intake were determined. Before and after the intervention, the athletes undertook a 5,000 m running time trial. Venous blood (TauT and PAT1 expressions) and ear lobe capillary blood (lactate) collected before and after exercise. Between tests, we monitored the training variables. RESULTS The results were analyzed by T tests and an ANOVA of repeated measures, with Sidak's post hoc (p<0.05) PLA exhibited lower body fat than BA (8.7 2.2 vs. 11.5 2.8% p=0.04) After supplementation, there was an increase in PAT1 expression in BA when compared to PLA (1.17 0.47 vs. 0.77 0.18, p=0.04) No significant differences were shown for the 5,000 m running time in PLA (PRE:1128 72; POST:1123 72s) and BA (PRE:1107 95; POST:1093 86s) CONCLUSIONS Although beta alanine supplementation increased PAT1 expression, there was no statistically significant improvement in 5,000 m running performance. However, individual responses should be considered as the BA showed a higher delta than the PLA.", "corpus_id": 228101859, "venue": "The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitness", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Gabriel Silveira Franco", "Natalia Yumi Noronha", "B A P de Oliveira", "Flavia Campos Ferreira", "Ana P Pinto", "Camila Fernanda Cunha Brandao", "Marcelo Papoti", "Carla Barbosa Nonino" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "142970075", "title": "The aversive form of racism.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 142970075, "venue": "", "year": 1986, "author_names": [ "Samuel L Gaertner", "John F Dovidio" ], "n_citations": 1576, "n_key_citations": 82, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "38504493", "title": "The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism", "abstract": "My recent book, Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory, introduces what is called the statistical theory of racial (and sexual) discrimination in the labor market. The theory fell naturally out of the non Walrasian treatment there of the labor \"market\" as operating imperfectly because of the scarcity of information about the existence and characteristics of workers and jobs. A paradigm for the theory is the traveller in a strange town faced with choosing between dinner at the hotel and dinner somewhere in the town. If he makes it a rule to dine outside the hotel without any prior investigation, he is said to be discriminating against the hotel. Though there will be instances where the hotel cuisine would have been preferable, the rule represents rational behavior it maximizes expected utilityif the cost of acquiring evaluations of restaurants is sufficiently high and if the hotel restaurant is believed to be inferior at least half the time. In the same way, the employer who seeks to maximize expected profit will discriminate against blacks or women if he believes them to be less qualified, reliable, long term, etc. on the average than whites and men, respectively, and if the cost of gaining information about the individual applicants is excessive. Skin color or sex is taken as a proxy for relevant data not sampled. The a priori belief in the probable preferability of a white or a male over a black or female candidate who is not known to differ in other respects might stem from the employer's previous statistical experience with the two groups (members from the less favored groups might have been, and continue to be, hired at less favorable terms) or it might stem from prevailing sociological beliefs that blacks and women grow up disadvantaged due to racial hostility or at least prejudices toward them in the society (in which latter case the discrimination is self perpetuating) The theory is applicable to the class of \"liberal\" employers and workers who have no distaste for hiring and working alongside black or female workers. By contrast, the theory of discrimination originated by Gary Becker is based on the factor of racial taste. The pioneering work of Gunnar Myrdal et al. also appears to center on racial (and, in an appendix, sexual) antagonism. Some indications of interest in the new theory, and the independent discovery of the same statistical theoryby Kenneth Arrow, convince me that it is time for a formalization of the theory in terms of an exact statistical model. Though what follows is very simple, it may be useful to those who like exact models and it may stimulate others to develop the theory further. An employer samples from a population of job applicants. The employer is able to measure the performance of each applicant in some kind of test, yi, which, after suitable scaling, may be said to measure the applicant's promise or degree of qualification, qi, plus an error term, ps.", "corpus_id": 38504493, "venue": "", "year": 1972, "author_names": [ "Edmund S Phelps" ], "n_citations": 3120, "n_key_citations": 146, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4817774", "title": "Racism as a stressor for African Americans. A biopsychosocial model.", "abstract": "Various authors have noted that interethnic group and intraethnic group racism are significant stressors for many African Americans. As such, intergroup and intragroup racism may play a role in the high rates of morbidity and mortality in this population. Yet, although scientific examinations of the effects of stress have proliferated, few researchers have explored the psychological, social, and physiological effects of perceived racism among African Americans. The purpose of this article was to outline a biopsychosocial model for perceived racism as a guide for future research. The first section of this article provides a brief overview of how racism has been conceptualized in the scientific literature. The second section reviews research exploring the existence of intergroup and intragroup racism. A contextual model for systematic studies of the biopsychosocial effects of perceived racism is then presented, along with recommendations for future research.", "corpus_id": 4817774, "venue": "The American psychologist", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Rodney Clark", "Norman B Anderson", "Vernessa R Clark", "D R Williams" ], "n_citations": 2039, "n_key_citations": 179, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "36156141", "title": "Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale.", "abstract": "The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences. She then presents an allegory about a gardener with 2 flower boxes, rich and poor soil, and red and pink flowers. This allegory illustrates the relationship between the 3 levels of racism and may guide our thinking about how to intervene to mitigate the impacts of racism on health. It may also serve as a tool for starting a national conversation on racism.", "corpus_id": 36156141, "venue": "American journal of public health", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "C P Jones" ], "n_citations": 1261, "n_key_citations": 97, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "143995545", "title": "Sexism and racism: Old fashioned and modern prejudices.", "abstract": "Prejudice and discrimination against women has become increasingly subtle and covert (N. V. Be nokraitis J. R. Feagin, 1986) Unlike research on racism, little research about prejudice and dis crimination against women has explicitly examined beliefs underlying this more modern form ofsexism. Support was found for a distinction between old fashioned and modern beliefs about womensimilar to results that have been presented for racism (J. B. McConahay, 1986; D. O. Sears, 1988).The former is characterized by endorsement of traditional gender roles, differential treatment ofwomen and men, and stereotypes about lesser female competence. Like modern racism, modernsexism is characterized by the denial of continued discrimination, antagonism toward women's de mands, and lack of support for policies designed to help women (for example, in education andwork) Research that compares factor structures of old fashioned and modern sexism and racismand that validates our modern sexism scale is presented.", "corpus_id": 143995545, "venue": "", "year": 1995, "author_names": [ "Janet K Swim", "Kathryn J Aikin", "Wayne S Hall", "Barbara A Hunter" ], "n_citations": 1234, "n_key_citations": 114, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "26852165", "title": "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination", "abstract": "Abstract: Higher disease rates for blacks (or African Americans) compared to whites are pervasive and persistent over time, with the racial gap in mortality widening in recent years for multiple causes of death. Other racial/ethnic minority populations also have elevated disease risk for some health conditions. This paper considers the complex ways in which race and socioeconomic status (SES) combine to affect health. SES accounts for much of the observed racial disparities in health. Nonetheless, racial differences often persist even at \"equivalent\" levels of SES. Racism is an added burden for nondominant populations. Individual and institutional discrimination, along with the stigma of inferiority, can adversely affect health by restricting socioeconomic opportunities and mobility. Racism can also directly affect health in multiple ways. Residence in poor neighborhoods, racial bias in medical care, the stress of experiences of discrimination and the acceptance of the societal stigma of inferiority can have deleterious consequences for health.", "corpus_id": 26852165, "venue": "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences", "year": 1999, "author_names": [], "n_citations": 1311, "n_key_citations": 89, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "14183524", "title": "A systematic review of empirical research on self reported racism and health.", "abstract": "This paper reviews 138 empirical quantitative population based studies of self reported racism and health. These studies show an association between self reported racism and ill health for oppressed racial groups after adjustment for a range of confounders. The strongest and most consistent findings are for negative mental health outcomes and health related behaviours, with weaker associations existing for positive mental health outcomes, self assessed health status, and physical health outcomes. Most studies in this emerging field have been published in the past 5 years and have been limited by a dearth of cohort studies, a lack of psychometrically validated exposure instruments, poor conceptualization and definition of racism, conflation of racism with stress, and debate about the aetiologically relevant period for self reported racism. Future research should examine the psychometric validity of racism instruments and include these instruments, along with objectively measured health outcomes, in existing large scale survey vehicles as well as longitudinal studies and studies involving children. There is also a need to gain a better understanding of the perception, attribution, and reporting of racism, to investigate the pathways via which self reported racism affects health, the interplay between mental and physical health outcomes, and exposure to intra racial, internalized, and systemic racism. Ensuring the quality of studies in this field will allow future research to reveal the complex role that racism plays as a determinant of population health.", "corpus_id": 14183524, "venue": "International journal of epidemiology", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "Yin Paradies" ], "n_citations": 1384, "n_key_citations": 127, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "5745856", "title": "Rac Activation and Inactivation Control Plasticity of Tumor Cell Movement", "abstract": "Tumor cells exhibit two different modes of individual cell movement. Mesenchymal type movement is characterized by an elongated cellular morphology and requires extracellular proteolysis. In amoeboid movement, cells have a rounded morphology, are less dependent on proteases, and require high Rho kinase signaling to drive elevated levels of actomyosin contractility. These two modes of cell movement are interconvertible. We show that mesenchymal type movement in melanoma cells is driven by activation of the GTPase Rac through a complex containing NEDD9, a recently identified melanoma metastasis gene, and DOCK3, a Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Rac signals through WAVE2 to direct mesenchymal movement and suppress amoeboid movement through decreasing actomyosin contractility. Conversely, in amoeboid movement, Rho kinase signaling activates a Rac GAP, ARHGAP22, that suppresses mesenchymal movement by inactivating Rac. We demonstrate tight interplay between Rho and Rac in determining different modes of tumor cell movement, revealing how tumor cells switch between different modes of movement.", "corpus_id": 5745856, "venue": "Cell", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Victoria Sanz-Moreno", "Gilles Gadea", "Jessica Ahn", "Hugh F Paterson", "Pierfrancesco Marra", "Sophie E Pinner", "Erik Sahai", "Christopher J Marshall" ], "n_citations": 880, "n_key_citations": 57, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "28169386", "title": "RETHINKING RACISM: TOWARD A STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION", "abstract": "The study of race and ethnic conflict historically has been hampered by inadequate and simplistic theories. I contend that the central problem of the various approaches to the study of racial phenomena is their lack of a structural theory of racism. I review traditional approaches and alternative approaches to the study of racism, and discuss their limitations. Following the leads suggested by some of the alternative frameworks, I advance a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems. \"The habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological flaw, must be abandoned.\" Frantz Fanon (1967:77) he area of race and ethnic studies lacks a _ sound theoretical apparatus. To complicate matters, many analysts of racial matters have abandoned the serious theorization and reconceptualization of their central topic: racism. Too many social analysts researching racism assume that the phenomenon is selfevident, and therefore either do not provide a definition or provide an elementary definition (Schuman, Steeh, and Bobo 1985; Sniderman and Piazza 1993) Nevertheless, whether implicitly or explicitly, most analysts regard racism as a purely ideological phenomenon.", "corpus_id": 28169386, "venue": "", "year": 1997, "author_names": [ "Eduardo Bonilla-Silva" ], "n_citations": 1422, "n_key_citations": 89, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "2838904", "title": "Rho and Rac Take Center Stage", "abstract": "Many features of cell behavior are regulated by Rho family GTPases, but the most profound effects of these proteins are on the actin cytoskeleton and it was these that first drew attention to this family of signaling proteins. Focusing on Rho and Rac, we will discuss how their effectors regulate the actin cytoskeleton. We will describe how the activity of Rho proteins is regulated downstream from growth factor receptors and cell adhesion molecules by guanine nucleotide exchange factors and GTPase activating proteins. Additionally, we will discuss how there is signaling crosstalk between family members and how various bacterial pathogens have developed strategies to manipulate Rho protein activity so as to enhance their own survival.", "corpus_id": 2838904, "venue": "Cell", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Keith Burridge", "Krister Wennerberg" ], "n_citations": 1755, "n_key_citations": 79, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "216254319", "title": "Portfolio Choice for a Resource Based Sovereign Wealth Fund: An Analysis of Cash Flows", "abstract": "We consider the portfolio choice of a government with a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) when government revenues depend on exhaustible resources, such as oil and gas. The question is whether the SWF portfolio should underweight shares in the resource industry. Some studies have found that these share prices correlate more closely with the overall stock market than the resource price, which would seem to weaken the case for underweighting. However, equity price movements depend not only on changes in expectations of future cash flows, but also on time variation in discount factors. We analyze cash flows directly, rather than trying to disentangle these effects. We have collected cash flow data for the companies in all of the major industries of the FTSE Global All Cap index, the basis for the strategic index of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. Subsequently, we look at the correlations between each industry's cash flow and the Norwegian government's cash flow from oil and gas. We find a close, statistically significant, and persistent correlation for the oil and gas industry. The correlations for other industries are small and mostly insignificant. We believe that our findings can be used to support proposals for SWFs in countries with significant petroleum revenues to underweight shares in this industry.", "corpus_id": 216254319, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Knut Anton Mork", "Hanna Marisela Eap", "Magnus Eskedal Haraldsen" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "218918127", "title": "A Sovereign Wealth Fund for South Africa", "abstract": "Sir, In his 2020 South African budget, the Minister of Finance, Dr Tito Mboweni has targeted R30bn to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) The Fund would be financed as follows: 'There are a variety of possible funding sources such as the proceeds of (broadband) spectrum allocation, petroleum, gas or mineral rights royalties, the sale of noncore assets, future fiscal surpluses and money we set aside' [1] In a budget that shows a 6.8 percent of GDP deficit [2] that is to be financed from loans, this is a bold move. Part of the plan is to finance the SWF from royalties from South Africa's dwindling mineral wealth. Attracting elusive foreign direct investment (FDI) is needed to open new mines rather than relying on the aged, existing inventory. Royalties from the latter are already allocated. This FDI would be sought in an economic environment, overhung with the oppressive cloud of imminent changes to Section 25 of the Constitution to legalise land expropriation without compensation [3] But these drawbacks notwithstanding, saving for future generations is not a bad principle, so it might be instructive to examine an existing case, one of the world's largest SWFs, that of Norway. Norway has reinvested part of the resource rent from its share of North Sea oil notably from the Ekofisk oil field (discovered in 1969) The sovereign wealth fund (Government Pension Fund Global GPFG) reached 10 000 billion NOK in 2019 [4] The fund is exclusively invested outside Norway, mainly to avoid overheating the Norwegian economy but also not to interfere with the state pension fund (Government Pension Fund Norway GPFN) Currently GPFG adheres to a policy of investing up to 70 percent of the fund in equity, up to 30 percent in fixed income and up to 7 percent in unlisted landholdings. The GPFN is invested within the country (85 percent) and the Nordic region (15 percent) [5] In 2019, the GPFN was worth 254.8 billion NOK, with 60.3 percent of the Fund invested in equities and the balance invested in fixed income securities [6] The current value of the GPFG is 7.3X government expenditure as Norway spends money at a rate of 1 377.1 billion NOK pa according to its 2019 budget [7] The GPFG is to be used by the present generation as well as to save for future generations in Norway [4] At present, Norway uses the interest and dividends generated by the GPFG to pay for the budget deficit. For 2019 'The non oil deficit is projected at NOK 232.5 billion. This deficit is fully financed through a transfer from the Government Pension Fund Global' [7] By financing the budget deficit, earnings from the CPFG enable the government to expand the economy. As the Norwegian Minister of Finance has stated, 'By cutting taxes and duties, we provide businesses and families with more economic leeway. In addition, lower taxes encourage job creation and make work more attractive. We are constructing roads and railways at a rapid pace, and we continue to promote research, innovation and INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 2020, VOL. 77, NO. 3, 367 369 https:/doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2020.1759306", "corpus_id": 218918127, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Paul A Sorensen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216298052", "title": "Sustaining wealth: Simulating a sovereign wealth fund for the UK's oil and gas resources, past and future", "abstract": "Abstract Exhaustible resources and the revenues they generate present a number of broad problems for macroeconomic management. For example, tax revenues can be large and highly volatile, and the stream of revenues is finite. An increasing number of countries now view resource funds and/or fiscal rules for resource revenues as the answer to these challenges. In this paper, we explore the consequences for the UK if past revenues arising from the depletion of subsoil assets had been channelled into a sovereign wealth fund. We show that had a decision been made to establish such a fund in 1975, this could have been substantial in size by 2018 (about GBP 354 billion) and, moreover, would have had a number of benefits such as a reduction in volatility of resource revenues flowing to the Treasury. Crucially, the fund's value would have substantially boosted the size of the government balance sheet, yielding corresponding fiscal benefits. We argue this missed opportunity is underlined further by considering the current debate about shale gas development in the UK. Notwithstanding considerable uncertainties, favourable and optimistic projections for key parameters are required for any shale based fund to match what we simulate based on past experience for conventional subsoil assets.", "corpus_id": 216298052, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Giles Atkinson", "Kirk Hamilton" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216457985", "title": "Regulating the State Capitalism: Is There an Optimal Regulatory Model for Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment?", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 216457985, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Wei Yin" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "230675312", "title": "Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) A Tool for Diversifying Nigeria's Emerging Economy", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 230675312, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Iloanya Kenneth Okechukwu", "Nduka Christopher Ndidi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "226557503", "title": "Investing in Sustainability: Ethics Guidelines and the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 226557503, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Anita Margrethe Halvorssen", "Cody D Eldredge" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "226168190", "title": "Sovereign Wealth Fund or State Capitalism: Nigeria's Search for a Stable Economic Order", "abstract": "For quite some time now, the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has become an issue in the front burner of Nigeria's national debate. The manner it was handled by the federal government became suspicious because there was serious disagreement among the stake holders, starting with the source of funding. But the whole idea of SWF in itself has remained controversial especially with regard to the problem it is meant to solve. The paper makes a contribution to this debate with an analysis of the extant literature and theoretical framework. It cites examples of successful experiences of the SWF and the circumstances that back up their results and suggests that Nigeria's search for a stable economic order does not lie in the SWF but more importantly to take care of all the necessary structural changes and erect a new political framework for a viable and durable economic development.", "corpus_id": 226168190, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "G S Mmaduabuchi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211323742", "title": "New wealth, New wisdom: Updating the narrative of sovereign wealth fund creation", "abstract": "*Conventional wisdom about the types of countries that create SWFs no longer hold.*International reserve balances are not a significant predictor of SWF creation.*Evidence that current account surpluses lead to SWF creation is limited.*Resource dependence remains the most predictive indicator of SWF creation.*GDP growth is also a robust predictor of SWF creation.", "corpus_id": 211323742, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Matthew Gouett" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158131400", "title": "The long term impact of sovereign wealth fund investments", "abstract": "Abstract In this study, we examine the long term impact of sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investments on target firms' value, return volatility, and crash risk. We find that SWF investments generally underperform stock markets in the long run. Furthermore, the effect of SWF ownership critically depends on the level of investor protection in recipient countries. We show that domestic SWFs impart a stabilizing effect on the stock price of target firms in countries with low investor protection, but the effect is weaker for foreign SWFs. Moreover, SWF investments during the non crisis period increase the crash risk of target firms, but the effect reverses during the crisis period.", "corpus_id": 158131400, "venue": "Journal of Financial Markets", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Raphael Jonghyeon Park", "Simon Xu", "Francis In", "Philip Inyeob Ji" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208174581", "title": "State ownership, sovereign wealth fund and their effects on firm performance: Empirical evidence from Vietnam", "abstract": "Abstract This study investigates the effects of state ownership on firm performance using data on listed firms in Vietnam. We find that state ownership of listed firms is positively related to firm performance. In addition, we find that the effects of state ownership vary depending on the type of state ownership. Firms perform best when controlled by a state owner in the form of a sovereign wealth fund. We also find that the relationship between state ownership and firm performance is nonlinear. Overall, the study contributes significantly to the growing body of evidence on the effects of state ownership, the impact of the type of state owner, and the role of controlling shareholders in corporate governance frameworks.", "corpus_id": 208174581, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Katsuyuki Kubo", "Huu Viet Phan" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "109088952", "title": "New technology and innovation at Greenwich Millennium Village", "abstract": "Greenwich Millennium Village next to the Millennium Dome in London is a showcase for innovations in sustainable and efficient construction. The PS250 million development of nearly 1400 homes and commercial units features its own web site, a combined heat and power plant, modular bathrooms and plant rooms, water saving devices and low embodied energy materials. It is being procured over a five year programme through sophisticated partnering arrangements and the first residents move in later this year. This paper describes the technical aspects of the innovations introduced on the project.", "corpus_id": 109088952, "venue": "", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "Robert Hodkinson" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "130522666", "title": "THE SURVEY OF THE URBAN SPACE: NEW PATTERN A CASE STUDY OF GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE, LONDON, U.K.", "abstract": "Urban spaces form main dynamic spaces of cities and towns. Different disciplines have theorized urban spaces and have heavily shed some light on the process or nature of the urban spaces, but the concept of the urban spaces is highly unknown yet and the gap between urban theories and practices is not clear too. The aim of this article is to propose a conceptual pattern for surveying and analyzing the urban spaces to decrease the gap between theory and practice based on the real world. This article is consisted of two parts. In first part, it aims to propose a conceptual pattern which is named Sustainable Socio Spatial Pattern to survey and analyse the urban spaces. In the second part, it has been applied in Greenwich Millennium Village, a major development in London city, U.K. So, this article has resulted a conceptual pattern in at least two approaches: Process and Substance which can apply in complex and multi layered urban spaces.", "corpus_id": 130522666, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Maghsoudi Maliheh" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "110304692", "title": "Power for the Millennium Project at Greenwich", "abstract": "As the new millennium approaches, Britain's most prestigious project to celebrate this special occasion is well under way. The Millennium Exhibition at Greenwich is ambitious by any standards. The Dome, which is 320 metres in diameter and is big enough to accommodate two Wembley Stadiums, is the largest structure of its type in the world. All works from commencement to completion will be erected within just two and a half years. In addition, a new urban village designed to the highest environmental standards is currently being constructed on the Greenwich Peninsula south of the Dome. This paper describes how London Electricity designed, planned and implemented extensive civil and electrical works in order to meet the unique requirements of the Millennium Exhibition and the Greenwich Peninsula development. (4 pages)", "corpus_id": 110304692, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Graham Scott" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "129277373", "title": "Greenwich achieving a lasting millennium legacy", "abstract": "In just ten years, the London Borough of Greenwich has turned itself from one of Britain's most derelict and impoverished urban areas to one of its most flourishing.The gradual disappearance of major riverside employers such as the Royal Arsenal and British Gas led to the loss of 150 000 jobs by the 1980s and a legacy of over 400 ha of derelict and contaminated land.This paper describes the circumstances which led to the formation of the Greenwich Waterfront Development Partnership in 1991, with aims of attracting flagship projects, creating greater accessibility, developing Greenwich peninsula and securing a lasting legacy for the people of Greenwich.The Dome, the Jubilee Line and the Millennium Village are just three examples of how effective the partnership has been.", "corpus_id": 129277373, "venue": "", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "D W McCollum" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "96477296", "title": "Greenwich Meanings: Clocks and Things in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction", "abstract": "The clock inside the Gare du Nord read 11:17: Paris time minus five minutes, Belgian railway time plus four minutes, mid Europe time minus 56 minutes. To Melanie, who had forgotten her travelling clock who had forgotten everything the hands might have stood anywhere By the cover of Le Soleil, the Orleanist morning paper, it was 24 July 1913. Louis Philippe Robert, duc d'Orleans, was the current Pretender. Certain quarters of Paris raved under the heat of Sirius Melanie l'Heuremaudit was driven away down the rue La Fayette in a noisy auto taxi. Historical stresses underlying much twentieth century fiction are to be found in Chapter 14 of Thomas Pynchon's V. not least in the strange chronology described in its opening, quoted above, and echoed in Melanie's second name, which translates as 'the accursed hour'[1] Typically of Pynchon's fiction, those clocks seem odd but have a firm historical basis. In A la recherche du temps perdu, Proust also refers to the survival of mid European time, and even the Eastern calendar, into the early decades of the twentieth century. Within France, to help tardy travellers catch their trains, station clocks in 1913 still kept 'l'heure de la gare' five minutes slower, as Pynchon suggests, than the 'Paris time' shown on all the capital's other clocks. Belgian trains, on the other hand, still ran exactly on Brussels time, which differed from that of Paris in the early years of the century. Melanie's loss of her travelling clock at least saves her the irritation of having to reset it in the course of her journey from Belgium, a task often necessary for railway travellers in the nineteenth century and, as Pynchon shows, into the early part of the twentieth, at least on the Continent. Travelling clocks of a different sort had already ended this problem within Britain. Railway companies in the mid nineteenth century sent officials with accurate chronometers up and down the country, resetting station clocks to eliminate local times in favour of a national standard, Railway Time, established more or less throughout the land by 1848. It was further institutionalized as part of the new global standards set up by the International Meridian Conference of 1884, which answered the needs of travel, shipping, telegraphy, and other commercial interests by placing the Prime Meridian at Greenwich Observatory, also established as the centre of a world wide system of time zones and Mean Time. Contemporary public interest in the new arrangements is evident in Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate, first performed the year after the Conference: when asked about the time, its hero cheerfully replies 'Hurray! Just half past ten. Greenwich mean, eh Guv? Ulysses (1922) shows Bloom pondering in 1904 the technology through which the new standard time was disseminated throughout the British Isles when he notices a Dublin time signal 'that falls at Greenwich time. It's the clock is worked by an electric wire from Dunsink'[2] Ireland, however, did not fully accept Greenwich Mean Time until 1916, and other countries were similarly tardy, France particularly. For patriotic reasons, France had always favoured Paris over Greenwich as the location of the Prime Meridian, and was consequently dilatory and eventually devious in implementing the new arrangements. GMT was legally accepted as the time of France in 1896, but it was not until fifteen years later that much was done to implement it, and even then only by referring to it as 'Paris time minus nine minutes and twenty one seconds' hence that nine minute difference from Brussels, working on GMT since 1892, which Pynchon identifies.[3] Indeed, France's official time continued to be defined in this way until 1978, when it moved to Co ordinated Universal Time, a measure (now generally accepted as the world standard at the end of the twentieth century) originally owing less to British efforts than to further conferences on time initiated by the French in Paris in 1912 and 1913.", "corpus_id": 96477296, "venue": "", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "Randall Stevenson" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "109274421", "title": "The social dimension of the urban village: A comparison of models for sustainable urban development", "abstract": "The paper explores the social dimension of the urban village debate, by examining recent ideas on the desirable social characteristics of sustainable urban development. Three recent examples of the debate on urban sustainability are analysed: the report of the British government's Urban Task Force, Towards an Urban Renaissance; the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods Initiative, based in Manchester; and the scheme for the Greenwich Millennium Village, in London. Based on a study of their respective publications, a comparison is made of general principles, social objectives, and built form proposals. These are evaluated in the light of sociological theories of changes in the nature of communities, and three distinct types of community are identified: traditional, modern, and postmodern. The long term pattern of social and cultural change is found to be markedly at variance with the stated aims of the three examples, and the question of how this might affect the outcome of urban village projects is considered.", "corpus_id": 109274421, "venue": "", "year": 2003, "author_names": [ "T S Brindley" ], "n_citations": 44, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "155660751", "title": "Art and Urban Space: Rent, the East Village, and the Construction of Meaning", "abstract": "Art has an immediate relationship to urban space. From alternative, activist art rooted in the neighborhood to prestige associated art in museums and galleries, art is spatially defi ned by its interaction with its setting, and implicated, to varying degrees, in the culture industry. Artists are mobile on the spectrum of spatially defi ned prestige and value. From the space of anonymous, nonprofi t, neighborhood oriented cultural work to the space of the fame profi t and institution oriented culture industry, artists can hope to move, and this hope often sustains their labor. The value and meaning of art is contextually defi ned by its place in the fi eld of display (neighborhood, alternative space, mainstream museum, gallery, theatre, movie theatre, or DVD, among others) Thus, art is implicated in \"the processes of capitalist valorization,\" even when presented as an autonomous circuit for \"the constitution of communities and collective subjectivities.\" Art making is affective, immaterial labor that is, \"labor that produces an immaterial good, such as a service, knowledge, or communication\" with its focus on \"the creation and manipulation of affects,\" and its ultimately intangible products: \"a feeling of ease, well being, satisfaction, excitement, passion even a sense of connectedness or community.\" As the immaterial labor \"in its various guises (informational, affective, communica", "corpus_id": 155660751, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Naomi Tonooka" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "151898410", "title": "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition", "abstract": "Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present day usage and tackles the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or at the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion to impose our time schemes on the universe and wonders how far can we go in applying our mathematical principles to nature. Existing methods of calculating time are all flawed to some extent and yet the complexities of lunar months, leap years, and the calculation of dates such as Easter, are part and parcel of our fascination with calendrics as both a hobby and an occupation.", "corpus_id": 151898410, "venue": "", "year": 1997, "author_names": [ "S Gould" ], "n_citations": 33, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "129168341", "title": "PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOLANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF GREENWICH BAY REGION, RI", "abstract": "A paleoenvironmental and paleolandscape reconstruction of two separate sites in the Greenwich Bay region of RI was completed for use in the Paleocultural Landscapes Project. Investigations of a lacustrine sediment record in Warwick, RI were completed in order to develop a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. Investigations of the acoustic sub bottom record in Greenwich Bay, RI were completed in order to develop paleolandscape reconstructions of the observed depositional environments for future use in an archaeological site prediction model. For Chapter one, we took a single sediment core from Gorton Pond, Warwick, RI in the summer of 2013 for the purpose of developing a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. The core was dated using both AMS radiocarbon dating of four terrestrial macrofossil samples, and correlations with a radiometric/pollen age model from a surface core taken from Gorton Pond for a previous study. The oldest terrestrial macrofossil was a spruce cone dated to ~12,100 calendar years BP, but an estimated 18,000 years of sediment is in the Gorton Pond record, based on bracketing ages from dated recessional moraines in the region. However, we only sampled an estimated 16,000 years, based on a Younger Dryas transition of 13, 000 BP. Physical, magnetic, and elemental/isotopic (C, N, S, D/H) proxy measurements were made, and six distinct environmental zones were interpreted. The Gorton Pond record indicates significant changes in lake productivity and temperature. The Late Pleistocene Deglacial Period (16.0 13.0 ky BP) is indicated by low OC% high concentrations of magnetic material, and terrestrially sourced organic matter. The Younger Dryas chronozone was observed (13.0 11.8 kyr BP) as large decreases in", "corpus_id": 129168341, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Cameron E Morissette" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "162279578", "title": "Trials and Errors at the Turn of the Millennium: On The Human Stain and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace", "abstract": "The remarkable parallels between J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) raise numerous considerations. Why does each author launch his novel with a college crucible? How is the sudden transformation of a respected professor representative of Western civilization at the end of the twentieth century? This essay approaches such questions by examining specific instances of their shared resemblance.", "corpus_id": 162279578, "venue": "", "year": 2005, "author_names": [ "Daniel L Medin" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "130328713", "title": "THE NEW ADVANCE IN THE STUDY ON HIMALAYAN MAGMATISM AND METALLOGENESIS IN CENTRAL WESTERN YUNNAN", "abstract": "The Himalayan in the central western part of Yunnan can be divided into 4 tectonic episodes. The magmatic intrusion of them indicates 2 thermal cycles and the high tide of volcanic eruption takes place after the magmatic intrusion. We first divided the Cenozoic endogenetic metallogenesis into 6 time series. The alkali rich porphyry is first divided into 6 superunits and 18 units according to rock assemblage, emplacement time and metallogenetic specialization and their characteristics are summarized in 7 aspects. The evolution las of alkali rich porphyry is correlated with those of other 4 magmatic rocks. In order to study the genetic relation of Jinding super large Pb Zn deposit to various magmatic rocks, the newest data of Pb isotope and inert gas are discussed and correlated in detail. We tentatively think that there is an important innate connection in the deep material source and formation process of them. The hydro thermal deposits in Jinding and Lanping basin are formed by a set of independent metallogenesis with a certain connection to the mantle and mantle crust mixture.", "corpus_id": 130328713, "venue": "", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "Luo Jun" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "132315787", "title": "Source and mode of the Permian Panjal Trap magmatism: Evidence from zircon U Pb and Hf isotopes and trace element data from the Himalayan ultrahigh pressure rocks", "abstract": "Abstract We present an integrated study of LA ICP MS U Pb age, Hf isotopes, and trace element geochemistry of zircons from the Himalayan eclogites (mafic rocks) and their host gneisses (felsic rocks) from the Kaghan Valley in Pakistan in order to understand the source and mode of their magmatic protoliths and the effect of metamorphism. Zircons from the so called Group I (high pressure) eclogites yielded U Pb mean ages of 259 10 Ma (MSWD 0.74) whereas those of Group II (ultrahigh pressure) eclogites yielded 48 3 Ma (MSWD 0.71) In felsic gneisses the central or core domains of zircons yielded ages similar to those from Group I eclogites but zircon overgrowth domains yielded 47 1 Ma (MSWD 1.9) Trace element data suggest a magmatic origin for Group I derived (having Th/U ratios: 0.5) and metamorphic origin for Group II derived (Th/U 176 Hf/ 177 Hf isotopic ratios referred to as \"E Hf (t)\" of around 10 in Group I eclogites; 7 in Group II eclogites; and 8 in felsic gneisses zircons, respectively, thus indicate a juvenile mantle source for the protolith rocks (Panjal Traps) with almost no contribution from the ancient crustal material. The similar E Hf (t) values, identical protolith ages and trace element compositions of zircons in felsic (granites or rhyolites) and mafic (basalt and dolerite) rocks attest to a bimodal magmatism accounting for the Panjal Traps during the Permian. Later, during India Asia collision in Eocene times, both the felsic and mafic lithologies were subducted to mantle depths 90 km: coesite stable) and experienced ultrahigh pressure metamorphism before their final exhumation.", "corpus_id": 132315787, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Hafiz U Rehman", "Hao-yang Lee", "Sunlin Chung", "Tahseenullah Khan", "Patrick J O'Brien", "Hiroshi Yamamoto" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "135118244", "title": "Early Paleozoic Magmatism in Himalayan Orogen: The Geochronological Study on Augen Gneisses from Gyirongand Nyalam Areas, Southern Tibet", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 135118244, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Zhang Jinjiang", "Wang Xiaoxian", "Wang Jiamin" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "202921890", "title": "The Research Progress of Magmatism and Mineralization of Himalayan in the Gandise Metallogenic Belt, Tibet", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 202921890, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Jiang Chao Qiang" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "129185593", "title": "Reply to comment on \"Interplay of deformation and magmatism in the Pangong Transpressional Zone, Eastern Ladakh, India: Implications for remobilization of the trans Himalayan magmatic arc and initiation of the Karakoram Fault\"", "abstract": "Abstract In the eastern part of Ladakh, the right lateral Karakoram Fault Zone (KFZ) bifurcates into two strands called the Pangong Strand and the Tangtse Strand. These two strands bound a region called the Pangong Transpression Zone (PTZ) which consists of migmatitic dioritic gneiss, calc silicates and the Durbuk Pluton; a pluton of two mica leucogranite. Outcrop scale observations suggest pervasive migration of leucogranitic melt through the existing tectonic structures of the gneiss. Magnetic fabric from both the tectonized and undeformed parts of the Durbuk Pluton show parallelism with the tectonic fabric of the host gneiss, which, along with pervasive melt migration, indicates syn kinematic relationship between deformation along the KFZ, leucogranite magmatism and emplacement of the Durbuk Pluton. U Pb geochronology of zircons from the dioritic gneiss yields a crystallization age of 63.6 1.5 Ma and also shows younger zircon growth down to ~13 Ma, which suggest arc magmatism at ~65 Ma followed by partial melting and leucogranite magmatism in the KFZ till ~13 Ma. One two mica leucogranite sample from the Durbuk Pluton gives a crystallization age of 22.7 0.5 Ma. As the Durbuk Pluton is syn tectonic with deformation along KFZ, it is inferred that the KFZ initiated at least ~23 Ma ago.", "corpus_id": 129185593, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Koushik Sen", "Barun K Mukherjee", "Alan S Collins" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "129723235", "title": "Oligocene magmatism in the eastern margin of the east Himalayan syntaxis and its implication for the India Asia post collisional process", "abstract": "Abstract Post collisional high Sr/Y type magmatism in the southern Lhasa terrane extends 1500 km along the strike of the orogen. The origin and magma generation mechanism for these rocks remain controversial. We report a detailed study of such high Sr/Y type magmatism in the east Himalayan syntaxis, SE Tibet, and explain its significance for understanding post collisional geodynamical processes. The two mica granites from the Beibeng, Damu, Bolonggong and Bomi plutons emplaced along the eastern margin of the east Himalayan syntaxis represent a high K calc alkaline suite (SiO 2 67 75 wt. Al 2 O 3 13.3 15.8 wt. K 2 O/Na 2 O 0.7 1.9) An outstanding geochemical feature is that they have high Sr/Y ratios (19 88, mostly 30) coupled with low Y and HREE, indicating that they were derived from partial melting of thickened lower crustal materials. Sr Nd isotopic data show that the potential magma sources are the intermediate intrusive rocks related to the Jurassic Eocene Gangdese magmatism and basement metasedimentary rocks. The contribution of the latter source increases from south to north. The two mica granites from the Beibeng, Damu, Bolonggong and Bomi intrusions have magma crystallization ages of 29.9 27.5 Ma, 27.6 Ma, 27.1 26.5 Ma and 23.7 Ma, respectively. Our data show decreasing magma crystallization ages both from south to north along the eastern margin of the east Himalayan syntaxis and from east to west along the Gangdese belt. We suggest that such variations resulted from the diachronous breakoff of the subducted Indian continental slab. Beneath the east Himalayan syntaxis, the breakoff of the subducted Indian continental slab was initiated in the south and propagated towards north probably due to the thermal impact of a widening window opened by slab breakoff. Along the Gangdese belt, the breakoff of the subducted Indian continental slab commenced in east, and then propagated westwards.", "corpus_id": 129723235, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Fa-Bin Pan", "Hongfei Zhang", "Nigel Harris", "Wang Xu", "Liang Guo" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "140140941", "title": "Dextral transpression and late Eocene magmatism in the trans Himalayan Ladakh Batholith (North India) implications for tectono magmatic evolution of the Indo Eurasian collisional arc", "abstract": "The trans Himalayan Ladakh batholith is a result of arc magmatism caused by the northward subduction of the Tethyan oceanic lithosphere below the edge of the Eurasian plate. The batholith dominantly consists of calc alkaline I type granitoids which are ferromagnetic in nature with the presence of magnetite as the principal carrier of magnetic susceptibility. The mesoscopic and magnetic fabric are concordant and generally vary from WNW ESE to ENE WSW for different intrusions of ferromagnetic granites in different parts of the batholith. Strike of magnetic fabric is roughly parallel with the regional trend of the Ladakh batholith in the present study area and is orthogonal to the direction of India Eurasia collision. In Khardungla and Changla section, the magnetic fabric is distributed in a sigmoidal manner. It is inferred that this sigmoidal pattern is caused by shearing due to transpression induced by oblique convergence between the two plates. U Pb zircon geochronology of a rhyolite from the southern parts of the batholith gives a crystallization age of 71.7 0.6 Ma, coeval with ~68 Ma magmatism in the northern parts of the batholith. The central part of the batholith is characterized by S type two mica granites, which gives much younger age of magmatism at 35.5 0.5 Ma. The magnetic fabric of these two mica granites is at a high angle to the regional trend of the batholith. It is proposed that these two mica granites were emplaced well after the cessation of subduction and arc magmatism, along fractures that developed perpendicular to the regional strike of the batholith due to shearing.", "corpus_id": 140140941, "venue": "International Journal of Earth Sciences", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Koushik Sen", "Alan S Collins" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "140169791", "title": "Is the switch from I to S type magmatism in the Himalayan Orogen indicative of the collision of India and Eurasia?", "abstract": "The switch from I to S type magmatism in the Trans Himalayan Batholith is one of the criteria used to determine when India and Eurasia collided. We present new 238U/206Pb SHRIMP data from the Karakorum Batholith, NW India. Our results suggest that an I type hornblende biotite granodiorite was emplaced at 31.4 0.4 Ma and crosscut by S type granite dykes at 18.0 0.4 Ma. We interpret these data to indicate that volatile fluxed melting of a mantle wedge above an active subduction zone and/or decompression melting of sub arc asthenosphere was possible until at least 31 Ma. This interpretation uses the same rationale as previous workers have adopted to propose that the India Eurasia collision occurred between 57 Ma and 47 Ma. A review of published data provides further evidence of <50 Ma magmatism and Cu Au Mo porphyry deposit mineralisation north of the Himalayan range. These rocks would be interpreted to have formed in an arc setting in other parts of the world. However, most workers consider that <50 Ma magmatism and porphyry deposit formation in the Himalaya is unrelated to subduction of oceanic lithosphere and are instead considered to form owing to 'post collisional' processes. We argue that these interpretations have been based on an established model where the India Eurasia collision is deemed to occur at ca 50 Ma, instead of using the data to question and refine existing tectonic models.", "corpus_id": 140169791, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Lloyd T White", "Talat Ahmad", "Gordon Lister", "Trevor R Ireland", "Margaret Forster" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "222864028", "title": "\"Dirty\" subduction during the closure of Tethyan Ocean(s) evidence from K rich postcollisional magmatism within Alpine Himalayan belt", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 222864028, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Prelevic Dejan" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "130787104", "title": "Late Permian mafic magmatism along the Tethyan Himalayan Belt,southern Tibet and tectonic implications", "abstract": "We report a new occurrence of Late Permian mafic magmatic rock near the Yardoi gneiss dome within the Tethyan Himalayan Belt,southern Tibet. This suite of diabase intruded into the fine grained sandstone and shale of the Tethyan sedimentary sequence and formed at 273. 0 2. 2 Ma SHRIMP zircon U Pb age) ,which indicates that the sedimentary rocks intruded by the diabase formed before Late Permian and not the Late Triassic as assigned by previous studies. This suite of diabase is characterized by (1) enrichment in LREE and depletion in HREE; 2) high contents of HFSE; 3) relatively high Sr 87 Sr 86 Sr( t) 0. 7063 0. 7078) and Nd( e Nd t) 1. 1 2. 4) isotope compositions,similar to those in the contemporaneous continental flood basalts and diabases in the western Tethyan Himalaya; and 4) positive e Hf t) +2. 5 +3. 9) values. Combined with literature data,out new results suggest that the Late Permian mafic magmatism,though distributed sporadically along the Tethyan Himalaya,is more widespread and signifies the rifting along the northern margin of the Gondwana continent and the initial opening of the Neo Tethyan Ocean.", "corpus_id": 130787104, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Zeng Ling" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "224313659", "title": "Mitigation of indoor air pollutants using Areca palm potted plants in real life settings", "abstract": "Deterioration of indoor air quality (IAQ) has become a serious concern as people spend lots of time indoors and prolonged pollution exposure can result in adverse health outcomes. Indoor plants can phytoremediate a wide variety of indoor contaminants. Nonetheless, few experiments have demonstrated their efficacy in real time environments. Therefore, the present study aims to experimentally assess the efficiency of Areca palm potted plants in phytoremediation of primary indoor air pollutant viz. total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) carbon dioxide (CO 2 and carbon monoxide (CO) levels from real world indoor spaces, for the first time. Four discrete naturally ventilated experimental sites (I IV) situated at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR IHBT) were used. For over a period of 4 months, the sites were monitored using zero plants as a control (1 4 week) three plants (5 8 week) six plants (9 12 week) and nine plants (13 16 week) respectively. Present results indicate that Areca palm potted plants can effectively reduce the TVOCs, CO 2 and CO levels by 88.16% in site IV, 52.33% and 95.70% in site III, respectively. The current study concluded that Areca palm potted plants offer an efficient, cost effective, self regulating, sustainable solution for improving indoor air quality and thereby human well being and productivity in closed and confined spaces.", "corpus_id": 224313659, "venue": "Environmental Science and Pollution Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Bhavya Bhargava", "Sandeep Malhotra", "Anjali Chandel", "Anjali Rakwal", "Rachit Raghav Kashwap", "Sanjay Kumar" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219317438", "title": "Smart Indoor Air Pollution Monitoring Station", "abstract": "The term \"Air Pollution\" generally refers to the outdoor air pollution, mainly caused by combustion of fossil fuels by industrial plants, smog, and emissions from cars and trucks. But the air indoors can also be polluted. Indoor air pollution refers to the contamination of indoor air. It may cause harmful health issues. The main sources of indoor air pollution are pesticides, chimneys which contain pollutants such as particulate matter, biomass smoke, fireplaces, moulds, and environmental tobacco smoke. The pollutants are nitrogen dioxide(NO2) Ammonia, sulphur dioxide(SO2) radon, carbon monoxide(CO) carbon dioxide (CO2) and benzene. In this Internet of Things(IoT) project, wireless air pollution monitoring system is built, which sends alerts to the user by using the Internet, when the concentration of pollutants measured goes beyond safer level. This system can be preferred over the existing systems because the alerts sent by the system can be received by the user on mobile phone from any distance irrespective of whether it is connected to the Internet. The microcontroller used is the NodeMCU Dev board v1.0 which consist of ESP8266, Wi Fi enabled chip. The sensor used is MQ135, air quality sensor, which along with microcontroller can be used to monitor the pollution indoors.", "corpus_id": 219317438, "venue": "2020 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI)", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ravi Kishore Kodali", "Saisri Pathuri", "Sasweth C Rajnarayanan" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221757464", "title": "MICROORGANISMS AS INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR BIOLOGICAL POLLUTION", "abstract": "Air pollution is a major threat to human health. Biological air pollution is predominantly caused by the pollen of plants, fungi, bacteria and viruses. The main sources of microorganisms in the air include soil, water and the decomposition of organic matter, while anthropogenic sources are represented by landfills, wastewater treatment plants, composting facilities and traffic. Microorganism populations in the air can be seasonal or relatively constant, but the most frequent increase in their occurrence is recorded in the summer and autumn. Studies show that humidity, the presence of carbon monoxide and ozone concentrations are the main factors affecting the diversity of bacteria and the percentage of pathogenic bacteria present in outdoor air. Microorganisms in the air inside residential buildings are primarily concentrated on dust particles. Approximately 60% of dust microbiota are spores of mould fungi. The key emitters of microorganisms into the atmosphere are municipal wastewater treatment plants. The bacteria and pathogens released are potentially resistant to antibiotics, rendering the bioaerosols of wastewater treatment plants a possible hazard to human health. There is a need for further research aimed at explaining the magnitude of impacts of air microorganisms on human health.", "corpus_id": 221757464, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Sylwia Siebielec", "Malgorzata Wozniak", "Anna Milena Galazka", "Grzegorz Siebielec" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "36686288", "title": "Could Houseplants Improve Indoor air Quality in Schools?", "abstract": "Previous studies performed by the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) indicated that plants and associated soil microorganisms may be used to reduce indoor pollutant levels. This study investigated the ability of plants to improve indoor air quality in schools. A 9 wk intensive monitoring campaign of indoor and outdoor air pollution was carried out in 2011 in a primary school of Aveiro, Portugal. Measurements included temperature, carbon dioxide (CO2) carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOC) carbonyls, and particulate matter (PM10) without and with plants in a classroom. PM10 samples were analyzed for the water soluble inorganic ions, as well for carbonaceous fractions. After 6 potted plants were hung from the ceiling, the mean CO2 concentration decreased from 2004 to 1121 ppm. The total VOC average concentrations in the indoor air during periods of occupancy without and with the presence of potted plants were, respectively, 933 and 249 mg/m3. The daily PM10 levels in the classroom during the occupancy periods were always higher than those outdoors. The presence of potted plants likely favored a decrease of approximately 30% in PM10 concentrations. Our findings corroborate the results of NASA studies suggesting that plants might improve indoor air and make interior breathing spaces healthier.", "corpus_id": 36686288, "venue": "Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "P N Pegas", "Celia A Alves", "Teresa Nunes", "Enow Frieda Bate-Epey", "Margarita Evtyugina", "C Pio" ], "n_citations": 42, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "222416067", "title": "Indoor formaldehyde removal by three species of Chlorophytum comosum under dynamic fumigation system: part 2 plant recovery", "abstract": "Spider plants (Chlorophytum comosum) are known to be among the most common easy mountable indoor plants capable of purifying indoor air by absorbing carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, xylene, and many other hazardous gases. In addition, these plants are non toxic and safe for pets and children. This project is focused on the investigation of the spider plants' capability of the formaldehyde purification under laboratory controlled parameters of the indoor air environment. Two scenarios including employment of fresh plants as well as recovered ones damaged by 7 day exposure of formaldehyde were considered. A special attention was made to the investigation of physiological indexes of the plant leaves after damage, and whether the spider plant could be reused after its recovery. The physiological characteristics of the recovery period of potted Chlorophytum comosum immediately after 7 days of fumigation with formaldehyde were studied. Eight physiological indexes of leaves including chlorophyll, free protein, relative conductivity, MDA (malondialdehyde, lipid peroxidation) SOD (superoxide dismutase) POD (peroxidase) T AOC (total antioxidant capacity) and stomata were selected to monitor plants' recovery processes. The results of 30 day experimental runs showed that three species of spider plants were mostly recovered within 15 days. Repeated 7 day fumigation of plants, conducted to study their ability to effectively clean the air after regeneration, confirmed such ability; the efficiency at the first day was similar to the performance of the fresh plant. However, from the second day, the efficiency was dropped by 35 50% and remained at these levels for the rest of the exercise.", "corpus_id": 222416067, "venue": "Environmental Science and Pollution Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jian Li", "Jiaochan Zhong", "Qinghui Liu", "Hang Yang", "Zhiyu Wang", "Yingxin Li", "Weichuan Zhang", "Igor E Agranovski" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "126885074", "title": "Foliage Plants for Improving Indoor Air Quality", "abstract": "NASA's research with foliage houseplants during the past 10 years has produced a new concept in indoor air quality improvement. This new and exciting technology is quite simple. Both plant leaves and roots are utilized in removing trace levels of toxic vapors from inside tightly sealed buildings. Low levels of chemicals such as carbon monoxide and formaldehyde can be removed from indoor environments by plant leaves alone, while higher concentrations of numerous toxic chemicals can be removed by filtering indoor air through the plant roots surrounded by activated carbon. The activated carbon absorbs large quantities of the toxic chemicals and retains them until the plant roots and associated microorganisms degrade and assimilate these chemicals.", "corpus_id": 126885074, "venue": "", "year": 1988, "author_names": [ "Billy C Wolverton" ], "n_citations": 13, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "219418578", "title": "ASSESSING AND MODELLING OF SOME AIR EMISSIONS PRODUCED FROM MOPCO FERTILIZERS, DAMIETTA, EGYPT", "abstract": "This study assesses the environmental aspects and air quality in chemical fertilizer industry. Misr Fertilizers Company (MOPCO) at Damietta, Egypt was used as a case study to monitor indoor and outdoor air emissions to find out the main source of air pollution and evaluate the air quality in the facility. MOPCO is located within the general free zone of Damietta Port and covers an area of 400,000 m2 including three factories, three ammonia plants, and three urea production plants and a service area. Monitoring of carbon monoxide (CO) nitrogen dioxide (NO2) ammonia (NH3) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in addition to particulate matter (PM10) noise and heat stress was carried out in the production units in MOPCO (e.g. filling area, ammonia pumping area, and boiler area (BFW) from January 2018 to July 2019. Outdoor air emissions were measured from the outlet stacks of granulation, reformer and the boiler at MOPCO. The obtained results from the three sites were less than the maximum permissible limits for CO (25 ppm) SO2 (2 ppm) NO2 (3 ppm) and NH3 (25 ppm) according to Egyptian Environment Protection Low No. 4/1994 and its amendments (No. 9/2009) Detailed air dispersion modeling (AERMOD) was applied to determine the likelihood ground level concentrations resulting from the outdoor air emissions of NO2, NH3, CO and PM10 from the stacks in MOPCO. The individual risk exposures from MOPCO have been evaluated and found to be below the maximum tolerable risk levels allowed by the Egyptian Environment Protection Low No. 4/1994.", "corpus_id": 219418578, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ahmed Abdelaal", "Haitham Safwat", "Mokhtar S Beheary" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56009450", "title": "Improvement of indoor air quality by houseplants in new built apartment buildings.", "abstract": "A group of 82 households in a new built apartment complex in Seoul, Korea participated in an investigation to examine the symptoms of sick building syndrome (SBS) using of houseplants for two observation periods. The present study confirmed the decrease of formaldehyde content in an airtight chamber containing a pot with fatsia plants. Houseplants affected the general air conditions, such as increasing relative humidity and decreasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The toxic chemical substances responsible for SBS persisted at least one more years but were effectively decreased by ventilation. Houseplants facilitated the quantitative decrease of some of these chemical substances in indoor air. Indoor dwellers felt the decrease in SBS symptoms with time regardless of houseplants in both observation periods. Houseplants made a slight difference to the symptom degree of SBS in the first observation period but a significant difference in the second observation period; however, houseplants made little difference to the content of toxic chemical substances in indoor air except formaldehyde, although houseplants gave desirable results in the decrease of SBS symptoms.", "corpus_id": 56009450, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Young-Wook Lim", "Ho-Hyun Kim", "Ji-Yeon Yang", "Kwang Jin Kim", "Jae-Young Lee", "Dong-chun Shin" ], "n_citations": 25, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "40493436", "title": "Characterization of Indoor Air Quality in Public Area of Taiwan", "abstract": "Taiwan is a densely populated area with high rise buildings close to main traffic roads or industrial plants. People spend most of time a day at home, at work, or in some means transport. Since the seventies and oil crisis, energy saving, measures led to a reduction in the ventilation of building. In addition, many building have materials and equipment that give off a variety of irritating and sometimes toxic fumes or dust. The control of indoor air quality (IAQ) has become more important. For this reason, Taiwan's Indoor Air Quality Management Act is taking effect in 2013. This study was aimed at discovering common indoor air pollution at public site from the northern Taiwan, and evaluating the dynamic of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration during working hours. Also we discussed the main effect factors on indoor air quality. The results of the high carbon monoxide (CO) and PM10 concentration may be ascribed to emissions from vehicle exhaust resulting on high traffic locations at shopping mall and hospital. The high levels of total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) appear at post office that may be caused by mail machine and vehicle exhaust from outdoor air. Bacteria and fungi may be caused by outdoor pollutants and air conditioning systems. In addition, CO2 concentrations above 1,000ppm indicate poor ventilation of the indoor environment and can be remedied by improving ventilation.", "corpus_id": 40493436, "venue": "", "year": null, "author_names": [ "Chih-Mei Chou" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "105212398", "title": "Assessment of air quality in poultry facilities/ Avaliacao da qualidade do ar em instalacoes avicolas", "abstract": "T The intensive animal production and confinement increase the potential for intoxication gas, with incidences of carbon monoxide (CO) carbon dioxide (CO 2 and ammonia (NH 3 which alter the ideal characteristics of the air, adversely affecting poultry production. This research aimed to diagnose the influence ofNH 3 indoor air quality of three poultry laying sheds with birds of different ages. Randomized blocks design (RBD) were performed being the blocks represented by plants of birds of different ages, in factorial 4x2 arrangement (number of weeks evaluated x concentration reading schedules gasses) Readings were carried out by means of sensors for 28 days, where they were measured twice a day (9:00 and 15:00 h) instant concentrations of ammonia (NH 3 and carbon dioxide (CO 2 It was observed that the concentration of NH 3 andCO 2 obtained do not represent values that are harmful to the performance of the birds showed during the entire trial period within the recommended values in the literature. Resumo A producao intensiva de animais e o confinamento destes aumentam o potencial de intoxicacao por gases, com a presenca mais comum de monoxido de carbono (CO) dioxido de carbono (CO 2 e amonia (NH 3 os quais alteram as caracteristicas ideais do ar, afetando negativamente a producao avicola. Com base nessas consideracoes, objetivou se com o presente estudo diagnosticar a influencia da qualidade do ar no interior de tres galpoes avicolas de postura, com aves de diferentes idades. Utilizou se delineamento em blocos casualizados (DBC) sendo os blocos representados pelas instalacoes com aves de diferentes idades, em arranjo fatorial 4x2 (numero de semanas avaliadas x horarios de leitura da concentracao de gases) Foram realizadas leituras por meio de sensores durante 28 dias, onde foram mensuradas duas vezes ao dia (9:00 e 15:00h) as concentracoes instantaneas de amonia (NH 3 e dioxido de carbono (CO 2 Observou se que as concentracoes de NH 3 e CO 2 obtidas nao representaram valores prejudiciais para o desempenho das aves, apresentando se dentro dos valores recomendados na literatura e com base no periodo experimental considerado.", "corpus_id": 105212398, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Leonardo da Silva", "Irene Menegali", "Fabiana Ferreira", "Erika Viviane Santos", "Djesihre Nathalie Rippel", "Leticia Benites Albano", "Leonardo de Barros Pinto", "Ramom Stefano de Souza", "Ana Karoline de Jesus Vieira" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "236588370", "title": "Configuracion de estereotipos de genero en publicidades infantiles. Estudio comparativo entre Espana y Argentina", "abstract": "El estudio del contenido de las publicidades dirigidas a las audiencias infantiles resulta interesante para generar una aproximacion a la exposicion que tiene este publico a un discurso social marcado por un manifiesto interes de persuasion. Desde las teorias de genero y de los estudios culturales en este trabajo de investigacion se analiza como se configuran los estereotipos de genero en las publicidades transmitidas en el contexto de programas infantiles de Espana y Argentina durante varias semanas de los meses de julio y agosto del ano 2019. La muestra se extrae del canal Disney Channel en la franja matutina de programacion. La particularidad del estudio que se presenta es que la observacion y el analisis no se ha restringido unicamente a anuncios provenientes de la industria del juguete, sino que se ha ampliado el abanico de observacion a otras industrias que comparten espacio publicitario con este mismo sector. Para ello, se ha optado una metodologia de analisis de contenido mixta de una muestra no probabilistica de comerciales dirigidos a la infancia con el objetivo de observar y analizar las apelaciones de genero y contextos en los que se articula la narrativa publicitaria. Los resultados indican que las publicidades dirigidas a esta audiencia mantienen roles binarios y dicotomicos que se traducen en representaciones y estereotipos presentes tanto en la narrativa publicitaria, como en las acciones de los personajes que protagonizan los anuncios.", "corpus_id": 236588370, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Leticia Quintana Pujalte", "Patricia Pujalte Ibarra" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "194992351", "title": "La Bella y la Bestia Un analisis critico de los estereotipos de genero en Disney", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 194992351, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Irene Villegas Mancebo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "133429425", "title": "Estereotipos de genero en las Princesas Disney del siglo XXI.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 133429425, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Ainhoa Zabaleta Leal" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "192020563", "title": "Estereotipos de genero durante la infancia Las princesas Disney y sus valores", "abstract": "Treball Final de Grau en Publicitat i Relacions Publiques. Codi: PU0932. Curs academic: 2013/2014", "corpus_id": 192020563, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Aurora Ribas" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "163140610", "title": "Evolucion de estereotipos de genero en Disney: analisis desde la perspectiva critica", "abstract": "El principal fundamento de partida de este trabajo es la conviccion de que la propiedad de una empresa mediatica determina los contenidos de la misma. Esa es la razon por la cual, para realizar una demostracion de los estereotipos de genero en el conglomerado mediatico ABC Disney, primero hacemos una definicion de la empresa desde el punto de vista de la estructura mediatica. Nos interesa demostrar que existen estereotipos de genero propios de una cultura androcentrica que son reiterados una y otra vez en los medios de comunicacion. En este caso analizamos contenidos dirigidos al publico infantil y juvenil, que al estar en proceso de formacion nos parece por demas vulnerable. El planteamiento es ambicioso, pero no pretendemos agotarlo en estas paginas sino que dejamos una linea de investigacion abierta que seguiremos investigando.", "corpus_id": 163140610, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Rosalba Mancinas-Chavez", "Antonia Isabel Nogales Bocio", "Maria Jose Barriga Cano" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "133558705", "title": "Analisis de los estereotipos y roles de genero en las peliculas de Disney", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 133558705, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Inmaculada-Concepcion Prieto-Martinez" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "163380187", "title": "Imagenes infantiles que construyen identidades adultas. Los estereotipos sexistas de las princesas Disney desde una perspectiva de genero. Efectos a traves de las generaciones y en diferentes entornos: digital y analogico", "abstract": "Los valores y la cultura se transmiten a traves de medios y ambitos que exceden a las formulas clasicas inscritas en el sistema educativo; en ellos, como madres y padres confiamos ciegamente al pensar que, en su supuesta inocencia, no transmiten ideologias. Sin embargo, las peliculas infantiles muestran unos modelos interpretativos del mundo que contribuyen a la construccion de la identidad. La filmografia de Disney esta basada en cuentos infantiles tradicionales, donde a traves de unos personajes cargados de actitudes estereotipadas, aparecen representados los valores, jerarquias y creencias consideradas adecuadas socialmente para los ninos y para las ninas. El proposito de este trabajo es investigar la ideologfa sexista inserta en las peliculas infantiles de la multinacional Disney para conocer como se difunden los estereotipos que construyen y condicionan la personalidad adulta y asi poner de manifiesto la intencionalidad domesticadora que tienen los medios de comunicacion, en general, y las peliculas infantiles, en particular. El estudio de los estereotipos que aparecen en los medios es una manera de visibilizar el nexo que existe entre la imagen y la ideologia; por tanto, realizando un estudio longitudinal de las representaciones femeninas de las princesas, se puede comprobar como se perpetua el orden establecido, como las relaciones de dominacion, los atropellos, los privilegios, etc. aparecen como \"condiciones de existencia\" no solo aceptables, sino desde cualquier punto de vista, naturales. Sin duda, este escenario situa a las ninas y a las mujeres en una posicion de desigualdad respecto a los ninos y a los hombres, que inevitablemente conduce a la discriminacion y que, culturalmente, se ha ido construyendo a partir de mitos, cuentos y leyendas como \"La Cenicienta\" o \"La Bella durmiente\" que, a fin de cuenta, son los que sustentan los principios de los actuales estereotipos de genero. Esta investigacion tiene como objetivo principal conocer de cerca las imagenes y el discurso implicito en las escenas de las peliculas de la multinacional Disney, especialmente aquellos mensajes sexistas mediante los que se transmite una cultura discriminatoria cargaua de estereotipos de genero. Para ello, se realiza un estudio comparado entre las imagenes transmitidas y el discurso social que estas generan entre la ciudadanfa global, que proveera de un conocimiento cientifico valido con el que poder atajar las discriminaciones historicas que, desde siempre, han relegado a la mujer a una posicion secundaria y sumisa, donde sus caracteristicas como persona han quedado invisibilizadas ante la apariencia segura del macho dominante. Conscientes de esta situacion, se ha centrado esta tesis en uno de los grupos con mayor riesgo de domesticacion sexista: la infancia. Considerando que la invisibilidad de las mujeres, y en consecuencia, la ausencia de explicaciones sobre las desigualdades de genero en la educacion: formal, no formal e informal, dificulta el reconocimiento de la construccion social y cientifica de las desigualdades, lo que contribuye a naturalizarlas. Por ultimo, el estudio tambien plantea la creacion de un sistema de produccion de informacion disenado para detectar como estos espacios de ocio modelan la personalidad desde una perspectiva multiple: de genero, intergeneracional; digital, analogica, social, etc. Dado que la produccion de informacion esta basada fundamentalmente en indicadores que permitiran conocer los factores que perpetuan la discriminacion de las mujeres, se ha centrado la investigacion haciendo especial hincapie lo relativo al desarrollo de la igualdad en la Sociedad de la Informacion, aunque paralelamente se analizan los discursos en los entornos analogicos para contrastar ambas narrativas", "corpus_id": 163380187, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Carmen Cantillo Valero" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "192294595", "title": "Heroinas o princesas: analisis de la evolucion de los personajes de la marca \"Princesas Disney\" desde su posible superacion de los estereotipos sexistas, dentro y fuera de la ficcion animada", "abstract": "La construccion de los personajes femeninos en el cine ha sido objeto de debate en distintas perspectivas academicas. En esta investigacion, desde la mirada de los estudios de genero y de la alfabetizacion audiovisual, intentamos acercar al lector a las protagonistas animadas que se presentan al publico infantil, centrandonos en el estudio de las heroinas creadas por los estudios Disney y su presentacion tanto en las peliculas que protagonizan como en los distintos departamentos de la multinacional. Nuestro objetivo es analizar estas heroinas para descubrir si la compania Disney ha conseguido con el paso de los anos construir heroinas modernas capaces de representar al publico femenino actual, es decir, si realmente existe una evolucion positiva de las heroinas Disney hacia personajes mas complejos que se alejen de los estereotipos de genero que representan las primeras protagonistas del cine de animacion.En 1937, con el estreno de Blancanieves y los siete enanitos, el estudio de animacion logro situar a la mujer como protagonista de los nuevos relatos infantiles, en un sector hasta entonces protagonizado casi exclusivamente por personajes masculinos. A partir de esta fecha, han sido varios los personajes principales femeninos del cine de animacion, dieciseis creadas por los estudios de Disney. Dentro de este corpus de estudio, centramos el analisis en las llamadas Princesas Disney, concepto creado por Andy Mooney en 2001 que engloba a distintos personajes femeninos de los estudios con forma humana y ciertas caracteristicas fisicas. Como se explica a lo largo de esta tesis doctoral, la franquicia Princesas Disney auna a personajes femeninos de distintas epocas de creacion bajo una misma marca que vende todo tipo de productos de consumo a mujeres y ninas.", "corpus_id": 192294595, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ana Vicens Poveda" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201438193", "title": "Analisis de estereotipos sexistas. Perpetuacion de roles de genero en la filmografia de Disney: de la ingenua Blancanieves a la postmoderna Tiana (1937 2009)", "abstract": "El proposito de este trabajo ha sido investigar la ideologia sexista inserta en las peliculas infantiles de la multinacional Disney para conocer como se difunden los estereotipos que construyen y condicionan la personalidad adulta, ya que este medio es el vehiculo desde donde se transmite una ideologia sexista que modela nuestra personalidad y que reproduciremos en nuestros comportamientos adultos.", "corpus_id": 201438193, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Carmen Cantillo Valero" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "163689013", "title": "Los estereotipos de los docentes en las clases de L2: Reflexiones en torno a una manera de ensenar espanol mas sensible al genero, al concepto de familia y a la ninez", "abstract": "El articulo trata algunos estereotipos sociales que mantienen los profesores de espanol como segunda lengua, y tambien de otras lenguas, en cuanto a la mujer, el concepto de familia, y los valores que se transmiten a la ninez en la clase. El texto llama a la reflexion acerca de los propios estereotipos y de como existen textos, como los que aqui se presentan de Pippi Mediaslargas, de Astrid Lindgren, que ponen en tela de duda muchos de los conceptos establecidos acerca de la mujer, las ninas, las expectativas sociales y la familia, y se contrastan con modelos tradicionales como los que son representados en la mayoria de las peliculas de \"Princesas de Disney\"", "corpus_id": 163689013, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Annette Calvo Shadid" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "28929764", "title": "Success Oriented Education: Target Realization: Teaching Materials Based on Web Resource", "abstract": "In the development of teaching reform, different theories have been promoted with boosting teaching reforms.Among them, the theory of success oriented education is advocated successfully. As for success oriented education, teaching materials are also regarded as important elements to develop the success qualities of students. In this paper, the author has analysed the necessity of success oriented education and the realization of learning target based on the scientific reform of teaching materials.Therefore, the author hopes that her findings will be helpful for the education development.", "corpus_id": 28929764, "venue": "CSEE", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Xian Zhi Tian" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "147759219", "title": "On the Application of the Success oriented Education Theory in Music Teaching Practice", "abstract": "The success oriented education theory is a brand new education theory which is based on the wide spread and raise of education,and is thus suitable for students of different levels.This theory has opened a new field of vision for the reform of music education.In general music education,the significance of a success oriented education lies in three aspects: to arouse students' interest and motivation in learning music by offering students opportunites of success;to help students with their internal recognition and understanding of music culture through students' active participation and activities;to promote students' all round development through the positive and encouraging evaluation of students.", "corpus_id": 147759219, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Mao Cui" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "157935575", "title": "Making educational reforms practical for teachers using a modular, success oriented approach to make a context based educational reform practical for implementation in Dutch biology education", "abstract": "For a successful implementation of an educational reform, teachers need to regard the proposal as being practical. I used a modular, success oriented approach to make a context based reform practical for implemtentation in Duthc biology education. educational reform, modular, teachers, biology, success oriented, implementation, professional development", "corpus_id": 157935575, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Michiel Dam" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149661131", "title": "Determining The Success Oriented Motivations of Gifted and Non Gifted Students", "abstract": "This study is aimed to determine the success oriented motivations has been reviewed and compared in gifted and non gifted students in terms of different variables. For the purposes of this research, in 2015 2016 academic year, 100 gifted and 100 non gifted and totally 200 students who are seventh and eighth graders in Abdurrahim Karakoc middle scholl and Science and Art Center in Kahramanmaras city were applied the semi structured interview, success oriented motivation scale and personal information form. As a result of the research, and non gifted students that their success oriented motivation of the points vary according to demographic characteristics, it was concluded that gifted students with normal students score lower than motivation. Still referring students to the demographics of female students higher than male students in the 7th grade students of 8th grade higher than that of the student, his mother work working students, higher than students working here mother and maternal education level to have elementary school students with higher achievement focused Motivation points It has increased.", "corpus_id": 149661131, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Deniz Ozcan", "Furkan Abdullah Kaya" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "56838517", "title": "Task Based Teaching of English Chinese Translation under \"Caliber Oriented Education to Success\" Based on Web", "abstract": "This paper, under 3 using principle in the philosophy of caliber oriented education to success (CETS) makes a tentative qualitative study on the application of task based approach in the teaching of English Chinese translation based on the web. Translation teaching is characterized by its practicality. Therefore, the task based approach can be employed to guide the web based content collection and the process of English translation teaching. In this way, the prospect for enhancing student's translation ability is quite encouraging, which has been verified by one year's teaching.", "corpus_id": 56838517, "venue": "ICEC 2011", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Zhongyan Duan" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "135887946", "title": "Character Oriented Education to Success Information Technology Self Study Center", "abstract": "In the present day, many universities have put their efforts on teaching reform. As for linguistic teaching reform, many teachers have probed into reform measures concerning character oriented education to success and information technology. Therefore, the author has put her focus on linguistic teaching reform of independent college Thus, zero approach teaching mode and self study center become her study focuses in the paper. The author tries her best to study relationships among them and tries to improve linguistic teaching reform in independent college.", "corpus_id": 135887946, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Xian Zhi Tian" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "197597956", "title": "The Negative Influences of Exam Oriented Education on Chinese High School Students: Backwash from Classroom to Child", "abstract": "This essay describes the various problems China faces on account of its exam centric education system and pedagogy. Along with interviews and focus groups, this study draws on survey responses from 43 Chinese high school students enrolled in the Yunnan Province's No. 10 school. Moreover, this essay explores the policy arguments and key assumptions underlying this pedagogical approach as well as the negative influences exam oriented education systems have on Chinese students, who view education as nothing more than merely passing examinations. This particular approach, at its worst, can stifle a student's imagination, creativity, and sense of self, qualities crucial for a child's ultimate success in and out of the classroom. The study suggests moderate pressure to excel in school, when paired with deemphasizing high stakes testing, better motivates students and improves student success and psychological health, both in terms of academic success and also a productive adulthood.", "corpus_id": 197597956, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Robert D Kirkpatrick", "Yu Zang" ], "n_citations": 92, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "13697950", "title": "Peer Mentoring Styles and Their Contribution to Academic Success Among Mentees: A Person Oriented Study in Higher Education", "abstract": "The purpose of our study was to explore peer mentoring styles and examine their contribution to academic success among mentees. Data were collected as part of a comprehensive evaluation of a peer mentoring program. The sample consisted of 49 mentors (advanced students) who supported 376 mentees (first year students) in small groups. Indicators for peer mentoring styles were constructed using mentee assessments of mentoring functions and mentor quality, and unobtrusive data gathered in an analysis of online mentoring activities and a content analysis of the quality of the online mentoring activities. Using cluster analyses, three distinct mentoring styles were identified: Motivating master mentoring, informatory standard mentoring, and negative minimalist mentoring. Motivating master mentors were shown to have a positive influence on success in the mentoring program among those mentees who failed two preliminary exams. Implications for the training of peer mentors in higher education are discussed.", "corpus_id": 13697950, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Birgit Leidenfrost", "Barbara Strassnig", "Alfred Schabmann", "Christiane Spiel", "C Carbon" ], "n_citations": 55, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "15678788", "title": "Student Success Oriented Needs Analysis A Conceptual Framework", "abstract": "Student success research in higher education has provided an immense understanding of those factors that explain why students decide to leave, and to some extent, why students persist on to graduation. However, few studies have leveraged student success research to identify an inventory of needs that should be met in order for students to succeed in college. This paper leverages a collection of influential student success theoretical perspectives to develop a needs analysis framework to elicit and identify engineering student success needs. The conceptual framework provides a structured participatory method to translate vague student needs into actionable statements that holistically capture the needs of engineering students. Lastly, this paper outlines the importance of incorporating this framework into the development process for constructing an Engineering Student Needs (ESN) questionnaire.", "corpus_id": 15678788, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Tracee Walker Gilbert", "Janis P Terpenny", "Sharnnia Artis" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55659967", "title": "Student Success Oriented Needs Analysis Framework: A Pilot Study", "abstract": "Student success research in higher education has provided an immense understanding of those factors that explain why students decide to leave, and to some extent, why students persist on to graduation. However, few studies have leveraged student success research to identify an inventory of needs that should be met in order for students to succeed in college. This paper leverages a collection of influential student success theoretical perspectives to develop a needs analysis framework to elicit and identify engineering student success needs. The framework provides a structured participatory method to translate vague student needs into actionable statements that holistically capture the needs of engineering students. The results of a pilot study are presented to demonstrate the applicability of this framework. I. Motivation For over 70 years, researchers have been attempting to unravel the complexities associated with enhancing student success in higher education 1 Student success research has resulted in a better understanding of why some students decide to leave, and to some extent, why students decide to persist on to graduation. In spite of all the research that has been conducted, little work has been devoted to translating the various theoretical findings into specific strategies that will guide institutions in improving student success outcomes 2, 3 This paper is a part of a larger research effort to develop a Student Success Oriented System Design (S 2 OSD pronounced \"SAWS D\" methodology, which will integrate student success research with a growing body of knowledge on customer oriented systems approaches in order to address the following pressing need: How can institutional leaders in higher education translate the needs of their students into actionable solutions that will foster student success? In order to provide a concrete course of action for institutional leaders to design practices that meaningfully facilitate student success, institutional leaders must first have an understanding of the needs of their students. Therefore, this paper presents a framework that describes the development and the results of a pilot study to test the Student Success Oriented Needs Analysis (S 2 ONA pronounced \"SAWNA\" framework. Specifically, this paper will provide: a framework that is guided by student success theoretical perspectives; a participatory method to elicit, identify, and document student success needs; a mapping process to develop precise need statements that holistically capture a comprehensive set of engineering student needs of students; and a questionnaire to evaluate the SONA framework II. Student Success Theoretical Perspectives The S 2 ONA framework (within the S 2 OSD methodology) is motivated by a collection of student success theoretical perspectives. A cursory review of the most comprehensive and influential theoretical perspectives is presented in Table 1 to provide an understanding of those factors associated with student success. P ge 15122.2 Table 1: Relevant Student Success Theoretical Perspectives Perspective Theory Purpose The Sociological Perspective Student Integration Model 4 Students' decisions to persist or to drop out are based on their integration into the formal and informal academic and social systems of the institution. The Organizational Perspective Student Attrition Model 5 Concentrates on the impact that the institution (i.e. organization) has on the socialization and satisfaction of students. The Psychological Perspective Student Attrition Model 6 Focuses on the role of psychological characteristics that distinguish between those students who persist and those who drop out. The Financial Perspective Financial Nexus Model 7 Highlights the role that finances play in persistence decisions. The Minority Perspective Student/Institution Engagement Model 8 Emphasizes the unique challenges that diminish the quality of the minority student college experience.", "corpus_id": 55659967, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Tracee Walker Gilbert", "Janis P Terpenny", "Sharnnia Artis" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "99020370", "title": "Mathematical modeling of static layer crystallization for propellant grade hydrogen peroxide", "abstract": "Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important raw material widely used in many fields. In this work a mathematical model of heat conduction with a moving boundary was proposed to study the melt crystallization process of hydrogen peroxide which was carried out outside a cylindrical crystallizer. Considering the effects of the temperature of the cooling fluid on the thermal conductivity of crude crystal, the model is an improvement of Guardani's research and can be solved by analytic iteration method. An experiment was designed to measure the thickness of crystal layer with time under different conditions. A series of analysis, including the effects of different refrigerant temperature on crystal growth rate, the effects of different cooling rates on crystal layer growth rate, the effects of crystallization temperature on heat transfer and the model's application scope were conducted based on the comparison between experimental results and simulation results of the model.", "corpus_id": 99020370, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Lin Hao", "Xinghua Chen", "Yaozhou Sun", "Yangyang Liu", "Shuai Li", "Mengqian Zhang" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "120407433", "title": "Numerical investigation of the influence of crystallization of ultrafine particles of aluminum oxide on energy characteristics of solid propellant rocket engine", "abstract": "The results of numerical investigation of a multiphase flow considering coagulation, crushing and crystallization of the particles of polydispersed condensate in the nozzles of solid propellant rocket engine are presented. The influence of particles crystallization on the energy characteristics of the engine is shown.", "corpus_id": 120407433, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Nikolay Dyachenko", "Lyudmila Ivanovna Dyachenko" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221034133", "title": "Lattice Inclusion of Copper Ions in Ammonium Perchlorate through Co crystallization: Impact on Lattice, Physical, and Thermal Characteristics", "abstract": "Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is an important oxidizer extensively used in composite solid propellants. Any alterations in the lattice configuration of AP could bring in a dramatic change in its physical, thermal, and ballistic characteristics though the basic thermodynamic properties could remain unaltered. In this work, we attempt to dope AP with copper nitrate through co crystallization and examine its impact on the lattice, physical, and thermal characteristics. The effect of copper ion on the crystal morphology, bulk density, friability, moisture content, and the decomposition behavior is compared with normal propellant grade AP. The incorporation of copper ion into AP resulted in an increase in bulk density and aspect ratio and a marginal decrease in the average particle size. The shape factor remained intact. The presence of copper ion remarkably decreased both the low and high temperature decomposition and reduced the activation energy for both stages, confirming the catalytic nature of copper doped AP.", "corpus_id": 221034133, "venue": "ACS omega", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Savitha Nair", "Suresh Mathew", "Chethrapilly Padmanabhan Reghunadhan Nair" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225298145", "title": "Crystallization modelling for lattice modified ammonium perchlorate", "abstract": "Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is the workhorse oxidizer used in composite solid propellant. The doping of AP with transition metal compounds by physical mixing or cocrystallisation is a method to increase the rate of thermal decomposition of AP. The particle size distribution and crystal characteristics are affected by parameters like initial concentration of solution, agitator rpm, cooling rate, and the concentration of dopants. The exact evaluation of product properties by the systematic study requires a large number of trials by varying each of these parameters. In this paper, factorial method is employed to reduce the number of trials for crystallization of AP and the co crystallisation of AP with different transition metal compounds. Using this method, the optimum condition for obtaining the required particle size distribution and crystal properties can be achieved with minimum number of experimental trials.", "corpus_id": 225298145, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Savitha Nair", "S Krishnan Nair", "C P Reghunadhan Nair", "Suresh Mathew" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "232225850", "title": "MODIFICATION OF HIGH ENERGY SUBSTANCES RECOVERED FROM PRODUCTS OF SOLID PROPELLANT DISPOSAL", "abstract": "The main components of high energy compositions are nitramines: octogen (HMX) hexogen (RDX) The solution to the problem of the lack of these components is possible through the use of returnable resources, which are obtained using a certain technology for the disposal of solid rocket fuel and ammunition, unsuitable for further use for its intended purpose. Purpose of this research is to develop a crystallization method for octogen extracted from solid rocket fuel and to obtain modified nitramine suitable for use in high energy compositions (HEC) Parameters of the process of recrystallization of the extracted nitramine from an aqueous solution of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were determined in the laboratory: the dependence of the average particle size of the substance on the rotational speed of the mechanical stirrer and the cooling rate of the solution. The required crystal size of the modified nitramine is obtained in the process of crystallization with a rotational speed of a mechanical stirrer in the range of 200 330 rpm and a cooling rate of an aqueous solution of DMSO not higher than 2 degC min, it was found. Addition of seed crystals of standard nitramine up to 10 (by weight) and 0.5 (by weight) modifier (isomethyltetrahydrophthalic anhydride) positively affects the crystalline form of the modified product with the formation of crystals of predominantly correct isometric form. The resulting modified nitramine has characteristics that satisfy the requirements for use in HEC.", "corpus_id": 232225850, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "M M Cheltonov", "Oleksiy L Kyrychenko", "Elena Yu Nesterova", "Maksim M Cheltonov", "Oleksii Leonidovich Kirichenko", "O Iu Nesterova" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "102686709", "title": "Catalytic effects of Cu Co* on the thermal decomposition of AN and AN/KDN based green oxidizer and propellant samples", "abstract": "Abstract This paper presents the catalytic effects of Cu Co* catalyst on the decomposition of AN and AN/KDN based oxidizer and propellant samples. Ozawa Flynn Wall (OFW) iso conversional method was used for the kinetic studies and to compute the activation energy (Ea) values for various decomposition steps of the prepared oxidizer and propellant samples in the temperature range of 50 500 degC. TG DTG experiments were carried out for both oxidizer and propellant samples at the heating rates of 3, 5, and 10 degC/min. AN/KDN based oxidizer samples were prepared by an evaporative co crystallization method. Citric acid sol gel method was used for the synthesis of Cu Co* catalyst. The propellant sample contains HTPB as the fuel binder along with other ingredients such as TDI, DOA, and Glycerol. The Cu Co* catalyst was used as 2% by weight to the total weight of catalyzed oxidizer and propellant samples. It was observed from the present study that, Cu Co* catalyst helps in reducing the Ea values for AN and AN based propellant samples. However, with the percentage increment of KDN in the AN crystals, Ea value increases. Further, it was observed that Cu Co* catalyst stabilizes the initial partial decomposition of KDN.", "corpus_id": 102686709, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Pratima Kumar", "Puran Chandra Joshi", "Rajiv Kumar", "Shelly Biswas" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "10051568", "title": "Recent Advances in Gun Propellant Development: From Molecules to Materials", "abstract": "The development of gun propellants from 2010 to 2016 has been a broad endeavor. Researchers worldwide have examined every facet of energetic materials involved with gun propulsion in efforts to improve both safety and performance. They have looked at individual molecules to maximize energy content, as well as revisiting past molecules and improving upon their original properties. A great deal of effort has gone towards understanding and producing energetic nano materials. Co crystallization of energetic materials has also emerged as a promising new methodology to prepare energetics. Processing modifications to the propellant material have shown improvements in burn rate modification. Charge consolidation has seen a resurgence and novel gun concepts have both lead to significant improvements in muzzle velocity at the prototype level. Virtually every aspect of a gun propellant has been examined and improved upon.", "corpus_id": 10051568, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Eugene Rozumov" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "101251285", "title": "Effect of crystallization parameters and presence of surfactant on ammonium perchlorate crystal characteristics", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Ammonium perchlorate is an exceptional oxidizer in composite solid rocket propellant formulations. Crystallization is the most critical step in the manufacture of ammonium perchlorate, which determines the size, shape, morphological characteristics, crystal strength, grinding characteristics, and thermal characteristics of the crystals. Attempts are made in the present study to establish the effect of crystallization parameters such as cooling patterns, agitator rpm, retention of crystals in the mother liquor, and presence of surfactant, on the morphological, thermal, and physical characteristics of ammonium perchlorate crystals. Based on the trials conducted in a 5 L capacity laboratory glass crystallizer, it is found that spherical, transparent, and smooth surface crystals are obtained by crystallization having a slow cooling pattern and an agitator rpm of 600. Irregular shaped crystals are obtained under fast cooling pattern and/or lower agitator rpm. It is also seen from XRD patterns that ammonium perchlorate crystals made in the present study do not have any amorphous phase on the surface. Porous nature of the crystals made in the presence of surfactant was verified by scanning electron microscopy images, bulk density, transparency of crystals, and change in the low temperature decomposition pattern in Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) curves.", "corpus_id": 101251285, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "V M Lakshmi", "Satyanarayanan R Chakravarthy", "Arolickal G Rajendran", "C R Thomas" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "98773214", "title": "Preparation and Characterization of Fe2O3/Ammonium Perchlorate (AP) Nanocomposites through Ceramic Membrane Anti Solvent Crystallization", "abstract": "A novel ceramic membrane anti solvent crystallization (CMASC) method was proposed to prepare Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites with core shell structure. For the preparation of Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites, several key advantages of the CMASC method are as follows. Firstly, both well dispersed Fe2O3 nanoparticles and the superfine AP preparation can be achieved at one step. Secondly, no non component of solid propellant was involved in this composite process. Thirdly, the size and morphology of Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites can be effectively controlled by using the ceramic membrane with regular pore structure as feeding template. The morphology and structure of Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites were characterized by inductively coupled plasma spectrophotometry (ICP) IR spectroscopy, SEM, and HRTEM. The results verified that the size and morphology of Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites are controllable, and the dispersion of Fe2O3 nanoparticles is greatly improved in Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites. Moreover, the thermal decomposition of the as prepared Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites was measured with TG DSC. The results showed that the Fe2O3 nanoparticles in Fe2O3/AP nanocomposites exhibit better catalytic activity on the thermal decomposition of AP. In addition, the mechanism was also discussed.", "corpus_id": 98773214, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Zhenye Ma", "Rujun Wu", "Jun-Li Song", "Cheng Chao Li", "Rizhi Chen", "Lixiong Zhang" ], "n_citations": 26, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "11131042", "title": "Isothermal calorimetry: a predictive tool to model drug propellant interactions in pressurized metered dose systems.", "abstract": "The purpose of this work was to evaluate gas perfusion isothermal calorimetry (ITC) as a method to characterize the physicochemical changes of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) intended to be formulated in pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) after exposure to a model propellant. Spray dried samples of beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) and salbutamol sulphate (SS) were exposed to controlled quantities of 2H,3H decafluoropentane (HPFP) to determine whether ITC could be used as a suitable analytical method for gathering data on the behavioural properties of the powders in real time. The crystallization kinetics of BDP and the physiochemical properties of SS were successfully characterized using ITC and supported by a variety of other analytical techniques. Correlations between real and model propellant systems were also established using hydrofluoroalkane (HFA 227) propellant. In summary, ITC was found to be suitable for gathering data on the crystallization kinetics of BDP and SS. In a wider context, this work will have implications on the use of ITC for stability testing of APIs in HFA based pMDIs.", "corpus_id": 11131042, "venue": "International journal of pharmaceutics", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Jesslynn Ooi", "Simon Gaisford", "Ben J Boyd", "Paul M Young", "Daniela Traini" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "3891296", "title": "Test them all, is it worth it? Assessing configuration sampling on the JHipster Web development stack", "abstract": "Many approaches for testing configurable software systems start from the same assumption: it is impossible to test all configurations. This motivated the definition of variability aware abstractions and sampling techniques to cope with large configuration spaces. Yet, there is no theoretical barrier that prevents the exhaustive testing of all configurations by simply enumerating them if the effort required to do so remains acceptable. Not only this: we believe there is a lot to be learned by systematically and exhaustively testing a configurable system. In this case study, we report on the first ever endeavour to test all possible configurations of the industry strength, open source configurable software system JHipster, a popular code generator for web applications. We built a testing scaffold for the 26,000+ configurations of JHipster using a cluster of 80 machines during 4 nights for a total of 4,376 hours (182 days) CPU time. We find that 35.70% configurations fail and we identify the feature interactions that cause the errors. We show that sampling strategies (like dissimilarity and 2 wise) (1) are more effective to find faults than the 12 default configurations used in the JHipster continuous integration; (2) can be too costly and exceed the available testing budget. We cross this quantitative analysis with the qualitative assessment of JHipster's lead developers.", "corpus_id": 3891296, "venue": "Empirical Software Engineering", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Axel Halin", "Alexandre Nuttinck", "Mathieu Acher", "Xavier Devroey", "Gilles Perrouin", "Benoit Baudry" ], "n_citations": 30, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208995895", "title": "Full Stack Development with Jhipster", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 208995895, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "N SendilKumar", "Deepu K Sasidharan" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "17390020", "title": "Yo variability! JHipster: a playground for web apps analyses", "abstract": "Though variability is everywhere, there has always been a shortage of publicly available cases for assessing variability aware tools and techniques as well as supports for teaching variability related concepts. Historical software product lines contains industrial secrets their owners do not want to disclose to a wide audience. The open source community contributed to large scale cases such as Eclipse, Linux kernels, or web based plugin systems (Drupal, WordPress) To assess accuracy of sampling and prediction approaches (bugs, performance) a case where all products can be enumerated is desirable. As configuration issues do not lie within only one place but are scattered across technologies and assets, a case exposing such diversity is an additional asset. To this end, we present in this paper our efforts in building an explicit product line on top of JHipster, an industrial open source Web app configurator that is both manageable in terms of configurations 163,000) and diverse in terms of technologies used. We present our efforts in building a variability aware chain on top of JHipster's configurator and lessons learned using it as a teaching case at the University of Rennes. We also sketch the diversity of analyses that can be performed with our infrastructure as well as early issues found using it. Our long term goal is both to support students and researchers studying variability analysis and JHipster developers in the maintenance and evolution of their tools.", "corpus_id": 17390020, "venue": "VaMoS", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Axel Halin", "Alexandre Nuttinck", "Mathieu Acher", "Xavier Devroey", "Gilles Perrouin", "Patrick Heymans" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212998418", "title": "PRIMENA SPRING CLOUD PROGRAMSKOG OKVIRA ZA RAZVOJ MIKROSERVISNIH APLIKACIJA", "abstract": "Representation of basic advantages and flaws in the microservice architecture, as well as a concrete implementation through use of Spring Cloud Framework and Jhipster generator.", "corpus_id": 212998418, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Stefan Bratic" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "195346880", "title": "Test them all, is it worth it? A ground truth comparison of configuration sampling strategies", "abstract": "Many approaches for testing configurable software systems start from the same assumption: it is impossible to test all configurations. This motivated the definition of variability aware abstractions and sampling techniques to cope with large configuration spaces. Yet, there is no theoretical barrier that prevents the exhaustive testing of all configurations by simply enumerating them, if the effort required to do so remains acceptable. Not only this: we believe there is lots to be learned by systematically and exhaustively testing a configurable system. In this article, we report on the first ever endeavor to test all possible configurations of an industry strength, open source configurable software system, JHipster, a popular code generator for web applications. We built a testing scaffold for the 26,000+ configurations of JHipster using a cluster of 80 machines during 4 nights for a total of 4,376 hours (182 days) CPU time. We find that 35.70% configurations fail and we identify the feature interactions that cause the errors. We show that sampling testing strategies (like dissimilarity and 2 wise) (1) are more effective to find faults than the 12 default configurations used in the JHipster continuous integration; (2) can be too costly and exceed the available testing budget. We cross this quantitative analysis with the qualitative assessment of JHipster's lead developers.", "corpus_id": 195346880, "venue": "ArXiv", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Axel Halin", "Alexandre Nuttinck", "Mathieu Acher", "Xavier Devroey", "Gilles Perrouin", "Benoit Baudry" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "1548088", "title": "Testing Variability Intensive Systems", "abstract": "Cost effective techniques to test software in the presence of variability are popular in academia but are not systematically applied in practice yet. This half day tutorial offers an overview of the state of the art of some of the hottest topics in the field such as (dis)similarity search based testing, model based testing or mutation analysis. We will present the most significant results obtained during the last five years ranging from conceptual foundations to readily usable tools. In particular, we will rely on VIBeS, a model based open source framework we developed to test product lines behaviour. We will illustrate all these concepts on JHipster, a variability intensive web development stack.", "corpus_id": 1548088, "venue": "SPLC", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Gilles Perrouin", "Xavier Devroey", "Maxime Cordy" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "181946836", "title": "Web aplikacija za upravljanje rezervacijama opreme", "abstract": "U okviru ovog rada bilo je potrebno koristenjem JHipster generatora, izraditi web aplikaciju za upravljanje rezervacijama opreme. JHipster je bespla", "corpus_id": 181946836, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Karlo Sambolec" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "10685156", "title": "Adding Semantics to Model Driven ApplicationDevelopment with CVtec and SparqlMap", "abstract": "Model driven software development tools and methods allow fast bootstrapping of software applications and can improve their quality. Using a domain model and adhering to a framework specific set of conventions leverages the generation of objects and services in both frontend and backend and an accompanying database schema. However, rapid application development frameworks like JHipster or Spring Roo lack a deep integration of semantic technologies which allow exploration and analytics beyond the operations defined as services. A post deployment integration of semantic technologies into an existing application can be cumbersome, as knowledge about the domain model can get lost and additional components require deployment. We therefore enrich UML domain models in order to generate database mappings and additional ontologies for exposing both the conceptual model and instance data as RDF. Ultimately, this allows using the expressive power of SPARQL for analytic queries while still using established development frameworks for implementing enterprise applications.", "corpus_id": 10685156, "venue": "SEMANTiCS", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Jorg Unbehauen", "Andreas Nareike", "Johannes Schmidt" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219164109", "title": "Strumenti per la generazione automatica di applicazioni web full stack: un caso d'uso reale Tools for automatic generation of full stack web applications: a real use case", "abstract": "Negli ultimi anni gli strumenti per la generazione del codice hanno acquisito sempre piu importanza nei processi di sviluppo del software. Questo e dovuto al fatto che la loro introduzione nel flusso di lavoro puo portare notevoli benefici: realizzare codice robusto e di qualita, semplificarne la manutenibilita, diminuire tempi e costi dello sviluppo, incrementare la produttivita. Gli ambiti in cui questi strumenti trovano applicazione sono molteplici. L'obiettivo di questo lavoro di tesi e quello di focalizzarsi sugli strumenti che riguardano la generazione automatica di applicazioni web. Innanzitutto, viene fatta una panoramica sulla generazione del codice in generale, analizzandone i principali casi d'uso, i vantaggi e gli svantaggi che essa comporta e i diversi approcci utilizzati. In seguito la trattazione si e spostata sulla generazione del codice nell'ambito specifico delle web application. Lo sviluppo di applicazioni web e stato uno dei settori piu in evoluzione nella recente ingegneria del software; tuttavia quest'evoluzione ha fatto registrare anche una crescita della complessita architetturale delle applicazioni web. 'E in questo scenario che si e affermato sempre di piu l'approccio Model Driven e la diffusione di framework per la generazione di applicazioni web complesse basate su di esso. Sono stati approfonditi due dei framework di questo tipo piu diffusi: Spring Roo, uno strumento RAD per lo sviluppo rapido di applicazioni web; JHipster, un generatore di applicazioni web basato sul tool di scaffolding Yeoman. Inoltre, si e ritenuto fondamentale approfondire anche Yeoman con l'obiettivo di avere una panoramica piu chiara sull'architettura di JHipster. Infine si e scelto di sperimentare l'utilizzo di JHipster in un caso d'uso reale, mettendo in luce quali sono stati i reali benefici dall'averlo adottato e quali difficolta sono state incontrate.", "corpus_id": 219164109, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Gianluca Giavatto" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "155098824", "title": "AjiL A Graphical Modeling Language for the Development of Microservice Architectures", "abstract": "Microservice Architecture (MSA) represents an architectural style for distributed and servicebased systems [3] As such, MSA emphasizes loosely coupling between services whereby each service is realized as an independent process that can be designed and operated autonomously. Each individual service corresponds to a certain business capability. For communication, MSAs rely on smart endpoints and simple message based protocols like RESTful HTTP. MSA is well suited to address the rising demand for cloud applications as well as shorter and more agile development cycles [3] However, this comes at the cost of more complexity in certain areas, e.g. distributed data models or the need to prepare well defined endpoints for each service to consider possible choreography based calls from other services. Additionally, the development of an MSA is marked by writing a lot of boilerplate code to set up the necessary infrastructure, e.g. service discovery or an API gateway, rather than implementing actual business logic [5] This paper aims to bridge this conceptual gap between the actual problem domain of an MSA and its infrastructure centered implementation with the help of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) MDE leverages models as an abstraction of an actual software system and its components to tame its complexity [2] Therefore, we propose the Aji Modeling Language (AjiL) as a supportive tool to describe and create MSAs. AjiL and its sources can be accessed on the AjiL GitHub repository. Besides AjiL, there are various tools to ease the development of MSAs. For example, MAGMA [5] is a tool to create microservices based on Maven archetypes. Another tool is JHipster which provides customized microservices based on a web dialog. However, to the best of our knowledge there is currently no graphical diagram tooling solely dedicated to MSA besides AjiL.", "corpus_id": 155098824, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jonas Sorgalla" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "4193092", "title": "Low level laser facilitates alternatively activated macrophage/microglia polarization and promotes functional recovery after crush spinal cord injury in rats", "abstract": "Macrophages and resident microglia play an import role in the secondary neuroinflammation response following spinal cord injury. Reprogramming of macrophage/microglia polarization is an import strategy for spinal cord injury restoration. Low level laser therapy (LLLT) is a noninvasive treatment that has been widely used in neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases. However, the influence of low level laser on polarization of macrophage/microglia following spinal cord injury remains unknown. The present study applied low level laser therapy on a crush spinal cord injury rat model. Using immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, RT qPCR, and western blot assays, we found that low level laser therapy altered the polarization state to a M2 tendency. A greater number of neurons survived in the pare injury site, which was accompanied by higher BBB scores in the LLLT group. Furthermore, low level laser therapy elevated expression of interleukin 4 (IL 4) and interleukin 13 (IL 13) Results from this study show that low level laser therapy has the potential for reducing inflammation, regulating macrophage/microglia polarization, and promoting neuronal survival. These beneficial effects demonstrate that low level laser therapy may be an effective candidate for clinical treatment of spinal cord injury.", "corpus_id": 4193092, "venue": "Scientific Reports", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Ji Wei Song", "Kun Li", "Zhuowen Liang", "Chen Dai", "Xue-feng Shen", "Yuzhe Gong", "Shuang Wang", "Xue-yu Hu", "Zhe Wang" ], "n_citations": 33, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "214712683", "title": "A mouse model of complete crush transection spinal cord injury made by two operations.", "abstract": "Background More and more studies have focused on the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI) by tissue engineering, but there is still no ideal animal model that can genuinely and objectively simulate the real pathological process in clinical practice. Also, given the increasing availability and use of genetically modified animals in basic science research, it has become essential to develop clinically related models for SCI for use in mice. Methods Forty eight C57BL/6 mice were divided into three groups (injured/sham/uninjured) We determined the scar range made by the first crush injury by specimen observation, hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining, and immunofluorescence staining. Transection to completely remove a 2 mm spinal cord segment centered on the lesion core was completed 6 weeks after the first injury in injured groups, whereas the sham group only underwent re exposure of the spinal cord without transection injury. The characteristics of this SCI model were fully ascertained by specimen observation, HE staining, immunofluorescence staining, and quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT PCR) Results No mice died after the first injury. Histopathological findings suggested a scar range of 2 mm. After the second operation, 2 mice of the injured group and 1 mouse of the sham group died. The Basso Mouse Scale (BMS) score and motor evoked potential (MEP) results showed that the neurological function of mice did not recover. Immunostaining showed that there were no neurons or neurofilament residues in the lesion core 4 weeks after the second injury. Astrocytes encapsulated immune cells to form dense glial scars. Most immune cells were confined to the core of the lesion and formed fibrous scars with the fibroblasts. At the same time, there was considerable angiogenesis in the lesion core and around the injury. The results of qRT PCR showed that Ptprc was highly expressed in the lesion core, while Gfap, nestin, Cnp, and Sv2b were highly expressed in the adjacent region. This suggests that the lesion core is a highly inflammatory zone, but there may be spontaneous neurogenesis adjacent to the lesion core. Conclusions The mouse crash complete transection SCI model made by the two operations has good simulation, high feasibility, and high reproducibility; it will be a useful tool for pre clinical testing of SCI treatment.", "corpus_id": 214712683, "venue": "Annals of translational medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chen Li", "Xingfei Zhu", "Chia-Ming Lee", "Zhourui Wu", "Liming Cheng" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "2949480", "title": "Effects of melatonin on severe crush spinal cord injury induced reactive astrocyte and scar formation", "abstract": "The present work aimed at analyzing the effects of melatonin on scar formation after spinal cord injury (SCI) Upregulation of reactive astrocyte under SCI pathological conditions has been presented in several studies. It has been proved that the crucial factor in triggering this upregulation is proinflammatory cytokines. Moreover, scar formation is an important barrier to axonal regeneration through the lesion area. Melatonin plays an important role in reducing inflammation, but its effects on scar formation in the injured spinal cord remain unknown. Hence, we used the model of severe crush injury in mice to investigate the effects of melatonin on scar formation. Mice were randomly separated into four groups; SCI, SCI+Melatonin 1 (single dose) SCI+Melatonin 14 (14 daily doses) and control. Melatonin was administered by intraperitoneal injection (10 mg/kg) after injury. Immunohistochemical analysis, Western blot, and behavioral evaluation were used to explore the effects of melatonin after SCI for 14 days. The melatonin treated mice presented higher expression of neuronal markers (P 0.001) Remarkably, the inflammatory response appeared to be greatly reduced in the SCI+Melatonin 14 group (P 0.001) which also displayed less scar formation (P 0.05) These findings suggest that melatonin inhibits scar formation by acting on inflammatory cytokines after SCI. Overall, our results suggest that melatonin is a promising treatment strategy after SCI that deserves further investigation. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.", "corpus_id": 2949480, "venue": "Journal of neuroscience research", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Warin Krityakiarana", "Kamonrapat Sompup", "Nopporn Jongkamonwiwat", "Sujira Mukda", "Fernando Gomez Pinilla", "Piyarat Govitrapong", "Pansiri Phansuwan-Pujito" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "89152941", "title": "Effects of melatonin on myelin associated inhibitors after severe crush spinal cord injury in a mouse model", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 89152941, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Sompub Kamonrapat", "Krityakiarana Warin", "Jongkamonwiwat Nopporn", "Mukda Sujira", "Phansuwan-Pujito Pansiri", "Govitrapong Piyarat" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208156480", "title": "Toll like receptor 4 (TLR4) influences the glial reaction in the spinal cord and the neural response to injury following peripheral nerve crush", "abstract": "After peripheral axotomy, there is a selective retraction of synaptic terminals in contact with injured motoneurons. This process, which actively involves glial cells, is influenced by the expression of immune related molecules. Since toll like receptors (TLRs) are upregulated by astrocytes and microglia following lesions, they might be involved in synaptic plasticity processes. Therefore, we administered lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to enhance TLR4 expression in mice and studied retrograde changes in the spinal cord ventral horn following sciatic nerve crush. To this end, adult C57BL/6 J male mice were subjected to unilateral sciatic nerve crush at the mid thigh level and, after a survival time of seven and forty days (acute and chronic phases, respectively) the spinal cords were paraformaldehyde fixed and dissected out for immunolabeling for synaptophysin, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ionized calcium binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1) The results show that TLR4 upregulation leads to synaptophysin downregulation close to spinal motoneuron cell bodies, indicating increased synaptic elimination. LPS exposure also further increases astrogliosis and microglial reactions in the both ventral and dorsal horns, especially ipsilateral to nerve axotomy, compared to those in untreated mice. Notably, LPS administration to TLR4 mice produces results similar to those observed in untreated wild type counterparts, reinforcing the role of this receptor in the glial response to injury. Therefore, our results suggest that the overexpression of the TLR4 receptor results in augmented astrogliosis/microglial reactions and the excessive loss of synapses postinjury, which may, in turn, affect the motoneuronal regenerative response and functionality. Additionally, treatment with LPS increases the expression of b2 microglobulin, a subcomponent of MHC I. Importantly, the absence of TLR4 results in imbalanced axonal regeneration, inducing subsequent improvements and setbacks. In conclusion, our results show the involvement of TLR4 in the process of synaptic remodeling, indicating a new target for future research aimed at developing therapies for CNS and SNP repair.", "corpus_id": 208156480, "venue": "Brain Research Bulletin", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Patricia Russo Leite Ribeiro", "Mateus Vidigal de Castro", "Matheus Perez", "Luciana Politti Cartarozzi", "Aline Barroso Spejo", "Gabriela Bortolanca Chiarotto", "Taize Machado Augusto", "Alexandre Leite Rodrigues de Oliveira" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "206229649", "title": "A graded forceps crush spinal cord injury model in mice.", "abstract": "Given the rising availability and use of genetically modified animals in basic science research, it has become increasingly important to develop clinically relevant models for spinal cord injury (SCI) for use in mice. We developed a graded forceps crush model of SCI in mice that uses three different forceps with spacers of 0.25, 0.4, and 0.55 mm, to produce severe, moderate, and mild injuries, respectively. Briefly, each mouse was subjected to laminectomy of T5 T7, 15 second spinal cord crush using one of those forceps, behavioral assessments, and post mortem neuroanatomical analyses. There were significant differences among the three injury severity groups on behavioral measures (Basso Mouse Score, footprint, and ladder analyses) demonstrating an increase in neurological deficits for groups with greater injury severity. Quantitative analysis of the lesion demonstrated that as injury severity increased, lesion size and GFAP negative area increased, and spared tissue, spinal cord cross sectional area, spared grey matter and spared white matter decreased. These measures strongly correlated with the behavioral outcomes. Similar to other studies of SCI in mice, we report a dense laminin and fibronectin positive extracellular matrix in the lesion sites of injured mice, but unlike those previous studies, we also report the presence of numerous p75 positive Schwann cells in and around the lesion epicenter. These results provide evidence that the graded forceps crush model is an attractive alternative for the study of SCI and related therapeutic interventions. Because of its demonstrated consistency, ease of use, low cost, and clinical relevance, this graded forceps crush is an attractive alternative to the other mouse models of SCI currently available.", "corpus_id": 206229649, "venue": "Journal of neurotrauma", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Jason R Plemel", "Greg Duncan", "Kai-Wei K Chen", "Casey P Shannon", "Sophia Park", "Joseph S Sparling", "Wolfram Tetzlaff" ], "n_citations": 96, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "216596624", "title": "Local Serpin Treatment via Chitosan Collagen Hydrogel after Spinal Cord Injury Reduces Tissue Damage and Improves Neurologic Function", "abstract": "Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in massive secondary damage characterized by a prolonged inflammation with phagocytic macrophage invasion and tissue destruction. In prior work, sustained subdural infusion of anti inflammatory compounds reduced neurological deficits and reduced pro inflammatory cell invasion at the site of injury leading to improved outcomes. We hypothesized that implantation of a hydrogel loaded with an immune modulating biologic drug, Serp 1, for sustained delivery after crush induced SCI would have an effective anti inflammatory and neuroprotective effect. Rats with dorsal column SCI crush injury, implanted with physical chitosan collagen hydrogels (CCH) had severe granulomatous infiltration at the site of the dorsal column injury, which accumulated excess edema at 28 days post surgery. More pronounced neuroprotective changes were observed with high dose (100 ug/50 uL) Serp 1 CCH implanted rats, but not with low dose (10 ug/50 uL) Serp 1 CCH. Rats treated with Serp 1 CCH implants also had improved motor function up to 20 days with recovery of neurological deficits attributed to inhibition of inflammation associated tissue damage. In contrast, prolonged low dose Serp 1 infusion with chitosan did not improve recovery. Intralesional implantation of hydrogel for sustained delivery of the Serp 1 immune modulating biologic offers a neuroprotective treatment of acute SCI.", "corpus_id": 216596624, "venue": "Journal of clinical medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jacek M Kwiecien", "Liqiang Zhang", "Jordan R Yaron", "Lauren N Schutz", "Christian J Kwiecien-Delaney", "Enkidia A Awo", "Michelle Burgin", "Wojciech Dabrowski", "Alexandra R Lucas" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "220966701", "title": "Comparative gene expression profiling between optic nerve and spinal cord injury in Xenopus laevis reveals a core set of genes inherent in successful regeneration of vertebrate central nervous system axons", "abstract": "The South African claw toed frog, Xenopus laevis, is uniquely suited for studying differences between regenerative and non regenerative responses to CNS injury within the same organism, because some CNS neurons (e.g. retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve crush (ONC) regenerate axons throughout life, whereas others (e.g. hindbrain neurons after spinal cord injury (SCI) lose this capacity as tadpoles metamorphose into frogs. Tissues from these CNS regions (frog ONC eye, tadpole SCI hindbrain, frog SCI hindbrain) were used in a three way RNA seq study of axotomized CNS axons to identify potential core gene expression programs for successful CNS axon regeneration. Despite tissue specific changes in expression dominating the injury responses of each tissue, injury induced changes in gene expression were nonetheless shared between the two axon regenerative CNS regions that were not shared with the non regenerative region. These included similar temporal patterns of gene expression and over 300 injury responsive genes. Many of these genes and their associated cellular functions had previously been associated with injury responses of multiple tissues, both neural and non neural, from different species, thereby demonstrating deep phylogenetically conserved commonalities between successful CNS axon regeneration and tissue regeneration in general. Further analyses implicated the KEGG adipocytokine signaling pathway, which links leptin with metabolic and gene regulatory pathways, and a novel gene regulatory network with genes regulating chromatin accessibility at its core, as important hubs in the larger network of injury response genes involved in successful CNS axon regeneration. This study identifies deep, phylogenetically conserved commonalities between CNS axon regeneration and other examples of successful tissue regeneration and provides new targets for studying the molecular underpinnings of successful CNS axon regeneration, as well as a guide for distinguishing pro regenerative injury induced changes in gene expression from detrimental ones in mammals.", "corpus_id": 220966701, "venue": "BMC Genomics", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jamie L Belrose", "Aparna Prasad", "Morgan A Sammons", "Kurt M Gibbs", "Ben G Szaro" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "212728087", "title": "An injectable recombinant human milk fat globule epidermal growth factor 8 loaded copolymer system for spinal cord injury by reducing inflammation through NF kB pathway and neuronal cell death.", "abstract": "Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a common disease and a major cause of paralysis, carrying much burden around the world. Despite the progress made with growth factors therapy, the response rate of acute SCI treatment still remains unsatisfactory, due largely to complex and severe inflammatory reactions. Herein, we prepare a MFG E8 loaded copolymer system based anti inflammation therapy for SCI treatment. It is shown that the MFG E8 loaded copolymer system can decrease pro inflammatory cytokine expression and neuron death. In a rat model of crush caused SCI, the copolymer system shows significant therapeutic efficacy by ameliorating inflammation, decreasing fibrotic scar, promoting myelin regeneration and suppressing overall SCI severity.", "corpus_id": 212728087, "venue": "Cytotherapy", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zhe Gong", "Chenggui Wang", "Licheng Ni", "Liwei Ying", "Jiawei Shu", "Jingkai Wang", "Chao Yu", "Kaishun Xia", "Feng Cheng", "Kesi Shi", "Guoping Xu", "Qunfei Yu", "Jiafeng Shen", "Qixin Chen", "Fangcai Li", "Cheng-zhen Liang" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211533919", "title": "G Protein Gated Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channel Subunit 3 is Upregulated in Rat DRGs and Spinal Cord After Peripheral Nerve Injury", "abstract": "Background G protein gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels are involved in the regulation of neuronal excitability. Four GIRK subunits (GIRK1 4) are expressed in rat dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) Recently, we have characterized the expression of GIRK1 and 2, and both are downregulated in rat DRGs and spinal cord after a complete sciatic nerve transection (axotomy) Here, we aimed to study the neurochemical characteristics of GIRK3, and its regulation in rat DRGs and spinal cord induced by nerve injury. Methods A sciatic nerve axotomy was performed to study the influences of injury on GIRK3 expression in DRGs and spinal cord. A dorsal root rhizotomy and a sciatic nerve crush were employed to study the axonal transport of GIRK3 protein, respectively. Immunohistochemistry analysis was employed for investigating the neurochemical characteristics of GIRK3. Results In control DRGs, ~18% of neuron profiles (NPs) were GIRK3 positive and ~41% ~48% and ~45% of GIRK3+ NPs were CGRP+ IB4+ and NF200+ respectively. GIRK3 like immunoreactivity was observed in glabrous skin of hind paws and axons originating from DRG neurons. Fourteen days after axotomy, more than one third of DRG NPs were GIRK3+ and among these ~51% and ~56% coexpressed galanin and neuropeptide Y, respectively. In control animals, a small group of interneurons found in the dorsal horn was GIRK3+ In addition, GIRK3+ processes could be observed in superficial laminae of spinal dorsal horn. After nerve injury, the intensity of GIRK3 like immunoreactivity in the superficial layers was increased. Evidence based on rhizotomy and sciatic nerve crush indicated both anterograde and retrograde transport of GIRK3. Conclusion Our study demonstrates that GIRK3 is expressed in sensory neurons and spinal cord. GIRK3 has both anterograde and retrograde axonal transport. GIRK3 expression can be regulated by peripheral nerve injury.", "corpus_id": 211533919, "venue": "Journal of pain research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Chuang Lyu", "Gong-Wei Lyu", "Jan Mulder", "Aurora Martinez", "Tiejun Shi" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "121351211", "title": "Lentiviral Gene Therapy Combined with Low Dose Busulfan in Infants with SCID X1", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for X linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID X1) often fails to reconstitute immunity associated with T cells, B cells, and natural killer (NK) cells when matched sibling donors are unavailable unless high dose chemotherapy is given. In previous studies, autologous gene therapy with g retroviral vectors failed to reconstitute B cell and NK cell immunity and was complicated by vector related leukemia. METHODS We performed a dual center, phase 1 2 safety and efficacy study of a lentiviral vector to transfer IL2RG complementary DNA to bone marrow stem cells after low exposure, targeted busulfan conditioning in eight infants with newly diagnosed SCID X1. RESULTS Eight infants with SCID X1 were followed for a median of 16.4 months. Bone marrow harvest, busulfan conditioning, and cell infusion had no unexpected side effects. In seven infants, the numbers of CD3+ CD4+ and naive CD4+ T cells and NK cells normalized by 3 to 4 months after infusion and were accompanied by vector marking in T cells, B cells, NK cells, myeloid cells, and bone marrow progenitors. The eighth infant had an insufficient T cell count initially, but T cells developed in this infant after a boost of gene corrected cells without busulfan conditioning. Previous infections cleared in all infants, and all continued to grow normally. IgM levels normalized in seven of the eight infants, of whom four discontinued intravenous immune globulin supplementation; three of these four infants had a response to vaccines. Vector insertion site analysis was performed in seven infants and showed polyclonal patterns without clonal dominance in all seven. CONCLUSIONS Lentiviral vector gene therapy combined with low exposure, targeted busulfan conditioning in infants with newly diagnosed SCID X1 had low grade acute toxic effects and resulted in multilineage engraftment of transduced cells, reconstitution of functional T cells and B cells, and normalization of NK cell counts during a median follow up of 16 months. (Funded by the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities and others; LVXSCID ND ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01512888.", "corpus_id": 121351211, "venue": "The New England journal of medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ewelina Mamcarz", "Sheng Zhou", "Timothy D Lockey", "Hossam Abdelsamed", "Shane J Cross", "Guolian Kang", "Zhijun Ma", "Jose Marcos Condori", "Jola Dowdy", "Brandon M Triplett", "Chen Li", "Gabriela Maron", "Juan Carlos Aldave Becerra", "Joseph A Church", "Elif Dokmeci", "James T Love", "Ana Carolina Da Matta Ain", "Hedi van der Watt", "Xing Tang", "William E Janssen", "Byoung Y Ryu", "Suk See De Ravin", "Mitchell J Weiss", "Ben Youngblood", "Janel Renee Long-Boyle", "Stephen Gottschalk", "Michael M Meagher", "Harry L Malech", "Jennifer M Puck", "Morton J Cowan", "Brian P Sorrentino" ], "n_citations": 104, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "85515974", "title": "Conditioning with busulfan plus melphalan versus melphalan alone before autologous haemopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma: an open label, randomised, phase 3 trial.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Retrospective studies suggest that conditioning therapy with busulfan plus melphalan could result in longer progression free survival compared with melphalan alone in patients with multiple myeloma undergoing autologous haemopoietic cell transplantation (auto HCT) We aimed to test this hypothesis in a randomised trial. METHODS The primary objective of the study was to compare progression free survival with conditioning of busulfan plus melphalan with melphalan alone in patients with multiple myeloma. Patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who were eligible for cell transplantation, aged 70 years or younger, with at least stable disease, were randomly assigned (1:1) to treatment. Patients received either busulfan plus melphalan, with a test dose of busulfan 32 mg/m2 followed by pharmacokinetically adjusted doses on days 7, 6, 5, and 4 to achieve a target daily area under the curve (AUC) of 5000 mmol minute and melphalan 70 mg/m2 per day on days 2 and 1 (total melphalan dose 140 mg/m2) or a melphalan dose of 200 mg/m2 on day 2. Randomisation was performed via a Clinical Trial Conduct Website at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The accrual is complete and final results are presented here. The study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01413178. FINDINGS Between Oct 12, 2011, and March 22, 2017, 205 patients were assessed for eligibility and randomly assigned to treatment. The primary analysis of progression free survival was measured in 202 patients who received treatment: 104 patients in the busulfan plus melphalan group and 98 patients in the melphalan alone group. 90 days after auto HCT, 102 (98% of 104 patients given busulfan plus melphalan and 95 (97% of 98 patients given melphalan alone achieved partial response or better. The median follow up in the busulfan plus melphalan group was 22*6 months (IQR 15*2 47*1) and 20*2 months (IQR 8*8 46*6) in the melphalan alone group. Median progression free survival was 64*7 months (32*9 64*7) with busulfan plus melphalan versus 43*5 months (19*9 not estimated) with melphalan alone (hazard ratio 0*53 [95% CI 0*30 0*91] p=0*022) There were no treatment related deaths by day 100 in either group. Grade 2 3 mucositis was observed in 77 (74% of 104 patients in the busulfan plus melphalan group versus 14 (14% of 98 patients in the melphalan alone group. INTERPRETATION These findings, if confirmed in other ongoing studies, suggest that busulfan plus melphalan could replace melphalan alone as the conditioning regimen for auto HCT in patients with newly diagnosed myeloma. FUNDING This study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through MD Anderson's Cancer Center Support Grant (CA016672)", "corpus_id": 85515974, "venue": "The Lancet. Haematology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Qaiser Bashir", "Peter F Thall", "Denai R Milton", "Patricia S Fox", "Jitesh D Kawedia", "Partow Kebriaei", "Nina Shah", "Krina K Patel", "Borje S Andersson", "Yago L Nieto", "Benigno C Valdez", "Simrit Parmar", "Gabriela Rondon", "Ruby Delgado", "Chitra Hosing", "Uday R Popat", "Betul Oran", "Stefan O Ciurea", "Pei Lin", "Donna M Weber", "Sheeba K Thomas", "Hans C Lee", "Elisabet E Manasanch", "Robert Z Orlowski", "Loretta A Williams", "Richard E Champlin", "Muzaffar H Qazilbash" ], "n_citations": 28, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "204537295", "title": "Treosulfan or busulfan plus fludarabine as conditioning treatment before allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation for older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia or myelodysplastic syndrome (MC FludT.14/L) a randomised, non inferiority, phase 3 trial.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Further improvement of preparative regimens before allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an unmet medical need for the growing number of older or comorbid patients with acute myeloid leukaemia or myelodysplastic syndrome. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of conditioning with treosulfan plus fludarabine compared with reduced intensity busulfan plus fludarabine in this population. METHODS We did an open label, randomised, non inferiority, phase 3 trial in 31 transplantation centres in France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. Eligible patients were 18 70 years, had acute myeloid leukaemia in first or consecutive complete haematological remission (blast counts <5% in bone marrow) or myelodysplastic syndrome (blast counts <20% in bone marrow) Karnofsky index of 60% or higher, and were indicated for allogeneic HSCT but considered at an increased risk for standard myeloablative preparative regimens based on age =50 years) an HSCT specific comorbidity index of more than 2, or both. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either intravenous 10 g/m2 treosulfan daily applied as a 2 h infusion for 3 days (days 4 to 2) or 0*8 mg/kg busulfan applied as a 2 h infusion at 6 h intervals on days 4 and 3. Both groups received 30 mg/m2 intravenous fludarabine daily for 5 days (days 6 to 2) The primary outcome was event free survival 2 years after HSCT. The non inferiority margin was a hazard ratio (HR) of 1*3. Efficacy was assessed in all patients who received treatment and completed transplantation, and safety in all patients who received treatment. The study is registered with EudraCT (2008 002356 18) and ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00822393) FINDINGS Between June 13, 2013, and May 3, 2016, 476 patients were enrolled (240 in the busulfan group received treatment and transplantation, and in the treosulfan group 221 received treatment and 220 transplanation) At the second preplanned interim analysis (Nov 9, 2016) the primary endpoint was met and trial was stopped. Here we present the final confirmatory analysis (data cutoff May 31, 2017) Median follow up was 15*4 months (IQR 8*8 23*6) for patients treated with treosulfan and 17*4 months (6*3 23*4) for those treated with busulfan. 2 year event free survival was 64*0% (95% CI 56*0 70*9) in the treosulfan group and 50*4% (42*8 57*5) in the busulfan group (HR 0*65 [95% CI 0*47 0*90] p<0*0001 for non inferiority, p=0*0051 for superiority) The most frequently reported grade 3 or higher adverse events were abnormal blood chemistry results (33 [15% of 221 patients in the treosulfan group vs 35 [15% of 240 patients in the busulfan group) and gastrointestinal disorders (24 [11% patients vs 39 [16% patients) Serious adverse events were reported for 18 (8% patients in the treosulfan group and 17 (7% patients in the busulfan group. Causes of deaths were generally transplantation related. INTERPRETATION Treosulfan was non inferior to busulfan when used in combination with fludarabine as a conditioning regimen for allogeneic HSCT for older or comorbid patients with acute myeloid leukaemia or myelodysplastic syndrome. The improved outcomes in patients treated with the treosulfan fludarabine regimen suggest its potential to become a standard preparative regimen in this population. FUNDING medac GmbH.", "corpus_id": 204537295, "venue": "The Lancet. Haematology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Dietrich W Beelen", "Rudolf Trenschel", "Matthias Stelljes", "Christoph Groth", "Tamas Masszi", "Peter Remenyi", "Eva Maria Wagner-Drouet", "Beate Hauptrock", "Peter Dreger", "Thomas Luft", "Wolfgang Andreas Bethge", "Wichard Vogel", "Fabio Ciceri", "Jacopo Peccatori", "Friedrich Stolzel", "Johannes Schetelig", "Christian Junghanss", "Christina Grosse-Thie", "Mauricette Michallet", "Helene Labussiere-Wallet", "Kerstin Schaefer-Eckart", "Sabine Dressler", "G U Grigoleit", "Stephan Mielke", "Christof Scheid", "Udo Holtick", "Francesca Patriarca", "Marta Medeot", "Alessandro Rambaldi", "Maria Caterina Mico", "Dietger Niederwieser", "Georg-Nikolaus Franke", "Inken Hilgendorf", "Nils Winkelmann", "Domenico Russo", "Gerard Socie", "Regis Peffault de Latour", "E Holler", "Daniel Wolff", "Bertram Glass", "Jochen Casper", "Gerald G Wulf", "Helge Menzel", "Nadezda Basara", "Maria Bieniaszewska", "Gernot Stuhler", "Mareike Verbeek", "Sandra Grass", "Anna Paola Iori", "Juergen Finke", "Fabio M Benedetti", "Uwe Pichlmeier", "Claudia Hemmelmann", "Michael Tribanek", "A Klein", "Heidrun A Mylius", "Joachim Baumgart", "Monika Dzierzak-Mietla", "Miroslaw Markiewicz" ], "n_citations": 31, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "196629035", "title": "Melatonin Ameliorates Busulfan Induced Spermatogonial Stem Cell Oxidative Apoptosis in Mouse Testes", "abstract": "Abstract Aims: Many men endure immunosuppressive or anticancer treatments that contain alkylating agents before the age of sexual maturity, especially the increasing number of preadolescent males who undergo busulfan treatment for myeloablative conditioning before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Before sperm production, there are no sperm available for cryopreservation. Thus, it is necessary to identify a solution to ameliorate the busulfan induced damage of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) Results: In this study, we demonstrated that melatonin relieved the previously described SSC loss and apoptosis in mouse testes. Melatonin increased the expression of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) which regulated the production of busulfan induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) Moreover, melatonin promoted sirtuin type 1 (SIRT1) expression. SIRT1 participated in the deacetylation of p53, which promotes p53 ubiquitin degradation. Decreased concentrations of deacetylated p53 resulted in spermatogonial.", "corpus_id": 196629035, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 39, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "22939286", "title": "Protective effect of L carnitine and L arginine against busulfan induced oligospermia in adult rat", "abstract": "Busulfan is an anticancer drug caused variety of adverse effects for patients with cancer. But it could cause damage to the male reproductive system as one of its adverse effects. This study aimed to investigate the protective effect of L carnitine and L arginine on semen quality, oxidative stress parameters and testes cell energy after busulfan treatment. Adult male rats were divided into four groups: control (Con) busulfan (Bus) busulfan plus L arginine (Bus L arg) and busulfan plus L carnitine (Bus L car) After 28 days, the semen was collected from the epididymis and the testes were assessed. Sperm count, motility and velocity were measured by CASA, and smears were prepared for assessment of sperm morphology. Serum and testes supernatants were separated for DNA metabolites, oxidative stress and cell energy parameters. Testes tissues also subjected for caspase 3. The results showed significant improvement in sperm morphology, motility, velocity and count in the groups treated with L arginine and L carnitine and accompanied with an increase in MDA, GSSG and ATP, reduction in GSH, AMP, ADP, NO and 8 OHDG also recorded. These results are supported by caspase 3. Conclusions: Administration of L arg and L car attenuated the cytotoxic effects of busulfan by improving semen parameters, reducing oxidative stress and maintaining cell energy.", "corpus_id": 22939286, "venue": "Andrologia", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Areeg M Abd-Elrazek", "Omar A-H Ahmed-Farid" ], "n_citations": 36, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "812174", "title": "Busulfan and melphalan versus carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan as high dose chemotherapy for high risk neuroblastoma (HR NBL1/SIOPEN) an international, randomised, multi arm, open label, phase 3 trial.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND High dose chemotherapy with haemopoietic stem cell rescue improves event free survival in patients with high risk neuroblastoma; however, which regimen has the greatest patient benefit has not been established. We aimed to assess event free survival after high dose chemotherapy with busulfan and melphalan compared with carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan. METHODS We did an international, randomised, multi arm, open label, phase 3 cooperative group clinical trial of patients with high risk neuroblastoma at 128 institutions in 18 countries that included an open label randomised arm in which high dose chemotherapy regimens were compared. Patients (age 1 20 years) with neuroblastoma were eligible to be randomly assigned if they had completed a multidrug induction regimen (cisplatin, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and etoposide with or without topotecan, vincristine, and doxorubicin) and achieved an adequate disease response. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to busulfan and melphalan or to carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan by minimisation, balancing age at diagnosis, stage, MYCN amplification, and national cooperative clinical group between groups. The busulfan and melphalan regimen comprised oral busulfan (150 mg/m2 given on 4 days consecutively in four equal doses) after Nov 8, 2007, intravenous busulfan was given (0*8 1*2 mg/kg per dose for 16 doses according to patient weight) After 24 h, an intravenous melphalan dose (140 mg/m2) was given. Doses of busulfan and melphalan were modified according to bodyweight. The carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan regimen consisted of carboplatin continuous infusion of area under the plasma concentration time curve 4*1 mg/mL per min per day for 4 days, etoposide continuous infusion of 338 mg/m2 per day for 4 days, and melphalan 70 mg/m2 per day for 3 days, with doses for all three drugs modified according to bodyweight and glomerular filtration rate. Stem cell rescue was given after the last dose of high dose chemotherapy, at least 24 h after melphalan in patients who received busulfan and melphalan and at least 72 h after carboplatin etoposide, and melphalan. All patients received subsequent local radiotherapy to the primary tumour site followed by maintenance therapy. The primary endpoint was 3 year event free survival, analysed by intention to treat. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01704716, and EudraCT, number 2006 001489 17. FINDINGS Between June 24, 2002, and Oct 8, 2010, 1347 patients were enrolled and 676 were eligible for random allocation, 598 (88% of whom were randomly assigned: 296 to busulfan and melphalan and 302 to carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan. Median follow up was 7*2 years (IQR 5*3 9*2) At 3 years, 146 of 296 patients in the busulfan and melphalan group and 188 of 302 in the carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan group had an event; 3 year event free survival was 50% (95% CI 45 56) versus 38% (32 43; p=0*0005) Nine patients in the busulfan and melphalan group and 11 in the carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan group had died without relapse by 5 years. Severe life threatening toxicities occurred in 13 (4% patients who received busulfan and melphalan and 29 (10% who received carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan. The most frequent grade 3 4 adverse events were general condition (74 [26% of 281 in the busulfan and melphalan group vs 103 [38% of 270 in the carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan group) infection (55 [19% of 283 vs 74 [27% of 271) and stomatitis (138 [49% of 284 vs 162 [59% of 273) 60 (22% of 267 patients in the busulfan and melphalan group had Bearman grades 1 3 veno occlusive disease versus 21 (9% of 239 in the carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan group. INTERPRETATION Busulfan and melphalan improved event free survival in children with high risk neuroblastoma with an adequate response to induction treatment and caused fewer severe adverse events than did carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan. Busulfan and melphalan should thus be considered standard high dose chemotherapy and ongoing randomised studies will continue to aim to optimise treatment for high risk neuroblastoma. FUNDING European Commission 5th Framework Grant and the St Anna Kinderkrebsforschung.", "corpus_id": 812174, "venue": "The Lancet. Oncology", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Ruth Lydia Ladenstein", "Ulrike Potschger", "Andrew D J Pearson", "Penelope R Brock", "Roberto Luksch", "Victoria Castel", "Isaac Yaniv", "Vassilios Papadakis", "Genevieve Laureys", "Josef Malis", "Walentyna Balwierz", "Ellen Ruud", "Per Kogner", "Henrik Schroeder", "A F de Lacerda", "Maja Beck-Popovic", "Pavel Bician", "Miklos Garami", "Toby N Trahair", "Adela Canete", "Peter F Ambros", "Keith Holmes", "Mark N Gaze", "Gunter Schreier", "Alberto Garaventa", "Gilles Vassal", "Jean Michon", "Dominique Valteau-Couanet" ], "n_citations": 160, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3895028", "title": "Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for GATA2 Deficiency Using a Busulfan Based Regimen.", "abstract": "Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) reverses the bone marrow failure syndrome due to GATA2 deficiency. The intensity of conditioning required to achieve reliable engraftment and prevent relapse remains unclear. Here, we describe the results of a prospective study of HSCT in 22 patients with GATA2 deficiency using a busulfan based conditioning regimen. The study included 2 matched related donor (MRD) recipients, 13 matched unrelated donor (URD) recipients, and 7 haploidentical related donor (HRD) recipients. MRD and URD recipients received 4 days of busulfan and 4 days of fludarabine. HRD recipients received low dose cyclophosphamide for 2 days, fludarabine for 5 days, 2 to 3 days of busulfan depending on cytogenetics, and 200 cGy total body irradiation. MRD and URD recipients received tacrolimus and short course methotrexate for graft versus host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis. HRD recipients received high dose post transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) followed by tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil. At a median follow up of 24 months (range, 9 to 50) 19 of 22 patients were alive with reversal of the disease phenotype and correction of the myelodysplastic syndrome, including eradication of cytogenetic abnormalities. Three patients died: 1 from refractory acute myelogenous leukemia, 1 from GVHD, and 1 from sepsis. There was a 26% incidence of grades III to IV acute GVHD in the MRD and URD groups and no grades III to IV acute GVHD in the HRD cohort. Similarly, there was a 46% incidence of chronic GVHD in the MRD and URD cohorts, whereas only 28% of HRD recipients developed chronic GVHD. Despite excellent overall disease free survival (86% GVHD remains a limitation using standard prophylaxis for GVHD. We are currently extending the use of PTCy to the MRD and URD cohorts to reduce GVHD.", "corpus_id": 3895028, "venue": "Biology of blood and marrow transplantation journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mark Parta", "Nirali N Shah", "Kristin Baird", "Hind Rafei", "Katherine Rainsford Calvo", "Thomas E Hughes", "Kristen Cole", "Megan I Kenyon", "Bazetta Blacklock Schuver", "Jennifer M Cuellar-Rodriguez", "Christa S Zerbe", "Steven M Holland", "Dennis Hickstein" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "44028504", "title": "Thiotepa busulfan fludarabine compared to busulfan fludarabine for sibling and unrelated donor transplant in acute myeloid leukemia in first remission", "abstract": "Background A preparatory regimen consisting of thiotepa busulfan fludarabine (TBF) has been associated with reduced relapse in patients with haematological malignancies after haploidentical and cord blood transplants; however, few data exist regarding TBF conditioning in sibling (MSD) and unrelated donor (URD) transplants for AML. Results Among patients receiving a myeloablative (MAC) regimen, TBF MAC was associated with significantly lower relapse (HR 0.47, p 0.005) however higher non relapse mortality (NRM, HR 2.69, p 10 4) as compared to BF. This led to similar leukemia free (LFS) and overall survival (OS) between the two regimens (LFS: p 0.6; OS: p 0.27) When we selected TBF MAC patients receiving busulfan 9.6 mg/kg, NRM resulted still higher but no more significantly different as compared to BF MAC with busulfan 12.8 mg/kg (HR 1.53, p 0.12) despite the lower busulfan dose, relapse remained inferior with TBF MAC (HR 0.45, p 0.01) however no difference in survival could be demonstrated (LFS: p 0.31; OS: 0.82) Among patients receiving a reduced intensity (RIC) regimen, similar outcome was observed with TBF RIC and BF RIC (LFS: p 0.77; OS: p 0.88) Conclusions TBF MAC as conditioning regimen for transplant from MSD and URD in AML patients in first remission provided stronger anti leukemic activity but higher NRM as compared to BF MAC, thus leading to similar survival. TBF MAC with busulfan 9.6 mg/kg was associated with low relapse and acceptable NRM, however again with no survival benefit. TBF RIC and BF RIC resulted in comparable outcome. Methods We conducted a registry based study comparing outcomes of patients with AML in first remission undergoing transplant from MSD or URD prepared with either TBF (n 212) or BF (n 2698) conditioning.", "corpus_id": 44028504, "venue": "Oncotarget", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Francesco Saraceni", "Myriam Labopin", "Rosemarie Hamladji", "Ghulam J Mufti", "Gerard Socie", "Avichai Shimoni", "Jeremy Delage", "Erick Deconinck", "Patrice Chevallier", "Didier Blaise", "Jaime Sanz", "Anne Huynh", "Edouard Forcade", "Bipin N Savani", "Mohamad Mohty", "Arnon Nagler" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3782922", "title": "Melatonin Ameliorates Busulfan Induced Spermatogonial Stem Cell Oxidative Apoptosis in Mouse Testes.", "abstract": "AIMS Many men endure immunosuppressive or anticancer treatments that contain alkylating agents before the age of sexual maturity, especially the increasing number of preadolescent males who undergo busulfan treatment for myeloablative conditioning before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Before sperm production, there are no sperm available for cryopreservation. Thus, it is necessary to identify a solution to ameliorate the busulfan induced damage of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) RESULTS In this study, we demonstrated that melatonin relieved the previously described SSC loss and apoptosis in mouse testes. Melatonin increased the expression of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) which regulated the production of busulfan induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) Moreover, melatonin promoted sirtuin type 1 (SIRT1) expression. SIRT1 participated in the deacetylation of p53, which promotes p53 ubiquitin degradation. Decreased concentrations of deacetylated p53 resulted in spermatogonial cell resistance to apoptosis. Acute T cell leukemia cell assay demonstrated that melatonin does not affect busulfan induced cancer cell apoptosis and ROS. INNOVATION The current evidence suggests that melatonin may alleviate the side effects of alkylating drugs, such as busulfan. CONCLUSION Melatonin promoted MnSOD and SIRT1 expression, which successfully ameliorated busulfan induced SSC apoptosis caused by high concentrations of ROS and p53. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 28, 385 400.", "corpus_id": 3782922, "venue": "Antioxidants redox signaling", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Bo Li", "Xin He", "Mengru Zhuang", "Bowen Niu", "Chongyang Wu", "Hailong Mu", "Furong Tang", "Yanhua Cui", "Weishuai Liu", "Baoyu Zhao", "Sha Peng", "Guangpeng Li", "Jinlian Hua" ], "n_citations": 25, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55681710", "title": "Effects of Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) on Sperm Quality, Testicular Structure, Testosterone Level and Oxidative Stress in Busulfan Induced Infertile Mice", "abstract": "Background: Ceratonia silique has antioxidant activities that may inactivate toxic factors and influence sperm quality. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there is no available data on the effects of carob on male fertility. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of carob on sperm quality, testicular structure, and level of testosterone hormone in busulfan induced infertile mice. Methods: Sixty four adult male mice were randomly divided into 8 groups (control, sham, busulfan and carobs 1 to 5) The busulfan group was injected a single dose of 10 mg/kg busulfan intraperitoneally. Carobs 1 to 5 groups received intraperitoneal doses of 800, 400, 200, 100 and 50 mg/kg of carob extract plus a single dose of 10 mg/kg busulfan for 35 days. The sperm analysis, morphometric study, testosterone levels and oxidative stress determination were done on the 35th day of the experiment. Results: The lowest percentage of sperm parameters was related to the busulfan group and the highest was related to the carobs 1 and 2 groups. The seminal vesicles index of the carob 1 group showed a significant increase as compared to the busulfan group (p 0.001) A significant increase was observed in the mean value of germinal epithelium thickness, as well as thiol and catalase levels in carobs 1 and 2 groups as compared to the busulfan group (p 0.001) There was a significant increase in the mean level of testosterone in the carob groups as compared to the busulfan group (p 0.001) Also, there was a significant decrease in the mean value of malondialdehyde level in the carobs 1 and 2 groups p 0.001) and a significant increase in the mean value of superoxide dismutase enzyme in the carob groups as compared to the busulfan group (p 0.001) Conclusion: Administration of 800 mg/kg of carob extract for 35 days improved sperm quality, biochemical parameters, thickness of germinal epithelium and testosterone levels in infertile mice induced by busulfan.", "corpus_id": 55681710, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Azadeh Vafaei", "Shabnam Mohammadi", "Alireza Fazel", "Mohammad Soukhtanloo", "Abbas Mohammadipour", "Farimah Beheshti" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "13869949", "title": "Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet use disorders: An Interaction of Person Affect Cognition Execution (I PACE) model", "abstract": "Within the last two decades, many studies have addressed the clinical phenomenon of Internet use disorders, with a particular focus on Internet gaming disorder. Based on previous theoretical considerations and empirical findings, we suggest an Interaction of Person Affect Cognition Execution (I PACE) model of specific Internet use disorders. The I PACE model is a theoretical framework for the processes underlying the development and maintenance of an addictive use of certain Internet applications or sites promoting gaming, gambling, pornography viewing, shopping, or communication. The model is composed as a process model. Specific Internet use disorders are considered to be the consequence of interactions between predisposing factors, such as neurobiological and psychological constitutions, moderators, such as coping styles and Internet related cognitive biases, and mediators, such as affective and cognitive responses to situational triggers in combination with reduced executive functioning. Conditioning processes may strengthen these associations within an addiction process. Although the hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of specific Internet use disorders, summarized in the I PACE model, must be further tested empirically, implications for treatment interventions are suggested.", "corpus_id": 13869949, "venue": "Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Matthias Brand", "Kimberly S Young", "Christian Laier", "Klaus Wolfling", "Marc N Potenza" ], "n_citations": 481, "n_key_citations": 35, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "10175734", "title": "Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World?", "abstract": "With the rise of online social networking, social relationships are increasingly developed and maintained in a digital domain. Drawing conclusions about the impact of the digital world on loneliness is difficult because there are contradictory findings, and cross sectional studies dominate the literature, making causation difficult to establish. In this review, we present our theoretical model and propose that there is a bidirectional and dynamic relationship between loneliness and social Internet use. When the Internet is used as a way station on the route to enhancing existing relationships and forging new social connections, it is a useful tool for reducing loneliness. But when social technologies are used to escape the social world and withdraw from the \"social pain\" of interaction, feelings of loneliness are increased. We propose that loneliness is also a determinant of how people interact with the digital world. Lonely people express a preference for using the Internet for social interaction and are more likely to use the Internet in a way that displaces time spent in offline social activities. This suggests that lonely people may need support with their social Internet use so that they employ it in a way that enhances existing friendships and/or to forge new ones.", "corpus_id": 10175734, "venue": "Perspectives on psychological science a journal of the Association for Psychological Science", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Rebecca Nowland", "Elizabeth A Necka", "John T Cacioppo" ], "n_citations": 173, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "52986097", "title": "A review of Internet use among older adults", "abstract": "As the world population ages and older adults comprise a growing proportion of current and potential Internet users, understanding the state of Internet use among older adults as well as the ways their use has evolved may clarify how best to support digital media use within this population. This article synthesizes the quantitative literature on Internet use among older adults, including trends in access, skills, and types of use, while exploring social inequalities in relation to each domain. We also review work on the relationship between health and Internet use, particularly relevant for older adults. We close with specific recommendations for future work, including a call for studies better representing the diversity of older adulthood and greater standardization of question design.", "corpus_id": 52986097, "venue": "New Media Soc.", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Amanda Hunsaker", "Eszter Hargittai" ], "n_citations": 156, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4589797", "title": "Health Related Internet Use by Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review", "abstract": "Background The internet is widely used by children and adolescents, who generally have a high level of competency with technology. Thus, the internet has become a great resource for supporting youth self care and health related services. However, few studies have explored adolescents' internet use for health related matters. Objective The objective of this systematic literature review was to examine the phenomenon of children and adolescents' health related internet use and to identify gaps in the research. Methods A total of 19 studies were selected from a search of major electronic databases: PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PsycINFO using the following search terms: \"health related internet use,\" \"eHealth,\" \"Internet use for health related purpose,\" \"Web based resource,\" \"health information seeking,\" and \"online resource,\" combined with \"child,\" \"adolescent,\" \"student,\" \"youth,\" and \"teen.\" The children's and adolescents' ages were limited to 24 years and younger. The search was conducted from September 2015 to October 2017. The studies identified to contain youth <24 years) health related internet use were all published in peer reviewed journals in the past 10 years; these studies examined general internet use seeking health care services, resources, information, or using the internet for health promotion and self care. Studies were excluded if they explored the role of the internet as a modality for surveys, recruitment, or searching for relevant literature without specifically aiming to study participants' health related internet use; focused solely on quality assurance for specific websites; or were designed to test a specific internet based intervention. Results Interesting patterns in adolescents' health related internet use, such as seeking preventative health care and specific information about medical issues, were identified. Quantitative studies reported rates of the internet use and access among youth, and the purpose and patterns of health related internet use among youth were identified. A major objective of health related internet use is to gain information, but there are inconsistencies in adolescents' perceptions of health related internet use. Conclusions This study's findings provide important information on how youth seek information and related support systems for their health care on the internet. The conceptual and methodological limitations of the identified studies, such as the lack of a theoretical background and unrepresentative samples, are discussed, and gaps within the studies are identified for future research. This review also suggests important features for potential Web based health interventions for children and adolescents.", "corpus_id": 4589797, "venue": "Journal of medical Internet research", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Eunhee Park", "Misol Kwon" ], "n_citations": 126, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "152003110", "title": "Internet use and Problematic Internet Use: a systematic review of longitudinal research trends in adolescence and emergent adulthood", "abstract": "Abstract The aim of this systematic literature review is to map the longitudinal research in the field of Internet Use (IU) and Problematic Internet Use (PIU) in adolescents and emergent adults. Further, this study endeavours to examine the terminology and instruments utilized in longitudinal IU and PIU research and investigate whether statistically significant results have arisen from the areas of research focus. In a total of 29 studies, trends in the research of adolescent/emergent adult IU and PIU were discovered. These trends were conceptualized into individual, contextual and activity related factors. Findings suggested that individual factors are the most researched and have demonstrated significant relationships with adolescent/young adult PIU. However, more research on contextual and activity related factors is needed in order to achieve a clearer understanding of young people's IU and PIU behaviours, and to incorporate into a comprehensive model that will guide future research in this growing field.", "corpus_id": 152003110, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Emma Anderson", "Eloisa Steen", "Vasileios Stavropoulos" ], "n_citations": 258, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3641409", "title": "A systematic review of the relationship between internet use, self harm and suicidal behaviour in young people: The good, the bad and the unknown", "abstract": "Background Research exploring internet use and self harm is rapidly expanding amidst concerns regarding influences of on line activities on self harm and suicide, especially in young people. We aimed to systematically review evidence regarding the potential influence of the internet on self harm/suicidal behaviour in young people. Methods We conducted a systematic review based on an electronic search for articles published between 01/01/2011 and 26/01/2015 across databases including Medline, Cochrane and PsychInfo. Articles were included if: the study examined internet use by individuals who engaged in self harm/ suicidal behaviour, or internet use clearly related to self harm content; reported primary empirical data; participants were aged under 25 years. New studies were combined with those identified in a previous review and subject to data extraction, quality rating and narrative synthesis. Results Forty six independent studies (51 articles) of varying quality were included. Perceived influences were: positive for 11 studies (38191 participants) negative for 18 studies (119524 participants) and mixed for 17 studies (35235 participants) In contrast to previous reviews on this topic studies focused on a wide range of internet mediums: general internet use; internet addiction; online intervention/treatment; social media; dedicated self harm websites; forums; video/image sharing and blogs. A relationship between internet use and self harm/suicidal behaviour was particularly associated with internet addiction, high levels of internet use, and websites with self harm or suicide content. While there are negative aspects of internet use the potential for isolation reduction, outreach and as a source of help and therapy were also identified. Conclusions There is significant potential for harm from online behaviour (normalisation, triggering, competition, contagion) but also the potential to exploit its benefits (crisis support, reduction of social isolation, delivery of therapy, outreach) Young people appear to be increasingly using social media to communicate distress, particularly to peers. The focus should now be on how specific mediums' (social media, video/image sharing) might be used in therapy and recovery. Clinicians working with young people who self harm or have mental health issues should engage in discussion about internet use. This should be a standard item during assessment. A protocol for this review was registered with the PROSPERO systematic review protocol registry: (http:/www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.asp?ID=CRD42015019518)", "corpus_id": 3641409, "venue": "PloS one", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Amanda Marchant", "Keith Hawton", "Ann Stewart", "Paul Montgomery", "Vinod Singaravelu", "Keith R Lloyd", "Nicola Purdy", "Kate Daine", "Ann John" ], "n_citations": 160, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "3247324", "title": "Internet addiction and problematic Internet use: A systematic review of clinical research.", "abstract": "AIM To provide a comprehensive overview of clinical studies on the clinical picture of Internet use related addictions from a holistic perspective. A literature search was conducted using the database Web of Science. METHODS Over the last 15 years, the number of Internet users has increased by 1000% and at the same time, research on addictive Internet use has proliferated. Internet addiction has not yet been understood very well, and research on its etiology and natural history is still in its infancy. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association included Internet Gaming Disorder in the appendix of the updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM 5) as condition that requires further research prior to official inclusion in the main manual, with important repercussions for research and treatment. To date, reviews have focused on clinical and treatment studies of Internet addiction and Internet Gaming Disorder. This arguably limits the analysis to a specific diagnosis of a potential disorder that has not yet been officially recognised in the Western world, rather than a comprehensive and inclusive investigation of Internet use related addictions (including problematic Internet use) more generally. RESULTS The systematic literature review identified a total of 46 relevant studies. The included studies used clinical samples, and focused on characteristics of treatment seekers and online addiction treatment. Four main types of clinical research studies were identified, namely research involving (1) treatment seeker characteristics; (2) psychopharmacotherapy; (3) psychological therapy; and (4) combined treatment. CONCLUSION A consensus regarding diagnostic criteria and measures is needed to improve reliability across studies and to develop effective and efficient treatment approaches for treatment seekers.", "corpus_id": 3247324, "venue": "World journal of psychiatry", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Daria J Kuss", "Olatz Lopez-Fernandez" ], "n_citations": 307, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3414716", "title": "The Dark Side of Internet Use: Two Longitudinal Studies of Excessive Internet Use, Depressive Symptoms, School Burnout and Engagement Among Finnish Early and Late Adolescents", "abstract": "Recent research shows an increased concern with well being at school and potential problems associated with students' use of socio digital technologies, i.e. the mobile devices, computers, social media, and the Internet. Simultaneously with supporting creative social activities, socio digital participation may also lead to compulsive and addictive behavioral patterns affecting both general and school related mental health problems. Using two longitudinal data waves gathered among 1702 (53 female) early (age 12 14) and 1636 (64 female) late (age 16 18) Finnish adolescents, we examined cross lagged paths between excessive internet use, school engagement and burnout, and depressive symptoms. Structural equation modeling revealed reciprocal cross lagged paths between excessive internet use and school burnout among both adolescent groups: school burnout predicted later excessive internet use and excessive internet use predicted later school burnout. Reciprocal paths between school burnout and depressive symptoms were also found. Girls typically suffered more than boys from depressive symptoms and, in late adolescence, school burnout. Boys, in turn, more typically suffered from excessive internet use. These results show that, among adolescents, excessive internet use can be a cause of school burnout that can later spill over to depressive symptoms.", "corpus_id": 3414716, "venue": "Journal of youth and adolescence", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Katariina Salmela-Aro", "Katja Upadyaya", "Kai Hakkarainen", "Kirsti Lonka", "Kimmo Alho" ], "n_citations": 111, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "38862939", "title": "Internet use by pregnant women seeking pregnancy related information: a systematic review", "abstract": "BackgroundThe Internet has become one of the most popular sources of information for health consumers and pregnant women are no exception. The primary objective of this review was to investigate the ways in which pregnant women used the Internet to retrieve pregnancy related information.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review to answer this question. In November 2014, electronic databases: Scopus, Medline, PreMEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PubMed were searched for papers with the terms \"Internet\" \"pregnancy\" \"health information seeking\" in the title, abstract or as keywords. Restrictions were placed on publication to within 10 years and language of publication was restricted to English. Quantitative studies were sought, that reported original research and described Internet use by pregnant women.ResultsSeven publications met inclusion criteria and were included in the review. Sample size ranged from 182 1347 pregnant women. The majority of papers reported that women used the Internet as a source of information about pregnancy. Most women searched for information at least once a month. Fetal development and nutrition in pregnancy were the most often mentioned topics of interest. One paper included in this review found that women with higher education were three times more likely to seek advice than women with less than a high school education, and also that single and multiparous women were less likely to seek advice than married and nulliparous women. The majority of women found health information on the Internet to be reliable and useful.ConclusionMost women did not discuss the information they retrieved from the Internet with their health providers. Thus, health providers may not be aware of potentially inaccurate information or mistaken beliefs about pregnancy, reported on the Internet. Future research is needed to address this issue of potentially unreliable information.", "corpus_id": 38862939, "venue": "BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Padaphet Sayakhot", "Mary C Carolan-Olah" ], "n_citations": 180, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "61646034", "title": "The Accuracy of Self Reported Internet Use A Validation Study Using Client Log Data", "abstract": "ABSTRACT The vast majority of empirical research on online communication, or media use in general, relies on self report measures instead of behavioral data. Previous research has shown that the accuracy of these self report measures can be quite low, and both over and underreporting of media use are commonplace. This study compares self reports of Internet use with client log files from a large household sample. Results show that the accuracy of self reported frequency and duration of Internet use is quite low, and that survey data are only moderately correlated with log file data. Moreover, there are systematic patterns of misreporting, especially overreporting, rather than random deviations from the log files. Self reports for specific content such as social network sites or video platforms seem to be more accurate and less consistently biased than self reports of generic frequency or duration of Internet use. The article closes by demonstrating the consequences of biased self reports and discussing possible solutions to the problem.", "corpus_id": 61646034, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Michael Scharkow" ], "n_citations": 133, "n_key_citations": 13, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "167206776", "title": "An RCT of Dating Matters: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviors", "abstract": "Introduction: Teen dating violence is a serious public health problem with few effective prevention strategies. This study examines whether the Dating Matters comprehensive prevention model, compared with a standard of care intervention, prevented negative relationship behaviors and promoted positive relationship behaviors. Study design: This longitudinal, cluster RCT compared the effectiveness of Dating Matters with standard of care across middle school. Standard of care was an evidence based teen dating violence prevention curriculum (Safe Dates) implemented in eighth grade. Setting/participants: Forty six middle schools in high risk urban neighborhoods in four U.S. cities were randomized. Schools lost to follow up were replaced with new schools, which were independently randomized (71% school retention) Students were surveyed in fall and spring of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades (2012 2016) The analysis sample includes students from schools implementing Dating Matters or standard of care for >2 years who started sixth grade in the fall of 2012 or 2013 and had dated (N=2,349 students, mean age 12 years, 49% female, and 55% black, non Hispanic, 28% Hispanic, 17% other) Intervention: Dating Matters is a comprehensive, multicomponent prevention model including classroom delivered programs for sixth to eighth graders, training for parents of sixth to eighth graders, educator training, a youth communications program, and local health department activities to assess capacity and track teen dating violence related policy and data. Main outcome measures: Self reported teen dating violence perpetration and victimization, use of negative conflict resolution strategies, and positive relationship skills were examined as outcomes. Imputation and analyses were conducted in 2017. Results: Latent panel models demonstrated significant program effects for three of four outcomes; Dating Matters students reported 8.43% lower teen dating violence perpetration, 9.78% lower teen dating violence victimization, and 5.52% lower use of negative conflict resolution strategies, on average across time points and cohorts, than standard of care students. There were no significant effects on positive relationship behaviors. Conclusions: Dating Matters demonstrates comparative effectiveness, through middle school, for reducing unhealthy relationship behaviors, such as teen dating violence and use of negative conflict resolution strategies, relative to the standard of care intervention. Trial registration: This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov", "corpus_id": 167206776, "venue": "American journal of preventive medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Phyllis Holditch Niolon", "Alana M Vivolo-Kantor", "Allison J Tracy", "Natasha Elkovitch Latzman", "Todd D Little", "Sarah DeGue", "Kyle M Lang", "Lianne Fuino Estefan", "Sharon Ghazarian", "Wendy LiKamWa McIntosh", "Bruce G Taylor", "Linda L Johnson", "Henrietta Kuoh", "Tessa Burton", "Beverly L Fortson", "Elizabeth A Mumford", "Shannon Nelson", "Hannah L Joseph", "Linda Anne Valle", "Andra Teten Tharp" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "23388740", "title": "The Roles of Family Factors and Relationship Dynamics on Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration Among College Men and Women in Emerging Adulthood", "abstract": "Using data from the International Dating Violence Study, this study examined the roles of early socialization, family social structure, and relationship dynamics factors on physical aggression in dating among U.S. college students in emerging adulthood. The interaction effects between these three domains of interest (early socialization, family social structure, and relationship dynamics) were explored to understand the underlying mechanisms that influenced victimization and perpetration in dating. In general, we found that family and relational variables associated with dating victimization and perpetration were fairly similar. Among the early socialization variables, experience of childhood neglect and having witnessed domestic violence were significantly related to victimization and perpetration. Living in a two parent household appeared to exert a protective effect, although associations with parental education were not statistically significant. Furthermore, the participants were more likely to experience victimization or impose aggression in dating relationships which were characterized by conflicts, distress, dominance, or psychological aggression. Overall, for the participants who came from a two parent household, dominance in dating was linked to less violence. When the participants faced higher levels of psychological aggression, adverse early socialization factors were associated with higher levels of dating violence victimization and perpetration. Research and practice implications were discussed.", "corpus_id": 23388740, "venue": "Journal of interpersonal violence", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yok Fong Paat", "Christine M Markham" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "195772123", "title": "Causes and consequences of adolescent dating violence: a systematic review", "abstract": "Abstract: Background: Adolescent dating violence (ADV) is highly prevalent and can have serious health consequences, including homicides, and be a predictor of intimate partner violence in adulthood. This review aims to systematize the knowledge produced in recent empirical investigations in health that focus on the causes and consequences of ADV to subsidize new research and prevention programs. Methods: Review of studies published in PubMed over the last five years through MeSH Database: \"Intimate Partner Violence\" AND \"Adolescent\" NOT \"prevention and control\" NOT \"Adult\" Results: We analyzed 35 papers, of which 71.4% were developed in the USA. Some studies have shown prevalence greater than 50% in both genders, both as victims and perpetrators, with more serious consequences for females. Three main thematic cores were identified in the studies: ADV related vulnerabilities, circularity of violence and ADV associated health problems. Data indicate that ADV is deep seated in the patriarchal culture and is more frequent in connection with racism, heterosexism and poverty. It occurs in a circular way and is linked to other forms of violence in different contexts (family, school, community and social media) It is associated with health problems such as depression, anxiety, low self esteem, alcohol and drugs abuse and unprotected sex. Conclusions: The knowledge produced in the studies reviewed reveals the urgency and importance of implementing early preventive actions in schools, involving families and the community. These should focus on the deconstruction of current cultural gender patterns, based on their historical origin, in order to support emancipatory and liberating pedagogical approaches.", "corpus_id": 195772123, "venue": "Journal of injury violence research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Stella Regina Taquette", "Denise Leite Maia Monteiro" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "53023010", "title": "The Influence of Masculinity on Male Latino Adolescents' Perceptions Regarding Dating Relationships and Dating Violence", "abstract": "In the United States, teen dating violence (TDV) is a concern across ethnic groups. Attitudes and correlates of violence differ by gender, culture, and acculturation. This study used a qualitative interpretive approach. Data were obtained in focus groups with 23 Latino male adolescents. Themes reflected contexts of participants' lives, and definitions and nature of dating relationships and TDV. Participants described the importance of respecting dating partners, the destructive effects of TDV, and the pressure to display masculinity that can lead some young men to perpetrate TDV. These results may advance culturally relevant interventions to promote healthy relationships and prevent dating violence.", "corpus_id": 53023010, "venue": "Violence against women", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kristin A Haglund", "Ruth Ann Belknap", "Lisa M Edwards", "Marcel Hernani Tassara", "James Van Hoven", "Aimee A Woda" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "3794292", "title": "Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in the Cyber and Real World: Examining the Extent of Cyber Aggression Experiences and Its Association With In Person Dating Violence", "abstract": "This study explores the extent of cyber aggression victimization in intimate relationships and its co occurrence with in person experiences of psychological, physical, and sexual partner violence. Data were collected from 540 college students who reported being in a dating relationship in the past 12 months. Participants were asked to complete an online questionnaire that included measures assessing intimate partner victimization experiences in differing social contexts (through socially interactive technology and in face to face encounters) Findings indicated that intimate partner cyber aggression victimization is not uncommon, as nearly three quarters of respondents reported having experienced some form of it in the past year. Multivariate analyses also indicate that such aggression may be part of a larger violence nexus given its relation to in person psychological, physical, and sexual partner violence victimization experiences. In light of these findings, it is recommended that longitudinal research encompassing multiple violence victimization experiences in varying social contexts is completed to determine whether online experiences foreshadow offline ones and, if so, consider interaction effects on outcomes as well as potential intervention strategies to reduce harm associated with such negative experiences.", "corpus_id": 3794292, "venue": "Journal of interpersonal violence", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Alison Marganski", "Lisa A Melander" ], "n_citations": 106, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "20955968", "title": "An Evaluation of Two Dating Violence Prevention Programs on a College Campus", "abstract": "Dating violence is a serious and prevalent public health problem that is associated with numerous negative physical and psychological health outcomes, and yet there has been limited evaluation of prevention programs on college campuses. A recent innovation in campus prevention focuses on mobilizing bystanders to take action. To date, bystander programs have mainly been compared with no treatment control groups raising questions about what value is added to dating violence prevention by focusing on bystanders. This study compared a single 90 min bystander education program for dating violence prevention with a traditional awareness education program, as well as with a no education control group. Using a quasi experimental pre test/post test design with follow up at 2 months, a sample of predominately freshmen college students was randomized to either the bystander (n 369) or traditional awareness (n 376) dating violence education program. A non randomized control group of freshmen students who did not receive any education were also surveyed (n 224) Students completed measures of attitudes, including rape myth acceptance, bystander efficacy, and intent to help as well as behavioral measures related to bystander action and victimization. Results showed that the bystander education program was more effective at changing attitudes, beliefs, efficacy, intentions, and self reported behaviors compared with the traditional awareness education program. Both programs were significantly more effective than no education. The findings of this study have important implications for future dating violence prevention educational programming, emphasizing the value of bystander education programs for primary dating violence prevention among college students.", "corpus_id": 20955968, "venue": "Journal of interpersonal violence", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kerry Peterson", "Phyllis Sharps", "Victoria L Banyard", "Rachael A Powers", "Catherine E Kaukinen", "Deborah A Gross", "Michele R Decker", "Carrie Baatz", "Jacquelyn C Campbell" ], "n_citations": 37, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "147478442", "title": "Teen Dating Violence: A Meta Analytic Review of Prevalence Rates", "abstract": "Objective: The goals of the present review were to determine the prevalence of physical and sexual TDV among adolescents, obtain the rates of teen dating violence (TDV) separately by gender, and examine the potential moderation effects of age, demographics, and measurement. Method: A systematic literature search elicited 101 studies reporting rates for youth aged 13 to 18. Results: Meta analytic combination produced an overall prevalence of 20% for physical TDV and 9% for sexual TDV. Significant variability in rates was found, with physical TDV ranging from 1% to 61% and sexual TDV ranging from <1% to 54% Gender differences in physical TDV were significant for perpetration (boys 13% vs. girls 25% but not for victimization (21% boys and girls) A different pattern was observed for sexual TDV with girls reporting lower rates of perpetration compared with boys (3% vs. 10% and higher rates of victimization (14% vs. 8% Moderator analyses revealed higher rates in samples representing higher proportions of older teens (sexual TDV) cultural minority girls (physical TDV) and disadvantaged neighborhoods (physical TDV) Studies using broad measurement tools yielded higher rates of both forms of TDV across gender. Conclusions: Basing the meta analysis on a large pool of studies with comparable samples, 1 in 5 adolescents reported physical TDV and roughly 1 in 10 reported sexual TDV. Systematic bias in boys' and girls' self reports was evident along with high variability in TDV rates across studies and significant moderator influences. These findings are suggestive of substantive methodological challenges in extant studies. The obtained rates should be cautiously interpreted and future research should address the methodological limitations of self reported TDV, taking into consideration the potential influences of gender, demographics, age, and measurement issues when designing TDV research.", "corpus_id": 147478442, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Katherine Wincentak", "Jennifer Connolly", "Noel A Card" ], "n_citations": 169, "n_key_citations": 10, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "148754234", "title": "Peer Victimization and Dating Violence Among LGBTQ Youth", "abstract": "This study examined the moderating role of school violence and peer victimization on the association between sexual orientation and mental health. The sample consisted of 11,794 high school students (Mage 16, SD 1.23; female assigned at birth 51% 1.8% identified as transgender) across 23 schools. Participants completed a self report survey that assessed sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender identity, victimization experiences (e.g. peer and dating) perceptions of school violence and crime, as well as anxiety and suicidality. Multilevel analyses indicated that lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, and transgender (LGBTQ) individuals with lower rates of victimization had significantly lower rates of suicidality compared to LGBTQ individuals with higher rates of victimization. LGBTQ individuals in schools with high student perceptions of school violence and crime had higher suicidality than their non LGBTQ counterparts. LGBTQ youth in schools with lower school violence and crime levels had lower rates of suicidality than their non LGBTQ counterparts. Interventions need to consider multiple forms of victimization and school environment as potential risk and protective factors for LGBTQ youth.", "corpus_id": 148754234, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Dorothy L Espelage", "Gabriel J Merrin", "Tyler Hatchel" ], "n_citations": 34, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "151785879", "title": "The cyber dating violence inventory. Validation of a new scale for online perpetration and victimization among dating partners", "abstract": "Abstract Cyber dating abuse is a new kind of dating violence. Several recent measures assess this phenomenon, but do not focus on a severe aggression that aims to spoil a partner's relational network (relational cyber abuse) This study developed and validated the Cyber Dating Violence Inventory (CDVI) with 1405 adolescents and young adults (Mage 18.17; SDage 2.39; 65.1% females) an instrument that considers the relational dimension of online dating abuse. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses found two correlated factors (Psychological and Relational) for both perpetration and victimization, showing good reliability. CDVI factors were positively correlated with offline dating violence, showing good criterion validity. This instrument has clinical and educational implications.", "corpus_id": 151785879, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mara Morelli", "Dora Bianchi", "Antonio Chirumbolo", "Roberto Baiocco" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "3878034", "title": "Peer Victimization and Dating Violence Victimization: The Mediating Role of Loneliness, Depressed Mood, and Life Satisfaction", "abstract": "Peer victimization and dating violence victimization have serious negative effects on adolescents' health, and they seem to be related. However, the mediating processes in this relationship have not been sufficiently analyzed. The purpose of this study was to analyze the direct and indirect relationships between peer victimization and dating violence victimization, considering the possible mediator role of loneliness, depressed mood, and life satisfaction. These relationships are analyzed in boys and girls, and in early and middle adolescence. From an initial sample of 1,038 Spanish adolescents, those who had or had had in the past 12 months a dating relationship (647 adolescents; 49.1% boys, M 14.38, SD 1.43) were included in this study. Multigroup structural equation modeling was used to test a double mediation model simultaneously for boys and girls, testing the invariance of the relationships among variables across genders. The same technique was used to test the model simultaneously for early and middle adolescence, testing the invariance of the relationships among variables across age groups. Results revealed a positive direct relationship between peer victimization and dating violence victimization, as well as the partial mediating role of loneliness and life satisfaction in this relationship. The mediator role of depressed mood was not supported. The same mediational model was confirmed in boys and girls, and in early and middle adolescence. These results highlight the important role of loneliness and life satisfaction to explain the link between peer victimization and dating violence victimization in adolescence. These findings may be useful for developing intervention programs aimed at preventing situations of multiple victimization during adolescence.", "corpus_id": 3878034, "venue": "Journal of interpersonal violence", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Maria-Jesus Cava", "Sofia Buelga", "Ines Tomas" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "589963", "title": "Myocardial energetics and the role of micronutrients in heart failure: a critical review.", "abstract": "Heart failure is a multifactorial disease with poor prognosis. There are many hypotheses regarding the cause of heart failure. Leading among them are the hemodynamic and the neuro hormonal hypotheses. Although the energy depletion hypothesis has been fairly recent, there is evidence suggesting that declining bioenergy plays a major role in heart failure. This review explored the myocardial energy depletion hypothesis from the role of micronutrients in correcting and alleviating symptoms of heart failure. Even though focus was on key nutrients such as coenzyme Q10, thiamine, riboflavin, L carnitine, and taurine, emphasis was on the combined effect of multiple micronutrients as a whole. Search from databases from 2000 to 2015 produced four clinical studies using multiple micronutrients on heart failure. Evidence from the studies show that using high doses of multiple micronutrients may have positive effects on heart failure and simultaneously support the myocardial energy depletion hypothesis.", "corpus_id": 589963, "venue": "American journal of cardiovascular disease", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ang Peng Wong", "Aleksandra Niedzwiecki", "Matthias Rath" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "39959205", "title": "Role of Micronutrients on Subclinical Atherosclerosis Micronutrients in Subclinical Atherosclerosis.", "abstract": "Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) leading to coronary heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Nutrition is one of the key factors in the etiology of atherosclerosis. Micronutrient supplements are widely used to prevent many chronic diseases including atherosclerosis. However, scientific evidence regarding this issue is still insufficient and current data on the association of dietary micronutrients and CVD risk is contradictory. Most of the randomized studies have failed to demonstrate beneficial effects of micronutrient supplementation on markers of subclinical atherosclerosis. In this review, role of each micronutrient on subclinical atherosclerosis will be evaluated thoroughly.", "corpus_id": 39959205, "venue": "Current pharmaceutical design", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Duygu Kocyigit", "Kadri M Gurses", "Muhammed Ulvi Yalcin", "Lale Tokgozoglu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "229323712", "title": "Dietary Thiols: A Potential Supporting Strategy against Oxidative Stress in Heart Failure and Muscular Damage during Sports Activity", "abstract": "Moderate exercise combined with proper nutrition are considered protective factors against cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal disorders. However, physical activity is known not only to have positive effects. In fact, the achievement of a good performance requires a very high oxygen consumption, which leads to the formation of oxygen free radicals, responsible for premature cell aging and diseases such as heart failure and muscle injury. In this scenario, a primary role is played by antioxidants, in particular by natural antioxidants that can be taken through the diet. Natural antioxidants are molecules capable of counteracting oxygen free radicals without causing cellular cytotoxicity. In recent years, therefore, research has conducted numerous studies on the identification of natural micronutrients, in order to prevent or mitigate oxidative stress induced by physical activity by helping to support conventional drug therapies against heart failure and muscle damage. The aim of this review is to have an overview of how controlled physical activity and a diet rich in antioxidants can represent a \"natural cure\" to prevent imbalances caused by free oxygen radicals in diseases such as heart failure and muscle damage. In particular, we will focus on sulfur containing compounds that have the ability to protect the body from oxidative stress. We will mainly focus on six natural antioxidants: glutathione, taurine, lipoic acid, sulforaphane, garlic and methylsulfonylmethane.", "corpus_id": 229323712, "venue": "International journal of environmental research and public health", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mariarita Brancaccio", "Cristina Mennitti", "Arturo Cesaro", "Fabio Fimiani", "Elisabetta Moscarella", "Martina Caiazza", "Felice Gragnano", "Annaluisa Ranieri", "Giovanni D'Alicandro", "Nadia Tinto", "Cristina Mazzaccara", "Barbara Lombardo", "Raffaela Pero", "Giuseppe Limongelli", "Giulia Frisso", "Paolo Calabro", "Olga Scudiero" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229316608", "title": "Pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases and role of vitamins, herbal extracts in the reduction of cardiovascular risks.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Heart disease (cardiovascular disease: CVD) is considered as the leading cause of worldwide death. These diseases are recognized as group of disorders which are related to heart and blood vessels. Generally, heart diseases are considered life style associated diseases but many other factors are also found associated with cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE The aim of this review is to provide the till date information regarding local and circulatory disorders, role of different vitamin and herbs on heart diseases. METHODS This review article contains a detailed survey of literature about cardiovascular diseases which was available in different online databases such as; PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, Elsevier, and Google Scholar etc. In this review, authors have focused on description of cardiovascular disorders, their pathophysiological properties and importance of micronutrients, vitamins and herbs in management of cardiovascular diseases. RESULTS Cardiovascular diseases are considered the responsible approximately for 17.9 million deaths annually at global level. Surprisingly, low and middle income countries counts for 75% of CVD deaths. These diseases represents disorders related circulatory systems specially heart and coronary arteries. Many life style associated factors such as; high cholesterol consumption, smoking, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, metabolic disorders, stress, and other factors such as; family history, age, gender and genetic factors etc have been found involved in establishment of CVDs. That's why management of diet, management of tobacco and alcohol consumption, management of stress, increased physical activities are considered population wide strategies for control cardiovascular diseases. On the basis of pathophysiology, heart diseases are of many types and out of them acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and sudden cardiac death (SCD) are considered serious and catastrophic cardiac disorders. Intake of vitamins, micronutrients, lycopene, omega 3 fatty acid and many herbs like Crataegus oxyacantha (Hawthron) Allium sativum (garlic) Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen) Ganoderma lucidum (lingzhi) Ginkgo biloba have been identified good for cardiovascular diseases management and treatment. CONCLUSION Cardiovascular dieseases are considered one of the fatal clinical conditions as many of them are asymptomatic. The regulation of diet, increased physical activities, and health life style are recommened to control development of cardiovascular problems. Including this, scintific studies have supported the role of many vitamins, nutrients and herbs as beneficial in cardiovascular diseases but many of them could not demonstrate their role at clinical level but it is suggested that their role as nutriens can not be ignored and their consumption may reduc the cardiovascular risks.", "corpus_id": 229316608, "venue": "Cardiovascular hematological agents in medicinal chemistry", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ravindra Kumar", "Sujata Malik", "Reena Tiwari", "Saule Bazarbaevna Zhautivova", "Abdikadirova Hamida Rakhimovna", "Tilak Raj", "Punit Kumar" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "72606627", "title": "The trace elements in congenital cyanotic heart disease", "abstract": "Background The trace elements are essential micronutrients that have important physiological, metabolic, and homeostatic roles in the human being. Up till now the actually role and effect of the trace elements on myocardial metabolism specifically on congenital cyanotic heart disease is not entirely clear. Objective This study aimed to detect the serum level of selected trace elements (zinc, copper and selenium) and evaluate its effect and relation in congenital cyanotic heart disease. Methodology This study had enrolled upon 50 children, included 30 patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease and 20 age matched normal healthy children as control group. All groups were subjected to thorough clinical history, examination and specific cardiac investigation as well as detection of serum levels of zinc, copper and selenium. All results were statistical analyzed. Results The current study revealed that a highly significant decrease in the serum level of both zinc and selenium (p 0.00l and p 0.01) however serum copper level has non significant increase in congenial cyanotic heart disease, were (p 0.95) There was non significant correlation between the mean serum levels of trace elements and the hemodynamic parameters, Also there were non significant correlations between the age and sex of the studied group and the mean serum levels of these trace elements (p 0.05) Conclusion Congenital cyanotic heart disease were associated with a highly significant decrease in the mean serum selenium and zinc levels, when compared with control group and non significant increase the mean serum copper levels. Changes in these trace elements suggested to play an important role in the pathogenesis of myocardial damage in congenital cyanotic heart disease.", "corpus_id": 72606627, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Mohamed Ali Hegazi" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216415768", "title": "Polyphenols more than an Antioxidant: Role and Scope", "abstract": "In this article, an attempt has been made review on phenolics antioxidant activity, and characteristics, as well as the constituents of the different phenolics present in various consumable food items, which reduce the risk of non communicable diseases. Some polyphenolic compounds are present in selected species, which are beneficial to public health, and it should be comprised as component of food habits for a proper nutrition's plan. Polyphenols are basically a natural compound and their micronutrients are found in different fruits, beverages, and vegetables. There is no specific deficiency disease caused due to the low dietary intake of phenolics; while the proper intake possibly gives health benefits. Polyphenols are antioxidants, and evidence for their role with improved heart health, neurodegenerative (Alzheimer's disease) diseases, better blood sugar control, diabetes, reduced inflammation, and a reduced risk of cancer development was studied. A comprehensive understanding of the biological availability of the nutritional polyphenols will helpful to recognize those that are beneficial and protective for human health. Based on latest reports, polyphenolic compounds occupy a unique place in environmental science as an important and common class of bioactive natural products globally. It is building a bridge between different interdisciplinary academic fields of science. This work is based on the reports examined the health effect of polyphenols until today.", "corpus_id": 216415768, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Syed Khalid Mustafa", "Atif Abdul Wahab A Oyouni", "Meshari M H Aljohani", "M Ayaz Ahmad" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "31186639", "title": "Cardiac involvement in inflammatory bowel disease: role of acylcarnitine esters.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular complications have been frequently described in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Both Crohn disease and Ulcerative Colitis are characterized by malabsorption of some micronutrients, such as carnitine, which is a very important element for myocardial metabolism, being demonstrated that its deficiency correlates with heart involvement in coeliac disease. Aims of this study are to evaluate cardiac function in IBD patients asymptomatic for cardiovascular diseases and to correlate the cardiac data with the profile of carnitine esters plasma levels. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out on 20 IBD patients by comparison with 18 sex and age matched clinically healthy controls. Personal and familial history, physical examination, standard electrocardiogram and echocardiogram were performed in all subjects. Complete panel of nutritional status parameters and serum levels of free carnitine and its esters were evaluated both in IBD patients and control subjects. RESULTS Isovaleryl carnitine, Tiglyl carnitine, Octenoylcarnitine and Decanoyl carnitine, were found to be significantly lower in IBD patients. Significant correlations were found between some carnitine esters and echocardiographic parameters although total and free carnitine were meanly more elevated in IBD. No statistically significant differences in echocardiographic parameters were found between IBD patients and control subjects. CONCLUSIONS Deficiency of some isoforms of carnitine, especially those esterified with short chain fatty acids, may play an important role in cardiac involvement in course of IBD and could lead, over time, to dilated cardiomiopathy.", "corpus_id": 31186639, "venue": "La Clinica terapeutica", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Chiara Danese", "Michela Cirene", "Marco Colotto", "Annalisa Aratari", "Silvia Amato", "Simonetta Di Bona", "Mario Curione" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "70514052", "title": "Nutrition and Heart Disease: Causation and Prevention", "abstract": "DIETS AND HEART DISEASE PREVENTION The Role of the Dietitian in reducing cardiovascular risk: an evidence based approach, Hooper Seafood and Myocardial Infarction in China, Yuan The Low Occurrence of Coronary Heart Disease in Sub Saharan African Populations, Walker Dietary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, de Lorgeril P.Salen Effects of Nutritional Education on Cardiovasular Risk Factors, Bemelmans NUTRIENTS AND HEART DISEASE Micronutrients and Cardiovascular Disease, Witte, Clark Leptin and Blood Pressure, Swoap, Overton Retinol, Beta Carotene, and alpha tocopherol in Heart Disease, Lopes, Casal, Oliveira, Barros Folate, Homocysteine, and Heart Disease, Ashfield Watt, Burr, McDowell FOODS AND MACRONUTRIENTS IN HEART DISEASE Flavonoids (also known as Bioflavonoids) Extracted and in Foods: Role in Hypertention Prevention and Treatment, Mlakar, Simpson High Carbohydrate Diets and Lipids Metabolism, Beylot Vasculoprotective Effects of Olive Oil: Epidemiological Background and Direct Vascular Antiatherogenic Properties, Massaro, Scoditti Cardiovascular Effects of Dietary Soy, Clarkson. Appt Malnutrition and the Heart: A Pediatric Perspective, Venugopalan Plant Sterols and Plant Stanols, lipoprotein metalbolism, and cardiovascular disease, Naumann, Plat, Mensink Non Nutrient Food Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases, S. Vaghefi AGE AND HEART DISEASE Age Related Cardiac Dysfunction, Yang, Larson, Watson Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (iNOS) and Heart Failure, Yang, Larson, Watson", "corpus_id": 70514052, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Ronald Ross Watson", "Victor R Preedy" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "24121222", "title": "Chronic heart failure and micronutrients.", "abstract": "Heart failure (HF) is associated with weight loss, and cachexia is a well recognized complication. Patients have an increased risk of osteoporosis and lose muscle bulk early in the course of the disease. Basal metabolic rate is increased in HF, but general malnutrition may play a part in the development of cachexia, particularly in an elderly population. There is evidence for a possible role for micronutrient deficiency in HF. Selective deficiency of selenium, calcium and thiamine can directly lead to the HF syndrome. Other nutrients, particularly vitamins C and E and beta carotene, are antioxidants and may have a protective effect on the vasculature. Vitamins B6, B12 and folate all tend to reduce levels of homocysteine, which is associated with increased oxidative stress. Carnitine, co enzyme Q10 and creatine supplementation have resulted in improved exercise capacity in patients with HF in some studies. In this article, we review the relation between micronutrients and HF. Chronic HF is characterized by high mortality and morbidity, and research effort has centered on pharmacological management, with the successful introduction of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and beta adrenergic antagonists into routine practice. There is sufficient evidence to support a large scale trial of dietary micronutrient supplementation in HF.", "corpus_id": 24121222, "venue": "Journal of the American College of Cardiology", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "Klaus K A Witte", "Andrew L Clark", "John G F Cleland" ], "n_citations": 222, "n_key_citations": 15, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "205269514", "title": "Heart Failure in Epidermolysis Bullosa.", "abstract": "The term inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB) describes a group of genetic disorders in which a protein defect causes skin fragility and subsequent blistering. It is a rare disease, with a prevalence of just 8 cases per million population. It can affect deeper layers, and patients may also develop complications in other organs, caused not by the genetic defect itself but by its consequences. One such complication is dilated cardiomyopathy, which needs to be contemplated in patients with EB, not so much because of its frequency (which is low) but because of its severity and the important role of early diagnosis and treatment in prognosis. The pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy in patients with EB is unknown. It has been associated with numerous factors, such as deficiencies in certain micronutrients (iron, thiamine, selenium, carnitine) and iron overload, and it may be multifactorial. Very few case series of dilated", "corpus_id": 205269514, "venue": "Actas dermo sifiliograficas", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "M T Villarroel Salcedo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "67870868", "title": "Energy Theft Detection Using Gradient Boosting Theft Detector With Feature Engineering Based Preprocessing", "abstract": "For the smart grid energy theft identification, this letter introduces a gradient boosting theft detector (GBTD) based on the three latest gradient boosting classifiers (GBCs) 1) extreme gradient boosting; 2) categorical boosting; and 3) light gradient boosting method. While most of existing machine learning (ML) algorithms just focus on fine tuning the hyperparameters of the classifiers, our ML algorithm, GBTD, focuses on the feature engineering based preprocessing to improve detection performance as well as time complexity. GBTD improves both detection rate and false positive rate (FPR) of those GBCs by generating stochastic features like standard deviation, mean, minimum, and maximum value of daily electricity usage. GBTD also reduces the classifier complexity with weighted feature importance based extraction techniques. Emphasis has been laid upon the practical application of the proposed ML for theft detection by minimizing FPR and reducing data storage space and improving time complexity of the GBTD classifiers. Additionally, this letter proposes an updated version of the existing six theft cases to mimic real world theft patterns and applies them to the dataset for numerical evaluation of the proposed algorithm.", "corpus_id": 67870868, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Rajiv Punmiya", "Sangho Choe" ], "n_citations": 93, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "116520212", "title": "Deep learning based feature engineering methods for improved building energy prediction", "abstract": "Abstract The enrichment in building operation data has enabled the development of advanced data driven methods for building energy predictions. Existing studies mainly focused on the utilization of supervised learning techniques for model development, while overlooking the significance of feature engineering. Feature engineering are helpful for reducing data dimensionality, decreasing prediction model complexity, and tackling the problem of corrupted and noisy information. Considering that each building has unique operating characteristics, it is neither practical nor efficient to manually identify features for model developments. Data driven feature engineering methods are thus needed to ensure the flexibility and generalization of building energy prediction models. Using operation data of real buildings, this paper investigates the performance of different deep learning techniques in automatically deriving high quality features for building energy predictions. Three types of deep learning based features are developed using fully connected autoencoders, convolutional autoencoders and generative adversarial networks respectively. Their potentials in building energy predictions have been exploited and compared with conventional feature engineering methods. The study validates the usefulness of deep learning in enhancing building energy prediction performance. The research results help to automate and improve the predictive modeling process while bridging the knowledge gaps between deep learning and building professionals.", "corpus_id": 116520212, "venue": "Applied Energy", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Cheng Fan", "Yongjun Sun", "Yang Zhao", "Mengjie Song", "Jiayuan Wang" ], "n_citations": 67, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "58005568", "title": "Deep learning based feature engineering for stock price movement prediction", "abstract": "Abstract Stock price modeling and prediction have been challenging objectives for researchers and speculators because of noisy and non stationary characteristics of samples. With the growth in deep learning, the task of feature learning can be performed more effectively by purposely designed network. In this paper, we propose a novel end to end model named multi filters neural network (MFNN) specifically for feature extraction on financial time series samples and price movement prediction task. Both convolutional and recurrent neurons are integrated to build the multi filters structure, so that the information from different feature spaces and market views can be obtained. We apply our MFNN for extreme market prediction and signal based trading simulation tasks on Chinese stock market index CSI 300. Experimental results show that our network outperforms traditional machine learning models, statistical models, and single structure(convolutional, recurrent, and LSTM) networks in terms of the accuracy, profitability, and stability.", "corpus_id": 58005568, "venue": "Knowl. Based Syst.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Wen Long", "Zhichen Lu", "Lingxiao Cui" ], "n_citations": 110, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "115945789", "title": "A practical feature engineering framework for electricity theft detection in smart grids", "abstract": "Despite many potential advantages, Advanced Metering Infrastructures have introduced new ways to falsify meter readings and commit electricity theft. This study contributes a new model agnostic, feature engineering framework for theft detection in smart grids. The framework introduces a combination of Finite Mixture Model clustering for customer segmentation and a Genetic Programming algorithm for identifying new features suitable for prediction. Utilizing demand data from more than 4000 households, a Gradient Boosting Machine algorithm is applied within the framework, significantly outperforming the results of prior machine learning, theft detection methods. This study further examines some important practical aspects of deploying theft detection including: the detection delay; the required size of historical demand data; the accuracy in detecting thefts of various types and intensity; detecting irregular and unseen attacks; and the computational complexity of the detection algorithm.", "corpus_id": 115945789, "venue": "Applied Energy", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Rouzbeh Razavi", "Amin Gharipour", "Martin Fleury", "Ikpe Justice Akpan" ], "n_citations": 44, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "7597406", "title": "Scalable and Unsupervised Feature Engineering Using Vibration Imaging and Deep Learning for Rotor System Diagnosis", "abstract": "This paper proposes a scalable and unsupervised feature engineering method that uses vibration imaging and deep learning. For scalability, a vibration imaging approach is devised that incorporates data from systems with various scales, such as small testbeds and real field deployed systems. Moreover, a deep learning approach is proposed for unsupervised feature engineering. The overall procedure includes three key steps: 1) vibration image generation; 2) unsupervised feature extraction; and 3) fault classifier design. To demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach, three case studies are conducted using an RK4 rotor kit and a power plant journal bearing system. By incorporating smaller system data as well as real system data, the proposed approach can substantially increase the applicability of the fault diagnosis method while maintaining good accuracy. Moreover, the time and effort needed to develop a diagnostic approach for other rotor systems can be reduced considerably.", "corpus_id": 7597406, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Hyunseok Oh", "Joon Ha Jung", "Byung-Chul Jeon", "Byeng Dong Youn" ], "n_citations": 73, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "57189802", "title": "Paraconsistent Feature Engineering [Lecture Notes]", "abstract": "Today's modern world is filled with uncertainties and contradictions. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, machines are frequently expected to mimic the human brain and, consequently, face the conflicts associated with this task. To overcome them, feature engineering has emerged as the field of science responsible for turning raw data into relevant input information, setting up classifiers in the fused digital signal processing (DSP) and pattern recognition (PR) domain. Despite the ongoing efforts to improve feature learning, handcrafted extraction still plays a very important role. In this context, a careful choice of features is extremely relevant for creating an accurate classification. This article sheds light on the problem of feature quality by using a nonclassical logical system capable of handling conflictive situations. It is known as paraconsistent logic (PL)", "corpus_id": 57189802, "venue": "IEEE Signal Processing Magazine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Rodrigo Capobianco Guido" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8175458", "title": "Feature Engineering for Predictive Modeling using Reinforcement Learning", "abstract": "Feature engineering is a crucial step in the process of predictive modeling. It involves the transformation of given feature space, typically using mathematical functions, with the objective of reducing the modeling error for a given target. However, there is no well defined basis for performing effective feature engineering. It involves domain knowledge, intuition, and most of all, a lengthy process of trial and error. The human attention involved in overseeing this process significantly influences the cost of model generation. We present a new framework to automate feature engineering. It is based on performance driven exploration of a transformation graph, which systematically and compactly enumerates the space of given options. A highly efficient exploration strategy is derived through reinforcement learning on past examples.", "corpus_id": 8175458, "venue": "AAAI", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Udayan Khurana", "Horst Samulowitz", "Deepak S Turaga" ], "n_citations": 63, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "188897154", "title": "Physics Based Feature Engineering", "abstract": "We describe a new paradigm in computational imaging for performing edge and texture recognition with a superior dynamic range compared to other methods. The algorithm has its origin in Photonic Time Stretch, a realtime instrumentation technology that has enabled observation of ultrafast, non repetitive dynamics and discovery of new scientific phenomena. In this chapter, we introduce the mathematical foundation of this new transform and review its intrinsic properties including the built in equalization property that leads to high performance in visually impaired images. The algorithm is spearheading the development of new methods for feature engineering from visually impaired images with unique and superior properties compared to conventional techniques. It also provides a new approach to the computation of mathematical derivatives via optical dispersion and diffraction. The algorithm is a reconfigurable mathematical operator for hyper dimensional feature detection and signal classification. It has also shown promising results in super resolution single molecule imaging.", "corpus_id": 188897154, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Bahram Jalali", "Madhuri Suthar", "Mohammad H Asghari", "A Mahjoubfar" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "69620348", "title": "Feature Engineering for Machine Learning and Data Analytics", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 69620348, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "DONG GAO", "Huan Liu" ], "n_citations": 58, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "44099766", "title": "Expert Feature Engineering vs. Deep Neural Networks: Which Is Better for Sensor Free Affect Detection?", "abstract": "The past few years have seen a surge of interest in deep neural networks. The wide application of deep learning in other domains such as image classification has driven considerable recent interest and efforts in applying these methods in educational domains. However, there is still limited research comparing the predictive power of the deep learning approach with the traditional feature engineering approach for common student modeling problems such as sensor free affect detection. This paper aims to address this gap by presenting a thorough comparison of several deep neural network approaches with a traditional feature engineering approach in the context of affect and behavior modeling. We built detectors of student affective states and behaviors as middle school students learned science in an open ended learning environment called Betty's Brain, using both approaches. Overall, we observed a tradeoff where the feature engineering models were better when considering a single optimized threshold (for intervention) whereas the deep learning models were better when taking model confidence fully into account (for discovery with models analyses)", "corpus_id": 44099766, "venue": "AIED", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yangzhou Jiang", "Nigel Bosch", "R Baker", "Luc Paquette", "Jaclyn L Ocumpaugh", "Juliana Ma Alexandra L Andres", "Allison L Moore", "Gautam Biswas" ], "n_citations": 37, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "230282763", "title": "A KA Model: an Optimization of the Stock's Portofolio", "abstract": "Abstract The elaborate proposes a compact alternative methodology to the classical stocks portfolio optimization based on the normal distribution of the returns of the assets named Adaptable Kurtosis Asymmetry model (A KA) In the financial theory is well known that odd order moments of a distribution describe a particular performance characteristic; on the contrary, the even order moments tell a precise sense of risk of a distribution of returns. If it is true that, in general terms, minimizing the variance also minimizes the volatility of portfolio return is also true that we should minimize the kurtosis to get away from unpleasant situations in case \"Extreme\" events occur, especially if negative. The idea behind this paper is to exploit the four moments of return's distributions, optimizing an alternative risk indicator to variance, such as the kurtosis of the final distribution of the portfolio, making constraints on distributive asymmetry, in a dynamic underlying logic.", "corpus_id": 230282763, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Filippo Regina", "Mauro Gianfranco Bisceglia" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "169464105", "title": "Analisis Metode Capital Asset Pricing Model Dalam Upaya Pemilihan Portofolio Optimal Terhadap Investasi Saham(Studi pada Perusahaan yang Masuk dalam Perhitungan Indonesia Stock Exchange Periode 2016 2017)", "abstract": "The purpose of this study is to analyze the optimal portfolio selection on companies that listed in IDX30 when measured by Capital Asset Pricing Model method 2016 2017 period to investment decision making. The data used are secondary data in accordance with the companies of the sample listed on the IDX (Indonesia Stock Exchange) and Bank Indonesia. The research method used is descriptive method. The sampling technique used purposive sampling by taking samples of 15 companies. The results show that efficient stock companies are stocks that have an individual realization return rate greater than expected returns [Ri> E (Ri) or [Ri> E (Rj) During the period of research from 2016 2017 there were 10 stocks of efficient companies, while five other shares were included into inefficient companies. Stock prices that are included in the efficient stock group, will increase so that the return realization is high which is directly proportional to the value of beta. Thus, investors should invest in efficient stock groups.", "corpus_id": 169464105, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Julia Wahyu Ciptaningrum", "Mba Sri Padmantyo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "156594185", "title": "EVALUATING PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE OF COMPANIES'STOCK LISTED IN LQ45 BASED ON SHARPE, TREYNOR AND JENSEN METHOD EVALUASI KINERJA PORTOFOLIO SAHAM PERUSAHAAN PADA LQ45 BERDASARKAN METODE SHARPE, TREYNOR DAN JENSEN", "abstract": "Capital market activity has an important role in developing the national economy, in order to enter the financial market, the investor needs to know about the risk in the capital market itself and determine the best stock to be taken. There are three common methods of analysis such as Sharpe ratio, Trenor ratio and Jensen's alpha which are sometimes confuse the investor in order to take which one of these three is the better method. This research objective is to identify whether there is a difference of portfolio performance among these three methods on LQ 45 by analyzing the performance of each sampling stock from LQ 45. This research was using Z score standardized to standardized these three method and after that used one way ANOVA to find whether there is any difference among these three methods or not. Conclusion this research showed no difference between any of these three methods. Any of this method can be used by the investor to analyze the ratio of portfolio performance. As a recommendation, using these three methods simultaneously can provide better information for manager as part of investment management process.", "corpus_id": 156594185, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Vernando A Zakarias", "Ferdinand J Tumewu" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "168115693", "title": "OPPORTUNITIES FOR DETERMINING THE EFFICIENCY CURVE IN THE PORTOFOLIO OF COMPANIES LISTED ON BUCHAREST STOCK EXCHANGE", "abstract": "This article is organized in four parts. The first part presents theoretical aspects on determining the efficiency curve and the steps to be taken on this. The second part begins with a case study presenting the methods of determining the efficiency curve of a stock portfolio, in the case of several entities listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. The third part shows how useful Microsoft Excel is to determine the Markovitz efficiency curve of a stock portfolio. On completion of this work, we present the findings on the methods of determining the Markovitz efficiency curve using Microsoft Excel, and their related interpretations.", "corpus_id": 168115693, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Hada Teodor", "Dumitrescu Daniela Ionela" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "169425389", "title": "Analisis Investasi Melalui Penetapan Portofolio Saham Optimal Pada Saham LQ 45 Bursa Efek Indonesia (The Analysis of Invesment by Determination Optimal Portofolio of LQ 45 at Indonesian Stock Exchange)", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 169425389, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Ahmad Denny Firdausy" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "157129064", "title": "POST EARNING ANNOUNCEMENT DRIFT PADA PORTOFOLIO VALUE STOCK DAN GLAMOUR STOCK", "abstract": "Dalam pasar modal terdapat beberapa anomali pasar dan salah satunya adalah post earning announcement drift. Anomali ini terjadi karena adanya inefisiensi pasar yang menyebabkan terjadinya ketidakjelasan arah abnormal return pasca pengumuman laporan keuangan. Post earning announcement drift ini dapat dilihat dengan cara menghitung EAAR (earning announcement abnormal return) kemudian mengelompokkan saham kedalam 2 kelompok EAAR yaitu dan Tidak hanya itu, setelah selesai mengelompokkan saham kedalam kedua kelompok EAAR, maka setelah itu dilakukan perhitungan drift yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui tingkat post earning announcement drift pada masing masing kelompok saham. Kelompok saham yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu kelompok saham value stock dan glamour stock dimana keduanya merupakan dua kelompok saham yang menarik untuk diteliti. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana perbedaan post earning announcement drift pada value stock dan glamour stock di Indonesia dengan jangka waktu penelitian dari tahun 2009 sampai dengan 2011. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu dengan menggunakan Uji Beda dengan menggunakan SPSS 21 dan sektor yang diteliti yaitu sektor manufaktur. Hasil yang diperoleh yaitu terdapat perbedaan post earning announcement drift pada value stock dan glamour stock", "corpus_id": 157129064, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Marcella Averica Mulya" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "108416144", "title": "PEMBENTUKAN PORTOFOLIO YANG EFISIEN PADA SAHAM PERUSAHAAN PROPERTI YANG TERCATAT PADA BURSA EFEK INDONESIA (FORMATION OF EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO IN STOCK COMPANY PROPERTY LISTED ON THE INDONESIAN STOCK EXCHANGE)", "abstract": "Pemilihan sekuritas dalam investasi dimaksudkan untuk mendapatkan keuntungan dan mengurangi kemungkinan risiko. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk menganalisis tingkat keuntungan rata rata yang diharapkan dan kemungkinan risiko baik dari sekuritas maupun portofolio serta memberikan alternatif pemilihan portofolio efisien. Objek penelitian berupa sekuritas sektor properti saham PT Lika, PT Suma dan PT Cide. Variabel penelitian berupa tingkat keuntungan yang diharapkan serta tingkat risiko yang diterima oleh investor dari suatu pilihan investasi. Penelitian menggunakan data sekunder berupa saham properti yang terdaftar dalam Bursa Efek Indonesia, meliputi pergerakan harga saham bulanan, dari Januari 2009 sampai dengan Desember 2011. Alat analisis untuk menentukan portofolio yang efisien menggunakan metode Markowitz, dan berdasarkan masalah keuntungan yang diharapkan dari sekuritas dan Varians (2) atau suatu ukuran penyerapan dari penyebaran peluang. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diindikasikan bahwa bagi pencari risiko, portofolio paling efisien terdapat pada proporsi saham PT Lika 25% PT Suma 50% dan PT Cide 25% Portofolio tersebut menghasilkan penerimaan yang bisa diharapkan terbesar, yaitu 2,19% dan tingkat risiko 15,88% Sebaliknya bagi penghindar risiko, portofolio paling efisien adalah proporsi saham PT Lika 30% PT Suma 20% dan PT Cide 50% Portofolio tersebut mempunyai pengembalian yang bisa diharapkan sebesar 0.0210870 dan tingkat risiko terkecil 11,24%", "corpus_id": 108416144, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Komsi Koranti" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "152351380", "title": "Analisis Kinerja Portofolio Saham Subsektor Perkebunan Dengan Sharpe Measure, Treynor Measure, dan Jensen Measure (Stock Portfolio Performance Analysis in Estate Crop SubsectorUsing Sharpe Measure, Treynor Measure, and Jensen Measure)", "abstract": "Investors form a stock portfolio in order to gainreturns from several sources and distribute possible risks.Several methods are required when forming a stock portfolioto measure and evaluate portfolio performance. The currentresearch showed different results of the Sharpe Measure,Treynor Measure, and Jensen Measure when measuring stockportfolio performance in estate crop companies listed inIndonesia Stock Exchange. The data used in this researchwere stock data of PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk. (AALI) PT PPLondon Sumatera Tbk. (LSIP) and PT Bakrie SumateraPlantation Tbk. (UNSP) data of stock composite index, andBank of Indonesia rate, taken from January 2006 to January2012. The Sharpe Measure result showed that best stockcombination came from portfolio of AALI and LSIP, while TheTreynor Measure and The Jensen Measure result showed thatthe best stock combination came from AALI and UNSP. Thedifference was caused by using of different risk variable in thecalculation of each measurement. This difference makesinvestors have chances to decide which method is suitable toinvestor perception of risk in forming portfolio. Keywords: portfolio, Sharpe, Treynor, Jensen.", "corpus_id": 152351380, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Artie Arditha Rachman", "Igo Febrianto" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "229793622", "title": "ANALISIS KINERIA PORTOFOLIO ANTARA GROWTH STOCK DAN VALUE STOCKStudi Empiris pada Saham LQ45 di Bursa Efek Indonesia", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 229793622, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Raden Andita Gunadarma", "Mba Eduardus Tandelilin" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "226160534", "title": "ANALISIS RASIONALITAS INVESTOR TERHADAP PEMILIHAN SAHAM DAN PENENTUAN PORTOFOLIO OPTIMAL DENGAN MODEL INDEKS TUNGGAL DI BEJ (Dengan ILQ 45 Sebagai Faktor Perhitungan)", "abstract": "The investor decide their large alternatives investation influenced by several factors. Particulary the stock investation would influenced by stock market condition correlated with stock pricing. Based on 17 stock which analized with an index model, it gets 3 stock in the portofolio optimal compasition. that compasitions trap on the stock from another industries sector. the result of this research have some conclusion with deciding optimal portofolio based on the an index models. key word retrun saham, Beta, Risk free, Excess return to beta, cut of rate, portofolio efisien, portofolio optimal, model indeks tunggal, indeks LQ 45", "corpus_id": 226160534, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Edy Suryawardana" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "222109584", "title": "Distance learning in clinical medical education amid COVID 19 pandemic in Jordan: current situation, challenges, and perspectives", "abstract": "Background As COVID 19 has been declared as a pandemic disease by the WHO on March 11th, 2020, the global incidence of COVID 19 disease increased dramatically. In response to the COVID 19 situation, Jordan announced the emergency state on the 19th of March, followed by the curfew on 21 March. All educational institutions have been closed as well as educational activities including clinical medical education have been suspended on the 15th of March. As a result, Distance E learning emerged as a new method of teaching to maintain the continuity of medical education during the COVID 19 pandemic related closure of educational institutions. Distance E Learning is defined as using computer technology to deliver training, including technology supported learning either online, offline, or both. Before this period, distance learning was not considered in Jordanian universities as a modality for education. This study aims to explore the situation of distance E learning among medical students during their clinical years and to identify possible challenges, limitations, satisfaction as well as perspectives for this approach to learning. Methods This cross sectional study is based on a questionnaire that was designed and delivered to medical students in their clinical years. For this study, the estimated sample size n 588) is derived from the online Raosoft sample size calculator. Results A total of 652 students have completed the questionnaire, among them, 538 students (82.5% have participated in distance learning in their medical schools amid COVID 19 pandemic. The overall satisfaction rate in medical distance learning was 26.8% and it was significantly higher in students with previous experience in distance learning in their medical schools as well as when instructors were actively participating in learning sessions, using multimedia and devoting adequate time for their sessions. The delivery of educational material using synchronous live streaming sessions represented the major modality of teaching and Internet streaming quality and coverage was the main challenge that was reported by 69.1% of students. Conclusion With advances in technologies and social media, distance learning is a new and rapidly growing approach for undergraduate, postgraduate, and health care providers. It may represent an optimal solution to maintain learning processes in exceptional and emergency situations such as COVID 19 pandemic. Technical and infrastructural resources reported as a major challenge for implementing distance learning, so understanding technological, financial, institutional, educators, and student barriers are essential for the successful implementation of distance learning in medical education.", "corpus_id": 222109584, "venue": "BMC medical education", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mahmoud Al-Balas", "Hasan Ibrahim Al-Balas", "Hatim M Jaber", "Khaled Obeidat", "Hamzeh Al-Balas", "Emad A Aborajooh", "Raed N Al-Taher", "Bayan Al-Balas" ], "n_citations": 73, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "218552592", "title": "Distance learning in the era of COVID 19", "abstract": "The novel coronavirus (SARS CoV 2) pandemic has necessitated a dramatic shift in how our dermatology residents and fellows are educated. Distance or online learning has become the norm, and several national and international academic societies have combined resources to assure that continuing medical education occurs during this difficult time. The purpose of this communication is to review select online resources available to dermatology trainees and to encourage our colleagues to continue to advance our specialty through distance learning.", "corpus_id": 218552592, "venue": "Archives of Dermatological Research", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Samantha L Schneider", "Martha Laurin Council" ], "n_citations": 63, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221569341", "title": "Students' Acceptance of the COVID 19 Impact on Shifting Higher Education to Distance Learning in Poland", "abstract": "This paper is dedicated to the higher education institutions shifting towards distance learning processes due to the global pandemic situation caused by COVID 19 in 2020. The paper covers the pandemic situation in Poland generally, analyzing governmental ordinances and tracking the gradual extension of restrictions for educational institutions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of Experience, Enjoyment, Computer Anxiety, and Self Efficacy on students' acceptance of shifting education to distance learning. The study tested and used the adapted General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E Learning (GETAMEL) in the context of coronavirus pandemic. The partial least squares method of structural equation modeling was employed to test the proposed research model. The study utilizes an online survey to obtain data from 1692 Polish undergraduate and graduate students in both full and part time study. The dataset was analyzed using SmartPLS 3 software. Results showed that the best predictor of student's acceptance of shifting education to distance learning is Enjoyment, followed by Self Efficacy. Both Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness predict student's Attitude Towards Using and Intention to Use the distance learning. The findings improve understanding regarding the acceptance of distance learning and this work is therefore of particular interest to teachers and practitioners of education.", "corpus_id": 221569341, "venue": "International journal of environmental research and public health", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mariia Rizun", "Artur Strzelecki" ], "n_citations": 42, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "229089247", "title": "Addressing Distance Learning Barriers in Indonesia Amid the Covid 19 Pandemic", "abstract": "Key Messages: The rapid spread of the Covid 19 pandemic has created a disruption in Indonesia's education sector as around 45 million students are unable to continue their learning activity in schools. The Ministry of Education and Culture (MOEC) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) need to consider distance learning approaches that are adjusted to regional characteristics. Distance learning exacerbates barriers of vulnerable students to access education, so diversification of the delivery medium beyond the Internet should be considered. Options may include radio programs or postal services for regions with low connectivity. Local governments need to take on a more active role in aiding the schools than initiatives by the central government. In addition to using existing School Operational Assistance (Bantuan Operasional Sekolah/BOS) funds, local education authorities need to provide schools with further financial support and technical assistance, such as access to recording studios and equipment, to accelerate their adoption of distance learning. Such assistance should not neglect private community schools. Indonesia needs to embark on a large scale capacity building program to better execute distance learning across regions. This requires updating the strategy and supervision on BOS utilization, upgrading capacities of school principals and allowing them to assume greater autonomy at schools, and equipping teachers with hard and soft skills for distance learning. The Covid 19 crisis demonstrates a need for large scale public private partnerships between relevant ministries (MOEC and MORA) and telecommunication and hardware providers. This builds on existing infrastructure to spread distance learning across the archipelago.", "corpus_id": 229089247, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Nadia Fairuza Azzahra" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "225586686", "title": "Teachers' Covid 19 Awareness, Distance Learning Education Experiences and Perceptions towards Institutional Readiness and Challenges", "abstract": "Amidst the threat of COVID 19 pandemic in the Philippines, the educators, students, and the school are still coping and adjusting to the distance learning education. This study explored teachers' awareness about the COVID 19 pandemic and their opinion on their respective schools' readiness, as well as their response to the challenges of conducting distance learning education in the Philippines. A validated questionnaire was developed to collect the relevant data for this study. The initial reliability test obtained 8.9 Cronbach's alpha. Data gathering procedure was done through Google forms, which, after validation from the respective DepEd divisions and universities, were subsequently sent to the teachers via email. The results show that the teachers were highly aware of the presence and consequences caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. The correlation between teacher's demographic profiles and awareness to COVID 19 shows no relationship at all. Nevertheless, the length of teaching experience and specialization is very strongly correlated to readiness to distance learning education. Simultaneously, the teachers' geographic location is strongly correlated to readiness to adapt to distance learning education. Furthermore, only the teachers' gender has a significant difference in their awareness of the COVID 19 pandemic. In contrast, teachers' gender, length of teaching experience, and geographic location have significant differences with their readiness to distance learning education. This study can be used as a basis for further research particularly in developing institutional plans to better understand the status of their teachers and educational organizations, and schools' readiness to teach and learn through distance learning approach; hence, preserving and continuing educational mission during the current or future pandemic as well as be prepared for any natural disasters. https:/doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.6.8", "corpus_id": 225586686, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Aris Alea Lapada", "Frosyl F Miguel", "Dave Arthur Roldan Robledo", "Zeba F Alam" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "225509315", "title": "Attempts, Successes, and Failures of Distance Learning in the Time of COVID 19", "abstract": "Over 1.7 billion students around the world have had their education disrupted by the spread of the Coronavirus disease worldwide. Schools and universities have not faced this level of disruption since World War II. The COVID 19 pandemic presented a colossal challenge for teachers to urgently and massively adapt all their classes to distance learning in order to maintain educational continuity with the same quality. Even if some teachers and certain classes were ready to face the situation, a large majority had to adapt their teaching and learning in a very short time without training, with insufficient bandwidth, and with little preparation. This unexpected and rapid transition to online learning has led to a multiplication of teachers' strategies for distance learning in lectures, tutorials, project groups, lab works, and assessments. The purpose of this paper is to present the feedback from students and teachers who participated in the lockdown semester of two different groups of a 5 year program in Chemistry, Environment and Chemical Engineering (100 students) at INSA Toulouse (France) The analysis has highlighted some great successes and some failures in the solutions proposed. Consequently, some guidelines can be given to help us all to learn the lessons of such a singular experience in order to face the unexpected future with more knowledge and more successful distance learning. Teachers have shown very strong resilience during this crisis, at the cost of significant personal commitment. They admit that they have learned more about distance education in two months than in the last 10 years.", "corpus_id": 225509315, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Nicolas Dietrich", "Kalyani Kentheswaran", "Aras Ahmadi", "Johanne Teychene", "Yolaine Bessiere", "Sandrine Alfenore", "Stephanie Laborie", "Dominique Bastoul", "Karine Loubiere", "Christelle Guigui", "Mathieu Sperandio", "Ligia Barna", "Etienne Paul", "Corinne Cabassud", "Alain Line", "Gilles Hebrard" ], "n_citations": 37, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225494193", "title": "Indonesia Education Readiness Conducting Distance Learning in Covid 19 Pandemic Situation", "abstract": "At the end of 2019 China was shocked by a very deadly virus outbreak, Covid 19. Then in 2020, this virus outbreak became a global pandemic that resulted in many life settings being forced to change suddenly, one of which was teaching and learning activities in schools. Indonesia also immediately adjusts the conditions to minimize the spread of this virus. Schools and universities agreed to change learning activities towards distance learning systems. However, the poor implementation has actually made the situation worse, where students feel a lot of stress due to distance learning management is not done comprehensively. This article aims to analyze the implementation of distance learning systems carried out by Indonesian education in the Covid 19 pandemic situation. Literature studies from various reports and scientific articles as well as in depth interviews were also conducted with samples of students, teachers and parents, both in rural and urban environments in Indonesia which were most affected by the Covid 19 virus. The results of the analysis conclude that Indonesia has prepared virtual infrastructure well, but the factors of teachers and schools still need to understand more about the essence of distance learning. Students have low self regulated learning so they are less able to regulate their distance learning activities, teachers tend to stutter about technology, and parents lack understanding of the nature of teaching and learning activities carried out at home.", "corpus_id": 225494193, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Madziatul Churiyah", "Sholikhan Sholikhan", "Filianti Filianti", "Dewi Ayu Sakdiyyah" ], "n_citations": 29, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "146332981", "title": "THE PROCESS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING IN DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSES", "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to develop a theory about the process through which community formed in adult computer mediated asynchronous distance learning classes. A grounded theory design incorporated archived class input as well as interviews with twenty one students and three faculty members from three graduate level distance education classes.A three stage phenomenon was ascertained. The first stage was making friends on line with whom students felt comfortable communicating. The second stage was community conferment (acceptance) which occurred when students were part of a long, thoughtful, threaded discussion on a subject of importance after which participants felt both personal satisfaction and kinship. The third stage was camaraderie which was achieved after long term or intense association with others involving personal communication. Each of these stages involved a greater degree of engagement in both the class and the dialogue.Causal conditions, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences were enumerated. A visual model of the entire process of community building was advanced. Benefits of community were noted, and suggestions were made to facilitate the formation of an on line community.", "corpus_id": 146332981, "venue": "Online Learning", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ruth E Brown" ], "n_citations": 75, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219095137", "title": "Analysis of the current state of distance learning in the vocational education and training institutions", "abstract": "The article presents the clarified concepts' system in the context of the stated research theme, the current state of skilled workers' and junior specialists' distance learning in the Ukrainian vocational education and training institutions. The received data shows: education institutions' regional affiliation and profiles; education institutions' teaching staff experience in using distance learning technologies in teaching; their assessment of prospects of distance learning implementation in the Ukrainian VET system; teaching staff willingness to improve their distance learning technology mastering. The empirical data were obtained, analysed and systemized by conducting the e survey using Google Forms web service with restricted access to the form. The results of the SWOT analysis are presented; distance vocational learning implementation strengths, problems, opportunities and threats are summarized. The levels of teachers' readiness to implement distance vocational learning are revealed by diagnosis results. The proposals concerning the constructive solution of distance learning implementation in the skilled workers' and junior specialists' vocational education and training system are formulated and presented.", "corpus_id": 219095137, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Larysa Petrenko", "Svitlana Kravets", "Oleksandr Bazeliuk", "Liudmyla Maiboroda", "Ivan O Muzyka" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199417082", "title": "A Shift from Classroom to Distance Learning: Advantages and Limitations", "abstract": "As there is a great improvement in technology, the demand for innovative ways of delivering education is increasing and this has led to changes in learning and teaching methods. Distance education, which is so different from traditional education, consists of studying from home where students and teachers are physically distant while classroom learning is the type of education system in which the learners and the teachers work under one roof. Electronic means are used to keep students in touch with teachers, provide access to communication between students and bridge the gap and distribute educational material though distance learning programs. Both learning systems have their own advantages and disadvantages. Choosing between these two learning methods highly depends on learners' requirements. In this paper, the researcher aims to discuss history and theories of distance learning, review literature on distant learning, state advantages and disadvantages of distance learning, express implications of the study to learners and teachers, and finally mention suggestions for improving distance learning.", "corpus_id": 199417082, "venue": "International Journal of Research in English Education", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Manijeh Sadeghi" ], "n_citations": 56, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "7745989", "title": "QoS aware middleware for Web services composition", "abstract": "The paradigmatic shift from a Web of manual interactions to a Web of programmatic interactions driven by Web services is creating unprecedented opportunities for the formation of online business to business (B2B) collaborations. In particular, the creation of value added services by composition of existing ones is gaining a significant momentum. Since many available Web services provide overlapping or identical functionality, albeit with different quality of service (QoS) a choice needs to be made to determine which services are to participate in a given composite service. This paper presents a middleware platform which addresses the issue of selecting Web services for the purpose of their composition in a way that maximizes user satisfaction expressed as utility functions over QoS attributes, while satisfying the constraints set by the user and by the structure of the composite service. Two selection approaches are described and compared: one based on local (task level) selection of services and the other based on global allocation of tasks to services using integer programming.", "corpus_id": 7745989, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Liangzhao Zeng", "Boualem Benatallah", "Anne H H Ngu", "Marlon Dumas", "Jayant Kalagnanam", "Henry Chang" ], "n_citations": 2867, "n_key_citations": 303, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "7017773", "title": "Middleware for Internet of Things: A Survey", "abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) envisages a future in which digital and physical things or objects (e.g. smartphones, TVs, cars) can be connected by means of suitable information and communication technologies, to enable a range of applications and services. The IoT's characteristics, including an ultra large scale network of things, device and network level heterogeneity, and large numbers of events generated spontaneously by these things, will make development of the diverse applications and services a very challenging task. In general, middleware can ease a development process by integrating heterogeneous computing and communications devices, and supporting interoperability within the diverse applications and services. Recently, there have been a number of proposals for IoT middleware. These proposals mostly addressed wireless sensor networks (WSNs) a key component of IoT, but do not consider RF identification (RFID) machine to machine (M2M) communications, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) other three core elements in the IoT vision. In this paper, we outline a set of requirements for IoT middleware, and present a comprehensive review of the existing middleware solutions against those requirements. In addition, open research issues, challenges, and future research directions are highlighted.", "corpus_id": 7017773, "venue": "IEEE Internet of Things Journal", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mohammad Abdur Razzaque", "Marija Milojevic-Jevric", "Andrei Palade", "Siobhan Clarke" ], "n_citations": 696, "n_key_citations": 47, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "12511357", "title": "IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies", "abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) provides the ability for humans and computers to learn and interact from billions of things that include sensors, actuators, services, and other Internet connected objects. The realization of IoT systems will enable seamless integration of the cyber world with our physical world and will fundamentally change and empower human interaction with the world. A key technology in the realization of IoT systems is middleware, which is usually described as a software system designed to be the intermediary between IoT devices and applications. In this paper, we first motivate the need for an IoT middleware via an IoT application designed for real time prediction of blood alcohol content using smartwatch sensor data. This is then followed by a survey on the capabilities of the existing IoT middleware. We further conduct a thorough analysis of the challenges and the enabling technologies in developing an IoT middleware that embraces the heterogeneity of IoT devices and also supports the essential ingredients of composition, adaptability, and security aspects of an IoT system.", "corpus_id": 12511357, "venue": "IEEE Internet of Things Journal", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Anne H H Ngu", "Mario Gutierrez", "Vangelis Metsis", "Surya Nepal", "Quan Z Sheng" ], "n_citations": 447, "n_key_citations": 20, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4865015", "title": "A Reference Model for Internet of Things Middleware", "abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe an environment where billions of objects, constrained in terms of resources \"things\" are connected to the Internet, and interacting autonomously. With so many objects connected in IoT solutions, the environment in which they are placed becomes smarter. A software, called middleware, plays a key role since it is responsible for most of the intelligence in IoT, integrating data from devices, allowing them to communicate, and make decisions based on collected data. Then, considering requirements of IoT platforms, a reference architecture model for IoT middleware is analyzed, detailing the best operation approaches of each proposed module, as well as proposes basic security features for this type of software. This paper elaborates on a systematic review of the related literature, exploring the differences between the current Internet and IoT based systems, presenting a deep discussion of the challenges and future perspectives on IoT middleware. Finally, it highlights the difficulties for achieving and enforcing a universal standard. Thus, it is concluded that middleware plays a crucial role in IoT solutions and the proposed architectural approach can be used as a reference model for IoT middleware.", "corpus_id": 4865015, "venue": "IEEE Internet of Things Journal", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mauro A A da Cruz", "Joel J P C Rodrigues", "Jalal Al-Muhtadi", "Valery V Korotaev", "Victor Hugo C de Albuquerque" ], "n_citations": 161, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4394780", "title": "Performance evaluation of IoT middleware", "abstract": "Connected objects in a billion scale are expected in the Internet of Things (IoT) These objects (things) are interacting autonomously, with minimal human intervention and connected to the Internet. Most of these objects are constrained in terms of resources, meaning that their intelligence is delegated to a smarter player, a software, identified as middleware. It is present in most IoT scenarios because it solves interoperability problems, allowing previously incompatible devices to communicate, while also integrates and makes decisions based on collected data. This paper presents a performance evaluation study of open source middleware solutions, including a proprietary solution developed at Inatel for the Inatel Smart Campus. Performance metrics, both qualitative and quantitative to evaluate middleware solutions objectively are also proposed. The results are analyzed and it is concluded that the proposed metrics are well adjusted for this type of platforms and can play a key role when choosing the best middleware solution to deploy in a given IoT solution. Sitewhere is the middleware platform that obtained better performance in the study. An overview of IoT middleware and their importance was highlighted and presented.Proposal of qualitative and quantitative metrics to objectively evaluate the performance of IoT middleware solutions.A performance evaluation study in a real scenario of open source middleware solutions is conducted using the proposed metrics.Invaluable learned lessons during the study are included and presented for readers.", "corpus_id": 4394780, "venue": "J. Netw. Comput. Appl.", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mauro A A da Cruz", "Joel J P C Rodrigues", "Arun Kumar Sangaiah", "Jalal Al-Muhtadi", "Valery V Korotaev" ], "n_citations": 55, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "16835485", "title": "Performance evaluation of MQTT and CoAP via a common middleware", "abstract": "Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) typically consist of sensor nodes and gateways that operate on devices with limited resources. As a result, WSNs require bandwidth efficient and energy efficient application protocols for data transmission. Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) are two such protocols proposed for resource constrained devices. In this paper, we design and implement a common middleware that supports MQTT and CoAP and provides a common programming interface. We design the middleware to be extensible to support future protocols. Using the common middleware, we conducted experiments to study the performance of MQTT and CoAP in terms of end to end delay and bandwidth consumption. Experimental results reveal that MQTT messages have lower delay than CoAP messages at lower packet loss rates and higher delay than CoAP messages at higher loss rates. Moreover, when the message size is small and the loss rate is equal to or less than 25% CoAP generates lower additional traffic than MQTT to ensure message reliability.", "corpus_id": 16835485, "venue": "2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Dinesh Thangavel", "Xiaoping Ma", "Alvin C Valera", "Hwee-Xian Tan", "Colin Keng-Yan Tan" ], "n_citations": 332, "n_key_citations": 28, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "35445277", "title": "Towards a trust evaluation middleware for cloud service selection", "abstract": "With the advent of cloud computing, employing various cloud services to build highly reliable cloud applications has become increasingly popular. The trustworthiness of cloud services is a critical issue that hinders the development of cloud applications, and thus is an urgently required research problem. Previous studies evaluate trustworthiness of services via either QoS monitoring mechanisms or user feedback ratings, while seldom they combine both of them for enhancing service trust evaluation. This paper proposes a trustworthy selection framework for cloud service selection, named TRUSS. Aiming at developing an effective trust evaluation middleware for TRUSS, we propose an integrated trust evaluation method via combining objective trust assessment and subjective trust assessment. The objective trust assessment is based on QoS monitoring, while the subjective trust assessment is based on user feedback ratings. Experiments conducted using a synthesized dataset show that our proposed method significantly outperforms the other trust and reputation methods. A trustworthy cloud service selection framework is proposed.An objective trust measure based on QoS monitoring is proposed.A subjective trust measure based on user feedback ratings is proposed.Integrating objective and subjective trust assessment improves the performance.", "corpus_id": 35445277, "venue": "Future Gener. Comput. Syst.", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Mingdong Tang", "Xiaoling Dai", "Jianxun Liu", "Jinjun Chen" ], "n_citations": 89, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "27410217", "title": "Middleware Technologies for Cloud of Things a survey", "abstract": "Abstract The next wave of communication and applications will rely on new services provided by the Internet of Things which is becoming an important aspect in human and machines future. IoT services are a key solution for providing smart environments in homes, buildings, and cities. In the era of massive number of connected things and objects with high growth rate, several challenges have been raised, such as management, aggregation, and storage for big produced data. To address some of these issues, cloud computing emerged to the IoT as Cloud of Things (CoT) which provides virtually unlimited cloud services to enhance the large scale IoT platforms. There are several factors to be considered in the design and implementation of a CoT platform. One of the most important and challenging problems is the heterogeneity of different objects. This problem can be addressed by deploying a suitable \"middleware\" which sits between things and applications as a reliable platform for communication among things with different interfaces, operating systems, and architectures. The main aim of this paper is to study the middleware technologies for CoT. Toward this end, we first present the main features and characteristics of middlewares. Next, we study different architecture styles and service domains. Then, we present several middlewares that are suitable for CoT based platforms and finally, a list of current challenges and issues in the design of CoT based middlewares is discussed.", "corpus_id": 27410217, "venue": "ArXiv", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Amirhossein Farahzadia", "Pooyan Shams", "Javad Rezazadeh", "Reza Farahbakhsh" ], "n_citations": 79, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "5754838", "title": "Fog Computing: The Cloud IoT\\/IoE Middleware Paradigm", "abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technological revolution that represents the future of connectivity and reachability. In the IoT, things refer to any object on the face of the Earth, whether it is a communicating device or a noncommunicating \"dumb\" object. From a smart device to a leaf of a tree or a beverage bottle, anything can be part of the Internet. The objects become communicating nodes over the Internet through data communication means, primarily through radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The IoT includes smart objects as well. Smart objects are digital, physical entities, which perform some tasks for humans and/or the environment. This is why the IoT is not only a hardware and software paradigm but also includes interaction and social aspects.", "corpus_id": 5754838, "venue": "IEEE Potentials", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mohammad Aazam", "Eui-nam Huh" ], "n_citations": 147, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "116283606", "title": "A Microservice based Middleware for the Digital Factory", "abstract": "Abstract In recent years a considerable effort has been spent by research and industrial communities in the digitalization of production environments with the main objective of achieving a new automation paradigm, more flexible, responsive to changes, and safe. This paper presents the architecture, and discusses the benefits, of a distributed middleware prototype supporting a new generation of smart factory enabled applications with special attention paid to simulation tools. Devised within the scope of MAYA EU project, the proposed platform aims at being the first solution capable of empowering shop floor Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) providing an environment for their Digital Twin along the whole plant life cycle. The platform implements a microservice IoT Big Data architecture supporting the distributed publication of multidisciplinary simulation models, managing in an optimized way streams of data coming from the shop floor for real digital synchronization, ensuring security and confidentiality of sensible data.", "corpus_id": 116283606, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Michele Ciavotta", "Marino Alge", "Silvia Menato", "Diego Rovere", "Paolo Pedrazzoli" ], "n_citations": 44, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "171444945", "title": "Brisure de symetrie et nombres de lychrel", "abstract": "Nous montrons que l'existence des nombres de Lychrel est due a une brisure de symetrie dans l'espace des nombres.", "corpus_id": 171444945, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Latifa Ait Abida", "Aymane Sghiar", "Ilies Sghiar", "Mohamed Sghiar" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "125500848", "title": "Conjecture that there is no a Square of an Odd Number to be as Well Lychrel Number", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following two conjectures: (I) There exist an infinity of squares of odd numbers n^2 such that n^2 R(n^2) where R(n^2) is the number obtained reversing the digits of n^2, is a palindromic number; (II) There is no a square of an odd number to be as well Lychrel number. Note that a Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers (process sometimes called the 196 algorithm, 196 being the smallest such number) see the sequence A023108 in OEIS.", "corpus_id": 125500848, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "126118056", "title": "Conjecture that there is no a Poulet Number to be as Well Lychrel Number", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following two conjectures: (I) There exist an infinity of Poulet numbers P such that P R(P) where R(P) is the number obtained reversing the digits of P, is a palindromic number; (II) There is no a Poulet number to be as well Lychrel number. Note that a Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers (process sometimes called the 196 algorithm, 196 being the smallest such number) see the sequence A023108 in OEIS.", "corpus_id": 126118056, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212526115", "title": "SECURED AND RELIABLE DATA TRANSMISSION USING LYCHREL NUMBERS RGB COLORS AND ONE TIME PASSWORD", "abstract": "The main objective of Securing data transmission by xml using lychrel numbers, RGB colors and one time password. The universal technique for providing Cryptography is the primary technique to assure data security. This scheme provides various factors to encrypt and decrypt the data using a key such as Lychrel numbers and RGB colors as the password. There are three keys used to provide secure and reliable data transmission with the RGB colors which is a primary security element which provides authentication. Here colors and Time based one time key are been used as the password for authentication process. Lychrel numbers are used to encrypt and then decrypt the data that is to be transmitted.", "corpus_id": 212526115, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "R Vanathi", "L Dhanam", "Krishnamoorthy Senthilnathan", "M S Vinu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "125735900", "title": "Three Sequences of Palindromes Obtained from Poulet Numbers", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following two conjectures: (I) There exist an infinity of Poulet numbers P such that (P 4*196) R(P 4*196) where R(n) is the number obtained reversing the digits of n, is a palindromic number; note that I wrote 4*196 instead 784 because 196 is a number known to be related with palindromes: is the first Lychrel number, which gives the name to the \"196 algorithm\" (II) For every Poulet number P there exist an infinity of primes q such that the number (P 16*q^2) R(P 16*q^2) is a palindrome. The three sequences (presumed infinite by the conjectures above) mentioned in title of the paper are: (1) Palindromes of the form (P 4*196) R(P 4*196) where P is a Poulet number; (2) Palindromes of the form (P 16*q^2) R(P 16*q^2) where P is a Poulet number and q the least prime for which is obtained such a palindrome; (3) Palindromes of the form (1729 16*q^2) R(1729 16*q^2) where q is prime (1729 is a well known Poulet number)", "corpus_id": 125735900, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "126357782", "title": "Three Sequences of Palindromes Obtained from Squares of Primes", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following two conjectures: (I) There exist an infinity of squares of primes p^2 such that (p^2 4*196) R(p^2 4*196) where R(n) is the number obtained reversing the digits of n, is a palindromic number; note that I wrote 4*196 instead 784 because 196 is a number known to be related with palindromes: is the first Lychrel number, which gives the name to the \"196 algorithm\" (II) For every square of odd prime p^2 there exist an infinity of primes q such that the number (p^2 16*q^2) R(p^2 16*q^2) is a palindrome. The three sequences (presumed infinite by the conjectures above) mentioned in title of the paper are: (1) Palindromes of the form (p^2 4*196) R(p^2 4*196) where p^2 is a square of prime; (2) Palindromes of the form (p^2 16*q^2) R(p^2 16*q^2) where p^2 is a square of prime and q the least prime for which is obtained such a palindrome; (3) Palindromes of the form (13^2 16*q^2) R(13^2 16*q^2) where q is prime.", "corpus_id": 126357782, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "126090598", "title": "Number P^2 Q^2 Where P and Q Primes Needs Very Few Iterations of \"reverse and Add\" to Reach a Palindrome", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following observation: the number n p^2 q^2, where p and q are primes, needs very few iterations of \"reverse and add\" to reach a palindrome. For instance, taking q 563 and p 104723, it can be seen that only 3 iterations are needed to reach a palindrome: n 104723^2 563^6 10966589760 and we have: 10966589760 6798566901 17765156661; 17765156661 16665156771 34430313432 and 34430313432 23431303443 57861616875, a palindromic number. So, relying on this, I conjecture that there exist an infinity of n, even considering q and p successive, that need just one such iteration to reach a palindrome (see sequence A015976 in OEIS for these numbers) and I also conjecture that there is no a difference between two squares of primes to be a Lychrel number.", "corpus_id": 126090598, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "125945928", "title": "Number P Q Where P and Q Poulet Numbers Needs Very Few Iterations of \"reverse and Add\" to Reach a Palindrome", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following observation: the number n p q, where p and q are Poulet numbers, needs very few iterations of \"reverse and add\" to reach a palindrome. For instance, taking q 1729 and p 999986341201, it can be seen that only 3 iterations are needed to reach a palindrome: n 999986341201 1729 999986339472 and we have: 999986339472 274933689999 1274920029471; 1274920029471 1749200294721 3024120324192 and 3024120324192 2914230214203 5938350538395, a palindromic number. So, relying on this, I conjecture that there exist an infinity of n, even considering q and p successive, that need just one such iteration to reach a palindrome (see sequence A015976 in OEIS for these numbers) and I also conjecture that there is no a difference between two Poulet numbers to be a Lychrel number.", "corpus_id": 125945928, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "126316671", "title": "Palindromes Obtained Concatenating the Prime Factors of a Poulet Number and Adding to the Number Obtained Its Reversal", "abstract": "In this paper I make the following two conjectures: (I) There exist an infinity of Poulet numbers P such that D R(D) where R(D) is the number obtained reversing the digits of D which is the number obtained concatenating the prime factors of P, is a palindromic number (example: such a Poulet number is P 12801; the prime factors of 12801 are 3, 17 and 251, then D 317251 and D R(D) 317251 152713 469964, a palindromic number) (II) There is no a number obtained concatenating the prime factors of a Poulet number to be a Lychrel number.", "corpus_id": 126316671, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marius Coman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "58655357", "title": "Secured And Reliable Data Transmission UsingLychrel Numbers Rgb Colors And One TimePassword", "abstract": "The main objective of Securing data transmission by xml using lychrel numbers, RGB colors and one time password. The universal technique for providing Cryptography is the primary technique to assure data security. This scheme provides various factors to encrypt and decrypt the data using a key such as Lychrel numbers and RGB colors as the password. There are three keys used to provide secure and reliable data transmission with the RGB colors which is a primary security element which provides authentication. Here colors and Time based one time key are been used as the password for authentication process. Lychrel numbers are used to encrypt and then decrypt the data that is to be transmitted.", "corpus_id": 58655357, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "P S Dhivya", "S Mohana Gowri", "Mr Vijay Kumar" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "181935213", "title": "The size controllable preparation of chitosan/silver nanoparticle composite microsphere and its antimicrobial performance.", "abstract": "The control of chitosan/silver nanoparticle composite microsphere (CAgMs) size is crucial for tuning its function. In the current work, monodisperse organically modified CAgMs with controllable size were synthesized using a two step method. The fine tuning of the microsphere size was confirmed by many reaction parameters while the cross linking agent was the key research object. Through physical and thermodynamic analysis, we found the cross linking agent induced smaller size, higher silver concentration, more heightened glass transition temperature and stronger hydrogen bond network. The as prepared microspheres exhibited strong bacteriostasis and fresh keeping function depending on cross linking agent concentration. The phenomenon is believed to be derived from the difference in microorganism adsorption and killing ability from induced varying specific surface area and encapsulated silver content. Our current work highlights the size controllable preparation of CAgMs, and based on our findings, small size CAgMs can be a promising candidate in the field of antibacterial and fruit preservation applications.", "corpus_id": 181935213, "venue": "Carbohydrate polymers", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jun Liang", "Jiaxin Wang", "Saijie Li", "Lu Xu", "Rui Wang", "Ruipeng Chen", "Yunfeng Sun" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 }, { "doc_id": "218663917", "title": "Synthesis and Anti/Bacteriostasis of Nano Silver Composites Based Modified Chitosan", "abstract": "Objective: To prepare chitosan N vinylpyrrolidone graft copolymer (CTS g PVP) and its composites material loaded Nano silver particles by using CTS g PVP as Template. Through the experiments about anti/bacteriostasis and biocompatibility, the composites materials were evaluated the possibility of being used as a cosmetic anticorrosion agent. Methods: Nano Ag@CTS g PVP was synthesized using in situ method, and explored the antibacterial effect of it's by K B Method. The biosafety was also evaluated by the chick embryo allantoic membrane test. Results: Nano Ag@CTS g PVP was synthesized in 0.75% aqueous solution of CTS g PVP. The size of torispherical nano silver particles are about 20 nm to 30 nm. The particles dispersed evenly in composites material with the amount of nano silver in 1.51%wt. The composite material shows good biocompatibility and anti/bacteriostasis by using either alone or in the compound. Conclusions: With good anti/bacteriostasis effect and low irritation, Nano Ag@CTS g PVP would have been used in the field of cosmetics.", "corpus_id": 218663917, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Bo Cai", "Yumei Chen", "Jun Leng", "Yi Liu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 5 }, { "doc_id": "109597354", "title": "Chitosan orange peel essential oil composite plastic wrap with bacteriostasis?functions", "abstract": "The invention discloses a chitosan orange peel essential oil antibacterial wrap, and a preparation method thereof, wherein the antibacterial wrap contains chitosan and orange peel essential oil. The chitosan orange peel essential oil antibacterial wrap plays the fresh keeping effect, improves the bacteriostasis action, and is rich in orange flavor, so that the wrap can be used as the wrap capable of removing peculiar smell in a storage container. The preparation method is simple and synergistic?bacteriostasis effect can be achieved.", "corpus_id": 109597354, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "140007194", "title": "Preparation process of modified chitosan composite gel moisture retention adhesive bandage", "abstract": "The present invention relates to a preparation process of a modified chitosan composite gel moisture retention adhesive bandage, which comprises a nonwoven layer, a moisture retention layer and a protective layer from bottom to top, wherein the moisture retention layer consists of a modified chitosan gel. The preparation process designs the preparation method of the adhesive bandage. The adhesive bandage has the characteristics of bacteriostasis, inflammation relief, bleeding and pain stopping, and no wound adhesion, and provides a moist environment to accelerate wound healing, and mitigates the physic and spirit pain of the patients.", "corpus_id": 140007194, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "139903275", "title": "Chitosan composite mask", "abstract": "The utility model discloses a chitosan composite mask. The chitosan composite mask comprises a cover body and a tying belt. The cover body is composed of an outer surface layer, an inner surface layer and a middle layer. The middle layer comprises an activated carbon layer and a chitosan layer. Due to the fact that activated carbon has very good absorbing performance, and chitosan has very good absorbing performance and very good antimicrobial performance, in the use process of the mask, the mask can well absorb suspended particles in the air and harmful gas in the air, and meanwhile can play a role in bacteriostasis and sterilization, prevent bacterium from breeding in the mask, and play a role in protection.", "corpus_id": 139903275, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "137222519", "title": "Evaluation of the Preparation and Biocompatibility of Poly(vinyl Alcohol)(PVA)/Chitosan Composite Electrospun Membranes", "abstract": "Electrospinning has been used in a wide variety of applications, such as tissue engineering, filtration and biomaterial scaffolds for vascular grafts or wound dressings. Recently, wound dressings have become more important in human life. They must have the superior biocompatibility, water absorption, water vapor permeation and antibacterial ability. Chitosan has been employed in clinical applications and exhibits excellent biocompatibility, biodegradation and bacteriostasis. In this investigation OR study, experiments were performed on a series of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/Chitosan (CS) fiber membranes at various blend ratios and electric fields to evaluate their spinnability. The morphology, diameter and structure of electrospun nanofibers were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) When PVA/Chitosan=80:20 and electric field=0.67 kV/cm, the spinnability of electrospun membrane was good. IR spectra demonstrated strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the molecules of Chitosan and PVA. Furthermore, cell cultures demonstrate that both PAV and chitosan have good biocompatibility and are non toxic.", "corpus_id": 137222519, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Chao Chiung Huang", "Ching Wen Lou", "Chao Tsang Lu", "Sin Huei Huang", "Chieh Yu Chao", "Jia-Horng Lin" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "140438667", "title": "Long effective bacteriostatic polyamide fiber composite material and preparation method thereof", "abstract": "The invention discloses a long effective bacteriostatic polyamide fiber composite material and a preparation method thereof. The long effective bacteriostatic polyamide fiber composite material comprises the following components in parts by weight: 40 60 parts of a polyamide fiber, 2 6 parts of potassium sorbate, 2 6 parts of benzoic acid, 1 10 parts of hydroxyethyl dodecyl alcohol, 1 4 parts of pentaerythritol, 3 11 parts of chitosan, 1 3 parts of thymol crystals, 1 3 parts of lauryl sodium sulfate, 1 5 parts of polyethylene wax, 3 10 parts of titanium dioxide, 3 8 parts of stearate, 2 8 parts of dibutyltin dilaurate and 1 3 parts of a fire retardant. The bacteriostatic effect of the composite material is obvious; the antibacterial activity on escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus can reach over 95% the bacteriostatic time is long; the antibacterial activity is not weakened by further treatment on the composite material; and the validity of bacteriostasis can reach over a year.", "corpus_id": 140438667, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "139902743", "title": "Water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating and preparation method thereof", "abstract": "The invention relates to a building interior wall decorative coating, in particular to a water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating and a preparation method thereof. The water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating comprises the following materials in percentage by weight: 0.8 1.2% of natural chitosan inorganic metal ion complex, 38.0 42.0% of low VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) pure taste core shell acrylic elastic emulsion, 0.4 0.6% of dispersing agent, 20.0 23.0% of titanium dioxide, 5.0 8.0% of ground calcium carbonate, 6.0 8.0% of kaolin, 0.8 1.0% of thickener and 18.0 20.0% of water. The water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating provided by the invention has the advantages of simple preparation process and low production cost. After a finished product is used in construction, the water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating provided by the invention has a composite antibacterial efficacy integrated with antibacterial, bacteriostasis, mildew proof and air purification properties and can be widely applied to building interior wall coating; and it is tested that the antibacterial ratio of the water based natural biological composite antibacterial coating provided by the invention is more than 95%", "corpus_id": 139902743, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "108973360", "title": "Edible water resistant, high temperature resistant composite gel antibiotic film and its preparing method", "abstract": "The present invention is a kind of edible water resistant and heat resistant composite antibiotic gel film and its preparation process. The composite gel film is prepared with esterification modified glucomannan, chitosan, beta cyclodextrin, xanthan gum, carrageenan, one or more of potassium sorbate, sucrose ester and stearic acid, and water. The preparation process includes compounding filming liquid, heating, centrifugal deairing, filming, stoving, humidity homogenizing to soften, peeling film and product packing. The composite antibiotic gel film has certain release controlling effect, long time bacteriostasis effect, water resistance, heat resistance, high mechanical performance and high flexibility, and may be used in packing hot sterilized food, fruit and vegetable preserving packing, etc.", "corpus_id": 108973360, "venue": "", "year": 2003, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "141453726", "title": "Functional medical shell fabric and preparation method thereof", "abstract": "The invention relates to a functional medical shell fabric. The functional medical shell fabric consists of an inner layer, an outer layer and a base layer arranged between the inner layer and the outer layer; the inner layer and the outer layer are respectively formed by interweaving warp yarns and weft yarns; the warp yarns of the inner layer are made of a cotton polyester blended fabric material, and the weft yarns of the inner layer are made of dacron/alloy conductive yarn blended yarns; the warps yarns of the outer layer are zinc containing Chitosan fibers, and the weft yarns of the outer layer are Imbue fibers; the base layer is an organic silicon/polyvinyl alcohol/graphene oxide composite film with a porous structure. The functional medical shell fabric disclosed by the invention has the effects of good bacterial resistance and bacteriostasis, anti static electricity and radiation resistance, and is good in moisture absorption and sweat releasing effect, comfortable to wear and simple in preparation technology; the shell fabric obtained through a three layer composite means can guarantee close integration of the inner layer and the outer layer of the shell fabric, and is good in breathability, stable in size and resistant to washing; furthermore, the hand feeling and luster of the shell fabric can be prevented from being influenced by a conventional padding technology.", "corpus_id": 141453726, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "59407292", "title": "Application of the Eclipse EMF technology for multifaceted organization modelling", "abstract": "This research paper explores the most developed methodologies used for multifaceted modeling of organizational structures. It is asserted that the existing methodologies (DEMO Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations, BORM Business Object Relation Modeling and OntoUML) provide tools for analysis of the organization and its business processes through different ways. They lead to different results and make the process of organization modeling complicated. There is no software to support work with these methodologies together. The purpose of this research is to create a unified meta model (within the Eclipse EMF technology) for a new methodology based on the existing ones and to analyze the completeness of these methodologies for describing enterprise architecture. It will serve as a basis for a new open software platform for multifaceted modeling of the organization. In this research, we have compared the above mentioned methodologies and concluded that despite the fact that these methodologies provide an analysis of different aspects of organizational structure, they have a common basic set of concepts. This study demonstrates the implementation of the Ecore model that is built on the basis of the selected group of common elements of these methodologies. We have also found that the combination of the considered methodologies contains all the concepts inherent in the systematic approach to the modeling of organizational structure. Furthermore, we have demonstrated the aspects of the organization that can be modeled by the methodologies considered. Using the Zachman framework, it was shown that: the DEMO, BORM and OntoUML methodologies allow us to describe in detail the business processes that take place at different levels of the organization, from the ontological to the datalogical, and therefore provide comprehensive information for the multifaceted modeling of an organization. However, none of the existing methodologies takes the time component and goal setting into consideration.", "corpus_id": 59407292, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Eduard A Babkin", "Oksana Radzinskaya" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "125218538", "title": "Primenenie tekhnologii Eclipse EMF dlia mnogoaspektnogo modelirovaniia organizatsii", "abstract": "E.A. Babkin kandidat tekhnicheskikh nauk, PhD in Computer Science, professor kafedry informatsionnykh sistem i tekhnologii, Natsional'nyi issledovatel'skii universitet <Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki>>Adres: 603155, g. Nizhnii Novgorod, ul. Bol'shaia Pecherskaia, d. 25/20E mail: eababkin@hse.ruO.V. Radzinskaia prepodavatel' kafedry informatsionnykh sistem i tekhnologii, Natsional'nyi issledovatel'skii universitet <Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki>>Adres: 603155, g. Nizhnii Novgorod, ul. Bol'shaia Pecherskaia, d. 25/20E mail: oradzinskaya@hse.ru V dannoi rabote issleduiutsia naibolee razvitye metodologii, ispol'zuemye dlia mnogoaspektnogo modelirovaniia organizatsii. Problematika zakliuchaetsia v razlichnykh podkhodakh issleduemykh metodologii (DEMO Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations, BORM Business Object Relation Modeling i OntoUML) k analizu organizatsii i ee biznes protsessov, chto privodit k razlichnym rezul'tatam, uslozhniaiushchim protsess organizatsionnogo modelirovaniia. Krome togo, na dannyi moment net programmnogo obespecheniia, pozvoliaiushchego rabotat' s dannymi metodologiiami. Imenno poetomu tsel'iu dannoi raboty iavliaetsia sozdanie s pomoshch'iu tekhnologii EclipseEMF edinoi meta modeli, baziruiushcheisia na issleduemykh, i analiz polnoty modeli dlia opisaniia arkhitektury predpriiatiia. Sozdannaia meta model' budet sluzhit' osnovoi dlia novoi otkrytoi platformy dlia mnogoaspektnogo modelirovaniia. V khode izucheniia i analiza dannykh metodologii bylo vyiavleno, chto ikh sovokupnost' soderzhit vse kontsepty, prisushchie sistemnomu podkhodu k modelirovaniiu organizatsii, a takzhe pozvoliaet provesti detal'nyi analiz biznes protsessov organizatsii, ob'ektov i ikh vzaimosviazei. Poetomu sovokupnost' metodologii predostavliaet ischerpyvaiushchuiu informatsiiu dlia mnogoaspektnogo modelirovaniia biznes protsessov organizatsii. Imenno poetomu dannye metodologii neobkhodimo rassmatrivat' vmeste. Dlia otsenki vozmozhnosti ob'edineniia dannykh metodologii bylo provedeno ikh detal'noe sravnenie. Rezul'taty pokazali, chto, nesmotria na to, chto dannye metodologii analiziruiut raznye sfery deiatel'nosti organizatsii, u nikh est' obshchii bazovyi nabor kontseptov, printsipov i elementov. Na baze vydelennykh grupp obshchikh elementov i s pomoshch'iu tekhnologii Eclipse EMF byla sozdana obobshchennaia meta model' v forme Ecore modeli, iavliaiushchaiasia osnovoi polnotsennoi sredy modelirovaniia. Eta model' ne tol'ko vkliuchaet instrumentarii dlia DEMO, BORM i OntoUML, no i soderzhit ikh sviazi, chto predostavliaet pol'zovateliu vozmozhnost' dlia provedeniia mnogoaspektnogo analiza organizatsii i sposobstvuet vyrabotke novogo podkhoda k modelirovaniiu organizatsii. S pomoshch'iu modeli Zakhmana bylo vyiavleno, chto eti metodologii pozvoliaiut provesti opisanie biznes protsessov na raznykh urovniakh organizatsii, ot ontologicheskogo do datalogicheskogo, predstavliaia ischerpyvaiushchuiu informatsiiu dlia mnogoaspektnogo modelirovaniia. Odnako vse issleduemye metodologii upuskaiut iz vnimaniia vremennoi aspekt i tselepolaganie.", "corpus_id": 125218538, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "E A Babkin", "O V Radzinskaia" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "59248926", "title": "Plugin sobre Eclipse EMF para evaluar la calidad de lenguajes de modelado utilizando la tecnica FCA (Formal Concept Analysis)", "abstract": "En este trabajo se propone una herramienta para soportar el analisis de de lenguajes de modelado mediante la aplicacion de la tecnica FCA (Formal Concept Analysis) en el marco de un proceso de analisis taxonomico de lenguajes. La automatizacion de dicho proceso, mediante el uso de un complemento en un entorno de desarrollo nativo MDE, resulta una alternativa favorable en cuanto a la validacion y de la calidad de modelos y lenguajes de modelado.", "corpus_id": 59248926, "venue": "CIbSE", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Faber D Giraldo", "Cesar Catano", "Juan D Fernandez" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "16060244", "title": "The Interchange of Meta Models between MetaEdit and Eclipse EMF Using M 3 Level Based Bridges", "abstract": "Nowadays there are powerful tools for Domain Specific Modeling. An ongoing problem is the insufficient tool interoperability which complicates the development of complete tool chains or the re use of existing metamodels, models, and model operations. In this paper we present the approach of M3 Level Based Bridges and apply this approach to enable the interoperability between two selected tools. The first tool is MetaEdit+ with strengths in (meta)modeling and the second tool is the Eclipse Modeling Framework with advantages in model processing by transformation and generation tools. General Terms Model Driven Engineering, Metametamodel, Domain Specific Language, Interoperability", "corpus_id": 16060244, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Heiko Kern" ], "n_citations": 17, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "13244384", "title": "Model Interchange between ARIS and Eclipse EMF", "abstract": "The Architecture of integrated Information Systems (ARIS) is a technical space that is widely used in the area of business process management. The reuse of ARIS models in other working contexts is offered by ARIS specific import and export interfaces. Nevertheless, the interoperability with other technical spaces is limited. In this paper, we explore ARIS language definition concepts and relate them to the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) We describe an ARIS to EMF bridge which provides transformations of ARIS modeling languages and ARIS models to the EMF environment. Our bridge shows similarities and differences between the two approaches and provides technical interoperability that e.g. enables the processing of ARIS models in EMF supporting tools (e.g. ATLAS Transformation Language)", "corpus_id": 13244384, "venue": "", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Heiko Kern", "Stefan Kuhne" ], "n_citations": 28, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "37178705", "title": "Modellinteroperabilitat zwischen Microsoft Visio und Eclipse EMF als Mittel zur modellgetriebenen Integration", "abstract": "Fur die Anwendung des modellgetrieben Integrationsansatzes ist eine geeignete Werkzeugunterstutzung von entscheidender Bedeutung. Eine solche Werkzeugunterstutzung ist heutzutage durch machtige Modellierungsund Transformationswerkzeuge gegeben. Allerdings ist oftmals die Interoperabilitat zwischen den verschiedenen Werkzeugen unzureichend. Zur Verbesserung der Interoperabilitat wird in diesem Beitrag der Ansatz der M3 Level basierten Brucken vorgestellt und zur Integration von Microsoft Visio und Eclipse EMF angewendet. Die Visio EMF Brucke wird anschliesend im Kontext eines Integrationsprojekts als Grundlage fur eine Prozesstransformation verwendet.", "corpus_id": 37178705, "venue": "GI Jahrestagung", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Heiko Kern", "Holger Kremss", "Stefan Kuhne" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "114510840", "title": "Possible Benefits of Bridging Eclipse EMF Microsoft \"Oslo\"", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 114510840, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Frederic Jouault", "Hugo Bruneliere" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "202722479", "title": "A Proxy Approach to External Model Repository Integration in Eclipse EMF Infrastructure", "abstract": "Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) has become a very popular environment for the implementation of a structured model, which has resulted in increased need for integration with other modeling environments. In this paper, we describe a method for direct integration of external model repositories in the EMF infrastructure. Our approach is based on the application of the proxy pattern to extend the functionality of EMF base objects and to provide a runtime synchronization of the model data with the repository. The approach presented here allows existing applications to interchange model data seamlessly with EMF, thus giving access to the services offered by EMF technologies. On the other hand, EMF based applications can benefit from the services provided by external repositories and applications (for example, efficient model to model transformation implementation) without the need to adjust the application code. Applicability of the solution introduced is analyzed at the end of the paper. The approach has been successfully applied in the metamodel based tool building platform METAclipse.", "corpus_id": 202722479, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Oskars Vilitis", "Audris Kalnins" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "127308882", "title": "Diferencias entre modelos en Eclipse EMF", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 127308882, "venue": "", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Cedric Brun", "Alfonso Pierantonio" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "70140727", "title": "A Dataset of EMF Models from Eclipse Projects", "abstract": "Models are key artefacts in Model driven software engineering. Data sets of models from practice are highly valuable as input for different modelling research areas, e.g. performance benchmarks for modelling tools and analysing model transformations, as well as in empirical research, e.g. understanding how models are designed and evolve over time. Unfortunately, there is a lack of data sets containing models, their meta models, and their evolution history. We present such a data set and describe our data collection method. The Eclipse modeling framework (EMF) is the major framework for developing and using EMF models providing a rich ecosystem developing many models and meta models. Thus, we mined meta models and their instances from git repositories associated with Eclipse projects 1, including their version history. Our data set was created on 2018 05 25 and contains 31799 models of which 4732 are meta models with a total of 101267 versions. These were mined from 247 repositories belonging to 130 projects hosted on Eclipse Projects. Our data set is made available as a sqlite3 data base and the corresponding ER diagram can be found in Figure 1. We also extracted all model versions as stand alone files in a directory structure (see Section 2.5 and Section 3) The next section of this report describes what kinds of data we collected and our detailed data collection procedure. In the last section, we give an illustrative example to explain how to work with our data set.", "corpus_id": 70140727, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Stefan Kogel", "Matthias Tichy" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "150009191", "title": "The relationship between social media usage, self esteem and body image.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 150009191, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Indiana Sparkes" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "201368781", "title": "A meta analytic review of the relationship between social media use and body image disturbance", "abstract": "Abstract With the quickly rising popularity of social media within the past decade, researchers have started to investigate the relationship between social media use and various psychological wellbeing variables. Given social media's similarity to traditional media, and the unique types of social comparisons that may occur on these platforms, body image has been a variable of interest. However, this literature has produced mixed findings and lacks a consensus on the valence of this relationship. Thus, this meta analysis aimed to provide a quantitative review of cross sectional research on this topic to provide clarification on the relationship between social media use and body image. An analysis of sixty three independent samples (N 36,552) using a random effects model revealed an overall effect size of r 0.169, CI [0.131, 0.206] indicating a small, positive, and significant relationship between social media use and body image disturbance. Type of social media use, body image dimension, country grouping, and age were all found to be significant moderators of this relationship. Strengths and limitations of the meta analysis, as well as future directions for this line of research are discussed.", "corpus_id": 201368781, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Alyssa Saiphoo", "Zahra Vahedi" ], "n_citations": 33, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "150265396", "title": "The Relationship between social media and body image of women: Applying Self Objectification Theory", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 150265396, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "", "Yongjun Sung", "Yang, Eunjoo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "223117056", "title": "Social media usage and self objectification: an investigation into the relationship between social media group membership and objectified body consciousnessn", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 223117056, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Phoebe Smith" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149753041", "title": "Social Media and its associations with body satisfaction, exercise and eating habits in undergraduate students", "abstract": "5 Introduction 6 The Media's Portrayal of Men and Women 7 Social Media 9 Social Comparison Theory 11 Cultivation Theory 12 Body Image Satisfaction 13 Exercising Habits 14 Eating Habits 15 Research Aims 16 Hypotheses 16 Methodology 18 Participants 18 Research Design 18 Materials 18 Procedure 23 Data Analysis 24 Results 25 Discussion 29 References 39 Appendices 49 Appendix 1: Information Sheet 49 Appendix 2: Demographic Questions 50 3 Appendix 3: Bergen Social Media Usage Scale 51 Appendix 4: Body Shape Questionnaire 52 Appendix 5: Godin Leisure Scale 54 Appendix 6: Adult Eating Behaviours Questionnaire 55 Appendix 7: Debrief Sheet 58 4 Acknowledgements Firstly, I would like to thank my family and friends for their support, patience and understanding through this stressful but rewarding process. I cannot thank my supervisor Dr. Lee Richardson enough for his feedback and patience during this time. I would like to extend my gratitude to all the DBS staff who have helped me, especially to Michael Nolan for his guidance in the planning of my study, and Dr. John Hyland for all his support and advice throughout. Last but not least, I would like to thank Pygmalion and East for giving me refuge when I was avoiding doing my thesis. 5 Abstract The present study aimed to investigate the differences, relationships and predictability of body image satisfaction, exercise, eating habits and social media. Participants consisted of 113 undergraduate students (45 male, 68 female) with ages ranging from 18 33 (M= 21.12, SD= 1.81) A quantitative survey design was chosen, with cross sectional and correlational components. Participants completed an online questionnaire containing four questionnaires including Bergen Social Media Usage Scale, Body Shape Questionnaire, Godin Leisure Scale and the Adult Eating Behaviours Questionnaire. The analysis revealed males were found to have higher body image satisfaction than their female counterparts. There was a significant positive correlation between body image satisfaction and exercise, and between body image satisfaction and positive eating habits. Body image satisfaction was significantly positively correlated social media usage. Body image satisfaction was found to significantly predict social media usage. 6 Introduction It is difficult to believe that a little over a decade ago social media was in its early years and had not yet gained traction. While a couple of decades ago vast sums of money would be spent on phone calls, and months would be spent waiting for letters, this has all changed partially due to social media. Social media has completely changed the way in which people communicate with one another; it has erased geographical boundaries that were once present. It has not only changed the way in which people communicate, it has also changed what and how much information can be accessed. This may not always be a good thing, as being exposed to all this information can lead to unrealistic expectations and notions of what is the norm. Advertising in recent years has been portraying what the media believe to be the ideal in many different aspects of life, i.e. the ideal car, the ideal home, the ideal body type. The ideal body type is an aspect of advertising on social media that can have extremely harmful effects on the public. In recent years substantial levels of body dissatisfaction have been reported (Levine Smolak, 2000) Research in the US suggests approximately 40% of adolescent girls are dissatisfied with their bodies (Presnell, Bearman, Stice, 2004) Similarly amongst UK samples, 48% reported to be dissatisfied with their shape, with 22% reporting that they were too fat (Sands Wardle, 2003) and these figures only increase with age, as 50% of 11 16 reported being dissatisfied (White Halliwell, 2010) Although the vast majority of research has focused on females; the attention on male body image has seen a steady increase (Pope, Phillips and Olivardia, 2000) In a society, which places heavy emphasis on physical appearance, could the presence of social media be to blame for these recent increases? Research has shown convincing evidence that the unrealistic body image ideals displayed in the media can lead to body dissatisfaction (Grabe, Ward, Hyde, 2008) 7 The Media's portrayal of men and women In recent decades the media has been the primary source of what the public see, in the past this content was conveyed through mediums such as television, newspapers and magazines, these forms are a slightly less prevalent due to the launch of the Internet. The media is now more reliant on the Internet and information technology for conveying its message to the public. The Internet has changed what and how much is seen; it is responsible for vast amounts of information. Social media is highly visual and interactive; many social media platforms are based on a currency of likes and followers. Sherman et al, (2016) conducted a study using a social media platform similar to the photo sharing app Instagram, in which 32 adolescents between 11 16 were asked to take part. Upon receiving high numbers of likes on their photos, there was a high level of activity seen across a wide variety of regions of the brain. A part of the striatum (nucleus accumbens) which is part of the brain's reward circuitry, was especially active, this shows that likes from a social media platform translate to a level of achievement in the brain. This study also reported that when shown the exact same photo with a lot of likes to half the participants and a just a few likes to the other half, they were significantly more likely to like it themselves in the photo with more likes. Teens react differently to information when they believe many endorse it. Social media networking is the primary way young people connect and communicate, it can be considered their main channel to the outside world. It has been previously reported that greater usage of sexually objectifying media may be associated with higher levels of self objectification (Aubrey Frisby, 2011; Baker, 2005) Social media allows its user to see the world through a filter rather than real life. It is largely responsible for what the public sees as the ideal man and 8 woman (McCabe et al. 2007) Many of the advertisements that use social media as a medium to convey their message put heavy emphasis on physical appearance and the importance of being considered physically attractive, this in turn puts pressure on men and women to conform to these unattainable standards that have been set. McCabe et al, (2007) reported that these advertisements might have unfavourable effects on both men and women, noting that women are more susceptible to these effects. From a young age unattainable standards are constantly presented, beginning with every young girls beloved Barbie. An eating awareness campaign by Slayen (2011) constructed a life size Barbie according to her doll size measurements. The life size Barbie showed shocking dimensions, including an 18inch waist. If this Barbie were a real person it was reported that she would walk on all fours, with a BMI of 16.24 which would be considered anorexic, putting her at high risk of osteoporosis, amenorrhea (not being able to menstruate) and low heart rate. In the 1940's the ideal for women was to have a large bust and small waist, at the time Marilyn Monroe was the pinnacle of sexiness and her measurements now would be ones that would be fat shamed. This quickly changed in the 1960s, curves were no longer important and the look to have was one that could be considered an emaciated look. Between the years of 1960 and 1980 research has shown that the female body shown in the media has become smaller and smaller (Grogan, 2008) In the past there was not as much pressure on men as there was on women, but in recent years this has changed. As women are gaining financial power, which they did not have in the past, men now have to bring more to the table. In 2012 CNN (Strickland, 2012) reported 'in addition to being financially successful, they need to be well groomed, in good shape, emotionally skilled in relationships and 9 the emphasis on looking good is just part of the bigger packagethe stakes have been raised' (Stickland, 2012) Over centuries there has been a drastic change in what has been the ideal male body, in roman times 800 BC the ideal was considered to be a body that would now be considered overweight, this was the ideal at the time as it showed that the male had substantial means to feed himself. Recent empirical research shows a man's desire to increase muscularity (Morrison Morrison, 2006) From an evolutionary perspective humans develop psychological mechanisms to find a potential mating partner who is reproductively fit (Cosmides Tooby, 1992) For men their physique conveys information about their reproductive fitness, a male who is muscular, strong and large is deemed to have the most vigorous set of genes (Singh, 1995) Those who process these preferences are more successful in their reproductive goals. This places great emphasize on being physically fit and muscular. This importance has only increased in recent years, with popular films such as 'Rocky' and 'Rambo' having their protagonist as an extremely muscular man. Social Media Since the launch of MySpace in 2003, as one of the world first social networking sites, they (Social networking sites) have only become more plentiful. Following MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat have emerged. Millions of new people are joining every year; between 2012 and 2017 Facebook's users grew from 1 billion to 2 billion users. (Constine, 2017) Recent figures have shown that monthly rates for social networking sites are at an all time high, with Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat being the leaders, with users' monthly presence at 2 billion, 1.5 billion, 700 million, 328 million and 255 million, respectively. These soc", "corpus_id": 149753041, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Isabelle O'Reilly" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "148610537", "title": "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE AND EVENT ATTENDEES SATISFACTION AT CARNIVAL EVENT", "abstract": "Social media is important as marketing tools and play an important role to market an event. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between social media usage and event attendee satisfaction. Three variables were identified in this study. The variables are information, self belonging and communication, and socialization. The study consisted of 97 usable questionnaires that had been collected randomly from event attendees. The finding showed that information is the most important in social media usage in determining event attendee satisfaction. The research also indicated that there is relationship between the social media usages and event attendee satisfaction. Discussion and conclusions are detailed. In addition, the recommendation contained are put forward and presented.", "corpus_id": 148610537, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Ayu Rohaidah Ghazali", "Nur Suhaili Binti Ramli", "Nurul Jannah", "Abdul Rahman Kadir" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150872550", "title": "The relationship between social media use and perceptions of body image", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 150872550, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Hanna Probst" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "33566300", "title": "Association Among Internet Usage, Body Image and Eating Behaviors of Secondary School Students", "abstract": "Background Presently, the internet plays a big role in daily life, especially for adolescents. In this age group, they are more concerned about their face and body shape. Despite the numerous studies on the effect traditional media has on body image, very few have focused on the effect of newer forms of media (e.g. online media) And almost none have looked at the relationship between time spent online and body image. Aim To study the associations between time spent on the internet, body image satisfaction and eating behaviors of students grades 7 to 12 in the Thai educational system. Methods The sample group included 620 students, who were selected using simple random sampling from 6 secondary schools in Bangkok. Data were collected using the Media and Internet use behavior questionnaires, The Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults: Thai version (BESAA) Drive for Muscularity Scale (DMS: males only) The Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale: Thai version, Eating Attitude Test 26: Thai version (EAT 26) and the eating behaviors at risk of obesity questionnaire. Results Mean (sd) age of the sample was 15.7 (1.9) years, 246 participants (39.7% were male and 374 (60.3% were female. Using the internet and social networks for content related to body image and eating behaviors, was negatively associated with body image satisfaction but positively associated with inappropriate eating attitudes/behaviors, binging, purging, use of laxatives/diuretics and drive for muscularity with respect to behaviors and attitudes, and was associated with eating behaviors that carried a risk for obesity. Conclusions Time spent on internet, especially engaged in activities related to self image, and eating attitudes and behaviors, were associated with a decrease in body image satisfaction and problematic eating behaviors.", "corpus_id": 33566300, "venue": "Shanghai archives of psychiatry", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Natthakarn Kaewpradub", "Komsan Kiatrungrit", "Sirichai Hongsanguansri", "Chosita Pavasuthipaisit" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "148759185", "title": "The Impact of Appearance Comparisons through Social Media on Young Women's Body Image", "abstract": "Sociocultural models of body image highlight the role of the media in the development and maintenance of women's body image concerns, and suggest that appearance comparisons may be responsible for this association. Most of this past research has been conducted on traditional media formats (e.g. magazines, television) but much less is known about the impact that social media has on women's body image. This program of research used a mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between social media usage (particularly Facebook) and body image concerns among young women, as well as the role of appearance comparisons in that relationship. Correlational studies found that Facebook usage was positively associated with body image concerns (in Study 1) and self objectification (in Study 2) and that these relationships were mediated by young women's tendency to make appearance comparisons, particularly to peers on Facebook. In an experimental study (Study 3) brief exposure to Facebook had no impact on women's appearance concerns. However, spending even a brief amount of time on Facebook put women in a more negative mood, and for women who were high on appearance comparison tendency, spending time on Facebook made them more concerned about certain aspects of their face, hair, or skin. Study 4 used ecological momentary assessments to examine the frequency and impact of appearance comparisons through social media and other mediums (e.g. traditional media, in person) in women's everyday lives. Women reported more appearance comparisons through social media than any other media type (e.g. magazines, television) and the majority of comparisons made through social media were upward in direction. Furthermore, upward comparisons through social media were associated with the most negative mood, and were associated with less appearance satisfaction and more thoughts of dieting and exercising than were comparisons made in person. These findings highlight the important role of appearance comparisons through social media on young women's body image. Given the popularity of social media, and the potential negative impact it has on its users, it will be important for future research to identify ways to minimise any negative influence of social media usage.", "corpus_id": 148759185, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Jasmine Fardouly" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "222107483", "title": "Facebook's Effect on Relationships and Self Esteem", "abstract": "Much research has shown a pattern between low satisfaction within relationships and low self esteem due to Facebook usage, but there is little research done on how Facebook affects romantic relationships in terms of self esteem and negative emotions. This study examined these constructs. La Salle undergraduates between the ages of 18 21, both male and female, who are in committed relationships, were recruited. Measurements presented via Qualtrics included Facebook usage levels, relationship satisfaction, relationship conflicts, and self esteem assessments. The findings indicated that Facebook usage has no impact on the romantic relationship satisfaction levels or self esteem scores, but associations between negative impacts on Facebook and relational issues were significant. Facebook's effect on relationships and self esteem Ortiz 3 Facebook's effect on relationships and self esteem Relationships are constantly changing in ways that not many of us realize and our selfesteem levels are impacted as well. What if social media is one of the causes of these changes? The online world is extremely prevalent in our lives in variety of ways. We use social media for jobs, school, personal uses, and it has become part of our daily activities. Romantic relationships are an example of social media's compelling influence. Facebook is just one out of the many social networking sites that we use as a platform to create, develop, and keep our relationships together. Romantic relationships can become an issue when Facebook engagement is relatively high. There can be some potential negative outcomes on a romantic relationship in many ways (Kerkhof, Finkenauer, Muusses, 2011) Breakups, communication, jealousy, and Facebook intrusion are examples of some potential outcomes from someone's involvement in Facebook. There have been numerous studies done to measure Facebook's impact on romantic relationships, as well as studies that focused on Facebook's effects on self esteem. What we know from previous studies is that high social media usage can be problematic to psychological well being (Naeemia, Tamam Hassan, Bolong, 2014) Studies have shown that satisfaction levels for relationships are more likely to be negative when engaging into Facebook specific conflicts that can damage the relationship. Some concerns that arise from this issue could be: Are our relationships satisfaction decreasing from our media usage? Does Facebook related activities influence our romantic relationships? This can create a barrier between a healthy and unhealthy relationship with a significant other. Facebook can also cause some negative emotional responses. Jealousy and self consciousness can erupt from the pressures of social media (Elphinston Noller, 2011) Facebook's effect on relationships and self esteem Ortiz 4 A study was done by Clayton and his colleagues (2013) to examine if Facebook is to blame for relationship breakups. In their research, they measured the usage of Facebook from 205 users of an 18 82 year population. In their study, it was concluded that the majority of their sample use Facebook extensively. Their survey questioned if there was any relationship conflicts that occurred while Facebook was actively being used. The results consisted of communication issues and jealousy that came from monitoring their partner online. These Facebook related conflicts in their study mediated the negative relationships outcomes and Facebook usage. It is safe to conclude that in this study, negative impacts on relationships resulted from Facebook usage (Clayton. Nagurney, Smith, 2013) Negative impacts might include trust in partner or jealousy. Social media can affect our relationships as an active user and high usage can lead into a person into engaging in inappropriate activities. These negative outcomes included cheating, separation, and divorce. (Clayton, Nagurney, Smith, 2013) Facebook usage has also been affecting many people's own behaviors and emotions as well as their partner's. The amount of time a person spends on Facebook can be causing behavioral issues like intrusion and distraction. In Elphinston and Noller's (2011) study, they \"speculate that individuals who are seriously affected by Facebook intrusion may also experience jealousy in their current romantic relationship because of the propensity of Facebook to disrupt their personal lives and interpersonal relationships\" (3) It can be essential for studies such as this one to measure the amount of time spent online and the satisfaction level of the relationship. The habit of getting on the Facebook page and scrolling pass hundreds of post can become addictive and intrusive to the relationship due to the lack of attention given in person contrary to the attention spent online (Elphinston Noller 2011) This study will be able to examine if Facebook usage is affecting college students' romantic relationships today. Issues in the Facebook's effect on relationships and self esteem Ortiz 5 relationship can result into jealousy or feelings of neglectfulness, which then can lead into lowering self esteem. Self esteem and Facebook has been repeatedly measured in many research studies. (e.g. Kim, LaRose Peng 2011; de Vries Kuhne, 2015; Anderson, Fagan, Woodnutt and ChamorrPremuzic's 2012) There are various ways to affect someone without having to touch or hear their voice. Someone can simply write a comment that can positively or negatively affect another person's self esteem. (de Vries Kuhne, 2015) In de Vries and Kuhne's (2015) study, they measured how Facebook can be detrimental to a person's well being. In addition, Anderson, Fagan, Woodnutt and Chamorr Premuzic's (2012) study indicates that issues with self esteem might create a barrier between authentic relationships with a significant other and maintaining good mental health. Because of the power Facebook has on a person's self esteem, can that be providing us an effective way to express our emotions to one another? This study further indicates Facebook affects self esteem because of the person's emotional response from disclosing online. The lower self esteem levels are from those who disclose online in order to get acceptance from others and popularity. (Anderson, Fagan, Woodnutt Chamorr Premuzic, 2012) Also, if someone has low self esteem and sees a post where another person appears to be happy or doing something enjoyable, it can make them question their own lifestyles and develop an emotion of envy. In Raymer's (2015) study, along with those emotions, \"more exposure on Facebook leads to lower body image satisfaction and a greater drive for thinness\" (2) These results can decrease a person's self confidence and higher expectations to look a certain way can be a factor towards that low score of self esteem. Moreover, in previous studies, one could hypothesize that high Facebook usage can lead to low satisfaction levels on romantic relationships and self esteem. There has been many Facebook's effect on relationships and self esteem Ortiz 6 research and supported theories that reveal how Facebook related issues and usage can be impactful on our romantic relationships. (Elphinston Noller 2011) Research on self esteem exposes negative emotions outcomes that can come from Facebook usage. (Clayton, Nagurney, Smith, 2013) Considering that, there are consequences for excessively using Facebook on relationships and self esteem, research on these two topics would be valuable.", "corpus_id": 222107483, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Janeyshka Ortiz", "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "212420432", "title": "Network Management in Cloud and Edge Computing", "abstract": "Data center has many features such as virtualized resource environment, modular infrastructure, automated operation and maintenance management, rapid expansion capability, efficient resource utilization, and reliable redundant backup. While edge computing has advantages in the latency due to the short distance to end users, a variety of business applications have exploded, which has placed higher demands on the basic functions and service performance of the edge servers. This book will analyze these two trends in detail. This chapter introduces the research background, content summary, key contributions, and arrangements of the remaining chapters. 1.1 Research Background The rapid growth of service chains is changing the landscape of cloud based applications. Different stand alone components are now handled by cloud servers, providing cost efficient and reliable services to Internet users. It is known that the workloads from service chains are more complex than the traditional noninteractive (or batch) workloads: for non interactive workloads, such as scientific computing and image processing, they can be processed on one specific server and do not need interactions from other servers. Being not strictly time sensitive, they can be scheduled to run anytime as long as the work could finish before a soft deadline. But for the interactive workloads from service chains, they should go through multiple stand alone components to apply corresponding functions, and this unavoidably introduces additional latency. Meanwhile these interactive chained services typically process real time user requests, such as business transactional and complex gaming control. Therefore, the performance for service chains is in urgent need to be ensured. Nowadays, data centers have become the cornerstones of modern computing infrastructure and one dominating paradigm in the externalization of IT resources. The data center tasks always consist of rich and complex flows which traverse different parts of the network at potentially different times. To minimize the network contention among different tasks, task serialization was widely suggested. This (c) Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 Y. Zhang, K. Xu, Network Management in Cloud and Edge Computing, https:/doi.org/10.1007/978 981 15 0138 8_1 1", "corpus_id": 212420432, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Yuchao Zhang", "Ke Xu" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "227171892", "title": "Development of Smart Vegetable Growing Cabinet with IoT, Edge Computing and Cloud Computing", "abstract": "In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in smart farming. One of the most significant current discussions in smart farming is how to fully control the plant grow. This research aims to assist in facilitating the cultivation of soilless vegetables by adopting Internet of Things, Edge computing and Cloud computing technologies to plant hydroponics vegetables. Today people are interested in consuming more hydroponics vegetables. Also, hydroponics vegetables are expensive on the market. This hydroponics vegetable cabinet is made so that they can be grown at home without buying from the market and fresh. This smart vegetable cabinet can control various electrical appliances within the cabinet for example, water pump control, LED Grow Light control and automatic ventilator operation at the set value. Moreover, we can check various component values inside the cabinet such as pH, EC in water, humidity and temperature inside the cabinet. In addition, they can control devices, check their values, take photos, or view images from a web page. This vegetable grower can be planted in inaccessible places such as homes or restaurants. This vegetable grower utilizes the Grow Light LED, which provides the light that plants need. Also, this intelligent vegetable grower is not very large, easy to move, suitable for those who have less space but want to grow their own vegetables. The results from the research are satisfactory.", "corpus_id": 227171892, "venue": "ICIP 2020", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Khanista Namee", "Chumpol Kamjumpol", "Witoon Pimsiri" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "197660220", "title": "An emotion recognition system based on edge computing and cloud computing applied in the kindergarten", "abstract": "As much attention is paid to the safety and education of children in the kindergarten, the importance of analyzing emotions of children is realized. With the adventure of the Internet of Things, more and more visual sensors are connected to the network, which makes the emotion analysis available through the recognition of images. It is necessary to response quickly when negative emotions of children are recognized, which means the processing of images containing negative emotions is delay sensitive. The processing of an enormous amount of images brings challenge for emotion recognition based on traditional cloud computing. Cloud computing is of high scalability and sufficient capability, but cannot meet the need of real time detection due to the time delay of transmission and computing of large amounts of images. Emerging edge computing can help to solve the problem by offloading computing from cloud center to edge nodes. However, because the resource of edge nodes is limited, only part of the computing can be placed at the edge nodes. In our work, an emotion recognition system combined with edge computing and cloud computing is proposed to apply in the kindergarten. Due to delay sensitive negative emotions in this case, a priority scheduling algorithm is also proposed to improve the computing effectiveness of the edge. In this way, the low latency of the edge and the high scalability of the cloud are utilized to reduce the time delay and improve the capacity of the emotion recognition system. The experiments in the real scene of the kindergarten verify that the system performs well.", "corpus_id": 197660220, "venue": "ACM TUR C", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ruizhi Zhang", "Chujie Tian", "Yang Ji" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "51930296", "title": "Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Theory and Practice for Integrated Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Paradigms", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 51930296, "venue": "TOPIC@PODC", "year": 2018, "author_names": [], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "131970835", "title": "Session details: Edge Computing and Edge Cloud", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 131970835, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Timothy M Cockerill" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "174801960", "title": "An Expression Analysis Service based on Edge Cloud Computing", "abstract": "Facial Expression Analysis (FEA) is widely applied in many areas such as marketing, health care and on line learning. For considering performance and cost, FEA currently is implemented as a cloud service. However, uploading the streaming of face images from the end of networks to clouds will probably result in that the network bandwidth in Internet is exhaustively consumed, and finally the quality of the FEA service will degrade to an unacceptable level due to high network latency. To avoid this problem, this paper is aimed at proposing an expression analysis service system based on the architecture of edge cloud computing. The proposed system can efficiently provide users with the services of expression analysis while it need not consume a large amount of network bandwidth for data transmission from user clients to data centers. Moreover, it can provide a higher precision of expression analysis than related works by a method combining MTCNN, OpenFace and BPNN, and it can effectively select edge servers for reducing the time of expression analysis.", "corpus_id": 174801960, "venue": "Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Information Science and Systems", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Tyng-Yeu Liang", "Chi-Hong Wu", "Yu Ting Chiang" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "197660696", "title": "A wide deep event model for complex event processing in edge and cloud computing environment", "abstract": "With the rapid development of smart IoT devices, it is a trend for complex event processing in large scale IoT application to be intelligent capacity, complex event processing will involve more intelligent collaboration and evolution. However, the studies on traditional complex event processing focus more on performance and efficiency, and fewer consider intelligent collaboration and evolution. In this paper, aiming at the edge and cloud computing in large scale IoT application, a wide deep event model and its suitable complex event processing architecture are proposed to mainly improve intelligent collaboration and evolution. The model and architecture fully consider the feature of the edge and cloud computing, combine with deep learning and wide deep learning and make them seamless integration, making the architecture have better intelligent collaboration and evolution.", "corpus_id": 197660696, "venue": "ACM TUR C", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Shuqing He", "Haifeng Wang", "Yunpeng Cao", "De Yu Zhao" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201724711", "title": "High Performance Computing Applications in Numerical Simulation and Edge Computing: ACM ICS 2018 International Workshops, HPCMS and HiDEC, Beijing, China, June 12, 2018, Revised Selected Papers", "abstract": "The explosive growth of massive data generation from Internet of Things in industrial, agricultural and scientific communities has led to a rapid increase in cloud data centers for data analytics. The ubiquitous and pervasive demand for near data processing urges the edge computing paradigm in recent years. Edge computing is promising for less network backbone bandwidth usage and thus less data center side processing, as well as enhanced service responsiveness and data privacy protection. Computation offloading plays a crucial role in network packets transmission and system responsiveness through dynamic task partitioning between cloud data centers and edge servers and edge devices. In this paper a thorough literature review is conduct to reveal the state of the art of computation offloading in edge computing. Various aspects of computation offloading, including energy consumption minimization, Quality of Services (QoS) and Quality of Experiences (QoE) are surveyed. Resource scheduling approaches, gaming and tradeoffing among system performance and system overheads for offloading decision making are also reviewed.", "corpus_id": 201724711, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yinghui Zhao" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "22104546", "title": "Cognitive IoT Gateways: Automatic Task Sharing and Switching between Cloud and Edge/Fog Computing", "abstract": "Fog computing, also known as Edge computing, is an emerging computational paradigm, increasingly utilized in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly those that cannot be served efficiently using Cloud computing due to limitations such as bandwidth, latency, Internet connectivity. At present, the norm is the static allocation of tasks by developers of an application, where some IoT applications are allocated to be performed on the Cloud, some on the Fog, and some on a hybrid Cloud Fog. The applications are pre programmed and predefined to be run on a platform, and this is unchangeable at run time. IoT gateways, which are devices that bridge the IoT local network and the Internet, are in a position to make dynamic adjustments and allocation decision between platforms based upon real time conditions such as an IoT applications' performance. However, currently there is no (or very little) intelligence embedded into IoT gateways. This paper proposes cognitive IoT gateways powered by cognitive analytics and machine learning to improve the performance of IoT applications. These IoT devices are able to automatically learn and decide when and where to run an application, be that on the Cloud or on the Fog. The dynamic task sharing and platform interchanging will enable the IoT applications to be optimized for multiple objectives including task performance.", "corpus_id": 22104546, "venue": "SIGCOMM Posters and Demos", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Fatemeh Jalali", "Olivia J Smith", "Timothy M Lynar", "Frank Suits" ], "n_citations": 27, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "218675963", "title": "On the impact of clustering for IoT analytics and message broker placement across cloud and edge", "abstract": "With edge computing emerging as a promising solution to cope with the challenges of Internet of Things (IoT) systems, there is an increasing need to automate the deployment of large scale applications along with the publish/subscribe brokers they communicate over. Such a placement must adjust to the resource requirements of both applications and brokers in the heterogeneous environment of edge, fog, and cloud. In contrast to prior work focusing only on the placement of applications, this paper addresses the problem of jointly placing IoT applications and the pub/sub brokers on a set of network nodes, considering an application provider who aims at minimizing total end to end delays of all its subscribers. More specifically, we devise two heuristics for joint deployment of brokers and applications and analyze their performance in comparison to the current cloud based IoT solutions wherein both the IoT applications and the brokers are located solely in the cloud. As an application provider should consider not only the location of the application users but also how they are distributed across different network components, we use von Mises distributions to model the degree of clustering of the users of an IoT application. Our simulations show that superior performance of our heuristics in comparison to cloud based IoT operation is most pronounced under a high degree of clustering. When users of an IoT application are in close network proximity of the IoT sensors, cloud based IoT unnecessarily introduces latency to move the data from the edge to the cloud and vice versa while processing could be performed at the edge or the fog layers.", "corpus_id": 218675963, "venue": "EdgeSys@EuroSys", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Daniel Happ", "Suzan Bayhan" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "90175470", "title": "Pengaruh Pemberian Ekstrak Etanol Daun Kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f. Merr. Terhadap Penurunan Kadar Kolesterol Total pada Mencit Jantan (Mus musculus)", "abstract": "The research about utilization of ethanol extract form leafkecapi Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f.)Merr.)has been done, it proved could decrease total cholesterol levels in male mice Mus musculus In this research sample macerated with ethanol 96% and then concentrated by rotary evaporator, and gained 15.6% of yield. Based on the results of phytochemical test, secondary metabolites compound that contained in bark kecapi are alkaloid, flavonoid, triterpenoid, steroid, phenolic and saponin. On antihiperkolesterolemia activity test by using male mice, there are several treatments that negative control positive control and three treatment with different doses i.e. a low doses (9.5 mg/kg BB) middle doses (19 mg/kg BB) and high doses (38 mg/kg BB) The parameter measured was blood serum of male mice by using a Cholesterol Test Strips. From this test it showed that the effectiveness of decreased total cholesterol level doses of 19 mg/kg BB showed total cholesterol level under 100 mg/dL. Keywords: Leaf kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f. Merr. Phytochemicals test, Total cholesterol levels, Cholesterol test strips.", "corpus_id": 90175470, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Rudi Kartika" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "90411420", "title": "Uji Aktivitas Antifungi Ekstrak dan Fraksi Daun Kecapi (Sandoricum koetja( Burm.f. Merr terhadap Candida albicans", "abstract": "Kecapi Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f. Merr) merupakan salah satu tanaman obat tradisional dari suku Meliaceae, mengandung senyawa flavonoid, saponin dan polifenol yang dapat digunakan sebagai antifungi Salah satu penyakit yang disebabkan oleh Candida albicans yaitu Candidiasis. Tanaman kecapi di masyarakat, biasa digunakan untuk mengobati penyakit tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui aktivitas antijamur daun kecapi Sandoricum koetjape Burm.f. Merr) dalam menghambat pertumbuhan Candida albicans Uji aktivitas antifungi ekstrak etanol daun kecapi terhadap Candida albicans dilakukan dengan metode difusi agar dengan perforasi pada media Saboraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) Ekstrak etanol daun kecapi pada konsentrasi 15% memberikan aktivitas antifungi yang ditandai dengan membentuk zona hambat pada plat agar. Fraksinasi ekstrak etanol dilakukan secara Ekstraksi Cair Cair (ECC) Aktivitas antifungi tertinggi ditunjukan oleh fraksi etilasetat sebesar (23 mm) diikuti oleh fraksi N heksana sebesar (19,2 mm) ekstrak etanol sebesar (18,2 mm) dan fraksi air sebesar (13 mm) Kemudian dilakukan pemantauan komponen dalam fraksi etilasetat secara Kromatografi Lapis Tipis (KLT) menggunakan penampak bercak universal H 2 SO 4 10% dalam methanol.", "corpus_id": 90411420, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Agnes Maulida Mursyid", "Kiki Mulkiya Yuliawati", "Esti Rachmawati Sadiyah" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "102955346", "title": "UJI AKTIVITAS ANTIOKSIDAN DARI EKSTRAK BUAH SENTUL (Sandoricum koetjape Merr.", "abstract": "Sentul fruit (Sandoricum koetjape Merr. is representing one kind of fruit that is amount enough abundance at West Nusa Tenggara, but it hasn't been exploited in an optimal fashion and more castaway useless. Parts of Sentul plant have been applied as traditional medicine. Sentul fruit can be oxidated by the browning reaction when it is pared or sliced, these symptoms showed the existences of phenolic compounds so that very potential as an antioxidant. To analyze the total phenolic and antioxidant activity of methanol extract of Sentul fruit, the Folin Ciocalteu and DPPH methods have been used. Results of analysis for three treatment types of samples A, B, and C) shown their total phenolic: 6,9 12,86 and 9,36 respectively and also their antioxidant activity shown by values of IC 50 of each: 43,36 ppm (1/IC50 0,023 ppm 1) 40,53 ppm (1/IC50 0,025 ppm 1) and 44,43 ppm (1/IC50 0,0225 ppm 1) respectively. These results indicated that Sentul fruit is very potential as an antioxidant.", "corpus_id": 102955346, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Faizul Bayani" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "99377419", "title": "ISOLASI SENYAWA KUMARIN DARI KULIT BATANG KECAPI (Sandoricum koetjape) SEBAGAI ANTIBAKTERI", "abstract": "Isolation of coumarine on stem bark from Sandoricum koetjape has done. Stem bark powder were extracted by maceration method using organic solvents hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol. Extract of ethyl acetate was separated by column chromatography. The antibacterial activities of extracts made by method of diffusion discs. The results showed the extracts of ethyl acetate has the highest activity than others with 12 mm (Staphylococcus aureus) and 19 mm (Escherichia coli) inhibitory area. Isolation result is needle white crystals from extracts of ethyl acetate with melting point 194oC 195oC.", "corpus_id": 99377419, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Febria Elvy Susanti" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "104462898", "title": "Uji Aktivitas Antibakteri Ekstrak Kulit Buah Kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape) terhadap Bakteri Staphylococcus aureus dan Escherichia coli", "abstract": "Hasil uji antibakteri ekstrak kulit buah kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape) terhadap bakteri Staphylococcus aureus dan Escherichia coli sama sama menunjukkan aktivitas antibakteri paling besar pada ekstrak etanol 75% dengan waktu inkubasi 24 jam, diameter zona hambat Staphylococcus aureus sebesar 12,02 mm dan Escherichia coli sebesar 18,12 mm. Hasil uji skrining fitokimia menunjukkan ekstrak kulit buah kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape) mengandung senyawa metabolit sekunder dari golongan flavonoid, alkaloid, terpenoid, dan tanin.", "corpus_id": 104462898, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mentari Mentari" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "115050930", "title": "PENGARUH KONSENTRASI BAHAN STABILISATOR PEG 1000 DAN LAMA PERENDAMAN TERHADAP KESTABILAN DIMENSI KAYU KECAPI (Sandoricum koetjape Merr)", "abstract": "Kayu bersifat higroskopis dan anisotropis, karena itulah untuk meningkatkan kualitas kayu diperlukan suatu perlakuan stabilisasi dimensi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji pengaruh konsentrasi Polyethylene Glycol 1000 dan waktu perendaman terhadap stabilisasi dimensi kayu yakni nilai penyusutannya. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Polyethylene glycol 1000, kayu Kecapi dan air suling sebagai pelarutnya. Proses stabilisasi dimensi dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode proses difusi bulking yang mengganti bahan penstabilnya dengan air. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah sebanyak 120 buah sampel. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Polyethylene Glycol 1000 pada tingkat konsentrasi 30% dan lama perendaman 5 hari memiliki nilai stabilisasi dimensi terbaik untuk semua parameter yang diuji. Tingkat konsentrasi tertinggi untuk Polyethylene Glycol 1000 dan lama perendaman yang terlama, nilai penyusutannya paling kecil dan juga dapat meningkatkan nilai stabilisasi dimensi. Wood is h y gros c opi c and anisotropi c, hence it is needed to improve the quality of wood by dimension stabilization treatment. The aim of study is to examine the effect of Polyethylene Glycol 1000 concentration and soaking time on the shrinkage rate stabilization dimension s. Polyethylene glycol 1000 and Kecapi wood were used in the research and distilled water as a solvent. Stabilization was carried out by bulking method that replaced stabilizer material with water by diffusion process A member of 120 pieces samples were used in the study The research results showed that Polyethylene Glycol 1000 at 30% concentration level and 5 days of soaking time have the best value of stabilization for all tested parameter s. The hingher leve l concentration of Polyethylene Glycol 1000 and the longer immersion time smaller shrinkage and increa sing the value o f stabilization dimensions as well", "corpus_id": 115050930, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Lusyiani Lusyiani", "Violet Burhanuddin", "Putri Nadilla" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "89658912", "title": "Identifikasi Kandungan Senyawa Metabolit Sekunder dan Uji Bioaktivitas Terhadap Larva Udang (Artemia salina Leach. Ekstrak Daun Kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape Merr.", "abstract": "Secondary metabolites identification and bioactivity of santol leaves extract (S.koetjape Merr. against Artemia salina Leach has been done. Secondary metabolite identification was done by testing santol leaves extract and fractions against reagent, whereas the bioactivity tests carried out by Brine Shrimp Lethality Test (BSLT) method. Santol leaves extract was extracted using methanol solvent and was fractioned using n hexane, ethyl acetate and n butanol solvents. The results showed that the santol leaves extract contain flavanoid, saponin, tannin, karatenoid, fenol, steroid, and triterpenoid. LC50 value of each crude extract, n hexane fraction, ethyl acetate fraction, and n butanol fraction was 190.12 ppm, 189.23 ppm, 299.23 ppm, and 301.99 ppm.", "corpus_id": 89658912, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Destri Erawaty", "Aditya Fridayanti", "Laode Rijai" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "101274548", "title": "IDENTIFICATION OF COMPOUND ANTIFUNGI OF Sandoricum koetjape. Stem AND ACTIVITY TO Candida albicans", "abstract": "Kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f. Merr) was one of the traditional medicine from family Meliaceae and had compounds such as flavonoids, saponins and polyphenols that can be used as antifungal. The objective of this research to know compounds contained from S. koetjape bark that has potential as an antifungal toward C. albicans.Research carried out two stages using extraction by maceration with methanol and fractionation by column chromatography method used the solvent n hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol. The next step was examined its activity toward C. albicans and identification of fraction active compounds with the Gas Chromatograpy Mass Spectrometry (GC MS) The results of this research showed that methanol extract from S. koetjape bark had antifungal activity againstC. albicans (39,654% Next, the methanol extract was fractionated and fractionation results were obtained six fractions with the greatest antifungal activity of fraction III, followed by fraction V (39.66% b/v) fraction IV (39.02% b/v) fraction II (37.91% b/v) fraction VI (35.48 b/v) and fraction I (33.72% b/v) Identification of compounds with GC MS in fraction III and compounds contained have potential as an antifungal are a gurjunene, trans caryophyllene, aromadendrene, a humulene, b caryophyllene, d Cadinene, alloaromadendrene, octadecanoic acid (as. stearat) hexadecanoic acid metil ester (metil palmitate) hexadecanoic acid (as. palmitate) 9 octadecenoic acid metil ester (metil elaidate) 9 octadecenoic acid (as. oleat)", "corpus_id": 101274548, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Warsinah Warsinah", "Eka Kusumawati", "Sunarto Sunarto" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "89907072", "title": "Postharvest quality of waxed and wrapped Santol [Sandoricum koetjape (Burm. f. Merr. fruit", "abstract": "The postharvest quality of waxed and cling wrapped aBangkoka santol [Sandoricum koetjape (Burm. f. Merr. fruit held under ambient room conditions (24A+ 0.63AdegC, 86A+ 4% RH) was evaluated. At 13 DAT (days after treatment) wrapped fruit still had a good visual quality (rating of 5.4) with the least weight loss of 5.4% The lightness, L* and yellowness, b* of the skin color of santol were likewise better maintained. Consistently better visual quality and reduced decay were observed in wrapped fruit compared with the control and waxed fruit particularly at the later periods of holding where the latter fruit were fair to poor. As in control, early fruit shriveling was evident in waxed fruit while the onset was delayed in wrapped fruit. Aril pH tended to increase with time. Total soluble solids, firmness, and browning did not vary with treatment. Based on the results, the postharvest quality of aBangkoka santol fruit held at ambient is better maintained by using cling wrap film.", "corpus_id": 89907072, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Emma Ruth V Bayogan", "A T Lacap", "Leizel B Secretaria", "V L Loquias" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "108542860", "title": "ISOLASI DAN KARAKTERISASI SENYAWA KUMARIN DARI EKSTRAK AKTIF ETIL ASETAT KULIT BATANG KECAPI (Sandoricum koetjape) SEBAGAI ANTIBAKTERI", "abstract": "Isolasi senyawa kumarin telah dilakukan dari kulit batang tumbuhan kecapi (Sandoricum koetjape) Serbuk kulit batang kecapi diekstrak dengan metoda maserasi menggunakan pelarut heksana, etil asetat dan metanol. Pemurnian ekstrak dengan kromatografi kolom dan identifikasi senyawa dilakukan dengan spektroskopi UV dan IR. Uji aktifitas antibakteri terhadap ekstrak dilakukan dengan metoda difusi cakram. Hasilnya menunjukkan aktifitas antibakteri ekstrak etil asetat lebih aktif dibandingkan ekstrak heksana dan metanol dengan daerah hambatnya 12 mm (Staphylococcus aureus) dan 19 mm (Escherichia coli) Senyawa hasil isolasi berupa kristal jarum berwarna putih yang diperoleh dari ekstrak etil asetat dengan titik leleh 194oC 195oC. Dari data spektroskopi UV dan IR menunjukkan senyawa ini merupakan senyawa kumarin yang memiliki gugus fungsi hidroksil. Kata kunci Sandoricum koetjape, kumarin, antibakteri", "corpus_id": 108542860, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Elvy Susanti Febria" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 3 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "7128002", "title": "Robust principal component analysis?", "abstract": "This article is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix, which is the superposition of a low rank component and a sparse component. Can we recover each component individually? We prove that under some suitable assumptions, it is possible to recover both the low rank and the sparse components exactly by solving a very convenient convex program called Principal Component Pursuit; among all feasible decompositions, simply minimize a weighted combination of the nuclear norm and of the l1 norm. This suggests the possibility of a principled approach to robust principal component analysis since our methodology and results assert that one can recover the principal components of a data matrix even though a positive fraction of its entries are arbitrarily corrupted. This extends to the situation where a fraction of the entries are missing as well. We discuss an algorithm for solving this optimization problem, and present applications in the area of video surveillance, where our methodology allows for the detection of objects in a cluttered background, and in the area of face recognition, where it offers a principled way of removing shadows and specularities in images of faces.", "corpus_id": 7128002, "venue": "JACM", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Emmanuel J Candes", "Xiaodong Li", "Yuliang Ma", "John Wright" ], "n_citations": 5400, "n_key_citations": 1073, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "27917863", "title": "Principal Component Analysis", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 27917863, "venue": "International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Ian T Jolliffe" ], "n_citations": 6030, "n_key_citations": 1251, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "2534141", "title": "Principal Component Analysis", "abstract": "The Karhunen Lo eve basis functions, more frequently referred to as principal components or empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of the noise response of the climate system are an important tool for geophysical studies. Many researchers have used this tool to examine the geophysical and climatological phenomena. Perhaps more frequent use of EOFs in recent studies is in conjunction with the development of the signal detection and estimation methods of the background uctuations of a detection variable serve as an orthogonal basis set and are used to design optimal techniques for detecting and estimating signals. A detection and prediction approach is to design a lter or optimal weights for the signal to be detected. It has been reported that weighted averaging of data over the surface of the Earth improved the detectability of climatic changes (Hasselmann 1979; Stefanick 1981; Bell 1982) Since the signal to noise ratio (SNR) varies geographically, there exists an optimal geographical weighting of the signal which maximizes the SNR. The design of an optimal weighting function may require detailed knowledge on the natural uctuation of the climate system. A conceptually similar approach is to employ a particular pattern (or patterns) of climatic change for detection and prediction (e.g. Barnett and Hasselmann 1979; Hasselmann 1979) The patterns of interest (also called the predictors) may include the principal components (empirical orthogonal functions) (e. von Storch 1990) among others. This approach also requires complete knowledge of the natural variability of the climate system. To test and improve the detection and prediction techniques addressed above, a complete cross spectral covariance matrix, or similarly, a complete set of the principal components of natural uctuations of the climate system for each frequency band of the spectrum is necessary. In reality, a reliable spectrum of observational covariance matrix is not available because observations are not suuciently long and sampling errors contaminate the observational records (Preisendorfer and Barnett 1977; North et al. 1982) Further, inadequate spatial coverage of observations may introduce bias. Therefore, the covariance matrix of the noise response is often estimated from a simple stochastic model. Kim and North (1991, 1992) examined the covariance matrix in terms of various second moment statistics earlier. Examined here are the principal components of the covariance matrix of the surface temperature uctuations in a simple coupled climate model in comparison with observations. The principal components not only are an", "corpus_id": 2534141, "venue": "Encyclopedia of Database Systems", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Heng Tao Shen" ], "n_citations": 14069, "n_key_citations": 1678, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "122725444", "title": "Principal Component Analysis", "abstract": "Introduction Properties of Population Principal Components Properties of Sample Principal Components Interpreting Principal Components: Examples Graphical Representation of Data Using Principal Components Choosing a Subset of Principal Components or Variables Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis Principal Components in Regression Analysis Principal Components Used with Other Multivariate Techniques Outlier Detection, Influential Observations and Robust Estimation Rotation and Interpretation of Principal Components Principal Component Analysis for Time Series and Other Non Independent Data Principal Component Analysis for Special Types of Data Generalizations and Adaptations of Principal Component Analysis", "corpus_id": 122725444, "venue": "", "year": 2002, "author_names": [ "Ian T Jolliffe" ], "n_citations": 13289, "n_key_citations": 278, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4737805", "title": "Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis with a New Tensor Nuclear Norm", "abstract": "In this paper, we consider the Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) problem, which aims to exactly recover the low rank and sparse components from their sum. Our model is based on the recently proposed tensor tensor product (or t product) [14] Induced by the t product, we first rigorously deduce the tensor spectral norm, tensor nuclear norm, and tensor average rank, and show that the tensor nuclear norm is the convex envelope of the tensor average rank within the unit ball of the tensor spectral norm. These definitions, their relationships and properties are consistent with matrix cases. Equipped with the new tensor nuclear norm, we then solve the TRPCA problem by solving a convex program and provide the theoretical guarantee for the exact recovery. Our TRPCA model and recovery guarantee include matrix RPCA as a special case. Numerical experiments verify our results, and the applications to image recovery and background modeling problems demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.", "corpus_id": 4737805, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Canyi Lu", "Jiashi Feng", "Yudong Chen", "W Liu", "Zhouchen Lin", "Shuicheng Yan" ], "n_citations": 200, "n_key_citations": 47, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "117887765", "title": "Principal component analysis in linear systems: Controllability, observability, and model reduction", "abstract": "Kalman's minimal realization theory involves geometric objects (controllable, unobservable subspaces) which are subject to structural instability. Specifically, arbitrarily small perturbations in a model may cause a change in the dimensions of the associated subspaces. This situation is manifested in computational difficulties which arise in attempts to apply textbook algorithms for computing a minimal realization. Structural instability associated with geometric theories is not unique to control; it arises in the theory of linear equations as well. In this setting, the computational problems have been studied for decades and excellent tools have been developed for coping with the situation. One of the main goals of this paper is to call attention to principal component analysis (Hotelling, 1933) and an algorithm (Golub and Reinsch, 1970) for computing the singular value decompositon of a matrix. Together they form a powerful tool for coping with structural instability in dynamic systems. As developed in this paper, principal component analysis is a technique for analyzing signals. (Singular value decomposition provides the computational machinery. For this reason, Kalman's minimal realization theory is recast in terms of responses to injected signals. Application of the signal analysis to controllability and observability leads to a coordinate system in which the \"internally balanced\" model has special properties. For asymptotically stable systems, this yields working approximations of X_{c} X_{\\bar{o} the controllable and unobservable subspaces. It is proposed that a natural first step in model reduction is to apply the mechanics of minimal realization using these working subspaces.", "corpus_id": 117887765, "venue": "", "year": 1981, "author_names": [ "Bradley Alan Moore" ], "n_citations": 4801, "n_key_citations": 240, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "54979942", "title": "Principal component analysis", "abstract": "Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a multivariate exploratory analysis method, useful to separate systematic variation from noise. It allows to define a space of reduced dimensions that preserve", "corpus_id": 54979942, "venue": "", "year": 1987, "author_names": [ "Svante Wold", "Kim H Esbensen", "Paul Geladi" ], "n_citations": 5416, "n_key_citations": 241, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "20101754", "title": "Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments", "abstract": "Large datasets are increasingly common and are often difficult to interpret. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique for reducing the dimensionality of such datasets, increasing interpretability but at the same time minimizing information loss. It does so by creating new uncorrelated variables that successively maximize variance. Finding such new variables, the principal components, reduces to solving an eigenvalue/eigenvector problem, and the new variables are defined by the dataset at hand, not a priori, hence making PCA an adaptive data analysis technique. It is adaptive in another sense too, since variants of the technique have been developed that are tailored to various different data types and structures. This article will begin by introducing the basic ideas of PCA, discussing what it can and cannot do. It will then describe some variants of PCA and their application.", "corpus_id": 20101754, "venue": "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ian T Jolliffe", "Jorge Cadima" ], "n_citations": 1914, "n_key_citations": 71, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "15538672", "title": "Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis", "abstract": "Principal component analysis (PCA) is a ubiquitous technique for data analysis and processing, but one which is not based upon a probability model. In this paper we demonstrate how the principal axes of a set of observed data vectors may be determined through maximum likelihood estimation of parameters in a latent variable model closely related to factor analysis. We consider the properties of the associated likelihood function, giving an EM algorithm for estimating the principal subspace iteratively, and discuss the advantages conveyed by the definition of a probability density function for PCA.", "corpus_id": 15538672, "venue": "", "year": 1999, "author_names": [ "Michael E Tipping", "Christopher M Bishop" ], "n_citations": 3225, "n_key_citations": 486, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "122379222", "title": "Principal component analysis", "abstract": "Principal component analysis PCA is a multivariate technique that analyzes a data table in which observations are described by several inter correlated quantitative dependent variables. Its goal is to extract the important information from the table, to represent it as a set of new orthogonal variables called principal components, and to display the pattern of similarity of the observations and of the variables as points in maps. The quality of the PCA model can be evaluated using cross validation techniques such as the bootstrap and the jackknife. PCA can be generalized as correspondence analysis CA in order to handle qualitative variables and as multiple factor analysis MFA in order to handle heterogeneous sets of variables. Mathematically, PCA depends upon the eigen decomposition of positive semi definite matrices and upon the singular value decomposition SVD of rectangular matrices. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley Sons, Inc.", "corpus_id": 122379222, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Herve Abdi", "Lynne J Williams" ], "n_citations": 3540, "n_key_citations": 204, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "226736111", "title": "Development of Inspection System for Tunnel Point Cloud", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 226736111, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kanai Hitoshi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "229462484", "title": "Tunnel Point Cloud and BIM Model Integration for Cross section Monitoring", "abstract": "This paper introduces a method for tunnel point cloud and BIM model integration and cross section monitoring, providing information to analyse tunnel cross sections and surrounding rock deformation, and support for tunnel maintenance and reconstruction. Three types of data are processed for the integration: laser scanning point cloud, BIM tunnel model and terrain model from oblique photogrammetry. An adaptive BIM modelling scheme is proposed for tunnels with alien structures. Precise spatial registration of the data sets is conducted by applying singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm to calculate transformation parameters from the point cloud model to the BIM model. Since the tunnel central line has high order derivability, a crosssection calculation method based on tangent vector is proposed to obtain the cross sectional profile of tunnels at any mileage. The proposed method has been verified by applying it to a tunnel reconstruction project. The experiment results show that the tunnel point cloud and the BIM model were highly coincident after the integration. The developed program can effectively get the cross section of the tunnel at any mileage, and correctly express the spatial relationship between the BIM tunnel, the point cloud of tunnel and the external mountainous terrain.", "corpus_id": 229462484, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Wensheng Zhang", "Ziqi Hao", "Dong Liang Guo", "Ying Ying Gao", "Jack Jianguo Wang" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "59150793", "title": "TUNNEL POINT CLOUD FILTERING METHOD BASED ON ELLIPTIC CYLINDRICAL MODEL", "abstract": "The large number of bolts and screws that attached to the subway shield ring plates, along with the great amount of accessories of metal stents and electrical equipments mounted on the tunnel walls, make the laser point cloud data include lots of non tunnel section points (hereinafter referred to as non points) therefore affecting the accuracy for modeling and deformation monitoring. This paper proposed a filtering method for the point cloud based on the elliptic cylindrical model. The original laser point cloud data was firstly projected onto a horizontal plane, and a searching algorithm was given to extract the edging points of both sides, which were used further to fit the tunnel central axis. Along the axis the point cloud was segmented regionally, and then fitted as smooth elliptic cylindrical surface by means of iteration. This processing enabled the automatic filtering of those inner wall non points. Experiments of two groups showed coincident results, that the elliptic cylindrical model based method could effectively filter out the non points, and meet the accuracy requirements for subway deformation monitoring. The method provides a new mode for the periodic monitoring of tunnel sections all around deformation in subways routine operation and maintenance.", "corpus_id": 59150793, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Ningning Zhu", "Yonghong Jiaa", "Lun Luo" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "209905047", "title": "Study of Tunnel Surface Parameterization of 3 D Laser Point Cloud Based on Harmonic Map", "abstract": "In the maintenance work of tunnels, images are often used to detect diseases, but collections of tunnel images are limited by the tunnel environment and working time. Three dimensional laser scanning technology can acquire high precision tunnel information efficiently, and the main problem to be solved by using this technology to collect tunnel inner wall images is the dimensionality reduction of the laser tunnel point cloud data. This letter proposes a tunnel surface parameterization algorithm based on a harmonic map, where a 3 D tunnel point cloud is used as a data source to reconstruct a triangle mesh model of the tunnel and then generate a harmonic map depth map of the tunnel inner wall on the triangle mesh. We can obtain the spatial distribution and position information of the appendages and detect whether there are cracks, water leakage, falling pieces, and other diseases by the depth images. The results of this study indicate that the proposed algorithm is suitable for tunnels of various shapes and has low area distortion, which can better avoid the loss of information during dimensionality reduction. Compared with other existing methods, the algorithm has higher efficiency and applicability.", "corpus_id": 209905047, "venue": "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Yujiao Liu", "Ruofei Zhong", "Weifeng Chen", "Haili Sun", "Yuxue Ren", "Na Lei" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "227254182", "title": "Tunnel Deformation Inspection via Global Spatial Axis Extraction from 3D Raw Point Cloud", "abstract": "Global inspection of large scale tunnels is a fundamental yet challenging task to ensure the structural stability of tunnels and driving safety. Advanced LiDAR scanners, which sample tunnels into 3D point clouds, are making their debut in the Tunnel Deformation Inspection (TDI) However, the acquired raw point clouds inevitably possess noticeable occlusions, missing areas, and noise/outliers. Considering the tunnel as a geometrical sweeping feature, we propose an effective tunnel deformation inspection algorithm by extracting the global spatial axis from the poor quality raw point cloud. Essentially, we convert tunnel axis extraction into an iterative fitting optimization problem. Specifically, given the scanned raw point cloud of a tunnel, the initial design axis is sampled to generate a series of normal planes within the corresponding Frenet frame, followed by intersecting those planes with the tunnel point cloud to yield a sequence of cross sections. By fitting cross sections with circles, the fitted circle centers are approximated with a B Spline curve, which is considered as an updated axis. The procedure of \"circle fitting and B SPline approximation\" repeats iteratively until convergency, that is, the distance of each fitted circle center to the current axis is smaller than a given threshold. By this means, the spatial axis of the tunnel can be accurately obtained. Subsequently, according to the practical mechanism of tunnel deformation, we design a segmentation approach to partition cross sections into meaningful pieces, based on which various inspection parameters can be automatically computed regarding to tunnel deformation. A variety of practical experiments have demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of our inspection method.", "corpus_id": 227254182, "venue": "Sensors", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Cheng Yi", "Dening Lu", "Qian Xie", "Jinxuan Xu", "Jun Wang" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "219989154", "title": "A method of tunnel critical rock identification and stability analysis based on a laser point cloud", "abstract": "The role of 3D laser scanning technology in the identification of critical rock in engineering is becoming increasingly important. In order to improve the recognition efficiency and accuracy of this identification, it is particularly significant to propose an analytical method for matching critical rock with point cloud technology. Based on the research foundation of 3D laser scanning technology in the field of rock mass structural surface identification, this paper proposes a critical rock identification and stability analysis method based on laser point cloud technology. First, a calculation method for a closed critical rock body is proposed. Second, block theory and point cloud technology are combined. Then, by utilizing the high density features of the point cloud, the vector analysis method of the traditional critical rock is converted into the space coordinates of the 3D point cloud, and the internal coordinate system of the 3D laser scanning system is directly used to extract the X, Y, and Z coordinate values of the corner points of the critical rock. Next, these coordinates are spatially compared and analyzed, and the key critical rock determination and its corresponding instability method are identified. Finally, the movable identification and stability analysis of the critical rock on the geometric scale is attained. This paper mainly summarizes the identification of closed critical rock bodies, the movable identification of key critical rock, and the determination methods of three types of critical rock instability modes as follows: falling type, single sided sliding type, and double sided sliding type. The method of the visual analysis process is implemented using C+ and OpenGL language programming. Eventually, the method is applied to practical engineering, and good results are obtained, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the method and makes it of great significance for future engineering applications.", "corpus_id": 219989154, "venue": "Arabian Journal of Geosciences", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Li-ping Li", "Lanyu Cui", "Hongliang Liu", "Chengshuai Qin", "Jie Hu", "Ming-guang Zhang" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "202710688", "title": "Automatic Tunnel Steel Arches Extraction Algorithm Based on 3D LiDAR Point Cloud", "abstract": "Automation is an inevitable trend in the development of tunnel shotcrete machinery. Tunnel environmental perception based on 3D LiDAR point cloud has become a research hotspot. Current researches about the detection of tunnel point clouds focus on the completed tunnel with a smooth surface. However, few people have researched the automatic detection method for steel arches installed on a complex rock surface. This paper presents a novel algorithm to extract tunnel steel arches. Firstly, we propose a refined function for calibrating the tunnel axis by minimizing the density variance of the projected point cloud. Secondly, we segment the rock surface from the tunnel point cloud by using the region growing method with the parameters obtained by analyzing the tunnel section sequence. Finally, a Directed Edge Growing (DEG) method is proposed to detect steel arches on the rock surface in the tunnel. Our experiment in the highway tunnels under construction in Changsha (China) shows that the proposed algorithm can effectively extract the points of the edge of steel arches from 3D LiDAR point cloud of the tunnel without manual assistance. The results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm achieved 92.1% of precision, 89.1% of recall, and 90.6% of the F score.", "corpus_id": 202710688, "venue": "Sensors", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Wenting Zhang", "Wenjie Qiu", "Di Song", "Bin Xie" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "182742362", "title": "Hierarchical tunnel modeling from 3D raw LiDAR point cloud", "abstract": "Abstract Precise modeling of tunnel structures can be used to evaluate the performance and state of safety as an important construction analysis object. However, the problem of modeling on a large scale tunnel is challenging, due to the poor quality of the input data that is contaminated with severe missing areas, noise, outliers and the accessories. This work introduces the concept of hierarchical modeling to automatically derive a measured and accurate representation of a 3D shield tunnel. Our key observation is that the shield tunnel is composed of a certain number of segment pieces arranged in some designed patterns. We hereby apply hierarchical segmentation and element extraction, based on designed patterns, to intensity images without expensive computation. According to the corresponding relationship between the point cloud and the image, the segment pieces within the point cloud are extracted. Therefore, we construct the corresponding 3D models of the segment pieces to obtain the precise structure model of the tunnel. As a result, segment pieces are extracted robustly, even in the presence of noise and large occlusion. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons of the proposed algorithm are presented with state of the art methods. We evaluate the modeling method on a variety of raw LiDAR scans, in terms of its robustness and accuracy. Moreover, our method has been successfully applied in a number of practical projects to discover the multi level structures of the shield tunnels, which are used to evaluate the safety state of tunnels.", "corpus_id": 182742362, "venue": "Comput. Aided Des.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Cheng Yi", "Dening Lu", "Qian Xie", "Shuya Liu", "Hu Li", "Mingqiang Wei", "Jun Wang" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229608436", "title": "Segmentation of Subway Tunnel Wall Surface Objects Based on Laser 3D Point Cloud", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 229608436, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Cao Gui Ping Cao Guiping", "Liu Xing Si Liu Xingsi", "Liu Nian Liu Nian", "Yang Ke Cheng Yang Kecheng", "Xia Min Xia Min" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225876008", "title": "A Study on Adjustment Point for Detecting Sky Displacement in Tunnel Using Point Cloud Data", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 225876008, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kentaro Watanabe", "Shinya Matsumoto", "Takeshi Yamamoto" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "219455834", "title": "Workdays are not created equal: Job satisfaction and job stressors across the workweek", "abstract": "Are your workdays created equal? Common wisdom suggests that employees experience Mondays differently from Fridays. However, few studies distinguish among workdays, inherently assuming that the employee experience is uniform across the workweek. In the current study, we examined the trajectories of employees' experiences of job satisfaction and job stressors across the workweek. We proposed two competing theoretical perspectives that result in opposite predictions as to whether job dissatisfaction and perceived job stressors will be higher \"Monday blues\" or lower \"rested and recharged\" at the beginning of the workweek rather than later in the week. Employing a daily diary design with 139 employees (681 matched daily observations) working the traditional workweek, we found that employees reported experiencing lower levels of job satisfaction and perceived more job stressors (i.e. incivility and organizational constraints) at the beginning of the workweek as opposed to later in the week. Additionally, the relationship between perceived incivility and job satisfaction was stronger at the beginning of the workweek. Our findings were consistent with the \"Monday blues\" perspective and suggest that workdays are not created equal.", "corpus_id": 219455834, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Shani Pindek", "Zhiqing E Zhou", "Stacey R Kessler", "Alexandra Krajcevska", "Paul E Spector" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "203091737", "title": "All internships are not created equal: Job design, satisfaction, and vocational development in paid and unpaid internships", "abstract": "Abstract This manuscript theorizes difference in the work structure of paid and unpaid internships and its influence on intern job satisfaction and vocational development. Specifically, we draw upon theories from human resource management and volunteerism to argue why unpaid internships might exhibit less job structure than paid internships, and how this possibly influences the experiences of interns. As internships continue to be performed by a mix of paid and unpaid workers and as the proportion of unpaid interns steadily increases, it becomes ever important to understand how mainstream workplace concepts such as job design apply to workers who do not receive monetary compensation for their labor. We offer several testable propositions concerning unpaid interns and discuss implications for theory and practice.", "corpus_id": 203091737, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Sean Edmund Rogers", "Carliss D Miller", "Carol L Flinchbaugh", "Mark Giddarie", "Brian Barker" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "30013088", "title": "Single machine scheduling with two competing agents and equal job processing times", "abstract": "We study various two agent scheduling problems on a single machine with equal job processing times. The equal processing time assumption enables us to design new polynomial time or faster than known optimization algorithms for many problems. We prove, however, that there exists a subset of problems for which the computational complexity remains NP hard. The set of hard problems includes different variations where the objective functions of the two agents are either minimizing the weighted sum of completion times or the weighted number of tardy jobs. For these problems, we present pseudo polynomial time algorithms.", "corpus_id": 30013088, "venue": "Eur. J. Oper. Res.", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Daniel Oron", "Dvir Shabtay", "George Steiner" ], "n_citations": 35, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "107451364", "title": "Are all LEPS created equal? job and workplace dynamics, 1998 2012", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 107451364, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Michael Anyadike-Danes", "Mark A Hart" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169898295", "title": "Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment on Job Entry Decisions", "abstract": "Labor force composition and the allocation of talent remain of vital import to modern economies. For their part, governments and companies around the globe have implemented equal employment opportunity (EEO) regulations to influence labor market flows. Even though such regulations are pervasive, surprisingly little is known about their impacts. We use a natural field experiment conducted across 10 U.S. cities to investigate if EEO statements in job advertisements affect the first step in the employment process, application rates. Making use of data from nearly 2,500 job seekers, we find considerable policy effects, but in an unexpected direction: the presence of an EEO statement dampens rather than encourages racial minorities willingness to apply for jobs. Importantly, the effects are particularly pronounced for educated job seekers and in cities with white majority populations. Complementary survey evidence suggests the underlying mechanism at work is \"tokenism\" revealing that EEO statements backfire because racial minorities avoid environments in which they are perceived as regulatory, or symbolic, hires rather than being hired on their own merits. Beyond their practical and theoretical importance, our results highlight how field experiments can significantly improve policy making. In this case, if one goal of EEO regulations is to enhance the pool of minority applicants, then it is not working.", "corpus_id": 169898295, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andreas Leibbrandt", "John A List" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "156649017", "title": "Origins of the Committee for Equal Job Opportunity", "abstract": "ACIPCO has a long history in Birmingham, reaching back to the early years of the twentieth century, a time when the city itself was still in its childhood. In the years surrounding World War I, the company's founder, John J. Eagan, instituted policies at ACIPCO that placed it at the fore front of the development of welfare capitalism. Inspired by a paternalism rooted in his Christian faith, Eagan \"financed the construction of housing for workers, created health services, built churches, provided social workers, established recreational facilities, and helped finance a system of education for adults and their children:\"1 These programs, while aimed at improving the lives of ACIPCO's workers, were also intended to instill in them traits of discipline, industry, and loyalty that would prove valuable to the company.2 In fact, Eagan's commitment to morality went beyond the provision of such services to include a series of strict rules regarding employee behavior, including a prohibition on the use of alcohol. Hailing that policy in particular, a 1933 profile in the Christian Science Monitor described it as a key reason why ACIPCO employees, both black and white, had been able to obtain certain markers of success including furnished homes, electricity, radios, and automobiles.3", "corpus_id": 156649017, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Robert W Widell" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "20692339", "title": "An effective ant colony optimization algorithm for multi objective job shop scheduling with equal size lot splitting", "abstract": "Abstract This paper proposes several novel hybrid ant colony optimization (ACO) based algorithms to resolve multi objective job shop scheduling problem with equal size lot splitting. The main issue discussed in this paper is lot splitting of jobs and tradeoff between lot splitting costs and makespan. One of the disadvantages of ACO is its uncertainty on time of convergence. In order to enrich search patterns of ACO and improve its performance, five enhancements are made in the proposed algorithms including: A new type of pheromone and greedy heuristic function; Three new functions of state transition rules; A nimble local search algorithm for the improvements of solution quality; Mutation mechanism for divisive searching; A particle swarm optimization (PSO) based algorithm for adaptive tuning of parameters. The objectives that are used to measure the quality of the generated schedules are weighted sum of makespan, tardiness of jobs and lot splitting cost. The developed algorithms are analyzed extensively on real world data obtained from a printing company and simulated data. A mathematical programming model is developed and paired samples t tests are performed between obtained solutions of mathematical programming model and proposed algorithms in order to verify effectiveness of proposed algorithms.", "corpus_id": 20692339, "venue": "Appl. Soft Comput.", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Rong-Hwa Huang", "Tung-Han Yu" ], "n_citations": 42, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "151749781", "title": "Is all Support Equal? The Moderating Effects of Supervisor, Coworker, and Organizational Support on the Link between Emotional Labor and Job Performance", "abstract": "This study was designed to examine the moderating roles of perceived supervisor, coworker, and organizational support in the relationship between emotional labor and job performance in the airline service context. A sample of flight attendants working for one major airline company in South Korea participated in this study. The flight attendants' official job performance data were provided by the airline company. For data analyses, a series of hierarchical moderated regression analyses were employed. The results showed differential moderation effects of the three sources of support at work. Specifically, the positive relationship between deep acting and job performance was strengthened by perceived supervisor and coworker support. The negative relationship between surface acting and job performance was exacerbated by perceived supervisor support, indicating the reverse buffering effect. Perceived organizational support showed only main effects on employee performance with no moderation effects.", "corpus_id": 151749781, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Hyun Jeong Kim", "Won-Moo Hur", "Taewon Moon", "Jea-Kyoon Jun" ], "n_citations": 61, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "154136165", "title": "Equal Job unequal pay. Fixed term contracts and wage differentials in the italian labor market", "abstract": "Partial and targeted labor market deregulation as undergone in Italy during the last two decades has created a strong cohort cleavage on the labor market as regards the risks of a precarious work career. In explaining the logics underlying the different kinds of labor market deregulation, the literature stresses the alternative between labor market adjustment based on wage inequality and job insecurity. Flexible and unequal labor markets in the English speaking countries are opposed to the continental European ones, where wage differentiation is limited but deregulation has been <at the margins> Notwithstanding the theoretical debate, there is still relatively little empirical evidence regarding the level of inequality in wages between <contingent> and <secure> work positions, especially in Italy, although, given the ongoing debate, one would expect a trade off between job security and wage level to be operating. We use the Italian component of the 1995 2001 ECHP panel waves, the SHIW panels 2004 2006, 2006 2008 to provide an empirical based analysis of the persistence of a clear and significant wage differential between contingent and secure work in Italy that parallels and adds to the job insecurity dimension. As regard methods, we apply statistical matching, multivariate analyses and FE models. All our results confirm this specific outcome of the <deregulation at the margins> of the Italian labor market.", "corpus_id": 154136165, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Paolo Nicola Barbieri", "Giorgio Cutuli" ], "n_citations": 23, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "1511146", "title": "Two agent scheduling on a single parallel batching machine with equal processing time and non identical job sizes", "abstract": "We schedule the jobs from two agents on a single parallel batching machine with equal processing time and non identical job sizes. The objective is to minimize the makespan of the first agent subject to an upper bound on the makespan of the other agent. We show that there is no polynomial time approximation algorithm for solving this problem with a finite worst case ratio, unless P=NP. Then, we propose an effective algorithm LB to obtain a lower bound of the optimal solution, and two algorithms, namely, reserved space heuristic (RSH) and dynamic mix heuristic (DMH) to solve the two agent scheduling problem. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms with a set of computational experiments. The results show that Algorithm LB works well and tends to perform better with the increase of the number of jobs. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that RSH and DMH work well on different cases. Specifically, when the optimal makespan on the first agent exceeds the upper bound of the makespan of the other agent, RSH outperforms or equals DMH, otherwise DMH is not less favorable than RSH.", "corpus_id": 1511146, "venue": "Eur. J. Oper. Res.", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jun-qiang Wang", "Guo-qiang Fan", "Y Zhang", "Cheng-wu Zhang", "Joseph Y -T Leung" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "234279843", "title": "SPATIAL MAGNETIC FIELD CALCULATIONS FOR CORELESS CIRCULAR COILS WITH RECTANGULAR CROSS SECTION OF ARBITRARY TURN NUMBERS", "abstract": "In a wireless magnetic induction communication system, the magnetic field distribution of the current carrying coil affects the communication effect between the communication transceiver and receiver. In the study of magnetic field distribution, it was found that magnetic induction intensity and magnetic flux were important parameters to measure the effectiveness of communication. Aiming at the circular coils with rectangular cross section of any turn numbers, this paper proposed an improved algorithm to calculate the magnetic induction intensity at any spatial position based on Biot Savart law. At the same time, the calculation formula of the magnetic flux at the receiving point was also given. The coils were modeled and simulated with COMSOL software. The correctness of the improved algorithm was verified and compared with the traditional formula and simulation results, especially in the near field, which provided an important theoretical support for the further study of mutual inductance in the wireless magnetic induction communication system.", "corpus_id": 234279843, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Yiming Wang", "Xu Xie" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "234221757", "title": "ANTENNA USING A MAGNETIC SLAB LOCATED IN THE PRINCIPAL MAGNETIC FIELD REGION BENEATH THE PATCH", "abstract": "This paper presents an analysis of microstrip patch antennas with different dielectric/magnetic substrate profiles in an attempt to obtain operating frequency reduction. Initially, different ridge shapes in the substrate were examined. An in depth investigation of the ridge shape and its dimensions on the antenna performance has been carried out. Subsequently an antenna with a magneticslab loaded in the prime magnetic field region beneath the patch is proposed. The new magnetic loaded antenna design is aimed to reduce the resonant frequency of a conventional patch and reduce the profile of an earlier design with a substrate ridge. Various magnetic materials have been embedded within the original dielectric substrate of the patch antenna. Measured results validated the hypothesis that this frequency can be reduced by placing magnetic materials at the centre of the patch. The achieved gain is expected to be further enhanced by using forthcoming magnetic materials with improved performance.", "corpus_id": 234221757, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Ignacio J Garcia Zuazola", "Ashwani Sharma", "Misha Filip", "William G Whittow" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "231577363", "title": "Progress in miniaturization and low field nuclear magnetic resonance.", "abstract": "In this paper, we review the latest developments in miniaturization of NMR systems with an emphasis on low field NMR. We briefly cover the topics of magnet and coil miniaturization, elaborating on the advantages and disadvantages of miniaturized coils for different applications. The main part of the article is dedicated to progress in NMR electronics. Here, we touch upon software defined radios as an emerging gadget for NMR before we provide a detailed discussion of NMR on a chip transceivers as the ultimate solution in terms of miniaturization of NMR electronics. In addition to discussing the miniaturization capabilities of the NMR on a chip approach, we also investigate the potential use of NMR on a chip devices for an improved NMR system performance. Here, we also discuss the possibility of combining the NMR on a chip approach with EPR on a chip spectrometers to form compact DNP on a chip systems that can provide a significant sensitivity boost, especially for low field NMR systems.", "corpus_id": 231577363, "venue": "Journal of magnetic resonance", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Jens Anders", "Frederik Dreyer", "Daniel Kruger", "Ilai Schwartz", "Martin Bodo Plenio", "Fedor Jelezko" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "233897104", "title": "Magnetic background field tolerant SQIF based current sensors", "abstract": "We report on the development of magnetic background field tolerant superconducting quantum interference filter (SQIF) based on low capacitance sub micrometer sized cross type Josephson junctions either as current sensing amplifiers even on chip for advanced superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) readout circuits or as magnetic field sensor in flux transformer configuration especially for geophysical measurement systems. Their very small parasitic magnetic sensitive areas enable them to operate in the Earth magnetic field and allow for magnetically unshielded cool down. The careful consideration of magnetic sensitive areas inside each SQUID in the SQIF in all three dimensions result in developed SQIFs with 28 SQUIDs in series exhibiting large voltage swing and transfer function of more than 2 mV and 500VA 1 respectively. We report on the electrical parameters and field stability as well as on the noise performance of the devices under investigation. SQIFs and devices with additional on chip flux transformers show input referred current noise levels of 5.9 and 1.1pAHz 1/2 respectively. We furthermore demonstrate their potential as SQIF based magnetometers using them in addition with thin film pickup loops resulting in a white magnetic field noise of 1.6fTHz 1/2 The implemented SQIFs are thus highly compatible with state of the art single SQUID devices offering beneficial features such as a unique working point, making them excellent suited for implementation of e.g. geophysical instruments.", "corpus_id": 233897104, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Matthias Schmelz", "Markus Hopf", "Vyacheslav Zakosarenko", "T Schonau", "Andreas Chwala", "Solveig Anders", "Juergen Kunert", "Ronny Stolz" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "220875853", "title": "Facile synthesis of magnetic hierarchical flower like Co3O4 spheres: Mechanism, excellent tetra enzyme mimics and their colorimetric biosensing applications.", "abstract": "Magnetic hierarchical flower like Co3O4 spheres (Co3O4 nanoflowers) were facilely prepared via one step surfactant free and template free wet chemical route at room temperature. The formation mechanism of Co3O4 nanoflowers was explored. The as prepared Co3O4 nanoflowers exhibited excellent tetra enzyme mimetic activities, including oxidase like, peroxidase like, catalase like and superoxide dismutase (SOD) like activity. The catalytic mechanism of the Co3O4 nanoflowers was studied in detail. The oxidase like catalytic activity of Co3O4 nanoflowers was derived from the inherent oxygen vacancies of Co3O4, while the peroxidase like catalytic activity originated from the *OH radical generated by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) Only one specific enzyme mimics reaction with Co3O4 nanoflowers can be obtained by inhibiting specifically other nanozymes via varying pH, adding appropriate scavengers or selecting its specific substrate. Further, the steady state kinetic and catalytic performance of the oxidase peroxidase and catalase mimics of Co3O4 nanoflowers were studied. Based on the oxidase like and peroxidase like activities of Co3O4 nanoflowers, bifunctional colorimetric sensing platforms were constructed for the sensitive detection of acid phosphatase (ACP) with the linear range of 0.1 25 U L 1 and H2O2 with the linear range of 4 400 mM. Further, it is capable of detecting ACP in serum samples and H2O2 in water samples, respectively. Thus, the tetra enzyme mimetic Co3O4 nanoflowers show broad prospects in the fields of biosensors, tumor therapy, environmental monitoring and biocatalysis.", "corpus_id": 220875853, "venue": "Biosensors bioelectronics", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xuan Liu", "Lu Yan", "Han Ren", "Yuanyuan Cai", "Chongyang Liu", "Lingxing Zeng", "Jing Guo", "Aihua Liu" ], "n_citations": 18, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221721389", "title": "Oxidative stress associated with long term occupational exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF EMFs) may have harmful effects on biologic systems and has raised many concerns in the last decades. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the effects of exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities. METHODS This study was conducted on 115 power plant workers as the exposed group and 145 office workers as the non exposed group. The levels of Malondialdehyde (MDA) Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) Catalase (Cat) and Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC) were measured in the serum of all subjects. Exposure to ELF EMFs was measured based on spot measurements and the IEEE Std C95.3.1 standard. RESULTS The levels of MDA, SOD, and Cat in the exposed group were significantly higher than in the non exposed group. However, the level of TAC was not significantly different between the exposed (2.45+ 1.02) and non exposed (2.21+ 1.07) groups. The levels of MDA and SOD were higher among workers with higher exposure to electric fields than workers with low exposure. All oxidative stress indicators increased with increased exposure to magnetic fields, except TAC. CONCLUSIONS The antioxidant system imbalance among power plant workers may be related to long term occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields.", "corpus_id": 221721389, "venue": "Work", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Majid Bagheri Hosseinabadi", "Narges Khanjani", "Pirasteh Norouzi", "Seyed Reza Mirbadie", "Mozhgan Fazli", "Mehdi Mirzaii" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "211006094", "title": "Magnetic softness, dynamic magnetization, and relaxation behavior of FeSiBC amorphous alloys", "abstract": "The variation of dynamic coercivity, core loss, permeability m and relaxation behavior with annealing temperature, frequency as well as magnetic field magnitude H m for the FeSiBC amorphous alloy was systematically studied. It can be found that the dynamic coercivity H cd of 6.2 A/m at 1.0 T and 50 Hz is much larger than the static coercivity H cs of 1.7 A/m for the optimally annealed Fe 78 Si 8 B 13 C 1 alloy. The increase of H cd with the increases in frequency can be ascribed to the difficulty of domain wall motion and magnetization rotation as frequency elevates. The dynamic magnetization analysis reveals that m goes up and attains a peak value as H m increases to about 25 A/m in the low frequency range, while the m does not depend on H m in the high frequency range f 10 kHz) In addition, the change of magnetic relaxation time with annealing temperature and filed magnitude is discussed.", "corpus_id": 211006094, "venue": "Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Aina He", "Huiyun Xiao", "Yaqiang Dong", "Anding Wang", "Yan Pan", "Xiao-hong Yang", "Jianya Ge" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221699731", "title": "High latitude crochet: solar flare induced magnetic disturbance independent from low latitude", "abstract": "Solar flare induced High latitude (peak at 70 75* geographic latitude) ionospheric current system was studied. Right after the X9.3 flare on 6 September 2017, magnetic stations at 68 77* geographic latitudes (GGlat) near local noon detected northward geomagnetic deviations (B) for more than 3 hours, with peak amplitudes >200 nT, without any accompanying substorm activities. From its location, this solar flare effect, or crochet, is different from previously studied ones, namely, subsolar crochet (seen at lower latitude) auroral crochet (pre requires auroral electrojet in sunlight) or cusp crochet (seen only 5 in the cusp) The new crochet is much more intense and longer in duration than the subsolar crochet. The long duration matches with the period of high solar X ray flux (more than M3 class flare level) Unlike the cusp crochet, interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) BY is not the driver with BY only 0 1 nT out of 3 nT total field. The equivalent ionospheric current flows eastward in a limited latitude range but extended at least 8 hours in local time (LT) forming a zonal current region equatorward of the polar cap on the geomagnetic closed region. 10 EISCAT radar measurements over the same region as the most intense B near local noon show enhancements of electron density (and hence ion neutral ratio) at these altitudes 100 km) where the background Sq ion convection 100 m/s) preexisted. Therefore, this new zonal current can be related to the Sq convection and the electron density enhancement, e.g. by descending E region height. However, we have not found why the new crochet is found in a limited latitudinal range, and therefore the mechanism is still unclear compared to the subsolar crochet that is maintained by transient re distribution of 15 electron density. The signature is sometimes seen in the Auroral Electrojet (AE) index. A quick eye survey for X class flares during solar cycle 23 and 24 shows clear AU increases for about half the >X2 flares during non substorm time, although the latitudinal coverage of the AE stations is not favorable to detect this new crochet. Although some of them could be due to auroral crochet, this new crochet can be rather common feature for X flares. 20 key points (1) We found a new type of the solar flare effect on the dayside ionospheric current at high latitudes but equatorward of the cusp during quiet periods. 1 https:/doi.org/10.5194/angeo 2020 48 Preprint. Discussion started: 9 July 2020 c (c) Author(s) 2020. CC BY 4.0 License.", "corpus_id": 221699731, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Masatoshi Yamauchi", "Magnar G Johnsen", "Carl-Fredrik Enell", "Anders Tjulin", "Anna Naemi Willer", "D A Sormakov" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225042171", "title": "Feasibility of Glutamate and GABA Detection in Pons and Thalamus at 3T and 7T by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy", "abstract": "Glutamate detection in pons and thalamus using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) after an intervention is of interest for studying various brain disorders. However, 1H MRS in these brain regions is challenging and time consuming, especially in longitudinal study designs. 1H MRS of more cortical structures at the ultrahigh magnetic field strength of 7T yields an improved spectral output, including separation of the glutamate signal from the glutamine signal, in a shorter and more feasible scan time, as compared to conventional clinical field strengths. For this purpose, we compared the feasibility of 1H MRS at 3T and 7T in pons and thalamus by applying a longitudinal study design of repeated measures on same day and three separate days at both field strength in five healthy participants. Total 1H MRS acquisition time was reduced by a factor 3.75 for pons and by a factor 3 for thalamus at 7T as compared to 3T. We found higher spectral signal to noise ratio (SNR) (p 0.001) lower linewidth (p 0.001) and lower Cramer Rao lower bounds (CRLB) (p 0.001) for the combined glutamate and glutamine signal (Glx) in thalamus at 7T as compared to 3T. In pons, CRLB of Glx and SNR were lower at 7T (p 0.002 and p 0.006) with no differences in linewidth compared to 3T. Mean within subject variability of Glx concentration estimates was lower at 7T compared to 3T for both pons and thalamus. At 7T, it was possible to assess glutamate and g aminobutyric acid (GABA) simultaneously in pons and thalamus. In conclusion, 1H MRS at 7T resulted in improved spectral quality while allowing shorter scan times than at 3T as well as estimation of the pure glutamate signal in pons and thalamus. This opens up the opportunity for multimodal study designs and multiregional subcortical 1H MRS research. Glutamate and GABA measurement at 7T in pons and thalamus is advantageous for future investigations of excitatory inhibitory mechanisms in brain disorders.", "corpus_id": 225042171, "venue": "Frontiers in Neuroscience", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Samaira Younis", "Anders Hougaard", "Casper E Christensen", "Mark B Vestergaard", "Esben Thade Petersen", "Vincent Oltman Boer", "Olaf Bjarne Paulson", "Messoud Ashina", "Anouk Marsman", "Henrik B W Larsson" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219513008", "title": "Comparison of Superconductors and Permanent Magnets for Small scale Magnetic Resonance Imaging Devices", "abstract": "In this feasibility study, we use finite element method simulations to compare superconductors (SC) coils and permanent magnets (PM) assemblies as main field source for a small scale magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The motivation behind this investigation is that for certain tissues, e.g. knee ligament, diagnosis can be performed with equipment operating with relatively weak magnetic fields. It is then interesting to assess whether the relaxed field requirement enables alternative technologies, which present some advantages over the well established helium cooled low temperature superconductors. As prototypical magnetic systems, we consider the Helmholtz coil and the Halbach cylinder for the SC and PM cases, respectively. Each possibility is simulated over a wide range of combinations of the fundamental design parameters. We estimate field strength, field homogeneity, and total cost over the service life of the device. From these figures of merit, we evaluate the optimal combinations of design parameters. Finally, we compare the SC and PM systems and we establish the range of field requirement values for which one alternative is more suitable than the other one. The result of the present investigation provides the starting point for more detailed studies where more specific design considerations are taken into account.", "corpus_id": 219513008, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Andrea Roberto Insinga", "J J L Christensen", "Asger Bech Abrahamsen", "Anders Christian Wulff" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "181453295", "title": "THE EFFECT OF TAX PLANNING, EQUITY AND OPERATION CASH FLOW TOWARDS THE EFFORT OF COMPRESSING INCOME TAX BURDEN IN PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE COMPANIES LISTED IN STOCK EXCHANGE PERIOD 2012 2015", "abstract": "The purpose of this research is to prove and analyze the effect of tax planning, equity and cash flow towards the effort of compressing income tax burden in property and real estate companies listed in Stock exchange in period 2012 2015. The population in this research including all property and real estate companies. Sample is taken using purposive sampling technique with the amount of 32 companies. The data used in this research is secondary data, by gathering neccessary information from IDX such as financial report year 2012 2015. The method used to analyze the relationship between independent variable and dependent variable is double regression method and assumption method. The result shows that simultaneously, variable independent variable; tax planning, equity and operation cash flow towards the effort in compressing income tax burden. Partial result, variable of tax planning, equity and operation cash flow towards the effort in compressing income tax.", "corpus_id": 181453295, "venue": "Journal of Life Economics", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hannah Tono" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "169560140", "title": "Fang Di Chan Qi Ye Zeng Zhi Shui Na Shui Chou Hua Si Lu Tan Jiu Research on the Thoughts of Value Added Tax Planning of Real Estate Enterprises", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 169560140, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199345101", "title": "PENGARUH TAX PLANNING, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DAN DEFFERED TAX EXPENSES TERHADAP EARNING MANAGEMENT PADA PERUSAHAAN PROPERTI DAN REAL ESTATE YANG TERCATAT DI BEI TAHUN 2013 2017", "abstract": "The research objectives are 1) To know the effect of tax planning, corporate governance and deffered tax expenses simultaneously to earning management. 2) To know the effect of tax planning on earning management. 3) Is there any influence of corporate governance on earning management. 4) Is there any effect of deffered tax expenses on earning management. This type of research is quantitative with descriptive approach. Data collection method used in this research is documentation method. While the technique of data analysis and Hypothesis Testing using classical assumption testing, multiple regression analysis, partial test, simultaneous test, and Coefficient of Determination. The research results prove that there is influence of tax planning, corporate governance and deffered tax expenses simultaneously to earnings management evidenced from result of simultaneous test test obtained probability sig value equal to 0,001 smaller than value a that is equal to 0,05. The effect of tax planning on earning management is evidenced from the partial tax planning results on earning management obtained probability sig value of 0.012 which is smaller than a value of 0.05. There is influence of corporate governance to earnings management evidenced from result of partial examination of corporate governance to earnings management got probability sig value equal to 0,002 smaller than value a that is equal to 0,05. There is no effect of deffered tax expenses on earning management evidenced from the partial test results deffered tax expenses to earnings management probability obtained sig value of 0.859 greater than the value of a is 0.05. Keywords: Tax Planning, Corporate Governance, Deffered Tax Expenses, Earning Management", "corpus_id": 199345101, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Marifatul Afifah", "Ibnu Muttaqin" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169020629", "title": "Property Tax Planning based on the Perspective of Real Estate Owner", "abstract": "The real estate industry plays an important role in the development of the national economy. It is also an important source of fiscal revenue and a key area of tax inspection. With the increasing of the whole industry, the real estate development enterprises are very necessary to carry out tax planning. Based on the significance of the tax planning of real estate development enterprises, this paper studies the specific tax planning strategies of real estate development enterprises at different stages, and then summarizes the problems existing in the tax planning of real estate industry in China and puts forward some suggestions: This paper argues that real estate development enterprises should Planning awareness, training tax planning professionals, strengthen tax planning risk management and other aspects to enhance the practical effect of tax planning in the enterprise.", "corpus_id": 169020629, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Shu-Yun Peng" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "168773488", "title": "Qi Ye Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi De Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Na Shui Chou Hua Research on the Tax Planning of Land VAT to the Real Estate Disposal in Enterprises", "abstract": "Quan Guo Shi Xing \"Ying Gai Zeng \"Dao Zhi Di Fang Cai Zheng Shou Ru Chi Jin ,Di Fang Shui Zheng Guan Yue Lai Yue Yan Ge ,Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Zhong Da Liang Ye Wu Bei Shui Wu Ren Ding Wei \"Guo You Fang Di Chan Zhuan Rang \"Er Zheng Shou Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Wei Ci ,Jie He Xian Xing Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Fa Gui Zheng Ce Gui Ding ,Chan Ming Liao Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Gua Yong De Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Zheng Ce ,Tan Tao Liao Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Ye Wu De Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Chou Hua Ji Zhu Yao Ling ,Bing Ju Li Fen Xi Liao You Xiao Yun Yong Xian Xing Shui Shou Fa Gui Yu Zheng Ce Chai Yi Kai Zhan Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Chou Hua De Xian Zhu Xiao Guo The national trial of \"business tax reform levy VAT\" led to tight local financial revenue, so that the local tax collection and management is more stringent. Most of the real estate disposal was tax identified as \"state owned real estate transfer\" business, thus levying land value added tax. Therefore, combined with the current land value increment tax regulations and policies, the policy of land value increment tax applicable to the real estate disposal is expounded, the technical essentials of the land value increment taxation of the real estate disposal business are discussed, and examples are given to analyze the effective application of the current tax regulations and policies to carry out the land The significant effect of VAT planning.", "corpus_id": 168773488, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211794315", "title": "Research on the Tax Planning of Land VAT to the Real Estate Disposal in Enterprises", "abstract": "Quan Guo Shi Xing \"Ying Gai Zeng \"Dao Zhi Di Fang Cai Zheng Shou Ru Chi Jin ,Di Fang Shui Zheng Guan Yue Lai Yue Yan Ge ,Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Zhong Da Liang Ye Wu Bei Shui Wu Ren Ding Wei \"Guo You Fang Di Chan Zhuan Rang \"Er Zheng Shou Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Wei Ci ,Jie He Xian Xing Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Fa Gui Zheng Ce Gui Ding ,Chan Ming Liao Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Gua Yong De Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Zheng Ce ,Tan Tao Liao Bu Dong Chan Chu Zhi Ye Wu De Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Chou Hua Ji Zhu Yao Ling ,Bing Ju Li Fen Xi Liao You Xiao Yun Yong Xian Xing Shui Shou Fa Gui Yu Zheng Ce Chai Yi Kai Zhan Tu Di Zeng Zhi Shui Chou Hua De Xian Zhu Xiao Guo The national trial of \"business tax reform levy VAT\" led to tight local financial revenue, so that the local tax collection and management is more stringent. Most of the real estate disposal was tax identified as \"state owned real estate transfer\" business, thus levying land value added tax. Therefore, combined with the current land value increment tax regulations and policies, the policy of land value increment tax applicable to the real estate disposal is expounded, the technical essentials of the land value increment taxation of the real estate disposal business are discussed, and examples are given to analyze the effective application of the current tax regulations and policies to carry out the land The significant effect of VAT planning.", "corpus_id": 211794315, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Zhang Xue Yi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "167570315", "title": "Tax Planning Analysis on the Transfer of Real Estate Enterprises", "abstract": "The real estate industry is the largest industry in the economic development of our country,also is the main source of the central and local government revenue.But with the increase of quantity and amount for real estate transactions,real estate transaction tax problem is becoming more and more worth related concerns.At the time of transfer of real estate enterprises,involving a variety of different categories of taxes,such as business tax,urban construction maintenance,educational expenses to add,deed tax,stamp tax,land value added tax,the tax cost in the total investment and the proportion of high and fords the tax amount big,long operation period,capital foot print,if they don't consider these heavy tax burden,is bound to affect the development of the enterprise in the future,so the enterprise can be in the premise of legal,make full use of all kinds of preferential policies for tax planning,in order to reduce the transfer of real estate tax cost,reduce the tax burden,improve the economic benefit,realize the goal of enterprise business activities,the profit maximization.", "corpus_id": 167570315, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "HU Shao-y" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "166611421", "title": "Back from the Abyss: Real Estate Tax Planning from the Bottom Up (Slides)", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 166611421, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Steven M Friedman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55069617", "title": "Research on Tax Planning of Anhui MH Real Estate Enterprise", "abstract": "The purpose of this research is to explore methods to avoid tax reasonably of the Anhui MH real estate enterprises. In order to explore the effective methods of tax planning for real estate industry, based on the analysis of the current situation of tax planning of Anhui MH real estate enterprise, this article focuses on the planning of business tax, land value added tax and enterprise income tax.", "corpus_id": 55069617, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Zhao Wen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "207825868", "title": "The Influence of the Tax Charges, Tax Defered and Planning, Againt Earnings Management (Case Studies to the Property and Real Estate Listed at the Indonesian Stock Exchange 2016 2018 period)", "abstract": "This research aims to review the influence of the independent variable that is the tax charges and deferred tax planning in partial and simultaneous against earnings management.Profit management is an effort he played or performed by the management to raise or lower the reported profit from the unit became his responsibility who have no ties to increase or decrease a company profitability for the long term.Profit management has aimed to improve accounting profit but not a taxable, then the management of net profit was going to cause temporary differences that will produce higher. deferred tax burdenResearched used is property and real estate company registered in indonesia stock exchange 2016 2018 period. The sample used in this research as many as 24 companies were chosen in purposive sampling methods.The analysis used is a regression analysis data panel using Eviews version 9.The selected were common effect being with the f test and the t test, with the significance of 5% Based on the results of the f note that the tax charges tax simultaneously tangguhan and planning will not affect its management.Based on the resultsofthetavariableloadtangguhaninfluencesmanagementprofittax.Adjustedr2 shows that in this study all the independent variable to contribute as much as 16% dependent variable.", "corpus_id": 207825868, "venue": "KnE Social Sciences", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Luqman Hakim", "G A Pratama" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "229421095", "title": "Experimental study of biopolymer in corrosion resistance for industrial exposure condition", "abstract": "Abstract Many RCC structures have been built in the last century but these structures are in need of repair within 10 20 years of its construction. The reason for this premature distress and deterioration points towards corrosion of steel reinforcement bars used in these structures due to weakening of concrete. The enormous number of structures that needs immediate repair and renovation opens up a huge potential for research in this area. The repair work done in a conventional way using normal cement composite did not work. Whereas repair work done with scientific approach using high and technically competent materials (like epoxies) leads to uneconomical solutions and not durable to withstand our tropical climatic conditions. India being a flourished nation with infinite resources giving us a numerous number of bio polymers that were used in ancient times in ancient construction, if these bio polymers are identified experimentally for their benefits it would give way to eco friendly economical and long lasting structures. The use of corrosion inhibitor is one of the most widely used countermeasures, because of their simplicity in applications and is relatively less expensive. The natural bio polymers are organic materials available from selected plants, seeds, fruit extracts. Plant extracts corrosion inhibitors are cheap, non toxic and environmental friendly. Organic inhibitors offer protection by adsorbing and forming a protective film on the steel surface. Turmeric, Neem extracts in concrete as corrosion inhibitor in different ratio and as a combination are to be studied at depth, as they are commonly available and there is no constraint in getting these resources throughout the year. An eco friendly, economical, Non Toxic and user friendly corrosion inhibitor can be given from this experimental study. The feasibility study has been made and phytochemical analysis results give positive results for a better result giving corrosion inhibitor.", "corpus_id": 229421095, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "G Beulah Gnana Ananthi", "N Sivakumar", "M S Deepak" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225173114", "title": "Time and cost comparison of reinforced cement concrete and steel structure", "abstract": "Abstract In South Asian countries concrete is mostly used as construction material, especially for low rise structures. Still steel is not predominantly used in high rise structures. Besides, Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) and steel structures; composite structures can be built to get maximum benefit of the steel and concrete, as well to produce reliable and economic structures. In this paper comparative study of nine storey hospital RCC and steel building is carried out. For the modelling and analysis of RCC and steel structure ETABs software is used. Comparative study of different parameters like base shear, load carrying capacity, displacement, time period, axial force, and cost is carried out with RCC and steel structures. Final results illustrates that steel structures are more suitable for high rise structures, less time consuming and they are cost effective too.", "corpus_id": 225173114, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "233283663", "title": "SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF IRREGULAR COMPOSITE STEEL CONCRETE STRUCTURE AND ITS COMPARISON WITH RCC STRUCTURE", "abstract": "In developing countries like India, the increase in the population creates demand for high rise structures for which we are facing scarcity of land. In present situation it has become necessary to consider economy of the structure which is more important. Generally we have RCC type of structures for the construction of Multi storied buildings. As we all know RCC building requires bulky size of components that increases the self weight of the structure which in turn increases cost of construction. Therefore to overcome this cause resulted in the practice of new innovative and efficient building method, which is Composite steel concrete structure. Composite structure is a type of building method consisting of composite beam, composite column and composite deck slab which is connected with shear connectors. Composite structure consists of both steel and concrete resulting in better ductile behavior than that of RCC system. In this study 10 storied building is considered which is modeled and dynamic analysis is carried out with the use of ETABS software. Results from both the type of structure are compared and concluding that which structure is more recommendable and economical. Keywords Composite structure, RCC (Reinforced Cement Concrete) structure, Composite beam, Seismology, Seismic weight, Storey stiffness.", "corpus_id": 233283663, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Vidhya C", "Dr H S Narashimhan" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225498486", "title": "Comparative Study of Reinforced Concrete Frame Building and RC Steel Composite Frame Building", "abstract": "Steel industry is growing in almost all parts of the world. The use of steel structure in construction industry is less in India as compared to USA, EU and other developed countries. As well cities in India are amongs high densely inhabitants per square km. which restricts horizontal expansion therefore vertical growth of building becomes predominant. Concrete structures are massive and bestow more seismic weight while steel structure take more ductility and deflection. Composite construction consolidates the better properties of steel and concrete. In this study the static analysis under the provision of IS1893:2002 is carried out for three dimensional models RCC frame structure and RC steel composite frame structure with the help of ETAB software. Comparative study of RCC frame structure and RC steel composite frame structure for G+9 is included. Subject headings: Composite structures, steel structure framed structure, seismic design, ETABS v18 1.INTRODUCTION In the past for the construction, the choice was normally between a concrete structure and a masonary structure. Failure of many masonary buildings and multistoried RCC buildings due to earthquake have necessitate structural engineers to look for the different method of construction. Due to significant potential in improving the overall performance through rather modest changes in construction technology, use of composite frame structure is of particular intrest. There is great potential for increasing the volume of steel in construction. Especially the current development need in India. Use of steel, reinforced concrete, and composite steel concrete members which are functioning together such composite systems make use of each type of member in most efficient manner to maximize the structural and economical benefit. 2. ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURE 2.1 Shear connector Mechanical shear connectors are required at the steelconcrete interface. These connectors are designed to (a) transmit longitudinal shear along the interface and (b) prevent separation of steel beam and concrete slab at the interface. There are three types of shear connectors as, (a) Rigid type (b) Bond or anchorage type (c) Flexible type 2.2 composite deck slab Composite deck slab consist of composite column(encased hot rolled I section) steel beam, steel jacketing. 2.3 composite beam The steel beams are connected to the concrete slab in such a way that the two act as one unit, the beam is called as composite beam. Composite beams are similar to concrete Tbeams where the flange of the T beam is made of concrete slab and the web of the T beam is made of the steel section. 2.4 Composite column It is a compression member consisting either concrete encased hot rolled steel section embedded in concrete. At present there is no Indian standard code covering the design of composite column. The design method largely follows Euro code 4, which provides latest research on composite construction. IS 11384 1985 does not make any specific provisions to composite columns. 3. METHODOLOGY RCC and steel concrete frame models are analyzed. Seismic analysis of both RCC frame structure and composite frame structure are carried out using software tool ETAB v18. Different parameters such as shear force, storey stiffness, storey displacement, storey drift are discussed 3.1 Structural details A typical plan of building is selected for comparative study of RCC and RC steel composite having plan dimensions 25m x 16m as shown in figure. 3 D model is being prepared for the frame analysis of building in ETABS. Following basic parameters are used for analysis and design of structures. 3.1.1 Material properties Unit weight of masonary 19 kN/m Unit weight of RCC 25 kN/m Grade of concrete M30 Grade of reinforcing steel HYSD500 Grade of structural steel Fe250 Modulus of elasticity for RCC 25 kN/m Modulus of elasticity for steel 210 kN/m Dead load Self weight of structural elements Live load 3 kN/m Floor finish load 1 kN/m International Journal of Engineering Research Technology (IJERT) ISSN: 2278 0181 http:/www.ijert.org IJERTV9IS070668 (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Published by www.ijert.org Vol. 9 Issue 07, July 2020", "corpus_id": 225498486, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "216648600", "title": "Comparative Study On Response Spectrum Analysis Of Building With Composite Columns And RCC Columns", "abstract": "The indeed intention of Steel concrete composite construction has gained acceptance worldwide as an alternative to pure steel and Reinforced concrete construction. The practice of composite elements in construction sector is very low in India compared to many developing countries. There is a great potential for increasing the volume of steel in construction, especially in the current development needs. The composite construction reduces the dead weight of the structure, in turn decreases the time of construction work. In this present study G+10 multi storied building composed of RCC columns and two different composite columns viz. Encased column and Infill rectangular tubes are analyzed by using ETABS software. In this study comparison has been made to study the variation in storey drift, storey shear, time period and the displacement of the building with RCC and", "corpus_id": 216648600, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "", "Sivapalan Govindhan", "G Eniyachandramouli", "K Ranjithselvan" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214704991", "title": "ANALYSIS OF SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTION FOR COMPOSITE STEEL AND RCC UNDER SEISMIC ZONE", "abstract": "The influence of soil structure interaction in the analysis and design of a 6 storey and basement reinforced concrete frame building is investigated. Models simulating two different conditions: namely soil structure interaction, and fixed base behavior are considered. The influence of the soil structure interaction in the dynamic behavior of the structure is reflected in an increase in the vibration period as well as increase in the system damping in comparison with the fixed base model, which does not consider the supporting soil. Conventional fixed base analysis ignoring the effect of soil flexibility carried out for the seismic design of buildings may result in unsafe design. Therefore, the effect of SSI is an important issue from the viewpoint of design considerations. Thus to evaluate the realistic behavior of structure the soil structure interaction (SSI) effect shall be incorporated in the analysis. In seismic analysis provision of bracing system is one of the important option for the structure to have sufficient strength with adequate stiffness to resist lateral forces. The different configuration of these bracing systems alters the response of buildings, and therefore, it is important to evaluate the most effective type and location of the bracing systems in view point of stability against SSI effect. In present study, two RC building frames, G+10 and G+15 with six different combinations of steel bracing system at alternate locations incorporating the effect of soil flexibility is considered in order to investigate the effectiveness of bracing system to control SSI. The seismic analysis is carried out using equivalent static method as per IS 1893 2002 The study is carried out using Elastic continuum approach(ECM) The influence of SSI on various seismic parameters and the flexural parameters are presented. The changes in all these parameters due to provision of steel bracing system are studied in order to evaluate its effectiveness in controlling the SSI effect. The study reveals that, steel bracing system plays important role to control SSI effect and it is observed that diagonal bracing placed at mid periphery are more effective, in resisting seismic load considering SSI.", "corpus_id": 214704991, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Prajwal Jaywant Gaikwad", "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "210240982", "title": "Compressive behaviour of concrete filled carbon fiber reinforced polymer steel composite tube columns made of high performance concrete", "abstract": "Abstract The confinement of concrete filled steel columns (CFT) with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) has been extensively studied in recent decades due to their significant applications for the strengthening purposes or construction of composite structures. A CFT column consists of a steel tube and inner filled concrete, where the steel tube is used as a form and confinement of the concrete, with the concrete being the core that prevents buckling of the tube. Due to the development of concrete technology, high performance concrete (HPC) is increasingly used as the internal material of CFT. However, CFT columns are susceptible to local buckling and constant confining stress after yielding of the steel tube. This is why concrete filled carbon fiber reinforced polymer steel composite tubes (CFCT) have been considered. The key parameter, which determines load carrying capacity, and axial and transverse deformation is the number of CFRP layers. The test results showed that local buckling of the steel tube can be effectively eliminated and that the compressive strength of CFCT is enhanced by the external confinement. It has been shown that the stress strain characteristic depends on confinement pressure. This paper also discusses damage patterns and presents analysis of limit load capacity based on both laboratory experiments and numerical calculations.", "corpus_id": 210240982, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Krzysztof Adam Ostrowski", "Mateusz Dudek", "Lukasz Sadowski" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "228732635", "title": "Comparative study of RCC and Steel Concrete composite structure under Time history Analysis", "abstract": "In Nepal, generally traditional RCC framed structure are preferred due to its familiarity. However, these structures are considered more suitable for the low rise building only and not suitable for the high rise building due to its higher weight, restriction to maximum span, requirement of formwork and other reasons. During the \"25th April 2015 Gorkha earthquake\" it was observed that most of the high rise building and apartments were highly affected. So for new construction of high rise building and apartments, steel concrete composite can be used to replace the traditional RCC section because of their excellent strength, ductility, better economy, better energy absorption capacity and performance during earthquake. Steel concrete composite elements are widely used in the construction of building, bridges, offshore structure and other structures worldwide, however it is new concept for the construction industry in Nepal. A composite column is built by encasing the steel member by concrete or simply steel section is embedded in concrete section. This thesis work presents the comparative study of performance of building with RCC and steel concrete structural system. It has been found that, steel concrete composite structures will be relatively lighter, flexible with higher time periods and attracts considerably lesser horizontal seismic forces. Hence, construction with steel concrete composite was found to be useful for the location with high seismicity like Nepal.", "corpus_id": 228732635, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Keshab Singh Badal", "Hari Darshan Shrestha" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221372558", "title": "Seismic Performance of Steel and Composite Frame Structure by Non Linear Static Method", "abstract": "M.Tech. Student, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, JNEC, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Professor, Civil Engineering Department, JNEC, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. Abstract In India for low rise buildings. reinforced concrete structures are being preferred over the years due to its convenience and its cost effectiveness together. But for medium to high rise buildings these RC structures are no longer suitable due to its increased dead load, less stiffness, span restriction and hazardous formwork. So for efficient design of all buildings which are subjected to considerable wind earthquake load steel and composite structures are widely accepted now a days. Use of composite material is of particular interest, due to its significant potential in improving the overall performance through rather modest changes in manufacturing and constructional technologies and for steel its rapid erection, high ductility, lesser dead load proved to be an advantageous. This paper the demonstrated comparison of Steel and RCC steel composite frame structure when they are subjected to similar lateral loading by nonlinear static analysis in which it compares performance of high rise frame structure. storey for steel and composite (steel concrete) when it is subjected to earthquake load which increases incrementally for each new storey. Both steel and Steelconcrete composite construction has gained wide acceptance worldwide as an alternative to pure steel and pure concrete construction. Composite construction combines the best of both steel and concrete along with lesser cost, speedy construction, fire protection etc. whereas steel has high strength to weight ratio. It is observed that the performance of steel structure is on higher side than that of the steelconcrete composite frame structure. How it can be best solution for high rise structure as compared to other conventional R.C.C structure.", "corpus_id": 221372558, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Abhinandan H Patil", "L G Kalurkar" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211019320", "title": "Comparative Study of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) and Steel Structure", "abstract": "In South Asian countries concrete is mostly used as construction material, especially for low rise structures. Still steel is not predominantly used in high rise structures. Besides, Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) and steel structures; composite structures can be built to get maximum benefit of the steel and concrete, as well to produce reliable and economic structures. In this paper comparative study of nine storey hospital RCC and steel building is carried out. For the modelling and analysis of RCC and steel structure ETABs software is used. Comparative study of different parameters like base shear, load carrying capacity, displacement, time period, axial force, and cost is carried out with RCC and steel structures. Final results illustrates that steel structures are more suitable for high rise structures, less time consuming and they are cost effective too.", "corpus_id": 211019320, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Sumit Shah", "S Saranya" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "201640412", "title": "Deaf Characters in Young Adult Literature", "abstract": "The multicultural literature movement has its roots in civil rights and the desire to give voice and representation to marginalized cultures. Literature is a societal artifact that can inform and influence the development of cultural identity. Deaf culture is a unique culture that is underrepresented in young adult literature. This underrepresentation places more importance on accurate representations of Deaf culture since young adult fiction may be the only exposure to Deaf culture that both hearing and deaf teenagers may have. Accurate representation in literature is necessary for deaf to see themselves in what they read and for hearing to better understand this unique culture. This study analyzed 20 young adult novels published between 2000 and 2017. Each novel featured a deaf or hard of hearing teenager. A phenomenography approach with a qualitative content analysis method was utilized to inform a better understanding of the representation of deaf characters and Deaf culture within current young adult literature. Models of disability as established by Clogston (1990, 1991, 1993) and Haller (1995) were used to focus the coding analysis. Two research questions were addressed. What model of disability do these books represent? What aspects of Deaf culture, communication issues, and societal issues are represented in young adult fiction? Results of the study determined the most prevalent model of disability represented was the traditional medical model. The coding also revealed themes surrounding Deaf culture, the issues in communication that deaf face, and societal issues surrounding the deaf. Stories have power. From the oral tradition of telling stories, through today's modern methods of storytelling, stories have passed on knowledge from generation to generation. Stories can document the history of a culture and can shape and impact an individual's cultural identity and understanding of self. Since adolescence is a time of discovery when young adults learn more about the world and their place in it, young adult literature can impact the cultural identity development of adolescents. Reading about cultures and characters can help adolescents form connections to and understandings of not only their cultural identity, but also that of others (Koss, 2015, Louie, 2005) The power of literature means that how a culture is portrayed in literature impacts how young adults learn about not only themselves, but society as well. Because of the impact literary representations have on cultural identity, the representation of cultures needs to be authentic. Therefore, it is important to understand stereotypes in literature and how they impact the view of a culture; otherwise these representations can reinforce negative stereotypes and lead to misunderstandings concerning the culture (Gopalakrishnan, 2011, pg. 214) Without accurate representation of a culture in literature, a method of learning about cultures in an authentic way is lost. It is also important that authentic cultural representation be easily accessible and available. The social power of cultural groups is also represented in literature and those who lack cultural power tend to be excluded from literature and other important forms of cultural representation (Taxel, 1994) The publication and selection of books assigns value to the book and its contents. If the literature is not published or cannot be found, then the opportunity for learning about the culture and its inherent value is missed. Deaf culture is found in few modern, young adult literary works. This makes access to Deaf culture in literature limited and makes it even more important that the representation of Deaf culture in those young adult books be authentic. Because of the impact of literature on the development of cultural identity, it is important to know if Deaf culture is not only represented in young adult literature, but represented accurately. The purpose of this study was to investigate how deaf characters were represented in young adult fiction published between 2000 and 2017. The study applied a phenomenography approach with a qualitative content analysis method to inform a better understanding of the representation of deaf characters and Deaf culture within current young adult literature. 1 Gangwish: Deaf in Young Adult Literature Published by DigitalCommons@UNO, 2019 What Defines Deaf Culture? Deaf culture is not defined by a region or a shared ethnic background, but rather by a language and shared experience. Deaf culture is comprised of many variables and its members may encounter various obstacles and frustrations because of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge by those outside of Deaf culture (Padden Humphries, 2005) While many people may believe Deaf culture is defined by a lack of hearing, it is not. Rather it is defined by a focus on the beliefs and practices among deaf and the visual nature of their language. Padden Humphries (2005) stated: As a community made up of some individuals who do not speak and some who do, some who do not hear at all and some who hear some, and all of whom draw the label of \"disabled\" by the larger community, Deaf people are seen as clearly not like anyone else. We often feel besieged, controlled, and patronized, even as our remarkable sign language is celebrated and admired in public (p. 7) Those who associate with Deaf culture may be deaf, hard of hearing, or hearing. They may have grown up in deaf or hearing households. They may have attended deaf or hearing schools. The culture is defined by a personal decision to become a part of the culture because of the shared values and beliefs. This study will utilize the common convention of the capitalized word, Deaf, in reference to the cultural group and its practices, and the lowercase word, deaf, in reference to the medical condition of hearing loss. For the purposes of this study, Deaf culture is defined by a focus on beliefs and practices among the Deaf, especially the primary role that sign language plays in their community (Padden Humphries, 2005) It is because of the many variances within Deaf culture, that learning about it and becoming a part of it may be difficult. For instance, a deaf person who grows up in a hearing household and attends a hearing school may not have the opportunity to learn about Deaf culture. In many cases, Deaf culture is learned through interaction with the Deaf. If that interaction is not available, a deaf person may not have the opportunity to learn about a culture that could have great impact on their life. Mainstream society may view hearing loss as a disability, but Deaf culture rejects this concept and instead self identifies as a unique cultural group brought about by the visual nature of their language (Bailes, 2002) Willard (1998) addressed the perception of disability as portrayed in the media. He stated: If anyone has anything to overcome, I would say it's the people in the media. They are the ones who keep feeding the misconception that people with disabilities are not happy or whole until they have overcome their disability. Instead, why not recognize that a disability is often a part of our lives, something that makes us who we are? Our ears may not work as well as we'd like, but we have nothing to be ashamed of and certainly nothing that needs to be overcome (p. 274) In the United States, American Sign Language (ASL) is the primary language of the Deaf. This language is very visual in nature and is one of the core components of Deaf culture. Ariella Dramin, a current student at Gallaudet remarks, \"We're a community, we're fine. We have a language\" (Shah, 2017) The unique nature of ASL makes it a pathway towards bringing Deaf culture together and has become an avenue of pride for the community. Although many deaf individuals can read lips and voice, Deaf culture acknowledges that ASL is their language. It is important to remember that being born deaf does not make a person automatically a member of Deaf culture. Since Lane, Hoffmeister and Bahan (1996) found that \"Nine out of ten deaf people come from hearing homes where deaf language and culture are rarely to be found,\" many deaf may not have the opportunity to interact with and learn about the larger Deaf culture. This can lead to a struggle during adolescence in the development of cultural identity with Deaf because many deaf children in these circumstances will not learn about Deaf cultural heritage from their hearing parents (Lane, Hoffmeister Bahan, 1996, p. 160) Lane, Hoffmeister and Bahan (1996) discussed the impact of having culturally different parents on deaf children. This situation can lead to a loss of connection with their Deaf identity. It can delay the acquisition of ASL. In many cases, deaf children born to hearing parents are faced with cochlear implants and speech drills in order to make them more acceptable in hearing society. But these choices can lead to lack of acceptance by Deaf culture. An anomaly exists in these situations though, because deaf children may seek out Deaf culture in order to identify with their language, find role models, and develop an understanding of the unique Deaf culture. 2 Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education, Vol. 4, Iss. 1 [2019] Art. 1 https:/digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/ctlle/vol4/iss1/1 Media and Cultural Identity Media, and for the focus of this study, literature in particular, as a societal artifact can impact not only view of self, but also influence how a culture is viewed by those outside of that culture. Fiction is a way of reflecting reality and can represent the concerns of that culture as well as how those concerns are addressed. It is a type of cultural artifact that reflects the perceptions and attitudes of society at the time, and as such it can inform and shape understanding about the values of a specific culture (Fairclough, 1989; Guella, 1983; Harris Baskin, 1987; Taxel, 1994) Accordin", "corpus_id": 201640412, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kim Gangwish" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "148799212", "title": "Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature", "abstract": "Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature Patricia A. Dunn. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. Print; E Book.Over the past 10 to 15 years, we have witnessed an explosion of young adult literature published in the United States. New and veteran authors are consistently offering more high quality titles to their audiences. As part of this increase, more attention (but still not enough) is being paid to diverse characters. If we want readers, and particularly our students, to understand and celebrate the diversity inherent in their lives and communities, then issues of disability should be included when we consider what it means to be diverse. If, as Rudine Sims Bishop has suggested, we seek mirror and window books to describe how we see both ourselves and others when we read literature, then we must seek out books that authentically represent issues of disability, as well as serve to push our thinking about how disability is represented in our society. With so many titles, and so many ways of looking at texts, selecting appropriate books can be difficult.Thankfully, we now have an outstanding guide to navigating this field. In Disabling Characters, Patricia A. Dunn examines classic and contemporary young adult titles through the lens of disability studies, a theoretical approach \"that examines society's role in exacerbating whatever impairments individuals may have\" (4) Disability studies has been applied to a range of disciplines in recent years, particularly composition studies; however, as Dunn notes, the approach has been relatively slow in affecting practice in K 12 schools. It is this gap that Dunn's work so expertly addresses. Disabling Characters offers a highly readable, theoretically grounded, yet practically applicable text that can be used by a wide range of teachers, scholars, and students.After a thorough and thoughtful introduction, which describes her terminology, her approach to texts as cultural artifacts, and theories that inform her own critical eye, Dunn devotes the book's remaining chapters to themed discussions of classic and contemporary YA novels. Books such as Ron Jones's The Acorn People (1976) Wendy Orr's Peeling the Onion (1996) Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (2007) and Francisco Stork's Marcelo in the Real World (2009) among many others, receive careful examination as vehicles that can reveal powerful assumptions about disability.Dunn has chosen her titles well, and readers will see that each chapter opens up new awareness of the books individually, and in conversation with each other. I found myself learning things about books I have read (and taught) many times. The lenses that Dunn uses, and the questions that she asks, have influenced the way I look at any titles that discuss disability, and include disabled characters.", "corpus_id": 148799212, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mark Letcher" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "149703895", "title": "Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature", "abstract": "Over the past 10 to 15 years, we have witnessed an explosion of young adult literature published in the United States. New and veteran authors are consistently offering more highquality titles to their audiences. As part of this increase, more attention (but still not enough) is being paid to diverse characters. If we want readers, and particularly our students, to understand and celebrate the diversity inherent in their lives and communities, then issues of disability should be included when we consider what it means to be her terminology, her approach to texts as cultural artifacts, and theories that inform her own critical eye, Dunn devotes the book's remaining chapters to themed discussions of classic and contemporary YA novels. Books such as Ron Jones's The Acorn People (1976) Wendy Orr's Peeling the Onion (1996) Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian (2007) and Francisco Stork's Marcelo in the Real World (2009) among many others, receive careful examination as vehicles that can reveal powerful assumptions about disability. Dunn has chosen her titles well, and readers will see that each chapter opens up new awareness of the books individually, and in conversation with each other. I found myself learning things about books I have read (and taught) many times. The lenses that Dunn uses, and the questions that she asks, have influenced the way I look at any titles that discuss disability, and include disabled characters. For example, I appreciate (and have borrowed) the term \"Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer stories\" to describe books in which a character's impairment allows her or him to make an almost superhuman contribution to the story, a contribution that moves the character from diverse. If, as Rudine Sims Bishop has suggested, we seek mirror and window books to describe how we see both ourselves and others when we read literature, then we must seek out books that authentically represent issues of disability, as well as serve to push our thinking about how disability is represented in our society. With so many titles, and so many ways of looking at texts, selecting appropriate books can be difficult. Thankfully, we now have an outstanding guide to navigating this field. In Disabling Characters, Patricia A. Dunn examines classic and contemporary young adult titles through the lens of disability studies, a theoretical approach \"that examines society's role in exacerbating whatever impairments individuals may have\" (4) Disability studies has been applied to a range of disciplines in recent years, particularly composition studies; however, as Dunn notes, the approach has been relatively slow in affecting practice in K 12 schools. It is this gap that Dunn's work so expertly addresses. Disabling Characters offers a highly readable, theoretically grounded, yet practically applicable text that can be used by a wide range of teachers, scholars, and students. After a thorough and thoughtful introduction, which describes Book Reviews Ken Lindblom, Column Editor", "corpus_id": 149703895, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Patricia A Dunn" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "193906808", "title": "RECOVERING 1940S HORROR CINEMA: TRACES OF A LOST DECADE Ed. Mario DeGiglio Bellemare, Charlie Ellbe, and Kristopher Woofter. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. 372 pp. $100.00 hardback.", "abstract": "Edited by Mario DeGiglio Belle mare, Charlie Ellbe, and Kristopher Woofter, Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade is a collection of seventeen essays covering an impressive range", "corpus_id": 193906808, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jessica Walker" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149904731", "title": "From Disability to Eco ability [Review] Anthony J. Nocella II, Amber E. George, and J. L. Schatz, editors. The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco ability, Justice, and Liberation", "abstract": "The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco ability, Justice, and Liberation (hereafter, Intersectionality) edited by critical scholars Anthony Nocella II, Amber E. George, and J.L. Schatz, is the follow up collection to an earlier anthology edited by Nocella II, Judy Bentley and Janet Duncan. Published in 2012, Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation: The Rise of the Eco Ability Movement was visionary in illuminating entanglements of the struggles that people with disabilities share with environmental and nonhuman animal oppression (similar to the realization of the shared oppression of women, animals and the environment that sparked ecofeminism) This connection is termed 'eco ability. Major themes from Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation were that those not considered normal either physically, mentally, or emotionally are not disabled but merely differently abled, and that the underlying presumption of normalcy is itself a flawed social construction, not a well defined criterion for judging one's suitability for inclusion into moral and social consideration. This journal article is available in Animal Studies Journal: http:/ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss1/18 FROM DISABILITY TO ECO ABILITY 330 From Disability to Eco ability [Review] Anthony J. Nocella II, Amber E. George, and J. L. Schatz, editors. The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco ability, Justice, and Liberation. New York: Lexington Books, 2017. 168 pp. Nathan Poirier Michigan State University The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco ability, Justice, and Liberation (hereafter, Intersectionality) edited by critical scholars Anthony Nocella II, Amber E. George, and J.L. Schatz, is the follow up collection to an earlier anthology edited by Nocella II, Judy Bentley and Janet Duncan. Published in 2012, Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation: The Rise of the Eco Ability Movement was visionary in illuminating entanglements of the struggles that people with disabilities share with environmental and nonhuman animal oppression (similar to the realization of the shared oppression of women, animals and the environment that sparked ecofeminism) This connection is termed 'eco ability. Major themes from Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation were that those not considered normal either physically, mentally, or emotionally are not disabled but merely differently abled, and that the underlying presumption of normalcy is itself a flawed social construction, not a well defined criterion for judging one's suitability for inclusion into moral and social consideration. Intersectionality proceeds through seven chapters that build on these foundational themes while making new connections. Contributors have backgrounds in special education or disability studies, and/or environmental science or education. Thus the expertise in this volume is admirable. With case studies and experiences from the U.S. and Canada, on the whole, Intersectionality focuses on inclusion of the disabled person into activism and liberation discourse, FROM DISABILITY TO ECO ABILITY 331 and not marginalizing individuals deemed 'others' or outside the norm, within social justice struggles. As a case in point, in her contribution, Judy K.C. Bentley describes going to a conference on disability studies as someone studying special education and feeling marginalized by other attendees. Disability studies scholars overgeneralized special education teachers as oppressive and an overall hindrance to students with disabilities and disability liberation because teachers uncritically followed unhelpful school and federal mandates. This constructed a scholarteacher dichotomous hierarchy, and came from those whom Bentley viewed as allies in proclaiming inclusion and speaking against 'Othering. Sarah Conrad addresses this theme further by stressing the point that the focus on in person, physically related activism as the hallmark of environmental and animal advocates marginalizes people with disabilities who may wish to participate but whose physical, emotional, and/or mental stresses impede the possibility. Other themes include: emphasising that Western education reinforces dualisms that value one category at the expense of another (such as able versus disabled, human versus animal) we must learn to be interdependent, not independent (value our diversity) not to work for those with needs, but work with everyone in community building; and that if we do not rethink and re practice the anthropocentric and ableist outlook, we will reconstruct the same oppressive web of circumstances we are in now. What is of invaluable importance about Intersectionality is that it alerts readers to the possibility that while we may proclaim inclusion, at the same time we may perpetuate potentially prejudicial oversights that exclude certain groups. Although a focused volume, Intersectionality does not limit itself to the intersections of animal, disability or environmental activism and liberation. It also encourages reflection on what other implicit biases might exist within individuals or organizations. Sarah Conrad gives examples of how racist, sexist, and ableist notions can contribute to a lack of professional care for those who need it. Only when such injustices are realized and exposed can we then take steps to begin to remedy them. Intersectionality powerfully argues that society generally views disabled people as holding back progress. The authors maintain that what needs to change is to instead view society as holding back the differently abled, and that this is what actually precludes progress. Disability is FROM DISABILITY TO ECO ABILITY 332 not a flaw in the individual that needs to be 'cured. However, the struggles faced by those with disabilities reflect an institutional flaw in mainstream Western culture and society that does need to be addressed. Disability liberation is not helping a person to 'overcome' their disability, but involves working with the disabled to include them in a holistic community and resist the tendency of society to enforce oppressive norms of ability, beauty, and health. We are continually reminded about the role capitalism plays in this with its focus on appealing to such norms to sell commodities through its construction of the 'desirable. In the first essay, by Scott Hurley, on 'the dog fancy' which is the promotion, breeding, and showing of dogs, the connection between capitalism, disability and nonhuman animals is drawn. Dogbreeding for competition is done to enhance and continue the breed, which has resulted in physical disabilities in many individual animals. Each breed has its own standard set by the American Kennel Club (AKC) These imposed ideals are often more akin to deformities and can create significant levels of discomfort and pain such as breathing problems or hip and back pain. If genetics do not cooperate with human desires, two outcomes arise. One is that surgical measures may be used to enhance a dog's look; another is that a dog may be deemed unsuitable for competition, in which case they are considered useless and somehow dispensed with. Dogs that fall outside the norms set by the AKC are considered disabled because they are not desirable for breeding, which recalls the human eugenics movement. Similar results are found in other animal breeding competitions. For instance, pigeon breeding creates body types that would have difficulty performing many essential life functions such as walking or flying in order to win awards (see the photo stream, Australian National Pigeon Association, n.d. Outside of prize competitions, these birds' bodies would be considered grotesquely deformed by most. Sarah Roberts Cady examines two ways in which animal, environmental, and disability studies intersect: reason and normalcy. Reason is the vastly favored quality in granting moral considerations to either living or nonliving beings. Normalcy is a social construction that upholds the status quo which is hurtful to those with disabilities. Roberts Cady argues that on the basis of having an impaired reasoning ability, society excludes people with disabilities from being able to participate which thereby creates the erroneous idea that people with disabilities cannot participate. This reinforces the stigmatized image of the disabled as a hindrance. Such FROM DISABILITY TO ECO ABILITY 333 discrimination has become so normalized that it is rendered invisible: most of us simply do not look at a set of stairs as a quiet but profound act of discrimination towards those in wheelchairs. While both The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies as well as its predecessor Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation are explicitly intersectional in scope, they tend to focus slightly more on the (human) disability and environmental aspects. Animals are far from ignored, however. In addition to examples mentioned above, Bentley draws parallels between animals in factory farms and the elderly in nursing homes, based on both institutions being profit driven at the expense of the welfare of their occupants, and Amber E. George examines messages of queerness, speciesism, and disability in Looney Toons characters. George gives many examples of episodes where cartoons depict animals, the disabled, and nonheterosexuals as sources for entertainment. The reality of this portrayal creates and helps perpetuate the marginalization and violence towards these vulnerable groups. Altogether, Intersectionality provides a much needed voice that links humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. At a time when the U.S. political establishment is threatening the healthcare of its sick, aged and disabled, as well as environmental and animal protections for the sake of personal profits, this book is exceptionally timely and", "corpus_id": 149904731, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Nathan Poirier" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149103497", "title": "'Telling Tales' An investigation into the representation of disability in classic children's fairy tales.", "abstract": "The research examined the cultural construction of disability found within children's traditional fairy tales that are employed to support the English National Curriculum. The study employed proto text analysis, a meta analysis process which combines textual analysis, critical discourse analysis and semiotics, to uncover the hidden representations and stereotypes relating to disability that were contained within well known children's fairy tales. The study, which examined five story books in detail, found consistent themes which included normalcy, the emphasis on the 'perfect' physical appearance, exclusion, avoidance and portrayal of the disabled character as an 'object of evil' as well as the employment of the 'happily ever after' story ending. The research concludes these children's fiction books, commonly employed to support the English National Curriculum, are problematic in terms of how they represent disability. The authors argue that this form of children's literature is introducing young children to ableist assumptions and oppressive attitudes towards disability which we suggest could be a factor in why these attitudes are replicated within society. Keywords Disability, Fairy", "corpus_id": 149103497, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jemma Park", "Alan Hodkinson" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "208137918", "title": "An investigation into the representation of disability in classic children s fairy tales", "abstract": "The research examined the cultural construction of disability found within children's traditional fairy tales that are employed to support the English National Curriculum. The study employed proto text analysis, a meta analysis process which combines textual analysis, critical discourse analysis and semiotics, to uncover the hidden representations and stereotypes relating to disability that were contained within wellknown children's fairy tales. The study, which examined five story books in detail, found consistent themes which included normalcy, the emphasis on the 'perfect' physical appearance, exclusion, avoidance and portrayal of the disabled character as an 'object of evil' as well as the employment of the 'happily ever after' story ending. The research concludes these children's fiction books, commonly employed to support the English National Curriculum, are problematic in terms of how they represent disability. The authors argue that this form of children's literature is introducing young children to ableist assumptions and oppressive attitudes towards disability which we suggest could be a factor in why these attitudes are replicated", "corpus_id": 208137918, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jemma Park", "Alan Hodkinson" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "62415109", "title": "Above by L. Bobet", "abstract": "Bobet, Leah. Above New York: Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic, 2012. Print This Young Adult urban fantasy novel takes place in present day Toronto, Canada. The main character is Matthew, a teenager growing up in an underground, secret community known as Safe. This community was founded by Matthew's guardian, Atticus, for disabled outcasts and people with abnormalities. For example, Atticus has claws for hands, and Matthew has scales. In this underground community, Matthew is Teller, which means that he collects and remembers the stories of different individuals living in Safe. Matthew is in love with the traumatized girl Ariel, who can shape shift into a bee and has wings. Ariel came to the Safe as a teenager, and lived in the city before then, but she is slow to trust others, including Matthew, and runs away frequently. Safe is threatened by an exile, known as Corner, who works with an army of shadows. Eventually, Corner invades Safe by following Ariel home after one of the times she ran away. This causes the community to disperse Above, which is actually downtown Toronto. Once there, with the help of Ariel, Matthew has to reunite his community, and reclaim Safe. In order to do this, Matthew must discover the history of Corner, and its connection to Safe. He learns that there are two sides to every story, and not everything is black and white. Good people can make mistakes, and love and relationships are complex and defining elements of what it means to be human. Above has important messages about themes of \"good\" and \"evil\" and the gray areas in between. By blurring the lines between fantasy, magic, and medicine, these themes are easy to bridge into the real world. The focus on outcasts and disabled people gives the book a unique perspective, and the setting takes readers to both well known and often passed over areas of downtown Toronto. The book suffers from poor setup, however, and slow character development. Leah Bobet uses a stilted writing style, meant to reflect the main character's education and state of mind. Often this style makes the plotline difficult to follow, and undercuts some of the more intriguing descriptions of Toronto. Readers are also launched into the world without explanation, which can make it difficult to figure out what is going on for the first half of the book. The story can be even more confusing as it is told in patchworks. Outside of Matthew's main storyline, the narratives of other characters are interwoven into the book, so not all events are chronological. Above has a good premise that will appeal to the right group of young adults, but with the difficult writing level and the lack of setup, some of the target audience might lose interest before finishing the novel. It is worth nothing that some of the content deals with difficult topics, including mental illness, abuse, disability, poverty, gender identification, people of different and mixed ethnicities, experimentation on people, and death. Recommended with Reservations: 2 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Colette Leung Colette Leung is a graduate student at the University of Alberta, working in the fields of Library and Information science and Humanities Computing who loves reading, cats, and tea. Her research interests focus around how digital tools can be used to explore fields such as literature, language, and history in new and innovative ways.", "corpus_id": 62415109, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Colette Leung" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "111400362", "title": "Book Review: Shaken Allegiances: Two Days from the Continuum of Nonsense", "abstract": "In most books written by earthquake engineering professors, the theme is illustrated with equations that are accompanied by explanations of fault rupture and ground motion, dynamic response and building performance. In this well written book by Professor Bruneau, the theme is illustrated by fictional characters who are accompanied by scenes of an earthquake disaster and the surreal level of incompetence and pettiness with which they respond to it. Most earthquake engineers write their books with dry, third person diction. Bruneau wrote this book with a combination of blunt first person language spoken by the novel's characters and well crafted narrative sentences that include such picturesque metaphors as \"violent trespasser\" (the earthquake that suddenly enters your house and trashes it) or the way a warehouse littered with debris looks like \"the bedroom of some giant teenager.\" He portrays the perception of a person undergoing the earthquake in a way that you will recognize as quite accurate, if you have ever undergone one: \"seconds and inches became minutes and feet.\" The magnitude 7 earthquake that sets the plot in motion hits Montreal with bull's eye accuracy right under the city, disabling all the bridges across the rivers that surround and divide it. Over 3.5 million people live in that urban region. Without giving away any of the plot, we can say that by the end of the book, the population is reduced by over 1,000 a plausible loss estimate for this scenario and one that certainly isn't sensationalist. The earthquake devastation collapsed or uninhabitable buildings, hazardous material releases and fires, disabled emergency services facilities happens in the midst of forty below weather. Conveniently, 40deg is the one spot on the temperature scales where Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures match, so readers in the United States, as well as those familiar with metric units (the latter also known as \"the rest of the world\" will quickly understand how lethal that weather is in a city with no utility services intact. One need not know French to follow the plot and dialogue, though the frequent use of Quebecois swear words is a treat reserved only for those who do. (My high school French classes failed to cover that vocabulary, so I had to look them up; as foreign language phrases in this Englishlanguage book, they are conveniently italicized. Profanity in any language is not usually found in books written by earthquake engineering professors, but then again, novels are not usually written by earthquake engineering professors. The vivid and realistic speech is coarse, but coarse phrases in French are also mellifluous, something like bittersweet chocolate. The novel's earthy sarcasm is not a substitute for solid content about earthquakes, but rather an aid in communicating information about that subject. In its explanation of earthquake engineering facts, usually through the device of the dialogue of a structural engineer conducting earthquake recon", "corpus_id": 111400362, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Robert Reitherman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "208815564", "title": "NATURAL GENETIC ENGINEERING AND NATURAL GENOME EDITING", "abstract": "In 1983, when I finished my studies of philosophies of language and science in particular pragmatic action theory I did not know the direction my research interests would take. In the ensuing four years, I studied a number of articles concerning different subjects in biology and was struck by the key vocabulary that was used for the description of the essential activities of cellular life, such as \"genetic code,\" \"genetic information,\" \"cell cell communication,\" \"nucleotide sequences,\" \"protein coding sequences,\" \"self/nonself recognition\" all of which connote themes of communication and exchange of information, similar to the themes I had encountered in my studies of philosophy and action theory. Of particular influence on my thinking were the articles and books of Karl von Frisch, who received the Nobel Prize for his work on the language of bees; and a book by Manfred Eigen, in which he developed a profound argument for the idea that the genetic code functions not only as an analogue of natural human language but that both the evolution of life and the evolution of the mind crucially depend on the characteristic features of languages. According to these and many other results of the discourse in the philosophy of science in the 20th century (especially between 1920 and 1980) it was clear that if the genetic code functions like a natural language then a variety of consequences follow because several preconditions must have been met. First, considering the genetic code as a natural language requires there to be a repertoire of signs (indices, icons, symbols)a that can be combinatorially arranged according to syntactic rules, similar to words composed of the characters of the alphabet, to generate information. Without syntactic rules to determine correct sequence order, the combination of signs could not carry informational content, that is, meaning (similarly, if our natural language had no syntactic rules, meaning could not be ascribed to randomly generated collections of words) In other words, a coherent syntax excludes randomly derived mixtures of characters of an alphabet; and for humans, coherent syntax is generated by humans who are competent with the syntactic rules. This book, for example, could contain the same characters but in a random order; such a book would be meaningless. Without competent authors who combine the characters according to a set of coherent syntactic and semantic rules, meaning does not exist. Signs cannot exist or function without sign using agents, and agents generate signs to communicate. In communicative action, agents can both exchange messages about", "corpus_id": 208815564, "venue": "", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

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The author touches upon a variety of issues emerging from the practice of its organization: the difficulties, sometimes reluctance of HR managers to confront racism, their quest for tools, the blockings around equality data collection, the ambivalent role of trade unions as well as post modern tensions between standardization and individualization which lie at the heart of diversity management.", "corpus_id": 201323168, "venue": "International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Michael Privot" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158266897", "title": "Race Discrimination at Work: The Moderating Role of Trade Unionism in English Local Government", "abstract": "Workplace racism remains a serious issue despite over forty years of legislation alongside a raft of HRM policies. There remains limited research on the differences in employment experiences of British Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff and their white colleagues. There is a power imbalance at work as between individual employees and management, and this lack of equity has been traditionally counterbalanced by strong workplace trade unionism. In particular, we know little about the role of trade unionism on the perception of workplace equality among BAME employees. Using more than 2,580 valid responses from full time employees in highly unionised local councils, this study shows that BAME employees have a significantly lower evaluation than their white colleague of fair pay and equal work environment. The latter fully mediates the negative perception between BAME staff and fair pay; and furthermore, the perception of union commitment to equality strengthened their views of a management supported equal work environment.", "corpus_id": 158266897, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Roger V Seifert", "Wen Wang" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "200036849", "title": "Race and workplace discrimination", "abstract": "Purpose Drawing upon theories of modern discrimination, the present study focuses on cyber incivility and interpersonal incivility as mechanisms through which race leads to perceived discrimination. Participants included 408 full time working adults who responded to an online survey. The results indicate that Non White employees experience subtle forms of discrimination through the use of e mail, which accentuate the need for organizations to eradicate workplace mistreatment so that their employees can avoid the adverse outcomes associated with experiencing cyber incivility. The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of selective incivility and concludes with directions for future research and practical implications. Design/methodology/approach Participants included 408 full time working adults who responded to the survey online. Findings The results indicate that race was indirectly associated with discrimination through cyber incivility. The results indicate that Non White employees experience subtle forms of discrimination through the use of technology and cyber space which accentuate the need for organizations to eradicate workplace incivility so that their employees can evade the adverse outcomes associated with experiencing incivility at work. Research limitations/implications This study extends the understanding of selective incivility and concludes with directions for future research and practical implications. Originality/value This paper is the first to explore the relationship between race, cyber incivility and discrimination.", "corpus_id": 200036849, "venue": "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Shanna R Daniels", "LaDonna M Thornton" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "198619016", "title": "Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace", "abstract": "Using quantitative and qualitative data from a large national sample of lawyers, we examine self reports of perceived discrimination in the legal workplace. Across three waves of surveys, we find that persons of color, white women, and LGBTQ attorneys are far more likely to perceive they have been a target of discrimination than white men. These differences hold in multivariate models that control for social background, status in the profession and the work organization, and characteristics of the work organization. Qualitative comments describing these experiences reveal that lawyers of different races, genders, and sexual orientations are exposed to distinctive types of bias, that supervisors and clients are the most frequent sources of discriminatory treatment, and the often overt character of perceived discrimination. These self reports suggest that bias in the legal workplace is widespread and rooted in the same hierarchies of race, gender, and sexual orientation that pervade society.", "corpus_id": 198619016, "venue": "Law Social Inquiry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Robert L Nelson", "Ioana Sendroiu", "Ronit Dinovitzer", "Meghan Dawe" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "197723906", "title": "Age, gender and race in the workplace: discrimination in recruitment", "abstract": "Despite the growing participation of older workers in the labour market, age discrimination prevails and many employers are prejudiced against older workers (Bowman et al 2017) Several studies have shown that age often intersects with other characteristics such as gender, contributing to 'double' or multiple discrimination. Using quantitative research and qualitative interviews, our study focused on the topic of discrimination in the UK at the recruitment stage. The experiment was conducted during 2017 whilst the qualitative research is on going. Findings suggest that that there is evidence of discrimination based on the characteristics of age, gender and race/ethnicity: older women are more likely to be excluded from job interviews; Black older women experience further difficulties in gaining an interview. Moreover, those selected tend to be shortlisted for lower status jobs. The paper will engage with theories of intersectionality, as well as 'hard' and 'soft' types of discrimination, in order to explore notions of the 'ideal worker' There are several implications in the findings. Here we will focus on three main challenges: first, of legislation which does not fully cover 'triple discrimination' second, for trade unions in dealing with cases of multiple discrimination; and third for policy makers who despite the government encouragement, witness older workers in the labour marker excluded during the process of recruitment. The research has been conducted during a period of uncertainty around Brexit and the paper will take this factor into consideration.", "corpus_id": 197723906, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Anna Paraskevopoulou", "Nick Drydakis", "Katerina Sidiropoulou" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "73468964", "title": "Correction to: Examining Race/Ethnicity Differences in the Association between the Experience of Workplace Racial Discrimination and Depression or Negative Emotions", "abstract": "Please note that the name of coauthor Shauna Carlisle was presented incorrectly in this article as published: The correct rendering of her name is Carlisle, S.K. (instead of the incorrect rendering of Carlisle, S.E. which incorrectly notes E. [surname] as her middle initial)", "corpus_id": 73468964, "venue": "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Andrea L Stone", "Shauna K Carlisle" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "52073080", "title": "Perceived Race as Variable: Moderating Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination in the Workplace and Mentally Unhealthy Days", "abstract": "Since race is a social construct, the experience of racial discrimination occurs based on perceived race. This study explores the moderating effects of self identified race and perceived racial identity on the relationship between perceived discrimination in the workplace and mentally unhealthy days using data derived from the four states (Arizona, Minnesota, Mississippi, and New Mexico) that responded to the 2014 Reactions to Race module of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The study hypothesized that self identified White people, also perceived as White (WW) would have less perceived workplace discrimination and less mentally unhealthy days than self identified non White people perceived as White (NWW) NWW would have less perceived discrimination associated with mentally unhealthy days than self identified White perceived as non White (WNW) and, WNW would have less perceived discrimination associated with mentally unhealthy days than self identified non White perceived as non White (NWNW) The study was conducted under the regulating body of the City University of New York in 2017. Findings suggest that being perceived as White is a protective factor as analysis determined that NWW experienced less discrimination in the workplace associated with mentally unhealthy days than NWNW.", "corpus_id": 52073080, "venue": "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Alexis Jemal", "Myrtho Gardiner", "Katharine J Bloeser" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "52879123", "title": "Examining Race/Ethnicity Differences in the Association Between the Experience of Workplace Racial Discrimination and Depression or Negative Emotions", "abstract": "This study examines associations and potential interactions between race/ethnicity, workplace racial discrimination, depression, and negative emotional symptoms experienced due to treatment based on race. Data for this study come from the 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) an annual telephone survey of US residents, aged 18 and older. Respondents from MN and NM (n 13,655) completed a module titled Reactions to Race, which contained items assessing workplace racial discrimination and negative emotions experienced based on treatment due to race, as well as standard BRFSS items assessing a diagnosis of depression. Results support previous research concluding that non Hispanic White survey respondents are less likely to experience racial discrimination in the workplace than other race/ethnicity groups, but were more likely to report both depression and negative emotions. Analyses stratified by race/ethnic group suggest that, after controlling for gender, marital status, education, and income, there was an association between experiencing workplace racial discrimination and reporting negative emotions due to treatment based on race (all p values 0.001) Of note, this association was strongest for non Hispanic White respondents.", "corpus_id": 52879123, "venue": "Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andrea L Stone", "Shauna Elbers Carlisle" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "217848108", "title": "The Eleventh Circuit Dreadlocks Ban and the Implications of Race Discrimination in the Workplace", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 217848108, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jacqueline Frank" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "147459780", "title": "Where Title VII Stops: Exploring Subtle Race Discrimination in the Workplace", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 147459780, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Damon Ritenhouse" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "229018284", "title": "Determinants of Youth Unemployment: Evidence from Jordan", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 229018284, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "", "Fuad M Kreishan", "Mohammad Selim" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212802330", "title": "Socioeconomic Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Ethiopia, the Case of Wolaita Sodo Town, Southern Ethiopia", "abstract": "According to UN Secretariat, UNESCO,UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and ILO youth are defined these individuals whose age is in between 15 24years, while for UN Habitat (Youth Fund) and the African youth charter, the age range is from 15 32 and 15 35, respectively. For others like organization for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD) defines youth as those men and women in between 15 and 29 years of age. To achieve the objective of this paper is to examine the socio economic determinants of urban youth unemployment logistic model was used. A simple random sampling technique employed to select 395 youth were used. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from sampled youth unemployed persons through questionnaire and interview. Both descriptive and econometric data analyses techniques were applied. From the econometrics result revealed that confidence ,education status access to information human related factor, institutional factors ,socioeconomic and demographic factors were significantly affect the youth unemployment status in the study area The result also indicates that the higher months spent on searching, the higher the probability of getting job. This shows the cost of job search is positively related with employment status of the youth, as cost of search increases the higher the probability of being employed. The result also indicates that educational level of the youth's household head has a negative and statistically significant effect on employment status of the youth at 10 percent level of significance. This finding is inconsistent with the general fact and the hypotheses of this study. Since confidence level of the youth matters for employment status of the youth, the concerned bodies should develop the confidence level of the youth by providing different trainings for the youth. The concerned body, especially the government should provide facilities related with information access like mass media and magazines in the study area. Keywords employment, Youth unemployment, Binary logistic regression. DOI 10.7176/DCS/9 10 05 Publication date :October 31 st 2019", "corpus_id": 212802330, "venue": "Developing Country Studies", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "T Tegegne" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159304519", "title": "The Determinants of Youth Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries", "abstract": "The aim of this study was to determine some of the key factors affecting youth employment from 2000 2015. Youth unemployment rate (YU) was the dependent variable while consumer price index (INF) domestic gross savings (GS) labor productivity (LP) and economic growth rate (GR) were the independent variables. Data from 31 OECD countries were obtained from World Bank (WB) and OECD databases. Panel Data Analysis was used to analyze the data. The results show that growth, inflation, and savings affect youth unemployment negatively while labor productivity affects youth employment positively. It is therefore concluded that growth, inflation, savings and labor productivity are among the key determinants of youth unemployment.", "corpus_id": 159304519, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Riza Bayrak", "Halim Tatli" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158586463", "title": "DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA", "abstract": "The study empirically investigates the determinants of youth unemployment in South Africa using quarterly time series data from the period of 2008 to 2015. The main objective of this study is to investigate the main determinants of youth unemployment in South Africa. The study used or employed Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) The variables used in this study are Youth unemployment, education, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) inflation and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) all these variables affect youth unemployment directly and indirectly. The data for this study was obtained from International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Bank and South Africa reserve bank (SARB) The results showed that education has a negative relationship and statistically significant to youth unemployment. Diagnostic and stability tests revealed that the model is good and stable in determining the impact of the determinants of youth unemployment.", "corpus_id": 158586463, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Dipali Pravin Chhaganlal Patel", "Ireen Choga" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "55805357", "title": "Multilevel Modelling of Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia: Bayesian Estimation Approach", "abstract": "The main objective of this study was to identify and explain the effects of the Demographic and Socio economic determinant factors of Youth unemployment in urban of Ethiopia. The data used for this study is the 2016 Ethiopian Urban Employment Unemployment Survey (UEUS) which was conducted by Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia. The statistical methods of data analysis are multilevel logistic regression models and Bayesian multilevel models and the parameters are estimated by using maximum likelihood estimation method and Bayesian estimation method by Stata and WinBUGS software. The analysis result revealed that Out of the 3870 youth considered in the analysis, 1,757 (45.4% youth were unemployed, while 2113 (54.6% youth were employed at the time of data collection. Region, Sex of youth, Age of youth, Literacy status, marital status, Type of Training, Steps taken to search work, Household size and Educational level are found to be the significant determinants of youth unemployment in urban Ethiopia. The multilevel logistic model revealed that the random intercept is better fit than null and random coefficient multilevel models. The intra correlation coefficient suggests that there is clear variation of youth unemployment status across the region of urban Ethiopia. The result of classical and Bayesian multilevel shows high prevalence of unemployment among youth and the probability of being unemployed for youth was found to decline with increasing age, literacy level, training, educational level and household size.", "corpus_id": 55805357, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Teshita Uke Chikako" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "54072222", "title": "Determinants of Youth unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidences from Tanzania", "abstract": "The aim of the study was to examine the factors which determine youth unemployment in Tanzania and suggest way forward towards reduction of the problem. The study uses Multinomial logistic regression model (MLM) to analyze the determinants of unemployment in Tanzania. The findings of the study show that gender, geographical location, education, skills and marital status are all significant factors in explaining the difference in youth employment status in Tanzania. From the findings the study several recommendations are made, first, the government and policy makers should review job market laws and regulation in order to promote a smooth transition of youth from education to job market. The government should create specific interventions especially in the creation of more formal jobs and strengthening job market regulation relating to youth people to ensure that all youth with education or skills realize their investments in education and contribute to the country development. The study also recommends that the government and policy makers should strengthen the laws and regulation relating to gender balance in the job market in order to give equal chance to the youth with the same level of skills or education. Keywords: Youth unemployment, Developing countries, Tanzania", "corpus_id": 54072222, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Robert Ebihart Msigwa", "Erasmus Fabian Kipesha" ], "n_citations": 47, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "168764543", "title": "Determinants of Youth Unemployment; Evidence from Ethiopia", "abstract": "Background: Youth employment presents a particular challenge to Ethiopia; the country faces growing youth landlessness in rural areas and insignificant rural job creation, potentially leading to an increase in migration to urban areas. Objective: The main objective of this study is so to identify and describe the determinants of youth unemployment in Ethiopia. Design: The sampling technique employed was multistage stratified cluster sampling. Results: The study is made based on the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) which was conducted by Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia. The analyses result revealed that about 10.4% of the youth are unemployed while 89.6% are employed. The regional variations, access to electric power, age, gender, access to market information, economic status of their families and youthaEUR(tm)s educational level are found to be the significant determinants of youth unemployment in Ethiopia. Conclusion: The government should facilitate formalization of informal employment sector in order to motivate more youth to engage in different activities which are currently considered to be informal. This will help to reduce the problem of youth unemployment especially on skilled and educated youth in both urban and rural areas.", "corpus_id": 168764543, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Amanuel Disassa Abshoko" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "1198763", "title": "Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Urban Areas of Ethiopia", "abstract": "Youth Unemployment is one of the most critical issues at global level. It represents the underutilization of scarce and precious resources, that would be important for nations' socio economic development. This study deals with identifying the main factors responsible for youth unemployment and constraints they face in self employment in Ethiopia. It is based on the cross sectional data collected by Central Statistical Agency (CSA) in 2015. From all regions of the country, a total of 16,984 samples are considered for analysis. Using descriptive and cross tabulation analysis, the study shows that youth unemployment is highly related with regional location, sex, marital status and education. The analysis also shows youths' dream to create their own job is constrained highly by shortage of finance and lack of work place. The government and others stakeholders need to consider the above determinants and challenges for future intervention.", "corpus_id": 1198763, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Muhdin Muhammedhussen Batu" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "157079663", "title": "Macroeconomic Determinants of Youth Unemployment and Inactivity Rates in Bangladesh", "abstract": "This paper identifies the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment and inactivity rates in Bangladesh by using Labour Force Survey Data (LFS) 2013. It finds that although aggregate labour market condition does have significance implication for the job market status, the demographic characteristics have a greater influence. It also found that tertiary education has positive significant impact on the rate of not employment, and visualize the existing mismatch between labour demand and the quality of labour supply.", "corpus_id": 157079663, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Mst Morium Khatun" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199596501", "title": "DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN AGANANG MUNICIPALITY, LIMPOPO PROVINCE", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 199596501, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kwabena A Kyei" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "204410907", "title": "Devolution aspects of Brexit and agriculture", "abstract": "A submission requested by the House of Lords European Union Committee for its enquiry into Brexit and Agriculture", "corpus_id": 204410907, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Alan Greer" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "202317609", "title": "Finally Free to Green Agriculture Policy? UK post Brexit Policy Developments in the Shadow of the CAP and Devolution", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 202317609, "venue": "EuroChoices", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Viviane Gravey" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158408035", "title": "12. \"Innovative Solutions to Modern Agriculture\" Capitalist Farming, Global Competition, and the Devolution of the U.S. Rice Industry", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 158408035, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Peter A Coclanis" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "132485639", "title": "Chapter 9. Devolution in Pakistan: Implications for Agriculture and Rural Development", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 132485639, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Danielle Resnick", "Abdul Wajid Rana", "David J Spielman", "Sohail Jehangir Malik", "Paul Dorosh", "Nuzhat Ahmad" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "150437065", "title": "Devolution and Post Brexit Trade Agreements: Towards a Joint Trade Policy Committee?", "abstract": "In October 2017 when presenting the Policy Paper, Preparing for our Future UK Trade Policy, the Secretary of State for International Trade, Dr Liam Fox, recognised that for the first time since the 1970s, the United Kingdom (UK) would have its own independent trade policy.1 Since the last time the UK had an independent trade policy, there have been notable constitutional changes within the UK, notably the creation of devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. All parts of the UK will be differently affected by the decision to leave the European Union (EU) (i.e. Brexit) after 29 March 2019, particularly by the creation of an independent trade policy. As a member of the EU customs union and of the single market, the UK does not at present have an independent trade policy. Instead, trade policy is \"largely determined by the EU\"2, a position that will change upon the UK's departure from the EU. While trade is a reserved matter, areas of devolved competence such as agriculture will need to be taken account of in any future UK trade policy. The devolved administrations will require to be involved in what Dr Fox identified as \"a once in a lifetime opportunity to build a stronger, fairer and more prosperous United Kingdom that is more open and outward looking than ever before.\"3 Indeed, the Policy Paper mentioned above further recognised that, \"(t)he devolved administrations will have a direct interest in our future trade agreements,\"4 with this recognition accompanied by a commitment, \"to seek the input of the devolved administrations to ensure they influence the UK's future trade policy, recognising the role they will have in developing and delivering it.\"5 In this present paper, we critically review the UK government's current approach to involving the devolved administrations in post Brexit trade policy development. We demonstrate that there is a significant lack of clarity on the future role of the devolved administrations in the development of trade policy. The Scottish government is particularly concerned in this respect given that its extensive devolution settlement includes areas with significant trade dimensions such as agriculture, fisheries and environmental policy. We argue that greater clarity on such involvement is very much needed and in response, propose the creation of a Trade Policy Committee through an amendment to the Trade Bill.", "corpus_id": 150437065, "venue": "Edinburgh Law Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Stephanie Switzer", "Joseph A McMahon" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211785959", "title": "Understanding the Influence and Effects of Devolution on Agricultural Development: A Case Study of Garissa County, Kenya", "abstract": "The Agriculture sector in Kenya is as important as the country. Much of the agricultural function was transferred to the devolved units when the new constitution was passed by Kenyans and promulgated. The question many are asking is, have county governments initiated strategies in place to improve food security and ultimately contribute to the economy. Agriculture is the major contributor of our economy today. Kenya needs to be a self sufficient country and feed its people. County governments have a huge role in ensuring this objective achieved. Based on this, a research title is proposed \"Understanding the influence and effects of devolution on agricultural development: A case study of Garissa county, Kenya\" The research seeks to clarify to the public and the other stakeholders concerned if actually devolved units have done anything to improve the agricultural sector since its inception. Have county governments put clear, achievable and practical strategies for this sector to grow and how best can counties improve this important sector. The research findings will be very helpful to those who are involve in the agricultural sector, directly or indirectly. The research objectives are; to compare performance of agriculture before and after devolution, to evaluate the achievements of devolution in the agricultural sector, to analyse the challenges faced by county governments in developing this sector, to examine the perception of the public on the best strategies to improve agriculture in Kenya and to give synthesised recommendations to all stakeholders. The research was conducted within Garissa County, four out of the six sub counties. A total of 310 respondents were engaged ranging from farmers, the general public and the staff of the county government The research found out that there is a gap in the sector that needs attention. Agricultural production, although remained steadfast over the years, has been in deplorable situation. The research findings is helpful to all stakeholders both levels of governments, farmers, the public and non state actors. The research commends that the County governments should use bottom up approach strategy when making critical decision affecting the department. This will aid them obtain raw and unbiased information for action. The department of agriculture experts should be deployed to all sub counties (at the grassroots) 95 percent of these staff stay at county headquarters doing nothing. Their presence at the villages, farms will come in handy or the farmers. People with experience and experts should be employed to spearhead this exercise. Routine visits should be made to the farming areas.", "corpus_id": 211785959, "venue": "International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hussein Abdi Ali", "Salah Abdirahman Farah" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199323753", "title": "The Effect of Devolution of Agricultural Sector on the Citizens' Livelihoods in Wajir County", "abstract": "Devolution of government functions is one of the key moves introduced by the government, to enhance its service delivery and promote self governance at County level. At a glance, devolution has come with both benefits and downsides, which are unique to the service/function that has been devolved. Agriculture was previously a function of the National government, under the Ministry of Agriculture. It is currently a devolved ministry, no longer under the sole control of the National government. Same as other devolved functions, it was expected that devolving the ministry of Agriculture would lead to better agricultural production at county level. Devolution Agricultural functions was expected to enhance agricultural production in the counties. The study thus sought to establish the effect of devolution of the agricultural sector on the livelihoods in Wajir County. This study was guided by the following objectives; to establish the effects of devolution of agricultural sector on the empowerment of small scale farmers, to determine the effects of devolution of agricultural sector on incomes of households and to examine the effects of devolution of agricultural sector on food security of households in Wajir County. The study is hinged on the Sustainable Livelihood Approach. The study adopted a descriptive survey that helped in determining and reports the way things are and attempts to describe such things as possible behavior, attitudes, values, and characteristics. The study targeted5273 small scale farmers and agricultural officers across all Wajir sub counties. The study sampled 372 farmers from all the Sub Counties in Wajir. Therefore, 372 farmers and 6 agricultural officers were used making a total sample size of 378 respondents. The researcher purposively selected six agricultural officers one from each sub county. In identifying the farmers from each sub county, the study used simple random sampling. The study will adopt both qualitative and quantitative data. The study used questionnaires for collecting data from 372 farmers, which will be constructed based on the research objectives. The questionnaires were administered using drop and pick method; this provided farmers with enough time to answer the questions. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, percentages and standard deviation. The study used Chi Square to establish the relationship between the variables. The study findings indicated that the effect of devolution of agricultural activities in Wajir County has significantly affected the level of food security, sources of income and empowerment among the households in the county. Due to devolution of the agricultural activities, the county government now provides extension services, funds, inputs such as fertilizers and credits for agricultural activities and that has led to an increase in food production which has greatly improved food security and enhanced income generation. The small scale farmers no longer rely on livestock farming but also crop farming. Since the study findings present a significant effect of devolution of the agricultural activities to the county level in Wajir, it recommends that the county government should invest more in some of the agricultural activities such as access to agricultural services like Plough and tractor, Borehole and dam for irrigation, Extension services, Livestock vaccination and Disease surveillance, control, and awareness. There should also be an increase in the provision of services such as the provision of farm inputs and marketing of farm products on behalf of farmers in order to encourage more participation in agriculture by the households. In so doing, the small scale farmers in Wajir County will be more empowered, their income will improve and food security will also be enhanced.", "corpus_id": 199323753, "venue": "International Journal of Current Aspects", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ibrahim Jimale Muhumed", "David Mwaniki Minja" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "169866289", "title": "The devolution revolution: Implications for agricultural service delivery in Ghana:", "abstract": "In 2009, Ghana began pursuing the devolution of functions and responsibilities from the central government to the country's 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) Agriculture was among one of the first sectors to be devolved, a process that became effective in 2012. This paper analyzes how this transition has proceeded, with a focus on the implications for agricultural civil servants within the MMDAs, accountability to citizens, and agricultural expenditures. Empirically, the paper draws on a survey of 960 rural households, 80 District Directors of Agriculture (DDAs) district level budget data from 2012 to 2016, and semi structured interviews with a range of national and local government stakeholders. The findings show a number of positive benefits of the transition for DDAs, including more opportunities for employment mobility and the chance to engage more with local citizens in designing agricultural projects. Yet, financial constraints are the main complaint, with low and uncertain funding a common hindrance to delivering services and adequately staffing offices. Budget data reveals that the share of funding budgeted for agriculture has changed only marginally since 2012 while agricultural expenditures in absolute terms and as a proportion of agricultural households has declined, even in comparison to other devolved sectors. Political incentives may be partially responsible for these trends in budgeting as elected Assembly members tend to prioritize other sectors with more visible outcomes. Citizens are influenced by these dynamics, with those who have access to agricultural goods and services being significantly more likely to claim that they are satisfied with the agricultural devolution process.", "corpus_id": 169866289, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Danielle Resnick" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199830484", "title": "What are the impacts of devolution on agricultural civil servants and services in Ghana", "abstract": "In 2009, Ghana passed Local Government Instrument 1961 (LI 1961) to devolve a set of functions from the central government to the countryaEUR(tm)s 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDA) Agriculture, along with public works and social welfare, was among the first sectors to be devolved. This transfer was formally institutionalized in 2012. In addition, LI 1961 stipulated that the staff of the MMDA departments were to be transferred from the national civil service to a newly created Local Government Services (LGS) A composite budget system also was introduced, which integrated the budgets of all departments of the MMDAs into the overall budget for the MMDA.", "corpus_id": 199830484, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Danielle Resnick" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "90335256", "title": "Comparison of Biodynamic and Organic Agriculture", "abstract": "Modern agricultural applications contain various biologic physical and chemical process steps to maximize the durability and fertility of the products. Because of the apprehensions that come out as a result of increase in usage of chemical input in these processes, some alternative concepts have been come to exist for modern agricultural applications. Even these approaches match with traditional applications, they differ by their some outstanding features. By the help of industrial devolution in 18TH century, the increasing popularity and global warming caused the people to notice the ecologic deformation on the earth and accordingly saving the ecology and the earth became one of the main topics of current issues. The biodynamic agriculture system is founded in 1924 by Rudolf Steiner (philosopher) and E. Pfeiffer (agronomist) and built on an anthropologic theory that based on human nature universe concept. Biodynamic agriculture is familiar with organic agriculture. Mainly both of them are originated by oppositional perspective on using chemical input (manure, pesticide, herbicide, hormone e.g. The main dissimilitude of biodynamic agriculture with organic apart from philosophical and historical aspects is, using the biodynamic preparations includes some minerals or specific herbs those are fermented with animal organs. In this review study, the differences between organic and biodynamic agriculture are analysed by emphasizing the main advantages of biodynamic agriculture.", "corpus_id": 90335256, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ozlem Cakir", "Hilal Yildiz", "Neva Karatas" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "17166290", "title": "Biomedical literature classification using encyclopedic knowledge: a Wikipedia based bag of concepts approach", "abstract": "Automatic classification of text documents into a set of categories has a lot of applications. Among those applications, the automatic classification of biomedical literature stands out as an important application for automatic document classification strategies. Biomedical staff and researchers have to deal with a lot of literature in their daily activities, so it would be useful a system that allows for accessing to documents of interest in a simple and effective way; thus, it is necessary that these documents are sorted based on some criteria that is to say, they have to be classified. Documents to classify are usually represented following the bag of words (BoW) paradigm. Features are words in the text thus suffering from synonymy and polysemy and their weights are just based on their frequency of occurrence. This paper presents an empirical study of the efficiency of a classifier that leverages encyclopedic background knowledge concretely Wikipedia in order to create bag of concepts (BoC) representations of documents, understanding concept as \"unit of meaning\" and thus tackling synonymy and polysemy. Besides, the weighting of concepts is based on their semantic relevance in the text. For the evaluation of the proposal, empirical experiments have been conducted with one of the commonly used corpora for evaluating classification and retrieval of biomedical information, OHSUMED, and also with a purpose built corpus of MEDLINE biomedical abstracts, UVigoMED. Results obtained show that the Wikipedia based bag of concepts representation outperforms the classical bag of words representation up to 157% in the single label classification problem and up to 100% in the multi label problem for OHSUMED corpus, and up to 122% in the single label classification problem and up to 155% in the multi label problem for UVigoMED corpus.", "corpus_id": 17166290, "venue": "PeerJ", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Marcos Antonio Mourino Garcia", "Roberto Perez Rodriguez", "Luis Anido Rifon" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "49293359", "title": "A Bag of Concepts Approach for Biomedical Document Classification Using Wikipedia Knowledge* Spanish English Cross language Case Study.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVES The ability to efficiently review the existing literature is essential for the rapid progress of research. This paper describes a classifier of text documents, represented as vectors in spaces of Wikipedia concepts, and analyses its suitability for classification of Spanish biomedical documents when only English documents are available for training. We propose the cross language concept matching (CLCM) technique, which relies on Wikipedia interlanguage links to convert concept vectors from the Spanish to the English space. METHODS The performance of the classifier is compared to several baselines: a classifier based on machine translation, a classifier that represents documents after performing Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) and a classifier that uses a domain specific semantic annotator (MetaMap) The corpus used for the experiments (Cross Language UVigoMED) was purpose built for this study, and it is composed of 12,832 English and 2,184 Spanish MEDLINE abstracts. RESULTS The performance of our approach is superior to any other state of the art classifier in the benchmark, with performance increases up to: 124% over classical machine translation, 332% over MetaMap, and 60 times over the classifier based on ESA. The results have statistical significance, showing p values 0.0001. CONCLUSION Using knowledge mined from Wikipedia to represent documents as vectors in a space of Wikipedia concepts and translating vectors between language specific concept spaces, a cross language classifier can be built, and it performs better than several state of the art classifiers.", "corpus_id": 49293359, "venue": "Methods of information in medicine", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Marcos Mourino-Garcia", "Roberto Perez-Rodriguez", "Luis E Anido-Rifon" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "64300947", "title": "Bag of Concepts as a Movie Genome and Representation", "abstract": "Author(s) Zhou, Colin Advisor(s) Dubnov, Shlomo Abstract: As online retailers, media providers, and others have learned, the ability to provide quality recommendations for users is a strong profit multiplier: it drives sales, maintains retention, and provides value for users. Video streaming, retail, and video databases particularly have had extensive effort and research devoted to finding effective ways to make representations. One of these is MovieLens.org, a video recommender website that uses a representation called the tag genome to understand movies and make tuned recommendations. The tag genome representation is built from user input on the website, where users can apply tags to movies and rate them in order to provide the information needed to make recommendations. In this work, we draw from research in information retrieval to implement a bag of concepts representation for movies and make tuned recommendations in the same manner as MovieLens. Our implementation is fully unsupervised and does not require the user data needed in the implementation of MovieLens while still having similar properties to the tag genome that enable interesting tuned recommendations.", "corpus_id": 64300947, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Colin Zhou" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "63247960", "title": "Automatic text classification using bag of words and bag of concepts based representations", "abstract": "I Declaration II Acknowledgment III Table of", "corpus_id": 63247960, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Alaa Alahmadi" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "62283025", "title": "Combining Bag of Words and Bag of Concepts representations for Arabic text classification", "abstract": "This paper introduces a set of new approaches for text representation for automatic classification of Arabic textual documents. These approaches are based on combining the well known Bag of Words (BOW) and the Bag of Concepts (BOC) text representation schemes and utilizing Wikipedia as a knowledge base. The proposed representations are used to generate a vector space model, which in turn is fed into a classifier to categorize a collection of Arabic textual documents. Three different machine learning based classifiers have been utilized in this work. Performance of proposed text representation models is evaluated in comparison to using a standard BOW scheme and a concept based scheme, as well as recently reported similar text representation schemes that are based on augmenting the standard BOW with the BOC.", "corpus_id": 62283025, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Alaa Alahmadi", "Arash Joorabchi", "Abdulhussain E Mahdi" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13018428", "title": "Domain specific commonsense relation extraction from bag of concepts metadata", "abstract": "Existing semantic knowledge bases such as WordNet and Yago contain the information of relations between entities. They do not hold the information about domain specific commonsense relations between concepts like \"horse\" and \"farm\" which intuitively have close relations on semantics in the domains of image description. Metadata which is used to describe data is widespread in the data collections of various domains and can be useful resources for relation extraction. However, keywords and tags which are important form of metadata are only list of user generated words. They do not contain syntactic information which many existing works use to extract relations. In this paper we propose an approach to collect commonsense relations for specific domains by mining knowledge of global structure and internal association in the bag of concepts from metadata of data collections. We extract commonsense relations of concepts from social tags of image datasets to show the efficiency of our solution.", "corpus_id": 13018428, "venue": "IMCOM", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Jiyi Li" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "42805502", "title": "Arabic Text Classification using Bag of Concepts Representation", "abstract": "With the exponential growth of Arabic text in digital form, the need for efficient organization, navigation and browsing of large amounts of documents in Arabic has increased. Text Classification (TC) is one of the important subfields of data mining. The Bag of Words (BOW) representation model, which is the traditional way to represent text for TC, only takes into account the frequency of term occurrence within a document. Therefore, it ignores important semantic relationships between terms and treats synonymous words independently. In order to address this problem, this paper describes the application of a Bag of Concepts (BOC) text representation model for Arabic text. The proposed model is based on utilizing the Arabic Wikipedia as a knowledge base for concept detection. The BOC model is used to generate a Vector Space Model, which in turn is fed into a classifier to categorize a collection of Arabic text documents. Two different machine learning based classifiers have been deployed to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model in comparison to the traditional BOW model. The results of our experiment show that the proposed BOC model achieves an improved performance with respect to BOW in terms of classification accuracy.", "corpus_id": 42805502, "venue": "KDIR", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Alaa Alahmadi", "Arash Joorabchi", "Abdulhussain E Mahdi" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "23696912", "title": "Emotion recognition for sentences with unknown expressions based on semantic similarity by using Bag of Concepts", "abstract": "In studies of emotion estimation from text, varieties of methods have been attempted such as emotional expression dictionary or sentence structure dictionary and emotion corpus. However, most of these methods targeted the expressions included in the existing morphological analysis dictionaries, as a result, they did not pay enough attention to unknown words, especially newly coined words. In Japan, the growth of Internet communication sites such as weblogs and social networking sites brought younger people especially in teens and in their 20s to create new words and use them very often. We prepared an emotion corpus by collecting weblog article texts including new words, analyzed the corpus statistically, and proposed a method to estimate emotions of the texts. Most slang such as Youth Slang is too ambiguous in sense classification to be registered into the existing dictionaries such as thesaurus. To cope with these words, we created a large scale of Twitter corpus to calculate sense similarity between words. We proposed to convert unknown to sense class id to process the words that were not included in learning data. We defined this as a method using Bag of Concepts as feature. As a result of the evaluation experiment using several classifies, the proposed method was proved robustness for unknown expression.", "corpus_id": 23696912, "venue": "2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD)", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Kazuyuki Matsumoto", "Minoru Yoshida", "Qingmei Xiao", "Xin Luo", "Kenji Kita" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "9779873", "title": "A new text representation scheme combining Bag of Words and Bag of Concepts approaches for automatic text classification", "abstract": "This paper introduces a new approach to creating text representations and apply it to a standard text classification collections. The approach is based on supplementing the well known Bag of Words (BOW) representational scheme with a concept based representation that utilises Wikipedia as a knowledge base. The proposed representations are used to generate a Vector Space Model, which in turn is fed into a Support Vector Machine classifier to categorise a collection of textual documents from two publically available datasets. Experimental results for evaluating the performance of our model in comparison to using a standard BOW scheme and a concept based scheme, as well as recently reported similar text representations that are based on augmenting the standard BOW approach with concept based representations.", "corpus_id": 9779873, "venue": "2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC)", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Alaa Alahmadi", "Arash Joorabchi", "Abdulhussain E Mahdi" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "63956645", "title": "Bridging the Gap between Local Semantic Concepts and Bag of Visual Words for Natural Scene Image Retrieval", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 63956645, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Yousef Alqasrawi" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "203594984", "title": "Evaluation of the Impact of Various Doha Round Conclusion Scenarios at the WTO Agricultural Negotiation", "abstract": "This paper evaluates the impacts of various scenarios proposed in the context of the WTO Doha Round agricultural negotiations and a new scenario that considers differential treatment for developing countries. The objective of this paper is to contribute to find the desired consensus among WTO members to facilitate trade and avoid trade wars. We used the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM) to measure impacts and use the ADAMS model to measure the equity of the various scenarios. We considered seven negotiating scenarios (1) Uruguay Round Agreement, (2) C4 country proposal, (3) EU proposal, (4) USA proposal, (6) our proposal and (7) full liberalization of trade. The results showed that our proposal increases the cotton producers' price by 10.8% better than the C4 countries proposal (9.0% and USA proposals (6.1% Our proposal for agricultural agreements increases the world price (8.1% the consumer's price (7.4% and the volume of exports (2.3% certainly to a lesser degree than that of the C4 countries proposal but more than the USA proposal. In terms of the equity criterion, it is as favorable as the other scenarios compared to the status quo of the Uruguay Round. Our proposal presents the elements for a compromise to conclude the Doha Round, with benefits for developing countries and the introduction of a new mechanism of international solidarity.", "corpus_id": 203594984, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kone Siaka", "Noufou Coulibaly", "Yapi Yapo Magloire", "Djina Djolo Jean Marc Junior" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "159090646", "title": "Income Inequality and International Economic Law: From Flint, Michigan to the Doha Round, and Back", "abstract": "At a time when global poverty is at its lowest, how can it be that income inequality is higher than it has been since the end of the Second World War? How have global trade and international law shaped these trends? Can we connect economic inequality at the domestic and international levels?", "corpus_id": 159090646, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Chantal Thomas" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "214448954", "title": "Voters reward hard working MPs: empirical evidence from the French legislative elections", "abstract": "Abstract This paper studies the relationship between incumbent MPs' activities and their electoral fortune. We address this question in the context of the French political system characterized by an executive domination, a candidate centered electoral system, and an electoral schedule maximizing the impact of the presidential elections. Given the contradictory influence of these three institutional features on the relationship between MPs' activities and electoral results, the overall link can only be assessed empirically. We test the effects of several measurements of MPs' activities on both their vote share and reelection probability in the 2007 legislative election. We show that MPs' activities are differently correlated to both the incumbents' vote shares in the first round and their reelection. Despite the weakness of the French National Assembly, several parliamentary activities, especially bill initiation, have a significant effect on MPs' electoral prospects.", "corpus_id": 214448954, "venue": "European Political Science Review", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Abel Francois", "Julien Navarro" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211435153", "title": "hegemon's outside option: mega regional trade agreements and United States trade policy", "abstract": "The United States is facing growing challenges to the advancement of its interests in the World Trade Organization. The assertiveness of emerging countries in advancing their interests in the Doha Round made the achievement of a deal almost impossible. Slow progress is being made (the Trade Facilitation Agreement, for example) but no broad and significant trade deal has been reached so far. There are ongoing suggestions that the Doha round should be abandoned for good. The TPP and TTIP represented two shots the United States has taken to advance its trade interests outside the scope of the WTO, escaping possible challenges imposed by emerging countries. The irony behind this is that the trade regime in force was created by the United States at the height of its hegemony. The questions driving this paper are: Is this option for trade agreements related to American hegemonic decline? And to what extent does this option weaken the weaken the multilateral trade regime embodied in the WTO? There is a brief discussion about the future of this strategy under Trump's presidency, who has a different stance regarding regional trade agreements. Recebido em: maio/2018.Aprovado em: janeiro/2019.", "corpus_id": 211435153, "venue": "Brazilian Journal of International Relations", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Fernanda de Castro Brandao Martins" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "208194796", "title": "Crowding out of private stocks by public stocks", "abstract": "Public stocks held by government have emerged as a food security issue as well as an issue in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks. Understanding the impact of public stocks requires understanding their crowding out effect on private stocks. A conceptual model of this crowding out effect is developed. It utilises a call option associated with the release of public stocks. The model reveals that the crowding out effect on private stocks decreases as public stocks increase, in contrast to constant marginal crowding out reported by earlier studies. Crowding out of private stocks is also a function of the commodity's demand function, implying crowding out can vary by commodity. It is likely to be highest for commodities with the most inelastic demand. These commodities include wheat, rice, and other food staples often held as public stocks. Empirical analysis confirms these and other insights from the conceptual model.", "corpus_id": 208194796, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Sang-Hyo Kim", "Carl R Zulauf" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "155211058", "title": "The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism", "abstract": "When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was signed by 23 nations in 1947, the goal was to establish a rules based world trading system and to facilitate mutually advantageous trade liberalization. As the GATT evolved over time and morphed into the World Trade Organization in 1993, both goals have largely been achieved. The WTO presides over a rule based trading system based on norms that are almost universally accepted and respected by its 163 members. Tariffs today are below 5 percent on most trade, and zero for a very large share of imports. Despite its manifest success, the WTO is widely regarded as suffering from a deep malaise. The main reason is that the latest WTO negotiation, the Doha Round, has staggered between failures, flops, and false dawns since it was launched in 2001. But the Doha logjam has not inhibited tariff liberalization far from it. During the last 15 years, most WTO members have massively lowered barriers to trade, investment, and services bilaterally, regionally, and unilaterally indeed, everywhere except through the WTO. For today's offshoring linked international commerce, the trade rules that matter are less about tariffs and more about protection of investments and intellectual property, along with legal and regulatory steps to assure that the two way flows of goods, services, investment, and people will not be impeded. It's possible to imagine a hypothetical WTO that would incorporate these rules. But the most likely outcome for the future governance of international trade is a two pillar structure in which the WTO continues to govern with its 1994 era rules while the new rules for international production networks are set by a decentralized process of sometimes overlapping and inconsistent mega regional agreements.", "corpus_id": 155211058, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Richard E Baldwin" ], "n_citations": 83, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "158615584", "title": "Recalcitrant spoiler? Contesting dominant accounts of India's role in global trade governance", "abstract": "Abstract India is frequently cast as a troublemaker and blamed for the breakdown of the Doha Round. This article provides a critical re reading of India's trade policy and its position in multilateral trade negotiations. It challenges the widespread characterisation of India as a recalcitrant spoiler, intent on derailing trade liberalisation at the WTO. It shows that with the emergence of its highly competitive, export oriented services sector, India became one of the leading advocates of global services trade liberalisation in the Doha Round. Yet, not unlike the traditional powers, India's offensive trade interests are also combined with significant defensive concerns in agriculture.", "corpus_id": 158615584, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Kristen Hopewell" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158661378", "title": "The BRICS merely a fable? Emerging power alliances in global trade governance", "abstract": "The much hyped rise of the \"BRICS\" (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has lately been met with equally fervent declarations of their demise. Amid slowing growth in many of these countries, the prevailing view now appears to be that the rise of the BRICS was little more than an illusion. In this article, however, I contest this assessment by arguing that the emerging powers were never solely, nor most importantly, merely an economic phenomenon. Instead, I show that emerging powers specifically Brazil, India and China have become an important political force in the global trading system and had a profound and lasting impact on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Contrary to the widespread assumption that these countries are too diverse to ally, I argue that the emerging powers displayed a remarkable degree of unity and cooperation, working in close concert to successfully challenge the dominance of the US and other established powers. As evidenced by the collapse of the Doha Round, the collective rise of Brazil, India and China substantially disrupted the functioning of one of the core institutions of the liberal economic order created under US hegemony.", "corpus_id": 158661378, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Kristen Hopewell" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158577765", "title": "The WTO and the Rise of Plurilateralism What Lessons can we Learn from the European Union's Experience with Differentiated Integration?", "abstract": "The de facto failure of the Doha Round has shaken the confidence in multilateral trade negotiations and governance. Policy makers increasingly turn to plurilateralismaEUR\"in the form of Plurilateral and Critical Mass AgreementsaEUR\"as a new strategy for global trade governance. The World Trade Organization (WTO) may develop into a aEUR~club of clubsaEUR(tm) The rise of plurilateralism creates opportunities and risks. Plurilateralism may reinvigorate world trade and modernise the WTO. But it may also fragment the global trade regime and disenfranchise countries. The article advances two arguments. First, the turn to plurilateralism is timely and promises to be welfare enhancing as trade liberalization evolves from negative integration through tariff cuts to positive integration through rule convergence. Plurilateralism is often better suited to govern rule convergence. The article builds on the theory of club goods to underpin this claim. Second, the turn to plurilateralism nonetheless requires a carefully crafted governance approach to succeed. The article thus evaluates the rich experience of the European Union with so called aEUR~differentiated integrationaEUR(tm) to inform the policy debate in the WTO. It highlights that inter alia transparency, trust and institutional embedding are key to ensure that the WTO and her members benefit from the rise of plurilateralism.", "corpus_id": 158577765, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Robert W Basedow" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158763333", "title": "From Legitimate Protectionism to Trade Wars", "abstract": "The author argues that modern protectionism has a more moderate character than that in the middle of the past century. Besides that it does not, as a rule, go beyond multilateral rules of the regulation of international trade. This allows us to define it as a legitimate one. The author estimates the probability of the execution of the approved program of the negotiations of the Doha round which aims at further liberalization of agricultural and non agricultural trade as well as services. It is stated that the deadlock situation during the negotiations forced the members of the WTO to step back from the batch method of decision making and the principle \"everything is compulsory for all\" This opened the way for the progress in reduction of trade barriers with the help of agreements between limited number of the participants (selective liberalization) and preferential regional trade agreements of the new type \"liberalization for those who care\" A fear is expressed that the current trade conflict between the US and China may lead to the opening of wide scale trade war between the two countries and may give an impetus for the outbreak of similar \"wars\" between other participants in the world trade and, at worst, for the collapse of the multilateral trading system that has been built during the past seventy years. In this case, international rules, though not perfect and outdated, might be substituted by chaos and anarchy which may result in the aggravation of problems of the world development. Further on, the author pays attention to the fact that the level of tariff protection in Russia somewhat decreased after the WTO accession. Still, the membership in this organization does not create any serious problems for most sectors and branches of the national economy. It is a matter of fact that the level of protectionism in the Russian Federation is higher than in the developed countries but lower than in the leading developing economies (China, India, Brazil) The author states that strengthening of protectionist elements in the trade policy will be a difficult task for the Russian government. The main reason is that the principal functions of the regulation of the foreign trade have been recently subdued rom the national government to the Eurasian Economic Commission. It is concluded that the possible destruction of the established international order in trade relations will not bring benefit for the domestic economy which is, to a great extent, dependent from foreign markets both as producer and as consumer. This is why Russia has to continue full support to the WTO. Still, during negotiations on this platform Russian government has to act pragmatically and to put in the forefront the nation's economic interests.", "corpus_id": 158763333, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "V P Obolenskiy" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "213523455", "title": "Spiritual leadership: Current status and Agenda for future research and practice", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Over the past decade, spiritual leadership has emerged as a new paradigm of and approach to leadership. To provide a thorough understanding of the current status of research on this new phenomenon and stimulate more scholarly interest, we conducted a systematic review of existing spiritual leadership literature. By analyzing 59 empirical studies published in peer reviewed journals, we unraveled how the concept of spiritual leadership was defined, developed, utilized and validated by researchers across disciplines. This article also provides some directions for future research by highlighting knowledge gaps and critical issues identified in previous studies, such as definitions, methodologies, construct measurements, research contexts, and nomological relationships of spiritual leadership. For scholars who are interested in pursuing spiritual leadership research, this review can serve as a useful reference guide.", "corpus_id": 213523455, "venue": "Journal of Management, Spirituality Religion", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jihye Oh", "Jia Wang" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210480338", "title": "Do organizational citizenship behavior and work satisfaction mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and employee performance?", "abstract": "Article history: Received: July 4 2019 Received in revised format: September 14 2019 Accepted: October 30, 2019 Available online: October 30, 2019 This study aims to analyze the role of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and work satisfaction to mediate the effect of spiritual leadership of employee performance at Bank BRI shariah Malang. There were 154 employees working at Bank BRI Shariah Malang and all were selected as sample for performing the survey. Data was collected directly from respondents using questionnaires and the study is explanatory research type. The analysis used was Partial Least Square. The research results show that Spiritual leadership did not directly influence on employee performance, OCB mediated the effect of spiritual leadership on employee performance, and job satisfaction mediated the effect of spiritual leadership on employee performance. (c) 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada", "corpus_id": 210480338, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Achmad Sani Supriyanto", "Vivin Maharani Ekowati", "Ummi Maghfuroh" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "213842166", "title": "The Effects of Spiritual Leadership in Family Firms: A Conservation of Resources Perspective", "abstract": "Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we theorize that spiritual leadership serves as both a resource to enhance employees' organizational commitment and a passageway to mitigate the negative effects of work family conflict. Using primary triadic data from leaders, family employees, and nonfamily employees in 77 family firms, results support our theorizing that organizational commitment is enhanced by spiritual leadership but is decreased by work family conflict. Contrary to theory, however, spiritual leadership exacerbated the negative effects of work family conflict. Further analysis reveals that family and nonfamily employees respond differently to leadership and work family stressors. While spiritual leadership has positive effects for family employees, it has negative effects for nonfamily employees experiencing high work family conflict.", "corpus_id": 213842166, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "William Tabor", "Kristen Madison", "Laura E Marler", "Franz Willi Kellermanns" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "224849598", "title": "Being ignored at work: Understanding how and when spiritual leadership curbs workplace ostracism in the hospitality industry", "abstract": "Abstract Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the present study theorizes that spiritual leadership is negatively related to workplace ostracism, both directly and indirectly via job social support and that employees' justice orientation moderates the negative relationship between spiritual leadership and workplace ostracism. Based on time lagged (three waves, two months apart) survey data collected from 252 hospitality employees, our findings reveal that spiritual leadership is negatively associated with workplace ostracism, both directly and indirectly via job social support. We also find that justice orientation strengthens the negative relationship between spiritual leadership and workplace ostracism. These findings not only highlight core theoretical contributions towards the existing literature on spiritual leadership, job social support, justice orientation, and workplace ostracism but also offer useful practical implications for hotel managers concerned about the repercussions of workplace ostracism for employees' and organizations' outcomes.", "corpus_id": 224849598, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Moazzam Ali", "Muhammad Usman", "Nhat Tan Pham", "Peter Agyemang-Mintah", "Naeem Akhtar" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213641692", "title": "How Spiritual Leadership Affects Job Satisfaction and Workplace Deviant Behavior (Study at the Regional Secretariat of the City of Palangkaraya)", "abstract": "Examiningtherelationshipofspiritualleadershiptojobsatisfactionandworkplacedeviantbehavior. Thisresearchwassurveyresearch.Thepopulationwastheemployeeofthegovernmentofthecity ofPalangkaraya,Indonesiawithitscharacteristicsascivilservants(PNS)inallregionalworkunits (SKPD)withinthesecretariatoftheregionalgovernmentofthecityofPalangkaraya.Thesampling techniqueusedinthisstudywasthestratifiedrandomsamplingtechnique.Themethodanddata analysisusedSEM.This researchcontributed to thedevelopmentofscience,especiallyspiritual leadership.Theapplicationofspiritualleadershipattheregionalgovernmentsecretariatofthecity ofPalangkarayahastheeffectofcreatingaspiritualworkclimatewherealeaderconstantlydevelops andpracticesspiritualvaluesinhisorganization,especiallyaltruisticattitudes. KeyWoRDS Job Satisfaction, Spiritual Leadership, Workplace Deviant Behavior", "corpus_id": 213641692, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Benny Hutahayan" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "220653479", "title": "The influence of spiritual leadership on the subjective well being of Chinese registered nurses.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Challenging working conditions and job characteristics can result in nurses experiencing significant workplace stress and adversity. AIM This study examines how and why spiritual leadership may have a positive influence on nurses' subjective well being. METHOD A total of 339 registered nurses from five public hospitals in mainland China participated in this study. Hypotheses were tested using the PROCESS macro developed by Hayes (2017) RESULTS Spiritual leadership influenced subjective well being indirectly through workplace spirituality. The interaction of spiritual leadership and power distance orientation on workplace spirituality was significant. Power distance orientation moderates the indirect effect of spiritual leadership on subjective well being through workplace spirituality and this indirect effect is more positive for nurse with lower power distance orientation. CONCLUSIONS Spiritual leadership is a significant contextual factor in the workplace that may influence the nurses' workplace spirituality and subjective well being. Based on their power distance orientation, nurses may have different responses to spiritual leadership, resulting in differing levels of workplace spirituality. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT Spirituality can satisfy the internal needs of nurses. Spiritual leadership can facilitate a spiritual working context for sustaining the subjective well being of nurses. Hospitals should provide training programs to help existing leaders engage in spiritual leadership.", "corpus_id": 220653479, "venue": "Journal of nursing management", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Wenchi Zou", "Yuru Zeng", "Qi-Qi Peng", "Yongjie Xin", "Jiaxin Chen", "Jeffery D Houghton" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213639363", "title": "The relationship between spiritual leadership to quality of work life and ethical behavior and its implication to increasing the organizational citizenship behavior", "abstract": "The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between spiritual leadership, quality of work life (QWL) ethical behavior, and its implication to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB),The study design is the quantitative method as an explanatory research with the purpose to explain the phenomena or pattern of correlation between the concepts (Solimun et al. 2017) Focus on this study is the employees in three private hospitals managed by foundations or religious based institutions as research areas, namely (1) Adventist Hospital; (2) Pancaran Kasih Hospital; (3) Siti Maryam Hospital, Manado, Indonesia. The population in this study was all the employees, and the sample size is 150 respondents (using Slovin's Formula) by simple random sampling. The analytical method used to test the hypothesis of the research was structural equation modeling (SEM) covariance based called partial least square (PLS),The spiritual leadership has the direct effect QWL. The spiritual leadership has the direct effect on ethical behavior. The spiritual leadership does not have the direct effect on OCB. QWL has the direct effect on OCB. The ethical behavior has the direct effect on OCB. The spiritual leadership has the indirect effect on OCB, with QWL and ethical behavior as mediation variables.,This is one of few research studies comprehensively investigating the relationship between spiritual leadership (as exogenous variable) with QWL and ethical behavior (as intervening variable) and OCB (as endogenous variable) Based on the views and opinions of some of the mentioned writers, we assume that spiritual leadership has a relationship with OCB mediated by QWL or ethical behavior.", "corpus_id": 213639363, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Riane J Pio", "Florence Daisy Jetty Lengkong" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "224842307", "title": "A positive human health perspective on how spiritual leadership weaves its influence on employee safety performance: The role of harmonious safety passion", "abstract": "Abstract The present study examined the relationship of spiritual leadership with employees' safety performance safety compliance and safety participation. The study also proposed that harmonious safety passion mediates the positive associations of spiritual leadership with safety compliance and safety participation. Based on time lagged survey data collected from 305 supervisor employee dyads, the results revealed that spiritual leadership is positively associated with employees' safety compliance and safety participation, both directly and indirectly, via harmonious safety passion. Our findings contribute to the literature by signifying the role of spiritual leadership and harmonious safety passion in shaping employees' safety behaviors, which are beyond employees' self enactment of safety behaviors and include voluntary safety related behaviors. The findings also carry useful practical implications for managers that can help them curb safety related issues at work.", "corpus_id": 224842307, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Moazzam Ali", "Shahzad Aziz", "Tan Nhat Pham", "Mayowa T Babalola", "Muhammad Usman" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "216519648", "title": "Effect Size of Spiritual Leadership: In the Process of School Culture and Academic Success", "abstract": "The basic objective of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between spiritual leadership, school culture, and academic success. The data were collected by mixed method from teachers working in seven high schools and five achievement low level high schools in Sanliurfa in 2018. The data obtained from the teachers were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The conducted analyses revealed two important results. First, it can be claimed that as spiritual leadership perception of teachers increase, so does their school culture perception. The second result is the impact of both spiritual leadership and school culture on academic success. Therefore, the impact of spiritual leadership and school culture on two variables (high success, low success) has been examined separately. As the spiritual leadership and school culture perception of teachers increase, so does academic success.", "corpus_id": 216519648, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Mehmet Ali Karadag", "Fahriye Altinay Aksal", "Zehra Altinay Gazi", "Gokmen Dagli" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221495485", "title": "How Spiritual Leadership Boosts Nurses' Work Engagement: The Mediating Roles of Calling and Psychological Capital", "abstract": "Work engagement is an important topic in the field of nursing management. Meanwhile, spiritual leadership has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on healthcare workers. However, the relationship between spiritual leadership and work engagement is unclear. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of spiritual leadership on work engagement through increased spiritual well being and psychological capital. This study used a cross sectional survey to collect data in Taiwan. The sample included 164 nurses, with empirical testing carried out by PROCESS Macro for SPSS. The results show that spiritual leadership has a positive influence on work engagement and that spiritual well being (i.e. calling) and psychological capital mediate the effect of spiritual leadership on work engagement. According to the results of this study, nursing leaders must be aware of the role of spiritual leadership in promoting work engagement.", "corpus_id": 221495485, "venue": "International journal of environmental research and public health", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Wei-Li Wu", "Yi Chih Lee" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "36024272", "title": "Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences", "abstract": "There has been a recent resurgence in the area of explainable artificial intelligence as researchers and practitioners seek to make their algorithms more understandable. Much of this research is focused on explicitly explaining decisions or actions to a human observer, and it should not be controversial to say that looking at how humans explain to each other can serve as a useful starting point for explanation in artificial intelligence. However, it is fair to say that most work in explainable artificial intelligence uses only the researchers' intuition of what constitutes a `good' explanation. There exists vast and valuable bodies of research in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science of how people define, generate, select, evaluate, and present explanations, which argues that people employ certain cognitive biases and social expectations towards the explanation process. This paper argues that the field of explainable artificial intelligence should build on this existing research, and reviews relevant papers from philosophy, cognitive psychology/science, and social psychology, which study these topics. It draws out some important findings, and discusses ways that these can be infused with work on explainable artificial intelligence.", "corpus_id": 36024272, "venue": "Artif. Intell.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Tim Miller" ], "n_citations": 1380, "n_key_citations": 159, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "204824113", "title": "Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Concepts, Taxonomies, Opportunities and Challenges toward Responsible AI", "abstract": "In the last years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved a notable momentum that may deliver the best of expectations over many application sectors across the field. For this to occur, the entire community stands in front of the barrier of explainability, an inherent problem of AI techniques brought by sub symbolism (e.g. ensembles or Deep Neural Networks) that were not present in the last hype of AI. Paradigms underlying this problem fall within the so called eXplainable AI (XAI) field, which is acknowledged as a crucial feature for the practical deployment of AI models. This overview examines the existing literature in the field of XAI, including a prospect toward what is yet to be reached. We summarize previous efforts to define explainability in Machine Learning, establishing a novel definition that covers prior conceptual propositions with a major focus on the audience for which explainability is sought. We then propose and discuss about a taxonomy of recent contributions related to the explainability of different Machine Learning models, including those aimed at Deep Learning methods for which a second taxonomy is built. This literature analysis serves as the background for a series of challenges faced by XAI, such as the crossroads between data fusion and explainability. Our prospects lead toward the concept of Responsible Artificial Intelligence, namely, a methodology for the large scale implementation of AI methods in real organizations with fairness, model explainability and accountability at its core. Our ultimate goal is to provide newcomers to XAI with a reference material in order to stimulate future research advances, but also to encourage experts and professionals from other disciplines to embrace the benefits of AI in their activity sectors, without any prior bias for its lack of interpretability.", "corpus_id": 204824113, "venue": "Inf. Fusion", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Alejandro Barredo Arrieta", "Javier Del Ser", "Adrien Bennetot", "Siham Tabik", "A Barbado", "Daniel Molina", "Rick Benjamins", "Raja Chatila", "Francisco Herrera" ], "n_citations": 869, "n_key_citations": 58, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "53142908", "title": "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", "abstract": "The long anticipated revision of this #1 selling book offers the most comprehensive, state of the art introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence for modern applications. Intelligent Agents. Solving Problems by Searching. Informed Search Methods. Game Playing. Agents that Reason Logically. First order Logic. Building a Knowledge Base. Inference in First Order Logic. Logical Reasoning Systems. Practical Planning. Planning and Acting. Uncertainty. Probabilistic Reasoning Systems. Making Simple Decisions. Making Complex Decisions. Learning from Observations. Learning with Neural Networks. Reinforcement Learning. Knowledge in Learning. Agents that Communicate. Practical Communication in English. Perception. Robotics. For computer professionals, linguists, and cognitive scientists interested in artificial intelligence.", "corpus_id": 53142908, "venue": "", "year": 1995, "author_names": [ "Stuart J Russell", "Peter Norvig" ], "n_citations": 26037, "n_key_citations": 1611, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "57574615", "title": "High performance medicine: the convergence of human and artificial intelligence", "abstract": "The use of artificial intelligence, and the deep learning subtype in particular, has been enabled by the use of labeled big data, along with markedly enhanced computing power and cloud storage, across all sectors. In medicine, this is beginning to have an impact at three levels: for clinicians, predominantly via rapid, accurate image interpretation; for health systems, by improving workflow and the potential for reducing medical errors; and for patients, by enabling them to process their own data to promote health. The current limitations, including bias, privacy and security, and lack of transparency, along with the future directions of these applications will be discussed in this article. Over time, marked improvements in accuracy, productivity, and workflow will likely be actualized, but whether that will be used to improve the patient doctor relationship or facilitate its erosion remains to be seen.Artificial intelligence is beginning to be applied in the medical setting and has potential to improve workflows and errors, impacting patients and clinicians alike.", "corpus_id": 57574615, "venue": "Nature Medicine", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Eric J Topol" ], "n_citations": 1297, "n_key_citations": 21, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "211133166", "title": "Artificial Intelligence Forecasting of Covid 19 in China", "abstract": "BACKGROUND An alternative to epidemiological models for transmission dynamics of Covid 19 in China, we propose the artificial intelligence (AI) inspired methods for real time forecasting of Covid 19 to estimate the size, lengths and ending time of Covid 19 across China. METHODS We developed a modified stacked auto encoder for modeling the transmission dynamics of the epidemics. We applied this model to real time forecasting the confirmed cases of Covid 19 across China. The data were collected from January 11 to February 27, 2020 by WHO. We used the latent variables in the auto encoder and clustering algorithms to group the provinces/cities for investigating the transmission structure. RESULTS We forecasted curves of cumulative confirmed cases of Covid 19 across China from Jan 20, 2020 to April 20, 2020. Using the multiple step forecasting, the estimated average errors of 6 step, 7 step, 8 step, 9 step and 10 step forecasting were 1.64% 2.27% 2.14% 2.08% 0.73% respectively. We predicted that the time points of the provinces/cities entering the plateau of the forecasted transmission dynamic curves varied, ranging from Jan 21 to April 19, 2020. The 34 provinces/cities were grouped into 9 clusters. CONCLUSIONS The accuracy of the AI based methods for forecasting the trajectory of Covid 19 was high. We predicted that the epidemics of Covid 19 will be over by the middle of April. If the data are reliable and there are no second transmissions, we can accurately forecast the transmission dynamics of the Covid 19 across the provinces/cities in China. The AI inspired methods are a powerful tool for helping public health planning and policymaking.", "corpus_id": 211133166, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Zixin Hu", "Qiyang Ge", "Shudi Li", "Li Jin", "Momiao Xiong" ], "n_citations": 220, "n_key_citations": 14, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "204871987", "title": "How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing", "abstract": "In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to substantially change both marketing strategies and customer behaviors. Building from not only extant research but also extensive interactions with practice, the authors propose a multidimensional framework for understanding the impact of AI involving intelligence levels, task types, and whether AI is embedded in a robot. Prior research typically addresses a subset of these dimensions; this paper integrates all three into a single framework. Next, the authors propose a research agenda that addresses not only how marketing strategies and customer behaviors will change in the future, but also highlights important policy questions relating to privacy, bias and ethics. Finally, the authors suggest AI will be more effective if it augments (rather than replaces) human managers.", "corpus_id": 204871987, "venue": "Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Thomas H Davenport", "Abhijit Guha", "Dhruv Grewal", "Timna Bressgott" ], "n_citations": 200, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "215819243", "title": "Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for COVID 19 pandemic", "abstract": "Abstract Background and aims Healthcare delivery requires the support of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) Internet of Things (IoT) Big Data and Machine Learning to fight and look ahead against the new diseases. We aim to review the role of AI as a decisive technology to analyze, prepare us for prevention and fight with COVID 19 (Coronavirus) and other pandemics. Methods The rapid review of the literature is done on the database of Pubmed, Scopus and Google Scholar using the keyword of COVID 19 or Coronavirus and Artificial Intelligence or AI. Collected the latest information regarding AI for COVID 19, then analyzed the same to identify its possible application for this disease. Results We have identified seven significant applications of AI for COVID 19 pandemic. This technology plays an important role to detect the cluster of cases and to predict where this virus will affect in future by collecting and analyzing all previous data. Conclusions Healthcare organizations are in an urgent need for decision making technologies to handle this virus and help them in getting proper suggestions in real time to avoid its spread. AI works in a proficient way to mimic like human intelligence. It may also play a vital role in understanding and suggesting the development of a vaccine for COVID 19. This result driven technology is used for proper screening, analyzing, prediction and tracking of current patients and likely future patients. The significant applications are applied to tracks data of confirmed, recovered and death cases.", "corpus_id": 215819243, "venue": "Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research Reviews", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Raju Vaishya", "Mohd Javaid", "Ibrahim Haleem Khan", "Abid Haleem" ], "n_citations": 376, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "218682148", "title": "Artificial intelligence enabled rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID 19", "abstract": "For diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) a SARS CoV 2 virus specific reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) test is routinely used. However, this test can take up to 2 d to complete, serial testing may be required to rule out the possibility of false negative results and there is currently a shortage of RT PCR test kits, underscoring the urgent need for alternative methods for rapid and accurate diagnosis of patients with COVID 19. Chest computed tomography (CT) is a valuable component in the evaluation of patients with suspected SARS CoV 2 infection. Nevertheless, CT alone may have limited negative predictive value for ruling out SARS CoV 2 infection, as some patients may have normal radiological findings at early stages of the disease. In this study, we used artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to integrate chest CT findings with clinical symptoms, exposure history and laboratory testing to rapidly diagnose patients who are positive for COVID 19. Among a total of 905 patients tested by real time RT PCR assay and next generation sequencing RT PCR, 419 (46.3% tested positive for SARS CoV 2. In a test set of 279 patients, the AI system achieved an area under the curve of 0.92 and had equal sensitivity as compared to a senior thoracic radiologist. The AI system also improved the detection of patients who were positive for COVID 19 via RT PCR who presented with normal CT scans, correctly identifying 17 of 25 (68% patients, whereas radiologists classified all of these patients as COVID 19 negative. When CT scans and associated clinical history are available, the proposed AI system can help to rapidly diagnose COVID 19 patients. Artificial intelligence algorithms integrating chest computed tomography scans and clinical information can diagnose COVID 19 with similar accuracy as compared to a senior radiologist.", "corpus_id": 218682148, "venue": "Nature Medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Xueyan Mei", "Hao-Chih Lee", "Kaiyue Diao", "Mingqian Huang", "Bin Lin", "Chenyu Liu", "Zongyu Xie", "Yixuan Ma", "Philip M Robson", "Michael S Chung", "Adam Bernheim", "Venkatesh Mani", "Claudia Calcagno", "Kunwei Li", "Shaolin Li", "Hong Shan", "Jian Lv", "Tongtong Zhao", "Junli Xia", "Qihua Long", "Sharon Steinberger", "Adam Jacobi", "Timothy Deyer", "Marta Luksza", "Fang Liu", "Brent P Little", "Zahi A Fayad", "Yang Yang" ], "n_citations": 356, "n_key_citations": 22, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "143425657", "title": "The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals", "abstract": "The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors requires an assessment of its effect on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a consensus based expert elicitation process, we find that AI can enable the accomplishment of 134 targets across all the goals, but it may also inhibit 59 targets. However, current research foci overlook important aspects. The fast development of AI needs to be supported by the necessary regulatory insight and oversight for AI based technologies to enable sustainable development. Failure to do so could result in gaps in transparency, safety, and ethical standards. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more common in people's lives. Here, the authors use an expert elicitation method to understand how AI may affect the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.", "corpus_id": 143425657, "venue": "Nature Communications", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ricardo Vinuesa", "Hossein Azizpour", "Iolanda Leite", "Madeline Balaam", "Virginia Dignum", "Sami Domisch", "Anna Fellander", "Simone Daniela Langhans", "Max Tegmark", "Francesco Fuso Nerini" ], "n_citations": 236, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "214679246", "title": "Artificial intelligence and machine learning to fight COVID 19", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 214679246, "venue": "Physiological genomics", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Ahmad Alimadadi", "Sachin Aryal", "Ishan Manandhar", "Patricia B Munroe", "Bina Joe", "Xi Cheng" ], "n_citations": 209, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "158212632", "title": "The Proper Use of Technologies as a Digital Citizenship Indicator: Undergraduate English Language Students at Al Hussein Bin Talal University", "abstract": "The paper investigates the technology usage as a digital citizenship indicator among undergraduate English language students at Al Hussein Bin Talal University (AHU) in Jordan. Digital citizenship with its nine elements: Etiquette, Communication, Education, Access, Commerce, Responsibility, Rights, Safety, and Security are connected to all life aspects. It is hard to ignore the increasing misuse phenomenon of the emerging technologies. This paper shed the light on how the students within their university campus use technologies in a citizenship manner. A measurement tool worked as a test to reveal students technology usage as an indicator of their digital citizenship. Results of the study revealed that students do not properly use technologies as a digital citizenship indicator. The study included recommendations to overcome technology usage within university campus.", "corpus_id": 158212632, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Mustafa Jwaifell" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "69655581", "title": "The Impact of Digital Citizenship Instruction through Flipped Classroom Model on Various Variables", "abstract": "With the advent of portable technological devices such as mobile phones and tablets, online learning environments have become widespread at schools. This, in turn, has resulted in the emergence of a new learning environment: flipped classrooms. The flipped classroom could be defined as a modern learning environment where teaching content is presented to students through online sources outside the school. The present study examined the impact of digital citizenship instruction through the flipped classroom model on various variables such as learning performance, self regulated learning, self directed learning, and information literacy. The study employed a quasi experimental research design in which pre tests and post tests were applied to both research and control groups. The participants were 59 teacher candidates who were freshman undergraduates at Bozok University. During a five week implementation process, research group students performed certain activities related to digital citizenship while the control group learned digital citizenship via traditional methods. The results showed that the flipped classroom model had a significant effect on only learning performance. No difference were observed between research and control groups in terms of self regulated learning, self directed learning, and information literacy variables.", "corpus_id": 69655581, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kevser Hava", "Mehmet Fikret Gelibolu" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "64714104", "title": "Fake news and digital literacy: The academic library's role in shaping digital citizenship", "abstract": "As proven authorities on information literacy, librarians are well positioned to lead learners through a politically and digitally polarized environment and advocate for the development of digital citizenship. In October 2017, the Florida Chapter of the Association of College and Research Librarians (FACRL) hosted its annual conference and engaged attendees in conversations to explore digital literacy in higher education and investigate the library's responsibility to lead the charge toward the creation of learners with the requisite skills to engage critically and ethically with information in an open knowledge society. The 2017 FACRL Annual Conference featured nine innovative and engaging presentations and posters that challenged the popular reference to fake news and illuminated corresponding opportunities for libraries and librarians to champion digital literacy initiatives at their respective institutions of higher education. In this issue of The Reference Librarian, we are pleased to feature articles from four of our distinguished presenters. Librarians Mia Tignor and Angie Neely Sardon from Indian River State College present a model for academic libraries seeking to develop news and information literacy skills in their article, \"Focus on the facts: a news and information literacy instructional program.\" In addition, Tignor and Neely Sardon highlight the librarian as the source evaluation expert contributing to the discussion of the librarian as central to digital literacy initiatives in institutions of higher education. Author Sonnet Ireland explores the use of social media memes to teach information literacy in the article, \"Fake news alerts: teaching news literacy skills in a meme world,\" highlighting innovative techniques to engage students in the important discussion surrounding digital citizenship. Amanda Closier shares strategies from the Open University (UK) to assist distance learning students in the development of digital and information literacy skills in the article, \"Walking the talk: using digital media to develop distance learners' digital citizenship at the Open University (UK)\" Finally, authors Christopher Jordan, Victor Lawrence, and Cristy Moran collaborate to showcase media literacy and social justice initiatives at the North Regional/Broward College (NR/BC) Library, a joint use facility. The article \"Experience from the field: programming in a joint use partnership library\" provides tips on collaborations in and outside joint use libraries and contributes to the discussion on media literacy programming in joint use libraries. Future issues of The Reference Librarian will also feature several pieces originally given at the 2017 FACRL Annual Conference providing additional insights and showcasing digital literacy initiatives designed to position the academic library as a champion of digital citizenship in higher education.", "corpus_id": 64714104, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kim Copenhaver" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150304205", "title": "Navigating the unbeaten track from digital literacy to digital citizenship: A case of university students in South Africa's Eastern Cape province", "abstract": "Unlike the millennials from the industrialised world who were raised amidst an increasingly online and socially networked society, their South African counterparts at previously disadvantaged universities have some weaknesses similar to those of digital migrants. These weaknesses are caused by the limited exposure millennials in South Africa have to digital devices and Internet connectivity. In spite of these impediments, their future careers in an increasingly globalised world require them to behave like, transact and engage with full fledged digital citizens from the global north. Digital citizenship is the ability to use technology safely, responsibly, critically, productively and civically. This raises intellectual curiosity about the extent to which the African millennial is prepared for a world that expects them to be digital citizens. This article, therefore, investigates the challenges faced by the South African millennial as they navigate an unusual route to digital citizenship. We adopted the activity theory for a mixed methods study that consists of a survey of 148 questionnaires and 15 in depth interviews. The findings show that while university going millennials acquire digital literacy, their development of digital citizenship is affected by lack of mentors and access (i.e. connectivity and devices) at home and lack of soft skills training (i.e. online safety, digital etiquette and inadequate information literacy) at the university.", "corpus_id": 150304205, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Sam Takavarasha", "Liezel Cilliers", "Willie Tafadzwa Chinyamurindi" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199873554", "title": "A study on the digital citizenship level of preservice teachers according to diverse variables", "abstract": "The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the digital citizenship levels of preservice teachers according to diverse variables. The sample of the study consists of students at Ataturk Education Faculty of Near East University (n 345) Likerttype 'digital citizenship scale' with seven dimensions and 64 items and a personal information survey consisting of eight questions were used as data collection tools. Digital citizenship level of preservice teachers and their sub dimensions such as digital communication and literacy were examined. According to the obtained findings, it was observed that digital citizenship level of preservice teachers varied between good and very good. At the end of the study, it has been understood that as the history of using digital tools of preservice teachers increases, so does their digital citizenship level; in addition, those with better economic means have higher access to digital tools and more knowledge and experience on digital shopping.", "corpus_id": 199873554, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Fatih Soykan", "Hafize Keser" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "158482427", "title": "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS' DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP IN TURKMENISTAN AND TRNC (TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTH CYPRUS)", "abstract": "This research aimed to determine the level of digital citizenship of the school directors in Turkmenistan, a developing country, and compare the level of digital citizenship of the school directors of the Ministry of National Education in TRNC. A causative comparison, one of quantitative designs, was conducted in this research. The participants were secondary school directors of the Ministry of National Education, TRNC in the 2017 2018 academic year. Convenience sampling method was used in this study. Due to time constraints and because it was easier, only 45 high school directors in Lefkosa, TRNC were involved. In Turkmenistan, 38 high school directors in the city of Dasoguz could be reached. The total number of the participants was 83. The \"digital citizenship scale\" and personal information form were used in this research. When the rate of Digital Citizenship, based on countries, is examined, the level of digital citizenship of the Turkish (TRNC) secondary education school directors is observed to be higher than of the Turkmeni secondary education school directors.", "corpus_id": 158482427, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "G M Ibragimova", "Umut Akcil" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "231783781", "title": "Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What's the Difference?", "abstract": "Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital by default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary normative responses to these complex issues digital citizenship, digital rights and digital literacy. These three terms capture epistemological and ontological frames that theorise and enact (both in policy and everyday social interactions) how individuals learn to live in digitally mediated societies. The article explores the effectiveness of each in addressing the philosophical, ethical and practical issues raised by datafication, and the limitations of human agency as an overarching goal within these responses. We examine how each response addresses challenges in policy, everyday social life and political rhetoric, tracing the fluctuating uses of these terms and their address to different stakeholders. The article concludes with a series of conceptual and practical 'action points' that might optimise these responses to the benefit of the individual and society.", "corpus_id": 231783781, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Luci Pangrazio", "Julian Sefton-Green" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "234127716", "title": "A STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AMONG COLLEGE FACULTIES IN INDIA", "abstract": "Digital citizenship is described as the conscientious use of technology by some who interacts with society at various levels such as social, financial, political, and governmental etc. by using computers, internet, and the digital devices. The Digital citizens practice the safe, respectful, and lawful use of technology by understanding the rights and responsibilities when he/she is online. This research helps the faculties to understand what they should be aware of while using digital technologies. This paper is mainly addressing three important factors that affect digital citizenship among colleges and universities faculties, i.e. 1. Internet knowledge, 2 Attitudes towards internet and 3. Computer self efficacy. The qualitative research approach was adopted, where the objects are one hundred and fifteen universities and colleges professors from the south Indian region. The result of this research reveals that faculties' digital citizenship is roughly at a good level. Apart from this, computer literacy and computer experience may not be affecting the digital citizenship among universities and college faculties. Faculties who have studied and got training in computer related courses and having valid credential like and prefer to engage in self education and online events. The Internet attitude and self efficacy of computers have driven a higher degree of global citizenship. Finally, for the faculty of universities/colleges, different suggestions were made to develop digital citizenship.", "corpus_id": 234127716, "venue": "", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Syed Sadullah Hussainy", "Syed Jamalullah R" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "151543793", "title": "A Concept Analysis of Digital Citizenship for Democratic Citizenship Education in the Internet Age", "abstract": "Abstract Despite the importance of promoting socially responsible citizenship in the Internet age, there is a paucity of research on how digital citizenship or digital citizens might be defined and/or investigated. This study found 4 major categories that construct digital citizenship: Ethics, Media and Information Literacy, Participation/Engagement, and Critical Resistance. Based on these comprehensive and interconnected categories of digital citizenship, the author argues that digital citizenship needs to be understood as a multidimensional and complex concept in connection with an interrelated but non linear relationship with offline (place based) civic lives.", "corpus_id": 151543793, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Moonsun Choi" ], "n_citations": 73, "n_key_citations": 12, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "67868615", "title": "Digital Citizenship for All: Empowering Young Learners With Disabilities to Become Digitally Literate", "abstract": "Digitalliteracyisimportant,particularlyforyoungpeopleastheyprepareforcollegeandacareerin modernsociety.Fromcomputer basedtestsusedtomeasurestudentprogressoncollegeapplications and online job applications, the transition to college and career requires the use of technology. Individualsmust havedigital literacy skills to fullyparticipate and contributeon the job and at school.Thisincludespeoplewithdisabilities.Theseyoungadultshaveaspirationsforjobsandhigher educationjustlikeotherstheirageandthereforedeservetobetakenseriously.Thisarticleisareview ofliteraturethatexploreswhatitmeanstobedigitallyliterate,thedigitalliteracyexperiencefor youngadultswithdisabilities,andtheimplicationsforeducationandtheworkplace.Italsoproposes instructionalsolutionstoaidinthepreparationofyoungadultsforcollegeandcareer. KEYWoRDS Accessibility, Digital Literacy, Instructional Design, Learners with Exceptionalities International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence Volume 9 Issue 1 January March 2018", "corpus_id": 67868615, "venue": "Int. J. Digit. Lit. Digit. Competence", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Quincy Conley", "Jessica Scheufler", "Gina Persichini", "Patrick R Lowenthal", "Michael Humphrey" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "206596237", "title": "Neural Aggregation Network for Video Face Recognition", "abstract": "This paper presents a Neural Aggregation Network (NAN) for video face recognition. The network takes a face video or face image set of a person with a variable number of face images as its input, and produces a compact, fixed dimension feature representation for recognition. The whole network is composed of two modules. The feature embedding module is a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which maps each face image to a feature vector. The aggregation module consists of two attention blocks which adaptively aggregate the feature vectors to form a single feature inside the convex hull spanned by them. Due to the attention mechanism, the aggregation is invariant to the image order. Our NAN is trained with a standard classification or verification loss without any extra supervision signal, and we found that it automatically learns to advocate high quality face images while repelling low quality ones such as blurred, occluded and improperly exposed faces. The experiments on IJB A, YouTube Face, Celebrity 1000 video face recognition benchmarks show that it consistently outperforms naive aggregation methods and achieves the state of the art accuracy.", "corpus_id": 206596237, "venue": "2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jiaolong Yang", "Peiran Ren", "Dongqing Zhang", "Dong Chen", "Fang Wen", "Hongdong Li", "Gang Hua" ], "n_citations": 282, "n_key_citations": 54, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "24139", "title": "An End to End Trainable Neural Network for Image Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition", "abstract": "Image based sequence recognition has been a long standing research topic in computer vision. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text recognition, which is among the most important and challenging tasks in image based sequence recognition. A novel neural network architecture, which integrates feature extraction, sequence modeling and transcription into a unified framework, is proposed. Compared with previous systems for scene text recognition, the proposed architecture possesses four distinctive properties: (1) It is end to end trainable, in contrast to most of the existing algorithms whose components are separately trained and tuned. (2) It naturally handles sequences in arbitrary lengths, involving no character segmentation or horizontal scale normalization. (3) It is not confined to any predefined lexicon and achieves remarkable performances in both lexicon free and lexicon based scene text recognition tasks. (4) It generates an effective yet much smaller model, which is more practical for real world application scenarios. The experiments on standard benchmarks, including the IIIT 5K, Street View Text and ICDAR datasets, demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm over the prior arts. Moreover, the proposed algorithm performs well in the task of image based music score recognition, which evidently verifies the generality of it.", "corpus_id": 24139, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Baoguang Shi", "Xiang Bai", "Cong Yao" ], "n_citations": 1159, "n_key_citations": 213, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "8528277", "title": "A simple neural network module for relational reasoning", "abstract": "Relational reasoning is a central component of generally intelligent behavior, but has proven difficult for neural networks to learn. In this paper we describe how to use Relation Networks (RNs) as a simple plug and play module to solve problems that fundamentally hinge on relational reasoning. We tested RN augmented networks on three tasks: visual question answering using a challenging dataset called CLEVR, on which we achieve state of the art, super human performance; text based question answering using the bAbI suite of tasks; and complex reasoning about dynamic physical systems. Then, using a curated dataset called Sort of CLEVR we show that powerful convolutional networks do not have a general capacity to solve relational questions, but can gain this capacity when augmented with RNs. Our work shows how a deep learning architecture equipped with an RN module can implicitly discover and learn to reason about entities and their relations.", "corpus_id": 8528277, "venue": "NIPS", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Adam Santoro", "David Raposo", "David G T Barrett", "Mateusz Malinowski", "Razvan Pascanu", "Peter W Battaglia", "Timothy P Lillicrap" ], "n_citations": 1057, "n_key_citations": 157, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "18141673", "title": "Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging", "abstract": "In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based algorithm for solving ill posed inverse problems. Regularized iterative algorithms have emerged as the standard approach to ill posed inverse problems in the past few decades. These methods produce excellent results, but can be challenging to deploy in practice due to factors including the high computational cost of the forward and adjoint operators and the difficulty of hyperparameter selection. The starting point of this paper is the observation that unrolled iterative methods have the form of a CNN (filtering followed by pointwise non linearity) when the normal operator <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$H^}H$ /tex math>/inline formula> where <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$H^ /tex math>/inline formula> is the adjoint of the forward imaging operator, <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$H$ /tex math>/inline formula> of the forward model is a convolution. Based on this observation, we propose using direct inversion followed by a CNN to solve normal convolutional inverse problems. The direct inversion encapsulates the physical model of the system, but leads to artifacts when the problem is ill posed; the CNN combines multiresolution decomposition and residual learning in order to learn to remove these artifacts while preserving image structure. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed network in sparse view reconstruction (down to 50 views) on parallel beam X ray computed tomography in synthetic phantoms as well as in real experimental sinograms. The proposed network outperforms total variation regularized iterative reconstruction for the more realistic phantoms and requires less than a second to reconstruct a <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$512\\times 512$ /tex math>/inline formula> image on the GPU.", "corpus_id": 18141673, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Kyong Hwan Jin", "Michael T McCann", "Emmanuel Froustey", "Michael A Unser" ], "n_citations": 1056, "n_key_citations": 85, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "1740355", "title": "Designing Neural Network Architectures using Reinforcement Learning", "abstract": "At present, designing convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures requires both human expertise and labor. New architectures are handcrafted by careful experimentation or modified from a handful of existing networks. We introduce MetaQNN, a meta modeling algorithm based on reinforcement learning to automatically generate high performing CNN architectures for a given learning task. The learning agent is trained to sequentially choose CNN layers using $Q$ learning with an \\epsilon$ greedy exploration strategy and experience replay. The agent explores a large but finite space of possible architectures and iteratively discovers designs with improved performance on the learning task. On image classification benchmarks, the agent designed networks (consisting of only standard convolution, pooling, and fully connected layers) beat existing networks designed with the same layer types and are competitive against the state of the art methods that use more complex layer types. We also outperform existing meta modeling approaches for network design on image classification tasks.", "corpus_id": 1740355, "venue": "ICLR", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Bowen Baker", "Otkrist Gupta", "Nikhil Naik", "Ramesh Raskar" ], "n_citations": 908, "n_key_citations": 99, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "7200347", "title": "Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network", "abstract": "A very simple way to improve the performance of almost any machine learning algorithm is to train many different models on the same data and then to average their predictions. Unfortunately, making predictions using a whole ensemble of models is cumbersome and may be too computationally expensive to allow deployment to a large number of users, especially if the individual models are large neural nets. Caruana and his collaborators have shown that it is possible to compress the knowledge in an ensemble into a single model which is much easier to deploy and we develop this approach further using a different compression technique. We achieve some surprising results on MNIST and we show that we can significantly improve the acoustic model of a heavily used commercial system by distilling the knowledge in an ensemble of models into a single model. We also introduce a new type of ensemble composed of one or more full models and many specialist models which learn to distinguish fine grained classes that the full models confuse. Unlike a mixture of experts, these specialist models can be trained rapidly and in parallel.", "corpus_id": 7200347, "venue": "ArXiv", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Geoffrey E Hinton", "Oriol Vinyals", "Jeffrey Dean" ], "n_citations": 6883, "n_key_citations": 981, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8671030", "title": "Deep Multi scale Convolutional Neural Network for Dynamic Scene Deblurring", "abstract": "Non uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion blurs, conventional energy optimization based methods rely on simple assumptions such that blur kernel is partially uniform or locally linear. Moreover, recent machine learning based methods also depend on synthetic blur datasets generated under these assumptions. This makes conventional deblurring methods fail to remove blurs where blur kernel is difficult to approximate or parameterize (e.g. object motion boundaries) In this work, we propose a multi scale convolutional neural network that restores sharp images in an end to end manner where blur is caused by various sources. Together, we present multi scale loss function that mimics conventional coarse to fine approaches. Furthermore, we propose a new large scale dataset that provides pairs of realistic blurry image and the corresponding ground truth sharp image that are obtained by a high speed camera. With the proposed model trained on this dataset, we demonstrate empirically that our method achieves the state of the art performance in dynamic scene deblurring not only qualitatively, but also quantitatively.", "corpus_id": 8671030, "venue": "2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Seungjun Nah", "Tae Hyun Kim", "Kyoung Mu Lee" ], "n_citations": 742, "n_key_citations": 199, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "970388", "title": "DeepFM: A Factorization Machine based Neural Network for CTR Prediction", "abstract": "Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods seem to have a strong bias towards low or high order interactions, or require expertise feature engineering. In this paper, we show that it is possible to derive an end to end learning model that emphasizes both low and high order feature interactions. The proposed model, DeepFM, combines the power of factorization machines for recommendation and deep learning for feature learning in a new neural network architecture. Compared to the latest Wide Deep model from Google, DeepFM has a shared input to its \"wide\" and \"deep\" parts, with no need of feature engineering besides raw features. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of DeepFM over the existing models for CTR prediction, on both benchmark data and commercial data.", "corpus_id": 970388, "venue": "IJCAI", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Huifeng Guo", "Ruiming Tang", "Yunming Ye", "Zhenguo Li", "Xiuqiang He" ], "n_citations": 882, "n_key_citations": 174, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "10530917", "title": "FINN: A Framework for Fast, Scalable Binarized Neural Network Inference", "abstract": "Research has shown that convolutional neural networks contain significant redundancy, and high classification accuracy can be obtained even when weights and activations are reduced from floating point to binary values. In this paper, we present FINN, a framework for building fast and flexible FPGA accelerators using a flexible heterogeneous streaming architecture. By utilizing a novel set of optimizations that enable efficient mapping of binarized neural networks to hardware, we implement fully connected, convolutional and pooling layers, with per layer compute resources being tailored to user provided throughput requirements. On a ZC706 embedded FPGA platform drawing less than 25 W total system power, we demonstrate up to 12.3 million image classifications per second with 0.31 ms latency on the MNIST dataset with 95.8% accuracy, and 21906 image classifications per second with 283 ms latency on the CIFAR 10 and SVHN datasets with respectively 80.1% and 94.9% accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, ours are the fastest classification rates reported to date on these benchmarks.", "corpus_id": 10530917, "venue": "FPGA", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Yaman Umuroglu", "Nicholas J Fraser", "Giulio Gambardella", "Michaela Blott", "Philip Heng Wai Leong", "Magnus Jahre", "Kees A Vissers" ], "n_citations": 501, "n_key_citations": 85, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "10685040", "title": "Look Closer to See Better: Recurrent Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Fine Grained Image Recognition", "abstract": "Recognizing fine grained categories (e.g. bird species) is difficult due to the challenges of discriminative region localization and fine grained feature learning. Existing approaches predominantly solve these challenges independently, while neglecting the fact that region detection and fine grained feature learning are mutually correlated and thus can reinforce each other. In this paper, we propose a novel recurrent attention convolutional neural network (RA CNN) which recursively learns discriminative region attention and region based feature representation at multiple scales in a mutual reinforced way. The learning at each scale consists of a classification sub network and an attention proposal sub network (APN) The APN starts from full images, and iteratively generates region attention from coarse to fine by taking previous prediction as a reference, while the finer scale network takes as input an amplified attended region from previous scale in a recurrent way. The proposed RA CNN is optimized by an intra scale classification loss and an inter scale ranking loss, to mutually learn accurate region attention and fine grained representation. RA CNN does not need bounding box/part annotations and can be trained end to end. We conduct comprehensive experiments and show that RA CNN achieves the best performance in three fine grained tasks, with relative accuracy gains of 3.3% 3.7% 3.8% on CUB Birds, Stanford Dogs and Stanford Cars, respectively.", "corpus_id": 10685040, "venue": "2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Jianlong Fu", "Heliang Zheng", "Tao Mei" ], "n_citations": 647, "n_key_citations": 84, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "215804719", "title": "Erhoht die Therapie mit Methylphenidat das Risiko fur Psychosen?", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 215804719, "venue": "Padiatrie", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kirsten Stollhoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "213885306", "title": "Retrait prventif de lots de Methylphenidat Mepha LA 10 mg Depocaps", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 213885306, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "224782929", "title": "Methylphenidat erhoht die Mortalitatsrate nicht", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 224782929, "venue": "Padiatrie", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kirsten Stollhoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "230528383", "title": "Kann Methylphenidat bei Patientinnen und Patienten mit einer bipolaren affektiven Storung und ADHD eine Manie auslosen?", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 230528383, "venue": "Praxis", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Beate Friedrich", "Rene Bridler" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213238629", "title": "Vorsorglicher Chargenrckruf von Methylphenidat Mepha LA 10 mg Depocaps", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 213238629, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "189931178", "title": "Methylphenidat versus Safran bei ADHS", "abstract": "In einer Pilotstudie testete eine Forschergruppe aus Teheran safranhaltige Kapseln an Kindern mit Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit /Hyperaktivitatsstorung und verglich die Wirkung mit der von Methylphenidat.", "corpus_id": 189931178, "venue": "Padiatrie", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kirsten Stollhoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "208958118", "title": "ADHS: Psychosen durch Methylphenidat oder Amphetamine?", "abstract": "Laut einer hochrangig publizierten Studie kann die Therapie mit Stimulanzien bei ADHS Patienten Psychosen triggern. Das absolute Risiko ist relativ gering, unter Amphetaminen aber doppelt so hoch wie unter Methylphenidat.", "corpus_id": 208958118, "venue": "Padiatrie", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kirsten Stollhoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199034567", "title": "Die Wirkung von Ghrelin, Koffein, Methylphenidat und Modafinil als kognitive Enhancer", "abstract": "Die Suche nach sog. kognitiven Enhancern, also Substanzen, welche kognitive Domanen positiv beeinflussen, ist angesichts unserer uberalternden Gesellschaft und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen hinsichtlich Erkrankungen, die einen kognitiven Abbau bedingen, aktueller denn je und daher ein intensiv beforschtes Feld auf dem Gebiet der Kognitionsforschung. Mittlerweile stehen zahlreiche Substanzen im Fokus der Forschung, darunter bereits verfugbare Medikamente ebenso wie experimentelle Substanzen, die sich moglicherweise fur diesen Zweck eignen. In dieser Arbeit wurden Koffein, Methylphenidat, Modafinil und Ghrelin hinsichtlich ihrer Wirkungen auf verschiedene kognitive Domanen gesunder Probanden (Logik, Aufmerksamkeit, Arbeitsgedachtnis, Informationsverarbeitung, Kreativitat und Lernen bzw. Gedachtnisbildung) untersucht. Zu diesem Zweck wurden zwei Studien an der Klinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Charite Berlin (Stimulanzienstudie) und dem Max Planck Institut fur Psychiatrie Munchen (GHREEN Studie) durchgefuhrt, wobei meine personliche Leistung zum einen in der Betreuung und Durchfuhrung sowie der Auswertung der kognitiven Ergebnisse der GHREEN Studie bestand, zum anderen in der anschliesenden Gegenuberstellung der vier Testsubstanzen untereinander hinsichtlich Kognition. Beide Studien basierten auf einem randomisierten, doppelt verblindeten, intraindividuellen Studiendesign. Wahrend im Rahmen der Berliner Stimulanzienstudie in einem dreiarmigen Studiendesign mit je 16 Probanden pro Testarm Koffein, Methylphenidat und Modafinil untersucht wurden, beschaftigte sich die GHREEN Studie in Munchen mit einer Fallzahl von 21 Probanden isoliert mit dem Einfluss von Ghrelin auf Kognition. Koffein ist eine im Alltag ubiquitar anzutreffende Substanz, welche aufgrund ihrer Wirkung als Adenosin Antagonist im ZNS eine allgemein wachsamkeitsfordernde Wirkung entfaltet. Methylphenidat wirkt als amphetamin verwandte Substanz im ZNS vorrangig durch eine indirekte Konzentrationserhohung von Dopamin und Noradrenalinspiegeln und wird therapeutisch bei ADHS Patienten zur Verbesserung der Konzentrationsfahigkeit und bei Narkolepsie zur Behandlung von Schlafanfallen wahrend des Tages eingesetzt (Fachinformation Ritalin (Novartis) 2018) Modafinil entfaltet im ZNS komplexe Wechselwirkungen mit verschiedenen Neurotransmittersystemen, einerseits katecholaminassoziiert vergleichbar mit Methylphenidat, andererseits auch hinsichtlich Serotonin, Glutamat und Histamin. Modafinil wird zur Behandlung der exzessiven Schlafrigkeit bei Narkolepsie eingesetzt, da die Substanz die Wachheit bei verschiedenen Spezies einschlieslich des Menschen erhoht (Fachinformation Vigil (TEVA) 2015) Ghrelin entfaltet als orexigenes Neuropeptid, welches masgeblich an der Hunger und Stoffwechselregulation des menschlichen Organismus beteiligt ist, auch in mehreren ZNS Regionen wie Hippocampus und Amygdala seine Wirkung, wobei die exakten Signalwege diesbezuglich noch nicht im Detail bekannt sind. Ghrelin stellte damit unter den vier getesteten Substanzen den am starksten experimentell gepragten Ansatz dar. Fur alle vier Testsubstanzen konnten in fruheren Studien bereits Effekte auf dem Gebiet Kognition nachgewiesen werden, allerdings gelangten diese zu teils kontraren und inkonsistenten Ergebnissen, welche bisher keine eindeutigen Aussagen uber das kognitive Wirkprofil der Testsubstanzen, v.a. hinsichtlich gesunder Probanden, erlaubten: Fur Koffein lag bisher am meisten Evidenz fur einen Effekt in den Bereichen Aufmerksamkeit und Reaktionszeit vor, wahrend Methylphenidat in fruheren Studien die schlussigsten Ergebnisse im Bereich Arbeitsgedachntis und Informationsverarbeitung zeigte. Fur Modafinil konnte in mehreren Studien ein positiver Effekt hinsichtlich komplexer kognitiver Aufgabenstellungen wie z.B. Planungsfahigkeit und Lernvorgange nachgewiesen werden. Ghrelin zeigte im Tiermodell positive Wirkungen im Bereich Gedachtnisformation, wahrend fur den Menschen hinsichtlich Ghrelin und Kognition bis dato kaum Studienergebnisse vorlagen. Auf Grundlage dieses Forschungsstands wurden im Rahmen der beiden Studien in Berlin und Munchen die Auswirkungen der einzelnen Testsubstanzen auf verschiedene kognitive Bereiche anhand einer gemeinsamen kognitiven Testbatterie verglichen. Dem intraindividuellen Studiendesign folgend durchliefen samtliche Probanden zwei identisch aufgebaute Testblocke, davon in randomisierter Zuordnung einmal unter Einfluss eines Placebos und einmal unter Einfluss der jeweiligen Testsubstanz. In die beiden Studien wurden ausschlieslich gesunde, mannliche Probanden im Alter von 20 bis 35 Jahren eingeschlossen. Die Verabreichung der jeweiligen Testsubstanz erfolgte im Falle der Stimulanzienstudie als einmalige, oral applizierte Dosis von 20 mg unretardiert wirkendem Methylphenidat, 200 mg Modafinil bzw. 200 mg Koffein. Im Rahmen der GHREEN Studien hingegen erfolgte die Verabreichung der Testsubstanz aufgrund der kurzen Halbwertszeit von Ghrelin aufgeteilt auf zwei Dosen 100 mg Acyl Ghrelin gelost in 5 ml Aqua ad injectabilia, welche im Abstand von ca. 30 Minuten jeweils in Form eines intravenos applizierten Semibolus uber 2 3 Minuten verabreicht wurden, sodass jeder Proband am Tag der Ghrelin Verumbedingung 200 mg Acyl Ghrelin verabreicht bekam. Die kognitive Testung umfasste zum einen eine Lern bzw. Gedachtnisaufgabe mit nur visuellen (GHREEN) bzw. visuellen und auditiven (Stimulanzienstudie) Lerninhalten, welche zu einem spateren Zeitpunkt im Rahmen eines sog. Recalls erneut abgefragt wurden. Zum anderen eine gemeinsame kognitive Testbatterie bestehend aus funf neuropsychologischen Tests (Bochumer Matrizentest, Psychomotorischer Vigilanztest, Zahlen Verbindungs Test, Reverse Digit Span Test, Alternative uses Test) welche die Wirkung auf verschiedene kognitive Domanen abbilden sollten. Die Ergebnisse der Stimulanzienstudie zeigten fur Koffein einen signifikanten Effekt im Bereich Aufmerksamkeit und Reaktionszeit sowie beim Lernen auditiver Lerninhalte im sog. direkten Free Recall, also einer unmittelbaren Abfrage der Lerninhalte direkt im Anschluss an die eigentliche Lernaufgabe, bei der die Probanden ohne Vorgaben alle Begriffe nennen sollten, welche sie noch erinnern konnten. Methylphenidat fuhrte einerseits zu einem positiven Effekt im Bereich Kreativitat, andererseits hinsichtlich dem Lernen visueller und auditiver Inhalte sowohl im direkten Free Recall als auch im Rahmen des zeitversetzten Free Recalls 24 Stunden spater. Unter Modafinileinfluss kam es zu einem isolierten Effekt auf die Prazision des Lernens im Rahmen des unmittelbaren Free Recalls auditiver Lerninhalte. Im Rahmen der GHREEN Studie zeigten sich unter Ghrelineinfluss keinerlei Effekte hinsichtlich der getestenen kognitiven Domanen. Auf Basis dieser Ergebnisse liesen sich fur Koffein, Methylphenidat und Modafinil selektive Wirkungen, primar in den Bereichen Lernen, Aufmerksamkeit und Kreativitat, nachweisen. Dies scheint von besonderem Interesse, da die vier Testsubstanzen im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erstmals direkt hinsichtlich ihrer Wirkung auf kognitive Domanen gegenubergestellt wurden. Bezuglich Ghrelin war GHREEN die erste systematische Studie, welche den Ansatz verfolgte, die aus tierexperimentellen Modellen gewonnenen Erkenntnisse im Bereich Kognition, auf menschliche Probanden zu ubertragen, sodass auch das Fehlen signifikanter Ergebnisse unter Ghrelineinfluss eine wichtige Erkenntnis darstellt. Die Frage nach dem kognitiven Wirkprofil der vier Testsubstanzen und deren Qualitaten als Kognitive Enhancer muss differenziert beantwortet werden. In Zusammenschau mit dem bisherigen Forschungsstand deuten die erhobenen Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass Koffein, Methylphenidat, Modafinil und Ghrelin wohl keine globalen Kognitiven Enhancer im Sinne von Substanzen, welche allgemein das kognitive Leistungsniveau steigern, darstellen, sondern passend zu den spezifischen Effekten der beiden Studien selektiv auf einzelne kognitive Teildomanen wirken. Mogliche Limitierungen der Dissertation ergeben sich primar aus der erschwerten Handhabung des Signifikanzniveaus bei multipler Testung sowie der lediglich einmaligen Verabreichung der Testsubstanzen, welche dem komplexen Studiendesign geschuldet sind.", "corpus_id": 199034567, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Matthias Emanuel Tonon" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "201168079", "title": "Einfluss von Methylphenidat auf das Belohnungslernen bei Kindern mit einer Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit /Hyperaktivitatsstorung", "abstract": "Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von Methylphenidat auf das Lernen aus Belohnung bei Kindern mit Aufmerksamkeits Defizit Hyperaktivitats Storung. ADHS geht mit einer Beeintrachtigung der dopaminergen Funktionen im Gehirn einher. Dies spiegelt sich unter anderem in einem verschlechterten Lernen aus Belohnung wieder. Der Wirkstoff Methylphenidat erhoht die Verfugbarkeit von Dopamin und fuhrt somit zu einer Besserung der Symptome bei ADHS. Die Hypothese, dass Methylphenidat ebenfalls das Lernen aus Belohnung verbessert, wurde in dieser Studie untersucht. Dazu wurden in einer Doppel Blind Studie 41 mannlichen Patienten mit der Diagnose ADHS mit gesunden Kontrollprobanden bezuglich ihres Lernverhaltens aus Belohnung verglichen. Die Belohnungsverarbeitung wurde hierbei anhand eines probabilistischen Lerntests durch ein Computerspiel erfasst. Die Ergebnisse zeigten keine signifikanten Verbesserungen der Lernraten. Die Probanden wiesen unter Methylphenidat jedoch signifikant langsamere Reaktionszeiten auf.", "corpus_id": 201168079, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Lea Sophie Niemann" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "187850298", "title": "Kardiologische Untersuchung bei Methylphenidat Therapie", "abstract": "Vor allem Eltern, aber auch einige Padiater furchten kardiologische Langzeitnebenwirkungen bei mit Methylphenidat therapierten Kindern. Turkische Wissenschaftler gingen dieser Vermutung nach.", "corpus_id": 187850298, "venue": "Padiatrie", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kirsten Stollhoff" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "52982188", "title": "The Nobel Foundation needs to check its privilege", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 52982188, "venue": "The Lancet", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "The Lancet" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "186278265", "title": "Swedish court blocks new home for Nobel Foundation", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 186278265, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Gretchen Vogel" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "195664874", "title": "The Nobel Foundation needs to check its privilege.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 195664874, "venue": "Lancet", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "208217855", "title": "Complementology's foundation: The 100 year anniversary of the Nobel Prize to Jules Bordet", "abstract": "ABSTRACT The discovery of the complement system was associated with the creation of medical serodiagnosis in the early 20th century. Its biotechnological applications, usable even a century after its development by Jules Bordet, preceded for decades the proof of its biochemical rather than biophysical nature. Complement science has begun to emerge, thanks to the labs of Michael Heidelberger and his student Manfred Martin Mayer. Complementology had known difficult moments like the suicide of Louis Pillemer by swallowing the reagents of his laboratory following the criticisms of his discovery by Robert A. Nelson, Jr. in March 1957, at the Walter Reed Army Institute. This alternative complement pathway continues to revolutionize medicine by its implications as the principal component of immunosurveillance and as an amplification loop for plasma proteolytic cascades. Moreover, the drug designed in pathologies related to this pathway, eculizumab, was the most expensive drug in the world at the beginning of its marketing. Complementology promises great hopes in inflammatory and degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, transplantation, and vector nanotechnology and as a diagnostic tool primarily in transplantation and inflammatory imaging. The moral and historical responsibility requires to make known this legacy to the new generation of doctors and scientists and also the technicians of the clinical laboratory of complementology throughout the world.", "corpus_id": 208217855, "venue": "Journal of immunoassay immunochemistry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kheir Eddine Kerboua", "Kamal Djenouhat" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "193061882", "title": "Post screening Q&A with Sergio Machado Letria, Director of the Saramago Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) moderated by Dr Luis Gomes, on 'The Stone Raft' 'A Jangada de Pedra' based on the homonymous novel by the Portuguese Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago", "abstract": "Post screening Q&A with Sergio Machado Letria, Director of the Saramago Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) moderated by Dr Luis Gomes, following the screening of the The Stone Raft (Jangada de Pedra) based on the homonymous novel by the Portuguese Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago. Opening film of LusoFilm, Portuguese Film Festival 2018, dedicated to Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago's novel 'The Stone Raft' 'A Jangada de Pedra' adapted to cinema. The theme of the three day festival was 'The Stone Raft: abandonment and isolation in the face of Brexit' Hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) and curated by Winnie Brook Young (final year student of Portuguese Studies at the University of Glasgow)", "corpus_id": 193061882, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Luis Manuel dos Santos Gomes", "Sergio Machado Letria" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "125290986", "title": "Nobel Foundation eyes up donations", "abstract": "To ensure the longevity of its world famous prizes, the Nobel Foundation is considering asking for donations from rich benefactors.", "corpus_id": 125290986, "venue": "", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Edwin Cartlidge" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "126338014", "title": "Nobel Foundation stays firm on symposium cancellation", "abstract": "The Nobel Foundation is refusing to back down over its decision to cancel a Nobel Symposium on water in biology and medicine that was due to take place in August in Stockholm.", "corpus_id": 126338014, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Michael Banks" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "517500", "title": "Solve the Nobel Prize dilemma. Now that teams, not individuals, drive high impact science, the Nobel Foundation should change how it awards its prize.", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 517500, "venue": "Scientific American", "year": 2012, "author_names": [], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "123698556", "title": "Nobel Foundation: why we said no to reform", "abstract": "A panel convened by New Scientist argued for a new set of Nobel prizes. The Nobel Foundation thought about it then said no. Here's why", "corpus_id": 123698556, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Michael Sohlman" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "156009957", "title": "Marketing Suggestions for Societe Nobel Foundation", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 156009957, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Elina Makkonen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "222110577", "title": "Wireless battery free wearable sweat sensor powered by human motion", "abstract": "Wireless battery free wearable sensor powered by human motion is able to analyze sweat biomarkers for personalized health care. Wireless wearable sweat biosensors have gained huge traction due to their potential for noninvasive health monitoring. As high energy consumption is a crucial challenge in this field, efficient energy harvesting from human motion represents an attractive approach to sustainably power future wearables. Despite intensive research activities, most wearable energy harvesters suffer from complex fabrication procedures, poor robustness, and low power density, making them unsuitable for continuous biosensing. Here, we propose a highly robust, mass producible, and battery free wearable platform that efficiently extracts power from body motion through a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) based freestanding triboelectric nanogenerator (FTENG) The judiciously engineered FTENG displays a high power output of ~416 mW m 2. Through seamless system integration and efficient power management, we demonstrate a battery free triboelectrically driven system that is able to power multiplexed sweat biosensors and wirelessly transmit data to the user interfaces through Bluetooth during on body human trials.", "corpus_id": 222110577, "venue": "Science Advances", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Yu Song", "Jihong Min", "You Yu", "Hao-Bin Wang", "Yiran Yang", "Haixia Alice Zhang", "Wei Gao" ], "n_citations": 57, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221625878", "title": "Wearable Circuits Sintered at Room Temperature Directly on The Skin Surface for Health Monitoring.", "abstract": "A soft body area sensor network presents a promising direction in wearable devices to integrate on body sensors for physiological signal monitoring and flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs) for signal conditioning/readout and wireless transmission. However, its realization currently relies on various sophisticated fabrication approaches such as lithography or direct printing on a carrier substrate before attaching to the body. Here we report a universal fabrication scheme to enable printing and room temperature sintering of metal nanoparticle on paper/fabric for FPCBs and directly on the human skin for on body sensors with a novel coating layer. Consisting of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) paste and nanoparticle additives in the water, the novel coating layer reduces the sintering temperature. Together with the significantly decreased surface roughness, it allows for the integration of a submicron thick conductive pattern with enhanced electromechanical performance. Various on body sensors integrated with an FPCB to detect health conditions illustrate a system level example.", "corpus_id": 221625878, "venue": "ACS applied materials interfaces", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Linglan Zhang", "Hongjun Ji", "Houbing Huang", "Ning Yi", "Xiaoming Shi", "Senpei Xie", "Yaoyin Li", "Ziheng Ye", "Pengdong Feng", "Tiesong Lin", "Xinming Liu", "Xue-song Leng", "Mingyu Li", "Jiaheng Zhang", "Xing Ma", "Peng He", "Wei-Wei Zhao", "Huanyu Cheng" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "198982230", "title": "Water Splitting Assisted Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Glucose with Metal Organic Framework for Wearable Nonenzymatic Perspiration Sensing.", "abstract": "In this work, a nonenzymatic electrochemical sensor based on electrochemical water splitting assisted electrocatalysis is developed for wearable perspiration glucose analysis. Pd nanoparticles (Pd NPs) encapsulated in Co based zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF 67) is prepared and used as the electrocatalyst. In comparison to previously reported nonenzymatic glucose sensors which detect glucose in alkaline buffers, the proposed sensor analyses glucose under physiological pH with no additional reagents, which enables wearable, maintenance free perspiration glucose monitoring for a long time. The non enzymatic sensor and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) is integrated into a sweatband for real time analysis of perspiration glucose. The test results of perspiration glucose using our sensor are correlated to those of blood glucose tests by a commercial glucose meter. The sensitivity of the sensor remains stable within 2 months when it is stored unpacked at ambient conditions. Therefore, we believe it is promising for wearable nonenzymatic glucose monitoring for noninvasive clinical analysis and sport applications.", "corpus_id": 198982230, "venue": "Analytical chemistry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Xiaofei Zhu", "Shuai Yuan", "Yinhui Ju", "Jun Yang", "Chao Zhao", "Hong Liu" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "116257081", "title": "Wearable thermoelectric generator to harvest body heat for powering a miniaturized accelerometer", "abstract": "Abstract Wearable thermoelectric generators (TEGs) enable the conversion of human body heat into microwatts to milliwatt electricity, which can be utilized to power miniaturized electronic devices for motion detection and healthcare monitoring. This paper presents a novel wearable TEG with 52 pairs of cubic shaped thermoelectric legs to harvest human body heat. The thermoelectric legs are made of P type and N type Bi2Te3 based powder materials, and are connected electrically in series through soldering. The flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) with special holes is designed and used as substrate to enhance the flexibility of the TEG for wearable applications. The performances of the TEG, including the bulk thermoelectric legs, are characterized. The results show that the TEG can generate an open circuit voltage of 37.2 mV at DT 50 K, and the internal resistance of the TEG is quite low at a value of 1.8 O. Then the TEG was worn on a human wrist to harvest body heat and power a 3 axis miniaturized accelerometer for detection of body motion at DT 18 K. The results demonstrate that the developed wearable TEG features high output performance and could be utilized for powering electronics and/or sensors by harvesting human body heat.", "corpus_id": 116257081, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Yancheng Wang", "Shi Yaoguang", "Deqing Mei", "Zichen Chen" ], "n_citations": 90, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "113407887", "title": "Position: Smart KT Tape A Bendable Wearable System for Muscle Fatigue Sensing", "abstract": "We see a major hurdle, as well as a window of opportunity, in wearable system design making the system soft and bendable for skin surface sensing. In this position statement, we present our design of an FPCB (flexible printed circuit board) based wearable system for muscle fatigue sensing, referred to as the Smart KT Tape.", "corpus_id": 113407887, "venue": "EWSN", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Jun-An Chen", "Cynthia Yun-Hsin Liu", "Polly Huang" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "38458097", "title": "Flexible heartbeat sensor for wearable device.", "abstract": "We demonstrate a flexible strain gauge sensor and its use in a wearable application for heart rate detection. This polymer based strain gauge sensor was fabricated using a double sided fabrication method with polymer and metal, i.e. polyimide and nickel chrome. The fabrication process for this strain gauge sensor is compatible with the conventional flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) processes facilitating its commercialization. The fabricated sensor showed a linear relation for an applied normal force of more than 930 kPa, with a minimum detectable force of 6.25Pa. This sensor can also linearly detect a bending radius from 5mm to 100mm. It is a thin, flexible, compact, and inexpensive (for mass production) heart rate detection sensor that is highly sensitive compared to the established optical photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors. It can detect not only the timing of heart pulsation, but also the amplitude or shape of the pulse signal. The proposed strain gauge sensor can be applicable to various applications for smart devices requiring heartbeat detection.", "corpus_id": 38458097, "venue": "Biosensors bioelectronics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Yeon H Kwak", "Wonhyo Kim", "Kwangbum Park", "Kunnyun Kim", "Sungkyu Seo" ], "n_citations": 68, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "4499332", "title": "Flexible Hybrid Electronics: Direct Interfacing of Soft and Hard Electronics for Wearable Health Monitoring", "abstract": "The interfacing of soft and hard electronics is a key challenge for flexible hybrid electronics. Currently, a multisubstrate approach is employed, where soft and hard devices are fabricated or assembled on separate substrates, and bonded or interfaced using connectors; this hinders the flexibility of the device and is prone to interconnect issues. Here, a single substrate interfacing approach is reported, where soft devices, i.e. sensors, are directly printed on Kapton polyimide substrates that are widely used for fabricating flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs) Utilizing a process flow compatible with the FPCB assembly process, a wearable sensor patch is fabricated composed of inkjet printed gold electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes and a stencil printed nickel oxide thermistor. The ECG electrodes provide 1 mVp p ECG signal at 4.7 cm electrode spacing and the thermistor is highly sensitive at normal body temperatures, and demonstrates temperature coefficient, a 5.84% K 1 and material constant, b 4330 K. This sensor platform can be extended to a more sophisticated multisensor platform where sensors fabricated using solution processable functional inks can be interfaced to hard electronics for health and performance monitoring, as well as internet of things applications.", "corpus_id": 4499332, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Yasser Khan", "Mohit Garg", "Qiong Gui", "Mark J Schadt", "Abhinav M Gaikwad", "Donggeon Han", "Natasha Yamamoto", "Paul Joseph Hart", "Robert Welte", "William E Wilson", "Steve Czarnecki", "Mark D Poliks", "Zhanpeng Jin", "Kanad Ghose", "Frank D Egitto", "James N Turner", "Ana Claudia Arias" ], "n_citations": 148, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "117691848", "title": "Systematic study and experiment of a flexible pressure and tactile sensing array for wearable devices applications", "abstract": "In this paper, we present the development of a 10 x 10 sensing element capacitive flexible pressure and tactile sensing array for normal stress measurement for wearable device applications. The sensor array combines micro fabricated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) structures and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) with 100 um thick polyimide as substrate. Each sensing element has one Cr/Au floating electrode embedded in the PDMS, two Cu/Au sensing electrodes on the FPCB and two Cu electrodes embedded underneath in the FPCB for electromagnetic shielding to isolate the environmental influence from the surface where the sensor patch is placed. The PDMS based pressure sensing membrane inbetween the floating electrode and sensing electrodes was specifically designed and fabricated. The thickness of the sensing membrane ranged from 0.6 1.3 mm. To increase the device sensitivity a membrane with micro pillar was also selected. Membrane with various structures, different micro pillar height and without pillar were fabricated and characterized. Two sensing elements with different sizes but the same pitch on the sensors were compared, regarding the device sensitivity, sensing range and the cross talk influence of the sensing elements. Results from 16 devices with different structures were obtained. Lastly, the hysteresis effect of the sensor and temperature influence was tested and analyzed. The corresponding 10 x 10 scanning circuits were implemented and the 100 sensing measurement results were displayed in 0.8 s periods in real time. The developed pressure/tactile sensors with different sensing range and sensitivity provide a guide for the design and selection of pressure/tactile sensing devices with a variety of applications.", "corpus_id": 117691848, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Ning Xue", "Guangheng Gao", "Jianhai Sun", "Chunxiu Liu", "Tong Li", "Cheng Chi" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "113917927", "title": "Design of a Wearable Thermoelectric Generator for Harvesting Human Body Energy", "abstract": "This paper presents the design and fabrication of a wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) with high power density for harvesting the human body heat energy. The proposed TEG was fabricated using a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) as the substrate. The P type and N type thermoelectric blocks were made of Bi2Te3 based thermoelectric material and welded on the FPCB, and they were surrounded by the soft PDMS material. The prototyped TEG consisted of 18 thermocouples, which was connected by FPCB and silver paste over an area of 42 x 30 mm2. The fabricated TEG could generate a voltage of 48 mV for a temperature difference of 12 K. Then, the TEG was mounted onto the human wrist skin to harvest the human body heat energy. Results showed that the measured output power was 130.6 nW at ambient temperature of 25 degC. Thus, the developed TEG has the potential for human body heat energy harvesting and utilized for the development of wearable self powered mobile devices.", "corpus_id": 113917927, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Liu Haiyan", "Yancheng Wang", "Deqing Mei", "Shi Yaoguang", "Zichen Chen" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221840065", "title": "Evaluation of body worn FPCBs with bluetooth low energy, capacitive touch, and resistive flex sensing", "abstract": "Commercially available flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs) have the potential to embed electronics, connectivity, and interactivity into the same surface. This makes them an ideal platform for untethered and interactive wearable devices. However, we lack an understanding how well FPCB based antennas and sensors perform when worn directly on the body. This work contributes an understanding by studying body worn FPCBs in three technical evaluations: First, we study the integration of Bluetooth Low Energy and compare the signal strength of our body worn FPCB with a rigid BLE developer board. Second, we study the accuracy of capacitive touch sensing with two electrode sizes. Finally, we develop a resistive flex sensor based on commercially available FPCB materials and compare its accuracy with a state of the art flex sensor. Taken together, our results demonstrate a high usability of FPCB based wearable devices.", "corpus_id": 221840065, "venue": "UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Martin Weigel", "Oliver Schon", "Herbert Janssen" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "44116182", "title": "3D BBPConvNet to reconstruct parallel MRI", "abstract": "In recent years, compressed sensing techniques have been applied to the reconstruction of parallel magnetic resonance (MR) images. Particularly for 3D MR signal, it is crucial to acquire fewer samples to reduce the distortions caused by long time acquisitions (e.g. motion, organ dynamics) Motivated by the recent success of ConvNet in 2D image reconstruction, we propose to extend the approach to 3D volume reconstruction and parallel MR imaging. The structure of the proposed network follows FBPConvNet with additional coil compression by SSoS and wavelet transform. A parallelism using two GPUs is also applied to overcome the memory shortage. The proposed method is able to reconstruct a (320 x 320 x 256 x 8) volume in less than 10s with 2 GPUs, while the iterative algorithm l1 ESPIRiT takes over 5 min in CPU.", "corpus_id": 44116182, "venue": "2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018)", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Kyong Hwan Jin", "Michael A Unser" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "53104235", "title": "3D MRI brain tumor segmentation using autoencoder regularization", "abstract": "Automated segmentation of brain tumors from 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is necessary for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment planning of the disease. Manual delineation practices require anatomical knowledge, are expensive, time consuming and can be inaccurate due to human error. Here, we describe a semantic segmentation network for tumor subregion segmentation from 3D MRIs based on encoder decoder architecture. Due to a limited training dataset size, a variational auto encoder branch is added to reconstruct the input image itself in order to regularize the shared decoder and impose additional constraints on its layers. The current approach won 1st place in the BraTS 2018 challenge.", "corpus_id": 53104235, "venue": "BrainLes@MICCAI", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Andriy Myronenko" ], "n_citations": 361, "n_key_citations": 52, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21706467", "title": "DAGAN: Deep De Aliasing Generative Adversarial Networks for Fast Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction", "abstract": "Compressed sensing magnetic resonance imaging (CS MRI) enables fast acquisition, which is highly desirable for numerous clinical applications. This can not only reduce the scanning cost and ease patient burden, but also potentially reduce motion artefacts and the effect of contrast washout, thus yielding better image quality. Different from parallel imaging based fast MRI, which utilizes multiple coils to simultaneously receive MR signals, CS MRI breaks the Nyquist Shannon sampling barrier to reconstruct MRI images with much less required raw data. This paper provides a deep learning based strategy for reconstruction of CS MRI, and bridges a substantial gap between conventional non learning methods working only on data from a single image, and prior knowledge from large training data sets. In particular, a novel conditional Generative Adversarial Networks based model (DAGAN) based model is proposed to reconstruct CS MRI. In our DAGAN architecture, we have designed a refinement learning method to stabilize our U Net based generator, which provides an end to end network to reduce aliasing artefacts. To better preserve texture and edges in the reconstruction, we have coupled the adversarial loss with an innovative content loss. In addition, we incorporate frequency domain information to enforce similarity in both the image and frequency domains. We have performed comprehensive comparison studies with both conventional CS MRI reconstruction methods and newly investigated deep learning approaches. Compared with these methods, our DAGAN method provides superior reconstruction with preserved perceptual image details. Furthermore, each image is reconstructed in about 5 ms, which is suitable for real time processing.", "corpus_id": 21706467, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Guang Yang", "Simiao Yu", "Hao Dong", "Gregory G Slabaugh", "Pier Luigi Dragotti", "Xujiong Ye", "Fangde Liu", "Simon Robert Arridge", "Jennifer Keegan", "Yike Guo", "David N Firmin" ], "n_citations": 436, "n_key_citations": 20, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212718947", "title": "Retrospective Motion Correction in Multishot MRI using Generative Adversarial Network", "abstract": "Multishot Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a promising data acquisition technique that can produce a high resolution image with relatively less data acquisition time than the standard spin echo. The downside of multishot MRI is that it is very sensitive to subject motion and even small levels of motion during the scan can produce artifacts in the final magnetic resonance (MR) image, which may result in a misdiagnosis. Numerous efforts have focused on addressing this issue; however, all of these proposals are limited in terms of how much motion they can correct and require excessive computational time. In this paper, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) based conjugate gradient SENSE (CG SENSE) reconstruction framework for motion correction in multishot MRI. First CG SENSE reconstruction is employed to reconstruct an image from the motion corrupted k space data and then the GAN based proposed framework is applied to correct the motion artifacts. The proposed method has been rigorously evaluated on synthetically corrupted data on varying degrees of motion, numbers of shots, and encoding trajectories. Our analyses (both quantitative as well as qualitative/visual analysis) establish that the proposed method is robust and reduces several fold the computational time reported by the current state of the art technique.", "corpus_id": 212718947, "venue": "Scientific Reports", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Muhammad Usman", "Siddique Latif", "Muhammad Asim", "Byoung Dai Lee", "Junaid Qadir" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "215786056", "title": "An Adaptive Intelligence Algorithm for Undersampled Knee MRI Reconstruction", "abstract": "Adaptive intelligence aims at empowering machine learning techniques with the additional use of domain knowledge. In this work, we present the application of adaptive intelligence to accelerate MR acquisition. Starting from undersampled k space data, an iterative learning based reconstruction scheme inspired by compressed sensing theory is used to reconstruct the images. We developed a novel deep neural network to refine and correct prior reconstruction assumptions given the training data. The network was trained and tested on a knee MRI dataset from the 2019 fastMRI challenge organized by Facebook AI Research and NYU Langone Health. All submissions to the challenge were initially ranked based on similarity with a known groundtruth, after which the top 4 submissions were evaluated radiologically. Our method was evaluated by the fastMRI organizers on an independent challenge dataset. It ranked #1, shared #1, and #3 on respectively the <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$8\\times /tex math>/inline formula> accelerated multi coil, the <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$4\\times /tex math>/inline formula> multi coil, and the <inline formula> <tex math notation=\"LaTeX\"$4\\times /tex math>/inline formula> single coil tracks. This demonstrates the superior performance and wide applicability of the method.", "corpus_id": 215786056, "venue": "IEEE Access", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Nicola Pezzotti", "Sahar Yousefi", "Mohamed S Elmahdy", "Jeroen Van Gemert", "Christophe Schulke", "Mariya Doneva", "Tim Nielsen", "Sergey Kastryulin", "Boudewijn P F Lelieveldt", "Matthias Van Osch", "Elwin de Weerdt", "Marius Staring" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "221200131", "title": "Brain connections derived from diffusion MRI tractography can be highly anatomically accurate if we know where white matter pathways start, where they end, and where they do not go", "abstract": "MR Tractography, which is based on MRI measures of water diffusivity, is currently the only method available for noninvasive reconstruction of fiber pathways in the brain. However, it has several fundamental limitations that call into question its accuracy in many applications. Therefore, there has been intense interest in defining and mitigating the intrinsic limitations of the method. Recent studies have reported that tractography is inherently limited in its ability to accurately reconstruct the connections of the brain, when based on voxel averaged estimates of local fiber orientation alone. Several validation studies have confirmed that tractography techniques are plagued by both false positive and false negative connections. However, these validation studies which quantify sensitivity and specificity, particularly in animal models, have not utilized prior anatomical knowledge, as is done in the human literature, for virtual dissection of white matter pathways, instead assessing tractography implemented in a relatively unconstrained manner. Thus, they represent a worse case scenario for bundle segmentation techniques and may not be indicative of the anatomical accuracy in the process of bundle segmentation, where streamline filtering using inclusion and exclusion regions of interest is common. With this in mind, the aim of the current study is to investigate and quantify the upper bounds of accuracy using current tractography methods. Making use of the same dataset utilized in two seminal validation papers, we show that prior anatomical knowledge in the form of manually placed or template driven constraints can significantly improve the anatomical accuracy of estimated brain connections. Thus, we show that it is possible to achieve a high sensitivity and high specificity simultaneously, and conclude that current tractography algorithms, in combination with anatomically driven constraints, can result in reconstructions which very accurately reflect the ground truth white matter connections.", "corpus_id": 221200131, "venue": "Brain Structure and Function", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kurt G Schilling", "Laurent Petit", "Francois Rheault", "Samuel W Remedios", "Carlo Pierpaoli", "Adam W Anderson", "Bennett A Landman", "Maxime Descoteaux" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216033877", "title": "Deep variational network for rapid 4D flow MRI reconstruction", "abstract": "Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides time resolved quantification of blood flow dynamics that can aid clinical diagnosis. Long in vivo scan times due to repeated three dimensional (3D) volume sampling over cardiac phases and breathing cycles necessitate accelerated imaging techniques that leverage data correlations. Standard compressed sensing reconstruction methods require tuning of hyperparameters and are computationally expensive, which diminishes the potential reduction of examination times. We propose an efficient model based deep neural reconstruction network and evaluate its performance on clinical aortic flow data. The network is shown to reconstruct undersampled 4D flow MRI data in under a minute on standard consumer hardware. Remarkably, the relatively low amounts of tunable parameters allowed the network to be trained on images from 11 reference scans while generalizing well to retrospective and prospective undersampled data for various acceleration factors and anatomies. 4D MRI scans can reconstruct cardiovascular flow, although they typically take many minutes, hindering real time assessment. Vishnevskiy et al. develop a deep variational network to permit high fidelity image reconstruction in a matter of seconds, allowing integration of 4D flow MRI into clinical workflows.", "corpus_id": 216033877, "venue": "ArXiv", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Valery Vishnevskiy", "Jonas Walheim", "Sebastian Kozerke" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "220834953", "title": "Deep Learning Based Optimization of the Under Sampling Pattern in MRI", "abstract": "In compressed sensing MRI (CS MRI) k space measurements are under sampled to achieve accelerated scan times. CS MRI presents two fundamental problems: (1) where to sample and (2) how to reconstruct an under sampled scan. In this article, we tackle both problems simultaneously for the specific case of 2D Cartesian sampling, using a novel end to end learning framework that we call LOUPE (Learning based Optimization of the Under sampling PattErn) Our method trains a neural network model on a set of full resolution MRI scans, which are retrospectively under sampled on a 2D Cartesian grid and forwarded to an anti aliasing (a.k.a. reconstruction) model that computes a reconstruction, which is in turn compared with the input. This formulation enables a data driven optimized under sampling pattern at a given sparsity level. In our experiments, we demonstrate that LOUPE optimized under sampling masks are data dependent, varying significantly with the imaged anatomy, and perform well with different reconstruction methods. We present empirical results obtained with a large scale, publicly available knee MRI dataset, where LOUPE offered superior reconstruction quality across different conditions. Even with an aggressive 8 fold acceleration rate, LOUPE's reconstructions contained much of the anatomical detail that was missed by alternative masks and reconstruction methods. Our experiments also show how LOUPE yielded optimal under sampling patterns that were significantly different for brain vs knee MRI scans. Our code is made freely available at https:/github.com/cagladbahadir/LOUPE/", "corpus_id": 220834953, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Cagla D Bahadir", "Alan Q Wang", "Adrian V Dalca", "Mert Rory Sabuncu" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211254175", "title": "Retaining information from multidimensional correlation MRI using a spectral regions of interest generator", "abstract": "Multidimensional correlation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging imaging modality that is capable of disentangling highly heterogeneous and opaque systems according to chemical and physical interactions of water within them. Using this approach, the conventional three dimensional MR scalar images are replaced with spatially resolved multidimensional spectra. The ensuing abundance in microstructural and chemical information is a blessing that incorporates a real challenge: how does one distill and refine it into images while retaining its significant components? In this paper we introduce a general framework that preserves the spectral information from spatially resolved multidimensional data. Equal weight is given to significant spectral components at the single voxel level, resulting in a summarized image spectrum. This spectrum is then used to define spectral regions of interest that are utilized to reconstruct images of sub voxel components. Using numerical simulations we first show that, contrary to the conventional approach, the proposed framework preserves spectral resolution, and in turn, sensitivity and specificity of the reconstructed images. The retained spectral resolution allows, for the first time, to observe an array of distinct {T}_{1} T 1 {T}_{2} T 2 \\langle D\\rangle D components images of the human brain. The robustly generated images of sub voxel components overcome the limited spatial resolution of MRI, thus advancing multidimensional correlation MRI to fulfilling its full potential.", "corpus_id": 211254175, "venue": "Scientific Reports", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Kristofor Pas", "Michal E Komlosh", "Daniel P Perl", "Peter J Basser", "Dan Benjamini" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "127821609", "title": "Simultaneous use of individual and joint regularization terms in compressive sensing: Joint reconstruction of multi channel multi contrast MRI acquisitions", "abstract": "Multi contrast images are commonly acquired together to maximize complementary diagnostic information, albeit at the expense of longer scan times. A time efficient strategy to acquire high quality multi contrast images is to accelerate individual sequences and then reconstruct undersampled data with joint regularization terms that leverage common information across contrasts. However, these terms can cause features that are unique to a subset of contrasts to leak into the other contrasts. Such leakage of features may appear as artificial tissues, thereby misleading diagnosis. The goal of this study is to develop a compressive sensing method for multi channel multi contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that optimally utilizes shared information while preventing feature leakage. Joint regularization terms group sparsity and colour total variation are used to exploit common features across images while individual sparsity and total variation are also used to prevent leakage of distinct features across contrasts. The multi channel multi contrast reconstruction problem is solved via a fast algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers. The proposed method is compared against using only individual and only joint regularization terms in reconstruction. Comparisons were performed on single channel simulated and multi channel in vivo datasets in terms of reconstruction quality and neuroradiologist reader scores. The proposed method demonstrates rapid convergence and improved image quality for both simulated and in vivo datasets. Furthermore, while reconstructions that solely use joint regularization terms are prone to leakage of features, the proposed method reliably avoids leakage via simultaneous use of joint and individual terms, thereby holding great promise for clinical use.", "corpus_id": 127821609, "venue": "NMR in biomedicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Emre Kopanoglu", "Alper Gungor", "Toygan Kilic", "Emine Ulku Saritas", "Kader Karli Oguz", "Tolga Cukur", "H Emre Guven" ], "n_citations": 13, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "212892614", "title": "Analyse Discursive de la Traduction des Enseignes et des Panneaux de Signalisation Securitaire", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 212892614, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Boukhemis Leila Boukhemis Leila" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "171832267", "title": "Les panneaux de signalisation du code de la route des ecrits non lineaires", "abstract": "Bien que l'on considere volontiers la signalisation routiere comme un systeme de signes non linguistiques, force est de constater qu'elle integre des elements verbaux qui se combinent etroitement avec des elements non verbaux. Nous adoptons pour analyser cette heterogeneite semiotique une conception semiolinguistique de l'ecrit qui permet d'apprehender toutes les dimensions du texte ecrit, aussi bien linguistiques que graphiques. Mais les panneaux sont ils des textes C'est l'autre probleme que ces donnees posent a l'analyse, etant donne l'heterogeneite semiotique, le mode d'organisation et le mode de lecture specifiques des panneaux. En particulier, la spatialisation de l'information met en question la linearite de l'ecrit.Nous commencons dans cet article par illustrer l'heterogeneite semiotique des panneaux et la maniere dont ils mettent en oeuvre un systeme de communication linguistique. Nous montrons ensuite que la dimension visuelle prime dans l'interpretation d'un texte ecrit, et que tous les parametres materiels et graphiques concourent a sa signification. Nous nous interrogeons par la suite sur le statut textuel des panneaux, puis nous examinons la finalite pratique et le mode de lecture des panneaux, qui impliquent un regime de textualite particulier. Il apparait enfin qu'un tel dispositif de communication met en question la linearite du discours ecrit, aux differents niveaux de son articulation.", "corpus_id": 171832267, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Agathe Cormier" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "10210301", "title": "Detection des panneaux de signalisation routiere par accumulation bivariee", "abstract": "Nous presentons une methode geometrique utilisant l'orientation du gradient pour la detection de la signalisation verticale dans des images fixes, independamment de leur position et de leur orientation. La detection est realisee par une transformation de type accumulateur de Hough bivariee, fondee sur l'utilisation de paires de points avec des contraintes sur leurs gradients. Les panneaux circulaires et polygonaux (non triangulaires) sont detectes par la transformation chinoise bilaterale TCB. Cette transformation est rapide et ne fait pas de distinction entre les cercles et les polygones 4 cotes ou plus. Le cas des panneaux triangulaires est traite par la transformation en sommet et bissectrice TSB, capable de detecter precisement les bissectrices et les sommets d'un triangle. Les performances de la TCB et de la TSB sont estimees sur plusieurs bases d'images de scenes urbaines.", "corpus_id": 10210301, "venue": "Traitement du Signal", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Rachid Belaroussi", "Jean-Philippe Tarel" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "193243498", "title": "LA LISIBILITE DES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION DU TYPE A ECLAIRAGE INTERIEUR", "abstract": "LES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION SONT SOUVENT ECLAIRES DE L'INTERIEUR AFIN D'AMELIORER LEUR LISIBILITE LA NUIT. SUR BASE DE MESURES DE LUMINANCES, LA DISTANCE DE LISIBILITE EST CALCULEE RESPECTIVEMENT POUR UN OBSERVATEUR DE 25 ET DE 60 ANS. POUR DES VITESSES DE 90 ET 120KM/H, LE TEMPS DISPONIBLE POUR LA LECTURE EST DEDUIT. ENSUITE, UN ESTIMATION EST FAITE DU NOMBRE D'UNITES CONCEPTUELLES DONT LA LECTURE EST POSSIBLE A 90 ET 120KM/H RESPECTIVEMENT POUR LES OBSERVATEURS DE 25 ET 60 ANS. EN CONCLUSION, IL APPARAIT QUE GRACE A L'UTILISATION DE PANNEAUX ECLAIRES DE L'INTERIEUR, LES PROBLEMES DE LISIBILITE LA NUIT SONT PRATIQUEMENT EXCLUS POUR CE TYPE DE SIGNALISATION. (A)", "corpus_id": 193243498, "venue": "", "year": 1985, "author_names": [ "E Geerts" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "172563743", "title": "Les panneaux de signalisation", "abstract": "Les panneaux d'interdiction Tous les panneaux d'interdiction ont une forme circulaire avec un contour rouge. Colorie les panneaux Indique sous les panneaux leur signification. Choisis parmi les propositions suivantes. Attention il y a un intrus. arret et stationnement interdits sens interdit interdiction de tourner a gauche stationnement interdit interdiction de tourner a droite limitation de vitesse", "corpus_id": 172563743, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Direction interdepartementale des routes Ouest Dir Ouest" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "193070357", "title": "BREVE ANALYSE SEMIOLOGIQUE DES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION.", "abstract": "ON ETUDIE LES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION ROUTIERE ET LES RAPPORTS QU'ILS ONT AVEC LES REACTIONS DU CONDUCTEUR. L'AUTEUR ESTIME NECCESAIRE D'UNIFIER LE CARACTERE DE CES PANNEAUX: ALORS QUE CERTAINS SONT FIGURATIFS, D'AUTRES SONT ABSTRAITS ET CONVENTIONNELS. IL FAUT ACCROITRE LE CARACTERE BIUNIVOQUE DES PANNEAUX. D'AUTRE PART, IL EST SOUHAITABLE QU'IL Y AIT DES PANNEAUX DE RAPPEL OU DE CONNECTION AVEC D'AUTRES SIGNAUX, POUR REPETER DANS CERTAINS CAS LE MESSAGE. ON PEUT FAIRE UNE DISTINCTION ENTRE LE TRACE VERTICAL ET L'HORIZONTAL ET AVOIR RECOURS A DES PANNEAUX DANS L'ESPACE, PARTICULIEREMENT EN VILLE. ON FAIT QUELQUES COMMENTAIRES SUR CERTAINS PANNEAUX ACTUELS (PASSAGE INTERDIT, ROUTE COUPEE) QUI DEVRAIENT ETRE MODIFIES.", "corpus_id": 193070357, "venue": "", "year": 1975, "author_names": [ "Tito Vallejo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "118048039", "title": "GESTION DES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION SUR MICRO ORDINATEUR", "abstract": "LE PRESENT ARTICLE DECRIT UN SYSTEME DE GESTION D'UNE BASE DE DONNEES CONTENANT DES INFORMATIONS SUR LES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION. CE SYSTEME A ETE CONCU POUR UN MICRO ORDINATEUR ET PEUT REMPLACER LES SYSTEMES MANUELS EXISTANTS OU RENDRE L'UTILISATEUR INDEPENDANT DE L'ORDINATEUR CENTRAL. LE SYSTEME EFFECTUE EFFICACEMENT LES OPERATIONS SUR LES DONNEES QUI SONT ACTUELLEMENT ACCOMPLIES MANUELLEMENT ET CECI DANS UN CONTEXTE INTERACTIF ENTRE L'UTILISATEUR ET SES DONNEES. ON PEUT AJOUTER DES DONNEES EN VERIFIANT EN MEME TEMPS LEUR VALIDITE OU BIEN ON PEUT METTRE A JOUR LES INFORMATIONS SUR LES PANNEAUX ET ON PEUT CONSULTER DE MANIERE SEQUENTIELLE OU INDEXEE LE CONTENU DE LA BASE DE DONNEES ET PRODUIRE DES RAPPORTS SOUS DIVERSES FORMES AINSI QUE POUR DIFFERENTS ENSEMBLES DE DONNEES TIRES DE LA BASE. IL EST EGALEMENT POSSIBLE D'EXTRAIRE DES DONNEES EN FORMULANT DES CONDITIONS (TELLES QUE L'ETAT D'UN PANNEAU) D'EFFECTUER DES ANALYSES COMPARATIVES, DE COMBINER DIFFERENTES BASES DE DONNEES (PAR EXEMPLE LES PANNEAUX ET LES ACCIDENTS) ET FINALEMENT DE PRODUIRE LES DONNEES NECESSAIRES POUR DES PROGRAMMES D'APPLICATION (SYNCHRONISATION DES FEUX DE CIRCULATION, ETUDE DE CAPACITE, ETC.", "corpus_id": 118048039, "venue": "", "year": 1984, "author_names": [ "K G Baass", "B Allard", "Robert Chapleau" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "142283019", "title": "ATTITUDES DES CONDUCTEURS VIS A VIS DES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION ET DE LA SIGNALISATION ROUTIERE", "abstract": "L'AUTEUR A ETUDIE SUR UN GROUPE DE 143 CONDUCTEURS, LEUR PERCEPTION DES SIGNAUX AU POINT DE VUE DES CARACTERISTIQUES PSYCHO PHYSIOLOGIQUES, LA COORDINATION DES SIGNAUX ET LEUR OPINION SUR LES CARACTERISTIQUES PERCEPTIVES DES SIGNAUX (DIMENSION, FORME, CONTEXTE ET VISIBILITE) LES RESULTATS PRESENTES PEUVENT ETRE EMPLOYES POUR L'EDUCATION DES CONDUCTEURS ET POUR L'INSTALLATION D'UN SYSTEME DE SIGNALISATION ROUTIER. (RESUME ORIGINAL NON REVU)", "corpus_id": 142283019, "venue": "", "year": 1985, "author_names": [ "D Pajovic" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "190957542", "title": "Demarche de certification des Equipements de la Route L'exemple des panneaux de signalisation routiere verticale", "abstract": "Les equipements de signalisation verticale de type panneaux et supports, hors gros materiel de type portique, potences et haut mats sont soumis a la marque NF. Ces produits sont certifies sur la base d'un referentiel qui etablit les regles de l'art. Ce referentiel est compose de corpus de normes et d'un reglement sous forme d'annexe specifique a la famille des panneaux de signalisation routiere (permanente et temporaire) La demarche de certification, pour une entreprise fabricant des panneaux de signalisation, consiste a deposer une demande de certification a l'ASQUER. Cette demande comprend la description detaillee de son produit ainsi que des essais mecaniques specifiques a chaque categorie et realises sous sa responsabilite.(A)", "corpus_id": 190957542, "venue": "", "year": 2006, "author_names": [ "Gerard Dechaumet", "Thomas Derick" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "191011867", "title": "LA SIGNALISATION ROUTIERE ECLAIRAGE DES PANNEAUX DE SIGNALISATION", "abstract": "L'ARTICLE TRAITE DES PHENOMENES QUI SONT DIFFERENTS DE JOUR ET DE NUIT, EN CONSIDERANT LES DEUX TYPES D'ECLAIRAGE DE PANNEAUX ACTUELLEMENT EN USAGE PANNEAUX ECLAIRES PAR REFLEXION PAR DES SOURCES EXTERIEURES ET PANNEAUX TRANSPARENTS EN FORME DE CAISSONS ECLAIRES PAR L'INTERIEUR. ON DONNE LES FACTEURS DE LUMINANCE DANS LE CAS DE MATERIAUX RETROREFLECHISSANT OU NON, POUR TOUT UNE GAMME DE COULEUR. POUR LA NUIT, ON DONNE LES LUMINANCES MOYENNES RECOMMANDEES SELON DEUX CAS DE LUMINANCE DES CHAUSSEES, ET LES VALEURS LIMITES D'UNIFORMITE DES LUMINANCES.", "corpus_id": 191011867, "venue": "", "year": 1976, "author_names": [ "J W Gaudel" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "34017695", "title": "Dexterous Tethered Space Robot: Design, Measurement, Control, and Experiment", "abstract": "In this paper, we systematically introduce a novel geostationary orbit (GEO) space debris removal system called dexterous tethered space robot (DTSR) The DTSR has three notable characteristics: dexterity, lightweight, and cost effectiveness. We first describe the system's design and a typical mission scenario, and then present its two core technologies (vision based pose measurement and coordinated controller design) in detail. Finally, we present the extensive simulations and ground semiphysical experiments to verify that the DTSR is a feasible solution to effectively remove the GEO space debris.", "corpus_id": 34017695, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Panfeng Huang", "Fan Zhang", "Jia Cai", "Dongke Wang", "Zhongjie Meng", "Jian Guo" ], "n_citations": 79, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "7586242", "title": "Optimal control with learned local models: Application to dexterous manipulation", "abstract": "We describe a method for learning dexterous manipulation skills with a pneumatically actuated tendon driven 24 DoF hand. The method combines iteratively refitted time varying linear models with trajectory optimization, and can be seen as an instance of model based reinforcement learning or as adaptive optimal control. Its appeal lies in the ability to handle challenging problems with surprisingly little data. We show that we can achieve sample efficient learning of tasks that involve intermittent contact dynamics and under actuation. Furthermore, we can control the hand directly at the level of the pneumatic valves, without the use of a prior model that describes the relationship between valve commands and joint torques. We compare results from learning in simulation and on the physical system. Even though the learned policies are local, they are able to control the system in the face of substantial variability in initial state.", "corpus_id": 7586242, "venue": "2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Vikash Kumar", "Emanuel Todorov", "Sergey Levine" ], "n_citations": 132, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "115347546", "title": "Dynamic regrasping by in hand orienting of grasped objects using non dexterous robotic grippers", "abstract": "A method for in hand dynamic regrasping using a non dexterous gripper.Stochastic motion planning algorithm with trajectory optimization.The algorithm optimizes the initial pose of the regrasp and control gains.Simulations and experiments validate the proposed algorithm. Almost any task on an object requires regrasping of the object prior to performing an intended task by varying between grasp configurations. The human hand uses many methods to perform regrasping manipulations such as in hand sliding, finger gaiting, juggling, picking and placing, etc. The most complex and inspiring approach is the in hand orienting dynamic regrasping where an object is released into mid air and regrasped in a different orientation. This manipulation is useful in industrial robotics for rapid manufacturing and reducing the number of robotic arms in production lines. In this work, we present a novel approach for performing in hand orienting regrasping using computed torque control. To maintain an efficient and low cost approach, the regrasping is performed using a non dexterous two jaw gripper and by utilizing the robotic arms dynamics. We focus on the motion planning for the motion and propose a novel stochastic algorithm for performing an optimal manipulation satisfying the kinematic and dynamic constraints. The algorithm optimizes the initial pose of the arm and the control gains. Statistical analysis shows the probability for the algorithm to find a solution if such exists. Simulations on a KUKA arm and demonstration on a planar 3R arm validate the feasibility of the proposed regrasping approach and planning algorithm.", "corpus_id": 115347546, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Avishai Sintov", "Amir Shapiro" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "35699624", "title": "Design of a Variable Stiffness Soft Dexterous Gripper", "abstract": "Abstract This article presents the design of a variable stiffness, soft, three fingered dexterous gripper. The gripper uses two designs of McKibben muscles. Extensor muscles that increase in length when pressurized are used to form the fingers of the gripper. Contractor muscles that decrease in length when pressurized are then used to apply forces to the fingers through tendons, which cause flexion and extension of the fingers. The two types of muscles are arranged to act antagonistically and this means that by raising the pressure in all of the pneumatic muscles, the stiffness of the system can be increased without a resulting change in finger position. The article presents the design of the gripper, some basic kinematics to describe its function, and then experimental results demonstrating the ability to adjust the bending stiffness of the gripper's fingers. It has been demonstrated that the fingers' bending stiffness can be increased by more than 150% The article concludes by demonstrating that the fingers can be closed loop position controlled and are able to track step and sinusoidal inputs.", "corpus_id": 35699624, "venue": "Soft robotics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Loai A T Al Abeach", "Samia Nefti-Meziani", "Steve Davis" ], "n_citations": 55, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "51910118", "title": "Kinematic Analysis, Prototypation and Control of a Novel Gripper for Dexterous Applications", "abstract": "Speed and flexibility are the primary concerns to whom a well designed industrial gripper should target. The first one leads to unquestionable pros in terms of production, while the second one to the ability of grasping and manipulating several payloads. However, these qualities are opposed to each other in terms of design requirements: speed requires a structure built of rigid bodies, flexibility would have to be favoured by the use of soft materials. As a common target, the human hand represents the most interesting inspiration source in this field, due to its natural dexterity and ability to perform in hand manipulations. Thus, many bio inspired or bio mimicked grippers have been developed in the last decades with the final aim of replicating the terrific capabilities offered by the human hand. In such panorama, this paper presents the kinematic synthesis of a novel, modular, reconfigurable gripper, which is capable to manipulate a plurality of objects, being dexterous at the same time. Instead of using soft materials to achieve in hand manipulation, the authors focused to use mechanisms to address the problem. The concept of manipulation is firstly evaluated in a multibody software environment, then a physical prototype was developed, and the necessary control laws were derived. Several experiments were conducted to test the effectiveness of the proposed structure. Results in terms of accuracy and repeatability are shown, and also the ability to address the three major tasks of grasp, in hand manipulation and release with appropriate posture have been demonstrated.", "corpus_id": 51910118, "venue": "J. Intell. Robotic Syst.", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Nahian Rahman", "Luca Carbonari", "Darwin Gordon Caldwell", "Ferdinando Cannella" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "6185920", "title": "Mechanical Model of Dexterous Continuum Manipulators With Compliant Joints and Tendon/External Force Interactions", "abstract": "Dexterous continuum manipulators (DCMs) have been widely adopted for minimally and less invasive surgery. During the operation, these DCMs interact with surrounding anatomy actively or passively. The interaction force will inevitably affect the tip position and shape of DCMs, leading to potentially inaccurate control near critical anatomy. In this paper, we demonstrated a two dimensional mechanical model for a tendon actuated, notched DCM with compliant joints. The model predicted deformation of the DCM accurately in the presence of tendon force, friction force, and external force. A partition approach was proposed to describe the DCM as a series of interconnected rigid and flexible links. Beam mechanics, taking into consideration tendon interaction and external force on the tip and the body, was applied to obtain the deformation of each flexible link of the DCM. The model results were compared with experiments for free bending as well as bending in the presence of external forces acting at either the tip or body of the DCM. The overall mean error of tip position between model predictions and all of the experimental results was 0.62 0.41 mm. The results suggest that the proposed model can effectively predict the shape of the DCM.", "corpus_id": 6185920, "venue": "IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Anzhu Gao", "Ryan J Murphy", "Hao Liu", "Iulian Iordachita", "Mehran Armand" ], "n_citations": 42, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "27889360", "title": "The SSSA MyHand: A Dexterous Lightweight Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis", "abstract": "The replacement of a missing hand by a prosthesis is one of the most fascinating challenges in rehabilitation engineering. State of art prostheses are curtailed by the physical features of the hand, like poor functionality and excessive weight. Here we present a new multi grasp hand aimed at overcoming such limitations. The SSSA MyHand builds around a novel transmission mechanism that implements a semi independent actuation of the abduction/adduction of the thumb and of the flexion/extension of the index, by means of a single actuator. Thus, with only three electric motors the hand is capable to perform most of the grasps and gestures useful in activities of daily living, akin commercial prostheses with up to six actuators, albeit it is as lightweight as conventional 1 Degrees of Freedom prostheses. The hand integrates position and force sensors and an embedded controller that implements automatic grasps and allows inter operability with different human machine interfaces. We present the requirements, the design rationale of the first prototype and the evaluation of its performance. The weight (478 g) force (31 N maximum force at the thumb fingertip) and speed of the hand (closing time: <370 ms) make this new design an interesting alternative to clinically available multi grasp prostheses.", "corpus_id": 27889360, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Marco Controzzi", "Francesco Clemente", "Diego Barone", "A Ghionzoli", "Christian Cipriani" ], "n_citations": 59, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "6826502", "title": "Dexterous Aerial Robots Mobile Manipulation Using Unmanned Aerial Systems", "abstract": "In this paper, we present selected benchmark aerial manipulation tasks using an aerial vehicle endowed with multi degree of freedom manipulators. The proposed tasks analyze environmental coupling and are broken into three general categories: momentary, loose, and strong coupling. A classical control structure is derived, tuned, and verified through experiments, conducted for benchmarking purposes to include pick and place, insertion, and valve turning tasks. Although other nonlinear controllers may prove more effective, the classical control approach has been selected in order to analyze contact stability and provide benchmark results for future reference. An analysis of system stability is conducted and implemented into the controller. A vision based high level controller fuses motion tracking data in order to provide control of both the aircraft and the manipulators, allowing the system to become coupled to the environment and perform the required operation. We present recent results validating our framework using the proposed aircraft arm system.", "corpus_id": 6826502, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Robotics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Matko Orsag", "Christopher M Korpela", "Stjepan Bogdan", "Paul Y Oh" ], "n_citations": 46, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "22188350", "title": "KITECH Hand: A Highly Dexterous and Modularized Robotic Hand", "abstract": "This paper presents an anthropomorphic robotic hand named \"KITECH Hand,\" along with its kinematic analysis and detailed mechanical features. From a kinematic perspective, the authors particularly focus on the structure of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints of the fingers. The KITECH Hand adopts a new \"roll pitch\" type MCP structure to replace conventional \"yaw pitch\" structures. The proposed structure provides benefits such as enhanced kinematic performance and ease of the mechanical design. Through the kinematic analysis, it is shown that the KITECH Hand shows remarkably high dexterity, well surpassing that of existing robotic hands with conventional MCP joints. The unique MCP structure also helps modularize the robot at the joint level, which simplifies its mechanical structure and enables the production cost to be reduced. The performance of the KITECH Hand, including its dexterity feature, was experimentally verified through a series of experiments, which included object in hand manipulation and a Cutkosky taxonomy test.", "corpus_id": 22188350, "venue": "IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Donghyouk Lee", "Jae-Han Park", "Sung-Woo Park", "Moonhong Baeg", "Ji-Hun Bae" ], "n_citations": 38, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "197424729", "title": "The JamHand: Dexterous Manipulation with Minimal Actuation", "abstract": "Abstract From using chopsticks to grab items off a plate, to snapping together two LEGO bricks in one hand, common manipulation tasks are easy for humans. However, grasping and dexterous manipulation still rank among the principal grand challenges in robotics. A key challenge is the complex interaction between hand biomechanics and motor control, leading to humanoid hands that remain too complex and costly for use in daily tasks. Here, we bypass this challenge by offering an alternative approach based on multi finger material phase transition effects. By limiting our focus to dexterous manipulation, we are able to design a robotic hand that can achieve six fundamental dexterous manipulations as well as precision and power grasps, all with only two actuators. We further demonstrate our system on a range of real world grasping and manipulation challenges. Besides practical application, these results suggest that leveraging the phase transition of granular materials is a viable technique for reducing the han.", "corpus_id": 197424729, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "146726567", "title": "Identity and Self Image in Adolescence A Case Study of Bumburet Valley in District Chitral Pakistan", "abstract": "The study was conducted in Bumburet valley of district Chitral, Pakistan. Qualitative anthropological research technique was adopted for acquiring the ethnographic data for the research in hand. This research paper is an attempt to understand ancestral and cultural traditions of the Kalash people. How these traditions are transmitted from one generation to the next? They teach and preach youth the rituals, offering and sacrifice. Adolescents are the ones to whom the traditions, customs and culture are transmitted and it requires maximum understanding and communication between the elders and the youth. They are considered as custodians of culture. The adolescence period is very critical for the children of minority ethnic group. Extensive socialization is required to conform to their traditions. The natural setting and the type of education a child receives plays a predominant role on his future pursuits. The Muslim and Kalash parents encourage both their sons and daughter to seek education. Academic intelligence and practical thinking can develop independently and may grant a specific identity to the individual which may be different to his cultural identity. Kalash identity is based upon unique and nonviolent way of life. The changes which incorporate in Kalash traditions may find their way through peripheral adjustments. The Kalash youth insist on keeping their self identity as well as participating in modernity. Technological development does not clash with the basic practices and taboos enforced by the religion are generally accepted.", "corpus_id": 146726567, "venue": "", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Irum Sheikh", "Anwaar Mohyuddin", "Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry", "Shahid Iqbal" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "21870830", "title": "Depressive Symptoms and Academic Self Image in Adolescence", "abstract": "The aim of this paper was to specifically analyse the relationship between the different components of academic self image, defined as the way adolescents represent themselves as students, and self reported depressive symptoms, assessed with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) in a non clinical sample of 298 adolescents. We considered both adolescents' beliefs about their own cognitive functioning in academic performance and beliefs about their emotional attitude in achievement situations. Our data indicate that the pattern of correlation between emotional beliefs about schooling and learning are significantly related to CDI scores, but this correlation is not evident for the cognitive beliefs. This pattern of correlation is affected by actual school functioning, because correlation between CDI and beliefs is much more significant in subjects without school failure. Differences between gender in CDI scores, beliefs about schooling and learning, and pattern of correlation are considered. These results can enable to focus supporting psychological interventions on more specific targets.", "corpus_id": 21870830, "venue": "Psychopathology", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "Gabriele Masi", "Francesco Tomaiuolo", "Barbara Sbrana", "Paola Poli", "G Baracchini", "Carlo Pruneti", "Letizia Favilla", "Chiara Floriani", "Mara Marcheschi" ], "n_citations": 19, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "131780344", "title": "Memories of the self in adolescence: examining 6558 self image norms", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Adolescence is a critical developmental period. It involves the construction and consolidation of \"the self\" and the laying down of autobiographical memories that endure throughout life. There is limited data that examines how young people spontaneously describe their \"self\" The aim of the current study is to provide normative data of adolescent generated self images and present this in a freely accessible database. A secondary aim is to compare adult and adolescent self images. Young people (n 822) aged 13 18 years completed the Twenty Statements Test a task that requires participants to generate their own self images. Data were coded into \"Self image norms\" according to the method devised by Rathbone and Moulin [2017. Exploring memories of the self: 2412 self image norms for adults aged 17 to 88. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1445) doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01445] Descriptive data showed that positive \"Traits\" were most often used by adolescents to describe \"the self\" There were few gender differences, but boys generated fewer self images than girls. Adolescents were more likely to use \"Traits\" to describe their \"self\" and adults were more likely to use \"Social roles.\" These data are the first set of self images generated by adolescents, collated in a freely accessible database. They can be used to understand how \"the self\" is described by adolescents and will be useful for cueing autobiographical memories in young people.", "corpus_id": 131780344, "venue": "Memory", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Emily Hards", "Judi A Ellis", "Jennifer Fisk", "Shirley Reynolds" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "149482450", "title": "comparison maladaptive schema and self image in fat and normal weight female adolescence", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 149482450, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Niloofar Mohammadpour Nikbin", "Bahram Gheitarani", "Mahdi Kheradmand", "Shahrbanoo Ghahari", "Mohammad Ali Rahmani" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "147303628", "title": "Do aerobic fitness and self reported fitness in adolescence differently predict body image in young adulthood? An eight year follow up study", "abstract": "Abstract Aim To study whether fitness level in adolescence predicts body image in young adulthood. Methods Longitudinal study in which n 385 participants were measured at age 15 and n 201 at age 23. Fitness was assessed both objectively and subjectively. Body image was evaluated with the Offer Self Image Questionnaire. Cross lagged structural equation model was used to study whether fitness at age 15 predicted body image at age 23, covariates included sex, body mass index, physical activity, and socioeconomic status. Results Aerobic fitness at age 15 was the strongest predictor (b 0.372; p Conclusion Objectively measured fitness in adolescence is an independent predictor of body image in young adulthood, whereas self reported fitness is not. Strong fitness in adolescence is important for a healthy body image later in life.", "corpus_id": 147303628, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Sunna Gestsdottir", "Erla Svansdottir", "Yngvar Ommundsen", "Arsaell Arnarsson", "Sigurbjorn Arni Arngrimsson", "Thorarinn Sveinsson", "Erlingur Johannsson" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "143641218", "title": "The relationship between self Image and social anxiety in adolescence.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Self image is the subjective perception about one's own self, body, mental functioning, social attitudes, and adjustment in different aspects of life. Research has linked negative self image with a number of problem behaviors and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence; however, studies of the relationship between self image and anxiety disorders are still scarce. METHOD This study involved a community sample of 1305 high school students (51.4% female) who ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old. They completed self report measures of self image and social anxiety disorder (SAD) RESULTS A quarter of the students reported high levels of social anxiety. Statistical analyses showed significant differences between these students and the other students in all the self image subscales. Several dimensions of impaired self image (emotional tone, social attitudes, vocational and educational goals, family relationships, external mastery, and psychological health) were associated with high levels of social anxiety, with some gender differences underpinning these relationships. CONCLUSIONS Clinicians treating SAD in youth may wish to consider that a negative self image may play a critical role in the onset and retention of social anxiety symptoms.", "corpus_id": 143641218, "venue": "Child and adolescent mental health", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Maria Di Blasi", "Paola Cavani", "Laura Pavia", "Rosa Lo Baido", "Sabina La Grutta", "Adriano Schimmenti" ], "n_citations": 31, "n_key_citations": 3, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "45521335", "title": "[Self image in adolescence: gender differences and areas of psychological distress]", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 45521335, "venue": "Epidemiologia e prevenzione", "year": 1996, "author_names": [ "Paola Benvenuti", "A Paionni", "A Malar Selvi", "Angela Valtancoli", "Adolfo Pazzagli" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "145145579", "title": "Developing anorexia nervosa in adolescence: the role of self image as a risk factor in a prevalence study", "abstract": "Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence risk for developing anorexia nervosa (AN) in a very wide sample of adolescents aged 15 19 years, obtaining a psychological profile of these at risk subjects, as assessed by the Italian Offer Self Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) Method: Data were extracted from ESPAD Italia(r)2005 database (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) The study (17,866 adolescents, 15 19 years old; 47.8% males) also evaluated gender, age, weight, height and Eating Attitude Test 26 (EAT 26) The OSIQ psychometric qualities were evaluated. Multinomial analysis assessed self image risk of AN association. Results: Adolescents at risk approached 1.4% (2.2% of girls and 0.5% of boys) 19 and 17 year old females exhibited a higher prevalence. Overall adolescent risk included: impulse control, family relationships and psychopathology. Critical areas in the AN developing showed age and gender differences: body image for younger females, impulse control for the older, psychopathology for young males and sexual attitudes for the older represented the poorer adjustment dimensions. Discussion: Results support screening procedures and tailored school based prevention.", "corpus_id": 145145579, "venue": "", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Olivia Curzio", "Luca Bastiani", "Marco Scalese", "Valentina Cutrupi", "Eugenia Romano", "Francesca Denoth", "Sandra Maestro", "Filippo Muratori", "Sabrina Molinaro" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "81439510", "title": "The impact of body posture on self image and psychosocial functioning during adolescence", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 81439510, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Monika Maria Biernat", "Monika Bak-Sosnowska" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "225756749", "title": "Educational action with high school adolescents: a reflection on self image and food disorders", "abstract": "The way the individual perceives his own body is modified over time, and this occurs more intensely during adolescence. Body dissatisfaction is highlighted as one of the important factors considered for the diagnosis of eating disorders and is also one of the triggers for their occurrence. Thus, the following study aims to report a health education experience carried out with adolescents from a Professional High School in a municipality of Macico de Baturite, geological formation located in the central hinterland of Ceara, addressing the theme of body self image and its implications for the occurrence of Eating Disorders. The activity took place through stages that contained dynamics of interaction and introduction of the theme, as well as approaching the content in a dialogical way. Given the above, there are still deficits in addressing the theme in the school environment and in other environments in which the adolescent is inserted. Therefore, the role of educational sectors allied to health are perceived as areas that must be articulated in order to guarantee greater support and assistance to young people and their families, characterizing the performance of the multiprofessional team in the aspect of psychosocial care.", "corpus_id": 225756749, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Alicyregina Simiao Silva", "Janiel Ferreira Felicio", "Inara da Silva de Moura", "Luzia Camila Coelho Ferreira", "Jose Carlos Gomes de Sousa", "C M Carvalho" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "84158367", "title": "After site selection and before data analysis: sampling, sorting, and laboratory procedures used in stream benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring programs by USA state agencies", "abstract": "A survey of methods used by US state agencies for collecting and processing benthic macroinvertebrate samples from streams was conducted by questionnaire; 90 responses were received and used to describe trends in methods. The responses represented an estimated 13,000 15,000 samples collected and processed per year. Kicknet devices were used in 64.5% of the methods; other sampling devices included fixed area samplers (Surber and Hess) artificial substrates (Hester Dendy and rock baskets) grabs, and dipnets. Regional differences existed, e.g. the 1 m kicknet was used more often in the eastern US than in the western US. Mesh sizes varied among programs but 80.2% of the methods used a mesh size between 500 and 600 mm. Mesh size variations within US Environmental Protection Agency regions were large, with size differences ranging from 100 to 700 mm. Most samples collected were composites; the mean area sampled was 1.7 m2. Samples rarely were collected using a random method (4.7% most samples (70.6% were collected using \"expert opinion\" which may make data obtained operator specific. Only 26.3% of the methods sorted all the organisms from a sample; the remainder subsampled in the laboratory. The most common method of subsampling was to remove 100 organisms (range 100 550) The magnification used for sorting ranged from 1 (sorting by eye) to 30x, which results in inconsistent separation of macroinvertebrates from detritus. In addition to subsampling, 53% of the methods sorted large/rare organisms from a sample. The taxonomic level used for identifying organisms varied among taxa; Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera were generally identified to a finer taxonomic resolution (genus and species) than other taxa. Because there currently exists a large range of field and laboratory methods used by state programs, calibration among all programs to increase data comparability would be exceptionally challenging. However, because many techniques are shared among methods, limited testing could be designed to evaluate whether procedural differences affect the ability to determine levels of environmental impairment using benthic macroinvertebrate communities.", "corpus_id": 84158367, "venue": "Journal of the North American Benthological Society", "year": 2001, "author_names": [ "James L Carter", "Vincent H Resh" ], "n_citations": 226, "n_key_citations": 21, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "196811548", "title": "Seroprevalence and risk factors of Brucella ovis in domestic sheep in Wyoming, USA", "abstract": "BackgroundBrucella ovis causes a sexually transmitted, infectious disease of domestic sheep characterized by genital lesions and epididymitis in rams, placentitis and rare abortions in ewes, and neonatal mortality in lambs. This study was designed to 1) estimate animal and flock seroprevalence of B. ovis in sheep across Wyoming, USA, and 2) describe epidemiologic risk factors associated with seropositive sheep and flocks. For the animal seroprevalence estimate, 2423 blood samples were collected from sheep on 18 producer selected operations and a questionnaire about possible risk factors was distributed. For the flock seroprevalence estimate, blood samples from 82 operations were obtained, including samples from the previous 18 operations and 64 additional operations that sent samples to the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory for diagnostic testing. Categorical risk factors were created based on questionnaires and submission forms. Sera was analyzed using the B. ovis enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.ResultsEstimated true animal and flock seroprevalence were 0.53% (95% CI: 0.21 1.01% 22/2,423) and 22.5% (95% CI: 14 32% 18/82) respectively. Using Fisher's exact and Mid p exact tests to compare apparent seroprevalence with respect to possible risk factors, increased age and breed type were risk factors associated with seropositive sheep, while region and large flock size were risk factors associated with seropositive flocks.ConclusionsResults from this study suggest few sheep have been exposed to B. ovis, but many flocks contain at least one seropositive animal. Each region in Wyoming contained at least one seropositive animal and flock, emphasizing the importance of disease free documentation before purchasing new sheep. Aged sheep 6 years of age) had the highest seroprevalence among age groups; hence, we propose the separation of young rams from older rams to help reduce disease spread outside the breeding season. Wool breeds (Rambouillet and Merino) may be less susceptible to B. ovis infection given they had the lowest animal seroprevalence of the breed types, and large flocks 100 breeding rams) had the highest seroprevalence of the flock size categories, likely due to more intensive management strategies that can contribute to the introduction and persistence of B. ovis infection in sheep and flocks.", "corpus_id": 196811548, "venue": "BMC Veterinary Research", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Molly J Elderbrook", "Brant A Schumaker", "Todd E Cornish", "Dannele Peck", "Kerry S Sondgeroth" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "212532745", "title": "Secondary School Principals` Perceived Effects of Abusing Sustances in Day Secondary Schools in Bauchi Senetorial District of Bauchi State Nigeria", "abstract": "This study aimed at determining the secondary school principals` perceived effects of drugs abuse among students of day secondary schools. Descriptive research design was used for the study while questionnaire was adopted for data collection. The population of the study consisted of only principals of secondary schools. The samples of the study were 40 secondary school principals who participated in the study and simple random sampling was adopted to sample the school principals. Piloting was carried out in one secondary school. A sample of 01school principal participated in the pilot study. Test re test method of reliability was used to ensure the reliability of the instrument and data obtained was computer analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) The descriptive statistics that is, frequency distribution and percentages were used to analyzed data. The findings of the study revealed that availability of drugs, lack of effective guidance and counseling, family background; societal and influence of peer group were identified as the causes of drug abuse among day secondary schools students. The finding further identified high rate of school violence, exposing other students to drugs abuse and, mental illness as effects of drug abuse among students of secondary schools. The finding recommends that government should ensure policy formulation to address the menace of drug abuse in secondary schools while parents should monitor the affairs of their children and ensure they associate with good friends. Government should also intensify campaign against drug abuse and the dangers associated with the menace. Guidance and counseling unit and drug free club should be strengthening. I. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY he use of drug is as old as man himself. In itself, the use of drugs does not cause any harm. They are for curing and healing, thus promoting better health condition. In order word drugs properly used have been a medical blessing (Maithya, 2009) Over the past few decades, the use of illegal drugs has increased at higher rate in almost every part of the world. According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Report (2005) reveals that some 200 million people, or 5 percent of the total world`s population age 15 64 have used drugs at least once in the last 12 months and implied 15 million people more than the 2004 estimate. Every country in the world experienced substantial costs as a result of damages caused by substance abuse (World Drug Report, 2005) Despite numerous efforts and sensitizations campaigns to curtail drug abuse in Africa, the region remains a major supplier of some drugs such as cannabis, which is regarded as one of the most widely abused drugs in the world (Maithya, 2009) The World Drug Report by UNODC (2005) reveals that there were about 141 million drug abusers globally including 8 million heroin addicts, 30 million amphetamine users and 13 million cocaine users. The report further indicates that in USA and Canada about 360,000 were heroin users in 1991, and 600,000 in the year 2000. This shows that there was a serious increase of drug abusers worldwide. A reports by Kadiri in 2012 clearly reveals that, in UK, Ireland, Denmark and Italy, 2 percent of 16 and 17 years old had use abuse drugs, while 6 percent of America young people including students of secondary schools had used cocaine. Drug abuse is regarded as one of the current issues of our time threatening peace, stability, good citizenship and human development not only in Nigeria, Africa but also globally. The abuse of drugs can devastate not only the individual, family but the society at large. Since society needs effective citizen who can participate and contribute to its growth, abuse of drugs negates this purpose and rather puts a burden on society that deflates its values resources and creates a measure. Drug abuse does not only mean the abuse of ordinary every day prescribed drugs in the hospital. It specifically refers to the illegal use of such dangerous substance as Marijuana, LSD, heroin, cocaine, opium and other socially disapproved drugs (Kadiri, 2012) Addiction to these drugs has been the major challenge in the society. It has been identified that the large number of psychiatric patients in our hospitals and those on streets and rehabilitation centers has to a large extent resulted from drug addiction (Olley, 2009) For example, a single dose of Indian hemp has been found to produce severe psychological responses. These include anxiety which may lead to panic, depressed mood, sense of unreality pertaining to one self or to surroundings, illusions, hallucinations, paranoid ideas and delirium (Obot, 2005).This unfortunate situation has become a serious concern in Nigeria. It is in line with this, that United Nations Organization has urged member countries to co operate and take appropriate local measures to check the increasing wave of drug abuse. The Nigerian government has accordingly established agencies and other institutions to deal with the drug abuse issue. Those experiencing drugs problem live with disruption in their lives. Drug abuse has a negative impact on the education of secondary school students. T International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume III, Issue I, January 2019|ISSN 2454 6186 www.rsisinternational.org Page 72 The overall health of the user is affected negatively and behaviours associated with drug abuse predispose the abuser to crime and contagious diseases including HIV/AIDS (Cookson,H 1992) They often experience physical illnesses, such as damage to important organs of the body like brain, liver and lungs, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, damage to un born child when drugs are used during pregnancy. Abusers of drugs experience psychological traumas, such as sleeplessness, anxiety, loss of memory, hallucinations, depression and psychosis. Many social problems are associated with drug abuse and drug users experience problems which disrupt their personal, social and economic life. These include loss of job, family disintegration, expulsion from school, delinquency, criminal offence which includes stealing, rape, murder, prostitution among others. Report had shown that drugs are found in almost all cities in Nigeria, motor parks, street corners, joints on campuses, uncompleted buildings and under flyovers. A nationwide survey of secondary school students reveals that 65 percent of the students in Nigeria used drugs to have good time with their friends, 54 percent wanted to experiment to see what it like, 20 percent to 40 percent used it to alter their moods, to feel good, to relax, to relive tension and to overcome boredom and problem (Obot, 2005) Majority of secondary schools students ignorantly depend on one form of drug or the other from various daily activities, social, educational, political, moral etc. Such drugs include: Tobacco, Indian hemp, Cocaine, Morphine, Heroine, Alcohol, Ephedrine, Glue, Barbiturates and Amphetamines. Recent statistics in Nigeria indicates that one in every three secondary school students consumes alcohol while 8.3 percent smoke cigarettes and almost one in every ten chew Miraa, About 3 percent smoke bhang, and use hard drugs like Cocaine. According to Olley (2009) use of alcohol contributes 25% of the total explanatory power of sexual risky behavior among adolescent which expose them a high risk of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases (WHO) II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Drugs abuse in our schools and colleges has today become a very serious menace in Nigerian system of education despite the various measures that are being taken to remedy the incidence .In some secondary schools; drugs abuse has remained a tradition by students despite all effort by the management of the schools to curtail/eradicate the act. Drugs free club and parents' teachers association (PTA) have also been carrying out lectures/mobilization on the dangers of abusing drugs, yet students fall victims of drugs abuse at all times. The Nigerian government has established agencies such as drugs law enforcement agency and other agencies to deal with drugs problems but unfortunately the menace is still increasing day in day out hence, the need to carry out the study. The purpose of the study was to investigate school principals' perceived effects of drugs abuse among students of day secondary schools in the study area. The following objectives were formulated for the study: To identify the causes of drugs abuse among students of day secondary schools. To examine the extent to which drugs abuse affects students of day secondary schools in the study area To propose strategies that would be adopted to minimize drug abuse in day secondary schools. III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Descriptive survey design was used. The descriptive survey design is the most frequent used method for collecting information about people`s opinion, habits, or any of the variety of education or social science issues (Kombo Tromp 2006).This design is preferred since the study aims at sampling secondary schools principals as participant of the study. According Orodho (2004) a descriptive survey design is a method of collecting information by administrating a questionnaire to a sample of individuals. This design aimed at obtaining pertinent and precise information concerning the current status of a phenomenon and whatever possible to draw a valid general conclusion from the facts discovered (Gay 1976, Kombo &Tromp 2006) A descriptive survey design was chosen because the researcher sought to describe the effects of drugs abuse on students of day secondary schools in Bauchi Senatorial District. The target populations for the study were all the 120 principals of day secondary schools in Bauchi Senatorial District. The sample size consisted of 40 school principals. This sample size is representative enough since is above the recommended proportion of 10% (Gay 1992; Kombo Tr", "corpus_id": 212532745, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Yunusa Umar Abubakar", "Suleiman Muhammed Saleh" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "214389041", "title": "Blood Cell Profiling of Malaria Patients Attending Gaya General Hospital, Kano State, Northern Nigeria", "abstract": "Background: Changes in blood cell profile were common findings in malaria. In the rural community of Kano State, Nigeria, information on haematological changes in human malaria was scanty in spite of their role in the pathophysiology of malaria. This cross sectional study was undertaken to determine blood cell profiles in malaria patients attending a rural hospital in malariaendemic region. Methods: Blood samples (3 ml each) were collected in EDTA containers from 150 randomly selected outpatients attending Gaya General Hospital, screened for malaria using RDT kit (CareStart Malaria HRP 2, Access Bio Inc. USA) based on Histidine rich protein 2 (PfHRP 2) and blood cell profiles determined using automated Sysmex haematologic analyser. Data on sociodemographics and medical history related to the study objectives, such as taking antimalarial regimen and/or haematinic, and direct involvement in blood transfusion, were obtained by questionnaire administration supplemented with oral interview. Original Research Article Ali et al. IJTDH, 39(2) 1 11, 2019; Article no.IJTDH.48512 2 Findings: The study revealed a malaria prevalence of 67.33% with highest in 11 20years (80.95% and lowest (55.00% in 1 10years age groups; slightly higher in females (68.25% than in males (66.67% without significant difference (P<0.05) For blood parameters, malaria positive patients have a significantly lower mean PCV of 32.2% as compared to 38.18% obtained for malaria negative patients (P<0.05) The mean Hb was 10.76+ 2.27g/dL and 12.65+ 2.38g/dL (P<0.05) while WBC revealed 6.91x109/L and 6.56x109/L in malaria positive and negative patients, respectively. Platelet counts recorded 179.24x109/L and 230.47x109/L (P<0.05) Sociodemographic factors such as level of education, occupation and marital status did not significantly influence malaria prevalence. Interpretation: Low PCV and Hb in malaria patients indicate mild anaemia due to malaria related haemolysis. The occurrence of thrombocytopenia may be due to other underlying pathology as further studies with larger sample size are needed to ascertain the cause of low platelet counts in malaria patients in the study area.", "corpus_id": 214389041, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "M U Ali", "Ankeet Panda", "Sani Mohammed Yahaya", "Umar Aliyu Umar", "M S Inuwa", "Ya'u Sabo Ajingi", "S Idris" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "4874580", "title": "Adolescent depressive symptoms in India, Australia and USA: Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling of cross national invariance and predictions by gender and age.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND The present study compares depressive symptoms in adolescents from three countries: Mumbai, India; Seattle, United States; and Melbourne, Australia measured using the Short Moods and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) The study cross nationally compares SMFQ depressive symptom responses by age and gender. METHODS Data from a cross nationally matched survey were used to compare factorial and measurement characteristics from samples of students from Grade 7 and 9 in Mumbai, India (n=3268) with the equivalent cohorts in the Washington State, USA (n=1907) and Victoria, Australia (n=1900) Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling (ESEM) was used to cross nationally examine factor structure and measurement invariance. RESULTS A number of reports suggesting that SMFQ is uni dimensional were not supported in findings from any country. A model with two factors was a better fit and suggested a first factor clustering symptoms that were affective and physiologically based symptoms and a second factor of self critical, cognitive symptoms. The two factor model showed convincing cross national configural invariance and acceptable measurement invariance. The present findings revealed that adolescents in Mumbai, India, reported substantially higher depressive symptoms in both factors, but particularly for the self critical dimension, as compared to their peers in Australia and the USA and that males in Mumbai report high levels of depressive symptoms than females in Mumbai. LIMITATIONS the cross sectional study collected data for adolescents in Melbourne and Seattle in 2002 and the data for adolescents in Mumbai was obtained in 2010 2011 CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that previous findings in developed nations of higher depressive symptoms amongst females compared to males may have an important cultural component and cannot be generalised as a universal feature of adolescent development.", "corpus_id": 4874580, "venue": "Journal of affective disorders", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Andrew Lewis", "Bosco Rowland", "Aiden Tran", "Renatti F Solomon", "George C Patton", "Richard F Catalano", "John W Toumbourou" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "20753887", "title": "A test of the measurement invariance of a brief version of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire between American and Spanish older adults.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND Both anxiety disorders and subclinical anxiety symptoms are related to poorer health and functioning in later life. Because worry is an important component of anxiety, the accurate measurement of worry is crucial to studying the etiology, prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders. Assessment of the trait worry has emerged as the most widely used strategy to establish the presence and extent of pathological worry. However, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) the most widely used measure of the trait worry, has not been validated cross culturally in groups outside of the U.S.A. METHODS We tested the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of an 8 item abbreviated version of the PSWQ (PSWQ A) in American (N 206) and Spanish (N 137) older adult samples. RESULTS Internal consistency was high and analyses supported a unidimensional solution in both samples. Measurement invariance was tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Rasch models. Results of the CFA suggest that measurement invariance between the samples can be assumed for women but not for men. Rasch modeling results by gender suggested that three items have different endorsability levels in the two samples, suggesting that certain items may more closely represent the construct of the trait worry in American and Spanish older adults. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the PSWQ A appears appropriate for cross cultural use, although deletion of one item (item 6) may improve the psychometric properties of the scale across different populations.", "corpus_id": 20753887, "venue": "International psychogeriatrics", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Roberto Nuevo", "Margaret-Anne Mackintosh", "Margaret Gatz", "Ignacio Montorio", "Julie Loebach Wetherell" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "14050107", "title": "Perception of emotionally loaded vocal expressions and its connection to responses to music. A cross cultural investigation: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and the USA", "abstract": "The present study focused on voice quality and the perception of the basic emotions from speech samples in cross cultural conditions. It was examined whether voice quality, cultural, or language background, age, or gender were related to the identification of the emotions. Professional actors (n2) and actresses (n2) produced non sense sentences (n32) and protracted vowels (n8) expressing the six basic emotions, interest, and a neutral emotional state. The impact of musical interests on the ability to distinguish between emotions or valence (on an axis positivity neutrality negativity) from voice samples was studied. Listening tests were conducted on location in five countries: Estonia, Finland, Russia, Sweden, and the USA with 50 randomly chosen participants (25 males and 25 females) in each country. The participants (total N 250) completed a questionnaire eliciting their background information and musical interests. The responses in the listening test and the questionnaires were statistically analyzed. Voice quality parameters and the share of the emotions and valence identified correlated significantly with each other for both genders. The percentage of emotions and valence identified was clearly above the chance level in each of the five countries studied, however, the countries differed significantly from each other for the identified emotions and the gender of the speaker. The samples produced by females were identified significantly better than those produced by males. Listener's age was a significant variable. Only minor gender differences were found for the identification. Perceptual confusion in the listening test between emotions seemed to be dependent on their similar voice production types. Musical interests tended to have a positive effect on the identification of the emotions. The results also suggest that identifying emotions from speech samples may be easier for those listeners who share a similar language or cultural background with the speaker.", "corpus_id": 14050107, "venue": "Front. Psychol.", "year": 2013, "author_names": [ "Teija Waaramaa", "Timo Leisio" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "80364603", "title": "P3.66 How far is the fight against hbv and hiv among antenatal attendees in makurdi metropolitan city, benue state, nigeria", "abstract": "Introduction Benue State in Nigeria is one of the regions in sub Saharan Africa with rising morbidity and mortality among adults from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. This retrospective study was conducted to determine the impact of the fight against HBV and HIV among antenatal attendees in Makurdi metropolitan city. Methods A total of 757 cross sectional blood samples; 250 (2007) and 507 (2012) were collected and screened for both Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and HIV antibodies. HBsAg was screened using rapid test kits and ELISA kits while HIV antibodies was screened for using Determine (Japan) and Stat Pak (USA) rapid test kits. Other information generated with the help of questionnaire and data analysis was done using chi square in SPSS version 20 software. P values equal or less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results Overall, HBV infection rate of 12.4% (2007) was significantly higher (p=0.027) than 7.5% in 2012 but there was no difference in HIV rates between 2007 and 2012 (p=0.777) There was also a significant difference in HBV rates among attendees with no formal education in 2007 (26.7% and those of 2012 (8.3% (p=0.029) HIV on the other hand was significantly (p=0.025) lower among individuals with secondary education in 2008 (1.2% compared with those of 2012 (8.2% Farmers (2008) significantly had higher HBV (35.5% than their counterpart in 2012 (0.0% (p=0.001) Similarly, HBV infection rates recorded in 2007 was significantly higher than those of 2012 among those vaccinated, unvaccinated (p=0.016) as well as those with history of transfusion (p=0.008) Alcoholics (p=0.043) and surgery (p=0.043) Conclusion The study observed a significant decrease in HBV infection between 2007 and 2012 attributable to HBV vaccination, safer blood transfusion and surgery. Hence, there is need to sustain the fight against HBV but efforts needs to be intensified towards combating HIV.", "corpus_id": 80364603, "venue": "Sexually Transmitted Infections", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Emmanuel Msugh Mbaawuaga", "Atakpa Pb", "Iroegbu Cu", "Ikeme Ac" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "71190702", "title": "Parvovirus B19: Evaluation of Incidence, Prevalence and Risk Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Ante Natal Clinic in Nasarawa State, North Central of Nigeria", "abstract": "Trans placental transmission of parvovirus B19 during pregnancy has been reported as one of the leading causes of non immune fetal hydrops, spontaneous abortion or intra uterine fetal death. We therefore set out to determine the presence of parvovirus B19 (Ig G and IgM) antibodies and their risk factors among pregnant wo men attending ante natal clin ic, at Federal Medical Center, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.A total of 273 pregnant women (Age range 15 40 years) participated after informed consent and clearance fro m the research ethics committee. Each filled a self ad ministered questionnaire and donated blood samples between January and August 2012. A reco mbinant parvovirus B19 IgM and Ig G ELISA kit fro m DeMediTec (USA) was used for the assays.Of the 273 participants, 36 (13.2 had IgM antibodies, while 75 (27.5% had Ig G antibodies with those aged 15 20 and 36 40 years having the highest incidence and prevalence rates. Being a house wife, having more ch ild ren and histories of blood transfusion, miscarriage and still b irth were associated with infection (P 0.05).The study reveals high incidence and prevalence of parvovirus B19 infect ion among the pregnant women. The presence of parvovirus B19 IgM antibody particularly in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy poses the danger of likely trans placental transmission leading to spontaneous abortion and intra uterine fetal death.", "corpus_id": 71190702, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "A AkyalaIshaku", "Amuta E U", "Agieni Ashem Godwin" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "74822266", "title": "Sero Epidemiology of Human Parvo B19 Virus among Pregnant Women Attending Ante Natal Federal Medical Center Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria", "abstract": "Trans placental transmission of parvovirus B19 during pregnancy has been reported as one of the leading causes of non immune fetal hydrops, spontaneous abortion or intra uterine fetal death. We therefore set out to determine the presence of parvovirus B19 (Ig G and IgM) antibodies and their risk factors among pregnant wo men attending ante natal clin ic, at Federal Medical Center, Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. A total of 273 pregnant wo men (Age range 15 40 years) participated after informed consent and clearance fro m the research ethics committee. Each filled a self ad ministered questionnaire and donated blood samples between January and August 2012. A reco mbinant parvovirus B19 IgM and Ig G ELISA kit fro m DeMediTec (USA) was used for the assays. Of the 273 participants, 36 (13.2 had IgM antibodies, while 75 (27.5% had Ig G antibodies with those aged 15 20 and 36 40 years having the highest incidence and prevalence rates. Being a house wife, having more ch ildren and histories of blood transfusion, miscarriage and still b irth were associated with infection (P 0.05) The study reveals high incidence and prevalence of parvovirus B19 infection among the pregnant wo men. The presence of parvovirus B19 IgM antibody particularly in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy poses the danger of likely transplacental transmission leading to spontaneous abortion and intra uterine fetal death.", "corpus_id": 74822266, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "A AkyalaIshaku", "Amuta E U", "Azua A T" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "216190765", "title": "Role of perceived work life balance between work overload and career commitment", "abstract": "The purpose of the study is to examine the mediating effect of perceived work life balance (WLB) between work overload and career commitment among law enforcement officers in India. The study also explores whether satisfaction with organizational WLB strategies moderates the relationship between work overload and perceived WLB.,This research is based on a sample of 819 law enforcement officers through a structured questionnaire based data collection. The reliability coefficient of the scales varied between 0.86 and 0.94. The study adopted a hierarchical multiple regression analysis to test the hypotheses.,The result supported the mediating role of perceived WLB in the relationship between work overload and career commitment. It also demonstrated that the impact of work overload on perceived WLB would be diminished among employees having high levels of satisfaction on organizational WLB strategies.,The research findings have significant policy implications for the organization under study and a reference for many others with deteriorating WLB to amend the existing policy or formulate new measures.,The present study expands the scant literature on the mediating role of perceived WLB between work overload and career commitment. The study also furthers the literature by exploring the moderating roles of WLB strategies between work overload and perceived WLB.", "corpus_id": 216190765, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Shobitha Poulose", "Manoranjan Dhal" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219703022", "title": "Final year dental students' career plans, work patterns, work life balance and domestic life in New Zealand and Australia.", "abstract": "INTRODUCTION Having insight into final year dental students' career planning is vital in maintaining and enhancing the quality of dental education. The aim of this study was to investigate final year dental students' career plans, work patterns, work life balance, and domestic life, in New Zealand and Australia. METHODS The design of the study was a two centred cross sectional study. RESULTS A total of 148 students, including 95 females (64% and 53 males (36% completed the survey (response rate=87% The mean age of students across two Australasian universities was 23+ 3 years. Findings from this study demonstrate that students prefer their first job is an urban, full time and salary based with a good mentor. However, when describing their long term planning, work life balance becomes more important. The growth in the number of female dentists will continue to shape the future patterns of our dental profession. CONCLUSION The current study has highlighted several similarity and differences in career plans, work patterns, work life balance and domestic life between two Australasian universities. The information might be useful for the policymakers involved in future workforce planning and infrastructure and for those involved in the delivery of dental education.", "corpus_id": 219703022, "venue": "European journal of dental education official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Li Mei", "Yvonne Yee Lok Lai", "Peter Lee", "Austin Ng", "Kevin Tan", "Sobia Zafar", "Guangzhao Guan" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225173349", "title": "Does Work Life Balance Moderate the Relationship between Career Commitment and Career Success? Evidence from an Emerging Asian Economy", "abstract": "This study examines the relationship between career commitment and employee career success (objective and subjective success) in middle level employees working in the service sector. Further, the study investigates the moderating effect of work life balance on the relationship between career commitment and career success. By analyzing data from 360 middle level working employees, our empirical results show that career commitment has a positive and significant effect on the objective and subjective career success of employees. Work life balance positively moderates the relationship between career commitment and subjective career success, whereas it fails to moderate the relationship between career commitment and objective career success. The study contributes by providing a better understanding of the employee's perception of career commitment and career success and their management in emerging markets. Avenues for future research are identified.", "corpus_id": 225173349, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Usama Najam", "Umar Burki", "Wajiha Khalid" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "220371970", "title": "Career Satisfaction, Gender Bias, and Work Life Balance: A Contemporary Assessment of General Surgeons.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE To identify factors and patterns of career and life satisfaction among general surgery residency graduates who completed all of their general surgery training after the implementation of duty hour restrictions. DESIGN A 91 point electronic survey was distributed to assess experiences during medical school, residency, current surgical practice and work life balance. Descriptive statistics and chi square tests were completed. SETTING Twenty nine ACGME accredited surgery residencies. PARTICIPANTS Graduates of surgery residencies between 2008 and 2018. RESULTS Three hundred thirty six surgeons completed the survey (21% response rate) 42% (n 141) were female. Seventy nine percent (n 81) of female and 92% (n 138) of male surgeons reported overall career satisfaction (p 0.004) Overall, 97% and 94% reported feeling competent to practice clinically and operate independently at the conclusion of their training. Thirty four percent (n 48) of women experienced gender bias/discrimination while on their medical school surgery rotation, compared to 6% (n 12) of men (p 0.001) Sixty two percent (n 63) of female surgeons reported gender bias in their practice, compared to 4% (n 6) of men (p 0.001) Of respondents with children, female surgeons were more likely to think having a child negatively affected their career advancement (p 0.004) and 24% of female surgeons and 11% of male surgeons do not think having a family is supported by their practice (p 0.02) If given the opportunity to choose a career again, 21% of female surgeons and 13% of male surgeons would choose a different profession (p 0.13) CONCLUSIONS General surgeons who completed their training after implementation of duty hour regulations are confident in their preparation for clinical practice. Female surgeons were less likely to be satisfied with their career and they report significantly more bias during their professional development and career. Work life balance challenges were similar among men and women. Efforts are necessary to reduce gender bias across the spectrum of general surgeon training/career and to promote well being among surgeons in practice.", "corpus_id": 220371970, "venue": "Journal of surgical education", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Jessica M Rasmussen", "Melissa M Najarian", "Jill S Ties", "Andrew J Borgert", "Kara J Kallies", "Benjamin T Jarman" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "225648580", "title": "Employee work life balance and work satisfaction: an empirical study of entrepreneurial career transition and intention across 70 different economies", "abstract": "The purpose of this research is to determine whether dissatisfaction with salaried work and low potential for work life balance can explain a person's intention to go into business using the entrepreneurial event model from Shapero and Sokol (1982) and whether these factors are more prevalent for women than men.,A sample of 36,129 salaried workers from 70 countries from the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey is assembled to test the entrepreneurial event model's prediction.,In innovation driven economies, job satisfaction and work life balance in the current occupation decrease the likelihood of having the intention to start a business for a salaried person. The impact of work life balance on the intention to start a business in the same for men and women.,In innovation driven economies, organizations relying on employees with strong entrepreneurial potential to innovate and develop markets should also take into consideration job satisfaction and work life balance factors to keep them engaged in entrepreneurial activities. A longitudinal analysis of the impact of institutional, economic and cultural factors associated with job satisfaction and work life balance would be needed to identify the causal impacts.,Findings suggest that displacement factors related to the entrepreneurial event model (Shapero and Sokol, 1982) are relevant to study career transition from salaried work to entrepreneurship, and vice versa.,Esta investigacion investiga si la insatisfaccion con el empleo actual aumenta la intencion de crear su propio negocio. El proposito es ver si la insatisfaccion con el trabajo asalariado y el bajo potencial de equilibrio entre la vida laboral y la personal pueden explicar la intencion de una persona de entrar en el negocio mas alla de los indicadores generalmente utilizados en investigaciones anteriores, como la autoeficacia o el reconocimiento de oportunidades. Ademas, descubrir si estos factores son mas frecuentes en las mujeres que en los hombres es tambien uno de los objetivos.,Se reunio una muestra de 36 129 trabajadores asalariados de 70 paises de la Encuesta de poblacion adulta del Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2013 para probar la prediccion del modelo de evento empresarial de que la falta de equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida laboral de un empleado son factores de desplazamiento en una transicion de carrera empresarial.,La satisfaccion laboral y el equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida en el trabajo actual disminuyen la probabilidad de que una persona asalariada desarrolle la intencion de iniciar un nuevo negocio en los proximos tres anos, pero solo para los paises impulsados por la innovacion. El impacto del equilibrio trabajo vida en la intencion de iniciar un negocio en el mismo para hombres y mujeres.,Se necesitaria un analisis detallado del impacto de los factores institucionales, economicos o culturales en este proceso, por ejemplo, el acceso a guarderias infantiles subvencionadas u oportunidades comerciales en el mercado. Sin embargo, en los paises mas desarrollados, las organizaciones que dependen de empleados con un fuerte potencial empresarial para innovar y desarrollar mercados deben tener en cuenta su satisfaccion laboral y el equilibrio entre la vida laboral y familiar, para mantenerlos comprometidos y no verlos irse para comenzar su negocio propio.,Los hallazgos sugieren que los factores de desplazamiento relacionados con el modelo de evento empresarial (Shapero y Sokol, 1982) son relevantes para estudiar la transicion de la carrera del trabajo asalariado al espiritu empresarial, y viceversa.", "corpus_id": 225648580, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Etienne St-Jean", "Marc Duhamel" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "219803911", "title": "Dual Career Couple Their Work Life Balance", "abstract": "The modern world is full of opportunity and growth of an individual. The 21th century itself brings lot of growth in all sectors of economy and it also increases the concept of Dual Career Couples. The dual career couple refers to those couples who both male and female are engaged in making their career or in other word they both are professional workers. In India concept of Dual are increasing day by day especially in metropolitan cities such like Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and etc. the dual career concept plays vary important role in all the aspect of the couples such like their personal life as well as professional life making balance between them is quite difficult Now a day's organization also increasing their awareness towards understanding impact of dual career couples within the organization. This research paper include understanding theoretical model of dual career and various factor which effect organization as vital to understand (and accept) the need to consider other dimensions on the dual career analytical perspective. Keywords: Dual career couples, work life balance, analytical perspective", "corpus_id": 219803911, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Gaurav V Buch", "Nidhi Naithani" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "208039783", "title": "Women in otolaryngology in Turkey: Insight of gender equality, career development and work life balance.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to collect information about the demographics, academic ambitions, job satisfactions, career development and work life balance of female otorhinolaryngologists (FORL) in Turkey and to determine their experiences with, and attitudes towards gender discrimination throughout their academic careers. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective survey study. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study was aimed to include all FORL who completed their residency program. An online survey was used to collect their responses. RESULTS Out of 208 invitations, 156 FORL participated to the survey. The mean age of the participants was 39.7 6.1 (29 75) years. 16.6% of the FORL used to occupy or still occupying administrative positions in their respective medical centers; 15.4% of them used to be assigned or still being assigned to a duty in otorhinolaryngology associations. Gender discrimination was 2.5 fold higher (p 0.006 OR: 2.55 (95% CI 1.31, 4.99) in departments where there were no female faculty members. 53.2% of the female surgeons were both physically and psychologically harassed for their gender during their residency programs to deter from completing their program in otolaryngology. This finding is 4.1 fold higher than those who stated that they had not been exposed to any such gender discrimination (p 0.001 OR: 4.094 (95% CI 2.22, 7.57) CONCLUSION Healthcare policy makers and institutions should consider taking all the necessary actions to prevent gender discrimination in order to increase job satisfaction and achievements of female specialists in the field of otorhinolaryngology.", "corpus_id": 208039783, "venue": "American journal of otolaryngology", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Hulya Eyigor", "Ilknur Haberal Can", "Armagan Incesulu", "Yesim Senol" ], "n_citations": 4, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "210364337", "title": "PENGARUH WORK LIFE BALANCE, CAREER DEVELOPMENT DAN COMPENSATIONTERHADAP TURNOVER INTENTION MELALUI JOB SATISFACTION SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING (Studi Kasus Di PT. Bank Syariah Mandiri)", "abstract": "Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh work life balance, career development, compensation terhadap turnover intention melalui job satisfaction sebagai variabel intervening .Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah karyawan PT Bank Syariah Mandiri RO V Jawa 2 yang berjumlah 110 responden. Teknik pengambilan sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah dengan purposive sampling yaitu teknik pengambilan sampel sumber data dengan pertimbangan tertentu. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survei menggunakan kuesioner dalam pengambilan data dan diolah dengan menggunakan smartPLS (Partial Least Squares) Hasil pengujian terhadap hipotesis, menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh positif work life balance terhadap job satisfaction. Tidak terdapat pengaruh work life balance terhadap turnover intention. Terdapat pengaruh positif compensation terhadap job satisfaction. Tidak terdapat pengaruh compensation terhadap turnover intention. Terdapat pengaruh positif compensation terhadap job satisfaction. Terdapat pengaruh negatif compensation terhadap turnover intention. Terdapat pengaruh negatif job satisfaction terhadap turnover intention. Tidak terdapat pengaruh Work life balance terhadap turnover intention melalui job satisfaction variabel intervening. Tidak terdapat pengaruh career development terhadap turnover intention melalui job satisfaction variabel intervening. Tidak terdapat pengaruh compensation terhadap turnover intention melalui job satisfaction variabel intervening", "corpus_id": 210364337, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Debrina Farrah Anova" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "155313134", "title": "Hubungan antara Career Capital dan Work Life Balance pada Karyawan di PT. Petrokimia Gresik", "abstract": "This study aimed to examine the correlation between career capital and worklife balance towards the employees of PT Petrokimia Gresik. The total sample was 102 official employees in the office of PT Petrokimia Gresik. Data were collected using simple random sampling technique; the career capital scale was based on Arthur and Inkson theory (2001) while the work life balance scale was transadapted from Fisher's theory (2009) The itemtotal correlation coefficient was calculated using Product Moment Pearson and the reliability was examined using internal consistency technique. The result showed the Product Moment correlation (r) was 0,522 with p 0,000, showing the positive linear correlation was at medium range between the two variables. This means, the higher the career capital of the employees, the higher their work life balance. Otherwise, the lower career capital of the employees, the lower their work life balance.", "corpus_id": 155313134, "venue": "Psikoislamika Jurnal Psikologi dan Psikologi Islam", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Ilma Iftahul Ula", "Ikra Rahma Susilawati", "Selly Dian Widyasari" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "150743503", "title": "INFLUENCE OF WORK LIFE BALANCE ON CAREER SALIENCE IN 5 STAR HOTELS IN KENYA", "abstract": "The study aimed to establish the effect of work life balance on career salience in the five star hotels industry in Kenya. This study was guided by role theory. The research was explanatory and follows a cross sectional survey design. The total population for this study was 4,465 employees and managers of five star rated hotels in Nairobi City County. The desired sample size was 196 respondents. The study used structured questionnaires as the main instruments for collecting primary data from respondents and in some instances document analysis was used as source of secondary data. The researcher used drop and pick method while administering questionnaires to the respondents. The data was analyzed quantitatively using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to obtain descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Data collected was first edited, formatted and organized for coding into the SPSS data viable table. The study hypothesis was tested using multiple linear regression analysis. This study revealed that work life balance significantly influenced career salience in five star hotels in Kenya. The study concluded that employees working in organisations where priority is also given to their other aspects of life other than work commitments feel more satisfied and engaged in their work. Therefore work life balance is an essential component in ensuring career salience among employees. The study recommended that companies should have adequate work life balance policy that include leave days, provision for maternity leave that would go a long way in ensuring people continues with their normal life besides work. The best work life balance is different for each of employees because we all have different priorities and different lives therefore work life balance should in a manner that accommodates everyone. Keywords: Leadership Styles, Hotels and Career Salience CITATION: Otado, N. O. Were, S. Odhiambo, R. O. (2019) Influence of work life balance on career salience in 5 star hotels in Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business Change Management, 6 (1) 336 347.", "corpus_id": 150743503, "venue": "", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Nicholas Ohuru Otado", "Susan Were", "Romanus Otieno Odhiambo" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "38408149", "title": "Resilience and enterprise architecture in SMEs", "abstract": "Considering that SMEs need to embrace the drivers of resilience and that a well defined and readily available Enterprise Architecture (EA) supports enterprise integration by enabling the common view of business processes, data and systems across the enterprise and its partners, we can say that EA is one of the tracks making resilience predictable and it should support and collaborate with other resilience tracks. However, the EA frameworks do not give relevance to the activities that contribute most to business resilience, so this paper aims to clarify the dimensions and the activities related to the development of an EA and the touching points with other enterprise wide processes in order to guarantee that resilience requirements are met in SMEs. For this I propose an approach of ecological adaptation, and four architectures: business, organizational, information, and technological, although this paper only presents the Business and Organizational Architectures.", "corpus_id": 38408149, "venue": "", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Rui Gomes" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "37569800", "title": "Enterprise Architecture for Digital Transformation", "abstract": "Digital transformation requires an altogether new institutional logic and effective response at a requisite organizational level. Sensing and seizing fleeting market opportunities and reconfiguring the business in line with the shifting value proposition requires increasingly specialized resources, more dynamic capabilities, and in built resilience in the face of change. While Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been suggested to facilitate enterprise transformation, the focus has traditionally been on process standardization and integration rather than on continuous adaptation to the changing business and technological landscape. For EA to have a desired impact, more adaptive conceptualizations of EA that address the requirements of the new digital environment are called for. In this conceptual paper, we explore the implications of digital transformation on enterprise architecture. In particular, we note that existing approaches to EA address integration and coherence within a single organization but typically fall short in the face of complexities pertaining to digital ecosystems. We suggest a vertical typology of organizational capabilities and postulate that today's digital environment increasingly requires adaptive capabilities that transcend the traditional notion of dynamic capabilities. We then investigate how EA can help build flexibility and resilience in the organization.", "corpus_id": 37569800, "venue": "2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Janne J Korhonen", "Marco Halen" ], "n_citations": 31, "n_key_citations": 6, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "18455507", "title": "Towards the Next Generation Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture", "abstract": "Emerging business models such as digital ecosystems involving collaborative innovation, participatory decision making and flexible organizational structures are set to significantly affect inter and intra enterprise structure and functionality. This has seen the appearance of increasingly complex Service oriented Architecture (SOA) scenarios featuring various partnership levels, increased resilience and adaptation to tougher compliance regulations, more seamless integration with process layers, etc. This complexity has brought about the need to broaden the SOA paradigm, so as to include business, infrastructure and multi layering, resulting in an evolved concept known as Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA) This paper aims to describe the way new business and technology paradigms continue to affect the new SOEA approach and how the inherently holistic Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks and related practices can support the emerging complex dynamic, multi layered and value chained service based scenario.", "corpus_id": 18455507, "venue": "2015 IEEE 19th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Ricardo J Rabelo", "Ovidiu Noran", "Peter Bernus" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "62985006", "title": "Cyber Resilience: Seven Steps for Institutional Survival", "abstract": "Abstract No enterprise will ever be 100% secure. There are just too many threats. This article presents seven practical steps to achieving cyber resilience. Cyber resilience is not a traditional defensive stance. It requires a change in the way organizations approach security of its information and communication technology (ICT) asset base. Cyber resilience is integrated into the \"bones\" of the organization and requires the organization to develop a well defined, explicit architecture of controls to ensure cyber resiliency. The controls assure provable protection of critical ICT assets and their various interdependencies from every form of electronic, human and physical threat; inside and outside the enterprise's eco system. Cyber resilient architectures make attacks less likely to succeed, minimize the consequences when they do, increase the work factor cost and uncertainty for the adversary, and possibly act as a deterrent against future attacks. Cyber resilience is enforced as an organizational condition rather than a deployed set of explicit countermeasures. This goal requires that a robust set of concrete controls are embedded in the enterprise architecture. Effective implementation of a cyber resilient enterprise architecture requires strategic vision. It also requires day to day engagement across the enterprise to ensure that the controls that enable cyber resilience are effective.", "corpus_id": 62985006, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "William Arthur Conklin", "Dan Shoemaker" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "199448594", "title": "Selected Topics on Business Informatics: Editorial Introduction to Issue 19 of CSIMQ", "abstract": "The objective of this thematic issue was twofold. The first it was to present selected research results of the 17th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR2018) in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 24 26, 2018. The conference created a productive forum for researchers and practitioners on the specific topic Business Resilience, with the intention of exploring organizational and information system resilience in congruence. Top papers were selected by the Program Chairs Prof. Janis Grabis and Prof. Jelena Zdravkovic to submit extended versions for a possible publication to this thematic issue. The second objective was to consider external candidate submissions for bringing attention to recent research in the Business Informatics discipline and thus make this issue even more actual. Five articles were selected that report on research in ecosystem architecture management, strategic coopetition, deriving enterprise architecture model from data, hierarchic viewpoints in control compliance assessments, and operationalizing enterprise IT architecture.", "corpus_id": 199448594, "venue": "Complex Syst. Informatics Model. Q.", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Kurt Sandkuhl", "Jelena Zdravkovic" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "225079687", "title": "Assessing Resilience in Enterprise Architecture: A Systematic Review", "abstract": "This review paper aims to explore state of the art research and scientific literature about Enterprise Architecture (EA) resilience. Based on a systematic literature review, 850 articles have been subjected to evaluation for relevance. Based on the findings in 58 selected papers, we conclude that the field of EA resilience is still in its infancy. We identified several definitions and classified six types of resilience measures, based on information type (qualitative/quantitative) the source of the disruption (internal/external) and the duration of the resilience (short term/long term) Based on the review, we found 19 metrics that are candidates for EA practitioners to consider for the design of measurement and assessment methods for EA resilience. In addition, we identified relevant research from Information Systems sub domains and other sciences that can be incorporated to create a holistic view on EA resilience. Based on published definitions of resilience in the selected papers, we propose a definition of the concept of EA resilience. This definition is validated using expert opinion and creates a starting point for reasoning about EA resilience and future research.", "corpus_id": 225079687, "venue": "2020 IEEE 24th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC)", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Adina Aldea", "Egle Vaicekauskaite", "Maya Daneva", "Jean Paul Sebastian Piest" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "69566721", "title": "Contribution Title Enterprise Architecture Approach to Resilience of Government Data Centre Infrastructure", "abstract": "We can observe a paradigm shift with respect to government data centres. Due to the complexity of such a data centre system, new types of quality attributes should be used, such as resilience, trustworthiness, and sustainability. This paper offers a general approach to the transformation of government data centres for different enterprise levels from a resilience point of view. It presents an enterprise architecture approach to the development of a federal data centre, considering resilience as a quality attribute. The approach is supported by using ArchiMate: an enterprise architecture modelling language. Resilience is considered from various perspectives: business, application, infrastructure and physical. An agnostic solution is proposed which is based on architecture and design patterns.", "corpus_id": 69566721, "venue": "", "year": 2018, "author_names": [ "Wojciech Urbanczyk", "Jan Werewka" ], "n_citations": 1, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "168691714", "title": "Total Exposure Management: Enterprise Risk Management, Organizational Resilience and Change Management", "abstract": "Two decades passed since the pioneering work embodied in the AS/NZS 4360 Risk Management Standard, and in spite of the refinements offered by the subsequent COSO and ISO 31000 frameworks the concept of enterprise wide risk management remains an elusive target. Business organizations continue to hope to transform the historically cost containment focused risk management efforts into a true source of competitive advantage, but obstacles remain. Key among those impediments is the continued fragmentation of organizational adversity abetment efforts, where known risks focused risk management, unknown threats oriented organizational resilience and self imposed transformations minded change management continue to function as three stand alone research disciplines and organizational practice areas. The research described here proposes that combining those three now distinct disciplines into a single, Total Exposure Management framework, with the goal of moving toward transforming the practice of broadly defined organization wide risk management into a source of competitive advantage. Aus. Aca. Busi Eco. Rev Vol 1(1) July 2015, P 24 34", "corpus_id": 168691714, "venue": "", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Andrew D Banasiewicz" ], "n_citations": 2, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "26687515", "title": "The role of organizational culture for grounding, management, guidance and effectiveness of enterprise architecture principles", "abstract": "Enterprise architecture management (EAM) has become a widely acknowledged approach for guiding the continuous change of increasingly complex organizations. While methods and models for describing and analyzing enterprise architectures (EA) have been extensively discussed, principles guiding an EA's design and evolution are hardly covered in existing research. The paper at hand therefore analyzes the mechanisms of EA principles (EAP) that is EAP grounding, EAP management, and EAP guidance and their effects on EA consistency and EAM utility. Specifically we aim at understanding the role of organizational culture for the mechanisms and effects of EAP. Based on empirical data we find that all relations describing EAP mechanisms and their effects are significantly moderated by organizational culture. Based on our findings we give recommendations on how to deal with selected design decisions when introducing and developing EA principles in an organization.", "corpus_id": 26687515, "venue": "Inf. Syst. E Bus. Manag.", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Stephan Aier" ], "n_citations": 115, "n_key_citations": 19, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "12578207", "title": "Organizational Subcultures and Enterprise Architecture Effectiveness: Findings from a Case Study at a European Airport Company", "abstract": "This paper studies how organizational subcultures influence the effectiveness of the enterprise architecture (EA) function. It provides findings from a case study in a European airport company. We find specific subcultural differences that can lower EA effectiveness. In addition, we discover that not only subcultural differences but also subcultural similarity can reduce EA effectiveness. For instance, the preference for working isolated of some business departments results in a lack of communication between those departments, which lowers EA effectiveness. Also, our data suggest that the subcultural influence is indirect. We identify, amongst others, communication defects as an important intermediary variable.", "corpus_id": 12578207, "venue": "2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Hella Faller", "Sybren de Kinderen", "Christina Constantinidis" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "30512996", "title": "Comparison and design of different electrical machine types regarding their applicability in hybrid electrical vehicles", "abstract": "Because of high requirements in power, efficiency, installation space and weight, the design of electrical machines for hybrid electrical vehicles is a particular challenge. In order to make an informed decision, several machine types are pre dimensioned by means of analytical formulae and compared with respect to their power density, efficiency and their applicability in hybrid vehicle concepts. The analytical pre designs are evaluated by the finite element method (FEM) With regard to a parallel hybrid system with a very restricted installation space, a further study is performed on the permanent magnet excited synchronous machine, preferred for its highest power density and overall efficiency.", "corpus_id": 30512996, "venue": "2008 18th International Conference on Electrical Machines", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Matthias Felden", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 123, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "2174955", "title": "Study and comparison of several permanent magnet excited rotor types regarding their applicability in electric vehicles", "abstract": "Due to the limited available space and the high demands in power density and overall efficiency, the permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) is the mainly applied machine type in parallel hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) This machine is used as well in many full electric vehicles (EV) In this work, several permanent magnet excited rotor types are studied regarding their applicability in EVs and HEVs, and are compared in terms of among others: their maximum torque and power, power density, their efficiency map, field weakening capability, overload capacity and torque ripple.", "corpus_id": 2174955, "venue": "2010 Emobility Electrical Power Train", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Marco Hombitzer", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 65, "n_key_citations": 5, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "29868370", "title": "Design and optimization of an IPMSM with fixed outer dimensions for application in HEVs", "abstract": "Permanent magnet excited synchronous machines (PMSM) are finding more and more applications nowadays. They are particularly well adapted when a high power to volume ratio or a high overall efficiency are required. This is in particular the case for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) due to the limited space available in drive trains and the severe constraints on fuel consumption. PM motors are therefore the most widespread machine type in parallel HEVs. This paper presents the design and optimization of an internal PM motor (IPMSM) under the constraint that the outer dimensions of the machine are fixed. The optimal rotor radius and the appropriate pole pair number of the machine are determined by means of analytical calculations and finite element (FE) simulations. A geometry optimization is performed, considering all losses (i.e. copper iron and eddy current losses) as well as the demagnetization resistance and the effect of centrifugal forces at high rotational speeds. In order to determine the field weakening capability and to generate the speed torque as well as the speed power characteristics, the direct and quadrature axis inductances are calculated in function of the load current and the field weakening angle.", "corpus_id": 29868370, "venue": "2009 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference", "year": 2009, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 33, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "39163813", "title": "Study of Hybrid Excited Synchronous Alternators for Automotive Applications Using Coupled FE and Circuit Simulations", "abstract": "In this paper, an alternative arrangement to conventional Lundell automotive generators is examined. This geometry is characterized by hybrid excitation combining the high energy density of permanent magnets and the controllability of commonly used electrical excitation. The rotor geometry of the alternator is optimized by means of finite element (FE) simulations and a prototype design is developed. The formulation for the transient solver is given and the coupling of the FE model with an external circuit is explained in detail. The accomplished studies, simulations, and geometry optimizations are presented. In a final step, the simulations are compared to prototype measurements and confronted with conventional alternator geometries.", "corpus_id": 39163813, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Magnetics", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 43, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "35534499", "title": "Automated Virtual Prototyping of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines for HEVs", "abstract": "Ecological awareness has spurred a renewed interest in hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV) because of their ability to combine the drive power of a combustion engine with that of electrical machines. PMSM's notoriously offer large torque/weight ratios and are therefore particularly well suited for inclusion in HEV drivetrains, where the available space is in general strictly limited. The virtual prototyping and optimizing of PMSM for HEV drive trains is, however, a repetitive and computer intensive task. This paper presents a automated methodology aiming at reducing to a minimum the design time by means of a systematic approach and parallel computing.", "corpus_id": 35534499, "venue": "IEEE Transactions on Magnetics", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Martin Hafner", "Thomas Finken", "Matthias Felden", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 21, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "113560530", "title": "Fahrzyklusgerechte Auslegung von permanentmagneterregten Synchronmaschinen fur Hybrid und Elektrofahrzeuge", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 113560530, "venue": "", "year": 2011, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "106502199", "title": "Computation of Iron and Eddy Current Losses in IPM Motors depending on the Field Weakening Angle and Current Waveform", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 106502199, "venue": "", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 6, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "109872384", "title": "EDITORIAL DYNA 171. Febrero 2012", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 109872384, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Thomas Harold Finken" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "25356559", "title": "Study and geometry optimization of hybrid excited synchronous alternators for automotive applications", "abstract": "Due to the increasing demand for power a continuous development of automotive alternators concerning power, efficiency and power density is required. In this paper an alternative arrangement to conventional Lundell automotive generators is examined. This geometry is characterized by its hybrid excitation combining the high energy density of permanent magnets and the controllability of commonly used electrical excitation thus a simple and cost effective control of output voltage for application in on board supply systems is possible. A simulation of the alternator using the finite element method (FEM) is performed to optimize the rotor geometry and to develop a design, ready for prototyping. The finite element calculation of the alternator behavior and the unknown stator current, including their reaction on the entire magnetic field, requires a transient solving process taking the geometry rotation into account and which is coupled to an electric circuit. The formulation for the transient solver is given and the coupling with external circuit exemplified. The accomplished studies, simulations and geometry optimizations are presented. In a final step the calculations are compared to prototype measurements and confronted with conventional alternator geometries. The developed geometry absorbed about five percent more power but was fifteen percent lighter than compared Lundell generator.", "corpus_id": 25356559, "venue": "2007 IEEE International Electric Machines Drives Conference", "year": 2007, "author_names": [ "Thomas Finken", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "34889677", "title": "Automated virtual prototyping of permanent magnet synchronous machines for HEV's", "abstract": "Hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV) which combine the drive power of an internal combustion engine and that of one or several electrical machines (EM) are finding, due to an increasing ecological awareness, a better market acceptance nowadays. Due to the limited space available in drive trains, PM motors, which offer high power densities, are prime candidates for such applications. This paper presents an automated design process for PMSM, which reduces the motor development time and allows considering many design variations.", "corpus_id": 34889677, "venue": "Digests of the 2010 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Martin Hafner", "Thomas Finken", "Matthias Felden", "Kay Hameyer" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "221738605", "title": "Title PUBLIC PENSIONS IN AN OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL OF THE FRENCH ECONOMY Sub Title", "abstract": "Due to the likely ageing of the French population over the coming decades, the future financing of the current public, pay as you go pension system is quite worrisome. This article offers a framework for evaluating the long run economic consequences of various possible scenarios: it uses an overlappinggenerations, general equilibrium model of the French economy. After the description of the model, we present the results of two demographic variants, which clearly show that the current system would be sustainable in the long run only if population growth is positive. Finally the comparison of macroeconomic outcomes and the individual and social welfare analysis suggest that, if the forecast of a stagnating French population comes true, raising the legal retirement age would clearly dominate other alternatives such as curtailing benefits or switching to a pure capitalization scheme. Key words: computable overlapping generations models, public pensions, ageing. JEL classification: D58, H55. Some recent French studies (INSEE, 1990; Cornilleau and Sterdyniak, 1991; Liv re blanc 1991) have evaluated the prospective financial requirements of the French pension system. These studies rely on the official demographic projections (Dinh and Lab at, 1986) and strong assumptions about the future values of many macroeconomic variables. The increase in social contribution rates ensuring the financial equilibrium of the public pension fund is then calculated, but feedbacks from these institutional prospects to the economic equilibrium are ignored. Research Department OFCE2, Paris. University of Paris 13 and OFCE Paris. We are grateful to participants in the OFCE Seminar (Paris) the Cournot Seminar (University of Paris I) thelgg2 European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Brussels) the VII`b Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Dublin) the Vth France American Economic Meeting on Economics of Ageing (Paris) the Fondation Liege University d'Europe Conference on Insurance and Pensions (Liege) the Seminaire d'economie monetaire Internationale (Paris) the 1993 Workshop on Policy Formulation in Interdependent Markets (Vienna) the 1993 International Symposium on Economic Modelling (Athens) and, especially, an anonymous referee, for helpful comments on earlier drafts. All remaining errors are the authors' responsibility. 2 69 quar d'Orsay 75340 Paris CEDEX 07 (France) Tel. (33 1) 44 18 54 23; Fax (33 1) 45 56 06 15. 3 12 place du Pantheon 75005 Paris (France)", "corpus_id": 221738605, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "", "LE Cacheux" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "216383306", "title": "Maritime transport in the French economy and its impact on air pollution: An input output analysis", "abstract": "Abstract This article studies the role of maritime transport in France on the domestic economy with respect to output and employment inducing effects through an Input Output approach. This is the first study ever made in this country for this industry, whereas the same approach has been applied in the past to many other countries (Korea, Ireland, China, Spain having a significant maritime industry, thus giving a basis for comparison. In addition, an original contribution to the literature is provided through the assessment of the environmental impact of shipping on air pollution through various greenhouse gas emissions (SO2, NOx, CO2, PM2.5, PM10) This assessment of direct and indirect gas emissions caused by water transport is particularly important at a time of more stringent regulations being implemented by the International Maritime Organization and the European Union (i.e. within and beyond the SECA Sulphur Emission Control Areas limits) to reduce the sulphur emissions of ships.", "corpus_id": 216383306, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Corinne Bagoulla", "Patrice Guillotreau" ], "n_citations": 10, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229199489", "title": "Nowcasting GDP growth using data reduction methods: Evidence for the French economy", "abstract": "In this paper, we propose bridge models to nowcast French gross domestic product (GDP) quarterly growth rate. The bridge models, allowing economic interpretations, are specified by using a machine learning approach via Lasso based regressions and by an econometric approach based on an automatic general to specific procedure. These approaches allow to select explanatory variables among a large data set of soft data. A recursive forecast study is carried out to assess the forecasting performance. It turns out that the bridge models constructed using the both variable selection approaches outperform benchmark models and give similar performance in the out of sample forecasting exercise. Finally, the combined forecasts of these both approaches display interesting forecasting performance.", "corpus_id": 229199489, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Olivier Darne", "Amelie Charles" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "211385827", "title": "ITER Is Heating up the French Economy", "abstract": "A large project like ITER can only generate an economic benefit if the host territory is prepared to welcome it and make the effort to meet its specific needs. This was well understood by the French government. However, some political intentions failed to be implemented (as shown in this chapter) The available data confirm that ITER is indeed boosting the host region's economic development. Private employment was very dynamic in this area after 2008, the first year of the financial crisis, whereas it was subject to a sudden slowdown everywhere else. Since 2007 the ITER Organization, Fusion for Energy, and Agence ITER France have awarded contracts worth a total of EUR5.7 billion. Over half of this has been awarded to French companies (contracts worth EUR3.2 billion) This is not really a surprise because major scientific installations like ITER create jobs directly and indirectly. They also stimulate employment in the local economic system. The examples of JET in Culham (United Kingdom) CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva (Switzerland) and ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble (France) have shown that constructing a very large facility has a positive and lasting impact on its surroundings. All these projects have been found to stimulate local development and attract new talent to the area. In their immediate neighborhoods they stimulate new social, industrial, economic, technological, and cultural dynamics. They also create synergies and boost new initiatives and structures such as high tech startups, laboratories, and service providers. Economic models for the period 2018 2030 predict that ITER should generate EUR15.9 billion in gross value added. Over the same period 72,400 job years should be created, mainly in the business services and industry sectors.", "corpus_id": 211385827, "venue": "ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Michel Claessens" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "229204029", "title": "HEALTH CRISIS (COVID 19) AND THE FRENCH ECONOMY", "abstract": "COVID 19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has created surge demand for essential healthcare equipment, Software along with the requirement for digital applications This health crisis has started with the applications of advanced manufacturing and digital information technologies witch used for distance education, for firms, and banking strategies Several analysts assume that this digitalization acceleration can be viewed as a proactive weapon to respond to the crisis The companies in French ahead with digitalization confirmed the validity of this notion", "corpus_id": 229204029, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Salha Ben Salem" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "229563535", "title": "This Week in Europe: UKIP, Schulz resigns, French economy The New Federalist", "abstract": "Commission envisions larger post Brexit budget On Wednesday, EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger revealed a plan to increase the EU budget for 2021 2027, despite the UK's departure from the.", "corpus_id": 229563535, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Radu Mihai Dumitrescu" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "224953013", "title": "The small firm in the French economy", "abstract": "", "corpus_id": 224953013, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "P Y Barreyre" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "213855769", "title": "Regional science: economy and geography in France and French speaking countries", "abstract": "Correspondence Andre Torre, University Paris Saclay, INRA Agroparistech, UMR SAD APT, France. Email: torre@agroparistech.fr Abstract The objective of this paper is to assess the French speaking countries contributions to regional science since its creation in the 1950s. France, and other French speaking countries, very quickly adhered to the approach of the founding fathers of regional science. French language research developed for several years without maintaining major relations with the main streams that flow through regional science. However, the years 2000 and 2010 saw the emergence of streams of thought that strongly irrigate at the international level. The authors of this paper are part of this movement. Here we trace the origins and development of the French speaking contribution to regional sciences, while highlighting the originality of the French language approach. First, the question of academic and institutional contexts is discussed, with the role of the founders and the peculiar place of Journals and public institutions. Further sections analyse the main contributions coming from economics (local systems of production and innovation, innovative milieus and proximity analysis) and geography (regional development at a global scale, and urban systems and complexity) We conclude with crossdisciplinary contributions including intra urban organization and mobility, territorial governance and territorial development, as well as other approaches to the social sciences, in the contemporary issues of city and territorial governance.", "corpus_id": 213855769, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Denise Pumain", "Andre Torre" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "230668029", "title": "The Belle Epoque of the railways: the Freycinet plan and its effects on the French population and economy", "abstract": "In this paper, I study the impact of the Freycinet plan (1879 1914) on the French population and economy,in the short run.The Freycinet plan was one of the major public works programmes launched by the young Third Republic in 1878 1879, which aimed to massively develop rail way connections across the French territory. I first show that, in accordance with there public an ideology at the time, the plan targeted less served and under privileged areas, there fore contributing to the unification of the French territory. Then, I use a difference in differences methodology to assess the impact of the plan on the French population. Since rail road construction is endogenous, I resort to an instrumental variable strategy focusing on the shortest route between the predefined end points of each train line. I find that gaining access to the rail way thanks to the Freycinet plan is associated with are lative increase in the population of connected municipalities by around 30% after the plan was implemented (in the early Interwar period),a result that with stands a series of robustness checks and is mainly explained by population displacement, from unconnected to connected municipalities. Eventually, I find evidence that additional connected municipalities thanks to the Freycinet plan did increase the GDP of French departements, in a non linear way, but had no effect on farming profits.", "corpus_id": 230668029, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Olivier Lenoir" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "228838923", "title": "L'Exclusif in Theory and Practice: French Guiana and the Eighteenth Century Atlantic Economy", "abstract": "This paper documents the importance of French Guiana within the Modern World and the influence of this colony, considered as marginal, on the Atlantic trading networks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To reconstruct French Guiana's commercial network, a material culture analysis of six archaeological collections and records of the boats reaching Cayenne annually during the Ancien Regime were juxtaposed. Through the lens of microhistory, this method led to a revisitation of the Eurocentric economic theories of the Ancien Regime, notably the protectionist policy of l' Exclusif, to better appreciate how the decisions of French Guiana authorities outmaneuvered the imperial power and had a tangible impact on the Atlantic economy by operating outside of the economic precepts of mercantilism.", "corpus_id": 228838923, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Catherine Losier" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "227217430", "title": "Adverse Mental Health Impact of the COVID 19 Lockdown in Individuals With Tourette Syndrome in Italy: An Online Survey", "abstract": "During the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic in Italy, an online survey was launched via a local patient advocacy website to investigate mental health issues in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS) Respondents were parents, who were asked to report on their child's general health, tics, comorbidities/problems, pharmacological treatment/psychotherapy, symptom variations, and daily routine, as well as on their family's health and work experiences during the pandemic. Two hundred thirty eight people participated in the survey, 203 females and 35 males. Our findings indicate that, in the time window of 4 6 weeks after the beginning of the COVID 19 related lockdown, 67% of individuals with TS developed a relevant worsening of the overall clinical condition as rated by their parents. An improvement or no variation of the clinical picture was reported in 20.5 and 6.7% of cases, respectively. Most worsened symptoms included tics, hyperactivity, rage attacks, obsessions/compulsions, and anxiety. Of the subjects experiencing a clinical worsening, the majority (51.76% showed variations across two to five symptom domains. No association was found between symptom variation and family demographics or health and economic issues specifically related to the lockdown. The current COVID 19 pandemic is exerting a considerable impact on the mental health of young individuals with TS by worsening both tics and emotional and behavioral symptoms.", "corpus_id": 227217430, "venue": "Frontiers in Psychiatry", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Giulia Conte", "Valentina Baglioni", "Francesca Valente", "Flavia Chiarotti", "Francesco Cardona" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 2 }, { "doc_id": "225430675", "title": "The Effect of Online Medical and Psychological Consultation on the Mental Health of Pregnant Women", "abstract": "Background Pregnancy and childbirth are exciting and enjoyable events in the life of women and are considered as the most sensitive periods in the life of every woman. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of online medical and psychological consultation on the mental health of pregnant women. Methods: The present semi experimental research was conducted with a pretest posttest design and a control group. The statistical population consisted of pregnant women of the Niniban website (http:www.niniban.com) in the winter of 2019 in Tehran, Iran. A sample of 50 pregnant women who were in their first to sixth months of pregnancy was selected. They were randomly divided into 2 groups of control and experimental (25 individuals in each group) Data were obtained using the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL 90 R) (1990) Results: The results showed that online medical and psychological consultations were fruitful in the experimental group and that the mental health of the experimental group improved (P 0.001) Conclusion: It can be concluded that the online medical and psychological consultations were effective on the mental health of pregnant women.", "corpus_id": 225430675, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Sayed Morteza Tavakoli", "Elham Zarghami", "Maryam Behnam-Moradi" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "236163485", "title": "A cultural experience to support mental health in people aged 16 24 during the COVID 19 pandemic compared to a typical museum website: study protocol of an online randomised controlled trial", "abstract": "Background Despite the high prevalence of common mental disorders in adolescents and young adults, and their association with poor health and socio economic outcomes throughout the lifespan, many young people do not seek or receive help for such disorders. There is growing interest in the community sector in supporting mental health in young people; however, there is little by way of experimental research in this area. During the COVID 19 pandemic and lockdown, we designed an online cultural experience to reduce anxiety and depression and support mental health in people aged 16 24. Methods/design The O ACE POP (Online Active Community Engagement Proof of Principle) study is a UK based online randomised controlled trial of an online cultural experience named Ways of Being, involving human centred narratives and viewpoints, compared with a typical museum website (the Ashmolean Museum) We aim to compare efficacy on affect, symptoms of epression and anxiety, flourishing and loneliness as well as investigating potential mechanisms of action. Discussion The COVID 19 pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to design an innovative approach to supporting mental health in young adults. Findings derived from this study will allow us to evaluate the efficacy of this intervention and will inform the design of studies to further refine the resource and test it further. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04663594. Registered on 11 December 2020 (submitted in same form 27 November 2020) Protocol v1.0: 27 November 2020. Date recruitment began: 4 December 2020. Recruitment complete (estimate) February 2021", "corpus_id": 236163485, "venue": "Trials", "year": 2021, "author_names": [ "Rebecca J Syed Sheriff", "Matti Vuorre", "Evgenia Riga", "Andrew K Przybylski", "Helen Louise Adams", "Catherine J Harmer", "John R Geddes" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "201757027", "title": "Young People Seeking Help Online for Mental Health: Cross Sectional Survey Study", "abstract": "Background Young people are particularly vulnerable to experiencing mental health difficulties, but very few seek treatment or help during this time. Online help seeking may offer an additional domain where young people can seek aid for mental health difficulties, yet our current understanding of how young people seek help online is limited. Objective This was an exploratory study which aimed to investigate the online help seeking behaviors and preferences of young people. Methods This study made use of an anonymous online survey. Young people aged 18 25, living in Ireland, were recruited through social media ads on Twitter and Facebook and participated in the survey. Results A total of 1308 respondents completed the survey. Many of the respondents (80.66% 1055/1308) indicated that they would use their mobile phone to look online for help for a personal or emotional concern. When looking for help online, 82.57% (1080/1308) of participants made use of an Internet search, while 57.03% (746/1308) made use of a health website. When asked about their satisfaction with these resources, 36.94% (399/1080) indicated that they were satisfied or very satisfied with an Internet search while 49.33% (368/746) indicated that they were satisfied or very satisfied with a health website. When asked about credibility, health websites were found to be the most trustworthy, with 39.45% (516/1308) indicating that they found them to be trustworthy or very trustworthy. Most of the respondents (82.95% 1085/1308) indicated that a health service logo was an important indicator of credibility, as was an endorsement by schools and colleges (54.97% 719/1308) Important facilitators of online help seeking included the anonymity and confidentiality offered by the Internet, with 80% (1046/1308) of the sample indicating that it influenced their decision a lot or quite a lot. A noted barrier was being uncertain whether information on an online resource was reliable, with 55.96% (732/1308) of the respondents indicating that this influenced their decision a lot or quite a lot. Conclusions Findings from this survey suggest that young people are engaging with web based mental health resources to assist them with their mental health concerns. However, levels of satisfaction with the available resources vary. Young people are engaging in strategies to assign credibility to web based resources, however, uncertainty around their reliability is a significant barrier to online help seeking.", "corpus_id": 201757027, "venue": "JMIR mental health", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Claudette Pretorius", "Derek Chambers", "Benjamin R Cowan", "David Coyle" ], "n_citations": 14, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "39604907", "title": "Exploring how perceived threat and self efficacy contribute to college students' use and perceptions of online mental health resources", "abstract": "Drawing from prior fear appeal and information seeking research, this study explored how perceived threat and self efficacy predicted college students' use and perceptions of online mental health resources. Results showed that perceived vulnerability was a modest, yet robust predictor of visiting any Internet website and joining an online support group, while self efficacy modestly predicted greater perceived usefulness and trust for online support groups. Although numerous interactions emerged between self efficacy and perceived threat, the impact of these relationships on use and perceptions of these services varied significantly. In particular, at higher levels of self efficacy, perceived severity negatively predict use of online services yet also positively predicted trust in these resources. Furthermore, results showed that vulnerability was only associated with favorable judgments of web services at lower levels of efficacy. Overall, the findings suggest that self efficacy and perceived threat play a small, yet significant role in explaining online mental health information seeking outcomes; however, the exact nature by which these factors operate together to influence one's use and larger impressions such resources remains unclear.", "corpus_id": 39604907, "venue": "Comput. Hum. Behav.", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Christopher J McKinley", "Erin K Ruppel" ], "n_citations": 30, "n_key_citations": 2, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "231591665", "title": "An Online Comparative Study of the Mental Health of Adolescent Non Procrastinators, Active Procrastinators, and Passive Procrastinators", "abstract": "The present research intended to examine the outcomes of active and passive procrastination among Pakistani educated adolescents via online data collection. To meet the objective measures concerning active and passive procrastination (Aziz Tariq, 2013; Choi Moran, 2009; Chu Choi, 2005) depression, anxiety, stress (Lovibond Lovibond, 1995) and life satisfaction (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, Griffin, 1985) were uploaded on a website in English and Urdu. Overall 223 educated Pakistani adolescent participated via online in the study (M 19 years, SD 5.19; age range 13 21 years) The preliminary analysis revealed a sound internal consistency in all the measures. The Findings highlighted that active and passive procrastination are distinct constructs with entirely different implications. There were significant negative correlations between active procrastination depression, anxiety and stress. However a positive relationship was found between passive procrastination and depression, anxiety and stress. Life satisfaction was found to be positively correlated with active procrastination whereas ngatively with passive procrastination. No significant differences were observed on demographic variables. One way MANOVA revealed significant differences among non procrastinators, active procrastinators, and passive procrastinators. Limitations and future directions for online data collection are also discussed.", "corpus_id": 231591665, "venue": "", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Saadia Aziz", "Shahid Irfan", "Mamoona Ismail Loona" ], "n_citations": 0, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "61486264", "title": "An Online Intervention to Promote Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young Adults Whose Parents Have Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Problems: Theoretical Basis and Intervention Description", "abstract": "The transition to adulthood can be a vulnerable period for certain population groups. In particular, young adults aged 18 25 years who have a parent with mental illness and/or substance use problems face increased risks to their mental health compared to same aged peers. Yet these young adults may not have access to age appropriate, targeted interventions, nor engage with traditional face to face health services. To support this vulnerable group, services need to engage with them in environments where they are likely to seek help, such as the Internet. This paper describes the risk mechanisms for this group of young adults, and the theoretical and empirical basis, aims, features and content of a tailored online group intervention; mi.spot (mental illness: supportive, preventative, online, targeted) The participatory approach employed to design the intervention is described. This involved working collaboratively with stakeholders (i.e. young adults, clinicians, researchers and website developers) Implementation considerations and future research priorities for an online approach targeting this group of young adults conclude the paper.", "corpus_id": 61486264, "venue": "Front. Psychiatry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Andrea E Reupert", "Catherine Bartholomew", "Rose Cuff", "Kimberly Foster", "Jodie L Matar", "Darryl J Maybery", "Laura Pettenuzzo" ], "n_citations": 9, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "200022126", "title": "Smooth Sailing: A Pilot Study of an Online, School Based, Mental Health Service for Depression and Anxiety", "abstract": "Background: Schools play an important role in supporting young people's mental health, but face challenges identifying and responding to students in need of care. To assist secondary schools, the Black Dog Institute has developed an online, school based, mental health service (Smooth Sailing) Delivered in the classroom, Smooth Sailing uses a website to screen, assess, allocate, and deliver care for depression and anxiety. The service is based on the principles of stepped care, offering treatments with varied intensity and follow up by a school counselor when necessary. The current study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of this new type of service among secondary school students. Methods: Between February and June 2017, a single arm, pre post, pilot study was conducted among students from four NSW secondary schools. Schools were given access to the service for 6 weeks. Feasibility measures (consent rates and step allocations) acceptability measures (service use and satisfaction) and safety measures (deterioration in help seeking intention scores and mental health symptoms) were assessed at baseline and completion of the 6 week trial period. Results: A total of 59 students took part in the service pilot (mean age, 14.57 years; SD, 0.89 years; range, 13 16 years) At baseline, 18.64% of students were found to require follow up from the school counselor, and 80% of these were new cases. Although completion of the online modules was low, service satisfaction was high. At 6 weeks, the mean scores for help seeking, depression, and anxiety remained relatively stable or improved. Conclusions: The current study presents important findings for the development and implementation of an online mental health service that screens students' mental health and allocates care accordingly, all within the school setting. Although the findings provide some support for the feasibility, acceptability, and safety, service improvements are needed. The modifications outlined are likely to improve the quality of the service and its effectiveness. Trial Registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) ACTRN12617000977370", "corpus_id": 200022126, "venue": "Front. Psychiatry", "year": 2019, "author_names": [ "Bridianne O'Dea", "Catherine King", "Mirjana Subotic-Kerry", "Melinda Rose Achilles", "Nicole Cockayne", "Helen Christensen" ], "n_citations": 5, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "222169923", "title": "The Impact of COVID 19 on Mental Health: The Role of Locus on Control and Internet Use", "abstract": "The true extent of the mental health implications of the COVID 19 pandemic are unclear, but early evidence suggests poorer mental health among those exposed to the pandemic. The Internet may have differential effects, by both connecting people with resources, or reinforce the constant checking of negative information. Moreover, locus of control becomes important in an uncontrollable pandemic. The current study aimed to examine whether exposure to COVID 19 would relate to greater symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress, and to examine the role of internet use and locus of control. Adults in the United States and five European countries (N 1723) answered an online survey through the website Mturk. Results show elevated psychological symptoms among those who have become infected with COVID 19 or perceive themselves to be at high risk if infected. Experience using the Internet relates to fewer symptoms, but information seeking is associated with more symptoms. Internet social capital relates to fewer symptoms of depression. Having an external locus of control relates to greater symptoms. These findings suggest that public health officials need to focus on the mental health effects of the pandemic, and that internet use and locus of control could be targets to improve mental health in the population.", "corpus_id": 222169923, "venue": "International journal of environmental research and public health", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir", "Ingibjorg Eva Thorisdottir", "Haukur Freyr Gylfason" ], "n_citations": 20, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "72098303", "title": "Online mental health resources for teenagers: an evaluation of two websites developed for adolescents", "abstract": "Young people are less likely to seek help for mental health difficulties. Good quality mental health information from reliable sources may help overcome barriers to help seeking in young people and improve awareness of the common symptoms related to mental health problems. With an adolescent population in mind, websites for depression and for stress and anxiety were developed for young people and those caring for them by one of the authors. The current evaluation sought to assess the use of, and perceived satisfaction with, each of these mental health websites. Data from the website domains were considered in relation to unique visits, country of origin and source of referral. Qualitative website user feedback was gained from evaluation questionnaires. Findings showed that website visits for both resources have increased year on year and feedback from the evaluation revealed that the resource information was perceived to be trustworthy, reliable and informative. The feedback indicated that the resource was perceived to be accessible and informative for adolescents. Future developments to reduce the barriers for accessing mental health are discussed.", "corpus_id": 72098303, "venue": "", "year": 2012, "author_names": [ "Melanie Young", "Cathy Richards", "Melanie Gunning" ], "n_citations": 8, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "28863830", "title": "Verbal working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients and their first degree relatives: evidence from the digit span task.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE The evidence for verbal working memory deficits in schizophrenia has been inconsistent. Few studies have evaluated verbal working memory in the first degree relatives of schizophrenia patients, who likely share the genetic diathesis for schizophrenia but not the potential confounds associated with chronic mental illness. METHOD The Wechsler Digit Span Task was used to investigate verbal working memory in 52 schizophrenia patients, 56 of their first degree relatives, and 73 nonpsychiatric comparison subjects. RESULTS The nonpsychotic relatives showed no impairment on the forward digit span task, a measure of general attention, but did show impairment on the backward digit span task, a measure of verbal working memory. Schizophrenia patients showed impairment on both the forward and backward digit span tasks. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that the forward and backward digit span tasks tap different cognitive abilities that are differentially associated with the diathesis for schizophrenia. Working memory deficits associated with schizophrenia appear to be generalized and not limited to the spatial modality.", "corpus_id": 28863830, "venue": "The American journal of psychiatry", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "Heather M Conklin", "Clayton E Curtis", "Joanna Katsanis", "William G Iacono" ], "n_citations": 268, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "25524309", "title": "Effects of acute subcutaneous nicotine on attention, information processing and short term memory in alzheimer's disease", "abstract": "This single blind, placebo controlled study reports on the effects of administering three acute doses of nicotine (0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 mg) subcutaneously to a group of Alzheimer's disease (DAT) patients (n=22) young adult controls (n=24) and normal aged controls (n=24) The study extends our previous findings obtained using smaller groups of subjects. Drug effects were examined on three computerised tests: the first measuring rapid visual information processing, sustained visual attention and reaction time (RVIP task) a delayed response matching to location order task measuring sustained visual attention and visual short term memory (DRMLO task) and a finger tapping test measuring simple reaction time (FT task) The critical flicker fusion test (CFF) was used as a measure of perception and the WAIS digit span forwards (DS) of auditory short term memory. Tests were graded in difficulty, titrated to avoid floor and ceiling effects so that meaningful, direct comparisons between groups could be made. Nicotine significantly improved sustained visual attention (in both RVIP and DRMLO tasks) reaction time (in both FT and RVIP tasks) and perception (CFF task both ascending and descending thresholds) Nicotine administration did not improve auditory and visual short term memory. There were no consistent, overall patterns of difference in performance between smokers and non smokers in the control groups, or between males and females in any group. Despite the absence of change in memory functioning, these results demonstrate that DAT patients have significant perceptual and visual attention deficits which are improved by nicotine administration. The importance of measuring multiple abilities in future drug studies is emphasized and results are discussed in terms of nicotine's actions on attention, information processing and short term memory.", "corpus_id": 25524309, "venue": "Psychopharmacology", "year": 2005, "author_names": [ "G M Jones", "Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian", "Raymond Levy", "David M Warburton", "J A Gray" ], "n_citations": 249, "n_key_citations": 8, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "8166808", "title": "Visuospatial imagery is a fruitful strategy for the digit span backward task: a study with near infrared optical tomography.", "abstract": "Our newly developed 64 channel time resolved optical tomographic imaging system using near infrared light enables us to obtain a quantitative image of hemoglobin concentration changes associated with neuronal activation in the human brain ?H. Eda, I. Oda, Y. Ito, Y. Wada, Y. Oikawa, Y. Tsunazawa, M. Takada, Y. Tsuchiya, Y. Yamashita, M. Oda, A. Sassaroll, Y. Yamada, M. Tamura, Multi channel time resolved optical tomographic imaging system, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70 (1999) 3595 3602. Here, we used this optical imaging system to demonstrate that the backward digit span (DB) task activated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of each hemisphere more than the forward digit span (DF) task in healthy adult volunteers, and higher performance of the DB task was closely related to the activation of the right DLPFC. These results suggest that visuospatial imagery is a useful strategy for the DB task. Optical tomography described here is a new modality of neuropsychological studies.", "corpus_id": 8166808, "venue": "Brain research. Cognitive brain research", "year": 2000, "author_names": [ "Yoko Hoshi", "Ichiro Oda", "Yukihisa Wada", "Y Ito", "", "Motoki Oda", "Kazuyoshi Ohta", "Y Yamada" ], "n_citations": 201, "n_key_citations": 10, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "39913221", "title": "The Backward Span of the Corsi Block Tapping Task and Its Association With the WAIS III Digit Span", "abstract": "The Corsi Block Tapping Task measures visuospatial short term and working memory, but a standardized backward condition is lacking. The authors present a standardized backward procedure that was examined in 246 healthy older adults (ages 50 to 92) comparing the results with the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Third Edition. Principal component analysis resulted in a two factor model, dissociating a verbal and a spatial working memory factor. Also the Corsi backward is not more difficult than the Corsi forward, in contrast to the Digit Span backward that is more difficult than the Digit Span forward. This may suggest that the Corsi Block Tapping Task backward task relies on processing within working memory's slave systems, whereas the Digit Span backward also relies on the central executive component of working memory. Finally, regression based normative data and cutoff scores for older adults are presented for use in clinical practice.", "corpus_id": 39913221, "venue": "Assessment", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Roy P C Kessels", "Esther van den Berg", "Carla Ruis", "Augustina M A Brands" ], "n_citations": 192, "n_key_citations": 11, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "15849034", "title": "Theory of mind disability in major depression with or without psychotic symptoms: A componential view", "abstract": "Previous reports have conceptualized theory of mind (ToM) as comprising two components and questioned whether ToM deficits are associated with psychotic symptoms. We investigated 33 nonpsychotic depressed inpatients, 23 psychotic depressed inpatients, and 53 normal controls with the following measures: Eyes Task, Faux pas Task, Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) Digit Span Test (DST) and WAIS IQ. The depressed patients were also evaluated with the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI II) and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) The nonpsychotic depressed patients and the psychotic depressed individuals were significantly impaired on tasks involving ToM social perceptual and social cognitive components, as well as the VFT. The psychotic depressed patients performed significantly worse than nonpsychotic depressed patients on ToM tasks. An association was found between ToM performances and both BPRS total and hostile suspiciousness scores in the depressed group. Both of the ToM components were impaired in depressed patients. Similar mechanisms and neurobiological substrate may contribute to schizophrenia and major depression.", "corpus_id": 15849034, "venue": "Psychiatry Research", "year": 2008, "author_names": [ "Yong-guang Wang", "Yi-qiang Wang", "Shu-lin Chen", "Chun-yan Zhu", "Kai Wang" ], "n_citations": 169, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "13543383", "title": "Peak alpha frequency: an electroencephalographic measure of cognitive preparedness", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE Electroencephalographic (EEG) peak alpha frequency (PAF) (measured in Hz) has been correlated to cognitive performance between healthy and clinical individuals, and among healthy individuals. PAF also varies within individuals across developmental stages, among different cognitive tasks, and among physiological states induced by administration of various substances. The present study suggests that, among other things, PAF reflects a trait or state of cognitive preparedness. METHODS Experiment 1 involved 19 channel EEG recordings from 10 individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 12 healthy matched controls, before, during, and after tasks of visual and auditory attention. Experiment 2 involved EEG recordings from 19 healthy young adults before and after a working memory task (WAIS R Digit Span) repeated on 2 different days to measure within individual differences. RESULTS Experiment 1 showed significantly lower PAF in individuals with TBI, mostly during post task rest. Experiment 2 showed PAF during pre task baseline to be significantly correlated with Digit Span performance of the same day but not with Digit Span performance of another day. Moreover, PAF was significantly increased after Digit Span for those participants whose PAF was lower than the sample median before the task, but not for those who had it higher. Finally, both PAF and Digit Span performance were increased during the second day. CONCLUSIONS PAF was shown to detect both trait and state differences in cognitive preparedness, as well as to be affected by cognitive tasks. Traits are better reflected during post task rest, whereas states are better reflected during initial resting baseline recordings.", "corpus_id": 13543383, "venue": "Clinical Neurophysiology", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Efthymios Angelakis", "Joel F Lubar", "Stamatina Stathopoulou", "John Kounios" ], "n_citations": 175, "n_key_citations": 9, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "31494067", "title": "The validity of d prime as a working memory index: Results from the \"Bergen n back task\"", "abstract": "The n back task is frequently used as an experimental paradigm in imaging studies of working memory. This study aimed to investigate whether the Bergen 2 back task is suitable for use in desktop assessment of patients with schizophrenia. Looking at the psychometric properties of the task, including the newly added measure of discriminability, d prime (d our analyses confirmed that the 2 back d is the preferred measure of working memory dysfunction in desktop assessment compared to the Digit Span Backward and the Letter Number Sequencing subtests from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Third Edition (WAIS III) d has the advantage of capturing executive skills needed to perform mental operations in patients with schizophrenia, without being influenced by demographic variables or IQ.", "corpus_id": 31494067, "venue": "Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Beathe Haatveit", "Kjetil S Sundet", "Kenneth Hugdahl", "Torill Ueland", "Ingrid Melle", "Ole Andreas Andreassen" ], "n_citations": 169, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "25477812", "title": "Aging and prefrontal functions: dissociating orbitofrontal and dorsolateral abilities", "abstract": "This study aimed to determine whether age differentially affects performance on tasks tapping orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) We administered prefrontal measures to healthy younger n=23; age= 28.4+ 5.9, education 15.7+ 2.6, MMSE=29.5+ 0.6 and older participants n=20; age=69.1+ 5.0, education =15.5+ 3.4, MMSE =28.9+ 1.5) Groups did not differ on education or mental status, P>0.05. Tasks thought to involve greater OFC processing included the Iowa Gambling Task and Delayed Match and Non Match to Sample Tasks. Tasks requiring greater DLPFC processing included Petrides' Self Ordered Pointing, WAIS R Digit Span Backward, Letter Fluency, and Months Backward from the Boston Revision of WMS Mental Control. Composite z scores were calculated for OFC and DLPFC tasks. A 2 x 2 ANOVA revealed a Group x Task interaction: F(1,41) =5.55, P=0.02, and a Group main effect: F(1,41) 12.16, P=0.001. Follow up analyses revealed younger adults outperformed older adults on OFC tasks only younger 0.37+ 0.46, older= 0.43+ 0.70; t(41) =4.5, P<0.001 Post hoc analyses of individual tasks confirmed that despite age differences on Petrides' Self Ordered Pointing, measures requiring relatively greater OFC involvement showed larger effect sizes for age differences. Thus, tasks emphasizing OFC functions appear more sensitive to age effects when directly compared to measures of DLPFC functioning. Reasons for this difference in magnitude may stem from differential aging of prefrontal cortex or differential recruitment of alternative brain regions for successful task completion.", "corpus_id": 25477812, "venue": "Neurobiology of Aging", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Melissa Lamar", "Susan M Resnick" ], "n_citations": 136, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "40494299", "title": "WAIS Digit Span Based Indicators of Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction", "abstract": "The present study determined specificity and sensitivity to malingered neurocognitive dysfunction (MND) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) for several Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Digit Span scores. TBI patients (n 344) were categorized into one of five groups: no incentive, incentive only, suspect, probable MND, and definite MND. Performance of 1,063 nonincentive patients (e.g. cerebrovascular accident, memory disorder) was also examined. Digit Span scores included reliable digit span, maximum span forward both trials correct, maximum span forward, combined maximum forward and backward span, Digit Span scaled score, maximum span backward both trials correct, and maximum span backward. In TBI, sensitivity to MND ranged from 15% to greater than 30% at specificities of 92% to 98% Patient groups with documented brain pathology had higher false positive error rates. These results replicate previous known groups malingering studies and provide valuable data supporting the WAIS Digit Span scores in detection and diagnosis of malingering.", "corpus_id": 40494299, "venue": "Assessment", "year": 2005, "author_names": [ "Matthew T Heinly", "Kevin W Greve", "Kevin J Bianchini", "Jeffrey M Love", "Adrianne M Brennan" ], "n_citations": 140, "n_key_citations": 12, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "8862687", "title": "P300 and Neuropsychological Tests as Measures of Aging: Scalp Topography and Cognitive Changes", "abstract": "The rationale for the present study was to investigate several aspects of P300 topography in relation to aging and neuropsychological measures. We administered an auditory oddball ERP task to 72 participants aged 21.8 to 94.7 years, 36 males and 36 females, in addition to the Wechsler Abbreviated Scales of Intelligence (WASI) and digit span from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales Revised (WAIS R) The relationship between age and P300 latency and amplitude at different electrodes was investigated, as well as the changes in the correlational pattern between P300 latency and amplitude with increasing age. A formal test of curvilinear relationships for P300 latency/amplitude and age was performed. Principal component factor analyses were performed for P300 latency and amplitude separately in order to check for possible superordinate structures in the distribution of the electrical activity measured at the scalp. In addition, each of the electrodes and each of the factors were correlated with the different neuropsychological measures, and the contribution of age to the observed relationships is discussed. The main conclusion drawn is that the activity generated from different brain areas change at different rates with age. While the posterior area shows a clear reduction of P300 amplitude and a delay of P300 latency with age, the amplitude does not decrease at the same rate in the fronto central areas, and there is at the same time a marked hemispheric asymmetry in the age dependent change of activation. Based on our data, it may be concluded that a curvilinear expression generally does not explain the aging effect on the ERP component P300. Correlations between neuropsychological measures and P300 did, as expected, vary with area of activation, and the strongest correlations were generally found between matrices, block design and digit span, and the midline and left fronto temporal electrodes. These relationships were in turn mediated by age. Implications of the findings are discussed.", "corpus_id": 8862687, "venue": "Brain Topography", "year": 2004, "author_names": [ "Anders Martin Fjell", "Kristine B Walhovd" ], "n_citations": 134, "n_key_citations": 7, "score": 0 } ]

[ { "doc_id": "4904615", "title": "Oligodendrocyte Nf1 Controls Aberrant Notch Activation and Regulates Myelin Structure and Behavior", "abstract": "SUMMARY The RASopathy neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is one of the most common autosomal dominant genetic disorders. In NF1 patients, neurological issues may result from damaged myelin, and mice with a neurofibromin gene (Nf1) mutation show white matter (WM) defects including myelin decompaction. Using mouse genetics, we find that altered Nf1 gene dose in mature oligodendrocytes results in progressive myelin defects and behavioral abnormalities mediated by aberrant Notch activation. Blocking Notch, upstream mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) or nitric oxide signaling rescues myelin defects in hemizygous Nf1 mutants, and pharmacological gamma secretase inhibition rescues aberrant behavior with no effects in wild type (WT) mice. Concomitant pathway inhibition rescues myelin abnormalities in homozygous mutants. Notch activation is also observed in Nf1+ mouse brains, and cells containing active Notch are increased in NF1 patient WM. We thus identify Notch as an Nf1 effector regulating myelin structure and behavior in a RASopathy and suggest that inhibition of Notch signaling may be a therapeutic strategy for NF1.", "corpus_id": 4904615, "venue": "Cell reports", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Alejandro Lopez-Juarez", "Haley E Titus", "Sadiq H Silbak", "Joshua W Pressler", "Tilat A Rizvi", "Madeleine Bogard", "Michael R Bennett", "Georgianne M Ciraolo", "MichaelT Williams", "Charles V Vorhees", "Nancy Ratner" ], "n_citations": 22, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "46797229", "title": "Oligodendrocyte RasG12V expressed in its endogenous locus disrupts myelin structure through increased MAPK, nitric oxide, and notch signaling", "abstract": "Costello syndrome (CS) is a gain of function Rasopathy caused by heterozygous activating mutations in the HRAS gene. Patients show brain dysfunction that can include abnormal brain white matter. Transgenic activation of HRas in the entire mouse oligodendrocyte lineage resulted in myelin defects and behavioral abnormalities, suggesting roles for disrupted myelin in CS brain dysfunction. Here, we studied a mouse model in which the endogenous HRas gene is conditionally replaced by mutant HRasG12V in mature oligodendrocytes, to separate effects in mature myelinating cells from developmental events. Increased myelin thickness due to decompaction was detectable within one month of HRasG12V expression in the corpus callosum of adult mice. Increases in active ERK and Nitric Oxide (NO) were present in HRas mutants and inhibition of NO synthase (NOS) or MEK each partially rescued myelin decompaction. In addition, genetic or pharmacologic inhibition of Notch signaling improved myelin compaction. Complete rescue of myelin structure required dual drug treatments combining MAPK, NO, or Notch inhibition; with MEK NOS blockade producing the most robust effect. We suggest that individual or concomitant blockade of these pathways in CS patients may improve aspects of brain function.", "corpus_id": 46797229, "venue": "Glia", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Haley E Titus", "Alejandro Lopez-Juarez", "Sadiq H Silbak", "Tilat A Rizvi", "Madeleine Bogard", "Nancy Ratner" ], "n_citations": 11, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "211087384", "title": "Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Functions: Targeting Lipid Metabolism and Extracellular Matrix for Myelin Repair", "abstract": "Myelin is an essential structure that protects axons, provides metabolic support to neurons and allows fast nerve transmission. Several neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, are characterized by myelin damage, which is responsible of severe functional impairment. Myelin repair requires the timely recruitment of adult oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) at the lesion sites, their differentiation and maturation into myelinating oligodendrocytes. As a consequence, OPCs undergo profound changes in their morphology, functions, and interactions with other cells and extracellular environment, thus requiring the reorganization of both their lipid metabolism and their membrane composition, which is substantially different compared to other plasma membranes. Despite the growing knowledge in oligodendroglia biology and in the mechanisms involved in OPC mediated regeneration, the identification of strategies to promote remyelination still remains a challenge. Here, we describe how altered lipid metabolism in oligodendrocytes influences the pathogenesis of demyelination, and we show that several FDA approved drugs with a previously unknown remyelination potential do act on cholesterol and lipid biosynthetic pathways. Since the interplay between myelin lipids and axons is strictly coordinated by the extracellular matrix (ECM) we also discuss the role of different ECM components, and report the last findings on new ECM modifiers able to foster endogenous remyelination.", "corpus_id": 211087384, "venue": "Journal of clinical medicine", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Davide Marangon", "Marta Boccazzi", "Davide Lecca", "Marta Fumagalli" ], "n_citations": 12, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "221620535", "title": "Lipids in regulating oligodendrocyte structure and function.", "abstract": "Oligodendrocytes enwrap central nervous system axons with myelin, a lipid enriched highly organized multi layer membrane structure that allows for fast long distance saltatory conduction of neuronal impulses. Myelin has an extremely high lipid content ~80 of its dry weight) and a peculiar lipid composition, with a 2:2:1 cholesterol:phospholipid:glycolipid ratio. Inherited neurodegenerative diseases of the lipids (caused by mutations in lipogenic enzymes) often present oligodendrocyte and/or myelin defects which contribute to the overall disease pathophysiology. These phenomena triggered an increasing number of studies over the functions lipid exert to shape and maintain myelin, and brought to the finding that lipids are more than only structural building blocks. They act as signaling molecules to drive proliferation and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, as well as proliferation of premyelinating oligodendrocytes, and their maturation into myelinating ones. Here, we summarize key findings in these areas, while presenting the main related human diseases. Despite many advances in the field, various questions remain open which we briefly discuss. This article is part of a special issue entitled \"Role of Lipids in CNS Cell Physiology and Pathology\"", "corpus_id": 221620535, "venue": "Seminars in cell developmental biology", "year": 2020, "author_names": [ "Laura Montani" ], "n_citations": 7, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "1057447", "title": "Oligodendrocyte Myelin Glycoprotein Does Not Influence Node of Ranvier Structure or Assembly", "abstract": "Oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein (OMgp) is expressed by both neurons and oligodendrocytes in the CNS. It has been implicated in growth cone collapse and neurite outgrowth inhibition by signaling through the Nogo receptor and paired Ig like receptor B (PirB) OMgp was also reported to be an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein surrounding CNS nodes of Ranvier and proposed to function as (1) an inhibitor of nodal collateral sprouting and (2) an important contributor to proper nodal and paranodal architecture. However, we show here that the anti OMgp antiserum used in previous studies to define the functions of OMgp at nodes is not specific. Among all reported nodal ECM components, the antiserum exhibited strong cross reactivity against versican V2 isoform, a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan. Furthermore, the OMgp antiserum labeled OMgp null nodes, but not nodes from versican V2 deficient mice, and preadsorption of the OMgp antiserum with recombinant versican V2 blocked nodal labeling. Analysis of CNS nodes in OMgp null mice failed to reveal any nodal or paranodal defects, or increased nodal collateral sprouting, indicating that OMgp does not participate in CNS node of Ranvier assembly or maintenance. We successfully identified a highly specific anti OMgp antibody and observed OMgp staining in white matter only after initiation of myelination. OMgp immunoreactivity decorated the surface of mature myelinated axons, but was excluded from compact myelin and nodes. Together, our results strongly argue against the nodal localization of OMgp and its proposed functions at nodes, and reveal OMgp's authentic localization relative to nodes and myelin.", "corpus_id": 1057447, "venue": "The Journal of Neuroscience", "year": 2010, "author_names": [ "Kae-Jiun Chang", "Keiichiro Susuki", "Maria T Dours-Zimmermann", "Dieter R Zimmermann", "Matthew N Rasband" ], "n_citations": 25, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "30528915", "title": "A combined NMR and molecular dynamics simulation study to determine the conformational properties of rat/mouse 35 55 myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein epitope implicated in the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis", "abstract": "A combined NMR and molecular dynamics simulation study to determine the conformational properties of rat/mouse 35 55 myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein epitope implicated in the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis Dimitrios Ntountaniotis, Marianna Vanioti, Golfo G. Kordopati, Tahsin F. Kellici Konstantinos D. Marousis, Thomas Mavromoustakos* Georgios A. Spyroulias, Simona Golic Grdadolnik and Theodore V. Tselios* Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou 15771, Athens, Greece; Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece; Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece; Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece; Department of Biomolecular Structure, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia", "corpus_id": 30528915, "venue": "Journal of biomolecular structure dynamics", "year": 2017, "author_names": [ "Dimitrios Ntountaniotis", "Marianna Vanioti", "Golfo G Kordopati", "Tahsin F Kellici", "Konstantinos D Marousis", "Thomas M Mavromoustakos", "Georgios A Spyroulias", "Simona Golic Grdadolnik", "Theodore V Tselios" ], "n_citations": 3, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "2997358", "title": "CXXC5 plays a role as a transcription activator for myelin genes on oligodendrocyte differentiation", "abstract": "Myelination in corpus callosum plays important role for normal brain functions by transferring neurological information between various brain regions. However, the factors controlling expression of myelin genes in myelination are poorly understood. Here, CXXC5, a recently identified protein with CXXC type zinc finger DNA binding motif, was characterized as a transcriptional activator of major myelin genes. We identified expression of CXXC5 expression was increased by Wnt/b catenin signaling. CXXC5 specifically expressed in the white matter induced expression of myelin genes through the direct binding of CXXC DNA binding motif of CXXC5 on the MBP promoter. During the differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) of CXXC5 mice, the expressions of myelin genes were simultaneously reduced. The CXXC5 mice exhibited severely reduction of myelin genes expression in corpus callosum as well as abnormalities in myelin structure. The disrupted structural integrity of myelin in the CXXC5 mice resulted in reduced electrical conduction amplitudes at corpus callosum. These findings indicate that the regulation of myelin genes expression by CXXC5 is important for forming myelin structure involved with axonal electrical signal transfer in the corpus callosum. GLIA 2016;64:350 362", "corpus_id": 2997358, "venue": "Glia", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Mi-Yeon Kim", "Hyun-Yi Kim", "Jiso Hong", "Daesoo Kim", "Hyojung Lee", "Eunji Cheong", "Yangsin Lee", "Jurgen Roth", "Dong Goo Kim", "Do Sik Min", "Kang-Yell Choi" ], "n_citations": 16, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "12653229", "title": "Erratum to: Anosmin 1 over expression regulates oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation, migration and myelin sheath thickness", "abstract": "During development of the central nervous system, anosmin 1 (A1) works as a chemotropic cue contributing to axonal outgrowth and collateralization, as well as modulating the migration of different cell types, fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) being the main receptor involved in all these events. To further understand the role of A1 during development, we have analysed the over expression of human A1 in a transgenic mouse line. Compared with control mice during development and in early adulthood, A1 over expressing transgenic mice showed an enhanced oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) proliferation and a higher number of OPCs in the subventricular zone and in the corpus callosum (CC) The migratory capacity of OPCs from the transgenic mice is increased in vitro due to a higher basal activation of ERK1/2 mediated through FGFR1 and they also produced more myelin basic protein (MBP) In vivo, the over expression of A1 resulted in an elevated number of mature oligodendrocytes with higher levels of MBP mRNA and protein, as well as increased levels of activation of the ERK1/2 proteins, while electron microscopy revealed thicker myelin sheaths around the axons of the CC in adulthood. Also in the mature CC, the nodes of Ranvier were significantly longer and the conduction velocity of the nerve impulse in vivo was significantly increased in the CC of A1 over expressing transgenic mice. Altogether, these data confirmed the involvement of A1 in oligodendrogliogenesis and its relevance for myelination.", "corpus_id": 12653229, "venue": "Brain Structure and Function", "year": 2015, "author_names": [ "Veronica Murcia-Belmonte", "P F Esteban", "Jose Martinez-Hernandez", "Agnes Gruart", "Rafael Lujan", "Jose Maria Delgado-Garcia", "Fernando de Castro" ], "n_citations": 15, "n_key_citations": 0, "score": 0 }, { "doc_id": "5153835", "title": "Movement and structure of mitochondria in oligodendrocytes and their myelin sheaths", "abstract": "Mitochondria play several crucial roles in the life of oligodendrocytes. During development of the myelin sheath they are essential providers of carbon skeletons and energy for lipid synthesis. During normal brain function their consumption of pyruvate will be a key determinant of how much lactate is available for oligodendrocytes to export to power axonal function. Finally, during calcium overload induced pathology, as occurs in ischemia, mitochondria may buffer calcium or induce apoptosis. Despite their important functions, very little is known of the properties of oligodendrocyte mitochondria, and mitochondria have never been observed in the myelin sheaths. We have now used targeted expression of fluorescent mitochondrial markers to characterize the location and movement of mitochondria within oligodendrocytes. We show for the first time that mitochondria are able to enter and move within the myelin sheath. Within the myelin sheath the highest number of mitochondria was in the cytoplasmic ridges along the sheath. Mitochondria moved more slowly than in neurons and, in contrast to their behavior in neurons and astrocytes, their movement was increased rather than inhibited by glutamate activating NMDA receptors. By electron microscopy we show that myelin sheath mitochondria have a low surface area of cristae, which suggests a low ATP production. These data specify fundamental properties of the oxidative phosphorylation system in oligodendrocytes, the glial cells that enhance cognition by speeding action potential propagation and provide metabolic support to axons. GLIA 2016;64:810 825", "corpus_id": 5153835, "venue": "Glia", "year": 2016, "author_names": [ "Johanne Egge Rinholm", "Koen Vervaeke", "Michael R Tadross", "Ariana N Tkachuk", "Benjamin G Kopek", "Timothy A Brown", "Linda H Bergersen", "David A Clayton" ], "n_citations": 54, "n_key_citations": 4, "score": 1 }, { "doc_id": "52810493", "title": "Anosmin 1 over expression regulates oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation, migration and myelin sheath thickness", "abstract": "During development of the central nervous system, anosmin 1 (A1) works as a chemotropic cue contributing to axonal outgrowth and collateralization, as well as modulating the migration of different cell types, fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) being the main receptor involved in all these events. To further understand the role of A1 during development, we have analysed the over expression of human A1 in a transgenic mouse line. Compared with control mice during development and in early adulthood, A1 over expressing transgenic mice showed an enhanced oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) proliferation and a higher number of OPCs in the subventricular zone and in the corpus callosum (CC) The migratory capacity of OPCs from the transgenic mice is increased in vitro due to a higher basal activation of ERK1/2 mediated through FGFR1 and they also produced more myelin basic protein (MBP) In vivo, the over expression of A1 resulted in an elevated number of mature oligodendrocytes with higher levels of MBP mRNA and protein, as well as increased levels of activation of the ERK1/2 proteins, while electron microscopy revealed thicker myelin sheaths around the axons of the CC in adulthood. Also in the mature CC, the nodes of Ranvier were significantly longer and the conduction velocity of the nerve impulse in vivo was significantly increased in the CC of A1 over expressing transgenic mice. Altogether, these data confirmed the involvement of A1 in oligodendrogliogenesis and its relevance for myelination.", "corpus_id": 52810493, "venue": "Brain Structure and Function", "year": 2014, "author_names": [ "Veronica Murcia-Belmonte", "P F Esteban", "Jose Martinez-Hernandez", "Agnes Gruart", "Rafael Lujan", "Jose Maria Delgado-Garcia", "Fernando de Castro" ], "n_citations": 24, "n_key_citations": 1, "score": 0 } ]