bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Can Pixel Value Ratio be Used in the Assessment of Ceramic Bone Substitute Incorporation? Observations from a Pilot Study
Authors: Balakumar Balasubramanian , Jasper Anitha , Livingstone Roshan S. , Gangadharan Sangeet , Gibikote Sridhar , Madhuri Vrisha
Published: March 2018

Background: Assessment of bone graft substitute incorporation is critical in the clinical decision making process and requires special investigations. We examined if the pixel value ratio (PVR) obtained in routine follow-up digital radiographs could be used for such assessment.

Material/Methods: Radiographic images were acquired using either computed radiography or flat panel digital radiography systems. The PVR from radiographs of thirty children with ceramic bone substitute grafting were analyzed using the software from the picture archival and communication system (PACS) workstation. Graft incorporation was also assessed using the van Hemert scale. Three independent observers (A, B, C) measured PVRs at two different time points during the first and the last follow-up visits. PVR was compared with the van Hemert scale scores and analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation.

Results: The mean intra-observer reliability was 0.8996, and inter-observer reliabilities were 0.69 (A vs. C), 0.78 (A vs. B), and 0.85 (B vs. C) for the first follow-up visit and 0.74 (A vs. C), 0.82 (A vs. B), and 0.70 (B vs. C) for the last follow-up measurements. Spearman’s correlation showed a strong negative association between PVR values and van Hemert scale scores, as the healing process advanced on serial measurements at each follow-up (r=–0.94, n=60, z=–7.24, p£0.0001). The reliability of the PVR measurements was assessed using an aluminum step wedge and ceramic graft.

Conclusions: PVR is potentially a reliable indicator of bone graft incorporation and can aid in clinical decision making provided standard radiographic techniques are used.
Kaleidoscopic View of Bowel Tuberculosis on Multi- Detector Computed Tomography (CT) Enterography – A Novel Technique Unfolding an Archaic Disease
Authors: Bhatt Shuchi , Roy Satarupa , Bhardwaj Naveen , Tandon Anupama , Singh Vikas Kumar , Jain Bhupender Kumar , Mandal Samrat
Published: March 2018

Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (GI TB) is an important manifestation of abdominal tuberculosis (TB), an extra-pulmonary form of the disease. GI TB commonly affects the small bowel but is difficult to diagnose due to the challenge of evaluating the entire length of overlapping small bowel loops with traditional diagnostic methods like Barium meal follow through, abdominal computed tomography (CT), and endoscopy. New techniques of CT/MR enteroclysis/enterography are now available which specifically image the small bowel. MDCT enterography (MDCTE) is a non-invasive, simple to perform, modified abdominal CT imaging technique permitting reasonably accurate evaluation of the small bowel lumen, wall, perienteric tissues, and solid organs within the abdomen. As GI TB can cause morphological alterations in and around the small bowel, MDCTE seems to be an attractive modality for patients suspected of abdominal or GI TB. As scarce literature is available on MDCTE on tuberculosis, we present a pictorial review on MDCTE findings in patients with GI tuberculosis proved on FNAC and clinical and/or imaging follow-up.
The Predictive Value of Multidetector High Resolution Computed Tomography in Evaluation of Suspected Sputum Smear Negative Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Egyptian Zagazig University Hospital Patients
Authors: Alsowey Ahmed Mohamed , Amin Mohamed Ibrahim , Said Ahmed Mohamed
Published: March 2018

The aim of this work is to study the usage of multi-detector HRCT chest in diagnosing pulmonary TB cases whose sputum smears are negative and making a correlation between their CT features and their sputum culture results. This study was carried out from December 2014 to December 2016 at Zagazig university hospitals, Radiodiagnosis department. It included 150 patients. Their ages ranged between 10 to 70 years with a mean age 40 years. They were referred from the outpatient respiratory medicine clinic of the hospital. All patients had been presented clinically with suspicion of PTB. Their clinical features and HRCT findings were investigated to predict the risk for PTB. We then designed provisional HRCT diagnostic criteria based on the results to rank the risk of PTB. A positive tuberculin skin test alone among clinical laboratory findings was significantly associated with an increase of risk of PTB. Centrilobular nodules, large nodules, tree-in-bud appearance and the main lesion being located in S1, S2, and S6 lung segments were significantly associated with an increased risk of PTB. At HRCT 40 out of 44 patients with class III ranking showed active pulmonary TB. 12 out of 51 patients presented with class II ranking and 8 out of 40 were ranked as class I. The sensitivity, specificity and positive likelihood ratio of class I ranking HRCT criteria to diagnose active pulmonary TB were 95%, 40% and 1.4, respectively. Class II ranking results were 85%, 72%, 3, respectively. Finally class III ranking results were 45%, 90%, 11.5, respectively. Cases suspected of having active pulmonary TB whose smears are negative can benefit from MD HRCT chest findings to predict those patients of high risk with good reproducibility.
Evaluation of Pancreas with Strain Elastography in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Öztürk Mehmet , Yildirim Ruken
Published: March 2018

Background: To investigate changes in pancreatic elasticity in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).

Material/Methods: The study group consisted of 60 children with T1DM, and the control group was comprised of 60 healthy children. Strain ratios were obtained for the pancreas using ultrasound strain elastography (Toshiba Applio 500 device). Baseline descriptive data, hemoglobin A1c (%) level, time since diagnosis of T1DM (months), and strain ratio values were noted and compared between the 2 groups. Furthermore, correlation between strain ratio values and other variables was investigated.

Results: ROC analysis yielded an optimal cut-off value of 2.245 (AUC=0.999, p<0.001, sensitivity=0.983, specificity=1.00) for the strain ratio. Strain ratio values greater than 2.245 were likely to be pathological, which could be attributed to increased tissue stiffness in T1DM. The strain ratio was significantly higher in T1DM patients than in the control group (3.38±0.66 vs. 1.32±0.35; p<0.001). The strain ratio correlated positively with age and duration of T1DM (p<0.001 for both), and there was a correlation between the strain ratio and age in the control group (p=0.011).

Conclusions: Strain elastography is a promising, safe, non-invasive, and practical method for early detection, long-term screening, and follow-up in children with T1DM.
On Cathaya, living and fossil (Pinaceae)
Authors: Doweld Alexander B.
Published: March 2018

The confusing nomenclature of the distinctive conifer Cathaya is outlined and summarized. Cathaya was validated on fossil material by Karavaev in 1961 before its validation on the basis of extant plants in 1962 by Chun & Kuang. Fossil C. jacutica, based on cones from the Miocene sediments of Siberia, is transferred into Pseudotsuga. Fossil species of Cathaya, based on pollen, are transferred into Abietineaepollenites, which has priority as a fossil pollen genus over the later superfluous fossil generic names Cathayapollenites and Cathayapollis. Seven new combinations are made: Pseudotsuga jacutica, Abietineaepollenites crassus, A. echinatus, A. gaussenii, A. protocembra, A. sellowiiformis, A. semicircularis.
FORMAÇÃO DE DOCENTES PARA A EDUCAÇÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS: REFLEXÕES SOBRE A EXPERIÊNCIA DO PIBID INTERDISCIPLINAR
Authors: Ventura Jaqueline Pereira , Gomes Dayana , Ferreira Daniel
Published: March 2018

O presente artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e refletir sobre a experiência de formação docente para EJA no âmbito do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, nas áreas de História e Geografia. O Subprojeto Interdisciplinar: Formação de Docentes para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos realizou-se no Colégio Estadual Guilherme Briggs, em turmas de EJA de nível médio, nos anos 2014-2015. Tendo por referencial teórico a interdisciplinaridade referenciada no trabalho como princípio educativo e nas contribuições da pedagogia histórico-crítica, o relato discute as possibilidades de uma prática interdisciplinar na escola pública no desenvolvimento de ações que respeitem as características próprias do educando trabalhador.
SEXOPOLITICA, ESCOLAS E PSICOLOGIA: PELA PRODUCAO DE NARRATIVAS QUE ASSOMBREM
Authors: Ferreira Marcelo Santana
Published: March 2018

O artigo apresenta uma defesa do estatuto político da experiência da infância, relacionando-o com o conceito de sexo política proposto por Paul Beatriz Preciado, no esforço de legitimar práticas de produção de narrativas que não acatem o silenciamento de experiências dissidentes. No artigo, procura-se defender uma posição contemporânea da Psicologia em contextos educacionais em que os temas do gênero e da sexualidade se apresentam como determinantes na definição da experiência da infância e da juventude. Trata-se de artigo que não apenas caracteriza um determinado campo conceitual, como também se articula de forma propositiva.
MILITÂNCIA VISUAL PARA ALÉM DA PASSIVIDADE: ARTISTAS, VIADAS, MULHERES E DEMAIS ALTERIDADES BOTANDO A CARA NO SOL!
Authors: Nascimento Rodrigo Torres do , Victorio Filho Aldo , Silva Pâmela Souza da
Published: March 2018

A pesquisa da qual resulta esse artigo tem como referência duas personagens do meio artístico popular, a performer, cantora e dançarina Inês Brasil e o grupo musical Bonde das Bonecas. Ambos assumem visualidades inseparáveis do viés político que é a afirmação pública e poética de estéticas comumente rejeitadas pelos critérios hegemônicos de gosto e beleza. Embora nosso tema envolva o campo da Estética como interseção da Teoria do Gosto, Teoria da Beleza e Filosofia da Arte, e reconheçamos a potência estética dos seus trabalhos, não interessou ao debate deflagrado classificar ou discutir as qualidades ou localização das produções de Inês e do Bonde no campo da Arte. E sim os aspectos relacionados ao gosto e à beleza como instâncias de tensão política como centrais à discussão proposta.
CONTA-ME SUA HISTÓRIA AINDA QUE NÃO SEJA A ÚNICA VERDADE: A INVENÇÃO DE SI E AS TRAJETÓRIAS ESCOLARES
Authors: Caetano Marcio Rodrigo , Silva Junior Paulo Melgaço
Published: March 2018

As narrativas biográficas são fragmentos discursivos que significam as experiências de vida dos sujeitos. Com elas, interessam-nos as “verdades” sobre gênero e sexualidade que regularam experiências de docentes que atuam na rede pública de ensino do Rio de Janeiro e Rio Grande do Sul. Através das narrativas, foi possível observar como os sujeitos construíram suas cadeias de significados e estruturaram suas formas de representar suas sexualidades e gênero. Essas operaram sobre dois pontos: 1. a responsabilidade com o futuro das e dos estudantes e 2. a imagem de bom/boa docente. Com eles enfatizamos a importância de profundar as análises sobre a produção da diferença, já que ela é cultural e, portanto, mediada pelos jogos de interesse social.
Potential cost-effectiveness of using a collagen-containing dressing in managing diabetic foot ulcers in the UK
Authors: Guest Julian F. , Singh Heenal , Vowden Peter
Published: March 2018

Objective:

To estimate whether a collagen-containing dressing could potentially afford the UK's National Health Service (NHS) a cost-effective intervention for the management of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs).

Method:

A decision model depicting the management of a DFU was constructed and populated with a combination of published clinical outcomes, resource use estimates and utilities for DFUs. The model estimated the incremental cost-effectiveness of a collagen-containing dressing plus standard care compared with standard care alone over a period of four months in terms of the incremental cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained.

Results:

Treatment of DFUs of >6 months duration with a collagen-containing dressing plus standard care instead of standard care alone is expected to increase the probability of healing from 0.08 to 0.53 by four months and increase health-related quality of life at four months from 0.156 to 0.163 QALYs per patient. Additionally, treatment with a collagen-containing dressing has the potential to reduce management costs by 22% over four months when compared with standard care alone (from £2897 to £2255 per patient). Treatment of new DFUs with a collagen-containing dressing plus standard care instead of standard care alone was also found to improve outcomes for less cost.

Conclusion:

Within the study's limitations, use of a collagen-containing dressing plus standard care instead of standard care alone potentially affords the NHS a cost-effective (dominant) treatment for both non-healing and new DFUs, since it improves outcomes for less cost. Hence, protocols should be established which enable clinicians to effectively introduce collagen-containing dressings into care pathways and monitor response to treatment.
Effectiveness of a non-medicated wound dressing on attached and biofilm encased bacteria: laboratory and clinical evidence
Authors: Rippon Mark G. , Rogers Alan A. , Sellars Laura , Styles Kathryn M. , Westgate Samantha
Published: March 2018

Objective:

The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of a non medicated, hydro-responsive wound dressing (HRWD) to effectively aid in the removal of bacteria known to reside (and cause infections) within the wound environment.

Method:

A series of in vitro studies were undertaken using Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms to evaluate the capabilities of the HRWD to disrupt and disperse biofilms.

Results:

Biofilms can be broken up and dispersed by HRWD and both Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa numbers can be reduced by a greater than log2 reduction in the presence of HRWD. However, no ‘active’ agents are released into the wound environment that have an antimicrobial effect.

Conclusion:

Overall, these studies have shown that this dressing acts as an effective debridement tool, and there are other ‘physical’ antimicrobial mechanisms impacting bacterial residence. These mechanisms include 1) breaking up and dispersal of biofilms so that the resultant planktonic bacteria are absorbed by the dressing and then 2) sequestered and retained (trapped) within its matrix. Additionally, when PHMB (polyhexamethylene biguanide) is bound within the dressing core but is not released into the wound environment there is the added antimicrobial effect resulting from 3) physical contact with this antiseptic component. Reducing the pathogenicity of the bacteria still further is the dressings ability to 4) absorb and sequester the damaging proteases released by pathogenic bacteria.
Price Flexibility and Full Employment: Barking Up the Wrong (Neoclassical) Tree
Authors: Roy H. Grieve
Published: March 2018

This article questions the thesis (again in fashion) that, in an advanced economy, price flexibility ensures full employment. (See most standard macro textbooks.) We make the point that explanation of unemployment in terms of price/wage stickiness typified much pre-Keynesian analysis, but not Keynes's theory of involuntary unemployment. Under uncertainty—an essential part of the Keynesian conception—no set of prices consistent with full employment may actually exist: if so, price inflexibility is not the critical obstacle to the attainment of full employment. Finally, with respect to current use of the aggregate demand/aggregate supply (AD/AS) model, we note that once-rejected ideas have returned to the mainstream and that strong arguments against the attribution of necessarily beneficial effects to price and wage flexibility, which ought to be well-known, seem now to be forgotten, Mainstream macroeconomics today is in danger of losing touch with reality.
‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: Magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence
Authors: Green Matthew J. A.
Published: March 2018

Alan Moore reports that, through researching Providence, he ‘became more fully acquainted with academic literary criticism’ (Moore and Green 2016) and the extensive evidence of research throughout the series supports this claim. In this article, I argue that Providence uses the comics form to assert the value of humanities research and of the arts more broadly, and to educate its audience in reading and research practices (some of which are more providential than others). My focus is on the relationships between imagination and the historical realities of readers; while the latter are not detailed at length, the discussion does map onto the real world of Brexit, the aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential election and austerity politics because Moore’s underlying premise is that it is possible to trace the origins of our contemporary moment through the societal anxieties encoded in Lovecraft’s fiction. The analysis combines key concepts from adaptation studies with the theoretical model of the comics system proposed by Thierry Groensteen; moreover, it both draws upon and extends Brian McHale’s work on metafiction to suggest ways of extending Groensteen’s model in order to better understand the way in which Providence uses the comics medium to put into practice his hopes concerning the world-altering potential of art and scholarship.
Beware the living dead: The corpo-reality of comics
Authors: Helbig Tina
Published: March 2018

Half-buried skeletons, ripped-off body parts, rotting zombies, insects feasting on human flesh – these and other nightmarish scenarios, in which the healthy, living human body has been grotesquely deformed, forcefully violated or almost unrecognizably altered are well-known topoi in Gothic comics. Scenes like these depict Julia Kristeva’s understanding of the abject – something that (metaphorically, sometimes literally) threatens to chip and munch away the fragile border which we have erected to separate and defend ourselves from everything other, and which we desperately try to fend off. Yet, why do mere pictures as they are presented to us in comics have such a strong effect on us, given that they are not the ‘real thing’? W. J. T. Mitchell argues that ‘we are stuck with our magical, premodern attitudes towards [...] pictures’, and that we take them as ‘vital signs’, meaning ‘not merely signs for living things but signs as living things’ – or, in the case of some Gothic horror images, as deceased or undead things, which seem to be nevertheless quite ‘alive’ in their impact on the reader’s psyche. These deliberations, based on cultural observations, are supported by neuroscientific research on the processing of visual stimuli and are, for example, utilized by behavioural psychology. Even though comics are commonly defined as addressing only one physical sense, namely sight, I argue in this paper that particularly in the case of images of the uncanny and the abject, touch plays a decisive role as well. At the same time that we imagine to see the real thing, we also fear to touch the real thing. Thus, in comics, the fear of ‘death infecting life’ – to use Kristeva’s words – is heightened by the reader’s direct physical contact with the medium in which the abject is depicted. Uncannily, the border between the pictures and our own corporeality is transcended and thus the ability of comics as a medium to provoke abjection is enhanced.
Reviews
Authors: Marrone Daniel , Szép Eszter
Published: March 2018

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital in the Field of American Comics, Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo (2016) Palgrave Macmillan, 156 pp., ISBN: 9781137561961, h/bk, £37.99

Unflattening, Nick Sousanis (2015) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 208 pp., ISBN: 9780674744431, p/bk, £18.95
Transgredir el establishment artístico y morir en el intento: contracultura troyana
Authors: Rodríguez Gómez Gonzalo
Published: March 2018

¿Conocemos realmente el impacto que ha tenido la contracultura en nuestra historia? ¿Se trata de un movimiento consumado o por el contrario se reproduce en la historia de forma intermitente? En este artículo haremos un breve recorrido a través de aquellas subculturas que han emergido desde finales de los años 60 hasta la actualidad, con el propósito de analizar el estado actual del movimiento y de si es necesario explorar nuevas vías con las que enfrentarnos a la cultura dominante. Creemos que las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen alternativas contra el establishment y es por esta razón por la que utilizaremos este medio como posible recurso de enfrentamiento a la tecnocracia.
La codificación del imaginario cotidiano: estereotipos y licencias
Authors: Barandiarán Ignacio
Published: March 2018

Este trabajo discute sobre realismo (fidelidad al modelo) y convención (estilización, ahorro y alteración de detalles) en las figuras humanas y animales del arte paleolítico. Se propone que estas licencias de la grafía prehistórica se corresponden con recursos retóricos del lenguaje hablado y escrito. En concreto, se pueden identificar casos de elipsis, sinécdoque, metonimia, hipérbole...
Placvit pictvras in ecclesia esse non debere: la prohibición del C. 36 pseudoiliberritano
Authors: Vilella Josep
Published: March 2018

El estudio analítico-comparativo del c. 36 del repertorio pseudoiliberritano pone de manifiesto que este texto veta las representaciones pictóricas vinculadas con la veneración de los santos. Evidencia asimismo que, como los otros preceptos de la «trilogía martirial» —c. 34 y 35— contenida en esta serie, debe datarse a finales del siglo iv o a inicios del v. A partir de tal cronología y hermenéutica, resulta claro que su formulación pretende evitar las figuraciones antropomorfas que entonces empezaban a proliferar en los edificios cultuales cristianos. Inserta en la secular tradición hebraico-cristiana, la corriente «conservadora» plasmada en el c. 36 estaría sucumbiendo ante la ofensiva «idolátrica», avivada, con la complicidad de muchos eclesiásticos valedores de su función didáctica, por las masivas afluencias hacia el cristianismo, con el consiguiente auge del fenómeno martirial.
Un acercamiento a la vida cotidiana en los primeros años del Islam en el norte de la Península Ibérica: una cocina del siglo VIII d.C. en El Pueyo (Los Bañales, Uncastillo, Za). II. La cerámica
Authors: Vega Almazán Diana , Jordán Ángel A. , Muruzábal Cal Javier , Orozco Legaza Vega
Published: March 2018

El objetivo del presente trabajo es dar a conocer los resultados de la excavación de una cocina datada en la segunda mitad del siglo viii d.C. en El Pueyo (Los Bañales, Uncas­tillo). La calidad y cantidad del material recuperado permiten realizar un acercamiento de primera mano a la vida cotidiana de la sociedad en un momento muy poco conocido. Continuando el trabajo publicado en el anterior volumen de Veleia, en esta ocasión se analizará la cerámica.
Health beliefs and use of dietary supplements among teachers
Öğretmenlerin sağlık inanışları ve diyet suplemanı kullanma durumu
Authors: Yardımcı Hülya , Başpınar Büşra , Özçelik Ayşe Özfer
Published: March 2018

This study was planned to determine the use of nutrition supplements, health beliefs, and knowledge about vitamin-minerals among teachers. The sampling of the study consisted of 282 volunteering teachers working in elementary schools in Ankara province. The questionnaire form consisted of four parts: general information, use of vitamin-minerals, questions about vitamin-minerals and health beliefs. The study findings were analyzed with SPSS software packet using suitable statistical methods. The sampling of the study involved 64 males(22.7%) and 212 females(77.3%). Forty one point five percent of the teachers stated that they used supplemental vitamins and minerals. It was found that the average vitamin-mineral related knowledge score of the participants was 14.3±2.6 and that the mean knowledge score of women was significantly higher than the average knowledge score of men (p<0.05). The mean belief score of the teachers was found to be 29.2±2.8, and it was determined that the mean belief score was statistically significant with respect to gender and age groups (p<0.05). It was found that supplement use of teachers was associated with health beliefs (p<0.01), chronic illness (p<0.01), and following the nutrition related magazine (p<0.05). It would be more appropriate to use dietary supplements if the healthcare staff recommends it when it is needed.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu çalışma öğretmenlerin beslenme desteği kullanma durumları, sağlık inanışları ile vitaminler ve mineraller hakkında bilgilerini belirlemek amacıyla planlanmıştır. Çalışma, Ankara'da çalışan 282 öğretmen üzerinde yürütülmüştür. Anket formu yardımıyla genel bilgileri, vitamin-mineral kullanımları, diyet suplemanları ile ilgili bilgi soruları ve sağlık inanışları değerlendirilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler SPSS paket programıyla değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmaya katılan öğretmenlerin 218'i kadın (%77.3), 64'ü erkek olup (%22.7) ortalama yaş 37.1±7.6 yıldır. Öğretmenlerin %41.5'i         (117 kişi) ek vitamin-mineral kullandığını belirtmiştir. Katılımcıların vitamin-minerallerle ilgili ortalama bilgi puanının 14.3±2.6 olduğu, kadınların ortalama bilgi puanlarının erkeklerin ortalama bilgi puanlarına göre anlamlı olarak daha yüksek olduğu belirlenmiştir (p<0.05). Öğretmenlerin ortalama sağlık inanış puanı 29.2±2.8 olup, cinsiyete ve yaş gruplarına göre alınan ortalama inanış puanının istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu belirlenmiştir (p<0.05). Öğretmenlerin supleman kullanımının sağlık inanışı (p<0.01), kronik hastalık (p<0.01), beslenme ile ilgili haberleri takip etme (p<0.05)  ile ilişkili olduğu belirlenmiştir. Diyet suplemanlarının sağlık personelinin gerekli gördüğü zaman önermesi durumunda kullanılması daha uygun olacaktır.
Morphometrics and genetic diversity of Tegal, Magelang and their crossbred ducks based on Cytochrome b gene
Authors: Henrik H. , Purwantini D. , Ismoyowati I.
Published: March 2018

This experiment was conducted to study the morphometric and genetic diversity of Tegal, Magelang, and their crossbred ducks. Each ten female about twenty weeks old ducks from Tegal, Magelang, Gallang, and Maggal ducks, respectively, were used as the group materialss. The body weight, chest circumference, body length, shank length, neck length, and pubis width were recorded and tested by analysis of variance of one way classification as the morphometric characteristics. Polymorphism of cytochrome b (cyt b) gene on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was analyzed by Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP). Genetic distance was analyzed based on value of heterozygosity, whereas the phylogeny tree was reconstructed using MEGA6 software. The results showed there were highly significant difference (P<0.01) on body weight, chest circumference, body length, and neck length between population, while shank and pubis width were not significant different. The genetic distance between Gallang and Maggal ducks (0.206) was higher than Tegal and Magelang ducks (0.169). It is concluded that the reciprocal crosses increased the morphometric and genetic diversity of Indonesian local duck population.
The effects of zinc and melatonin on muscle ischaemi-reperfusion injury in rat
Authors: Celer Mehmet , Mogulkoc Rasim , Baltaci Abdulkerim Kasim , Dasdelen Dervis
Published: March 2018

Ischemia-reperfusion leads to damage in cell or tissue due to insufficient blood flow. The aim of present study was to determine the effect of zinc, melatonin and zinc + melatonin supplementations during 3 weeks on muscle tissue and plasma MDA and GSH levels. This study was performed on 38 male Wistar-Albino rats. Experiments groups were designed as sham-control, ischemia-reperfusion (I/R), zinc + I/R, melatonin + I/R and zinc + melatonin + I/R Ischemia-reperfusion was induced by left femoral artery occlusion (1 hour) and reopening (1 hour).  At the end of experiments tissue and blood samples were analysed for MDA and GSH. MDA levels were increased, GSH levels decreased in I/R groups. However, zinc and melatonin supplementation inhibited  MDA and increased GSH levels in I/R groups. The results of present study show that increased lipid peroxidation in muscle tissue by ischemia-reperfusion may be prevented by zinc and melatonin or zinc plus melatonin supplementation.
The determination of the effect of some 1,3,4 thiadiazole derivatives on biochemical content (Fatty Acids, Sterols, Lipophilic Vitamins) in rat liver
Authors: Parlak Akif E. , Karagozoglu Yusuf , Alayunt Naci í–. , Turkoglu Semra , Karatepe Mustafa , Koparir Metin
Published: March 2018

Thiadiazole derivatives and its metal compounds have antibacterial, antifungal, antitumoral, antiproliferative and antioxidant properties. In the study, the effects caused by thiadiazole ligand and its metal complexes upon the fatty acids and lipophilic vitamins in livers of rats were examined. The fatty acids in liver were specified by GC while the lipophilic vitamins were specified by HPLC. It was observed that the amounts of oleic acids (18:1, n-9) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) notably increased in the Mn complex group while the amounts of arachidonic acid (20:4, n-6) notably increased in the ligand group, compared to control group. The amounts of vitamin K2, vitamin D3 and Î±-tocopherol considerably increased in all groups compared to control group. It was noted that the amounts of Î±-tocopherol were elevated in both the Mn and Cr complex groups compared to control group. However, this elevation was matching with the amount in the same groups. Nevertheless, the amount of retinol was determined to be lower in the Mn complex group compared to other groups. Accordingly, it can be considered that thanks to the utilization of toxic metals such as manganese, cadmium and chrome, unsaturated fatty acids influenced the activities of the enzymes in liver tissue, which are in charge of fatty acid chain elongation.
Amorphous Ornament:
Authors: Petcu Elizabeth J.
Published: March 2018

Leon Battista Alberti famously likened the relationship between architectural structure and superstructure to the dualism of skeleton and skin. In Amorphous Ornament: Wendel Dietterlin and the Dissection of Architecture, Elizabeth J. Petcu scrutinizes how the Architectura treatise (1593–98) of Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder (ca. 1550–99) subverted Alberti's theory and the aesthetic of stability it promoted by popularizing a style of amorphous architectural motifs that recall bone, cartilage, muscle, and flesh, melding built framework with decorative surface. Drawing these corporeal conceits from contemporary anatomical publications, Dietterlin inspired buildings, architectural prints, and objects that challenged tectonic conventions, upset the traditional split between exterior and interior, and emulated the figural arts’ involvement in representing interior human forms. In assessing how Dietterlin's Architectura turned the proverbial body of architecture inside out, Petcu demonstrates that Renaissance comparisons between body and building did not always project ideals of architectural beauty and reveals overlooked origins of baroque-era fusions of architecture and the figural arts.
Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper
Authors: Leslie Thomas , Panchaseelan Saranya , Barron Shawn , Orlando Paolo
Published: March 2018

The glass skyscraper was a dream of architects and historians alike throughout the early and mid-twentieth century, but the ubiquity of the “glass box” occurred decades after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's seminal proposals in 1922. In fact, these and other proposals for all-glass building skins were ridiculed by the profession, in particular Chicago architect George C. Nimmons, designer of the first “windowless department store” for Sears, Roebuck in 1934. Heating and cooling costs, he argued, would be prohibitive in such a building, and scientific writers sided with him; with modern services, noted Architectural Forum, the window “dies hard.” As Thomas Leslie, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, and Paolo Orlando describe in Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper, despite the critics, enthusiasm for new technologies—fluorescent lighting and air-conditioning in particular—influenced a generation of solid curtain wall structures, including Pittsburgh's Alcoa Building and Chicago's Prudential Building. Improvements in glazing lagged behind the development of air-conditioning and lighting, however, and problems with the performance of glass challenged these structures’ solidity. Insulated window units and heat-absorbing glass emerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s, providing technical answers to the formula suggested by interior services, and the resulting glass skins emerged—some thirty years after Mies's experiments—as economically logical responses to the changed material possibilities.
UTILIDAD, DAÑO Y RESPONSABILIDAD: EL PROBLEMA DE LA NO-IDENTIDAD
Authors: Truccone Borgogno Santiago
Published: March 2018

Ciertas conductas pueden causar que algunas personas sean agraviadas o estén en una condición dañada en el futuro. Estos pueden ser malos efectos que parecen darnos razones morales para no realizar tales conductas. Sin embargo, en algunos casos es predecible que, si nosotros no hubiéramos realizado las conductas que producen consecuencias disvaliosas en un ser, esas personas particulares nunca existirían. El utilitarismo aparece como una buena respuesta a esta clase de problemas. Este trabajo pretende analizar su plausibilidad, proponiendo que una teoría de tal tipo es útil a la hora de graduar la responsabilidad de los agentes.
LOS COSTOS SOCIALES DE LOS DIÁLOGOS DE PAZ EN COLOMBIA. UNA MIRADA DESDE LA JUSTICIA DEL RESARCIMIENTO.
Authors: Muñoz Cardona Ángel Emilio
Published: March 2018

La finalidad del presente ensayo de investigación es alimentar la reflexión suscitada por los diálogos de paz en Colombia que sirvan a la construcción de un mejor país y de una mejor sociedad del postconflicto a partir de la confianza ciudadana en sus instituciones de justicia. Para lograrlo, se parte de los conceptos de justicia que hiciera el escoces Adam Smith en “Lecciones de Jurisprudencia” y se asocia con el concepto del utilitarismo de John Stuart Mill como búsqueda de la felicidad general. La investigación hace un recorrido exhaustivo de los acuerdos de Paz en Colombia para compararlos con los alcanzados por otras sociedades del postconflicto en dos países de Europa y uno de América Latina. Recuento histórico y teórico que nos permite concluir en la necesidad de un Acuerdo de Paz para Colombia justo, es decir, respetuoso del derecho de las víctimas y de los territorios afectados por el conflicto armado, al No permitir que excombatientes puedan llegar a ser representantes políticos por votación popular. Deber Nacional de sanción moral contra quienes cometieron delitos atroces a la humanidad.
Personal Merit and The Politics of Gratitude
Authors: Ibarrondo Murguialday Julen
Published: March 2018

Most philosophers recognize that sometimes particular individuals have to be grateful to others who have benefited them in a way that provides reasons for treating them in a differential way. In the same way, I argue, there are cases in which society as such benefits from the actions of a person, which gives rise to collective duties of gratitude that must be expressed at the political and socio-economical levels. The political concern about merit should not merely instrumental, but also moral: a society cannot be just if it disregards its collective duties of gratitude. I criticize Rawls’ famous Natural Lottery argument showing that it relies on a problematic understanding of the notion of moral responsibility and develop some consideration on the role that gratitude should play when designing both public institutions and policies.
La memoria como eje de cambio social en la escuela
Authors: Valencia Murillo Angélica María
Published: March 2018

Este artículo de revisión corresponde a la definición y relación que existe entre memoria e historia, contemplando los postulados de varios autores que  comprenden los lugares en los que se ha inscrito la memoria y el reconocimiento de las características de la memoria individual y colectiva. La memoria ha sido un eje de trabajo que propende por el cambio social y la construcción de la memoria histórica, así como a la apropiación conceptual y pragmática de una historia de las memorias, pues es necesario que la educación dignifique identidades y afiance esfuerzos de conocimiento sobre los reales acontecimientos que han trascurrido a lo largo de la historia.
Heraldos de cine: imágenes del cine y la construcción estética del colombiano moderno
Authors: Reyes Sarmiento Claudia Angélica
Published: March 2018

Este texto es el resultado de un proceso de investigación adelantado en el grupo de estudios de la Imagen, adscrito a la Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Colombia), en él se analiza el concepto de ciudad y su relación con la construcción de lo que significó ser modernos en Bogotá, a partir del ingreso de películas norteamericanas en los años treinta, cuando grandes productoras de cine ejercieron una gran influencia sobre el mercado latinoamericano. Dicho análisis partirá de aspectos como la introducción del Starsystem, el concepto de ser modernos, del proceso de modernización en Colombia, los heraldos de cine y el análisis de los discursos visuales.
Diádikus stressz és megküzdés – elméleti modellek és alkalmazások
Authors: Martos Júlia , Sallay Viola , Szabó Evelin , Tóth-Vajna Rita , Martos Tamás
Published: March 2018

A stresszel való egyéni megküzdés modelljei mellett mind elméleti, mind gyakorlati szempontból egyre inkább előtérbe kerülnek a megküzdés társas folyamatai. Elméleti összefoglalónkban ezért bemutatjuk a párkapcsolati stressz és megküzdés leírására létrejött különböző modelleket, ezek között a Kapcsolatfókuszú Megküzdési Modellt; a Rendszer- Tranzakciós Modellt; a Fejlődési-Kontextuális Megküzdési Modellt; valamint a Kapcsolati Intimitás Modellt. Az egyes elméleteket annak alapján hasonlítjuk össze, hogy milyen típusú kapcsolati stresszfajtákat integrálnak a modellben, illetve összevetjük az elméletek által leírt különböző megküzdési stratégiákat. Ismertetjük továbbá a diádikus megküzdés empirikus vizsgálatára létrehozott kérdőíves mérőeszközöket és kutatási elrendezéseket, valamint bemutatjuk az egyes elméletek alapján létrehozott gyakorlati, terápiás lehetőségeket is. Összességében megállapíthatjuk, hogy a páros stressz és megküzdés bemutatott modelljei egyrészt jól értelmezhetők a kapcsolati tudomány (relationship science) tágabb elméleti keretében, másrészt megfelelő alapot adnak a gyakorlati alkalmazás számára is.
Satan in America: The Devil We Know by W. Scott Poole. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. 243pp., pb. $26.95/£16.95. ISBN-13: 9780742561724.
Authors: De Young Mark
Published: March 2018

Satan in America: The Devil We Know by W. Scott Poole. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. 243pp., pb. $26.95/£16.95. ISBN-13: 9780742561724.
Becoming the 'good doctor': medical students’ views on altruism and professional identity
Authors: Marynissen Kaat , Spurrier Bethan
Published: March 2018

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background and PurposeProfessionalism is central to modern medical practice and altruism is one of the humanistic qualities thought to underpin professionalism. However, there has been limited exploration of medical students' perceptions of altruism and if/how it is incorporated in to their professional identity. This study explores medical students' understanding of altruism and whether they felt it was an important part of being a 'good' doctor.MethodologySemi-structured qualitative one-on-one interviews with nine students from Leeds University Medical School began by asking participants to provide their own definition of altruism and then explored students' views of altruism in clinical practice and the importance of altruism to being 'good' doctors. Students were encouraged to reflect on their clinical experiences. Interview responses were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically.ResultsDefinitions of altruism varied and were often easily shaken upon questioning. Students conceptualised altruism as a spectrum, ranging from a pure to a more pragmatic form. Generally students did not consider altruism as essential to the role of a doctor and saw it as going "above and beyond" duty. However, almost all participants expressed a preference to work with or be an altruistic doctor. Students also repeatedly referred to the idea of the "right balance of altruism" to avoid self-sacrifice to the point of burnout.Discussion and ConclusionsThe variability in medical students' definitions of altruism echoes the variability of definitions within literature, which may indicate students' relatively shallow understanding of the concept. Introducing guided reflection on professionalism within the medical curriculum may help to address this by helping students to develop a deeper understanding of professionalism and how it impacts their practice. Our paper supports a move away from the term altruism towards 'pro-social behaviour', which places importance on the benefits of an action without encouraging self-sacrifice. This may continue to provide students with the motivation they associate with altruism, whilst encouraging self-care and work-life balance.
Zainteresowania literaturą austriacką z perspektywy czytelników Biblioteki Austriackiej w Opolu
Authors: WÓJCIK-BEDNARZ Monika
Published: March 2018

Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia zbiory oraz specyfikę działalności Biblioteki Austriackiej w Opolu na tle innych tego typu instytucji. Autorka stawia sobie za cel zbadanie czynników wpływających na wybór literatury austriackiej przez poszczególne grupy czytel-ników biblioteki. W artykule podjęta została próba prześledzenia zainteresowań czytelniczych na podstawie najczęściej wypożyczanych książek austriackich na przestrzeni lat 2001-2015. Analizy dokonano na podstawie danych statystycznych dotyczących zarejestrowanych czytelników, odwiedzin w bibliotece oraz liczby i struktury wypożyczonych zbiorów. Stwier-dzono, że do czynników wpływających na wybór literatury austriackiej przez czytelników należą głównie ich potrzeby estetyczne i edukacyjne. Przedstawiono ponadto działania biblioteki służące propagowaniu oferowanych zbiorów oraz dotyczące cyklicznie organizowanych austriackich wydarzeń kulturalnych i edukacyjnych. Za przykład podano formy wspierania czytelnictwa wśród różnych grup wiekowych i współpracę biblioteki z opolskimi germanistami.
Some Characteristics of the Decline in Manufacturing Capacity Utilization
Authors: Pierce Justin , Wisniewski Emily
Published: March 2018

In this note, we provide several observations regarding trends in manufacturing capacity utilization rates using data from the Federal Reserve Board and the Census Bureau. The note does not aim to consider all potential explanations for the decline in utilization rates, and indeed we do not find a single root cause of the decline. We do, however, attempt to narrow the scope of potential explanations and contribute contemporary data to the existing commentary.
Analysis of the Experience Impact of Royal Culture Festival Programs
Authors:   The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea, Lee Kyung-Yur , Lee Hoon
Published: March 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine the attributes of festival experience and to analyze the impact of festival experience, satisfaction, and revisit intention in two programs of the Royal Culture Festival. In this study, 277 survey samples taken from participants in the two programs were used for data analysis. As a result, five attributes labeled Education, Escape, Togetherness, Sacredness, and Placeness were extracted, and all of them had significant influences on satisfaction and revisit intention. Among them, Placeness was revealed to be the strongest attribute of festival experience, followed in order by Escape, Education, Sacredness, and finally, Togetherness. According to the results of analyzing the impact of the attributes of festival experience on satisfaction, “A Taste of Royal Cuisine” was ranked in order of Placeness, Escape, Education, Sacredness, and Togetherness, while “Time Travel to 1750” was ranked in order of Placeness, Escape, Togetherness, Education, and Sacredness. This study provides a practical framework for the planning of experience programs for cultural heritage festivals and suggests development and improvement directions for experiential festivals utilizing cultural heritage. Therefore, it is aimed to help balance the preservation and utilization of cultural heritage and to increase participation of tourists with the use of cultural heritage.
An Examination of the Benefits of Camping Experience Using Outdoor Recreation Resource Management Tools: Focused on BBM(Benefit Based Management) and ROS(Recreation Opportunity Spectrum)
Authors:   The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea, Kim Hyun-Jung , Kim Jin-Dong , Kim Nam-Jo
Published: March 2018

Domestic camping has been growing in popularity. This study analyzed the benefits of camping, focusing on BBM & ROS, which are outdoor recreation resource management tools to measure growth in camping facilities both quantitatively and qualitatively. Accordingly, 122 blogs posting camping reviews of two camping sites (Hantan River and Mt. Gaebang), which by ROS are classified as urban type and natural area type, respectively, were selected and the relationship between benefit attributes and environment attributes were analyzed using content analysis. The results show that there were different benefits offered by each type of camping environment. Furthermore, for similar benefits there were specific environmental differences according to ROS type. The results suggest that camping site operators should focus on core benefits and create different environments by ROS type. In addition to this, it is suggested that grading criteria be done differently by ROS type in the development of a camping-site grading system.
Analysis of Accessibility of Individual Tourists to Destination Using Social Network Analysis: Focused on the Ulsan Metropolitan City Public Transit Network
Authors:   The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea, Kim Jung-Hun , Jung Yun-Dong
Published: March 2018

This study examines public transit, which is one of the constraint factors for tourism activities. The centrality of the network of bus routes near Ulsan destinations were examined through social network analysis to confirm the mobility environment of tourists. The network of bus routes was visualized to identify weaknesses involving tourism destinations by using the bus routes listed in the “Ulsan Metropolitan City Bus Route Guide.” Centrality was analyzed using UCINET and the bus networks using Netdrew. First, it was confirmed that social network analysis is useful as a methodology for research on tourism transit systems related to the mobile environment of individual tourists. Second, it was confirmed that visualization of the bus network is useful for bus route analysis and improvement. Third, it was confirmed that the number of accessible destinations using bus routes is limited, so tourism activities are also limited. Traffic-related research should jointly consider temporal and spatial characteristics. However, this study considered only spatial characteristics, so further research should also consider temporal characteristics.