bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Cystic Vestibular Schwannomas
Authors: Frisch Christopher D. , Jacob Jeffrey T. , Carlson Matthew L. , Foote Robert L. , Driscoll Colin L.W. , Neff Brian A. , Pollock Bruce E. , Link Michael J.
Published: August 2016

BACKGROUND: The optimum treatment for cystic vestibular schwannoma (VS) remains controversial. Anecdotally, many treating physicians feel that cystic VSs do not respond to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) as well as noncystic tumors.

OBJECTIVE: To present outcomes after treatment of predominantly cystic VS with SRS.

METHODS: A prospectively maintained clinical database of patients undergoing Gamma Knife (Elekta Instruments, Stockholm, Sweden) radiosurgery (GKRS) for VS at a single tertiary academic referral center was retrospectively reviewed. Patients diagnosed with cystic VS who were treated with GKRS between 1997 and 2014 were analyzed. Size-matched solid tumors treated with GKRS during this period were selected as controls.

RESULTS: Twenty patients (12 women; median age at treatment, 56 years; range, 36-85 years) with cystic VS met inclusion criteria. The median radiologic follow-up within the cystic group was 63 months (range, 17-201 months), and the median change in tumor size was −4.9 mm (range, −10.4 to 9.3 mm). Sixteen tumors (80%) shrank, 2 (10%) remained stable, and 2 (10%) enlarged, accounting for a tumor control rate of 90%. The median radiologic follow-up in the noncystic control group was 67 months (range, 6-141 months), and the median change in size was −2.0 mm (range, −10.4 to 2.5 mm). Tumor control in the solid group was 90%. Comparing only those tumors that decreased in size showed that there was a trend toward a greater reduction within the cystic group (P = .05).

CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates that tumor control after SRS for cystic VS may not differ from that of noncystic VS in selected cases.
Chromospheric telescope of Baikal Astrophysical Observatory. New light
Authors: Скоморовский Валерий , Skomorovsky Valery , Кушталь Галина , Kushtal Galina , Лоптева Любовь , Lopteva Lyubov , Прошин Владимир , Proshin Vladimir , Трифонов Виктор , Trifonov Viktor , Чупраков Сергей , Chuprakov Sergey , Химич Валерий , Khimich Valeriy
Published: August 2016

A chromospheric telescope is an important instrument for synoptic observations and solar research. After several decades of observations with the chromospheric telescope at the Baikal Astrophysical Observatory, a need arose to improve the characteristics of this telescope and filter. A new reimaging lens to produce full-disk solar images 18 mm in diameter at the CCD camera Hamamatsu C-124 with a 36×24 mm detector (4000×2672 pixels) was designed and manufactured to replace the out-of-operation 50×50 mm Princeton Instruments camera. A contrast interference blocking filter and new calcite and quartz crystal plates were made and installed instead of damaged ones in the Hα birefringent filter (BF), manufactured by Bernhard Hallе Nachfl. The optical immersion in the filter was changed. All telescope optics was cleaned and adjusted. We describe for the first time the design features and their related BF passband tuning. The wavefront interferograms of optical elements and telescope as a whole show that the wavefront distortion of the optical path is within 0.25 λ. The BF and prefilter spectral parameters provide high-contrast monochromatic images. Besides, we give examples of solar chromospheric images in the Hα line core and wing.
Comparative analysis of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth: evidence for OECD selected countries
Authors: Gmidene Samia , Zaidi Saida , Zouari Ghorbel Sonia
Published: August 2016

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship among renewable energy, nuclear energy consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions for selected OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2013. All variables are found to be cointgrated.Results of Granger causality show long-run relationship from GDP, renewable energy consumption and nuclear energy consumption to CO2 emissions, from CO2 emissions, GDP, to renewable energy consumption, from emissions, GDP to renewable energy, and from CO2 emissions GDP and nuclear energy consumption.In short run, results show that there exists bidirectional causality between GDP and CO2 emissions, and unidirectional causality running from renewable energy consumption to GDP. Also unidirectional causality running from renewable energy consumption to CO2 emissions without feedback but no causality running from nuclear energy consumption to CO2 emissions was found. This evidence suggests that renewable energy can help to mitigate CO2 emissions, but so far, nuclear energy consumption has not reached a level where it can CO2 emissions.
Spinal tuberculosis in a case of tubercular meningitis with hydrocephalus
Authors: Gautam Shriram , Gautam Vinod Kumar Singh
Published: August 2016

Delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis of the brain and spine is associated with morbidity and mortality. Authors present a case to highlight the significance of thorough clinical work up, neuro-radiology and appropriate and prompt anti-tuberculous therapy in patients of CNS TB. Timely neurosurgical interventions in this patient who had developed spinal tuberculosis during the course of treatment for tuberculous meningitis (TBM) helped in reducing the morbidity and led to complete neurological recovery.
Figuras do amador no cinema brasileiro
Authors: Foster Lila Silva
Published: August 2016

Buscaremos, a partir de três categorias do cinema amador utilizadas pelo teórico Roger Odin, investigar a dimensão histórica do cine-amadorismo no Brasil. Como norte, analisaremos três coleções de filmes amadores depositadas em arquivos audiovisuais brasileiros que representam manifestações do cinema amador: o cinema familiar nas décadas de 1920 e 1930, as produções ficcionais filmadas no contexto dos clubes de cinema e o cinema experimental em Super 8 na década de 1970. O panorama histórico busca dar visibilidade a filmes amadores preservados em arquivos e ainda pouco explorados pela historiografia do cinema brasileiro.
Cinema como lugar de memória: reflexões a partir de filmes amadores Super-8 retomados no curta 'Supermemórias'
Authors: Bosi Maíra Magalhães
Published: August 2016

O presente artigo versa sobre o cinema amador como possibilidade de construção de lugares de memória. Para isso, apresentamos uma reflexão teórica sobre o conceito de lugares de memória, cunhado por Pierre Nora (1984), e sobre o desejo de memória presente nos filmes amadores que registram acontecimentos da esfera de vida particular de quem os realizou. Em seguida, analisamos dois filmes em formato Super-8, produzidos na cidade de Fortaleza (Brasil), em 1978, e retomados pela montagem do curta-metragem brasileiro Supermemórias (Danilo Carvalho, 2010). Essa percurso reflexivo nos permite compreender a montagem como procedimento de construção de um novo lugar de memória e reafirmar a relevância do cinema amador como material empírico para estudos contemporâneos.
Adaptação da Obra Literária ao Cinema: A Validação Autoral da Realizadora Mulher
Authors: Faleiro Rodrigues Érica
Published: August 2016

Recensão do livro Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers, onde a Professora Auxiliar de Inglês e Cinema da Universidade de Southampton Shelley Cobb investiga o modo como várias mulheres cineastas de longas metragens de ficção adaptam a obra literária de autoras mulheres, num processo de duplicação da criação artística no feminino e de validação autoral.
'Noche es día' de Katia Maciel y André Parente: una reflexión sobre el habitar
Authors: Martín Maldonado Alejandro
Published: August 2016

The exhibition, exploring Katia Maciel and André Parente's work, consisted in a multiple refexion of the ways a couple's relationship manifests itself through architectural links.
Disposition & Duality: Notes on Marie-Claire Blais & Pascal Grandmaison’s 'La Vie Abstraite'
Authors: De Rosa Miriam
Published: August 2016

The text provides an account of Blais & Grandmaison's exhibition La vie abstraite, which took place at Galerie René Blouin in Montréal in spring 2016.
Filmes utilitários, amadores, órfãos e efémeros: repensando o cinema a partir dos “outros filmes”
Authors: Sampaio Sofia , Schefer Raquel , Blank Thaís
Published: August 2016

Os estudos de cinema têm vindo a construir-se em torno do filme de ficção, dentro de um paradigma predominantemente estético, autoral e nacional. Apesar de constituírem a maior parte da produção mundial, os filmes de não-ficção – uma categoria alargada, de metragem variada, que inclui diferentes géneros – têm sido marginalizados ou excluídos das várias histórias e historiografias do cinema, nacionais e internacionais. Esta introdução ao dossier “Outros Filmes”, começa por delinear o surgimento, na década de 1990, dentro e fora da academia, de perspectivas críticas que permitiram a valorização destes filmes e, por conseguinte, o seu estudo. É tendo em conta este contexto internacional que se apresenta um breve balanço do panorama português e brasileiro. O objectivo do dossier, a partir dos seus 6 artigos (a maior parte dos quais sobre o filme amador e o filme de actualidades), é lançar as bases para uma discussão mais vasta sobre o modo como os “outros filmes” podem (devem?) levar-nos a repensar os estudos de cinema e das imagens em movimento.
A effect of AAC intervention in personal assistant service situation on the self-determination behaviors of adults with cerebral palsy
Authors: Cho A Ra , Park Eun Hye ,   Korean Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Published: August 2016

Background and Objectives: Communication ability is essential to self-determination. So augmentative and alternative communication(AAC) is recommended for adults with severe cerebral palsy who are also not able to speak. But only provision of AAC is not enough for adults with cerebral palsy who had not given self-determination opportunity. So, in this study AAC intervention is offered to not only adults with cerebral palsy but also their personal assistants. The purpose of this study is to find the effect of this AAC intervention on the self-determination behaviors of adults of cerebral palsy. Method: Participants are three adults with cerebral palsy and their three personal assistants. AAC intervention is conducted three or four times per week at participant's home. Results: All of participants showed increased self-determination behaviors. Conclusion: This study shows that AAC intervention for adults with cerebral palsy and their personal assistants results in increased self-determination behaviors in personal assistant service situation.
The Feature of Articulation according to Language Age in Intellectual Disability Children
Authors: Kim Si-Won ,   Korean Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Published: August 2016

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study is to the find out tendency of articulation according to language age development by the correct proportion of total consonants' articulation, tendency of articulation development in the place of articulation and of manner. Method: For the subject for this study, 23 intellectual disability persons who special school took part in the Urimal test of Articulation and Phonation. Results: First, Intellectual Disability children's correct rate of whole consonant articulation increases as their language age glow up. Second, in the place of articulation, the articulation development tendency has a little difference in each language age group but the order of the total misarticulation, of which sequence is from higher misarticulation to lower misarticulation, is proved to be alvealar, velar, palatal, biabial, glottal and the order almost agree with the case of normal children. Third, in the manner of articulation, the order of misarticulation, of which sequence is from higher misarticulation to lower misarticulation, is proved to be liquids, fricative, affricate, implosive, nasal. Conclusion: The results of this study can be seen that the language articulation age characteristics of children with disabilities subjected to a similar developmental process and normal children, there is a significance to that as a basis for planning a language, education and treatment of children with disabilities.
Violence as art experience
Authors: Smieskova Alena
Published: August 2016

The article discusses Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Only God Forgives (2013), and focuses on questions of artistic representation and reception in relation to such cinematic elements as genre film, style, mise-en-scène, graphic violence and art experience. The arguments for the analyses are supported by John Dewey’s theory of art as experience where he claims that aesthetic experience is essentially infused with emotions that provide for a unifying quality cementing diverse constituent parts of the artwork. The article also takes into consideration Refn’s standpoint on the use of violence in art. While violence is a way of externalizing emotions, as Refn claims, it may not necessarily be the real experience viewers want to entertain; however, through an art experience, which is integral and complete as Dewey asserts, they are able to perceive and detect meanings that were “scattered and weakened in the material of other experiences”.
Mystery or not? Quantum cognition and the interpretation of the fantastic in Neil Gaiman
Authors: Čipkár Ivan
Published: August 2016

The present paper describes a reader-response experiment focusing on the perception of the genre of the fantastic. It also proposes an update of the genre’s structuralist definition to better conform to contemporary cognitive research. Participants answered questions relating to the interpretation of events and important symbols in a Neil Gaiman short story and were also asked if they considered the story “fantasy” or “realistic fiction.” Tzvetan Todorov characterized the fantastic as a hesitation between the uncanny (realistic interpretation) and the marvelous (supernatural interpretation). Neil Gaiman, a popular contemporary author of genre fiction, has utilized this hesitation between psychological and supernatural explanations of his stories to great effect. The results show a consistently higher degree of enjoyment in readers who were aware of the dual interpretation and partook in the hesitation. This paper also introduces the concept of quantum cognition into literary theory and explains the benefit of using terminology from this discipline in a reader-response context. The findings of this study could be the first step towards a better understanding of the different ways in which readers cognitively approach the fantastic or genre in general.
Inefficient Debate. The EMH, the “Remarkable Error” and a Question of Point of View
Authors: Charron Jacques-Olivier
Published: August 2016

This article develops a critical reflection on the way the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is debated, and in so doing tries to design an efficient way to criticize it. We first expose the debate is flawed by a confusion between two different forms of efficiency that we call technical and fundamental respectively, a confusion based on the implicit assumption that the first one implies the second one. We then show this inference requires the validity of a hypothesis which is neither tested nor part of the explanatory model of what is tested, and that the tested efficiency is generally the technical one, save in some scarce cases. This very scarcity is finally related to the prevalence of the investor’s point of view in financial theory:
Identifying the Isomorphism of Kinematic Chains
Authors: Romaniak Krystyna
Published: August 2016

Identification of isomorphic kinematic chains is one of the key issues in researching the structure of mechanisms. As a result the structures which duplicate are eliminated and further research is carried out on kinematic chains that do not duplicate. This dilemma has been taken up by many scholars who have come up with a variety of ideas how to solve it. The review of the methods for identifying the isomorphism of kinematic chains suggested by researchers is contained in this study, including Hamming Number Technique, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, perimeter graphs, dividing and matching vertices. The spectrum of methods applied to the issue of identifying the iso-morphism of mechanisms reflects the researchers’ efforts to obtain a precise result in the shortest time possible.
Characterizations of Rotundity and Smoothness by Approximate Orthogonalities
Authors: Stypuła Tomasz , Wójcik Paweł
Published: August 2016

In this paper we consider the approximate orthogonalities in real normed spaces. Using the notion of approximate orthogonalities in real normed spaces, we provide some new characterizations of rotundity and smoothness of dual spaces.
On line diagnostics and self-tuning method for the fluidized bed temperature controller
Authors: Porzuczek Jan
Published: August 2016

The paper presents the method of on-line diagnostics of the bed temperature controller for the fluidized bed boiler. Proposed solution is based on the methods of statistical process control. Detected decrease of the bed temperature control quality is used to activate the controller self-tuning procedure. The algorithm that provides optimal tuning of the bed temperature controller is also proposed. The results of experimental verification of the presented method is attached. Experimental studies were carried out using the 2 MW bubbling fluidized bed boiler.
Characterization of Dini–Lipschitz functions for the Helgason Fourier transform on rank one symmetric spaces
Authors: El Ouadih Salah , Daher Radouan
Published: August 2016

In this paper, using a generalized translation operator, we obtain an analog of Younis’ theorem, [
Szeged Matrix Property Indices as Descriptors to Characterize Fullerenes
Authors: Jäntschi Lorentz , Bolboacă Sorana D.
Published: August 2016

Fullerenes are class of allotropes of carbon organized as closed cages or tubes of carbon atoms. The fullerenes with small number of atoms were not frequently investigated. This paper presents a detailed treatment of total strain energy as function of structural feature extracted from isomers of C40 fullerene using Szeged Matrix Property Indices (SMPI). The paper has a two-fold structure. First, the total strain energy of C40 fullerene isomers (40 structures) was linked with SMPI descriptors under two scenarios, one which incorporate just the SMPI descriptors and the other one which contains also five calculated properties (dipole moment, scf-binding-energy, scf-core-energy, scf-electronic-energy, and heat of formation). Second, the performing models identified on C40 fullerene family or the descriptors of these models were used to predict the total strain energy on C42 fullerene isomers. The obtained results show that the inclusion of properties in the pool of descriptors led to the reduction of accurate linear models. One property, namely scf-binding-energy proved a significant contribution to total strain energy of C40 fullerene isomers. However, the top-three most performing models contain just SMPI descriptors. A model with four descriptors proved most accurate model and show fair abilities in prediction of the same property on C42 fullerene isomers when the approach considered the descriptors identified on C40 as the predicting descriptors for C42 fullerene isomers.
On some classes of mixed-super quasi-Einstein manifolds
Authors: Dey Santu , Pal Buddhadev , Bhattacharyya Arindam
Published: August 2016

Quasi-Einstein manifold and generalized quasi-Einstein manifold are the generalizations of Einstein manifold. The purpose of this paper is to study the mixed super quasi-Einstein manifold which is also the generalizations of Einstein manifold satisfying some curvature conditions. We define both Riemannian and Lorentzian doubly warped product on this manifold. Finally, we study the completeness properties of doubly warped products on MS(QE)4 for both the Riemannian and Lorentzian cases.
Generalizations of Steffensen’s inequality via some Euler-type identities
Authors: Pečarić Josip , Perušić Pribanić Anamarija , Smoljak Kalamir Ksenija
Published: August 2016

Using Euler-type identities some new generalizations of Steffensen’s inequality for n–convex functions are obtained. Moreover, the Ostrowski-type inequalities related to obtained generalizations are given. Furthermore, using inequalities for the Čebyšev functional in terms of the first derivative some new bounds for the remainder in identities related to generalizations of Steffensen’s inequality are proven.
The Adolescence: Scholastic Success and Failure
Authors: Negoiţă (Păcurariu) Gabriela
Published: August 2016

The research described herein has taken into consideration the manner in which high school pupils conceive the scholastic success or the scholastic failure, in times of adolescence, taking acount of this moment of life. At the same time, this research intents to highlight the degree of motivation the pupils posess, taking into consideration the school requirements, as well as the role of the teacher-pupil relation in this context. The subjects of the sample have been selected from amongst XIth grade pupils of Colegiul Național Bănățean (high school – Ed.) in Timișoara. The tool that has been employed for data collection has been adapted to the pupils’ level of cognitive and emotional development, considering their age particularities.
Pituitary-bone connection in skeletal regulation
Authors: Zaidi Mone , Sun Li , Liu Peng , Davies Terry F. , New Maria , Zallone Alberta , Yuen Tony
Published: August 2016

Pituitary hormones have traditionally been thought to exert specific, but limited function on target tissues. More recently, the discovery of these hormones and their receptors in organs such as the skeleton suggests that pituitary hormones have more ubiquitous functions. Here, we discuss the interaction of growth hormone (GH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), prolactin, oxytocin and arginine vasopressin (AVP) with bone. The direct skeletal action of pituitary hormones therefore provides new insights and therapeutic opportunities for metabolic bone diseases, prominently osteoporosis.
Evaluation of social anxiety, self-esteem, life quality in adolescents with acne vulgaris
Authors: Unal Dilek , Emiroğlu Nazan , Cengiz Fatma Pelin
Published: August 2016

Background:

Acne vulgaris is a visible skin disease commonly seen in adolescence. As it affects the appearance, it is likely to bring stress to the adolescent’s life regarding sensitivity about their appearance.

Objective:

The aim of the study was to investigate the social anxiety level, acne-specific life quality, and self-esteem among adolescents with acne vulgaris. In addition, we evaluated the relationship between these parameters, clinical severity, and sociodemographic data.

Methods:

One hundred and two adolescents with acne vulgaris, aged 12–17 years without any psychiatric or medical comorbidity were recruited. The control group consisted of 83 adolescents in the same age range, who had neither psychiatric disease nor acne. Sociodemographic form (SDF), Capa Social Phobia Scale for Children and Adolescents (CSPSCA), and Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSES) were applied to both groups. Additionally, the severity of acne was determined with Global Acne Grading System (GAGS), and life quality of the patients was evaluated with Acne Quality of Life Scale (AQOL).

Results:

There was no significant difference in social anxiety levels and self-esteem between the study and control groups. Life quality impairment and high social anxiety levels, as well as low self-esteem, were found to be associated regardless of the clinical severity.

Conclusion:

Clinicians should be aware of the psychiatric comorbidities when treating adolescents with acne vulgaris. Especially, low self-esteem and life quality impairment should warn clinicians to predict high social anxiety levels in adolescent acne patients.
Deliciously Exotic? Immigrant Grocery Shops and Their Non-Migrant Clientele
Authors: Parzer Michael , Astleithner Franz , Rieder Irene
Published: August 2016

This paper examines native consumption practices in immigrant grocery stores. Drawing on qualitative research on immigrant food retail in Vienna, we reveal how native Austrians use immigrant grocery shops, how they purchase products and which meanings they attribute to the act of shopping. We identified two different modes of shopping: Whileconsuming for convenienceis driven by aspects of practicability,consuming for exceptionalityis related to the attraction of ‘the foreign’. This typology corresponds with two special types of consumers: The ‘Because’-consumers use immigrant shops mainlybecause ofthe ethnicity associated with the shops, the owners and their staff. The ‘Nevertheless’-consumers use these shopsin spite ofthe entrepreneurs’ (imagined) ethnic origin and their migrant background. While ‘Because’-consumers run the risk of reproducing ethnic stereotypes, the ‘Nevertheless’- consumers may tend to retain or even strengthen their xenophobic resentments. These results partly challenge previous findings which argue that natives’ shopping routines in immigrant stores have become increasingly ordinary. We conclude by suggesting further research to examine the conditions under which an everyday engagement with foreign culture is promoted – without falling into the trap of reproducing symbolic boundaries between the majority and the minority.
Interrogating spaces of and for the dead as ‘alternative space’: cemeteries, corpses and sites of Dark Tourism.
Authors: Young Craig , Light Duncan
Published: August 2016

This paper considers spaces associated with death and the dead body as social spaces with an ambiguous character. The experience of Western societies has tended to follow a path of an increased sequestration of death and the dead body over the last two centuries. Linked to this, the study of spaces associated with death, dying and bodily disposal and the dead body itself have been marginalised in most academic disciplines over this period. Such studies have therefore been simultaneously ‘alternative’ within an academic paradigm which largely failed to engage with death and involved a focus on types of spaces which have been considered marginal, liminal or ‘alternative’, such as graveyards, mortuaries, heritage tourism sites commemorating death and disaster, and the dead body itself. However, this paper traces more recent developments in society and academia which would begin to question this labelling of such studies and spaces as alternative, or at least blur the boundaries between mainstream and alternative in this context. Through considering the increased presence of death and the dead body in a range of socio-cultural, economic and political contexts we argue that both studies of, and some spaces of, death, dying and disposal are becoming less ‘alternative’ but remain highly ambiguous nonetheless. This argument is addressed through a specific focus on three key interlinked spaces: cemeteries, corpses and sites of dark tourism.
Fluxus Spaces as Alternative Cultural Spaces. A social cartography of the urban cultural scenery
Authors: Manta Adina
Published: August 2016

There is a growing research interest in cultural spaces and their urban regeneration potential. Discussions about these spaces can be found in the literature under concepts such as: art spaces (Grodach, 2011), cultural spaces (Alexander, 2003), creative spaces (Becker et al, 2009), cultural laboratories, free spaces (Polleta, 1999), yet little research examines them from a dynamic perspective which integrates approaches from different disciplines. Through the methodological lens of bricolage and by mixing methods from mental geography, psychology and sociology, this study explores the alternative cultural spaces in terms of its pluralism, managing to identify a new conceptual framework, the fluxus space. Fluxus spaces are cultural spaces situated at the intersection of public-private, old-new, informal-formal, legal-illegal expressions, playing an important role in artistic development and in the urban and community regeneration processes.
“The Uprising” Novel Map. Real and Imaginary Space in Liviu Rebreanu’s Vision
Authors: Cepraga Theodor
Published: August 2016

The literary works represent a genuine source for researching and understanding the geographical space. Most of the time, this space is perceived and figured in various ways by the different authors referring to it. When available, the best way to study these mental representations is by using maps created by the authors themselves. This article concentrates on Liviu Rebreanu’s novel “The Uprising” and on the map which helped him to better depict the plot and the characters. The cartographical representation was created by Liviu Rebreanu and was published together with other drafts from the author’s personal archive. The paper analyzes the map using cartographical, historical and literary sources with the aim of understanding how the author reshaped the real space to better suit his literary imagination. In the end, the study explains how these kind of maps could be interpreted using a geocritical approach.
Sleep, Work and Globalization: The Evening/Night Shift Employees in Call Centre in Romania
Authors: Marinache Ramona
Published: August 2016

In order to ensure synchronized operation of companies who use workforce around the world, work schedules have been divided in two or three shifts and a large number of people work in evening or night shifts. Based on interviews with 25 employees of a call centre in Romania, I describe three processes: sleep desynchronization, i.e. working during night and sleeping during the day, synchronization with those having similar nocturnal schedules and, finally, its resynchronization with the mainstream. I describe the tensions and conflicts which accompany each such transformation.
Minkowski’s Inequality Based Sensitivity Analysis of Fuzzy Signatures
Authors: Harmati István Á. , Bukovics Ádám , Kóczy László T.
Published: August 2016

Fuzzy signatures were introduced as special tools to describe and handle complex systems without their detailed mathematical models. The input parameters of these systems naturally have uncertainties, due to human activities or lack of precise data. These uncertainties influence the final conclusion or decision about the system. In this paper we discuss the sensitivity of the weigthed general mean aggregation operator to the uncertainty of the input values, then we analyse the sensitivity of fuzzy signatures equipped with these aggregation operators. Finally, we apply our results to a fuzzy signature used in civil enginnering.
Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction Secondary to Traumatic Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Dissection. A Case Report
Authors: Bajkó Zoltán , Bălaşa Rodica , Moţăţăianu Anca , Bărcuţean Laura , Stoian Adina , Stirbu Nicoleta , Maier Smaranda
Published: August 2016

Traumatic bilateral dissection of the carotid arteries is a rare condition with potentially life-threatening complications. The case of a 57-year-old male patient with acute onset left sided hemiparesis, twelve hours after a blunt head injury, caused by a horse kick, is reported. A cerebral CT scan revealed right middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory infarction. Based on Duplex ultrasound and Angio CT scan findings, a diagnosis of bilateral ICA dissection was established. Despite antithrombotic treatment, the patient presented with a progressive worsening of his neurological status. The control CT scan evidenced malignant right MCA territory infarction that required decompressive craniotomy. The patient was discharged with significant neurological deficits. Together with this case, the aetiologies, clinical manifestations, diagnostic and therapeutical options and outcome of carotid artery dissection are discussed.
The Care of Central Venous Catheters in the Oncopediatric Department
Authors: Papp Zsuzsanna Erzsébet , Horváth Mária-Adrienne , Rat Nora , Băilă Lucian
Published: August 2016

Introduction: Childhood cancer, with its major psycho-social and health impact, needs long-term chemotherapy. Increasing the intensity of treatment results in improved outcomes of hematological malignancies and solid tumors. As cytostatics have a vascular irritating effect and multiple peripheric venous punctures cause pain, insertion of a long-term central venous catheter (CVC) during chemotherapy is often necessary.

Materials and methods: All pediatric patients (aged below 18 years) with hematologic and malignant pathologies who underwent CVC insertion at the Pediatric Hemato-oncology Department of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital of Tîrgu Mureș in the February 2014 – May 2016 period were enrolled in the study.

Results: We recorded 24 cases who received central venous catheters, out of which 14 patients received tunneled CVC, 7 patients port CVC, and 3 patients received initially tunneled CVC which was changed with port CVC. Tunneled catheters were preserved in average for 186.06 days and portacaths for 256.6 days. For infection prophylaxis and treatment every child received adequate antibiotic medication.

Conclusions: The use of central lines in pediatric hemato-oncology is accessible and benefic not only for increasing patient comfort, but also to ease the nurses' work, who are often overburdened.
One Approach to the Synthesis, Design and Manufacture of Hyperboloid Gear Sets with Face Mating Gears. Part 2: Review of Practical Realization
Authors: Abadjiev Valentin , Abadjieva Emilia
Published: August 2016

Hyperboloid gear drives with face mating gears are used to transform rotations between shafts with non-parallel and non-intersecting axes. A special case of these transmissions are Spiroid1 and Helicon gear drives. The classical gear drives of this type are Archimedean ones. The objective of this study are hyperboloid gear drives with face meshing, when the pinion has threads of conic convolute, Archimedean and involute types, or the pinion has threads of cylindrical convolute, Archimedean and involute types. For simplicity, all three type transmissions with face mating gears and a conic pinion are titled Spiroid and all three type trans- missions with face mating gears and a cylindrical pinion are titled Helicon. Principles of the mathematical modelling of tooth contact synthesis are discussed in Part 1: Basic theoretical and CAD experience of this study. The second part of this article is a brief overview of the innovations and inventions created in this field at the Institute of Mechanics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the last three decades. This study is also dedicated on elaboration of the specialized face gear sets for implementation into bio-robot hand. It is based on the application of 3D software technology, using 3D print for the realization of the physical models of the gear drives.
Energy and Transmissibility in Nonlinear Viscous Base Isolators
Authors: Markou Athanasios A. , Manolis George D.
Published: August 2016

High damping rubber bearings (HDRB) are the most commonly used base isolators in buildings and are often combined with other systems, such as sliding bearings. Their mechanical behaviour is highly nonlinear and dependent on a number of factors. At first, a physical process is suggested here to explain the empirical formula introduced by J.M. Kelly in 1991, where the dissipated energy of a HDRB under cyclic testing, at constant frequency, is proportional to the amplitude of the shear strain, raised to a power of approximately 1.50. This physical process is best described by non-Newtonian fluid behaviour, originally developed by F.H. Norton in 1929 to describe creep in steel at high-temperatures. The constitutive model used includes a viscous term, that depends on the absolute value of the velocity, raised to a non-integer power. The identification of a three parameter Kelvin model, the simplest possible system with nonlinear viscosity, is also suggested here. Furthermore, a more advanced model with variable damping coefficient is implemented to better model in this complex mechanical process. Next, the assumption of strain-rate dependence in their rubber layers under cyclic loading is examined in order to best interpret experimental results on the transmission of motion between the upper and lower surfaces of HDRB. More specifically, the stress-relaxation phenomenon observed with time in HRDB can be reproduced numerically, only if the constitutive model includes a viscous term, that depends on the absolute value of the velocity raised to a non-integer power, i. e., the Norton fluid previously mentioned. Thus, it becomes possible to compute the displacement transmissibility function between the top and bottom surfaces of HDRB base isolator systems and to draw engineering-type conclusions, relevant to their design under time-harmonic loads.
Crystal structure of the catena-poly-[bis(μ2-1-ethyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-7-(piperazin-1-yl-κN)-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylato-κ2
O,O′)nickel(II)] 5.5 hydrate, C32H44N6NiO11F2
Authors: An Zhe , Zhu Ling , Zhao Xin-Hua
Published: August 2016

C32H44N6NiO11F2, monoclinic, P2/c (no. 13), a = 10.4372(5)Å, b = 11.4647(5) Å, c = 17.0628(10) Å, β = 122.508(4)°, V = 1721.82(15) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0509, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1380, T = 293(2) K.
Archival Activism and Social Justice: Spotlight on Americana 2016: A Report
Authors: Sandler Edith
Published: August 2016

In March of 2016, the Student Archivists at Maryland (SAM) brought together archives professionals as part of Americana, their annual symposium at the University of Maryland. Americana 2016 “Archival Activism and Social Justice” focused on the intersection of archives and social justice, a topic of increasing importance and debate both in the archival field and in current events. Three speakers related their experiences documenting the experiences of displaced communities and social justice movements. Katharina Hering, Project Archivist for the National Equal Justice Library at the Georgetown Law Library related her work documenting the history of legal aid, indigene defense and the history of poverty. Diane Travis, a doctoral student at the iSchool explained her project at the University of Maryland’s Digital Curation and Innovation Center reuniting the records of Japanese Americans who were interred at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. The final speaker, Denise D. Meringolo, is Director of Public History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the creator of the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Project.
Correlation between the perceived residential environment quality and the inhabitants’ quality of life and civic behavior
Authors: Dębek Michał , Janda-Dębek Bożena
Published: August 2016

Although it has been assumed for many years that there is a relationship between the subjectively perceived quality of residential environment and quality of life, empirical evidence for the existence of such a link has been inconclusive. It is also assumed that the perception of residential environment in a certain way covariates with the behavior of people in this environment; Empirical support for this correlation is now all the more problematic. The objectives in the our research project were as follows: (1) enriching the current knowledge about those links between the perceived quality of various residential areas and their inhabitants’ experienced quality of life, and (2) examining the co-variables between the sense of satisfaction with the residence and declared pro-social and civic behavior. For the purpose of our study, we proposed an original theoretical framework integrating several available man-environment-behavior relationship concepts with the more general homeodynamic regulation concept for achieving psychological balance. Sixty-two people aged 18 to 85 took part in the research. Two groups were identified in the analysis: young adults and seniors. No significant correlation was found between the respondents’ perceived quality of life and their satisfaction with the quality of the environment they inhabited. It was almost exclusively seniors who undertook activities to benefit the residential area, and their life quality was correlated with this activity. Young adults turned out to be generally inactive. Correlations between pro-social and civic behavior and the residential area’s assessed quality proved to be weak and simple, but had different directions and dimensions in young adults and seniors.
The role of personal resources in the relationship between job stressors and emotional exhaustion
Authors: Szczygieł Dorota , Baka Łukasz
Published: August 2016

Our study was designed to examine an individuals’ affective traits (i.e., dispositional affectivity and emotional intelligence) and job stressors (i.e., interpersonal conflicts, quantitative workload and organizational constraints) on emotional exhaustion. One hundred and fifty-three employees participated in our study. All of them worked in teams and their job required face-to-face contacts with clients. Our main hypothesis was that emotional intelligence acts as a moderator in the relationship between job stressors and emotional exhaustion. The results indicate that employees who report more interpersonal conflicts at work, greater quantitative workloads and greater organizational constraints also report more symptoms of emotional exhaustion. Moreover, the results show that all three stressors were significant as predictors of emotional exhaustion beyond the employee’s dispositional affectivity. The moderating effect of emotional intelligence was observed in the relationship between interpersonal conflicts at work and emotional exhaustion. The relationship between interpersonal conflicts and emotional exhaustion was observed only among employees who were low in emotional intelligence. In contrast, interpersonal conflicts and emotional exhaustion were unrelated among employees who were high in emotional intelligence. The results are discussed from the Job Demands–Resources model perspective.
How Taxes Can Contribute to The Implementation of The Public Governance Strategy? – An Analysis for Eastern European Countries
Authors: Vlad Cristina , Ibadula Birol , Brezeanu Petre
Published: August 2016

The paper begins with a short literature review regarding the public governance concept in the EU approach and its methods for establishing a common way to manage different situations for all member states; we discovered that the problems they confront with have to do with good governance and qualitative public administration. In the second part, we developed an econometric model for three Eastern European countries and we found a strong correlation between the total revenues from taxes and social contributions and total gross debt in 2002-2014 period. We ended the paper by emphasizing the conclusions obtained.
Contribution to Ecology of Brandts Bat, Myotis Brandtii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in the North-Eastern Ukraine: Comparison of Local Summer and Winter Bat Assemblages
Authors: Vlaschenko A. , Hukov V. , Naglov A. , Prylutska A. , Kravchenko K. , Rodenko O.
Published: August 2016

The Brandt’s Bat (Myotis brandtii Eversmann, 1845) is one of the rarest bat species in Ukraine. There are only a few known locations of this species in summer and less known hibernacula in the whole country. Moreover, for territory of the north-eastern Ukraine are known only two underground bat hibernation sites with aggregation more than several tens of individuals. We undertook population surveys of winter aggregations in newly discovered and dug up abandoned sandstone mines in the Chuguev district of the Kharkiv Region (49°54′ N, 36°43′ E) from 2007 through 2015. We also surveyed summer bat assemblages in the forests surrounding these mines in 2012. The mines’ microclimate conditions were as follows: temperature +6 °C - +10 °C and humidity 60-80 %. M. brandtii, M. daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) and Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) hibernate in the mines; the first species is most abundant by number of individuals. In midsummer 9 bat species were recorded including the three previously mentioned. M. daubentonii and P. auritus breed in surrounding forest, but M. brandtii does not. One recaptured individual of M. brandtii was minimum 6 years old, providing us the first recorded information on longevity of this species for Ukraine. The total number of bats hibernating in these mines is estimated to be up to 100 individuals; a hibernaculum with several tens of M. brandtii could be classified as more numerous for this species in Ukraine. For this reason, the system of mines in the Kharkiv region needs species protection status and an action plan for monitoring and management.
Assimilation over the Life Course? The Career Mobility of Second-Generation Turkish Men in Germany
Authors: Hartmann Jörg
Published: August 2016

Studies of second-generation migrant assimilation have thus far focused on intergenerational mobility. However, career-mobility processes can also contribute to ethnic assimilation over the course of migrants’ careers. This study analyzes second-generation Turkish men’s labor-market and income mobility over the course of their early careers relative to those of autochthonous Germans. The results indicate that second-generation Turkish men experience higher unemployment, lower re-employment, and higher income-mobility risks at the beginning of their careers, all of which is largely caused by their lower host country-specific human capital. Over the course of their early careers, their employment and re-employment opportunities become more similar to those of native-born German men, while their higher upward and downward income mobility risks persist. The cumulative effects of initial disadvantages have negative effects on the development of second-generation Turkish men’s unemployment risks over the course of their early careers.
Este lugar sí importa
Authors: Dominguez Laura
Published: August 2016

The evolution and construction of cultural identity and memory in unincorporated East Los Angeles, both in scholarship and the popular imagination, establishes a critical framework for understanding changing relationships between communities of color and the broader historic preservation movement. East Los Angeles embodies slowly shifting paradigms within the historic preservation movement that compel practitioners and advocates to contend with the meaning of seemingly ordinary places that have tremendous cultural importance within their communities.
The New Cultus of Antinous
Authors: White Ethan Doyle
Published: August 2016

The contemporary Pagan movement, or Neo-Paganism, constitutes a growing sector of modern Western religiosity. While much scholarly attention has focused on larger Pagan religions like Wicca and Goddess Spirituality, this has come at the expense of studies into many of their smaller counterparts. Among those neglected faiths has been the contemporary cultus of Antinous, a small yet growing number of practitioners who venerate the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76–138 ce). Given the same-sex nature of the couple’s relationship, Antinous has come to be seen by many practitioners as “the Gay God” and his cultus has primarily attracted gay men. This article represents the first academic study of this new religious movement, outlining its historical development, examining the beliefs and practices of its adherents, and arguing that it reflects both continuity with earlier forms of Queer Paganism as well as novel developments.