bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Bleeding Pelvic Fracture Patients: Evolution of Resuscitation Protocols
Authors: Söderlund T. , Ketonen T. , Handolin L.
Published: March 2017

Background and Aims:

Massive transfusion protocol seems to improve outcome in massively bleeding trauma patients, but not pelvic fracture patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of massive transfusion protocol on the mortality and fluid resuscitation of shocked pelvic fracture patients.

Material and Methods:

This is a trauma register study from a single hospital. From the trauma registry patients with pelvic fracture, injury severity score >15, admission base excess below −5, age >15 years, blunt trauma, and primary admission from the scene were identified. Patients were divided into two groups: Group 1—pre-massive transfusion protocol (2006–2009) and Group 2—post-massive transfusion protocol (2010–2013). Basic characteristics and intensive care unit length of stay, mortality, and fluid resuscitation data were retrieved from the registry. Standardized mortality ratio was assessed using revised injury severity classification, version II methodology.

Results:

Altogether, 102 patients were identified. Group 1 ( n = 56) and Group 2 ( n = 46) were comparable in their basic characteristics. The observed mortality was 35.7% and 26.1% in Groups 1 and 2, respectively. The standardized mortality ratio failed to reveal any difference between observed and expected mortality in either group. In the emergency room, the use of crystalloids decreased from 5.3 ± 3.4 to 3.3 ± 1.8 L ( p = 0.002) with increased use of fresh frozen plasma (2.9 ± 4.4 vs 5.1 ± 5.3, p = 0.007).

Conclusion:

No improvement in the adjusted survival of shocked pelvic fracture patients is apparent after implementation of massive transfusion protocol. Implementation of massive transfusion protocol is associated with a higher use of fresh frozen plasma and improved ratio of fresh frozen plasma:red blood cell toward the targeted 1:1 and decreased use of crystalloids.
Accuracy and Coverage of Diagnosis and Procedural Coding of Severely Injured Patients in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register: Comparison to Patient Files and the Helsinki Trauma Registry
Authors: Heinänen M. , Brinck T. , Handolin L. , Mattila V. M. , Söderlund T.
Published: March 2017

Background and Aims:

The Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data are frequently used for research purposes. The Finnish Hospital Discharge Register has shown excellent validity in single injuries or disease groups, but no studies have assessed patients with multiple trauma diagnoses. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy and coverage of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register but at the same time validate the data of the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit.

Materials and Methods:

We assessed the accuracy and coverage of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data by comparing them to the original patient files and trauma registry files from the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit. We identified a baseline cohort of patients with severe thorax injury from the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit of 2013 (sample of 107 patients). We hypothesized that the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register would lack valuable information about these patients.

Results:

Using patient files, we identified 965 trauma diagnoses in these 107 patients. From the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register, we identified 632 (65.5%) diagnoses and from the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit, 924 (95.8%) diagnoses. A total of 170 (17.6%) trauma diagnoses were missing from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data and 41 (4.2%) from the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit data. The coverage and accuracy of diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register were 65.5% (95% confidence interval: 62.5%–68.5%) and 73.8% (95% confidence interval: 70.4%–77.2%), respectively, and for the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit, 95.8% (95% confidence interval: 94.5%–97.0%) and 97.6% (95% confidence interval: 96.7%–98.6%), respectively. According to patient records, these patients were subjects in 249 operations. We identified 40 (16.1%) missing operation codes from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and 19 (7.6%) from the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit.

Conclusion:

The validity of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data is unsatisfactory in terms of the accuracy and coverage of diagnoses in patients with multiple trauma diagnoses. Procedural codes provide greater accuracy. We found the coverage and accuracy of the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit to be excellent. Therefore, a special trauma registry, such as the trauma registry of the Helsinki University Hospital’s Trauma Unit, provides much more accurate data and should be the preferred registry when extracting data for research or for administrative use, such as resource prioritizing.
Abdominal Wall Morbidity Following Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Authors: Struller F. , Koenigsrainer I. , Horvath P. , Koenigsrainer A. , Beckert S.
Published: March 2017

Background:

Incisional hernia formation has been reported as high as 20% within 1 year following midline laparotomy. Since hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy is likely to impair wound healing, we sought to investigate the incidence of incisional hernia formation and abdominal wall rupture following cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.

Methods:

Consecutive patients with radiographic evidence of peritoneal metastases were scheduled for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany. Clinical data were retrospectively analyzed.

Results:

Between May 2005 and May 2014, 271 patients underwent cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Within follow-up, 19 (7%) incisional hernias and 11 (4%) abdominal wall ruptures were observed. Age ⩾70 years, cardio-pulmonary comorbidity, the presence of pseudomyxoma peritonei or mesothelioma, and postoperative abdominal wall rupture were detected as risk factors for hernia formation. However, Cox multivariate analysis only confirmed the presence of pseudomyxoma peritonei or mesothelioma and postoperative abdominal wall rupture as independent risk factors.

Conclusion:

Our data do not suggest that cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy is necessarily associated with a higher incidence of incisional hernia formation. However, patients suffering from pseudomyxoma peritonei or mesothelioma and patients with postoperative abdominal wall rupture seem to be at risk for developing incisional herniation.
Memoir of Tanzania: Learning about early childhood projects in developing countries
Authors: Penn Helen
Published: March 2017

This article considers the contribution of memoir as a method for understanding complex early childhood issues. It recounts the author’s first visit to Tanzania, a low-income country with a chequered history of independence from colonial rule. The article uses memories from that initial visit to reflect on the changing interpretations of colonial history and early childhood interventions. Looking back, it also considers the impact of that visit on the author’s own work trajectory, as an epiphany which led to new areas of work and conceptualization.
Symptoms and signs of temporomandibular disorders among elderly Vietnamese
Authors: Nguyen Minh Son , Jagomägi Triin , Nguyen Toai , Saag Mare , Voog-Oras Ülle
Published: March 2017

Background:

To assess the prevalence of the symptoms and signs of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) and determine the prevalence of TMDs among elderly Vietnamese aged 65–74 years old.

Methods:

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 258 participants aged 65–74 years old (128 females and 130 males) using two strategies for TMD diagnosis: a clinical examination of the temporomandibular joint and its associated structures using the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders Axis I; and a set of 14 questions regarding TMD symptoms to obtain anamnestic data.

Results:

The prevalence of TMD symptoms was: headache 49.6%; temporomandibular joint noise 28.0%; orofacial pain 25.2%; jaw locking 3.1%; 62.5% of participants had at least one TMD symptom. Headaches were more prevalent in females than males ( p=0.009) and rural than urban residents ( p<0.001). The most frequent signs were temporomandibular joint crepitus (50.4%), clicking (48.1%) and mouth-opening deviation (37.6%). Temporomandibular joint crepitus and mouth-opening deviation were more frequent among rural than urban ( p=0.024 and p<0.001, respectively). TMD was found in 56.6% of the total sample. Of the TMD sufferers, 37.6% were diagnosed with disc displacement, 34.9% with degenerative joint disease, 3.5% with myalgia and 1.2% with arthralgia.

Conclusions:

More than half of elderly Vietnamese have at least one TMD symptom. TMD sounds were the most common clinical sign of TMD. There were no differences between the genders or place of residence and TMD diagnosis. Disc displacement and degenerative joint disease were most prevalent among elderly Vietnamese.
A Novel Implant System for Unloading the Medial Compartment of the Knee by Lateral Displacement of the Iliotibial Band
Authors: Shenoy Vivek N. , Gifford Hanson S. , Kao John T.
Published: March 2017

Background:

Medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) typically occurs with excessive mechanical load within the medial compartment, resulting in degeneration of the articular cartilage.

Purpose:

A novel extracapsular implant (Latella Knee Implant) has been developed to unload the medial compartment of the knee. The implant displaces the iliotibial band (ITB) over the lateral femoral condyle, thereby increasing its effective moment arm, resulting in a transfer of load from the medial compartment to the lateral compartment of the knee. A cadaveric study was performed to evaluate the effect of altering the moment arm of the ITB on knee biomechanics.

Study Design:

Controlled laboratory study.

Methods:

A 6-degrees-of-freedom robotic testing system was utilized to measure medial and lateral compartment loads in 8 fresh-frozen cadaveric knees at various ITB loads and knee flexion angles. Measurements were made with and without the implant in place. The system measured the compartment forces at flexion angles between 0° and 30° under 3 simulated loading conditions (300 N quadriceps, 100 N hamstrings, and [1] 0 N ITB, [2] 50 N ITB, [3] 100 N ITB).

Results:

Lateral displacement of the ITB between 15 and 20 mm resulted in medial compartment unloading between 34% and 65%.

Conclusion:

Unloading the medial compartment with this novel implant has the potential to address the treatment gap for patients with medial knee OA.

Clinical Relevance:

Currently, there exists a treatment gap for patients with medial compartment OA who have exhausted conservative management but whose disease and symptoms do not warrant more invasive surgical procedures. An extracapsular implant to unload the medial compartment could fill this treatment gap by providing patients and surgeons with a less invasive option for early to mid-stage OA. Unloading the medial compartment may alleviate pain and improve function, allowing patients with early-stage medial OA to remain active longer prior to considering more invasive options such as arthroplasty.
President's Page
Authors: Nessim Maurice
Published: March 2017

Geophysics is a key enabler of energy reform. This relationship is perfectly illustrated by recent geophysical activities in Mexico. There, as elsewhere across the globe, exploration geophysicists are the pioneers of the oil and gas industry — always leading the way into exploration frontiers and rediscovering mature basins. Represented by more than 3000 technical professionals, this vibrant community is designing and preparing surveys, acquiring data offshore, and processing and interpreting seismic information for participation in upcoming licensing rounds and new operations. These activities form a solid foundation for future E&P business and an ongoing support of Mexico's energy reform.
State of the Net
Authors: Farley Isaac
Published: March 2017

On 4 August 2016, SEG launched its first podcast, “Seismic Soundoff,” with an episode about women in geophysics. Have you listened? Since then, 11 additional podcasts have been published for your enjoyment. This article is intended to guide you through listening to “Seismic Soundoff,” provide you an overview of these first dozen episodes, and give you an idea of what you can expect from us in 2017.
Ketamine as the anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy: The KANECT randomised controlled trial
Authors: Fernie Gordon , Currie James , Perrin Jennifer S. , Stewart Caroline A. , Anderson Virginica , Bennett Daniel M. , Hay Steven , Reid Ian C.
Published: March 2017

Background

Ketamine has recently become an agent of interest as an acute treatment for severe depression and as the anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Subanaesthetic doses result in an acute reduction in depression severity while evidence is equivocal for this antidepressant effect with anaesthetic or adjuvant doses. Recent systematic reviews call for high-quality evidence from further randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

Aims

To establish if ketamine as the anaesthetic for ECT results in fewer ECT treatments, improvements in depression severity ratings and less memory impairment than the standard anaesthetic.

Method

Double-blind, parallel-design, RCT of intravenous ketamine (up to 2 mg/kg) with an active comparator, intravenous propofol (up to 2.5 mg/kg), as the anaesthetic for ECT in patients receiving ECT for major depression on an informal basis. (Trial registration: European Clinical Trials Database (EudraCT): 2011-000396-14 and clinicalTrials.gov: NCT01306760.)

Results

No significant differences were found on any outcome measure during, at the end of or 1 month following the ECT course.

Conclusions

Ketamine as an anaesthetic does not enhance the efficacy of ECT.
Sexual orientation and suicidal behaviour in adolescents and young adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Miranda-Mendizábal A. , Castellví P. , Parés-Badell O. , Almenara J. , Alonso I. , Blasco M. J. , Cebrià A. , Gabilondo A. , Gili M. , Lagares C. , Piqueras J. A. , Roca M. , Rodríguez-Marín J. , Rodríguez-Jiménez T. , Soto-Sanz V. , Vilagut G. , Alonso J.
Published: March 2017

Background

Research suggests that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents have a higher risk of suicidal behaviours than their heterosexual peers, but little is known about specific risk factors.

Aims

To assess sexual orientation as a risk factor for suicidal behaviours, and to identify other risk factors among LGB adolescents and young adults.

Method

A systematic search was made of six databases up to June 2015, including a grey literature search. Population-based longitudinal studies considering non-clinical populations aged 12–26 years and assessing being LGB as a risk factor for suicidal behaviour compared with being heterosexual, or evaluating risk factors for suicidal behaviour within LGB populations, were included. Random effect models were used in meta-analysis.

Results

Sexual orientation was significantly associated with suicide attempts in adolescents and youths (OR=2.26, 95% CI 1.60–3.20). Gay or bisexual men were more likely to report suicide attempts compared with heterosexual men (OR=2.21, 95% CI 1.21–4.04). Based on two studies, a non-significant positive association was found between depression and suicide attempts in LGB groups.

Conclusions

Sexual orientation is associated with a higher risk of suicide attempt in young people. Further research is needed to assess completed suicide, and specific risk factors affecting the LGB population.
Ultrasonic stabilization technology of geometrical parameters of elastic plates
Authors: Балаев Андрей , Balaev Andrey , Королев Альберт , Korolev Albert , Балтаев Тимур , Baltaev Timur
Published: March 2017

The paper reports the substantiation of the stabilization technology for geometrical parameters of elastic plates in pressure sensors carried out by means of residual stresses affected by ultrasonic oscillations. For the confirmation of the efficiency of the developed ultrasonic stabilization technology in accordance with the procedure described the experimental investigations are carried out. The results of the experimental study are presented by the equation of regression and diagrams of residual stresses dependences upon technological factors. Amplitudes of ultrasonic oscillations, a static force of tool pressure and machining duration were assumed as variable technological factors. High productivity and efficiency of the ultrasonic technology for elastic plate stabilization are proved experimentally. As a result of the experiment there are defined rational values of ultrasonic processing modes for specific geometrical and physical-mechanical parameters of a plate.
High technology of wear-resistance increase in friction surfaces of machinery operating in hydrogen environment
Authors: Суслов Анатолий , Suslov Anatoliy , Шалыгин Михаил , Shalygin Mikhail
Published: March 2017

In the paper there is considered a problem of wear-resistance increase in parts operating in hydrogen environment. The dependence of friction surface wear taking into account their sub-roughness and hydrogen existence is shown. A technology for a friction couple wear-resistance increase is offered including surface layer granularity decrease, the reduction of hydrogen content in an inter-grain space and the introduction in the structure of parts surface layers the elements allowing filling up an inter-grain space. The results of comparative wear tests for different technologies for wear-resistance increase are shown. It is defined that the technology offered allows increasing wear-resistance in friction surfaces in machine parts. A method for account of hydrogen existence in an inter-grain space is offered and a reasonable method for obtaining a numerical value of a factor taking into account hydrogen presence used for theoretical computations.
SIMULATORS FOR CALIBRATION OF TOOL CENTER OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
Authors: Крахмалев Геннадий , Krakhmalev Gennadiy , Петрешин Дмитрий , Petreshin Dmitriy , Крахмалев Олег , Krakhmalev Oleg , Пимонов Андрей , Pimonov Andrey
Published: March 2017

A complex of measures on a new robot tooling envisages a fulfillment of the calibration procedure of the tool before its use in an operation. It is necessary for that the system of industrial robot control could carry out a tool travel in a robot operation space in the correct way. For that purpose the simulators describing coordinate transformations in this robot model must be supplemented by a simulator developed for the tool determined. Simulators describing coordinate trans-formations for a tool are created by a system of control automatically at the fulfillment of a tool calibration before the introduction of a new tool in operation. The simulators created are saved in permanent memory (ROM) of a controller of the control system in a tool library with the indication of logical naming for this tool. In the following at the pro-gramming of industrial robot motion a tool installed on a robot is pointed out to the system of control by means of logical naming a tool chosen. This paper reports the simulators for the tool center calibration of industrial robots corresponding to the methods used most commonly in practice of industrial robot operation. The simulators obtained can be used in systems for industrial robot control.
GENERATION AND METHODS FOR VIBRO-ACOUSTIC ACTIVITY DECREASE IN GASCOMPRESSOR UNITS WITH GAS TURBINE DRIVE
Authors: Дроконов Алексей , Drokonov Aleksey , Дроконов Алексей , Drokonov Aleksey
Published: March 2017

Block-modular gas compressor units (GCU) of a container type with an aircraft and ship gasturbine drive – a power source of vibration and noise pollution of environment.

Their basic inner sources – gas turbine engine and a centrifugal compressor. Besides, to power noise sources in the structure of GCU belong multiplier, an air cleaner of the air inlet system, an exhaust shaft, section walls of an engine and a compressor.

A gas turbine engine and a compressor define mainly a distant sound field and the rest of noise sources – near-in one.

A complex modernization of such plants may be carried out on the basis of the investigations of the level of vibrations and noise of all elements of such units.

With this purpose there were carried out inves-tigations of vibro-acoustic characteristics of GCU of GCU-16MG type with the capacity of 16 MW where as a drive of the centrifugal compressor of 370-18-1 NZL type serves a ship convertible engine of DG-90 type produced by “Zarya” Co.

Noise sources and vibrations of blade machines are studied, their vibro-acoustic characteristics are analyzed and methods for the decrease of vibro-acoustic activities of GCUs of such a type are offered.
MOTION STABILITY INCREASE IN FRIGHT CARS AND PASSENGER CARS
Authors: Сливинский Евгений , Slivinskiy Evgeniy , Митина Татьяна , Mitina Tatyana
Published: March 2017

It is well known that the most significant moment in motion smoothness increase of freight and passenger train is a motion stability of running gears in a rolling stock. The promising designs of car running gears are developed in Bunin State University of Yelets at the level of inventions and a set of computations on the substantiation of rational parameters of such struc-tures allowing not only the increase of car motion smoothness, but also the creation of conditions for car serviceability.
INVESTIGATION OF METHODS AND ALGORITHMS OF MOVING OBJECT HASHING
Authors: Гулаков Константин , Gulakov Konstantin , Гулаков Василий , Gulakov Vasiliy , Сковородников Юрий , Skovorodnikov Yuriy
Published: March 2017

The paper deals with the study of one of the urgent problems of real time applications in which objects have spatial and temporal dependences. With the development of wireless communication and position-ing technologies the problem of storage in a database and indexing a large quantity of moving objects becomes urgent. In this paper there is offered an idea based on the method of hashing allowing the consider-able decrease of the quantity of database updates and the fulfillment of an indexing procedure possible. The paper reports the following basic approaches to the solution of the problem mentioned: a hashing; LP-layer; a division of space into blocks; coverings be-tween blocks; the use of a dynamic update of blocks, and also combinations of approaches.

In order to draw conclusions of efficiency of hash-functions offered there was carried out a work on the experimental assessment of methods mentioned. The results of the comparison of methods are presented according to different criteria: productivity, a quantity of database updates, amount of disk memory pages used. The conclusions and recommendations for use are formulated.
PROCEDURE DEVELOPMENT FOR IMAGE IDENTIFICATION ON PICTURE BASED ON STRUCTURAL APPROACH
Authors: Карлова Татьяна , Karlova Tatyana , Гурьев Александр , Gurev Aleksandr , Алешко Роман , Aleshko Roman , Васендина Ирина , Vasendina Irina , Шошина Ксения , Shoshina Kseniya
Published: March 2017

The paper deals with the object identification in the picture based on a structural approach. The analysis of existing methods is presented and a new procedure of image identification with the use of a structural approach is shown.

In the introduction there is described a significance of picture decoding and a concept of a structure in the picture is designated.

The analysis of such a structural approach to image identification in a picture as a symbolic description which is a transition from the simplest signs of a picture to a set of graphic symbols. The second structural method analyzed in the paper is a syntactic approach to the image description. Here the whole picture is divided up to the simplest elements. The elementary graphic primitives are emphasized which make a pic-ture. And further the objects of the picture are de-scribed by a set of primitives. The regulation for the description of an object as a chain of primitives sets with the aid of the socalled language grammar of image description. Merits and demerits of existing structural methods are described, one of which is a complexity of object description on the picture of a real world. The offer on the necessity of the development of a new method taking into account the signs of really existing object and also describing objects in a formal view is put forward.

In the basic part a developed procedure defining objects in the picture as a specified polychromatic multitude emphasizing such properties as a significance of brightness, an object position and a number of additional characteristics is described. The definition of objects in the picture takes place by means of the creation of a structured description of known objects of the picture the identification on the basis of the use of a neuronet approach and a specification of the structure of objects found. As a result of the identification according to this procedure there is obtained a multitude of objects which was necessary to identify in the picture presented in a structural form. Such an approach can be used for various level of hierarchy at the description of objects in the picture it also allows taking into account not only brightness characteristics and a form, but a number of additional signs of objects.

In the conclusion the distinguishing features of this procedure and directions of its development are shown.
INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS AND DATA PROCESSING OF PARTS GRINDING QUALITY USING NEURONET TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Самойлова Елена , Samoylova Elena
Published: March 2017

An intelligent analysis and processing of data files of amplitude and phase channels of eddy current testing in parts grinding with the use of neural networks of the structure of a multilayer perceptron was considered. The modeling of a neural network of the structure of a multilayer perceptron is carried out which is a solution of the problem of large data files processing regarding quality of parts allowing the crea-tion of a more efficient automated system of monitor-ing and the connection in a single information area of the subsystem of parts control, control and manage-ment of a technological system, the decrease of cost price of quality control, the coverage of a larger sampling volume of parts under control and the increase the efficiency of a technological system control in manufacturing high-accuracy bearing parts.

A program realization of the information-measuring channel of eddy current testing as a part of an expert system of decision-making support in the environment of SCADA-system TRACE MODE 6 is presented. The special-purpose developed software Image is designed for the visualization in an online mode, an automated collection, and the analysis and information storage of eddy current testing.
TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES OF TRACTION CONVERTER
Authors: Пугачев Александр , Pugachev Aleksandr , Воробьев Владимир , Vorobev Vladimir , Стрекалов Николай , Strekalov Nikolay
Published: March 2017

The functional and structural circuits of an au-tomatic system for temperature control of power devices of a traction semiconductor converter of frequency are developed. The peculiarities of power devices as an object of temperature control are considered, an equivalent circuit of thermal processes substitution in semiconductor keys is offered, a comparative assessment of capacity of power loss in two- and three-level inverters of voltage is carried out. The dynamic properties of an electro-drive of a cooling fan with an asynchronous motor with a system of scalar control are analyzed. The recommendations on choice and computation of temperature control are developed.
ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AT ENGINEERING PLANTS UNDER CONDITIONS OF IMPORT SUBSTITUTION
Authors: Коновалова Галина , Konovalova Galina
Published: March 2017

The problem of import substitution is connected with the task of accelerated development and production of new products and technology. Basic directions of the organization of import substituting production: flexible adaptive fabrication, the correspondence of the methods of production organization to the requirements of a engineering-technological base, management efficiency, provision with workers and specialists in the field of manufacturing and management; a fulfillment of personnel policy directed to constant training and motivation of personnel; an adequate integrated automated system of production management directed to the solution of import substitution problems. The creation of administrative-economic conditions ensuring efficiency increase in enterprise functioning on the basis of the application of efficient production principles is substantiated. The approach to the choice of the index system in the assessment of production-economic activity manifesting engineering and economic peculiarities of import substitution production is described. The tasks on the organization of production under conditions of import substitution are formed. The regulations defining a purposefulness of production process automation are substantiated. The approach to the integration and optimization of production and management is developed. Basic elements of a stan-dard integrated automated system for the management of engineering plants are described.
INNOVATION CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES WITH SUPERSONIC LIQUID JET: ECONOMY, MARKET, STATE AND DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOKS
Authors: Кожус Ольга , Kozhus Olga , Степанова Елена , Stepanova Elena , Барсуков Геннадий , Barsukov Gennadiy
Published: March 2017

The paper reports the description of problems in the transition to knowledge economy. The renaissance of mechanical engineering and defense industry com-plex (DIC) is impossible without development and use of new innovation industrial techniques. One of the modern techniques of material processing is hydrocutting at supersonic speeds which belongs to a number of the most dynamically developing means of material cutting making a significant competition to such com-mon techniques as gas- and electro-erosion-, laser- and plasma cutting and also to machining. The advantages of new innovation techniques are analyzed. The analy-sis of the world market of HAC, trends and drives of its development is given. The examples of the latest inno-vations in this field are shown, the information of leading company-manufacturers of hydrocutting equipment with its brief performance data is shown.
METHODOLOGY IN ASSESSMENT OF OPERATOR ACTIVITY IN MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
Authors: Кузьменко Александр , Kuzmenko Aleksandr , Кондратенко Сергей , Kondratenko Sergey , Спасенников Валерий , Spasennikov Valeriy
Published: March 2017

In the paper the methodology in the assessment of operator activities in man-machine systems is offered. The approach offered is directed to the solution of the contradiction between the definition of qualifying requirements to operator activity in indices of its quality and existing methods ensuring the assessment of the functional efficiency of activity. The indices of the quality assessment of operator activity and charac-teristics of qualifying requirements for operators of “man-machine” systems are defined. In the paper there is shown a structural chart of a program complex for the assessment of operator activity quality. Methods of a statistical modeling suitable for the solution of the problem of accuracy increase in the assessment of operator activities quality are considered. Basic requirements and assumptions used in the course of the formation of a model of the operator activity and assessment of its quality are defined. The assessments of quality indices of operator activity obtained on the model can be specified using various procedures increasing the efficiency of statistical method modeling. A statistical modeling allows imitating the activity processes actually without limitation of the amount of factors taken into account and without demanding the presentation of inves-tigated dependences in an actual view regarding a desired variable. A variety of used in practice indices and methods of their assessment is determined first of all by a varied structure of existing kinds of operator activity and their purposefulness.
CONCEPT OF FORMATION AND PROCEDURE OF ERGONOMIC ASSESS-MENT OF LASER PROJECTION SYSTEM IN SIMULATOR
Authors: Халтобин Владимир , Khaltobin Vladimir , Василец Валерий , Vasilets Valeriy , Пономаренко Андрей , Ponomarenko Andrey , Левин Дмитрий , Levin Dmitriy
Published: March 2017

Basic merits and a conceptual image of the laser system for the visualization of off-cockpit situation in an aircraft simulator are shown. The operation of this system is considered. The procedure and basic results of an ergonomic assessment of a laser visualization system for the simulator MiG-29K are presented.
DECIMAL NOMENCLATURE CODE DNCMKOT FOR IDENTIFICATION OF EXISTING AND AUTOMATED GENERATION OF NEW FINITE ELEMENTS
Authors: Дмитроченко Олег , Dmitrochenko Oleg
Published: March 2017

The work purpose: a systematic (constant) clas-sification of finite elements for designation unity, the exclusion of repeated investigations and results dupli-cating.

Methods. A decimal nomenclature dncmkot code for finite elements is offered. It is based on the geometry and structure presentation of

node coordinates by integral (whole) parame-ters: d – dimensionality, n – nodes number, c – parameter defining a structure of node coordinates, for example, coordinates number in a node, m – number of interpolation polynomials of an element. For more complicated elements the application of additional parameters is possible. To this there are added of an element physical functional: k – order of senior derivative upon which depends a sub-integral expression of a physical functional, t – additional pa-rameter-type.

Results. There is offered an algorithm allowing calculating functions of an element form, its matrix of rigidity and others through dncmkot code. The corres-pondence of the finite elements set from ANSYS soft-ware to their codes according to the classification offered is shown. The examples of new elements creation on the basis of the classification offered are presented.

Conclusion: the classification offered allows describing unambiguously existing finite elements and also creating in an automated way new ones according to dncmkot code.
Stimulating Online Reviews by Combining Financial Incentives and Social Norms
Authors: Burtch Gordon , Hong Yili , Bapna Ravi , Griskevicius Vladas
Published: March 2017

In hopes of motivating consumers to provide larger volumes of useful reviews, many retailers offer financial incentives. Here, we explore an alternative approach, social norms. We inform individuals about the volume of reviews authored by peers. We test the effectiveness of using financial incentives, social norms, and a combination of both strategies in motivating consumers. In two randomized experiments, one in the field conducted in partnership with a large online clothing retailer based in China and a second on Amazon Mechanical Turk, we compare the effectiveness of each strategy in stimulating online reviews in larger numbers and of greater length. We find that financial incentives are more effective at inducing larger volumes of reviews, but the reviews that result are not particularly lengthy, whereas social norms have a greater effect on the length of reviews. Importantly, we show that the combination of financial incentives and social norms yields the greatest overall benefit by motivating reviews in greater numbers and of greater length. We further assess treatment-induced self-selection and sentiment bias by triangulating the experimental results with findings from an observational study.

The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2715 .

This paper was accepted by Chris Forman, information systems.
Behavioral Profiles of Children With Williams Syndrome From Spain and the United States: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences
Authors: Pérez-García Débora , Brun-Gasca Carme , Pérez-Jurado Luis A. , Mervis Carolyn B.
Published: March 2017

To identify similarities and differences in the behavioral profile of children with Williams syndrome from Spain (n = 53) and the United States (n = 145), we asked parents of 6- to 14-year-olds with Williams syndrome to complete the Child Behavior Checklist 6–18. The distribution of raw scores was significantly higher for the Spanish sample than the American sample for all of the higher-order factors and half of both the empirically based and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-oriented scales. In contrast, analyses based on country-specific T-scores indicated that the distribution for the Spanish sample was significantly higher than for the American sample only on the Social Problems scale. No gender differences were found. Genetic and cultural influences on children's behavior and cultural influences on parental ratings of behavior are discussed.
Impact of Attention Training on Academic Achievement, Executive Functioning, and Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Kirk Hannah , Gray Kylie , Ellis Kirsten , Taffe John , Cornish Kim
Published: March 2017

Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience significant difficulties in attention, learning, executive functions, and behavioral regulation. Emerging evidence suggests that computerized cognitive training may remediate these impairments. In a double blind controlled trial, 76 children with IDD (4–11 years) were randomized to either an attention training (n = 38) or control program (n = 38). Both programs were completed at home over a 5-week period. Outcome measures assessed literacy, numeracy, executive functioning, and behavioral/emotional problems, and were conducted at baseline, post-training, and 3-month follow-up. No training effects were observed at post-training; however, children in the training group showed greater improvements in numeracy skills at the 3-month follow-up. These results suggest that attention training may be beneficial for children with IDD; however, the modest nature of the intervention effects indicate that caution should be taken when interpreting clinical significance.
Can a Memorial Communicate Embodied Trauma? Reenacting Civilian Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park
Authors: Choi Suhi
Published: March 2017

In 2011, South Korea built an unusual memorial that honors civilian victims of an American atrocity during the Korean War. This memorial, called the No Gun Ri Peace Park, particularly commemorates the No Gun Ri killings, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize–winning story that depicts the massacre by American GIs of South Korean civilians who were taking refuge underneath a bridge called No Gun Ri. As a durable war mnemonic in a public site, the park is now performing the critical role that survivors and victims’ families used to carry: witnessing, performing, and transferring trauma to others. This essay critically looks at not only how the park reenacts civilian bodies in communicating a traumatic event that most visitors did not experience directly but also how it—as a newly constructed sign—negotiates meanings of the No Gun Ri bridge, the original site of the killings that is located adjacent to the park.
Transforming Violence into a Focusing Event: A Reception Study of the 1946 Georgia Lynching
Authors: Childers Jay P.
Published: March 2017

Scholars have repeatedly argued that Harry Truman’s decision to create the President’s Committee on Civil Rights would ultimately influence civil rights in the United States for many years afterward. However, scholars have been less clear in explaining what led Truman to act on civil rights in the first place. One important factor in the Truman administration’s creation of the committee that is often mentioned but almost never given as much attention as it deserves is the 1946 Georgia Lynching. Through a reception study of the articles, congressional debates, editorials, and speeches that responded to the murders, this essay argues that the murders of four African Americans in a small, rural town were transformed into a national focusing event because of how several key interpretive decisions emerged from the basic facts of the lynching in conjunction with larger cultural concerns. This analysis both highlights how the mass lynching came to have cultural significance and argues for the importance of rhetorical scholarship that engages the role of focusing events in both public debate and policy creation.
Effects Of pH, Temperature And Salinity In Growth And Organic Acid Production Of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated From Penaeid Shrimp Intestine
Authors: Subagiyo Subagiyo , Margino Sebastian , Triyanto Triyanto , Ari Setyati1,2 Wilis Ari
Published: March 2017

Bakteri asam laktat telah lama dikembangkan sebagai probiotik. Penentuan kondisi lingkungan yang optimum untuk pertumbuhan sel serta asam organik memberikan gambaran aktivitas optimum untuk kinerja probiotik baik dalam sistem fisiologi inang maupun dalam sistem bioproses untuk produksi sel dan metabolit. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh faktor lingkungan (pH, suhu dan salinitas) terhadap pertumbuhan dan produksi total asam organik tiga isolat bakteri asam laktat yang telah diseleksi dari intestinum udang penaeid. Eksperimen menggunakan  medium deMan, Rogosa and Sharpe (MRS) cair. Perlakuan pH awal meliputi  nilai pH 4, 5 dan 6. Perlakuan suhu meliputi suhu 25, 30 dan 35OC serta perlakuan salinitas  meliputi salinitas 0,75 %, 1,5 % dan 3 %.  Setiap interval 6 jam dilakukan pengambilan sampel kultur bakteri dan penghitungan pertumbuhan berdasarkan perubahan optical density (pada panjang gelombang 600 nm) sedangkan produksi asam laktat dianalisis dengan metode titrimetrik menggunakan NaOH 1 N sebagai larutan titrasinya. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa suhu, pH awal dan salinitas berpengaruh terhadap pertumbuhan dan produksi asam organik. Nilai kondisi lingkungan terbaik untuk pertumbuhan dapat berbeda dengan nilai terbaik untuk produksi asam organic. Hal ini ditunjukan oleh nilai laju pertumbuhan dan produksi asam laktat tertinggi dari tiga isolat uji terjadi pada suhu, pH awal dan salinitas yang berbeda.  Isolat L12 tumbuh optimum pada suhu 30oC, pH awal 6 dan salinitas 0,75%. Isolat L14 tumbuh optimum pada suhu 30oC, pH awal 6 dan salinitas 1.5%. Isolat L 21 tumbuh optimum pada suhu 30 oC, pH awal 6 dan salinitas 1.5%. Kata kunci: bakteri asam laktat, suhu, pH, salinitas, asamorganik, pertumbuhan, Lactic acid bacteria are widely distributed in intestinal tracts of various animals where they live as normal flora.Strains of lactic acid bacteria are the most common microbes employed as probiotics, The optimum condition for growth are important to mass production and to determined parameters most suitable for growth. The effects of  temperature, pH and salinity on the growth and production of lactic acid from the three shrimp intestinal lactic acid bacteria isolates were conducted using bacth culture in a flask. These variables for growth were determined based on the growth curves and lactic acid production. Data from the flask batch experiment demonstrated that the best initial pH and temperature  for growth of isolat L12 ,L14 and L21 were found to be pH 6 and 30 OC.  Salinity (NaCl concentration) 0,75% were the best for growth of isolat L12. Salnity  1,5 % were best for growth of isolat L14 and L21. Key words : growth, temperature, pH, salinity, lactic aid bacteria
Wokół książki Poznański Czerwiec 1956. Z profesor Zofią Trojanowiczową rozmawia Wiesław Ratajczak
Authors: Trojanowiczowa Zofia , Ratajczak Wiesław
Published: March 2017

A conversation with professor Zofia Trojanowiczowa on the background and origin of Poznań 1956 protests . This was the first collection of essays and relations, and it was published in June 1981. A co-author of the book remembers the enthusiasm of revealing the truth about the workers’ uprising.
Od rewizji do apostazji i między publicystycznością a literackością. O wierszach polskiej „odwilży”
Authors: Stankowska Agata
Published: March 2017

The text is a book review of an Wiersze polskiej „odwilży” (1953-1957)  (Kielce 2010). This is the first monograph of this subject, and it has a great documentary value. The author based his well-researched study on detailed archival queries in contemporary press, magazines, and leaflets. The author compared the found texts with their authors’ published poetry books, traced the relations between content, censorship interventions in reprints, and subsequent authorial modifications, which were often aimed at universalization of a poem initially written as an urgent public statement. The author meticulously reconstructed the communicational problems of thaw poems and collections.
Towarzysze na Targach
Authors: Trojanowicz Roman
Published: March 2017

A rememberance of the Black Thursday events, observed by the author (a student of medicine back then) witnessed as a tourist guide for a group organized by Province Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party from Bialystok, sightseeing at the Poznań International Fairs.
Verbal plural in Zande
Authors: Pasch Helma
Published: March 2017

Verbal plural is marked morphologically by a suffix of the verb or by reduplication of the verb stem. Only the latter way is productive. Plurality may refer to the participants, the actions, or the outcome of actions. Singular is a vague category. The so-called singular forms of many verbs may be used number neutrally to describe singular or plural actions or events, while the plural forms are used in order to disambiguate. With other verbs the two forms distinguish between a non-high and a high degree of plurality of action.
Ungekühlte Mikrobolometer-Arrays mit einer
Pixelgröße von 12 µm basierend auf einer neuartigen thermisch
isolierenden Struktur
Authors: Muckensturm Kai-Marcel , Weiler Dirk , Hochschulz Frank , Busch Claudia , Geruschke Thomas , Wall Simone , Heß Jennifer , Lerch Renee , Würfel Daniel , Vogt Holger
Published: March 2017

In diesem Paper wird ein
innovatives Konzept zur Herstellung von hochempfindlichen ungekühlten
Mikrobolometern, zur Detektion von langwelliger
Infrarotstrahlung (IR-Strahlung) in einem
Wellenlängenbereich von 8 μm–14 μm,
beschrieben. Der Ansatz basiert auf der Realisierung der
thermischen Isolierung und gleichzeitiger elektrischer Kontaktierung der
Mikrobolometer mit Hilfe von ausreichend langen und dünnbeschichteten
Hohlröhrchen (hier als Nanotubes bezeichnet), welche
mit Technologien und Prozessen aus der Mikrosystemtechnik hergestellt werden
können. Somit wird der relative Flächenanteil
des Absorbers bei einer gegebenen Pixelgröße
maximiert, da laterale Stege, welche
bislang Hauptbestandteil der thermischen Isolierung
waren, komplett entfallen. Der
resultierende thermische Leitwert kann über die einzelnen
Schichtdicken, Grundradius und Länge der Nanotubes
flexibel und unabhängig von der Pixelgröße eingestellt
werden. Die gefertigten
Nanotube-Mikrobolometer werden zunächst anhand von
Teststrukturen im Hinblick auf die elektro-optischen
und mechanischen Eigenschaften grundlegend
charakterisiert. Der Fokus liegt in dieser Arbeit auf
Pixelgrößen von 12 μm.