bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
MPFL Repair for Acute Patella Dislocation
Authors: Lawrie Steven , Welsh James
Published: March 2016

Objectives:

To report on the findings of a single surgeon series of MPFL(medial patello-femoral ligament) repair in the treatment of first time patella dislocation.

Methods:

47 patients with 49 MPFL repairs for first time patella dislocation have been reviewed. All patients had pre-operative x-ray and MRI to define pathology, site of MPFL injury, presence of loose body/bodies, chondral injury etc. All patients underwent acute surgical repair at the site of injury to MPFL, as well as treatment of any secondary pathology. All patients were managed with a similar post-operative protocol of early weight bearing and range of motion utilizing a J-brace. Patients were contacted by phone or returned in person for completion of Kujula scores at time of reporting.

Results:

40 patients with 42 knees were available for final follow-up. Average follow up period is 3-9 yrs. Average Kujula score 89/100. 3 of 42 recurrent dislocation for rate of 6.1%. 1 deep infection. MPFL rupture site 28/49 at patella (57%), 15/49 at femur (30%), 3/49 both patella and femur (6.1%),1/49 mid-substance (2%), 2/49 not seen on MRI or at surgery ( 4%) Osteochondral loose body 28/49 (57%) 9/49 required additional oft tissue surgery

Conclusion:

This series describes the location of MPFL injury in first time patella dislocation. In this surgical series there is a high incidence of secondary injury. At 3.9yr follow up this series demonstrates a recurrent dislocation rate of 6.1%.
Do artisanal fishers perceive declining migratory shorebird populations?
Authors: Andrade Luciano Pires , Silva-Andrade Horasa Maria Lima , Lyra-Neves Rachel Maria , Albuquerque Ulysses Paulino , Telino-Júnior Wallace Rodrigues
Published: March 2016

Background

This paper discusses the results of ethno-ornithological research conducted on the local ecological knowledge (LEK) of artisanal fishers in northeast Brazil between August 2013 and October 2014.

Methods

The present study analyzed the LEK of 240 artisanal fishermen in relation to Nearctic shorebirds and the factors that may be affecting their populations. We examined whether differences occurred according to the gender and age of the local population. The research instruments included semi-structured and check-list interviews.

Results

We found that greater knowledge of migratory birds and the areas where they occur was retained by the local men compared with the local women. Half of the male respondents stated that the birds are always in the same locations, and most of the respondents believed that changes in certain populations were caused by factors related to habitat disturbance, particularly to increases in housing construction and visitors to the island. The main practices affecting the presence of migratory birds mentioned by the locals were boat traffic and noise from bars and vessels. According to the artisanal fishermen, the population of migratory birds that use the area for foraging and resting has been reduced over time.

Conclusions

Changes in the local landscape related to urbanization and tourism are most likely the primary causes underlying the reduced migratory shorebird populations as reported by local inhabitants. Thus, managing and monitoring urbanization and tourism are fundamental to increasing the success of the migration process and improving the conservation of migratory shorebird species.
Parenting style in childhood and mortality risk at older ages: a longitudinal cohort study
Authors: Demakakos Panayotes , Pillas Demetris , Marmot Michael , Steptoe Andrew
Published: March 2016

Background

Parenting style is associated with offspring health, but whether it is associated with offspring mortality at older ages remains unknown.

Aims

We examined whether childhood experiences of suboptimal parenting style are associated with increased risk of death at older ages.

Method

Longitudinal cohort study of 1964 community-dwelling adults aged 65–79 years.

Results

The association between parenting style and mortality was inverse and graded. Participants in the poorest parenting style score quartile had increased risk of death (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.72, 95% CI 1.20–2.48) compared with those in the optimal parenting style score quartile after adjustment for age and gender. Full adjustment for covariates partially explained this association (HR = 1.49, 95% CI 1.02–2.18). Parenting style was inversely associated with cancer and other mortality, but not cardiovascular mortality. Maternal and paternal parenting styles were individually associated with mortality.

Conclusions

Experiences of suboptimal parenting in childhood are associated with increased risk of death at older ages.
Guest Editors' Introduction
Authors: Parreñas Rhacel Salazar , Thai Hung Cam , Silvey Rachel
Published: March 2016

The article provides a theoretical overview of the study of the commodification of intimacy in Asia, specifically charting a framework for understanding its institutionalization. It introduces the concept of “intimate industries,” meaning the economic institutions that market the intimacies of affect, care, reproduction, and sex. These industries include surrogacy clinics, bridal photography studios, ecotourism sites, and among others, overseas call centers. The article maps the types of labor that intimate industries create, the types of personal relations they sustain, the moral conflicts and anxieties they engender, and lastly, their constitution of the body and biopolitics. The article draws attention to the reconfiguration of the economic world system through its discussion of the emergence of new nonmanufacturing sectors in Asia and the deepening marketization of longstanding sectors.
Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
Authors: Wang Leslie
Published: March 2016

Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into internationally desirable daughters and sons. I draw upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in four medical foster homes in China run by Western evangelical Christians that cared for special needs youth. In these homes, intimate reproductive and emotional labor practices that were inspired by first-world understandings of care “revalued” marginalized children and prepared them for middle-class lives abroad. The global humanitarian aid industry's presence in China has allowed government authorities to outsource intimate labor to highly resourced foreign groups that are motivated by their own child-saving agendas. This case study illustrates the ethical and material complexities that link commodified processes of global capitalism with the transnational circulation of children.
“From Dance Bars to the Streets”: Moral Dispossession and Eviction in Mumbai
Authors: Lakkimsetti Chaitanya
Published: March 2016

Recent debates around bar dancing in Mumbai shed light on the connection between class, space, and intimate labor in a global city. Dance bars emerged as morally suspect spaces alongside the decline of Mumbai as an industrial city and its development as a global financial and entertainment capital. For a brief period, women bar dancers were able to make a living in the peripheral spaces that opened up during Mumbai's transformation into a global city, but their livelihoods were undercut when they were banned in 2005 as a “moral threat” to the city. The author argues that central to the moral hysteria around bar dancing was the perception that bars were places where cash was hypervisible. The uneasy and contradictory relationship between unregulated and “unproductive” cash and “productive” capital was highly visible in the debates around the ban. The control of space required to make Mumbai a global city also created conditions of material and moral dispossession for poor and working-class women. Courtroom arguments on the ban had greater implications for the fate of people disposed by the ban and living in the “shadow spaces” of the city's margins.
What to Expect When You're Expecting: The Affective Economies of Consuming Surrogacy in India
Authors: Rudrappa Sharmila
Published: March 2016

This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded in the larger literature on care work. Building from the scholarship on intimate labors, the author shows that surrogacy involves not just affective states of being; instead, surrogacy is a new form of value extraction that reaches deep into the body itself, commodifying aspects of life and the life force that were previously conceived as laying outside market logic. While the examination of the penetration of market exchange into intimate spheres of everyday life is not new, the author explains how, in the specific case of surrogacy, nuclear familial love and intimacy are possible only because of the market. The market, however, is an exorcist. First world families, replete with genetically descended babies, are possible only through exorcising the laboring bodies of working-class Indian surrogate mothers.
From Flat to Round Men
Authors: Dhahir Sanna
Published: March 2016

Saudi fiction written by women reflects the rapid changes witnessed by Saudi Arabia as a result of oil wealth and globalization. Increased education and work opportunities, exposure to the outside world, and a better awareness of the cultural and political dynamics at work in society have enriched Saudi women’s literary expression and perception of character. In portraying male characters, women have increasingly steered away from flat, stereotyped, and preconceived notions of men to more balanced and informed representations of men’s behaviors and positions in society. Saudi women challenge gender expectations and undermine conventional concepts of masculinity by creating a variety of male images, such as the liberal-minded individual, the frustrated intellectual, the sexually disoriented male, the business tycoon, the hapless immigrant, and the Islamic jihadist—all as products of cultural, religious, and political systems underpinning Saudi society.
IL-6 stimulates a concentration-dependent increase in MCP-1 in immortalised human brain endothelial cells
Authors: Choi Jai Min , Rotimi Odunayo O. , O'Carroll Simon J. , Nicholson Louise F.B.
Published: March 2016

Systemic inflammation is associated with neurodegeneration, with elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6) in particular being correlated with an increased risk of dementia. The brain endothelial cells of the blood brain barrier (BBB) serve as the interface between the systemic circulation and the brain microenvironment and are therefore likely to be a key player in the development of neuropathology associated with systemic inflammation. Endothelial cells are known to require soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R) in order to respond to IL-6, but studies in rat models have shown that this is not the case for brain endothelial cells and studies conducted in human cells are limited. Here we report for the first time that the human cerebral microvascular cell line, hCMVEC, uses the classical mIL-6R signalling pathway in response to IL-6 in a concentration-dependent manner as measured by the production of monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP-1). This novel finding highlights a unique characteristic of human brain endothelial cells and that further investigation into the phenotype of this cell type is needed to elucidate the mechanisms of BBB pathology in inflammatory conditions.
Image Management in Social-Communicative Space
Authors: Кошлякова  , Koshlyakova Mariya
Published: March 2016

Among the intangible attributes of any social-communicative activities the most important place belongs to the image. Recently it is emerging more and more organizations and persons whose ratings, business reputation, commercial success, and social influence possibilities often depend not so much on their activities’ real characteristics, but on their image, functioning in the social-communicative space. These trends have shaped the social order for the scientific and practical developments related to the image management in the system of social relations. The image management is an information management as a reflection of events at an angle with impression improving. The abundance of the information environment in which a modern man lives has increased significantly, therefore the communicative interaction today is becoming more and more refined and concentrated, when each information message is endowed with a special meaning that has a high potential impact on the target audience. In this regard the image control includes the work with the image audience and the image object. Different audiences have their own information processing, and because of this different approaches are needed in each case. To create an image adequate to target group perception are used such tools as visualization of the image, mythologization, symbolization, archetype and context formation. The subject’s image is formed as if on two main directions. On the one hand it is a compliance with the mass communication channel’s requirements. The second direction in the image formation is reputational characteristics that the audience considers important: trust, authority, and professionalism. In this regard we have subdivided the image management process as following stages: its creation objective formulation, selection of criteria for image evaluation, as well as qualities for image formation, expressive means for these qualities translation and the image adjustment.
Forms of Effective Cooperation Between Employers and Higher Education Institutions
Authors: Волох  , Volokh O. , Геращенко  , Gerashchenko I.
Published: March 2016

Traditional and innovative forms of cooperation between higher education institutions and employers are discussed. Advantages and difficulties related to creation of fundamental chairs at region’s enterprises and organizations have been considered. Solutions of problems appearing while creating fundamental chairs at Omsk State Pedagogical University have been presented.
Corrida em piscina funda promove manutenção da pressão arterial ao longo de cinco anos
Authors: Reichert Thaís , Kanitz Ana Carolina , Delevatti Rodrigo , Kruel Luiz
Published: March 2016

O objetivo do presente estudo foi identificar o comportamento da pressão arterial sistólica, diastólica e média de repouso e máxima durante cinco anos de treinamento de corrida em piscina funda. A amostra foi composta por 39 indivíduos de meia idade, que foram divididos no grupo normotenso (43,6±7,38 anos, 120,00±11,54/80,00±10,00 mmHg, n=17) e hipertenso (59,27±7,00 anos, 126,92±11,82/85,41±8,90 mmHg, n=22). Os sujeitos treinaram duas vezes por semana (45 minutos por sessão) de março a dezembro. O treinamento foi prescrito pela escala de esforço percebido de Borg (6-20) com o objetivo de promover ganhos cardiorrespiratórios. A avaliação cardiovascular foi realizada anualmente por um período de cinco anos, e os resultados de pressão arterial em repouso e máximo foram avaliados. Para análise dos dados, os testes de Shapiro-Wilk, Levene e ANOVA two-way com post-hoc de Bonferroni (α=0,05) foram utilizados. A pressão arterial sistólica, diastólica e média de repouso apresentaram uma manutenção ao longo dos cinco anos de treinamento em ambos os grupos, e os hipertensos tiveram os maiores valores. A pressão arterial sistólica máxima apresentou um decréscimo significativo do terceiro para o quarto ano em ambos os grupos, enquanto que a pressão diastólica e média máxima apresentaram uma manutenção ao longo do treinamento. Conclui-se que a prática de corrida em piscina funda promove uma manutenção dos valores da pressão arterial de repouso e máxima, em indivíduos normotensos e hipertensos. Este resultado é de grande relevância clínica, pois o avanço da idade tende a elevar os valores de pressão arterial, podendo resultar em doenças cardiovasculares.
A Unified Approach to Diffusion Analysis of Queues with General Patience-Time Distributions
Authors: Huang Junfei , Zhang Hanqin , Zhang Jiheng
Published: March 2016

We propose a unified approach to establishing diffusion approximations for queues with impatient customers within a general framework of scaling customer patience time. The approach consists of two steps. The first step is to show that the diffusion-scaled abandonment process is asymptotically close to a function of the diffusion-scaled queue length process under appropriate conditions. The second step is to construct a continuous mapping not only to characterize the system dynamics using the system primitives, but also to help verify the conditions needed in the first step. The diffusion approximations can then be obtained by applying the continuous mapping theorem. The approach has two advantages: (i) it provides a unified procedure to establish the diffusion approximations regardless of the structure of the queueing model or the type of patience-time scaling; and (ii) it makes the diffusion analysis of queues with customer abandonment essentially the same as the diffusion analysis of queues without customer abandonment. We demonstrate the application of this approach via the single-server system with Markov-modulated service speeds in the traditional heavy-traffic regime and the many-server system in the Halfin-Whitt regime and the nondegenerate slowdown regime.
Deliberately unassisted birth in Ireland: Understanding choice in Irish maternity services
Authors: OBoyle Colm
Published: March 2016

Four individual cases of professionally unattended birth are used to explore the larger ‘case’ of homebirth service provision in Ireland. The women in these cases were unable to access midwife-attended homebirth. They depended on emergency services for hospital transfer. They hid their intention to birth unattended in order to avoid criticism of themselves or their lay attendants. Current Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) homebirth provision does not adequately address demand for homebirth in Ireland. Some women, including those considered too high-risk for homebirth, will choose to birth alone if midwifery attendance is unavailable.
Mime therapy for Ramsay Hunt syndrome: A case study
Authors: Singh Priyanka , Singh Vijay Pratap
Published: March 2016

Background/Aim:

There are limited physiotherapy interventions and lack of significant outcome for Ramsay Hunt syndrome. This case report is the first to our knowledge that uses mime therapy as physiotherapy treatment for Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

Method:

A 53-year-old male patient received mime therapy along with electrical stimulation at two and half months post-diagnosis. The patient received electrical stimulation at the first week intervention as 30 minutes per session for 5 days a week and was discontinued at the third week intervention because the patient could not continue with facial muscle stimulation at home. Mime therapy was given three times a week for 13 weeks, with a total of 24 visits spread over 3 months.

Findings:

Facial symmetry was measured using the Sunnybrook Facial Grading System and severity of paresis was measured using the House-Brackmann scale throughout the course of treatment. House-Brackmann grades improved from grade V to grade II. Facial symmetry and synkinesis also improved. The facial disability index also showed improvement in both the physical function and social/wellbeing subscale components (Initial scores: physical subscale = 35/100; social/wellbeing subscale = 55/100. The final scores: physical subscale = 75/100; social/wellbeing subscale = 85/100).

Conclusions:

Overall, mime therapy was effective and benefits are stable for the short term. Therefore, mime therapy can be a good treatment choice for patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Further research should include randomised controlled trials with a large sample size to prove its long-term effects.
Notifiable disease in the UK: A brief guide for primary care
Authors: Spowage Laura , Beckett Gail
Published: March 2016

As the first point of contact when people are unwell, primary care staff have an important role to play in identifying and reporting notifiable diseases. Laura Spowage and Gail Beckett provide examples of notifiable diseases and what the practice nurse should do if one is suspected

Any clinician suspecting a notifiable disease is required to report this to the ‘proper officer’ at their local council or health protection team. There are currently 32 notifiable diseases. Notification aims to allow appropriate and prompt public health action to protect others from onward transmission of infection, record trends in disease and identify outbreaks of disease early. Three examples of different types of notifiable diseases are discussed: food poisoning, vaccine-preventable diseases and group A streptococcal disease. While the legislation states that it is the responsibility of the registered medical practitioner caring for the patient who is legally responsible for the notification, all primary care staff have a role to play in ensuring this happens.
Benefits of peer appraisal for general practice nurses
Authors: Aird Ruth , Kennedy Susan , Mcintosh Patricia
Published: March 2016

Appraisals support professional development, identify gaps in knowledge and can lead to career development. This article explores the value of peer appraisal among practice nurses as an alternative to appraisals with a practice manager or GP

Peer appraisal is a recognised form of reflecting on present practice and professional development needs that are required for safe and effective service delivery. Peer appraisal may be a suitable way for the confirmation discussion to take place for revalidation. Evidence points to the positive outcomes of appraisal being given by prepared appraisers, resulting in enhanced learning and constructive reflection. Using prepared appraisers for the appraisal process in general practice nursing identifies learning needs and gives a structured learning plan as a basis for discussion with their employer.
Research Roundup
Authors: Winter George
Published: March 2016

George Winter provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to practice nurses. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided.
Self-monitoring of blood glucose: Making an economical decision
Authors: Lawal Muili
Published: March 2016

Self-monitoring of blood glucose represents the largest component of costs associated with glycaemic control in the UK. Muili Lawal discusses the clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of this treatment in people with type 2 diabetes

The goal of diabetes management is to maintain the patient's blood glucose levels within the normal range, and one of the approaches to improving glycaemic control is self-monitoring blood glucose. This article will look at the current debate about balancing the economic cost of blood glucose monitoring with clinical need, particularly in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Perfusion MRI in hips with metal-on-metal and metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty
Authors: Anwander H. , Cron G. O. , Rakhra K. , Beaule P. E.
Published: March 2016

Objectives

Hips with metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty (MoM THA) have a high rate of adverse local tissue reactions (ALTR), often associated with hypersensitivity reactions. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) measures tissue perfusion with the parameter Ktrans (volume transfer constant of contrast agent). Our purpose was 1) to evaluate the feasibility of DCE-MRI in patients with THA and 2) to compare DCE-MRI in patients with MoM bearings with metal-on-polyethylene (MoP) bearings, hypothesising that the perfusion index Ktrans in hips with MoM THA is higher than in hips with MoP THA.

Methods

In this pilot study, 16 patients with primary THA were recruited (eight MoM, eight MoP). DCE-MRI of the hip was performed at 1.5 Tesla (T). For each patient, Ktrans was computed voxel-by-voxel in all tissue lateral to the bladder. The mean Ktrans for all voxels was then calculated. These values were compared with respect to implant type and gender, and further correlated with clinical parameters.

Results

There was no significant difference between the two bearing types with both genders combined. However, dividing patients by THA bearing and gender, women with MoM bearings had the highest Ktrans values, exceeding those of women with MoP bearings (0.067 min−1 versus 0.053 min−1; p-value < 0.05) and men with MoM bearings (0.067 min−1 versus 0.034 min−1; p-value < 0.001). Considering only the men, patients with MoM bearings had lower Ktrans than those with MoP bearings (0.034 min−1 versus 0.046 min−1; p < 0.05).

Conclusion

DCE-MRI is feasible to perform in tissues surrounding THA. Females with MoM THA show high Ktrans values in DCE-MRI, suggesting altered tissue perfusion kinematics which may reflect relatively greater inflammation. Cite this article: Dr P. E. Beaule. Perfusion MRI in hips with metal-on-metal and metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty: A pilot stud. Bone Joint Res 2016;5:73–79. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.53.2000572.
Intercarpal fusions: indications, treatment options and techniques
Authors: Houvet Patrick
Published: March 2016

Partial wrist fusion is a useful technique for the treatment of such specific carpal disorders as arthritis, Kienböck’s disease, midcarpal instability, scaphoid nonunion, etc. Many techniques have been described by removing arthritic joint surfaces and transfering load, using, for bone fixation, K-wires, screws, staples, and more recently dedicated plates. The goal of this procedure is to maximise wrist motion and strength while minimizing or eliminating pain. The purpose of this article is to discuss the most commonly used combination of intercarpal arthrodeses, to clarify the indications for each fusion, to describe the appropriate surgical technique for each fusion, and to provide an overview of results and current concepts.

Cite this article: Houvet, P. Intercarpal fusions: indications, treatment options and techniques. EFORT Open Rev 2016;1:45-51. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.1.000019.
An Empire Style Furniture Set at Nedkovich House, Old Town Plovdiv
Authors: Raycheva Regina
Published: March 2016

The paper considers the interior and furnishing of a Revival Bulgarian house built in 1863. The aim of this paper is to present the architecture and to give a closer overview of a part of the furniture collection belonging to this house: the French Empire style furniture set in the South East drawing room of the upper floor. The aim is to perform the analysis of stylistic features as well as to make a hypothesis concerning the cabinet maker.
Evaluation of Self-Employment Development Factors: Latvian Case
Authors: Remeikiene Rita
Published: March 2016

The factors that have the impact on selfemployment development have been identified and ranked by importance applying method of expert evaluation. Selfemployment start-up is promoted by the increasing demand in foreign markets, export and lack of competences for all activities while the main barriers are unfavourable economics and institutional environment.
Investment Planning in the Context of Business Cycle Volatility
Authors: Nazarova Jekaterina
Published: March 2016

The presented research describes methods, used to evaluate and choose more efficient solutions, regarding participation in stock market activities. A newly developed forecasting model, based on classically applied and time-proven methodologies, was created. Its aim was to ease the decision-making in the related area as well as to rationalize the optimal investment portfolio structure determination process.
Employers’ Needs and Expectations for Qualified Employees (Case Study on the Opinions in One of the Regions in Latvia)
Authors: Sloka Biruta , Kantāne Ināra , Buligina Ilze , Tora Ginta , Dzelme Juris , Buševica Regīna , Buligina Alise , Tora Pēteris
Published: March 2016

Qualified, loyal and motivated employees are highly demanded by employers and business promoters. The paper deals with employers’ needs and expectations for qualified and loyal employees, and investigates cooperation of employers, educators and municipalities. The following methods were used: analysis of scientific publications; focus group discussions; surveys of employers, teaching staff, students and graduates of VEI. For survey data analysis descriptive statistical analysis, non-parametric statistical test of Kruskal-Wallis and factor analysis were applied. The main findings indicate that besides professional skills and competence, social competence, motivation to work and responsibility are requested as well.
Compulsive Buying Behaviour in Estonian Market
Authors: Raudsepp Marju , Parts Oliver
Published: March 2016

This research is conducted about compulsive buying behaviour in Estonia. The current research purpose is to find out how many people are affected by compulsive buying behaviour in Estonia and what factors are influencing this phenomenon. The research compares compulsive and usual buyers’ behavioural differences. The sample was 310 respondents and the research revealed that 8% of the respondents were compulsive consumers. Compulsive behaviour is influenced by materialistic factors.
Adsorption Properties of Arc Produced Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Bovine Serum Albumin
Authors: Bozgeyik Kadriye , Kopac Turkan
Published: March 2016

In this study, adsorption properties of arc produced Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNT) were investigated for Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) in aqueous phase. Solution pH, adsorbent amount and temperature effects were examined on protein adsorption. The results show that, the temperature and the adsorbent amount both increase the BSA adsorption, whereas the solution pH has a decreasing effect. The equilibrium behavior of protein adsorption was examined by Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. The monolayer adsorption capacities at 40 °C for solution pH 4 and 5 were determined as 139.5 and 127.2 mg g−1, respectively, which were much higher than the BSA adsorption capacities of various metal oxides investigated in our previous studies. The adsorption rate data were compared by the pseudo-first and the second-order kinetics equations. Evaluation of the experimental kinetics data have shown that the adsorption of BSA by MWNT followed the pseudo-first-order kinetics. The pseudo-first order adsorption rate constants at pH 4 and 5 decreased with an increase in temperature which results in a decrease in diffusion rate of BSA molecules across the external boundary layer, and favors the sorption process. The adsorption behavior of protein by carbon nanotubes was explained also using the zeta potential measurements. The adsorption capacity decreased with increasing pH due to the electrostatic repulsions. The thermodynamic parameters evaluated to predict the nature of adsorption confirmed the non-spontaneous and endothermic behaviour of the BSA/MWNT adsorption process. Adsorption standard enthalpy values were found as
∆H0
=59.5 kJ mol−1 and
∆H0
=14.3 kJ mol−1 for pH 4 and 5, respectively indicating that the protein molecules are adsorbed electrostatically on the carbon nanotubes.
Experimental Investigation and Optimization of Process Parameters Used in the Silicon Powder Mixed Electro Discharge Machining of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Using Response Surface Methodology
Authors: Gosai Nipun D. , Joshi Anand Y.
Published: March 2016

Ti-6Al-4V is extensively used as a piece of the avionics, auto, and biomedical fields; however is a difficult to machine material. Electro Discharge machining (EDM) is seen as one of the most ideal approaches to manage machining Ti-6Al-4V combination, since it is a noncontact electro-thermal machining method, and it is self-ruling from the mechanical properties of the readied material. In EDM, dielectric plays important role in machining operation. In present paper silicon powder suspended plus kerosene is used as dielectric to explore the effect of these dielectrics on the execution criteria such as material removal rate (MRR) and roughness (Ra) in the midst of machining of titanium combination (Ti-6Al-4V). Peak current, pulse on time, pulse off time and powder included into dielectric liquid of EDM were picked as methodology parameters to think about the PMEDM execution with respect to MRR and Ra. The examinations were finished in organizing mode on an exceptionally made exploratory set up developed in laboratory. The ideal qualities for execution parameter were found by performing analysis and suggested ideal conditions have been verified by conducting confirmation experiments.
Crystal structure of (η
5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)titanium(III)dichloride (THF), C14H23Cl2OTi
Authors: Oswald Tim , Schmidtmann Marc , Beckhaus Ruediger
Published: March 2016

C14H23Cl2OTi, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 12.3163(7) Å, b = 9.0436(5) Å, c = 15.0774(8) Å, β = 103.245(2)°, V = 1634.70(16) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt
(F) = 0.0418, wR
ref
(F
2) = 0.1142, T = 200(2) K.
The Effects of ACMI Flight Crew’s Long Term Outstation Hotel Stay on Accumulated Fatigue
Authors: Gislason Sigurdur Hrafn
Published: March 2016

ACMI flight crews spend considerable time away from home on outstations. This manuscript suggests that long term stay carries its own considerations in regards to rest recovery with practical implications for Fatigue Risk Management. Four recovery factors are identified and are to be correlated with 28 crew behaviors. The end result might indicate improvement considerations for airline management organizing a long term contract with ACMI crews.
Physical Differences Between Forwards and Backs in American Collegiate Rugby Players
Authors: La Monica Michael B. , Fukuda David H. , Miramonti Amelia A. , Beyer Kyle S. , Hoffman Mattan W. , Boone Carleigh H. , Tanigawa Satoru , Wang Ran , Church David D. , Stout Jeffrey R. , Hoffman Jay R.
Published: March 2016

La Monica, MB, Fukuda, DH, Miramonti, AA, Beyer, KS, Hoffman, MW, Boone, CH, Tanigawa, S, Wang, R, Church, DD, Stout, JR, and Hoffman, JR. Physical differences between forwards and backs in American collegiate rugby players.J Strength Cond Res30(9): 2382–2391, 2016—This study examined the anthropometric and physical performance differences between forwards and backs in a championship-level American male collegiate rugby team. Twenty-five male rugby athletes (mean ±SD; age 20.2 ± 1.6 years) were assessed. Athletes were grouped according to position as forwards (n= 13) and backs (n= 12) and were evaluated on the basis of anthropometrics (height, weight, percent body fat [BF%]), cross-sectional area (CSA), muscle thickness (MT), and pennation angle (PA) of the vastus lateralis (VL), maximal strength (1 repetition maximum [1RM] bench press and squat), vertical jump power, midthigh pull (peak force [PF] and peak rate of force development [PRFD]), maximal aerobic capacity (V̇o2peak), agility (pro agility, T test), speed (40-m sprint), and a tethered sprint (peak velocity [PV], time to peak velocity, distance covered, and step rate and length). Comparisons between forwards and backs were analyzed using independentt-tests with Cohen'sdeffect size. Forwards were significantly different from backs for body weight (90.5 ± 12.4 vs. 73.7 ± 7.1 kg,p< 0.01;d= 1.60), BF% (12.6 ± 4.2 vs. 8.8 ± 2.1%,p≤ 0.05;d= 1.10), VL CSA (38.3 ± 9.1 vs. 28.7 ± 4.7 cm3,p< 0.01;d= 1.26), 1RM bench press (121.1 ± 30.3 vs. 89.5 ± 20.4 kg,p≤ 0.05;d= 1.17), 1RM squat (164.6 ± 43.0 vs. 108.5 ± 31.5 kg,p< 0.01;d= 1.42), PF (2,244.6 ± 505.2 vs. 1,654.6 ± 338.8 N,p< 0.01;d= 1.32), PV (5.49 ± 0.25 vs. 5.14 ± 0.37 m·s−1,p≤ 0.05;d= 1.04), and step length (1.2 ± 0.1 vs. 1.1 ± 0.1 m,p≤ 0.05;d= 0.80). V̇o2peak was significantly (p≤ 0.05,d= −1.20) higher in backs (54.9 ± 3.9 ml·kg·min−1) than in forwards (49.4 ± 4.4 ml·kg·min−1). No differences in agility performance were found between position groups. The results of this study provide descriptive information on anthropometric and performance measures on American male collegiate championship-level rugby players offering potential standards for coaches to use when developing or recruiting players.
Somatic mosaicism underlies X-linked acrogigantism syndrome in sporadic male subjects
Authors: Daly Adrian F , Yuan Bo , Fina Frederic , Caberg Jean-Hubert , Trivellin Giampaolo , Rostomyan Liliya , de Herder Wouter W , Naves Luciana A , Metzger Daniel , Cuny Thomas , Rabl Wolfgang , Shah Nalini , Jaffrain-Rea Marie-Lise , Zatelli Maria Chiara , Faucz Fabio R , Castermans Emilie , Nanni-Metellus Isabelle , Lodish Maya , Muhammad Ammar , Palmeira Leonor , Potorac Iulia , Mantovani Giovanna , Neggers Sebastian J , Klein Marc , Barlier Anne , Liu Pengfei , Ouafik L’Houcine , Bours Vincent , Lupski James R , Stratakis Constantine A , Beckers Albert
Published: March 2016

Somatic mosaicism has been implicated as a causative mechanism in a number of genetic and genomic disorders. X-linked acrogigantism (XLAG) syndrome is a recently characterized genomic form of pediatric gigantism due to aggressive pituitary tumors that is caused by submicroscopic chromosome Xq26.3 duplications that includeGPR101. We studied XLAG syndrome patients (n= 18) to determine if somatic mosaicism contributed to the genomic pathophysiology. Eighteen subjects with XLAG syndrome caused by Xq26.3 duplications were identified using high-definition array comparative genomic hybridization (HD-aCGH). We noted that males with XLAG had a decreased log2ratio (LR) compared with expected values, suggesting potential mosaicism, whereas females showed no such decrease. Compared with familial male XLAG cases, sporadic males had more marked evidence for mosaicism, with levels of Xq26.3 duplication between 16.1 and 53.8%. These characteristics were replicated using a novel, personalized breakpoint junction-specific quantification droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) technique. Using a separate ddPCR technique, we studied the feasibility of identifying XLAG syndrome cases in a distinct patient population of 64 unrelated subjects with acromegaly/gigantism, and identified one female gigantism patient who had had increased copy number variation (CNV) threshold forGPR101that was subsequently diagnosed as having XLAG syndrome on HD-aCGH. Employing a combination of HD-aCGH and novel ddPCR approaches, we have demonstrated, for the first time, that XLAG syndrome can be caused by variable degrees of somatic mosaicism for duplications at chromosome Xq26.3. Somatic mosaicism was shown to occur in sporadic males but not in females with XLAG syndrome, although the clinical characteristics of the disease were similarly severe in both sexes.
Archaeometrical studies on some bronze buckles with portable (Handheld) XRF spectroscopy
Authors: May Zoltán , Szenthe Gergely
Published: March 2016

Portable handheld X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (pXRF) is very effective and widely used technique for chemical analysis in field of archaeometry. The most advantageous feature of this technique is the possibility of analysing objects, artefacts on the spot without any sample-taking. In this study raw materials of 31 buckles from 7th century AD made of various kinds of bronze and silver alloys were analyzed to check similarities or differences between these objects via chemical analysis. Concentration ratios and distributions of alloying (Cu, Sn, Pb, Ag) and minor elements (Sb, Bi, Zn, Au) in material of bronze artifacts may have useful information suggesting important data about provenance and technology. Our recent study 27 bronze and 4 silver buckles were analyzed by pXRF and the results were used in statistical evaluation in order to get closer to provenance of raw materials and alloying technologies.
Archäologische Angaben Zum Beziehungssystem Des Karpatenbeckens Und Des Ostalpenraumes Im 10.–11. Jahrhundert – Von West Nach Ost
Authors: Horváth Ciprián
Published: March 2016

In my study I tried to analyze the button terminalled rings, the brooches and the earrings with engraved pattern or with enamel inlay, which are typical of the eastern Alps region finds. The button terminalled rings were used as head jewelry, bracelet or ring. The crescent-shaped earrings are known from 15 sites, which can be ranked among two main groups. Brooches turned up from 11 sites. The earliest occurrence had the button terminalled rings, which could have already appeared in graves in the middle of the 10th century The earrings could have appeared in graves from the 980/990’s as well, while the brooches can be dated from the turn of the millennium. We can notice a certain site concentration on the northern shore of Balaton, on the territory of Győr, Moson, Sopron, Vas, Baranya and Heves counties. Regarding both the way of wear and the combination of certain object types, eastern Alpine parallels can be detected.
The Sacramental Thought-World of Implicit Religion
Authors: Keenan William J. F.
Published: March 2016

For a generation, “implicit religion” has played a seminal role in the study of “secular faith.” This key contribution to research and scholarship on “the everyday sacred” owes an incalculable intellectual debt to the founder of the concept and mainstay of the subject field of implicit religious studies, Edward Bailey (1935-2015). In the light and shade of his recent passing, it is important to set Edward’s “big idea” in its larger context of significance. Lest we forget! In what kind of “world” of ideas and imaginings does “implicit religion” have its provenance? Where do we locate it on the map of knowledge and, for that matter, of faith itself? In this tribute article, with a view to contextualizing “IR,” a sociology of ideas framework is constructed to shape reflection on the “Man” (Edward Bailey), the “Mode of Thought” (Implicit Religion), and the “Moment” (the transition between modernity and post-modernity).  “Implicit religion,” it is suggested, is rooted in a “sacramentalist” “thought style.” This emphasizes the diffuse “holiness” of Creation and the constitutive “liminality” of the human condition. “Religion” plays a key role in the negotiation of the borders of sacrality and profanity. “Implicit religion” is regarded as a conduit through which the ancient “panentheistic-sacramentalist” thought mode persists within intellectual life in the late modern period. Here, “IR”—as idea, ideal and institution—is located within the “post-secular” paradigm (Keenan 2002a). With its “unitive”  appreciation of the interplay of the “sacred” and “profane” in everyday life, and its confident deployment of religious conceptuality, Edward Bailey’s “big idea” provides a significant contribution towards a counter-cultural, redemptive “way of seeing” to the prevailing secular modernist “grand narrative.”
Blue Suede Shoes to Doc Marten Boots
Authors: King Christine , Stewart Francis
Published: March 2016

This paper will focus on two seemingly disparate music based case studies-Elvis and punk rock-and their associated “religions.” An argument will be made that Elvis and “his religion” could be viewed as what is often represented as a traditional “Catholic” tradition with pilgrimages, flowers, candles, prayers and miracles (including resurrection). Ethics and charity work are undertaken as emulation or invocation of Elvis rather than a morally driven action or compulsion. Concurrently, punk music (in its various forms) could be viewed as what is traditionally represented as “Protestant” with its stringent self-reliance, rejection of hierarchy and questioning of authority, its crucial importance on questioning, action and black and white view of the world. Ethics form a key part of punk and are driven by strong morality and a desire to wrest change. However the dialogue between these two case studies (and indeed geographies of USA and UK) can be made all the more coherent and fruitful when structured through an Implicit Religion framework and thus stand in tribute to Edward Bailey and the partnerships he sought to create through Implicit Religion.
TECNOLOGIAS SOCIAIS HÍDRICAS PARA CONVIVÊNCIA COM O SEMIÁRIDO: O CASO DE UM ASSENTAMENTO RURAL DO MUNICÍPIO DE CABACEIRAS - PB
Authors: Silva Suayze Douglas da , Medeiros Verônica Pereira de , Silva Anieres Barbosa da
Published: March 2016

O estudo tem como objetivo compreender o uso de tecnologias sociais hídricas para a convivência com o semiárido no assentamento Serra do Monte, situado no município de Cabaceiras-PB, na região do Cariri paraibano. Nessa região, a semiaridez e a escassez de água se mantiveram, historicamente, embasadas na concepção de combate às secas. Contudo, desde o ano de 2000 vem ocorrendo uma mudança paradigmática no que se refere à formulação das políticas e ações pautadas pela concepção de convivência com o semiárido. Uma dessas mudanças ocorre com a difusão de tecnologias sociais, oriundas de práticas não agressoras ao meio ambiente, que estão contribuindo para a valorização de saberes e técnicas e para a melhoria das condições de vida da população local. O estudo em pauta apoia-se na abordagem descritiva-reflexiva como referencial para a análise das experiências e dos resultados decorrentes dos usos de tecnologias sociais e práticas desenvolvidas pelos assentados. O estudo foi realizado por meio dos seguintes procedimentos: levantamento bibliográfico, coleta de dados secundários e trabalhos de campo para registros fotográficos e entrevistas com as lideranças locais. Conclui-se que as tecnologias sociais hídricas, embora estejam amenizando os efeitos das secas periódicas, não são suficientes para a consolidação do paradigma da sustentabilidade e da convivência com o semiárido na área pesquisada. Apesar da importância assumida pelas tecnologias sociais hídricas aqui estudadas, a sua implantação e a própria visão de convivência com o semiárido ainda requerem maior articulação com ações voltadas às mudanças estruturais.
Music Therapists’ Conceptualization of Clients’ Experience of Healing: Grounded Theory Analysis
Authors: Hwang Eun-Young , Lee Hwa-Jin
Published: March 2016

This study analyzed the meaning, distinctive features, and process of therapists’ perception of their clients’ experience related to healing in music therapy. Twenty Korean music therapists who work with a variety of clients were recruited to participate through purposive sampling. Corbin and Strauss’s (2008) grounded theory qualitative analysis method was used. Ten categories and nineteen subcategories were obtained. The central phenomenon was active participation in music therapy, which was influenced by client’s readiness. Clients’ experiences lead to healing through awareness of inner self, expression of emotions, and solving problems. These changes were related to the therapists’ interventions, professionalism and qualifications, and their use of music. It was concluded that the clients experienced four types of healing in their music therapy sessions: physical, emotional, social, and transformative.