bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Delivering a one-stop, integrated, and patient-centered service for patients with rheumatic diseases
Authors: Väre Paula , Nikiphorou Elena , Hannonen Pekka , Sokka Tuulikki
Published: June 2016

Objective:

To describe a one-stop, integrated rheumatology service and assess patient satisfaction.

Methods:

A descriptive report and patient satisfaction survey of a rheumatology clinic model first developed in 1996 to enhance the patient “journey” through rheumatology services. A patient-satisfaction survey over a 3-week period assessed several aspects of care including quality of services, consultations, and patient education.

Results:

All referrals are screened by a rheumatologist to pre-schedule laboratory/radiology/other tests for the visit. Upon arrival to the clinic, patients check-in at an electronic desk, and then complete the electronic GoTreatIT monitoring system which assesses patient-reported outcomes. The patient is reviewed by a doctor in a 30- to 60-min consultation, and then by a nurse (for diagnosis/treatment education, vaccinations). An ultrasound machine and capillaroscopy are available for use in the clinic. Patients can be scheduled on the same day to see a nutritionist, physiotherapist, or other heath professionals as necessary. An “early-rheumatoid arthritis treatment path” is available to ensure early, intensive treatment. A patient satisfaction survey revealed high rating of the overall service (90.6/100). None of the patients felt that they lacked education on their disease or medication. Only 6% of the respondents gave negative feedback, reasons including feeling overwhelmed with information or not being given a cause for their symptoms. The multi-disciplinary approach was highly valued and only 3% would rather see a doctor and nurse on separate days.

Conclusion:

The specific clinic model provides an ideal setting for a one-stop service, avoiding unnecessary visits, collecting patient data, and enhancing the patient experience and journey through the system. Where possible, the specific clinic model could be used or adapted to build similar models in other rheumatology departments. The clinic model could also form the basis for services in other specialties dealing with chronic conditions.
Validity of the Samsung Phone S Health application for assessing steps and energy expenditure during walking and running: Does phone placement matter?
Authors: Johnson Marquell , Turek Jillian , Dornfeld Chelsea , Drews Jennifer , Hansen Nicole
Published: June 2016

Background

The emergence of mHealth and the utilization of smartphones in physical activity interventions warrant a closer examination of validity evidence for such technology. This study examined the validity of the Samsung S Health application in measuring steps and energy expenditure.

Methods

Twenty-nine participants (mean age 21.69 ± 1.63) participated in the study. Participants carried a Samsung smartphone in their non-dominant hand and right pocket while walking around a 200-meter track and running on a treadmill at 2.24 m∙s−1. Steps and energy expenditure from the S Health app were compared with StepWatch 3 Step Activity Monitor steps and indirect calorimetry.

Results

No significant differences between S Health estimated steps and energy expenditure during walking and their respective criterion measures, regardless of placement. There was also no significant difference between S Health estimated steps and the criterion measure during treadmill running, regardless of placement. There was significant differences between S Health estimated energy expenditure and the criterion during treadmill running for both placements (both p < 0.001).

Conclusions

The S Health application measures steps and energy expenditure accurately during self-selected pace walking regardless of placement. Placement of the phone impacts the S Health application accuracy in measuring physical activity variables during treadmill running.
Pitch Characteristics Before Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction in Major League Pitchers Compared With Age-Matched Controls
Authors: Prodromo John , Patel Nimit , Kumar Neil , Denehy Kevin , Tabb Loni Philip , Tom James
Published: June 2016

Background:

Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (UCLR) is commonly performed in Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers, but little is known about the preoperative pitch type and velocity characteristics of pitchers who go on to undergo UCLR.

Hypothesis:

Pitchers who required UCLR have thrown a greater percentage of fastballs and have greater pitch velocities compared with age-matched controls in the season before injury.

Study Design:

Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3.

Methods:

MLB pitchers active during the 2002 to 2015 seasons were included. The UCLR group consisted of MLB pitchers who received UCLR between 2003 and 2015, utilizing the season before surgery (2002-2014) for analysis. The control group comprised age-matched controls of the same season. Players who pitched less than 20 innings in the season before surgery were excluded. Pitch types were recorded as percentage of total pitches thrown. Pitch velocities were recorded for each pitch type. Pitch type and pitch velocities during preoperative seasons for UCLR pitchers were compared with age-matched controls using univariate and multivariate models.

Results:

A total of 114 cases that went on to UCLR and 3780 controls were included in the study. Pitchers who went on to UCLR appear to have greater fastball, slider, curveball, changeup, and split-fingered fastball velocities; there were no significant differences in pitch selection between the 2 groups.

Conclusion:

In the season before surgery, MLB pitchers who underwent UCLR demonstrated greater fastball, slider, curveball, changeup, and split-fingered fastball velocities, with no significant difference in pitch type.
3D modeling from outcrop data in a salt tectonic context: Example from the Inceyol minibasin, Sivas Basin, Turkey
Authors: Collon Pauline , Pichat Alexandre , Kergaravat Charlie , Botella Arnaud , Caumon Guillaume , Ringenbach Jean-Claude , Callot Jean-Paul
Published: June 2016

We have developed a 3D modeling strategy of the encased minibasin of Inceyol in Sivas (Turkey). The challenge lies in the combination of sparse outcrop data and the complex interpretive geometry of geologic structures that come from salt tectonics. We have succeeded in modeling the convoluted salt surface using an explicit indirect surface patch construction method followed by a manual mesh improvement. Then, we modeled the minibasin sediments with an implicit approach. The result highlighted the remarkable geometry of the convoluted salt horizon and its associated minibasin by extending in 3D the geologist’s interpretive 2D sections. This case study proved that building complex geometries is feasible with the existing tools and a good expertise in the various geomodeling techniques. Our work also underlined the need for new methods to ease the modeling of such tectonic features from sparse data. We have developed a 3D view of the model thanks to WebGL technology, as well as downloadable data to constitute a reference case study.
Analysis of porosity, stratigraphy, and structural delineation of a Brazilian carbonate field by machine learning techniques: A case study
Authors: Kuroda Michelle Chaves , Vidal Alexandre Campane , Papa João Paulo
Published: June 2016

The upscaling of well logs has many challenges, especially for carbonate rocks. Primary among them is the suitable choice of seismic attributes to be integrated with well information, whose random combination can produce artifacts of rock properties. To solve this problem, we have developed an alternative hybrid method to estimate well-log data from seismic attributes, associating the seismic attributes choices with the genetic algorithm and artificial neural network multilayer perceptron ability to predict neutron porosity. Thirty-seven seismic attributes were extracted along 12 wellbores from an Albian offshore carbonate reservoir of the Campos Basin. From these attributes, three were selected: 3D mix, structure-oriented median-filtered amplitude, and acoustic impedance. From this set of seismic data, we used the first two attributes to estimate neutron porosity in the reservoir seismic area. As a result, we obtained a 3D map of well-log information at the seismic scale. In the 3D map, it is possible to identify the main structural and architectural elements of the field. These results corroborate the interpretation of bioconstruction, lagoons, and carbonate shoals, and the delimitation of a tidal channel at the top of a reservior, using neutron porosity.
Physician Relations in Canada: Shooting Inward as the Circle Closes
Authors: Katz Steven J. , Charles Cathy , Lomas Jonathan , Welch H. Gilbert
Published: June 2016

As economic disputes between physicians become more frequent, discussions between physicians are becoming increasingly important. Those seeking insight into how physician organizations might mediate these disputes may be able to learn from others who have had negotiating responsibilities for over a quarter of a century—the provincial medical associations in Canada. In this article we examine the structure, process, and outcomes of negotiations between physicians, with a focus on responses to new physician expenditure caps in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Early negotiations between physicians over changes in relative fees favored general practitioners because they were the dominant voting block within the associations. Despite fewer gains in the fee arena, specialists were willing to remain in the associations because all physicians generally enjoyed similar income growth. Under new physician expenditure caps, however, physicians have been unable to resolve conflicts over how to allocate income limits across specialties. Negotiations between physicians face expanding economic issues and diverging interests as expenditure caps force physicians to concentrate on total costs.
Seeing Difference: Market Health Reform in Europe
Authors: Jacobs Alan
Published: June 2016

The comparative literature on health care reform has identified a convergence upon market models as nations respond to similar economic, technological, social, and demographic pressures. In this article I first challenge the conventional view by comparing “market” reforms of the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Though these nations did indeed converge upon the instrument of the market incentive, there was considerable divergence in the content and aims of their reform strategies. These nations designed their respective markets to make different tradeoffs among competing values. While all three exploited the principle of provider competition, they appointed different actors to judge the contest: the cost-conscious public authority in the United Kingdom, the quality-conscious patient in Sweden, and the optimizing consumer in the Netherlands. I argue that these countries were thus using common market tools to promote different health policy goals. Distinguishing these reforms further is the fact that—particularly in the Netherlands—there was a gap between market plans and the reality of implemented change. I then ask why nations responded so differently to such similar objective pressures. My contention is that this divergence reflects, in part, the different ideological orientations of the ruling party or coalition in each nation. Yet divergence is also the result of differences in both the design of political institutions and the structure of the pre-reform health system in each country.
The Economic Impact of Biomedical Research: A Case Study of Voluntary Institutions in the New York Metropolitan Region
Authors: Aries Nancy R. , Sclar Elliott D.
Published: June 2016

This study estimates the economic significance of biomedical research for a geographic region. Through a survey of nonprofit biomedical research institutions in the metropolitan New York region and an analysis of research budget data obtained from the area’s six largest research institutions, estimates were made of the spending effect of biomedical research on the region. Biomedical research undertaken by the voluntary institutions in metropolitan New York accounted for almost $1.15 billion per year in direct spending in 1991. When the indirect and induced ripple effects of this spending on the regional economy were considered, the total annual spending impact was over $2.3 billion. Sponsored biomedical research directly generated 19,816 jobs per year in the host institutions. The indirect and induced job creation in the region amounted to an additional 12,773 jobs per year for a total of almost 32,600 regional jobs per year. As economic development becomes more competitive locally, regionally, and internationally, the biomedical sciences that have always been intrinsically valued gain extrinsic value. Therefore, techniques for estimating their economic impact are becoming increasingly important.
Do Uncompensated Care Pools Change the Distribution of Hospital Care to the Uninsured?
Authors: Spencer Christine S.
Published: June 2016

In 1983, New York State established an uncompensated care pool using the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology (NYPHRM). Two policy objectives of the NYPHRM were (1) to encourage more equitable distribution of uncompensated care across hospitals and (2) to increase access to hospital care for the uninsured. This article demonstrates that the New York uncompensated care pool was only moderately successful in achieving these goals. The principal findings are that the NYPHRM did result in routine care being redistributed away from hospitals that traditionally provided care to the uninsured, while provision of highly technological care was not significantly redistributed. This article suggests that if the primary policy goal is to increase access to care for the uninsured by changing the distribution of hospitals willing to provide care, the uncompensated care pool approach is moderately effective.
The States and Health Care Reform: The Road Traveled and Lessons Learned from Seven That Took the Lead
Authors: Paul-Shaheen Pamela A.
Published: June 2016

During the past decade, an area of major policy activity among the states has been that of health care reform. As of May 1993, seven states—Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington—had progressed the furthest in enacting comprehensive statutes designed to expand health insurance coverage and slow the growth of health care costs. This article reviews the activities of these states to achieve health care reform and the lessons learned from those activities. The analysis focuses specifically on identifying the common problems addressed and determining the common factors that maximized states’ opportunities for success. In all, some nine lessons are identified that have relevance for other states wishing to follow a similar road to reform. Most important among these are a “window of opportunity” for policy action, having entrepreneurial leadership to push the reform agenda forward, and support from key stakeholder interests. If these conditions of opportunity, policy entrepreneurship, and stakeholder commitment are met, a state can move forward in addressing key aspects of its health care reform agenda.
The Economic Returns to Hospital Admitting Privileges
Authors: Rizzo John A. , Goddeeris John H.
Published: June 2016

Legal suits contesting the denial or termination of hospital staff privileges are the most common antitrust cases involving medical markets. There is, however, very little evidence about the economic implications for the physicians of having staff privileges. Using a nationally representative sample of self-employed physicians from 1992, this article presents estimates of the effects of hospital admitting privileges on physician earnings.

The results indicate that for nonprimary care specialists with few admitting privileges, gaining an additional privilege increases earnings. This effect diminishes as the number of admitting privileges increases, however, and there are no economic gains beyond having three to four admitting privileges. Among primary care physicians, we detect no statistically significant effect of hospital admitting privileges on earnings. With the growing emphasis on managed care, physicians are being scrutinized both in terms of the quality of care they deliver and their impact on the economic performance of hospitals and managed care organizations. This suggests that the frequency of lawsuits involving the denial or rescission of medical staff privileges may assume even greater importance.
Protecting Patient Welfare in Managed Care: Six Safeguards
Authors: Emanuel Ezekiel J. , Goldman Lee
Published: June 2016

The public is very suspicious and fearful that managed care threatens their health because of its interest in reducing costs. Because physicians’ decisions control 75 percent of all health care spending, managed care organizations are focusing their cost-cutting strategies on influencing physician decision making through financial incentives and guidelines. These two techniques have had some important contributions, especially in enhancing efficiency and standardizing care to a high level. Nevertheless, they pose a threat—and are perceived by the public to pose a threat—to patients’ health and well-being. How can we mitigate the threats to patient welfare posed by financial incentives and guidelines? We propose and analyze six safeguards. These safeguards are not an attempt to revive the fee-for-service system, but an effort to make managed care ethical and to focus it on improving patient welfare. They are designed to work together to ensure that patient welfare remains the primary focus of managed care organizations; they try to create institutional structures that emphasize quality over mere cost reductions.
Sending a Policy Signal: State Legislatures, Medical Schools, and Primary Care Mandates
Authors: Weissert Carol S. , Silberman Susan L.
Published: June 2016

In the past few years, eleven states have directed medical schools in their states to produce more primary care practitioners or to change the training of physicians to make careers in primary care more attractive to medical students. This article outlines the progress and politics of the states’ desire to hold medical schools accountable for producing more primary care practitioners. It analyzes the coerciveness and scope of the laws, including the provisions for implementation and accountability. Interviews with legislative staff, legislators, and university and medical school lobbyists provide information on the measures’ political rationale and expectations. Most striking was the signaling nature of the provisions. The laws were not strident or especially onerous; they contained many loopholes and no real sanctions. They were important, however, in the message they conveyed. In state after state, legislatures sent a message to the medical schools that they were part of the solution to distributional problems of health care delivery and must be responsive to legislative desires for action. State legislators sent apolicy signal, and most medical schools apparently understood its significance.
Dictyostelium EHD associates with Dynamin and participates in phagosome maturation
Authors: Gueho Aurélie , Bosmani Cristina , Gopaldass Navin , Molle Virginie , Soldati Thierry , Letourneur François
Published: June 2016

Proteins that contain Eps15 homology domains (EHDs) in their C-terminus are newly identified key regulators of endosomal membrane trafficking. Here, we show that D. discoideum contains a single EHD protein (referred to as EHD) that localizes to endosomal compartments and newly formed phagosomes. We provide the first evidence that EHD regulates phagosome maturation. Deletion of EHD results in defects in intraphagosomal proteolysis and acidification. These defects are linked to early delivery of lysosomal enzymes and fast retrieval of the vacuolar H+-ATPase in maturing phagosomes. We also demonstrate that EHD physically interacts with DymA. Our results indicate that EHD and DymA can associate independently with endomembranes, and yet they share identical kinetics in recruitment to phagosomes and release during phagosome maturation. Functional analysis of ehd−, dymA− and double dymA−ehd− knockout strains indicate that DymA and EHD play non-redundant and independent functions in phagosome maturation. Finally, we show that the absence of EHD leads to increased tubulation of endosomes, indicating that EHD participates in the scission of endosomal tubules, as reported for DymA.
A Metal-Organic Framework Containing Arsenic Atoms with a Free Lone Pair
Authors: Ishidoshiro Makoto , Imoto Hiroaki , Naka Kensuke
Published: June 2016

A metal-organic framework (MOF) was constructed based on a 1,4-dihydro-1,4-diarsinine (DHDA) tetracarboxylic acid ligand, which was newly synthesized via hydrolysis of DHDA tetramethyl tetracarboxylate. The lone pairs of the arsenic atoms were not involved in the construction of the MOF. Notably, the preparation procedure of the MOF was performed under ambient atmosphere without any protecting groups, while inert atmosphere is required for incorporating trivalent phosphorus atoms.
Τεχνητά νευρωνικά δίκτυα προσομοίωσης του ανθρωπίνου εγκεφάλου
Authors: Πλέρου Αντωνία
Published: June 2016

Η παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται τον κλάδο της επιστήμης που ασχολείται με τα νευρωνικά δίκτυα. Ξεκίνησε µε σκοπό να δώσει απαντήσεις σε ερωτήματα σχετικά με το τι είναι νευρωνικά δίκτυα ώστε να γίνει συσχέτιση τους µε τον εγκέφαλο και να εντοπιστούν κάποια από τα προβλήματα τα οποία μπορούν να λυθούν με την βοήθεια τους. Έπειτα από σύντομη εισαγωγή στην γνωσιακή επιστήμη αναφέρθηκαν οι διαφορές και ομοιότητες μεταξύ υπολογιστή και ανθρώπινου εγκεφάλου. Με αφορμή την περιγραφή της δομής ενός τεχνητού νευρώνα έγινε σύγκριση με τα βιολογικά νευρωνικά δίκτυα και δόθηκε η περιγραφή του μοντέλου του τεχνητού νευρώνα. Στο τέλος της εργασίας αναφέρθηκαν επιγραμματικά κάποιες από τις σημαντικότερες εφαρμογές των νευρωνικών δικτύων.
Editorial
Authors: Λιοναράκης Αντώνης
Published: June 2016

Κίνδυνος αποδόμησης της πιο δημοκρατικής ακαδημαϊκής καινοτομίας που υπήρξε ποτέ στην Ελλάδα: του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Η αφορμή για αυτό το κείμενο απορρέει από τις ανησυχίες και τους προβληματισμούς που συζητιούνται, κυρίως το τελευταίο διάστημα, στους ακαδημαϊκούς, αλλά και πολιτικούς κύκλους για το Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο. Όχι στους δημοσιογραφικούς, μιας και οι δημοσιογραφικές επεμβάσεις στο αντικείμενο εδώ και πολλά χρόνια έχουν αποδειχθεί ανακριβείς και αναξιόπιστες.    Το 1997, όταν ψηφίστηκε ο νόμος για το ΕΑΠ στην Ελληνική βουλή, η μοναδική συζήτηση και διάλογος που έγινε, ήταν για την έδρα του ιδρύματος και ποια πόλη θα την είχε. Καμία συζήτηση δεν έγινε ποτέ επί της ουσίας περί της καινοτομίας και των ιδιαιτεροτήτων του. Δυστυχώς, αυτή η αντίληψη συνεχίστηκε και αργότερα πιο γενικευμένη και καθόρισε σε ένα βαθμό τη στρατηγική των προβληματισμών των υπευθύνων.
Aneurysmen des venösen Systems
Authors: Noppeney T. , Noppeney J.
Published: June 2016

Overall, aneurysms of the venous system constitute a rare disease. Up to March 2016, 1,199 venous aneurysms at various locations had been reported in the literature. The most common were aneurysms of the extrahepatic portal vein (n=247), followed by popliteal venous aneurysms (n=223) and, in third place, aneurysms of the internal or external jugular vein (n=143). Venous aneurysms are not usually diagnosed until they have become symptomatic or have led to complications, such as thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. First-line treatment of symptomatic aneurysms is resection of the aneurysm and reconstruction of the vein using either direct suture or end-to-end anastomosis, depending on the location. Endovenous repairs have also been described in the literature. Venous aneurysms of the superficial venous system can usually be excised and the vein ligated. Long-term anticoagulation is reserved for isolated cases with thrombotic occlusion and recurrent pulmonary embolisms.
Venous intervention in chronic venous ulcer treatment and recurrence avoidance
Authors: Morrison N.
Published: June 2016

In this brief overview I will progress from superficial venous intervention for venous leg ulcers (VLU) to perforator intervention and finally to deep venous intervention. But first there are a number of concepts that must be accepted. We know that 70 % of patients with leg ulcers have a venous component (1), and in at least 40 % of those patients, ulcers will be caused by superficial venous insufficiency alone or in combination with perforator incompetence (2). Such patients will likely benefit from treatment of their superficial venous disease.

One of the most important but often overlooked factors in venous ulcers is calf pump failure. Simka has reported that 45 % of patients with venous ulcers have calf pump failure (3).

Thorough duplex evaluation of the venous leg ulcer patient is paramount for accurate diagnosis, the differentiation between arterial and venous components (purely arterial, venous, or mixed etiology), and the obstructive and/or incompetent nature and location of venous lesions. In obstructive venous lesions the degree of obstruction as well as how proximal the lesion extends must be known. For venous insufficiency the location (deep and/or superficial venous system) and the extent (segmental or axial) will help determine how much the incompetence contributes to the overall ulcer condition, and what lesions can be safely treated.
Choosing one name for pleomorphic fungi: The example of Aspergillus versus Eurotium, Neosartorya and Emericella
Authors: Taylor John W. , Göker Markus , Pitt John I.
Published: June 2016

With the termination of dual nomenclature, each fungus may have only one name. Now mycologists must choose between genus names formerly applied to taxa with either asexual or sexual reproductive modes, a choice that often influences the breadth of genotypic and phenotypic diversity in a genus, and even its monophyly. We use the asexual genus Aspergillus to examine the problems involved in such choices because (a) 11 sexual generic names are associated with it and (b) phenotypic variation and genetic divergence within sexual genera are low but between sexual genera are high. As a result, in the case of Aspergillus, applying the asexual name to the many sexual genera masks information now conveyed by the genus names and would lead to taxonomic inconsistency in the Eurotiales because this large Aspergillus would then embrace more genetic divergence than neighboring clades comprised of two or more genera. Two proposals have been published concerning this problem as it relates to Aspergillus: one advocates a broad concept, referred to here as "Wide Aspergillus", which embraces as many Aspergillus species as possible while maintaining Penicillium as a separate genus; the other, referred to here as "Narrow Aspergillus", preserves this genus for a much smaller group of closely related species and retains many of the sexual genera. Phylogenetic analyses detailed here show that, to be monophyletic, Wide Aspergillus must embrace several genera morphologically discordant with Aspergillus, including Penicillium, Phialosimplex and Polypaecilum. Likelihood ratio tests reject a Wide Aspergillus that excludes Phialosimplex and Polypaecilum. Phylogenetic Rank Boundary Optimization, which employs the genetic divergence measure, maximum subtree height, to assess inconsistency in the ranking of genera and species, shows that Narrow Aspergillus provides a more consistent taxonomy than Wide Aspergillus. Adopting Narrow Aspergillus and retaining sexual names instead of adopting Wide Aspergillus will result in genera that convey precise morphological and physiological information, that are monophyletic, and that are taxonomically consistent.
Several aspects of the use of Historical-graphical approach in the training course «Tecnology of inbound tourism»
Authors: Афанасьев Олег , Afanasiev Oleg
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to the use of the principles of historical-graphical approach in vocational education on the

direction «Tourism». On the base of developed practical training devoted to the historical-graphical analysis of

the sources of the XIII–XIX centuries, they examine the historical process of the formation of neutral or negative

images of our country at the Europeans. In modern conditions it has a direct impact on the demand and interest in

tourist trips to Russia. The article proposes and researches in detail the mechanisms of formation of tourist image of

the country in two forms – subjective and objective. It’s noted that the the image of a country forming even without

a direct visit/ And this image can be viewed as subjective, and potentially to be attractive (attractive), neutral, or

repulsive (repellent). Historical-graphical practice during the practical training on discipline «Technology of the

inbound tourism» shows the formation of mostly negative Russian image in the public perception of Europeans,

today expression of negative tourism image of Russia, fears of tourist trips to the country. The article describes

the technology of implementation of the method of historical-graphical analysis as the part of the training. It also

describes the methods and forms of work with historical sources to identify perceptions of hospitality and tourism

images of Russia formed in the writings of foreign travelers of XIII–XIX centuries. Also the article contains some

fragments of descriptions of the peoples of Russia, their everyday life and customs contained in those writings,

shaped the imaginative perception of the country. The article states the pedagogical effectiveness of technology use

historical analysis to evaluate cause and effect the formation of negative or neutral tourist image of Russia among

foreign tourists, due to its descriptions in the historical sources. The conclusion is made about necessity of development

of marketing strategies for overcoming negative images and perceptions of Russia among potential users of

its tourism programs.
The use of tourism technologies in the process of Patriotic education
Authors: Молчанова Наталья , Molchanova Natalya
Published: June 2016

The social apathy system came after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the destruction of the ideological; the

recognized moral values, which had been universal for the Soviet people, disappeared. Representation of members

of a society about the absolute and unchanging moral principles were not relevant, in this regard, the society grew

into a community consisting of small groups, the main idea of which was the satisfaction of personal needs, often

unrelated to the needs of society in general. This article focuses on the possibilities of tourist activity in the Patriotic

education of citizens. Today the technology of tourism, in the sphere of pedagogical influence, is mainly used in the

practice of Patriotic education of the younger generation. However, the volume of tourism impact and its broader

educational opportunities cannot and should not be limited exclusively with Junior and youth direction. In modern

society there is a need of using the potential of tourist activities in the sphere of Patriotic education not only of youth

but also the adult population. Today there is a need for a focused educational process in patriotism, not beyond a

reasonable and humanistic perception of reality. Means of tourist activity of cultural-cognitive orientation such

as excursions and travel, priority aimed at acquainting with the history and culture of the Motherland, can be an

effective tool in the process of Patriotic education.
Role of the methodological component in the structure of the course training of guides and guide-interpreters (the preparation for the 2018 World Cup in Volgograd)
Authors: Ходякова Наталия , Khodyakova Nataliya , Ходяков Дмитрий , Khodyakov Dmitriy
Published: June 2016

In connection with carrying out in 2018 of the activities of the world football Championship in several regions of

the Russian Federation there is a perceived need for additional training of a large number of guides, guides and

guides-interpreters. In the article based on modern scientific approaches and many years of practical experience,

the authors propose a new structure of the course content quality of training of specialists of excursion business. The

article discusses important differences in the training of the needed staff, on the one hand, in cities with experience

of international competitions and Championships – Olympic games and Universiades, and, on the other hand, in

cities where tourism business is seasonal e, which include the Volgograd. The article presents brief analysis of the

problems and difficulties encountered in the preparation and subsequent work of guides and guides-interpreters of

the Volgograd region. Special attention is paid to the insufficient competence of tour guides in the field of practice

of the excursion. In this context, the article provides an overview of tour guides requirements, contained in the normative legal acts on the basis of which there is competence of the guide – the guidelines of the tour. The authors

compare traditional (found in the literature) creative interpretations of the concept of «methodology of the tour».

As a significant component of the methodology for the conduct of excursions are the types of special methodical

knowledge of the guide and guide-interpreter, namely: psychological, pedagogical, vocational and applied, linguistic

knowledge and the practical skills: communicative, organizational and compensatory. The article specifies

requirements for teaching staff, conducting quality training courses guides and guide-interpreters, and procedural

characteristics of education.
Features of the application of the case method in the course «Pedagogy and psychology of higher education» for PhD students
Authors: Ивлева Марина , Ivleva Marina , Саенко Наталья , Saenko Natalya
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to widely used in modern Russian higher school case method. The methodology is considered

in the context of teaching «Pedagogy and psychology of higher education» for PhD students. In the spectrum of

training the highest level specialist tasks is to prepare PhD students for teaching in vocational education. Traditionfor

Russian education is the situation when personal is replenished by the graduates of the graduate school,

«grown» by the University. Academic postgraduate course «Psychology and pedagogics of higher school», prepared

by the Department of philosophy and psychology, Moscow state university of mechanical engineering (MAMI), is

also intended to help future teachers in mastering the content of modern concepts of education and personality

formation. But the most attention is paid to the practice of designing educational situations in higher education.

The authors ‘ position is that the failure of the use of case studies is primarily concerned with the complexities of

collecting and the formation directly of problem pedagogical situations. The propose variants: a) practical training

using the case method, b) the collection and formulation of problem pedagogical situations, in) classes with the

use of the case method, d) stages of the case. The authors share their experience and introduce the reader to the

acquired fund of their pedagogical situations. In situations fund there are the following types of situations: conceptual,

institutional, psychological, ethno-cultural and others. Specific situational feature of many tasks is the

multiplicity of solutions. From this point of view, offered by the PhD students solutions can be divided according to

the degree of risk, reasonableness of solutions, the cost of resources, but a variety of solutions will be correct and

relevant to the task.
Role of social environment factors in the teaching of mathematics in the process of psycho-pedagogical support
Authors: Аниськина Марфа , Aniskina Marfa
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to theoretical and practical issues of teaching mathematics in high school. The article analyzes the influence of factors of the social environment on higher education, including the teaching of mathematics. Among all studied subjects higher mathematics is a particular educational discipline, knowledge of mathematics is the basis for the study of many applied sciences. The subject of mathematics as an academic discipline in the University is one of the fundamental subjects of general education. The author examines the necessity of psychological and pedagogical support of the process of adaptation to University and support. The article describes the essence of psychological and pedagogical support of University education. Studying the social environment, the author takes into account the factors which are the result of human interaction and which influence at the same time on the behavior and emotional state of people. The article examines the role of environment, including social environment, and the role of the learning process. The author analyzes some factors of the social environment and describes the specifics of teaching mathematics and the specifics of training for various forms of education: fulltime education and correspondence courses. The article examines acmeological approach to teaching. The article notes that in acmeological understanding the main direction of development is the movement of a person to selfactualization, the fulfillment of inner potential, achievement of new heights, including internal ones. The article reveals the need for ownership of acmeological technologies for teachers engaged in psycho-pedagogical support of learning. The author identifies complex issues that impede learning and the work of the teacher: the low level of initial knowledge of students, insufficient development of students ‘ interest in education, attitudes to education not as to a painstaking, systematic, domestic work, but as to the formal execution of a set of some external, unrelated to the student tasks.
Development of body image in adolescence
Authors: Авдюнина Наталия , Avdyunina Nataliya
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to the study of the formation of body image in adolescence, relations to other components. Body image is a concept, which includes perceptions of one’s own body, sensual painting of this perception and how, in his opinion, along with its surrounding; it is a kind of system of human representations about the physical side of the self, about my body. The main component of body image is knowledge of the individual about himself, of his physical component. Body image is an important component of self-consciousness. In personality develop- ment is the crisis period of early adolescence because in this phase is the destruction of old and formation of new image of the body that influences personality, his attitude. A negative attitude towards your body can lead to mental disorders, increased levels of anxiety and inappropriate behavior. Therefore, in this study, we considered this age stage of the individual. The article presents the structure of body image, its main components, based upon the results of the study. The author suggests that the development of body image in adolescence becomes successful in the implementation of components of body image that includes a foreign body, boundaries, body image and sex- role identity. We also think that positive body image is associated with such personality traits as self-confidence, sociability, responsibility, independence and depends on how people are satisfied with their appearance.
Category Free Category Theory and Its Philosophical Implications
Authors: Heller Michael
Published: June 2016

There exists a dispute in philosophy, going back at least to Leibniz, whether is it possible to view the world as a network of relations and relations between relations with the role of objects, between which these relations hold, entirely eliminated. Category theory seems to be the correct mathematical theory for clarifying conceptual possibilities in this respect. In this theory, objects acquire their identity either by definition, when in defining category we postulate the existence of objects, or formally by the existence of identity morphisms. We show that it is perfectly possible to get rid of the identity of objects by definition, but the formal identity of objects remains as an essential element of the theory. This can be achieved by defining category exclusively in terms of morphisms and identity morphisms (objectless, or object free, category) and, analogously, by defining category theory entirely in terms of functors and identity functors (categoryless, or category free, category theory). With objects and categories eliminated, we focus on the “philosophy of arrows” and the roles various identities play in it (identities as such, identities up to isomorphism, identities up to natural isomorphism ...). This perspective elucidates a contrast between “set ontology” and “categorical ontology”.
Delegated Bidding and the Allocative Effect of Accounting Rules
Authors: Marinovic Iván
Published: June 2016

This paper studies the efficiency and distributive effects of three prominent accounting methods in auction settings when bidders’ incentives are linked to accounting income. The purchase price method (PP) requires the acquirer to book the acquisition at historical cost, thereby underestimating the asset value by the amount of the acquirer’s surplus in the transaction. The exit value method (EV) is downward biased and forces the acquirer to book an accounting loss on the date of acquisition. EV connects otherwise independent valuations inducing a reporting-based winner’s curse and can even lead to fire-sale-like values. Relative to PP, EV implies lower asset prices, a decrease (increase) in the surplus of the seller (acquirer), and an increase in the probability that the asset attains its best use when the market is sufficiently competitive. Finally, I examine an alternative method in which the asset is valued at its perceived value-in-use (VU). Under this method, the acquirer bids more aggressively to increase perceived value-in-use, leading to a shift of surplus from the acquirer to the seller. Yet VU is unbiased and always maximizes the probability that the asset attains its best use.

This paper was accepted by Gérard Cachon, accounting.
A Markov Chain Approximation to Choice Modeling
Authors: Blanchet Jose , Gallego Guillermo , Goyal Vineet
Published: June 2016

Assortment planning is an important problem that arises in many industries such as retailing and airlines. One of the key challenges in an assortment planning problem is to identify the “right” model for the substitution behavior of customers from the data. Error in model selection can lead to highly suboptimal decisions. In this paper, we consider a Markov chain based choice model and show that it provides a simultaneous approximation for all random utility based discrete choice models including the multinomial logit (MNL), the probit, the nested logit and mixtures of multinomial logit models. In the Markov chain model, substitution from one product to another is modeled as a state transition in the Markov chain. We show that the choice probabilities computed by the Markov chain based model are a good approximation to the true choice probabilities for any random utility based choice model under mild conditions. Moreover, they are exact if the underlying model is a generalized attraction model (GAM) of which the MNL model is a special case. We also show that the assortment optimization problem for our choice model can be solved efficiently in polynomial time. In addition to the theoretical bounds, we also conduct numerical experiments and observe that the average maximum relative error of the choice probabilities of our model with respect to the true probabilities for any offer set is less than 3% where the average is taken over different offer sets. Therefore, our model provides a tractable approach to choice modeling and assortment optimization that is robust to model selection errors. Moreover, the state transition primitive for substitution provides interesting insights to model the substitution behavior in many real-world applications.
Theologizing State Crime
Authors: Shalhoub-Kevorkian Nadera , David Yossi , Ihmoud Sarah
Published: June 2016

This article examines a sacralized political economy of state crime, centring Israeli assaults on the occupied Gaza Strip over the last ten years, with a particular focus on the violent attack perpetrated in 2014. Taking the 2006 election of Hamas as a point of departure, the article analyses various manifestations of violence inscribed on the people of Gaza, including killing, injuring, starving, collective punishment, military assaults and other forms of cruelty. Drawing on a settler colonial framework, the article investigates Israel's violence as sacralized state criminality embedded in a local and global political economy of racism and impunity. It argues that Israeli crimes against Gazan Palestinians must be analysed as political technologies of counterinsurgent governmentality embedded in a structure of settler colonial dispossession initiated during the 1948 Nakba.
The preliminary study on feeding behavior of male and female little egret (Egretta garzetta) in mangrove and rice field habitats based on peck frequency
Authors: Abdullah Abdullah , Zahara Intan , Wilson Gaius
Published: June 2016

The objective of  the present study was to study the differences in feeding behavior from peck frequency and type of diets, between male and female little egret (Egretta garzetta) in two different habitats, mangrove and rice fields of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Focal animal sampling was used to study the feeding behavior of randomly selected birds from 07.00 AM to 06.00 PM in July 2015. Statistical analysis was conducted using t-test to test for differences between male and female peck frequency and habitats. For the combined data of both males and females, the average peck frequency of little egret (E. garzetta) observed in the mangrove and rice fields was 238.8 and 226.2 respectively. Male E. garzetta peck frequency observed was 240 pecks in mangrove habitat while female peck frequency was 225 pecks in rice field habitat. The results of our study showed that there is a significant difference in the peck frequency of little egrets observed in the two habitats (mangrove and rice fields) and between male and female E. garzetta.
Monoculturalism, austerity and moral panics: assessing government progress on addressing Gypsy, Traveller and Roma exclusion
Authors: Ryder Andrew , Cemlyn Sarah
Published: June 2016

This article assesses government progress in addressing Gypsy Traveller and Roma (GTR) exclusion, with particular reference to poverty and social justice issues in England, drawing on the findings of a civil society monitoring report of the UK's National Roma Integration Strategy undertaken for the Decade for Roma Inclusion Secretariat. The article identifies serious flaws in English policy approaches of mainstreaming, monoculturalism and localism when measuring these approaches against good practice as advocated within European Union and civil society guidance on Roma inclusion, which emphasises the potential value of partnership, interculturalism and targeting.