bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Single Transsacral Screw and Nut Stabilization of Bilateral Sacroiliac Luxation in 20 Cats
Authors: Grierson James , Moores Andrew , Pratesi Andrea
Published: January 2018

Objective This article aims to describe the use of a single transsacral screw and nut in a cohort of cats with bilateral sacroiliac (SI) luxation and document its radiographic and clinical outcome.

Methods Medical records and radiographic studies of cats with bilateral SI luxation managed with a transsacral screw and nut stabilization were reviewed. Short-term follow-up included clinical examination and radiographs. Long-term follow-up was via owner questionnaire.

Results Twenty consecutive cats with bilateral SI luxation were included. Six cats (35%) had additional musculoskeletal injuries that required stabilization. Luxations were stabilized with a single 2.7 cortical self-tapping transsacral screw and nylon nut (a metallic nut was used in one case). Postoperative radiographs confirmed SI reduction in all cats and a mean pelvic canal width ratio of 1.21 (a ratio of ≥1.1 was considered optimal). All cats available at follow-up examination were able to walk without signs of discomfort. Evaluation of follow-up radiographs showed maintenance of SI reduction and slight reduction of mean pelvic canal width ratio (1.18). Fourteen owner questionnaires were returned (median follow-up time of 40 months): nine cats were deemed to have normal activity and five cats were reported to have slight to mild reduced ability to jump or run.

Clinical Significance The use of transsacral screw and nut stabilization of bilateral SI luxation in cats is a successful, repeatable and safe technique.
Common Calcaneal Tenorrhaphy Revision Using a Central Gastrocnemius Turnover Aponeurotic Flap Technique in a Cat
Authors: Sangion Fabio , Pisani Guido , Cinti Filippo
Published: January 2018

A 5-year-old, male castrated, domestic short hair cat was referred to the authors' clinic because of wound dehiscence and exposure of tendon stumps after tenorrhaphy of the Achilles tendon. Surgical revision was done using an aponeurotic flap taken from the proximal stump of the Achilles tendon and sutured over the two tendon portions. This technique has been described in humans, but, to the authors' knowledge, this has not been reported in cats. Modified type II external fixation was used to maintain the tarsocrural joint in extension until tendon healing was confirmed ultrasonographically 35 days postoperatively. Clinical and ultrasonographic evaluation 60 and 120 days postoperatively showed normal limb function and good tendon healing. Long-term follow-up examination 8 years postoperatively revealed that the cat was in good health with normal gait and activity level.
SMES DEVELOPMENT AND CORRUPTION: CASE OF KAZAKHSTAN
Authors: Suleimenova Gulimzhan , Sadvokassova Aigul , Rakisheva Botagoz , Nurmaganbetov Arman
Published: January 2018

The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices.

The main goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we interviewed 500 representatives of SMEs and 500 civil servants. We used a mass survey (face-to-face) method.

The results show that the presence of “gap” between perception of corruption and degree of the respondents’ involvement in corrupt practices. The respondents believe that corruption is widespread, but they themselves were rarely involved in corrupt practices. The key message is that the SMEs representatives consider this problem to be acute, but they are not ready to talk about their own experience in this regard.
Induced Ellipticity for Inspiraling Binary Systems
Authors: Randall Lisa , Xianyu Zhong-Zhi
Published: January 2018

Although gravitational waves tend to erase eccentricity of an inspiraling binary system, ellipticity can be generated in the presence of surrounding matter. We present a semianalytical method for understanding the eccentricity distribution of binary black holes (BHs) in the presence of a supermassive BH in a galactic center. Given a matter distribution, we show how to determine the resultant eccentricity analytically in the presence of both tidal forces and evaporation up to one cutoff and one matter-distribution-independent function, paving the way for understanding the environment of detected inspiraling BHs. We furthermore generalize Kozai–Lidov dynamics to situations where perturbation theory breaks down for short time intervals, allowing more general angular momentum exchange, such that eccentricity is generated even when all bodies orbit in the same plane.
A Hybrid Supervised/Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Solar Flare Prediction
Authors: Benvenuto Federico , Piana Michele , Campi Cristina , Massone Anna Maria
Published: January 2018

This paper introduces a novel method for flare forecasting, combining prediction accuracy with the ability to identify the most relevant predictive variables. This result is obtained by means of a two-step approach: first, a supervised regularization method for regression, namely, LASSO is applied, where a sparsity-enhancing penalty term allows the identification of the significance with which each data feature contributes to the prediction; then, an unsupervised fuzzy clustering technique for classification, namely, Fuzzy C-Means, is applied, where the regression outcome is partitioned through the minimization of a cost function and without focusing on the optimization of a specific skill score. This approach is therefore hybrid, since it combines supervised and unsupervised learning; realizes classification in an automatic, skill-score-independent way; and provides effective prediction performances even in the case of imbalanced data sets. Its prediction power is verified against NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center data, using as a test set, data in the range between 1996 August and 2010 December and as training set, data in the range between 1988 December and 1996 June. To validate the method, we computed several skill scores typically utilized in flare prediction and compared the values provided by the hybrid approach with the ones provided by several standard (non-hybrid) machine learning methods. The results showed that the hybrid approach performs classification better than all other supervised methods and with an effectiveness comparable to the one of clustering methods; but, in addition, it provides a reliable ranking of the weights with which the data properties contribute to the forecast.
Tracing Magnetic Fields with Spectroscopic Channel Maps
Authors: Lazarian A. , Yuen Ka Ho
Published: January 2018

We identify velocity channel map intensities as a new way to trace magnetic fields in turbulent media. This work makes use of both the modern theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, which predicts that magnetic eddies are aligned with the local direction of the magnetic field, and also the theory of spectral line position–position–velocity (PPV) statistics, which describes how velocity and density fluctuations are mapped onto PPV space. In particular, we use the fact that the fluctuations of the intensity of thin channel maps are mostly affected by the turbulent velocity, while the thick maps are dominated by density variations. We study how contributions of the fundamental MHD modes affect the Velocity Channel Gradients (VChGs), and demonstrate that the VChGs arising from Alfvén and slow modes are aligned perpendicular to the local direction of the magnetic field, while the VChGs produced by the fast mode are aligned parallel to the magnetic field. The dominance of Alfvén and slow modes in interstellar media will therefore allow reliable magnetic field tracing using the VChGs. We explore ways of identifying self-gravitating regions that do not require polarimetric information. In addition, we also introduce a new measure, termed “Reduced Velocity Centroids” (RVCGs), and compare its abilities with those of VChGs. We employed VChGs in analyzing GALFA 21 cm data and successfully compared the magnetic field directions with the Planck polarization observations. The applications of the suggested techniques include both tracing the magnetic field in diffuse interstellar media and star-forming regions, and removing the galactic foreground in the framework of cosmological polarization studies.
The Strongest Acceleration of >40 keV Electrons by ICME-driven Shocks at 1 au
Authors: Yang Liu , Wang Linghua , Li Gang , Wimmer-Schweingruber Robert F. , He Jiansen , Tu Chuanyi , Tian Hui , Bale Stuart D.
Published: January 2018

We present two case studies of the in-situ electron acceleration during the 2000 February 11 shock and the 2004 July 22 shock, with the strongest electron flux enhancement at 40 keV across the shock, among all the quasi-perpendicular and quasi-parallel ICME-driven shocks observed by the WIND 3DP instrument from 1995 through 2014 at 1 au. We find that for this quasi-perpendicular (quasi-parallel) shock on 2000 February 11 (2004 July 22), the shocked electron differential fluxes at ∼0.4–50 keV in the downstream generally fit well to a double-power-law spectrum, J ∼ E
−β
, with an index of β ∼ 3.15 (4.0) at energies below a break at ∼3 keV (∼1 keV) and β ∼ 2.65 (2.6) at energies above. For both shock events, the downstream electron spectral indices appear to be similar for all pitch angles, which are significantly larger than the index prediction by diffusive shock acceleration. In addition, the downstream electron pitch-angle distributions show the anisotropic beams in the anti-sunward-traveling direction, while the ratio of the downstream over ambient fluxes appears to peak near 90° pitch angles, at all energies of ∼0.4–50 keV. These results suggest that in both shocks, shock drift acceleration likely plays an important role in accelerating electrons in situ at 1 au. Such ICME-driven shocks could contribute to the formation of solar wind halo electrons at energies ≲2 keV, as well as the production of solar wind superhalo electrons at energies ≳2 keV in interplanetary space.
The Impact of Assembly Bias on the Galaxy Content of Dark Matter Halos
Authors: Zehavi Idit , Contreras Sergio , Padilla Nelson , Smith Nicholas J. , Baugh Carlton M. , Norberg Peder
Published: January 2018

We study the dependence of the galaxy content of dark matter halos on large-scale environment and halo formation time using semi-analytic galaxy models applied to the Millennium simulation. We analyze subsamples of halos at the extremes of these distributions and measure the occupation functions for the galaxies they host. We find distinct differences among these occupation functions. The main effect with environment is that central galaxies (and in one model, also the satellites) in denser regions start populating lower-mass halos. A similar, but significantly stronger, trend exists with halo age, where early-forming halos are more likely to host central galaxies at lower halo mass. We discuss the origin of these trends and the connection to the stellar mass–halo mass relation. We find that, at fixed halo mass, older halos and to some extent also halos in dense environments tend to host more massive galaxies. Additionally, we see a reverse trend for the occupation of satellite galaxies where early-forming halos have fewer satellites, likely due to having more time for them to merge with the central galaxy. We describe these occupancy variations in terms of the changes in the occupation function parameters, which can aid in constructing realistic mock galaxy samples. Finally, we study the corresponding galaxy auto- and cross-correlation functions of the different samples and elucidate the impact of assembly bias on galaxy clustering. Our results can inform theoretical modeling of galaxy assembly bias and attempts to detect it in the real universe.
Data Release of UV to Submillimeter Broadband Fluxes for Simulated Galaxies from the EAGLE Project
Authors: Camps Peter , Trc̆ka Ana , Trayford James , Baes Maarten , Theuns Tom , Crain Robert A. , McAlpine Stuart , Schaller Matthieu , Schaye Joop
Published: January 2018

We present dust-attenuated and dust emission fluxes for sufficiently resolved galaxies in the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, calculated with the SKIRT radiative transfer code. The post-processing procedure includes specific components for star formation regions, stellar sources, and diffuse dust and takes into account stochastic heating of dust grains to obtain realistic broadband fluxes in the wavelength range from ultraviolet to submillimeter. The mock survey includes nearly half a million simulated galaxies with stellar masses above

across six EAGLE models. About two-thirds of these galaxies, residing in 23 redshift bins up to z = 6, have a sufficiently resolved metallic gas distribution to derive meaningful dust attenuation and emission, with the important caveat that the same dust properties were used at all redshifts. These newly released data complement the already publicly available information about the EAGLE galaxies, which includes intrinsic properties derived by aggregating the properties of the smoothed particles representing matter in the simulation. We further provide an open-source framework of Python procedures for post-processing simulated galaxies with the radiative transfer code SKIRT. The framework allows any third party to calculate synthetic images, spectral energy distributions, and broadband fluxes for EAGLE galaxies, taking into account the effects of dust attenuation and emission.
Le manga de sport comme récit de formation pour la jeunesse au Japon
Authors: Suvilay Bounthavy
Published: January 2018

Dans le manga (bande dessinée japonaise), le sport est représenté à travers un genre particulier participant à la formation de la jeunesse : le supokon . Cette catégorie perdure sous la forme de récits sériels dans lesquels le retour des motifs narratifs fait partie du plaisir de la lecture, la finalité des entraînements étant assignée à des valeurs différentes selon les époques. Au niveau graphique, une série de conventions de représentations confère au supokon une gamme d’effets iconographiques valorisant la performance corporelle. Ce genre participe à la couverture médiatique d’une pratique sportive et les adaptions transmédiatiques de ces récits concourent à la promotion des activités physiques auprès d’un public jeune.
Éthique et culture religieuse à l’école québécoise. Une approche éthique et culturelle de l’éducation au vivre-ensemble ?
Authors: Bouchard Nancy
Published: January 2018

Ce texte traite du cours d’Éthique et culture religieuse en vigueur dans les écoles du Québec depuis 2008. Aboutissement du processus de déconfessionnalisation du système éducatif, ce cours représente non seulement un tournant majeur en éducation mais constitue un projet de société : celui de vivre ensemble dans une société pluraliste à travers la reconnaissance de l’autre et la poursuite du bien commun. Des orientations ministérielles annonçant ce projet de programme, il se dégage une approche éthique et culturelle de l’éducation. Mais qu’en est-il du programme ? Emprunte-t-il la même approche ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous présentons le programme d’ÉCR et identifions les points de convergence et de divergence avec les orientations ministérielles et l’approche éthique et culturelle de l’éducation. Nous en venons à la conclusion que, même si le programme d’ÉCR s’inscrit dans une approche éthique et culturelle, celle-ci s’est affaiblie par rapport à ce qui avait été annoncé. Le dialogue s’avère par ailleurs une voie prometteuse dans la poursuite de la réflexion.
The Damiourgoi in the Cities of the Peloponnese and the Achaian Koinon
Authors: K. Sizov Sergey
Published: January 2018

Résumé On pense communément que dans bon nombre de cités du Péloponnèse, les damiourgoi en tant qu’agents de l’exécutif sont apparus pour la première fois au cours de la période hellénistique sous l’influence du koinon achéen. Toutefois, il est impossible de trouver même un seul exemple d’une polis péloponnésienne, hormis Sparte, dans laquelle cette magistrature n’existait pas avant l’essor de la fédération achéenne. Il se peut néanmoins que dans la seconde moitié du deuxième siècle de l’ère préchrétienne l’appartenance de certaines cités au koinon ait eu pour conséquence une certaine modification des fonctions des damiourgoi et de leur position par rapport à d’autres magistrats.
Du Mercure gaulois à la colonie romaine de Lugdunum : un système « canonique » de transformations ?
Authors: V. García Quintela Marco
Published: January 2018

La description faite par César des attributs du dieu gaulois Mercure et la présentation que fait Strabon de la colonie de Lugdunum utilisent une série de cinq thèmes semblables. On essaie d’expliquer ce fait avec l’application de la « formule canonique » proposée par Lévi-Strauss. Celle-ci rénove les arguments par analogie en introduisant le jeu du changement. L’emploi de cette « formule » permet d’envisager autrement la façon dont la tradition gauloise est réélaborée dans la construction d’une nouvelle identité culturelle au temps d’Auguste.
Représentation de l’oral en français médiéval et genres textuels
Authors: Guillot-Barbance Céline , Pincemin Bénédicte , Lavrentiev Alexei
Published: January 2018

La relation entre oralité et scripturalité au Moyen Âge est approchée par une analyse en corpus (137 textes, 4 millions de mots). Nous comparons les passages d’oral représenté (discours direct, théâtre, etc.) au reste des textes, en prenant en compte les 32 genres textuels qui les contextualisent. L’analyse factorielle des correspondances basée sur l’étiquetage morphosyntaxique met en évidence, comme première dimension de variation, un axe s’interprétant comme un gradient d’oralité, par rapport auquel chaque genre est automatiquement positionné. Elle distingue ses parties d’oral représenté et ses parties complémentaires. La statistique montre que parties d’oral représenté et parties complémentaires des textes sont distinguées, que le caractère littéraire ou oralisé d’un genre accentue ses traits d’oralité, que les façons de marquer la non-oralité sont plus dispersées et que certains genres occupent une position singulière (dialogue didactique, psautier).
La bibliothèque littéraire de Jacques Doucet, creuset de la modernité
Authors: Diu Isabelle
Published: January 2018

Un an après sa naissance, la bibliothèque littéraire de Jacques Doucet se présente en 1917 comme un laboratoire de l’innovation à l’extrême pointe des avant-gardes. Le collectionneur et mécène y a rassemblé livres, manuscrits et archives d’écrivains français autour de l’unique critère de la modernité. Aux auteurs vivants et à leurs précurseurs immédiats, il joint désormais la création saisie au vif. Trois auteurs en témoignent, à travers trois textes emblématiques : Apollinaire avec Les Mamelles de Tirésias , Max Jacob et son Cornet à dés , Blaise Cendrars et l’Eubage, aux antipodes de l’unité .
Gustave Flaubert ou l’alambic des rêves
Authors: Vatan Florence
Published: January 2018

Cet article se propose d’explorer le statut fondamental et ambivalent du rêve dans l’œuvre de Flaubert en s’intéressant au dialogue critique que le romancier noue – sur cette question – avec l’héritage romantique et le discours savant. Du romantisme des premières années à l’idéal d’un art capable de « faire rêver   », en passant par la dénonciation du rêve comme illusion et menace, le rêve est au cœur de l’esthétique flaubertienne. Familier des débats médicaux de l’époque sur les liens entre rêve, hallucination et folie, Flaubert restitue les états hallucinatoires et oniriques avec une acuité clinique et fait du rêve un principe structurant dans ses projets de féerie et dans La Tentation de Saint Antoine . Si le rêve peut se dégrader en poncif sentimental, il est aussi un puissant ressort créatif : conscient des appas et des dangers du rêve, Flaubert cultive l’idéal d’une rêverie maîtrisée.
Des rêves et des jambes : le problème du corps rêvant (Mourly Vold, Freud, Michaux)
Authors: Mayer Andreas
Published: January 2018

Ce n’est que vers la fin du xix e siècle qu’émerge un régime proprement expérimental de recherches sur les rêves. Il s’agira de reconstituer les premiers éléments de ce régime dans l’œuvre largement oublié du philosophe norvégien John Mourly Vold (1850-1907), en mettant en évidence ses rapports à la psychologie expérimentale allemande et la psychopathologie française. Les recherches personnelles de Mourly Vold, menées de 1876 jusqu’à sa mort en 1907, tournent autour d’un problème précis : il s’agit d’établir un lien causal entre les postures et les mouvements du corps pendant le sommeil avec l’apparition mouvementée d’images oniriques. Ce cas, au premier regard obscur, permettra d’interroger les stratégies développées pour traiter le problème du corps rêvant, problème qui occupe les savants autant que les premiers psychanalystes et les écrivains.
Les rêves d’Arthur Schnitzler. Histoire d’un journal posthume (1875-1931)
Authors: Wübben Yvonne
Published: January 2018

En 1921 A. Schnitzler extrait et reprend des récits de rêves qui faisaient d’abord partie de son journal intime afin d’en constituer un corpus à part. Ainsi naît une compilation isolée – le dossier « rêves » – dont l’usage ultérieur que voulait en faire l’auteur restera dans l’ombre. C’est seulement longtemps après la mort de Schnitzler, qu’un projet éditorial s’empare en 2012 de ce corpus, en le présentant sous la forme d’un journal onirique. Nous proposerons une analyse critique des rêves schnitzlériens en les replaçant dans le contexte original de son journal intime commencé à la fin du xix e siècle et de ses rapports à la psychanalyse. L’exemple du dossier « rêves » pose ainsi la question des rapports et des différences entre l’écriture et la publication des rêves de Schnitzler et entre des rêves fictifs – comme dans La Nouvelle rêvée – et des rêves personnels.
Exclusionary Criteria for Inpatient Hospitalization: Quality Safeguards or Unnecessary Roadblocks?
Authors: Moukaddam Nidal , Udoetuk Sade , Tucci Veronica , Shah Asim A.
Published: January 2018

For patients with mental illness who require hospitalization, the process of admission to inpatient care involves an assessment of medical status and assurance to the receiving facility that the patient is medically stable and suitable for transfer. An increasing number of facilities have developed checklists that need to be met for a patient to be accepted. Referred to as exclusionary criteria, these include a collection of physical findings, laboratory values, and medical conditions that might prevent a patient from being admitted and thus receiving the appropriate psychiatric care. Inpatient facilities have the flexibility to set their own acceptance criteria—a process that is unregulated. In parallel, emergency medicine has a differing philosophy regarding the need for medical clearance and stability of the psychiatric patient. These two requirements and workflows often conflict. Exclusionary criteria are ideally meant to protect the patients by promoting proper use of resources, and making sure medical issues are adequately addressed; however, those same criteria promote rigidity and focus on absolute laboratory values and diagnoses rather than clinical pictures, which may be contributing to the difficulty of accessing already scarce inpatient care resources and increased emergency department boarding currently sweeping the nation. Furthermore, inflexible checklists contradict the guidelines issued by several national organizations, which promote the need for customized flexible assessment of patients with severe mental illness who are awaiting inpatient placement.

[
Psychiatr Ann.
2018;48(1):51–57.]
“Maybe This Generation Here Could Help the Next Generation”: Older African American Women's Perceptions on Information Sharing to Improve Health in Younger Generations
Authors: Jones Lenette M. , Moss Karen O. , Wright Kathy D. , Rosemberg Marie-Anne , Killion Cheryl
Published: January 2018

The prevalence of hypertension is highest among African American women, who often occupy caregiving roles. The purpose of the current study is to describe intergenerational caregiving and communication themes that emerged during focus groups with African American older adult women (mean age = 73 years) on information sharing and self-management of hypertension. Thematic analysis revealed two overarching themes:
Caregiving Responsibilities
and
Improving the Health of Younger Generations
. Women wanted to help younger generations better manage their blood pressures. These findings suggest that intergenerational relationships may have an important role in managing health conditions, such as hypertension. Further examination of intergenerational relationships as targets for blood pressure self-management intervention is warranted to: (a) address the need for women to share their wisdom, and (b) help improve blood pressure management among African American individuals across the lifespan.

[Res Gerontol Nurs. 2018; 11(1):39–47.]
Influence of Nurse Staffing Levels on Resident Weight Loss Within German Nursing Homes
Authors: Zimmermann Jaroslava , Pfaff Holger
Published: January 2018

In Germany, there is no empirical evidence regarding the relationship between nurse staffing levels and care outcomes in nursing homes. The current study explored differences in nurse staffing levels between facilities with and without resident weight loss. The analyses were conducted at the facility level (
N
= 166) and involved weight loss assessment of 8,665 residents. Separate models for residents with and without cognitive impairment were computed. The regression analyses showed that nursing facilities where no weight loss occurred among residents without cognitive impairment had a lower number of residents per RN and additional care staff. However, no differences were found between facilities with and without weight loss among residents with cognitive disabilities. Further research is needed to identify factors leading to weight loss among residents with cognitive disabilities, including teamwork and work climate in nursing homes.

[Res Gerontol Nurs. 2018; 11(1):48–56.]
Reflexiones sobre la sociedad ibérica y el registro arqueológico funerario
Authors: Santos Velasco Juan A.
Published: January 2018

Los últimos datos arqueológicos de las necrópolis ibéricas sirven de base para apoyar la tesis de que la sociedad ibérica prerromana, del sureste peninsular, es una sociedad de clases en la que se hace necesario un mecanismo de integración de tipo estatal; en este caso con un fuerte componente aristocrático.
Tesorillo de moneda cartaginesa hallado en la Torre de Doña Blanca (Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz)
Authors: Alfaro Asins Carmen , Marcos Alonso Carmen
Published: January 2018

Entre los materiales numismáticos hallados en el importante yacimiento de la Torre de Doña Blanca (Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz), destaca un tesorillo de 56 monedas cartaginesas de cobre aleado con muy poco plomo, que proporciona la cronología final de la vida del yacimiento durante la Segunda Guerra Púnica. Son monedas «de necesidad» que con probabilidad fueron acuñadas en Cartago y distribuidas en los momentos de penuria monetaria entre las tropas cartaginesas de los distintos frentes bélicos.
El hermafrodita de bronce de la Villa de Almedinilla (Córdoba)
Authors: Loza Azuaga María Luisa
Published: January 2018

Damos a conocer a una escultura en bronce, que procede de la villa romana de Almedinilla, al sur de la provincia de Córdoba, y que identificamos como un hermafrodita danzante, elaborado en un taller extrapeninsular posiblemente en el siglo I d.C., según modelos helenísticos.
Escultura ibérica, ayer y hoy: la Bicha de Balazote
Authors: Blech Michael
Published: January 2018

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Las placas de cinturón "múltiple" hispanovisigodas. a propósito de la hallada en Saucedo, Talavera la Nueva (Toledo)
Authors: Sasse Barbara , Castelo Ruano Raquel , Ramos Sáinz María Luisa
Published: January 2018

Las placas de cinturones múltiples, son un conjunto de piezas conocidas en Europa oriental y central (incluida Italia), en el Imperio bizantino, en Persia, en Asia central y China. En Europa están datadas desde finales del siglo VI hasta principios del siglo VIII (Werner, 1974). En Asia se documentaron hasta el siglo pasado. En la Península Ibérica, piezas semejantes eran prácticamente desconocidas. El hallazgo de una placa «vertical» de este tipo de cinturón nos permite valorar los problemas en un nuevo contexto
La concepción de un proyecto de valorización social del Patrimonio Arqueológico. El plan de Toques como referente.
Authors: González Méndez Matilde
Published: January 2018

Utilizando como pretexto la realización de un proyecto para la rentabilización del patrimonio arqueológico del ayuntamiento de Toques (La Coruña), se comentan las posibilidades que desde el actual marco legislativo y social se ofrecen para el diseño y puesta en práctica de estrategias de rentabilización y divulgación del patrimonio cultural y se discuten los criterios y carencias existentes a la hora de distinguir los bienes y elementos que serán objeto de actuaciones de este tipo. De otra parte, se describe la estrategia concreta que, con planteamientos basados en una línea de investigación arqueológica especifica (la Arqueología del Paisaje), hemos seguido en la elaboración del mencionado proyecto de rentabilización patrimonial del ayuntamiento de Toques.
Sobre las cecas celtibéricas de Tamusia y Sekaisa y su relación con Extremadura
Authors: Blázquez Cerrato Cruces
Published: January 2018

En las líneas siguientes presentamos un lote de monedas inédito procedente del castro de Villasviejas del Tamuja (Botija-Plasenzuela. Cáceres). Tradicionalmente se viene considerando este asentamiento como vetón a pesar de que ninguna ciudad vetona acuñó moneda. De ahí, la importancia de la publicación y estudio de este conjunto ya que apoya la posibilidad de que la ceca celtibérica de tarriusia estuviera en este castro atestiguando la presencia de celtíberos en Lusitania, dato que confirman tanto los testimonios literarios como los arqueológicos.
Un aplique de plomo ampuritano con la representación de una nave en el Museo Episcopal de Vic
Authors: Rovira i Port Jordi , Casanovas i Romeu Angels
Published: January 2018

Se analiza en este artículo una placa de plomo con la representación de una nave del siglo II d.C., probablemente una navis Cladivata, procedente de la ciudad romana de Ampurias y que forma parte en la actualidad de las colecciones del Museu Episcopal de Vic.
Development of an Experimental Setup for Remote Testing Pneumatic Control
Authors: ReljiÄ‡ Vule , Bajci Brajan , MilenkoviÄ‡ Ivana , Šulc Jovan , Šešlija Dragan , DudiÄ‡ Slobodan
Published: January 2018

This paper presents an experimental setup called pneumatic circular manipulator. The manipulator represents a modular setup that can be adapted to the new situation by simple transformations. It is used for testing various types of pneumatic control and energy efficiency of pneumatic control systems. The manipulator is primarily intended for students and their lectures. Since it has the possibility for remote control over the Internet, due to its modularity, it can be very interesting for researchers and employees in industry. The existing version of the manipulator allows visual monitoring of the working cycle and familiarization with the basics of pneumatic control and motion control for users. By future upgrade, the manipulator will become a setup that will provide feedback on the consumption of compressed air, analysis of the type of control, cost-effectiveness analysis etc.
Design of Seat Search System in the Classroom Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Chen Jia Yu , Megxuan Cui , Megxuan Cui
Published: January 2018

The purpose of this design is intended to statistics and publishes free seats information in classroom timely to students, and then save students’ time to looking for classroom. The system uses wireless sensor networks to monitor classroom vacancies. It consists of classroom monitoring system and information transmission system. The classroom monitoring system consists of a coordinator node for remote wireless communication and two collection nodes for local communications in the classroom, and that three nodes are star-connected. The tasks of the coordinator node are to collect information from the collection nodes and display and transmission. Set up two collection nodes for collecting information of the number who inter the classroom. The devices for counting include two units, signal acquisition unit is constituted with pyroelectric infrared sensor which contains RE200B probe and conditioning circuit, and the control unit is constituted with CC2530 for signal processing. LCD screen is used to real-time display in coordinator node for counting the number of coming in or out the classroom. Users who enter the teaching building check which classroom have seats available. The manner of local communication is using ZIGBEE. The entire system uses sensor technology and mobile network communication technology to achieve real-time acquisition and release of information. The ability to identify and stability of the experimental system currently implemented are strong.
Bringing the Study of American Government to Life in a Diverse Classroom
Authors: Lewkowicz Michael A. , Young Laura D. , Budrytė Dovilė , Boykin Scott A.
Published: January 2018

This chapter documents a group of political scientists' attempts to internationalize an introductory course surveying the essentials of American government. This course is a required course for every student at Georgia Gwinnett College (and other state colleges and universities in Georgia). The content in this course, unfortunately, tends to privilege domestic political institutions and political development and does not take the diversity of students into account. The chapter, therefore, starts out with the definitions and a discussion of “internationalization” and “individualization” approaches and how to incorporate them into the course through active learning activities. Next, the authors describe five activities that attempt to shift the focus from “covering the material” to student experiences. They believe that these activities can help students acquire communication and intercultural competence skills and help avoid the unintended consequences of the use of the comparative method which can result in divisions between “us” and “them.”
How Is Mathematics Humanistic, Culturally Rich, Relevant, and Interesting?
Authors: Boindala Priya Shilpa , Menon Ramakrishnan , Lively Angela
Published: January 2018

This chapter focuses on the redesign of a traditional History of Mathematics course as an internationalized course and its early implementation. This redesign of the course incorporates significant learning experiences and includes the learning goals of both the college and the discipline. The design of these learning experiences using the backwards design model, the framework based on a blended taxonomy of Bloom and Fink, are elaborated on. How these learning experiences are supported by active learning strategies and forward assessments is also presented. The pilot implementation by an author not involved in the design process provides for an objective perspective of this redesign. The chapter elaborates on the learning experiences within the initial implementation and concludes with ideas for future iterations of the course.
Reflecting on New Faculty Training
Authors: Dikli Semire , Rawls Richard S. , Etheridge Brian C.
Published: January 2018

This chapter aims to describe the mandatory training program (Internationalized Learning Essentials) offered to the new faculty as part of the internationalization of the curriculum process at four-year colleges in the U.S. The chapter presents survey results regarding faculty perceptions on the training program. The results of this study suggest important implications for research in internationalization by providing further insights regarding faculty training about internationalized education.
Opening the Classroom to the World
Authors: Ye Xingbei , Molitoris Inna , Anderson David
Published: January 2018

Most curriculum internationalization studies have been focusing on international students and study abroad programs, which has excluded the majority of non-mobile students on American campuses. In addition, the existing studies have been conducted from administrator and faculty perspectives. This chapter generates a substantive theory of intercultural curriculum and teaching methods from the experiences of students who have taken intercultural classes in American classrooms. Active interview theory and grounded theory were utilized for data collection and data analysis. Based on the pure voices from both domestic and international students, this chapter has identified three core categories and eight sub-categories representing student-preferred internationalized curriculum. These categories or themes offer new angles to look at curriculum internationalization.
From Teaching Software Engineering Locally and Globally to Devising an Internationalized Computer Science Curriculum
Authors: Yu Liguo
Published: January 2018

Software development is the process to produce an information technology solution to a real-world problem. Teaching and integrating non-technical software engineering skills into the curriculum is considered one of the most challenging tasks in an academic environment. This becomes even more challenging when the curriculum is supposed to be internationalized and applied in different countries because of the cultural difference, policy difference, and business model difference. In this chapter, the authors present their experience of teaching a software engineering course both locally and globally, where two universities of USA and China are chosen for this study. Specifically, they describe how they adjust homework assignments and student performance evaluations to reflect different government policies, different business environment, and different real-world customer requirement. The chapter shows that it is possible to create an internationalized computer science curriculum that contains both common core learning standards and adjustable custom learning standards.
Lithotripsy of Renal Stones With Avicenna Roboflex Robotic-Assisted Retrograde Intra-Renal Surgery (RA-RIRS)
Authors: Kabakci Ahmet Sinan , Patel Anup , Erkmen Aydan M. , Erkmen Ismet , Gümüşkanat Özlem , Çetinkaya Mehmet
Published: January 2018

The role of retrograde intra-renal surgery (RIRS) with flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) in the management of kidney stone formation has garnered a prevalent use among urologists thanks to new improvements in medical equipment; however, it still remains a challenging technique. The purpose of this chapter is to overview robotic assistance for RIRS and mainly focus on ELMED's robotic device by thoroughly describing it and investigating its effects on surgical performance based on the IDEAL (idea, development, evaluation, assessment, long-term study) framework. The robotic device, Avicenna Roboflex, is a teleoperated robot consisting of a surgeon's console (master control console – MCC) and manipulator arm (MA) to house and couple with the FURS. It provides a suitable and safe platform for robotic-assisted (RA) RIRS with significant improvements in ergonomics and potentially prolongs equipment durability which may lead to its general acceptance and preference of use by many surgeons in various countries including Turkey, Germany, France, the UAE, and Romania.
The “Arm” Line of Devices for Neurological Rehabilitation
Authors: Scano Alessandro , Chiavenna Andrea , Dinon Tito , Prini Alessio , Spagnuolo Giulio , Malosio Matteo , Tosatti Lorenzo Molinari
Published: January 2018

In the modern scenario of neurological rehabilitation, which requires affordable solutions oriented toward promoting home training, the Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation (ITIA) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) developed a line of prototypal devices for the rehabilitation of the upper limb, called “Arm.” Arm devices were conceived to promote rehabilitation at affordable prices by capturing all the main features of the state-of-the-art devices. In fact, Arm devices focus on the main features requested by a robot therapist: mechanical adaptation to the patient, ranging from passive motion to high transparency, assist-as-needed and resistive modalities; proper use of sensors for performance monitoring; easy-to-use, modular, and adaptable design. These desirable features are combined with low-cost, additive manufacturing procedures, with the purpose of meeting the requirements coming from research on neuro-motor rehabilitation and motor control and coupling them with the recent breakthrough innovations in design and manufacturing.
Neural Networks to Solve Nonlinear Inverse Kinematic Problems
Authors: Nataga Fusaomi , Habib Maki K. , Watanabe Keigo
Published: January 2018

In making neural networks learn nonlinear relations effectively, it is desired to have appropriate training sets. In the proposed method, after a certain number of iterations, input-output pairs having worse errors are extracted from the original training set and form a new temporary set. From the following iteration, the temporary set is applied to the neural networks instead of the original set. In this case, only pairs with worse errors are used for updating the weights until the mean value of errors decreases to a desired level. Once the learning is conducted using the temporary set, the original set is applied again instead of the temporary set. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through simulations using kinematic models of a leg module with a serial link structure and an industrial robot.
Off-Line Calibration of Autonomous Wheeled Mobile Robots
Authors: Maddahi Yaser
Published: January 2018

Wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) are very interesting regarding different applications from in-house activities in assisting elderly people and patients to space exploration. While the design concept and the application of the WMRs determine specifications of the robot, the positional errors occur during the WMR motion. The positional errors are inevitable, as they are caused by imperfections in design to fabrication; therefore, there is a need to rectify them using calibration techniques such as odometry, camera-based error detection, or using gyroscope and compasses. This chapter focuses on the use of odometry as it provides improved short-term accuracy with high sampling rates while it is more economical and requires fewer landmarks to localize the WMR. The context provides an overview of WMRs mechanisms, differential and omnidirectional drive, and then introduces an odometry-based method to correct the motion of both types of WMRs. Experimental results on four robots exhibited that positional error was significantly improved. Using analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, the authors could not detect any change in error improvement when the robot changed.
Why Did You Choose to Become a Teacher?
Authors: Gilbert Sharon L.
Published: January 2018

In this chapter, the author shares her experience teaching Chinese English teachers in China for four weeks. At the beginning of the training program she asked, “Why did you choose to be a teacher?” The question had no purpose other than to start a conversation that might give some insight into the Chinese teachers' motivation to teach so she might find some common ground with them. She was quite surprised by their answers; they uniformly replied that they had not chosen the teaching profession. In fact, several expressed dissatisfaction with the profession and wished they could choose another one. Their responses caused the author to ask herself what it meant to have no voice in choices about profession, future goals, or even having children. What part did cultural norms and social structures have in self-determination? How did cultural norms and social practices impact a sense of purpose? How have our own cultural experiences influenced our perceptions of and reactions to their responses? Her reflections on this experience are the basis for this case study.
Building Capacity and Global Awareness for School Leaders
Authors: Staub Nancy , Alvarez Analese , Johnson Justin , Stacy Donna , Walter Tom
Published: January 2018

The culture of schools is influenced in part by the principal. The vision the principal holds for leadership and direction of the school becomes an important compass for the development of curriculum, pedagogy, and mindset of teachers and students. The educational leadership faculty at The University of Toledo believe that graduate students preparing to become principals must develop understandings and awareness of what it means to be globally competent. This case study illustrates how even a short trip to China can begin to shape the thinking of future principals toward this end.
Understanding Global Competencies Through a Personal Lens
Authors: Niu-Cooper Rui
Published: January 2018

The story in this case study—about a student, a faculty member, and some feedback on a university class assignment—illustrates that people can have radically different understandings of the same situation due to their background and cultural experiences. Thus, it is important that we not allow our assumptions and perceptions to overly influence what happens around us as we interact with others. If we learn to effectively use these three global values/competencies, among others, we could avoid potential international misunderstandings.
Reflections on a Troubled Experience in Malawi
Authors: Kelly Patricia P.
Published: January 2018

After more than two decades of what the author perceived as successful work in Malawi, she experienced a failed venture, for which she had held high hopes. This story recounts that experience and her reflection on what went wrong with a good idea. The reflection centers on her failure to account for one core competency and several other selected axillary values/attitudes, skills, and behaviors. The common thread throughout this reflection is that failure to collaboratively communicate in order to develop a shared purpose for a plan of action caused the project to fail. Without such a shared purpose, one or the other parties may lack the commitment to carry through.
I, Too, Am an Émigré
Authors: Kisubi Alfred T.
Published: January 2018

This case study begins with the story of how two teachers met, taught, and became friends in Africa, before one of them returned to the United States and organized the other's immigration there. The rest of the story narrates the immigrant's experience teaching and researching in a cultural setting very different from his own. It is a case study aimed at benefitting those educators who are teaching or leading in international settings, or those who plan to do so.
University Social Responsibility for Students' Employability
Authors: López-Miguens Ma Jesús , Caballero Gloria , Álvarez-González Paula , González-Vázquez Encarnación
Published: January 2018

The world is facing the notion of social responsibility wherever it turns. In this context, corporations and also universities are encouraged to behave socially responsibly. The responsibility of the universities is emphasized, as an educational institution, to improve the employability of their graduates. Graduate employability depends, among other factors, on external determinants of the student, which the university can influence. However, there is no consensus on how to measure them, and the scales developed to date have not been properly validated. The chapter proposes scales to measure the determinants of employability related to the university: university institution, university faculty, and teaching staff. The results show the structure of these scales, based on a sample of 816 students, and assesses its psychometric properties: content validity, dimensionality, reliability, and convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. These scales can be used for future studies in behavioural psychology, human resources management, or education.