bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
“I wonder if …”
Authors: Williams Kyle M. , Park Jeongbin Hannah , Gaines Rachel E. , Choi Eunjeong , Lee Jeonghyun Jonna , Mattar Lina I. , Schallert Diane L.
Published: August 2016

Current views of literacy have expanded to encompass how individuals in sociocultural systems make meaning as they “read” and “write” their world. From this view, the work of students involved in pursuing deeper understandings as they discuss course concepts is a literacy act. This study focused on the inquiry and questioning moves of graduate students as they participated in nine online classroom discussions about course concepts. A coding scheme adapted from several researchers interested in inquiry and knowledge co-construction was applied to the students’ comments posted in synchronous online discussion. Findings indicated that students used various inquiry moves to engage actively with course ideas, with some moves more popular than others, and with some students using a wider variety of moves than others. Although the most common moves were of those reacting to others’ comments with an interpretation, supporting evidence, or more thoroughly explaining a previously shared idea, threads often developed into more sophisticated inquiry exchanges through “inferences” and “critical evaluations.” Implications are offered for the use of an inquiry lens on the contributions of students involved in online classroom discussion as a way to highlight students’ active, meaningful knowledge construction.
Participatory Designs for Critical Literacies From Under the Covers
Authors: Fine Michelle
Published: August 2016

This article invites a conversation about how critical participatory research transforms the production of knowledge, enables a complex chronicling of counter stories, and nurtures the contestation of dominant narratives with the very people who have been misrepresented as Others. Through a series of research stories fomented in prison, courtrooms, and social movements, I hope to incite a provocative imagination for critical research “to be of use” in a moment of neoliberal gentrification of educational studies.
Literacy, Equity, and Imagination
Authors: Kinloch Valerie , Larson Joanne , Orellana Marjorie Faulstich , Lewis Cynthia
Published: August 2016

This article focuses on the meaning and practice of publicly engaged scholarship. The authors use examples of research in partnership with communities to demonstrate what it means to be with or in a community, how mutuality can be established, and how trust can be earned. The article addresses how university-based researchers can be fully present in shared work with communities and stand with community partners in an effort to answer questions together. The first author discusses the idea of teaching as a form of publicly engaged scholarship that is community-centric, collaborative, humanizing, and guided by equity and justice. The second author discusses what it means to “stand” with community in the fight for justice and argues that we need to rethink what counts as knowledge production when working authentically alongside community instead of at or for them. The third author considers what it means to take seriously children’s ideas and perspectives as we imagine new possibilities for literacy, learning, equity, and diversity in local and global community spaces. The fourth author concludes with a discussion of issues raised and features of community-engaged literacy research evident across all examples.
Cognitive assessment at bedside for iPad: A preliminary validation of a novel cognitive test for stroke patients
Authors: Willer Lasse , Pedersen Palle Møller , Forchhammer Hysse B , Christensen Hanne
Published: August 2016

Introduction

Cognitive impairments are frequent in stroke. Cognitive testing is important for research, prognostication and planning in sub-acute stroke, but poses difficulties due to aphasia, hemineglect, hemiplegia and fatigue. We present the first steps towards a validation of a novel iPad-based test battery: Cognitive Assessment at Bedside for iPad (CABPad).

Patients and methods

Stroke patients and age matched healthy controls were tested with CABPad including tests for aphasia, neglect, episodic memory, attention span, executive function, working memory, mental speed, anosognosia, motor speed and depression. A re-test was performed after 1 month. Furthermore, a group of stroke patients was tested with CABPad and traditional neuropsychological tests.

Results

Fifty-four patients and 48 healthy controls were included in the first phase. Fifty-three patients (98%) were able to complete at least one test and 50 (92%) all tests at the first test point. Mean test duration in patients was 39 min (range 30–60). We found significant differences in test results at baseline between the two groups. Episodic memory mean difference: 8.5 (95% confidence interval: 4.3, 12.7). Symbol Digit Coding mean difference: 16.3 (95% confidence interval: 10.8, 21.7). The second phase included 16 patients. We found adequate to excellent correlation in the majority of the tests. The CABPad Speech Comprehension test and the Auditory Word Recognition subtest of the Western Aphasia Battery correlated with r = 0.82, p < 0.001.

Conclusion

CABPad is useful for cognitive testing in stroke patients. It is easy to use for the examiner and patients alike. Immobile patients can be tested at bedside, irrespectively of upper extremity paresis, and the assessment can be performed in a relatively short timespan.
Benign Rapidly Growing Ovarian Dermoid Cysts
Authors: Deguchy Qurieno , Fananapazir Ghaneh , Corwin Michael , Lamba Ramit , Gerscovich Eugenio , McGahan John
Published: August 2016

Dermoid cysts are thought to be slow-growing tumors. This case series provides 2 clinical examples of sizeable growth of benign ovarian dermoid cysts in premenopausal patients. These patient cases were imaged initially; however, adnexal masses were not present on computed tomography images of the pelvis. Follow-up examination with sonography did demonstrate the presence of sizeable adnexal masses, which were confirmed by histology to represent benign dermoid cysts. Therefore, it may be wise to still consider ovarian dermoid cyst in the differential diagnosis in the setting of an adnexal mass that demonstrates the sonographic characteristics of a dermoid, even when absent on prior recent examinations.
Science That Matters: The Importance of a Cultural Connection in Underrepresented Students’ Science Pursuit
Authors: Jackson Matthew C. , Galvez Gino , Landa Isidro , Buonora Paul , Thoman Dustin B.
Published: August 2016

Recent research suggests that underrepresented minority (URM) college students, and especially first-generation URMs, may lose motivation to persist if they see science careers as unable to fulfill culturally relevant career goals. In the present study, we used a mixed-methods approach to explore patterns of motivation to pursue physical and life sciences across ethnic groups of freshman college students, as moderated by generational status. Results from a longitudinal survey (N = 249) demonstrated that freshman URM students who enter with a greater belief that science can be used to help their communities identified as scientists more strongly over time, but only among first-generation college students. Analysis of the survey data were consistent with content analysis of 11 transcripts from simultaneously conducted focus groups (N = 67); together, these studies reveal important differences in motivational characteristics both across and within ethnicity across educational generation status. First-generation URM students held the strongest prosocial values for pursuing a science major (e.g., giving back to the community). URM students broadly reported additional motivation to increase the status of their family (e.g., fulfilling aspirations for a better life). These findings demonstrate the importance of culturally connected career motives and for examining intersectional identities to understand science education choices and inform efforts to broaden participation.
Discrete wavelet transform-based multiresolution analysis and spectral enhancement to characterize heavy oil reservoirs in the southern Gulf of Mexico region
Authors: Camacho-Ramírez Erik , Gonzalez-Flores Ernesto , Campos-Enriquez José Oscar
Published: August 2016

In Neogene geologic settings, seismic resolution plays an important role in the static characterization of large stratigraphically complex reservoirs. Attenuation of high frequencies due to absorption and scattering of waves propagating through the subsurface contributes to the loss of seismic resolution, resulting, in particular, to a poor delineation of thin beds. This case history comprised the resolution enhancement of seismic data from one petroleum field located in the southern Gulf of Mexico. We applied discrete wavelet transform-based multiresolution analysis to identify frequency components in the data that required spectral enhancement. The resulting enhanced power spectrum contains a higher frequency content, which made it possible to identify new heavy oil (11°–23° API) reservoirs located in thin sandstones of deltaic sedimentary environments. The methodology used here helped us to cope with the attenuation problem.
The initiator methionine tRNA drives cell migration and invasion leading to increased metastatic potential in melanoma
Authors: Birch Joanna , Clarke Cassie J. , Campbell Andrew D. , Campbell Kirsteen , Mitchell Louise , Liko Dritan , Kalna Gabriela , Strathdee Douglas , Sansom Owen J. , Neilson Matthew , Blyth Karen , Norman Jim C.
Published: August 2016

The cell's repertoire of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) has been linked to cancer. Recently, the level of the initiator methionine tRNA (tRNAiMet) in stromal fibroblasts has been shown to influence extracellular matrix (ECM) secretion to drive tumour growth and angiogenesis. Here we show that increased tRNAiMet within cancer cells does not influence tumour growth, but drives cell migration and invasion via a mechanism that is independent from ECM synthesis and dependent on α5β1 integrin and levels of the translation initiation ternary complex. In vivo and ex vivo migration (but not proliferation) of melanoblasts is significantly enhanced in transgenic mice which express additional copies of the tRNAiMet gene. We show that increased tRNAiMet in melanoma drives migratory, invasive behaviour and metastatic potential without affecting cell proliferation and primary tumour growth, and that expression of RNA polymerase III-associated genes (which drive tRNA expression) are elevated in metastases by comparison with primary tumours. Thus, specific alterations to the cancer cell tRNA repertoire drive a migration/invasion programme that may lead to metastasis.
Cardiotoxic drugs Herceptin and doxorubicin inhibit cardiac microvascular endothelial cell barrier formation resulting in increased drug permeability
Authors: Wilkinson Emma L. , Sidaway James E. , Cross Michael J.
Published: August 2016

Cardiotoxicity induced by anti-cancer therapeutics is a severe, and potentially fatal, adverse reaction of the heart in response to certain drugs. Current in vitro approaches to assess cardiotoxicity have focused on analysing cardiomyocytes. More recently it has become apparent that non-cardiomyocyte cells of the heart can potentially contribute to cardiotoxicity. Herceptin and doxorubicin are known to induce cardiotoxicity in the clinic. The effect of these drugs on the endothelial tight junction barrier was tested by analysing tight junction formation and zona occludens-1 (ZO-1) levels, revealing that Herceptin and doxorubicin are able to induce barrier perturbment and decrease barrier function in human cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (HCMECs) leading to increased permeability. Herceptin treatment had no effect on the tight junction barrier function in human dermal and human brain microvascular endothelial cells. HCMECs showed detectable levels of HER2 compared with the other endothelial cells suggesting that Herceptin binding to HER2 in these cells may interfere with tight junction formation. Our data suggests that doxorubicin and Herceptin can affect tight junction formation in the cardiac microvasculature leading to increased drug permeability and adverse effects on the cardiac myocytes.
A OPINIÃO PÚBLICA SOBRE CRIMES CORPORATIVOS: O QUE PENSAM OS ESTUDANTES DE CURSOS DE GRADUAÇÃO DA ÁREA DE NEGÓCIOS
Authors: Borges Sabrina Rafaela Pereira , Medeiros Cintia Rodrigues de Oliveira , Biase Nadia Giaretta , Valadão Júnior Valdir Machado
Published: August 2016

Esta pesquisa aborda a opinião pública sobre os crimes e ilegalidades corporativas.  É possível que atuais estudantes da área de negócios, no exercício futuro da função de gestores, enfrentem situações que demandem decisões, muitas vezes, com consequências danosas, o que exige uma postura ética e reflexiva acerca das condutas a serem tomadas, bem como de suas consequências. O objetivo desta pesquisa é caracterizar a opinião dos estudantes de graduação na área de negócios a respeito dos crimes corporativos, buscando compreender o que impulsiona as atuais opiniões desse público sobre questões importantes associadas ao tema. Esta é uma pesquisa de natureza quantitativa, realizada por meio de um questionário estruturado. Os resultados apontam que, em geral, há um nível médio de conhecimento dos estudantes sobre esta temática e, em relação à gravidade dos crimes corporativos, os estudantes consideram o “uso de mão de obra infantil e trabalho escravo” como aquele de maior gravidade em relação aos outros crimes e ilegalidades corporativas. Ainda, evidenciou-se que os pesquisados consideram os crimes de rua mais graves do que os crimes corporativos.
THE MAKING OF DECISION MAKING
Authors: Tamura Leonardo Yuji
Published: August 2016

Quantum Electronics was a Brazilian startup in the 1990's that was acquired by an American equity fund in 2012. They are currently the largest manufacturer of vehicle tracking and infotainment systems. The company was founded by three college friends, who are currently executives at the company: Camilo Santos, Pedro Barbosa and Luana Correa. Edward Hutter was sent by the equity fund to take over the company’s finances, but is having trouble making organizational decisions with his colleagues. As a consultant, I was called to help them improve their decision making process and project prioritization. I adapted and deployed our firm's methodology, but, in the end, its adequacy is shown to be very much in question. The author of this case study intends to explore how actual organizational decisions rely on different decision models and their assumptions, .as well as demonstrate that a decision model is neither absolutely good nor bad as its quality is context dependent.
Views of postgraduate students regarding research ethics in Turkey
Authors: Koçak Funda , Özbek Oğuz
Published: August 2016

This research aimed to examine the level of knowledge of master and doctorate students regarding scientific research ethics and the frequency of scientific deception identification in scientific publications. The research was conducted using descriptive methods. The group under examination consisted of 112 randomly chosen students who pursued their postgraduate degree in physical education and sports fields. The validity and reliability were determined in the framework of this study. Item total correlation and factor analyses were conducted for the construct validity of the assessment tool. The Alpha Coefficient, which was calculated for the scale reliability as .96, indicated the scale is valid and reliable. The Shapiro-Wilks test was also conducted to determine whether the data were normally distributed. Because the data did not exhibit a normal distribution, a non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was utilised. “Writing more than one article using the same data”, “citing without providing a reference”, “reporting findings that are only consistent with expectations”, “publishing someone else’s ideas without providing references as if they are one’s own”, “presenting the same research in more than one conference or symposium”, and “publishing the same research in more than one journal” are the most non-ethical behaviours perceived in scientific research. All of the participants indicated that “presenting falsified findings of research and publishing someone else’s research with own name” represent non-ethical behaviours. According to the research results, “citing without providing a reference” and “writing more than one article using the same data” were the most unethical behaviours identified in scientific studies.
The Examination of the laboratory anxiety, state and trait anxiety of university students in high voltage laboratory
Authors: Güneş İbrahim , Özsoy Güneş Zeliha
Published: August 2016

With this study were aimed the investigation of the state and trait anxiety levels of Electric-Electronic Engineering students on High Voltage Laboratory anxiety. This research is designed as relational scanning model. The samples of the study comprised 113 students from Electric-Electronic Engineering in Engineering Faculty. In the study; “High Voltage Laboratory Anxiety Scale” with three factors which was developed by Güneş and Özsoy-Güneş (2015) and “The State and Trait Anxiety Scale” was developed by Spielberger and his colleagues (1970), adapted to Turkish by Öner and Le Compte (1985) are used as tool of data collection. In order to analyze the data, SPSS 20.00, Pearson correlation coefficient techniques and regression analysis techniques are used. At the end of the study, between all scales has a positive relation. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the trait anxiety and laboratory anxiety of students has been found to be effective on the state anxiety of students.
Investigation of the job satisfaction and burnout levels of the wrestling referees according to various factors in Turkey
Authors: Ilkım Taha Yasin , Güllü Mehmet
Published: August 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the job satisfaction and professional burnout levels of the national and international wrestling referees in terms of various factors in Turkey.The method of the study was the descriptive method. The study group consists of 126 international and national wrestling referees on active duty in 2010-2011 wrestling season. The questionnaire form was used as the data collection tool in the study. The questionnaire form consists of 3 sections, which are the Personal Information Form, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Job Satisfaction Scale. It was observed abnormal distribution of dates of inventory and scale according to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test. Due to this reason, the Mann-Whitney U Test was used for the two independent samples test in analyzing the data; the Kruskal-Wallis H Test and the Mann-Whitney U Tests with Bonferroni correction were used for multiple comparisons; and the Spearman Correlation was used in analyzing the relations. The critical point for the significance value was accepted as α=0.05It was determined in the light of the findings of the study that the job satisfaction of the wrestling referees were at the medium level; the emotional exhaustion levels were high; the depersonalization levels were medium; and personal accomplishment  levels were low. Significant difference was found among the depersonalization levels of the referees according to the referee categories of the wrestling referees (p<0,05). A significant difference has been found among the monthly average income levels and the emotional exhaustion levels of the wrestling referees (p<0,05). A significant difference was also determined among the viewpoints of the referees on the financial income of the referees and the job satisfaction levels according to the social status (p<0,05). In addition, a reverse, significant and weak relation was found between the job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion levels of the referees (r= -0,255, p<0,01); a reverse, significant and weak relation between the depersonalization (r= -0,97, p<0,01); and a weak positive relation was determined between the personal accomplishment levels (r= 0,341, p<0,01).As a result, the national and international wrestling referees in Turkey do not have adequate satisfaction from being referees, and are experiencing professional burnout. As the job satisfaction levels of the wrestling referees increase, depersonalization levels and emotional exhaustion levels decrease, and personal accomplishment levels increase.
NANOMEDICAMENTOS E OS DESAFIOS DA ANVISA DIANTE DA INEXISTÊNCIA DE UM MARCO REGULATÓRIO NO BRASIL
Authors: Oliveira Liziane Paixão Silva , Marinho Maria Edevalcy , Fumagali Ellen De Oliveira
Published: August 2016

A nanotecnologia, em razão de suas propriedades singulares, pode proporcionar inúmeros benefícios em diversas áreas estratégicas: saúde, eletrônica, alimentação, agricultura, meio ambiente entre outras. Um dos ramos mais promissores é o desenvolvimento e comercialização de nanomedicamentos que prometem revolucionar o campo de aplicação da medicina. No Brasil, a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), que tem suas atribuições definidas na Lei nº 9.782/1999, é o órgão responsável por fiscalizar a produção e a comercialização desses novos medicamentos. Nesse artigo, será dado enfoque aos desafios da ANVISA considerando a existência de nanomedicamentos no mercado de consumo que não são identificados ou reconhecidos como tais pela vigilância sanitária diante da inexistência de uma norma regulatória nacional.
INFORMAÇÕES SOBRE A REVISTA CIENTÍFICA AREL FAAr - Amazon’s Research and Environmental Law
Authors: Editorial Conselho
Published: August 2016

A Revista é de titularidade do Instituto de Ensino Superior de Rondônia/Faculdades Associadas de Ariquemes - IESUR/FAAr. Sua missão é publicar estudos e pesquisas inéditas realizadas na área do Direito, preferencialmente no escopo das linhas editoriais, visando disseminar conhecimento científico jurídico, estabelecida em dezembro do ano de 2012, após aprovação no Conselho Superior do IESUR/FAAr (CONSUP).
Podstawowe wartości i idee ustawodawstwa i nauczania Kościoła o małżeństwie dla Europy i świata
Authors: Gręźlikowski Janusz
Published: August 2016

Kościół, świadomy tego, że małżeństwo i rodzina są jednym z najcenniejszych dóbr ludzkości, a jednocześnie dostrzega zagrożenia pochodzące ze strony ustawodawstwa państwa i różnych instytucji. W ustawodawstwem i  nauczaniu, Kościół chce pokazać ich pochodzenie, cel, cechy , znaczenie i wartość jaką posiada rodzina oraz zaoferować pomoc dla małżeństwa i rodziny w wypełnianiu swojego zadania i powołania. Przez nauczanie Kościoła chce podjąć wyraźne stanowisko wobec różnych niekorzystnych lub wrogich sił i systemów mających wpływ ma małżeństwa i rodziny, przypominając z mocą i siłą o wartości, zasad jakie posiada ta "instytucja" społeczna.
Prawa rodziny: wyzwanie dla polityki Rzeczypospolitej
Authors: Jurek Marek
Published: August 2016

Materiały dotyczce tamatyki: "Prawa rodziny: wyzwanie dla polityki Rzeczypospolitej"
Przemoc w rodzinie doświadczonej kryzysem
Authors: Oliwa-Ciesielska Monika
Published: August 2016

Artykuł analizuje sytuację przemocy w rodzinie i jej wpływ na dysfunkcjonalne role jej członków. Problem osadzony jest w kontekście danych socjologicznych, a także w wybranych aspektach pomocy rodzinie, jakimi są na przykład działania dotyczące interwencji kryzysowej. Obok nich w artykule wymienione są wskazania dotyczące podstawowych wymogów skutecznej pomocy w sytuacji dysfunkcji rodziny. Analiza skupiona jest również na roli dziecka w rodzinie doświadczającego przemocy bezpośredniej i pośredniej, odgrywającego rolę obserwatora cierpień bliskich. Ważnym wątkiem rozważań jest także wskazanie na zaburzenie rozwoju dziecka doświadczającego traumatycznych przeżyć i konsekwencji z tym związanych. Obok traumatycznych przeżyć lokowane są także problemy dziecka w roli świadka relacjonującego o sytuacji w rodzinie w celu uruchomienia profesjonalnej pomocy. W związku z tym treść artykułu odnosi się także do wymogów profesjonalnego prowadzenia wywiadów mających służyć badaniu sytuacji w rodzinie, a także do konieczności oddziaływania terapeutycznego na dzieci będące ofiarami przemocy.
Efficient Design and Analysis for a Selective Choice Process
Authors: Henderson Ty , Liu Qing
Published: August 2016

Variable selection is a decision heuristic that describes a selective choice process in which choices are made on the basis of only a subset of product attributes while the presence of other (“inactive”) attributes plays no active role in the decision. Within this context, the authors address two integrated topics that have received scant attention: the efficient design of choice experiments and the analysis of data that arises from a selective choice process. The authors propose a new dual-objective compound design criterion that incorporates prior information for the joint purpose of efficiently estimating the effects of the active attributes and detecting the effects of attributes labeled as inactive that may turn out to be active. The approach leverages self-stated auxiliary data as prior information both for individual-level customized design construction and in a heterogeneous variable selection model. The authors demonstrate the efficiency advantages of the approach relative to design benchmarks and highlight practical implications using both simulated data and actual data from a conjoint choice experiment in which individual designs were customized instantaneously using self-stated active-inactive attribute status.
Bellman function approach to the sharp constants in uniform convexity
Authors: Ivanisvili Paata
Published: August 2016

We illustrate a Bellman function technique in finding the modulus of uniform convexity of

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p

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spaces.
Endo and exo aortic morphometry (endoluminal) in the aortic arch and its branches
Authors: Malik S. , Baz R. , Dina C. , Bordei P. , Rusali A. , Iliescu D. M.
Published: August 2016

Our study was conducted by the examination of angioCT’s, performing external measurements of aortic arch and the exo and endoaortic measurements of its three. The diameter of the thoracic aorta prior to the origin of the brachiocephalic arterial trunk was found with an average of 31.65 mm and below the left subclavian artery origin we found an average diameter of 24.3 mm. The brachiocephalic arterial trunk had an average diameter of 11.575 mm, 6.05 at carotid artery level and 9.05 mm at the level of the left subclavian artery. The endoaortic average diameter of the brachiocephalic arterial trunk: horizontally, 13.0 mm and vertically 11.7 mm; left common carotid artery horizontal diameter was 10.5 mm and 9.7 mm vertically and the left subclavian artery have 14.1 mm horizontally and 10.8 mm vertically.
Isolated Storage of Multi-Tenant Data Based on Shared Schema
Authors: Zou Lida , Li Qingzhong , Kong Lanju
Published: August 2016

Multi-tenant data management is an important part of supporting efficient operation of software as a service application. Multi-tenant data use shared schema to reduce resource usage cost. However, massive data of different tenants are stored in the same schema, which causes useless data of other tenants to be read when a tenant just need access its own disk data. In this paper we focus on disk storage method of multi-tenant data based on shared schema to address the above low efficiency of data access. According to isolation requirement of multitenant data, we store a tenant’s data in some contiguous disk blocks. The experimental results illustrate that query efficiency in range query and join query is 1.5–2 times the existing storage method, and no indexing query efficiency improves 10–70 times.
Torsion and the second fundamental form for distributions
Authors: Prince Geoff
Published: August 2016

The second fundamental form of Riemannian geometry is generalised to the case of a manifold with a linear connection and an integrable distribution. This bilinear form is generally not symmetric and its skew part is the torsion. The form itself is closely related to the shape map of the connection. The codimension one case generalises the traditional shape operator of Riemannian geometry.
Toeplitz Quantization for Non-commutating Symbol Spaces such as SUq(2)
Authors: Sontz Stephen Bruce
Published: August 2016

Toeplitz quantization is defined in a general setting in which the symbols are the elements of a possibly non-commutative algebra with a conjugation and a possibly degenerate inner product. We show that the quantum group SUq(2) is such an algebra. Unlike many quantization schemes, this Toeplitz quantization does not require a measure. The theory is based on the mathematical structures defined and studied in several recent papers of the author; those papers dealt with some specific examples of this new Toeplitz quantization. Annihilation and creation operators are defined as densely defined Toeplitz operators acting in a quantum Hilbert space, and their commutation relations are discussed. At this point Planck’s constant is introduced into the theory. Due to the possibility of non-commuting symbols, there are now two definitions for anti-Wick quantization; these two definitions are equivalent in the commutative case. The Toeplitz quantization introduced here satisfies one of these definitions, but not necessarily the other. This theory should be considered as a second quantization, since it quantizes non-commutative (that is, already quantum) objects. The quantization theory presented here has two essential features of a physically useful quantization: Planck’s constant and a Hilbert space where natural, densely defined operators act.
Essential regularity of the model space for the Weil–Petersson metric
Authors: Daskalopoulos Georgios , Mese Chikako
Published: August 2016

This is the second in a series of papers ([7] and [6] are the others) that studies the behavior of harmonic maps into the Weil–Petersson completion

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called the model space. The significance of

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The main result of the paper is that certain subsets of

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are essentially regular in the sense that harmonic maps to those spaces admit uniform approximation by affine functions. This is a modified version of the notion of essential regularity introduced by Gromov–Schoen in [12] for maps into Euclidean buildings and is one of the key ingredients in proving superrigidity.
In the process, we introduce new coordinates on

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and estimate the metric and its derivatives with respect to the new coordinates. These results form the technical core for studying the analytic behavior of harmonic maps into the completion of Teichmüller space and are utilized in our subsequent paper [6], where we prove the holomorphic rigidity of the Teichmüller space and several rigidity results for the mapping class group.
John Poinsot Immer Wieder
Authors: Ponzio Augusto
Published: August 2016

This review addresses the noteworthy enterprise accomplished by John Deely on translating and editing the important work by John Poinsot, Tractatus de Signis. I have underlined that his is not only a historiographical contribution, as important as his work may be from this point of view as well. Rather, Deely’s contribution is of a highly theoretical order, concerned as he is to evidence the line of ideal continuity between Poinsot, Locke, and Sebeok. Such continuity consists mainly in a conception of semiotics 1) as a “doctrine of signs”; and 2) as capable of overcoming the pars pro toto fallacy which, in modernity, presents itself in the form of sémiologie. John Deely has dedicated a large part of his research to John Poinsot, producing not only two new editions of his Tractatus, the first published in 1985 and the second in 2013, but also numerous essays and the important trilogy with which he compares Poinsot to St. Augustine, Descartes, and Peirce. The last part of the present text compares Poinsot’s position with Peter of Spain’s, considering conceptual correspondences in both with Peirce’s semiotics.
Semiotic Animal: Waking up to Reciprocity
Authors: Pelkey Jamin
Published: August 2016

This article reviews Deely’s 2010 book, Semiotic Animal, with its argument that to embrace the semiotic animal as the core of human being is to embrace the interdependence between ourselves and everything else. The article considers other formulations of the nature of humanity aside from Deely’s and finds that their explanatory power is greatly limited by comparison.
Project Risk Register Analysis Based on the Theoretical Analysis of Project Management Notion of Risk
Authors: Uzulāns Juris
Published: August 2016

The aim of the current research is to examine publicly available project risk registers to find correlations between the project management theory, especially project risk management, and practical results of real project risk management – the risk registers publicly available on the Internet.

In the research, the author has analysed the compliance between the theories of the project risk management described in the “Aid Delivery Methods. Volume I. Project Cycle Management Guidelines” and “Caltrans Project Risk Management Handbook, Threats and Opportunities, Second Edition, Revision 0” and the project risk registers.

In the previous studies, the author concluded that after analysing just 30 risk registers significant differences could be found between the risk register described in the theory and risk registers of real projects. The results of the theoretical analysis of the notion “risk” provide information for deeper analysis of the risk registers publicly available on the Internet.
Financial Security in the Baltic States: Comparison with Selected EU Countries
Authors: Semjonova Nadežda
Published: August 2016

The present paper applies recently developed consolidated indicator of the state financial security to the situation in Baltic States and some EU countries. The indicator summarises a number of economic and financial parameters relevant to the financial independence of the country. The resulting indicator demonstrates a reasonable correlation with sovereign Fitch rating both for Baltic States and the “old” EU countries, but Fitch rating gives more optimistic evaluation for old EU countries.
Continuous cold exposure induces an anti-inflammatory response in mesenteric adipose tissue associated with catecholamine production and thermogenin expression in rats
Authors: Vargovic P. , Manz G. , Kvetnansky R.
Published: August 2016

Objective. Continuous exposure to cold leads to an activation of adaptive thermogenesis in the brown adipose tissue and induction of brown/beige cell phenotype in the white adipose tissue. Thermogenic response is associated with alternatively activated macrophages producing catecholamines, which subsequently activate the uncoupling protein 1 (UCP-1). The aim of this work was to elucidate the effect of cold exposure on catecholamine and immune responses associated with adipocyte browning in the mesenteric adipose tissue (mWAT) of rat.

Methods. The rats were exposed to continuous cold (4 °C) for 1 or 7 days. Catecholamines production and gene expressions of inflammatory and other factors, related to adipocyte “browning”, were analyzed in the homogenized mWAT samples using 2-CAT ELISA kits.

Results. Cold exposure induced a sympathetic response in the mWAT, evidenced by the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) protein level rise. Induction of non-sympathetical catecholamine production was observed 7 days after cold exposure by elevated TH and phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT) expression, leading to an increased epinephrine levels. Cold exposure for 7 days stimulated the infiltration of macrophages, evaluated by F4/80 and CD68 expressions, and expression of anti-inflammatory mediators, while pro-inflammatory cytokines were inhibited. Anti- inflammatory response, accompanied by de novo catecholamine production and up-regulation of β3-adrenergic receptors, led to the stimulation of UCP-1 and PGC1α expression, suggesting a cold-induced “browning” of the mWAT, mediated by alternatively activated macrophages.

Conclusions. The present data indicate that prolonged cold exposure may induce anti-inflammatory response in mWAT associated with induction of UCP-1 expression. Although functional thermogenesis in the mWAT is most likely redundant, a highly efficient dissipation of energy by UCP1 may affect the energy homeostasis in this visceral fat.
A viable mouse model for Netherton syndrome based on mosaic inactivation of the Spink5 gene
Authors: Kasparek Petr , Ileninova Zuzana , Haneckova Radka , Kanchev Ivan , Jenickova Irena , Sedlacek Radislav
Published: August 2016

Netherton syndrome (NS) is caused by mutations in the SPINK5 gene. Several Spink5-deficient mouse models were generated to understand the mechanisms of NS in vivo. However, Spink5-deficiency in mice is associated with postnatal lethality that hampers further analysis. Here we present a viable mouse model for NS generated by mosaic inactivation of the Spink5 gene. We propose that these mice are a valuable experimental tool to study NS, especially for long-term studies evaluating potential therapeutic compounds. Furthermore, we show that mosaic inactivation of a gene using TALENs or CRISPR/Cas9 systems can be used to study lethal phenotypes in adult mice.
Energy Transport across the Thin Films Pair with Presence of Minute Vacuum Gap at Interface
Authors: Ali Haider , Yilbas Bekir Sami
Published: August 2016

Cross-plane energy transport in aluminum and silicon films pair with presence of minute vacuum gap in between them is investigated. Laser short-pulse heating is introduced in the aluminum film and energy transfer in the films pair is formulated using the Boltzmann equation. Energy exchange between the electron and lattice subsystems is expressed in terms of the electron–phonon coupling. The vacuum gap size is considered to be less than the mean-free path silicon and the Casimir limit is applied to incorporate the thermal radiation contribution to the overall energy transport across the vacuum gap. It is found that ballistic phonon contribution to energy transfer across the vacuum gap is significant and the contribution of the thermal radiation, due to Casimir limit, to energy transfer is small. The vacuum gap size has significant effect on the energy transfer from aluminum film to the silicon film; in which case, increasing vacuum gap size enhances temperature difference across the interface of the vacuum gap.
Analysis of secured Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed System
Authors: Gill Harsimranjit Singh , Bhatia Kamaljit Singh , Gill Sandeep Singh
Published: August 2016

In this paper, security issues for optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) systems are emphasized. The encryption has been done on the data of coded OFDM symbols using data encryption standard (DES) algorithm before transmitting through the fiber. The results obtained justify that the DES provides better security to the input data without further bandwidth requirement. The data is transmitted to a distance of 1,000 km in a single-mode fiber with 16-quadrature amplitude modulation. The peak-to-average power ratio and optical signal-to-noise ratio of secure coded OFDM signal is fairly better than the conventional OFDM signal.
Shaping the “Habits of mind” of diverse learners in early childhood teacher education programs through powerpoint: An illustrative case
Authors: Kirova Anna , Massing Christine , Prochner Larry , Cleghorn Ailie
Published: August 2016

This study examines the use of PowerPoint as a teaching tool in a workplace- embedded program aimed at bridging immigrant/refugee early childhood educators into post-secondary studies, and how, in the process, it shapes students’ “habits of mind” (Turkle, 2004). The premise of the study is that it is not only the bodies of knowledge shaping teacher education programs which must be interrogated, but also the ways in which instructors and programs choose to represent and impart these understandings to students. The use of PowerPoint to advance an authoritative western, linear, rule-governed form of logic is analyzed based on McLuhan and McLuhan’s (1988) and Adams’ (2006) tetrads. The findings demonstrate that Power- Point enhances western authoritative ways of being through its modes of communication and representation, means of organizing information, forms of representing content and pedagogical approaches, thus obsolescing or displacing immigrant/refugee students’ own indigenous ways of knowing. Since learning always involves the development, integration, and reorganization of tools, and the medium is an extension of the self (McLuhan, 2003), the students should have multimodal opportunities to engage with and represent knowledge. When such opportunities are not provided, the life experiences and cultural knowledges of immigrant/refugee students are silenced. Expanding communicative and representative forms in early childhood teacher education programs is necessary to promote a more inclusive environment.
Between the Normative and the Performative: Sex, Parody, and Other (In)tractable Issues in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale
Authors: Popescu Dan Nicolae
Published: August 2016

The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that helps the author to explore the extant tension between the human and the ideal. On the other hand, parody and audience/reader response are important instruments in the medieval poet’s strategy of approaching delicate matters in his pilgrims’ tales, which become readily apparent in the ‘order of play’ in which the tales come. The Miller disrupts the story-telling order because this disruption serves Chaucer’s purpose of questioning the validity of the courtly love concept through a parody of courtly romance, much like the poet’s purported distancing from the heretical views upon human sexuality expressed by the Miller can be decoded as an attempt to restore the balance of power between doctrinal inflexibility and humans’ timeless desire for the natural.
Teaching the Nation: Literature and History in Teaching English
Authors: Colăcel Onoriu
Published: August 2016

Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern nation. Mainly the UK and the US are in the spotlight of EFL teaching and learning. At the expense of other, less ‘sought-after’ varieties of English, British and American English make the case for British and American cultures. Essentially, this is all about Britishness and Americanness, as the very name of the English variety testifies to the British or the American standard. Of course, the other choice, i.e. not to make a choice, is a statement on its own. One way or another, the attempt to pick and choose shapes teaching and learning EFL. However, English is associated with teaching cultural diversity more than other prestige languages. Despite the fact that its status has everything to do with the colonial empire of Great Britain, English highlights the conflict between the use made of the mother tongue to stereotype the non-native speaker of English and current Anglo- American multiculturalism. Effectively, language-use is supposed to shed light on the self-identification patterns that run deep in the literary culture of the nation. Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) encompasses the above-mentioned and, if possible, everything else from the popular culture of the English-speaking world. It feels safe to say that the intractable issue of “language teaching as political action” (Cook, 2016: 228) has yet to be resolved in the classrooms of the Romanian public schools too.
Acute Kinematic and Kinetic Adaptations to Wearable Resistance During Sprint Acceleration
Authors: Macadam Paul , Simperingham Kim D. , Cronin John B.
Published: August 2016

Macadam, P, Simperingham, KD, and Cronin, JB. Acute kinematic and kinetic adaptations to wearable resistance during sprint acceleration. J Strength Cond Res 31(5): 1297–1304, 2017—Wearable resistance (WR) in the form of weighted vests and shorts enables movement-specific sprint running to be performed under load. The purpose of this study was to determine the acute changes in kinematics and kinetics when an additional load equivalent to 3% body mass (BM) was attached to the anterior or posterior surface of the lower limbs during sprint running. Nineteen male rugby athletes (age: 19.7 ± 2.3 years; body mass: 96.1 ± 16.5 kg; height: 181 ± 6.5 cm) volunteered to participate in the study. Subjects performed six 20 m sprints in a randomized fashion wearing no resistance or 3%BM affixed to the anterior (quadriceps and tibialis anterior) or posterior (hamstring and gastrocnemius) surface of the lower limbs (2 sprints per condition). Optojump and radar were used to quantify sprint times, horizontal velocity, contact and flight times, and step length and frequency. A repeated measures analysis of variance with post hoc contrasts was used to determine differences (p ≤ 0.05) between conditions. No significant differences were found between the anterior and posterior WR conditions in any of the variables of interest. There was no significant change in sprint times over the initial 10 m, however, the 10–20 m split times were significantly slower (−2.2 to −2.9%) for the WR conditions compared with the unloaded sprints. A significant change in the relative force–velocity (F–v) slope (−10.5 to −10.9%) and theoretical maximum velocity (V
0) (−5.4 to −6.5%) was found, whereas a nonsignificant increase in theoretical maximum force (F
0) (4.9–5.2%) occurred. Wearable resistance of 3%BM may be a suitable training modality to enhance sprint acceleration performance by overloading the athlete without negatively affecting sprint running technique.
Relative Load Prediction by Velocity and the OMNI-RES 0–10 Scale in Parallel Squat
Authors: Naclerio Fernando , Larumbe-Zabala Eneko
Published: August 2016

Naclerio, F and Larumbe-Zabala, E. Relative load prediction by velocity and the OMNI-RES 0–10 scale in parallel squat. J Strength Cond Res 31(6): 1585–1591, 2017—This study analyzed the possibility of using movement velocity and the rate of perceived exertion as predictors of relative load in the parallel squat (PSQ) exercise. To determine the full load-velocity and load-rate of perceived exertion relationships, 290 young, resistance-trained athletes (209 males and 81 females) performed a progressive strength test up to the 1 repetition maximum. Longitudinal regression models were used to predict the relative load from the average velocity (AV) and the OMNI-RES 0–10 scale, considering sets as the time-related variable. Two adjusted predictive equations were developed from the association between the relative load and the AV or the rate of perceived exertion expressed after performing several sets of 1–3 repetitions during the progressive test. The resulting 2 models were capable of estimating the relative load with an accuracy of 79 and 86% for the AV (relative load [% 1 repetition maximum, RM] = 120.15–83.54 [AV]) and the exertion (relative load [% 1RM] = 5.07 + 9.63 [rate of perceived exertion]), respectively. The strong association between relative load with AV and the rate of perceived exertion supports the use of both predictive variables to estimate strength performance in PSQ.