bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cook it, eat it, Skype it: Mobile media use in re-staging intimate culinary practices among transnational families
Authors: Marino Sara
Published: August 2019

This article discusses video-based platforms as drivers of transconnective spaces for transnational families to do familyhood. By looking at how Italians living in London use Skype to re-stage family rituals at a distance, I examine the centrality of culinary practices in relation to family work. In doing this, I also expand on the role of polymedia environments in enabling emotional proximity and the formation of a sense of mediated co-presence within transnational contexts. In-depth interviews were conducted with members of the Facebook group Italian Gals in London to unpack how lived geographies of migration intersect with media technologies and practices to create a new transconnective habitus around food preparation, cooking and dining. The study reveals that while Skype provides emotional connectivity, communicative challenges and tensions can also occur as a result of the ‘ephemerality’ of video calls and as technological asymmetries emerge among transnational family members.
The celebritization of indigenous activism: Tame Iti as media figure
Authors: Cupples Julie , Glynn Kevin
Published: August 2019

In recent years, a number of indigenous activists have gained celebrity status in ways that carry interesting implications for contemporary cultural politics. This article focuses on the celebrification of Tame Iti, arguably Aotearoa/New Zealand’s best-known Māori activist, within a wider cultural context characterized by intensifying media convergence, an expanding politics of decolonization, and the continuing elaboration of global indigenous mediascapes, including the Māori Television Service. We draw on forms of conjunctural analysis to explore how wider historical forces and social dynamics come to be embodied in particular flesh and blood individuals, who are thereby constituted as resonant media figures, who operate as both objects and agents of struggle, and who at once intervene in and shape, while also being shaped by, key terrains of contemporary discourse and cultural politics.
Unrealizations: The making and unmaking of two Japanese-designed extensions to European museums
Authors: Sejrup Jens
Published: August 2019

Unrealized architecture is culturally significant. Although they remain imaginary, unrealized buildings happen to a community, often leaving unintended material and social traces. This article argues that unbuilt projects contribute actively to the production of locality and the meaning of neighborhoods and institutions. Drawing on theoretical investments from Appadurai and Yaneva, this article analyzes motifs of locality and globality in long-lasting controversies surrounding two unrealized Japanese-designed extension projects to European museum buildings: the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in Valencia. The analysis demonstrates that despite their spectacular confrontations, supporters and opponents in both cases shared similar notions of the affected neighborhoods and museums as meaningful social and cultural spaces. The controversies revolved around whether or not the Japanese-designed expansions would violate or reawaken perceived local energies and qualities. Engaging a little-studied dimension of cultural globalization, the article asks: what sort of locality emerges from unmaking globality-inflected monumental architecture?
Experimental validation of a one-dimensional twin-entry radial turbine model under non-linear pulse conditions
Authors: Serrano Jose Ramon , Arnau Francisco José , García-Cuevas Luis Miguel , Soler Pablo , Cheung Raymond
Published: August 2019

This article presents the experimental validation of a complete integrated one-dimensional twin-scroll turbine model able to be used in reciprocating internal combustion engine unsteady simulations. A passenger car with a twin-entry-type turbine has been tested under engine-like pulse conditions by means of a specifically built gas stand. To obtain high-resolution quality data, the turbine and turbine line pipes have been instrumented with mean and instantaneous pressure sensors as well as temperature and mass flow sensors, employing a uniquely designed rotating valve for the pulse generation. This experimental configuration enables to obtain the pressure decomposition in both inlets and outlets of the turbine. Using the experimental data obtained, the model is fully validated, with special focus on the reflected and transmitted components for analysing the performance of the model and its non-linear acoustics prediction capabilities. The model presents a very high degree of correlation with the experimental results, providing a range of errors similar to the uncertainty of the measurements, even in the medium- and high-frequency spectra.
Seduced by “fakes”: Producing the excessive interplay of authentic/counterfeit from a Baudrillardian perspective
Authors: Hietanen Joel , Murray Jeff B. , Sihvonen Antti , Tikkanen Henrikki
Published: August 2019

Authenticity has often been considered to be a key theme in contemporary consumer culture. One of its manifestations is how branded market offerings can maintain authentic meanings, especially in a market increasingly saturated with counterfeit substitutes. By following a Baudrillardian perspective, we focus on fashion objects in the “branded luxury” category to problematize the sanctity of the authentic/counterfeit distinction. We argue that marketing literature generally attempts to normatively maintain and impose the distinction in ways that obscure the complexities of this conceptual interplay. We posit that instead of normative accounts that attempt to sanctify the extant orders of global capitalist markets, literature on luxury consumption should instead recognize the excess of meaning in the semiotic interplay of commodified authentic/counterfeit meanings. Any view of morality in luxury consumption should thus recognize “ambivalence” and “seduction” as its intensive qualities.
Endovascular Management of Lower Limb Arteriovenous Fistula Presenting 8 Years After Gunshot Injury
Authors: Gorsi Ujjwal , Agarwal Vivek , Savlania Ajay , Behra Arunanshu , Sandhu Manavjit Singh
Published: August 2019

Trauma is a common cause of arteriovenous fistula resulting from iatrogenic or penetrating injuries such as gunshot wounds, stab injuries, and so on. Endovascular management using stent grafts is a minimally invasive method to manage these complex vascular injuries. We present a case report of a young male patient who presented to us with complaint of progressively increasing swelling in the left lower limb 8 years after gunshot injury to that limb. Stent grafts were deployed to reconstruct the artery and to occlude the fistulous site.
Using Two-Eyed Seeing in Research With Indigenous People: An Integrative Review
Authors: Wright A. L. , Gabel C. , Ballantyne M. , Jack S. M. , Wahoush O.
Published: August 2019

Background:

The Two-Eyed Seeing approach has been advocated for use in research with Indigenous people as it creates a space for Western and Indigenous ways of knowing to come together using the best of both worldviews to aid understanding and solve problems. Foundational literature presents its use as a promising way to promote ethical exchanges between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, but the practical application of its concepts to research remains vague.

Method:

This integrative review, using the Whittemore and Knafl approach, describes the state of the literature pertaining to the interpretation and application of Two-Eyed Seeing. Following a search of the literature, 37 articles were selected for inclusion, and primary studies ( n = 11) were critiqued for quality. Data were extracted, analyzed, and synthesized into themes.

Results:

Three themes were compiled from the literature including (a) defining characteristics of Two-Eyed Seeing, (b) suggested attributes of those engaging with Two-Eyed Seeing, and (c) the application of Two-Eyed Seeing in research.

Conclusions:

This review demonstrates inconsistencies in how to date researchers have interpreted and applied Two-Eyed Seeing in research with Indigenous people. The collection of key attributes of researchers and application procedures to research discussed in this review present a new standard for the application of Two-Eyed Seeing to research with Indigenous people. Researchers using Two-Eyed Seeing should thoroughly describe their application of its concepts to promote its maturation into a well-defined framework for research with Indigenous people.
Effect of a Controlled Ankle Motion Walking Boot on Syndesmotic Instability During Weightbearing: A Cadaveric Study
Authors: Lamer Stéphanie , Hébert-Davies Jonah , Dubé Vincent , Leduc Stéphane , Sandman Émilie , Ménard Jérémie , Nault Marie-Lyne
Published: August 2019

Background:

Syndesmotic injuries can lead to long-term complications; hence, they require careful management. Conservative treatment is adequate when 1 syndesmotic ligament is injured, but surgery is often necessary to achieve articular congruity when 3 syndesmotic ligaments are ruptured. However, there is some controversy over the best treatment for 2-ligament injuries.

Purpose:

To evaluate the effect of a controlled ankle motion (CAM) walking boot on syndesmotic instability following iatrogenic isolated anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament (AiTFL) injury and combined AiTFL/interosseous ligament (IOL) injuries in a cadaveric simulated weightbearing model.

Study Design:

Controlled laboratory study.

Methods:

Ten cadaveric specimens were dissected to expose the tibial plateau and syndesmosis. The specimens were fitted to a custom-made device, and a reproducible axial load of 750 N was applied. Iatrogenic rupture of the syndesmotic ligaments (AiTFL + IOL) was done sequentially. Uninjured syndesmoses, isolated AiTFL rupture, and combined AiTFL/IOL rupture were compared with and without axial loading (AL) and CAM boot. The distal tibiofibular relationship was evaluated using a previously validated computed tomography scan measurement system. Wilcoxon tests for paired samples and nonparametric data were used.

Results:

The only difference noted in the distal tibiofibular relationship during AL was an increase in the external rotation of the fibula when using the CAM boot. This was observed with AiTFL rupture (8.40° vs 11.17°; P = .009) and combined AiTFL/IOL rupture (8.81° vs 11.97°; P = .005).

Conclusion:

AL did not cause a significant displacement between the tibia and fibula, even when 2 ligaments were ruptured. However, the CAM boot produced a significant external rotation with 1 or 2 injured ligaments.

Clinical Relevance:

Further studies are needed to assess the capacity of the CAM walking boot to prevent malreduction when external rotation forces are applied to the ankle. Moreover, special care should be taken during the fitting of the CAM boot to avoid overinflation of the cushions.
Elimination of Steroid Drops After Vitreoretinal Surgery
Authors: Atchison Elizabeth A. , Gilca Marina , Civantos Joseph M. , Pollack John S.
Published: August 2019

Purpose:

The objective of this study was to compare intraocular pressure (IOP) and inflammatory outcomes between patients receiving a single subconjunctival triamcinolone acetonide injection at the end of surgery and those receiving subconjunctival dexamethasone at the end of surgery plus a traditional topical steroid drop taper.

Methods:

A retrospective consecutive case series compared patients operated on by 2 surgeons, both utilizing 500 mL BSS-PLUS (balanced salt solution with bicarbonate, dextrose, and glutathione; Alcon Laboratories, Inc) infusion solution containing 10 mg dexamethasone, which is added to the solution in the operating room or at the pharmacy. However, one surgeon utilized a single 4 mg triamcinolone acetonide subconjunctival injection at the end of surgery, without additional steroid drops (intervention group), and the other utilized subconjunctival dexamethasone plus a traditional topical steroid taper over a period of 4 to 6 weeks (control group).

Results:

There were 161 surgeries in the intervention group and 163 in the control group. No statistically significant differences were found in the usage rate of additional IOP-lowering drops, IOP > 29 mmHg, or IOP increase ≥ 10 mmHg over baseline during the follow-up period. Inflammatory complications were rare in both groups. Five percent of those in the intervention group received supplemental topical steroid drops postoperatively.

Conclusions:

A single subconjunctival triamcinolone acetonide injection at the end of surgery may represent a reasonable alternative to requiring patients to use a steroid drop taper following vitreoretinal surgery.
Novel GM-CSF signals via IFN-γR/IRF-1 and AKT/mTOR license monocytes for suppressor function
Authors: Ribechini Eliana , Hutchinson James A. , Hergovits Sabine , Heuer Marion , Lucas Jörg , Schleicher Ulrike , Jordán Garrote Ana-Laura , Potter Sarah J. , Riquelme Paloma , Brackmann Heike , Müller Nora , Raifer Hartmann , Berberich Ingolf , Huber Magdalena , Beilhack Andreas , Lohoff Michael , Bogdan Christian , Eyrich Matthias , Hermanns Heike M. , Geissler Edward K. , Lutz Manfred B.
Published: August 2019

Key Points

Novel GM-CSF signaling pathways through IFN-γR/IRF-1 and AKT/mTOR provide monocyte licensing for suppressor function. Only licensed but not fresh Ly-6Chigh murine or human CD14+ monocytes secrete nitric oxide or IDO for T-cell suppression.
Pyrotinib or Lapatinib Combined With Capecitabine in HER2–Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer With Prior Taxanes, Anthracyclines, and/or Trastuzumab: A Randomized, Phase II Study
Authors: Ma Fei , Ouyang Quchang , Li Wei , Jiang Zefei , Tong Zhongsheng , Liu Yunjiang , Li Huiping , Yu Shiying , Feng Jifeng , Wang Shusen , Hu Xichun , Zou Jianjun , Zhu Xiaoyu , Xu Binghe
Published: August 2019

PURPOSE

Pyrotinib, an irreversible pan-ErbB inhibitor, showed promising antitumor activity and acceptable tolerability in a phase I trial. We assessed the efficacy and tolerability of pyrotinib versus lapatinib, both in combination with capecitabine, in women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer in an open-label, multicenter, randomized phase II study.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

Chinese patients with HER2-positive relapsed or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with taxanes, anthracyclines, and/or trastuzumab were assigned (1:1) to receive 400 mg pyrotinib or lapatinib 1,250 mg orally once per day for 21-day cycles in combination with capecitabine (1,000 mg/m2 orally twice per day on days 1 to 14). The primary end point was investigator-assessed overall response rate per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), version 1.1.

RESULTS

Between May 29, 2015, and March 15, 2016, 128 eligible patients were randomly assigned to the pyrotinib (n = 65) or lapatinib (n = 63) treatment groups. The overall response rate was 78.5% (95% CI, 68.5% to 88.5%) with pyrotinib and 57.1% (95% CI, 44.9% to 69.4%) with lapatinib (treatment difference, 21.3%; 95% CI, 4.0% to 38.7%; P = .01). The median progression-free survival was 18.1 months (95% CI, 13.9 months to not reached) with pyrotinib and 7.0 months (95% CI, 5.6 to 9.8 months) with lapatinib (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.23 to 0.58; P < .001). The most frequent grade 3 to 4 adverse events were hand-foot syndrome in 16 of 65 patients (24.6%) in the pyrotinib group versus 13 of 63 (20.6%) in the lapatinib group; diarrhea in 10 patients (15.4%) versus three patients (4.8%), respectively; and decreased neutrophil count in six patients (9.2%) versus two patients (3.2%), respectively.

CONCLUSION

In women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer previously treated with taxanes, anthracyclines, and/or trastuzumab, pyrotinib plus capecitabine yielded statistically significant better overall response rate and progression-free survival than lapatinib plus capecitabine in this randomized phase II trial.
An investigation into the effect of body mass index on the agreement between whole-body fat mass determined by MRI and air-displacement plethysmography
Authors: Weedall Andrew D. , Wilson Adrian J. , Wayte Sarah C.
Published: August 2019

Objective:

To validate MRI fat measurement protocols using purpose built test objects and by comparison with air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) whole-body fat measurements in non-obese subjects.

Methods:

Test objects of known fat concentration were used to quantify the accuracy of the MRI measurements. 10 participants with a body mass index in the range 18–30 underwent whole-body MRI using two different Dixon-based sequences (LAVA Flex and IDEAL IQ) to obtain an estimate of their whole-body fat mass. The MRI determined fat mass was compared to the fat mass determined by ADP.

Results:

MRI test object measurements showed a high correlation to expected fat percentage (r > 0.98). The participant MRI and ADP results were highly correlated (r = 0.99) but on average (mean ± standard deviation) MRI determined a higher fat mass than ADP (3.8 ± 3.1 kg for LAVA Flex and 1.9 ± 3.2 kg for IDEAL IQ). There was no trend in the difference between MRI and ADP with total fat mass.

Conclusion:

The good agreement between MRI and ADP shows that Dixon-based MRI can be used effectively as a tool in physiological research for non-obese adults.

Advances in knowledge:

This work found that for ten non-obese subjects body mass index had no effect on the MRI determination of whole-body fat mass.
The CT fish mouth ampulla sign: a highly specific finding in main duct and mixed intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms
Authors: Zhang Ting Ting , Sadler Timothy J , Whitley Siobhan , Brais Rebecca , Godfrey Edmund
Published: August 2019

Objective:

Main duct and mixed intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) are pre-malignant cystic pancreatic neoplasms associated with pancreatic duct dilatation. Distinguishing these from benign causes of pancreatic duct dilatation is important in order to allow appropriate surveillance or surgery. A patulous duodenal papilla with extrusion of mucus at endoscopic evaluation, the endoscopic fish mouth ampulla (E-FMA) sign, is reported in main duct and mixed IPMN. We aimed to establish whether a CT correlate (CT-FMA) of this sign exists and whether this was associated with the presence of invasion or high-grade dysplasia. We defined the CT-FMA sign as an uninterrupted column of water attenuation material running from the pancreatic duct to the duodenal lumen.

Methods:

A retrospective, blinded review of 44 patients with histologically confirmed IPMN and 87 age-matched controls with pancreatic duct dilatation on CT was undertaken. A case–control series matched for the degree of pancreatic duct dilatation was used to compare the rates of invasion or high-grade dysplasia between main duct and mixed IPMN patients, with and without a CT-FMA sign.

Results:

The CT-FMA sign could be identified in 18.5% patients with main duct/mixed IPMN with specificity 100%, positive predictive value 100% and negative predictive value 79.8%. A significant association was found between CT-FMA in main duct/mixed IPMN compared to controls, but not with the presence of high-grade dysplasia or invasion.

Conclusions:

The CT-FMA sign is a newly reported, highly specific sign of MD and mixed IPMN.

Advances in knowledge:

If a fish mouth ampulla is identified at CT, a diagnosis of main duct or mixed IPMN is highly likely.
Assessing knowledge of genetics in undergraduate students in Quito, Ecuador
Authors: Ortega-Paredes David , Larrea-Álvarez César , Herrera Michelle , Fernandez-Moreira Esteban , Larrea-Álvarez Marco
Published: August 2019

Knowledge of genetics is crucial for understanding genetic and genomic tests and for interpreting personal genomic information. Despite this relevance, no data are available about the level of knowledge of genetics in an Ecuadorian population. This investigation sought to survey such knowledge in undergraduate students affiliated with private and public institutions in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. A total of 350 individuals responded to a validated questionnaire measuring knowledge of genetics. Scores ranged from 45% to 87% (mean: 66.8%), and students achieved slightly better results when asked about genetics and diseases (mean score: 68.3%) than when asked about genetic facts (mean score: 64.9%). Additionally, no significant differences in performance were found among students from private and public institutions. Surprisingly, the lower score obtained (45%) was from a question about how chromosomes are passed to the next generation. The highly educated status of the surveyed population could explain the overall results; nonetheless, the possibility that the correct responses were given by chance cannot be ignored. Therefore, the actual knowledge of genetics among the participants might be different than that revealed by the percentages of correct answers. Consequently, to achieve the goal of ensuring informed decision-making concerning genetic and genomic tests, it seems evident that the national education programs of Ecuador require improvement in the teaching of genetic concepts.
On Orthogonal Matrices with Zero Diagonal
Authors: Bailey Robert , Craigen Robert
Published: August 2019

This paper considers real orthogonal $n\times n$ matrices whose diagonal entries are zero and off-diagonal entries nonzero, which are referred to as $\OMZD(n)$. It is shown that there exists an $\OMZD(n)$ if and only if $n\neq 1,\ 3$, and that a symmetric $\OMZD(n)$ exists if and only if $n$ is even and $n\neq 4$. Also, a construction of $\OMZD(n)$ obtained from doubly regular tournaments is given. Finally, the results are applied to determine the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of matrices associated with some families of graphs, and the related notion of orthogonal matrices with partially-zero diagonal is considered.
Quotidian use of new media and sociocultural change in contemporary Kenya
Authors: Nielsen Poul Erik
Published: August 2019

This article examines how ordinary people in rural and urban areas in Kenya ascribe meaning to their daily use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) including media in ever changing communication ecologies and how the use of new ICT interrelates with processes of sociocultural change in everyday life. Taking as point of departure a semi-ethnographic social constructivist approach based on observations and semi-structured life world interviews the study presents an exploratory analytical bricolage around themes like power, knowledge and gender. The findings identify a simultaneous and seamless integration of the different new media that lead to significant open-ended processes of sociocultural change characterized by complexities, ambiguities, continuities, ruptures and inertia rather than dramatic irreversible changes. These findings call for a new paradigm in media studies focusing on communication ecologies and everyday uses of ICT where continuity and inertia are more seriously taken into accounts in processes of sociocultural change.
Threat simulation in virtual limbo: An evolutionary approach to horror video games
Authors: Kjeldgaard-Christiansen Jens , Clasen Mathias
Published: August 2019

Why would anyone want to play a game designed to scare them? We argue that an alliance between evolutionary theory and game studies can shed light on the forms and psychological functions of horror video games. Horror games invite players to simulate prototypical fear scenarios of uncertainty and danger. These scenarios challenge players to adaptively assess and negotiate their dangers. While horror games thereby instil negative emotion, they also entice players with stimulating challenges of fearful coping. Players who brave these challenges expand their emotional and behavioural repertoire and experience a sense of mastery, explaining the genre’s paradoxical appeal. We end by illustrating our evolutionary approach through an in-depth analysis of Playdead’s puzzle-horror game Limbo.
A study of micro finance institution’s role in developing the small scale enterprises of Ethiopia
Authors: Srivastava Anubha , Kulshresthra Preeti
Published: August 2019

This study was conducted in Gedio zone small scale enterprise financed by micro finance institution. The main objective the study was to evaluate and determine the factor that determines loan repayment performance of small scale enterprise financed by yirgachefeMFI. For the success of the study both primary and secondary data were collected to determine the loan repayment performance of small scale enterprises in Gedio zone. Questionnaire were administered to 50 borrower  and manager of MFI. The data gathered are tabulated and interpreted for ease of analysis and suitability for the reader.
Uncertainty, trust and formal governance mechanism in Indonesian family SMEs
Authors: Kussudyarsana K , Maimun Muhammad Halim , Soepatini S
Published: August 2019

This paper discusses the relationship between uncertainty, trust and the application of formal governance mechanism in Indonesian family SMEs. The data were obtained through survey to 360 family firms in indonesia. This study used factor analysis to validate the construct and multiple regression analysis to examine the hypothesis. The moderation testing indicated that trust moderated the relationship between uncertainty and formal governance was negatively significant
WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS FOR LEARNING INNOVATIONS?
Authors: Yordanova Lina , Kiryakova Gabriela , Angelova Nadezhda
Published: August 2019

The article presents the results from a survey on the innovative work models of the alternative educational organizations in Bulgaria. The analysis aims to answer to the question whether the institutions of interest could serve as a model or, at least, as a corrector of the education process organization held in our university. Many alternative training organizations were objects of the study in the frame of this project but here only two examples are given – SoftUni and Aula.bg. First one is representative of university type institution but second one works as a Center for online training. A group of students is included into the project team and to facilitate the survey a net of information nodes is defined to be followed and filled in during the evaluation of alternative organizations training methods. The concepts of innovation and disruptive innovation are discussed in their relation to education. A list of common characteristics of the training activities and methods of the observed institutions is offered and discussed. The main conclusion is that most of listed approaches and methods could be implemented in each state university with small exceptions. For example, the process of accepting new subject or study plan is very long and difficult following the state regulations for High education. The accreditation process of a new specialty takes years. The flexibility and actuality of the subjects seem to be unreachable for the state universities.
Un nouveau décorateur «Génial» de Lezoux et la collection des moules pour Sigillée gallo-romaine du Musée du Louvre
Authors: Márton András , Specque Florence , Gauthier Estelle
Published: August 2019

Moulds and potters’ marks are primary sources for our understanding of the relief decorated terra sigillata production. In this paper the Gallo-roman terra sigillata moulds (for relief decorated bowls and goblets) from the collection of the Louvre are presented together with a signed fragment from a relief decorated terra sigillata bowl from Lezoux. Among the moulds several potters’ centres are represented: La Graufesenque, Les Martres-de-Veyre, Lezoux and Rheinzabern ranging chronologically from the Trajanic to the Antonine periods. These finds allow a better understanding of workshop activities, individual potter’s style and enrich the repertory of motifs and dies used by the decorators. The bowl fragment reveals the name of a Trajanic Lezoux potter Genialis. Based on this fragment, we can hitherto name a previously anonymous Lezoux potter (Potter X-5) and characterise better his activity as one of the early workshop leaders “advertising” himself by large marks stamped into the decoration.
Analyse der Spätrömischen Grab- und Beigabensitte. Lehre zur Überprüfung des Gräberfeldmaterials von Somogyszil
Authors: Horváth Friderika , Miháczi-Pálfi Anett
Published: August 2019

The Somogyszil cemetery had become known in 1964, when a local resident reported the finds. The site was excavated by Balázs Draveczky uncovering 148 late Roman graves up to 1968. The whole cemetery was published in 1979 by Alice Sz. Burger. Our research agenda focuses on the spatial organization of the burial grounds used by the province’s rural population as well as on burial customs (funerary rites, grave and burial types), chronology and the mapping of local and non-local tendencies. During the critical re-assessment of the cemetery, we have found that the establishment and use of this late Roman burial ground could be connected to a heterogeneous community.
Show, Attend and Read: A Simple and Strong Baseline for Irregular Text Recognition
Authors: Li Hui , Wang Peng , Shen Chunhua , Zhang Guyu
Published: August 2019

Recognizing irregular text in natural scene images is challenging due to the large variance in text appearance, such as curvature, orientation and distortion. Most existing approaches rely heavily on sophisticated model designs and/or extra fine-grained annotations, which, to some extent, increase the difficulty in algorithm implementation and data collection. In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement strong baseline for irregular scene text recognition, using offthe-shelf neural network components and only word-level annotations. It is composed of a 31-layer ResNet, an LSTMbased encoder-decoder framework and a 2-dimensional attention module. Despite its simplicity, the proposed method is robust. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on irregular text recognition benchmarks and comparable results on regular text datasets. The code will be released.
Zero-Shot Object Detection with Textual Descriptions
Authors: Li Zhihui , Yao Lina , Zhang Xiaoqin , Wang Xianzhi , Kanhere Salil , Zhang Huaxiang
Published: August 2019

Object detection is important in real-world applications. Existing methods mainly focus on object detection with sufficient labelled training data or zero-shot object detection with only concept names. In this paper, we address the challenging problem of zero-shot object detection with natural language description, which aims to simultaneously detect and recognize novel concept instances with textual descriptions. We propose a novel deep learning framework to jointly learn visual units, visual-unit attention and word-level attention, which are combined to achieve word-proposal affinity by an element-wise multiplication. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on zero-shot object detection with textual descriptions. Since there is no directly related work in the literature, we investigate plausible solutions based on existing zero-shot object detection for a fair comparison. We conduct extensive experiments on three challenging benchmark datasets. The extensive experimental results confirm the superiority of the proposed model.
A Bottom-Up Clustering Approach to Unsupervised Person Re-Identification
Authors: Lin Yutian , Dong Xuanyi , Zheng Liang , Yan Yan , Yang Yi
Published: August 2019

Most person re-identification (re-ID) approaches are based on supervised learning, which requires intensive manual annotation for training data. However, it is not only resourceintensive to acquire identity annotation but also impractical to label the large-scale real-world data. To relieve this problem, we propose a bottom-up clustering (BUC) approach to jointly optimize a convolutional neural network (CNN) and the relationship among the individual samples. Our algorithm considers two fundamental facts in the re-ID task, i.e., diversity across different identities and similarity within the same identity. Specifically, our algorithm starts with regarding individual sample as a different identity, which maximizes the diversity over each identity. Then it gradually groups similar samples into one identity, which increases the similarity within each identity. We utilizes a diversity regularization term in the bottom-up clustering procedure to balance the data volume of each cluster. Finally, the model achieves an effective trade-off between the diversity and similarity. We conduct extensive experiments on the large-scale image and video re-ID datasets, including Market-1501, DukeMTMCreID, MARS and DukeMTMC-VideoReID. The experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm is not only superior to state-of-the-art unsupervised re-ID approaches, but also performs favorably than competing transfer learning and semi-supervised learning methods.
Deep Video Frame Interpolation Using Cyclic Frame Generation
Authors: Liu Yu-Lun , Liao Yi-Tung , Lin Yen-Yu , Chuang Yung-Yu
Published: August 2019

Video frame interpolation algorithms predict intermediate frames to produce videos with higher frame rates and smooth view transitions given two consecutive frames as inputs. We propose that: synthesized frames are more reliable if they can be used to reconstruct the input frames with high quality. Based on this idea, we introduce a new loss term, the cycle consistency loss. The cycle consistency loss can better utilize the training data to not only enhance the interpolation results, but also maintain the performance better with less training data. It can be integrated into any frame interpolation network and trained in an end-to-end manner. In addition to the cycle consistency loss, we propose two extensions: motion linearity loss and edge-guided training. The motion linearity loss approximates the motion between two input frames to be linear and regularizes the training. By applying edge-guided training, we further improve results by integrating edge information into training. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. The source codes of the proposed method and more experimental results will be available at https://github.com/alex04072000/CyclicGen.
MonoGRNet: A Geometric Reasoning Network for Monocular 3D Object Localization
Authors: Qin Zengyi , Wang Jinglu , Lu Yan
Published: August 2019

Localizing objects in the real 3D space, which plays a crucial role in scene understanding, is particularly challenging given only a single RGB image due to the geometric information loss during imagery projection. We propose MonoGRNet for the amodal 3D object localization from a monocular RGB image via geometric reasoning in both the observed 2D projection and the unobserved depth dimension. MonoGRNet is a single, unified network composed of four task-specific subnetworks, responsible for 2D object detection, instance depth estimation (IDE), 3D localization and local corner regression. Unlike the pixel-level depth estimation that needs per-pixel annotations, we propose a novel IDE method that directly predicts the depth of the targeting 3D bounding box’s center using sparse supervision. The 3D localization is further achieved by estimating the position in the horizontal and vertical dimensions. Finally, MonoGRNet is jointly learned by optimizing the locations and poses of the 3D bounding boxes in the global context. We demonstrate that MonoGRNet achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging datasets.
Spatial-Temporal Person Re-Identification
Authors: Wang Guangcong , Lai Jianhuang , Huang Peigen , Xie Xiaohua
Published: August 2019

Most of current person re-identification (ReID) methods neglect a spatial-temporal constraint. Given a query image, conventional methods compute the feature distances between the query image and all the gallery images and return a similarity ranked table. When the gallery database is very large in practice, these approaches fail to obtain a good performance due to appearance ambiguity across different camera views. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stream spatial-temporal person ReID (st-ReID) framework that mines both visual semantic information and spatial-temporal information. To this end, a joint similarity metric with Logistic Smoothing (LS) is introduced to integrate two kinds of heterogeneous information into a unified framework. To approximate a complex spatial-temporal probability distribution, we develop a fast Histogram-Parzen (HP) method. With the help of the spatial-temporal constraint, the st-ReID model eliminates lots of irrelevant images and thus narrows the gallery database. Without bells and whistles, our st-ReID method achieves rank-1 accuracy of 98.1% on Market-1501 and 94.4% on DukeMTMC-reID, improving from the baselines 91.2% and 83.8%, respectively, outperforming all previous state-of-theart methods by a large margin.
Total laparoskopik histerektomi sonrası dren uygulamasının etkileri
Authors: ÇIKMAN Muzaffer Seyhan , SAKİN Önder , ANĞIN Ali Doğukan , GÖKKAYA Mustafa , PİRİMOĞLU Zehra Meltem , GÜN İsmet
Published: August 2019

Amaç: Benign nedenlerle yapılan total laparoskopik histerektomiden (TLH) sonra dren kullanımı rutin bir uygulama olmayıp tartışılan bir konudur. Amacımız dren kullanımının hasta kan değerlerine, postoperatif takip parametrelerine ve taburcu olma sürelerine etkisini araştırmaktır.Gereç ve Yöntemler: Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi’nde Ocak 2015 ile Aralık 2017 arasında benign jinekolojik nedenlerle TLH yapılan hastalar retrospektif olarak tarandı. Çalışmaya 103 hasta dahil edildi. Hastalar dren kullanılan (n:57) ve kullanılmayan (n:46) olmak üzere iki gruba ayrıldı. Gruplar; operasyon süresi, kullanılan port sayısı, hemoglobin-hematokrit düşüşü, ateş, ilave analjezik ihtiyacı ve taburcu olma süresi açısından karşılaştırıldı. Bulgular SPSS 15 programı ile analiz edildi.Bulgular: Dren kullanılan vakalarda hemoglobin ve hematokrit değerleri istatistiksel olarak anlamlı şekilde düşük izlendi. Postoperatif analjezik ihtiyacında artış, kan transfüzyonu ihtiyacı ve taburcu olma süreleri açısından anlamlı farklılıklar olmadığı belirlendi. Hastaların hiçbirinde relaparatomi ihtiyacı olmadı.Sonuç: Benign jinekolojik nedenlerle TLH yapılan hastalarda dren kullanılması hemoglobin ve hematokrit değerlerinde düşüş ile birliktelik göstermektedir. Bu tip operasyonlarda dren kullanılmasını gerekli görülmedikçe önermiyoruz.
96-well Plate Growth Curve Setup v1
Authors: Van Rhijn Norman , Papastamoulis Panagiotis
Published: August 2019

Generally, growth assays for filamentous fungi have been performed on solid media, either as dilution series or spot tests. However, the solid media environment does not accurately mimic the environment encountered during infection (ie the mammalian lung). Previously, we have developed a methodology to perform liquid growth assays in time for A. fumigatus and other filamentous fungi including analysis via mathematical modelling. This protocol is designed for Aspergillus species (and other filamentous fungi) to generate growth curves in liquid media in a 96-well plate. This can be done in high-throughput to generate 96 growth curves per run.
On Nominalization Metaphor and Its Discourse Function
Authors: Wei Minggao , Yu Gaofeng
Published: August 2019

According to systematic-functional grammar, nominalization is an important source from which grammatical metaphor derives. Starting from the concept of nominalization, this paper, based on a great number of examples, attempts to discuss the following three issues: definition of nominalization; classification of nominalization and its discourse function, and points out that the use of nominalization can add objectivity, conciseness, precision, cohesion and coherence to English discourse.
Тезаурусный подход в аспекте изучения культуры
Authors: Луков Валерий Андреевич , Луков Сергей Валерьевич
Published: August 2019

Статья основана на докладах, представленных на Общероссийской (национальной) научной конференции «III Академические чтения памяти Вл. А. Лукова “Тезаурусы и проблемы культуры”» (4 апреля 2019 г.). Описаны направления применения тезаурусного подхода в исследованиях культуры, основанные на первоэлементах тезаурусов, которые составляют концепты «свой», «чужой», «чуждый». Показано также, что тезаурусный подход в публикациях Московского гуманитарного университета постепенно перешел из зоны филологии в зону общенаучной методологии гуманитарных наук. 
Коррупция в свете социологических теорий
Authors: Пинчук Антонина Николаевна
Published: August 2019

В статье феномен коррупции анализируется в рамках различных социологических теорий, позволяющих его рассмотреть в качестве девиантного поведения, особой разновидности социальных практик и социального концепта. Автор раскрывает тематику коррупции параллельно развитию социологической мысли, актуализируя познавательный потенциал классических работ в теориях современных исследователей. Представленные теоретические подходы объединяются единой линией социологического анализа, демонстрирующей сложную и тесную связь субъекта коррупционных действий и социокультурных условий жизни общества. Особое внимание уделяется конструированию девиантности коррупции в общественном дискурсе, показываются перспективы исследования коррупции как социального концепта.
Феномен саморазвития человека: кинезиология как тезаурус тела
Authors: Ярославцева Елена Ивановна
Published: August 2019

В статье рассматривается проблема саморазвития человека. Аутопоэзис — явление естественное, но требует постоянных усилий, осознанной работы, цели. Предметность кинезиологии — активное движение. Речь идет о намеренной мышечной активности, когда тело высказывается, как и язык, помогая человеку выразить свое состояние, продвинуться к цели. И чтобы речь была красивой и правильной, важно поддерживать себя в форме, иметь свой набор упражнений, которые помогают быть здоровым, активным и сбалансированным, достигать результатов в решении проблем.
Pore Water Pressure Response of Fully Saturated Soil Beds during Earthquake–Tsunami Multi‐Hazards
Authors: Qiu Yingqing , Mason Henry Benjamin
Published: August 2019

Soil liquefaction causes significant damage to coastal infrastructure and buildings worldwide. Strong earthquake shaking can cause soil liquefaction in fully saturated sand deposits. Also, tsunamis can induce liquefaction, as well as enhanced sediment transport and scour, in coastal areas. To understand soil liquefaction potential during an earthquake–tsunami multi‐hazard, we develop a numerical model to predict the multi‐hazard induced excess pore water pressures. We calibrate and verify the numerical model by comparing results with laboratory experiments. Then, we perform numerical experiments using a recorded earthquake motion and hypothetical tsunami wave heights. The numerical experiments show that beach sand liquefies during earthquake loading. The sand then resediments during the quiescent period and the tsunami runup stage. Finally, during rapid tsunami drawdown, liquefaction can occur again, and liquefaction potential during tsunami drawdown primarily depends on the soil’s hydraulic conductivity, as well as the duration of the quiescent period. The results emphasize the need for predictions of earthquake–tsunami loading, as well as measurements of soil properties in coastal areas.
Kadın Çalışanların Yaşam Kalite Algılarının Rol Stresi Üzerindeki Etkisi
Authors: DEMİRTAŞ Özgür , YENER Serdar
Published: August 2019

Yaşam kalitesi algısı, bireylerin yaşamın birçok alanındaki ihtiyaçlarının karşılanma düzeyine göre memnuniyet ölçüsüdür. Bireylerin yaşamın farklı alanlarındaki ihtiyaçlarını karşılanmasının bireylerin yaşayacakları cinsiyet rol stresini azaltacağı düşünülmektedir. Birey ihtiyacı kuramı çerçevesinde kurulan modelin araştırılması içinSinop il ve ilçelerinde kamu ve özel sektörde ücretli çalışan kadınlardan oluşan örneklem kullanılmıştır. Örneklemden toplanan veriler SPSS 21 ile analiz edilmiştir. Regresyon sonuçlarına göre kadınların yaşam kalite algılarının cinsiyet rol stresini olumsuz olarak etkilediği görülmüştür. Bu çalışma ile kadın çalışanlar ile (kamu-özel) yapılan anketler sonucu elde edilen verilerle, kadın rol stresinin kadınların yaşam kalite algıları üzerine olan etkisi ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu tarz saha çalışmalarının özellikle Türkçe literatür açısından henüz yeterince ele alınmamış olması mevcut çalışma ile sağlanabilecek potansiyel katkının önemini ortaya koymaktadır.
Reklam ve Perakende Çabalarının Genç Tüketicilerin Karar Alma Tarzları Üzerindeki Etkisi
Authors: KÖSE Mehmet Said , BAŞKOL Melih
Published: August 2019

Bu
araştırmanın amacı, tüketicilerin karar alma tarzları envanterine dayalı olarak
genç tüketicilerin karar alma tarzlarını belirlemek ve şirketlerin reklam ve
perakende çabalarının belirlenen karar alma tarzları üzerindeki etkilerini
ölçmektir. Kolayda örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak seçilen 443 üniversite
öğrencisine yapılandırılmış bir anket uygulanmıştır. Tüketici karar alma tarzı
envanterini doğrulamak için açıklayıcı ve doğrulayıcı faktör analizi
kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizi Yapısal Eşitlik Modeli (YEM) ile
gerçekleştirilmiş ve orijinal tüketici karar verme tarzları envanterinde yer
alan (mükemmeliyetçi/yüksek kalite odaklı, seçenek karmaşası, alışkanlık/marka
bağımlısı odaklı, marka odaklı, yenilikçi/moda odaklı ve fiyat odaklı) altı
karar alma tarzı sonuçlarla desteklenmiştir ve yeni bir karar alma tarzı  (ünlü kabulüne dayanan karar alma tarzı)
belirlenmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre reklam ve perakende çabalarının
tüketicilerin karar alma tarzlarını anlamlı şekilde etkilediği belirlenmiştir.
Türkiye’nin Suriye Politikasında Turgut Özal Dönemi
Authors: GÖKCAN Özkan
Published: August 2019

1980'lerin
ikinci ve 1990'ların ise ilk yarısı boyunca Türkiye-Suriye ilişkilerine yön
veren en önemli siyasal aktörlerden birinin Turgut Özal olduğunu söylemek
mümkündür. Özal’ın komşu ülkelerle iyi ilişkiler kurma ve siyasi
uzlaşmazlıkları ekonomik ilişkiler geliştirerek çözme arayışı Türkiye-Suriye
ilişkilerini doğrudan etkilemiştir. Suriye’deki PKK varlığı ve su sorunu gibi
nedenlerle gergin seyreden Türkiye-Suriye ilişkileri, Özal’ın öncülüğünde
gerçekleşen karşılıklı ziyaretler ve imzalanan güvenlik ve ekonomik işbirliği
protokolleri ile aşılmaya çalışılmıştır. Özal döneminde atılan somut adımlar
iki ülke ilişkilerinde kalıcı bir işbirliğine neden olmasa da tarafların
sorunları müzakere edebilmelerine olanak tanımış olması bakımından önemlidir.
Bu çalışmada Turgut Özal dönemi olarak adlandırılan 1983-1993 döneminde
Türkiye-Suriye ilişkilerinin nasıl bir seyir izlediği ele alınmaktadır. Söz
konusu yıllar, tüm somut girişimlere rağmen Türkiye-Suriye ilişkilerinde
uzlaşmazlıkların hakim olduğu  bir dönem olarak
tarihe geçmiştir.
INNOVATIVE PACKAGING ATTRIBUTES AND CUSTOMER PURCHASE INTENTION IN SNACK FOODS
Authors: Andi Gholamreza , Xiaokang Song , Nellikunnel Syriac
Published: August 2019

Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study is to determine what kind of innovative packaging attributes will influence the purchase intention of customers on snack food in Malaysia

Methodology: The study has used Stimulus (S) - Response (R) model and AIDA Model to identify the packaging attributes which are packaging material, information on the package and the basic appearance of the package that have a positive and strong relationship with the purchase intention of customers towards snack food. The data were collected through questionnaire from 250 respondents. PLS has been used to analyse the data.

Results: Packaging is now an important aspect of marketing and is treated as one of the most influential factors concerning consumer purchase decisions at the point of purchase. All of the three independent variables of the research have significant as well as positive relationships with the dependent variable which is purchase intention.