bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Energy consumption and everyday life: Choice, values and agency through a practice theoretical lens
Authors: Butler Catherine , Parkhill Karen A , Pidgeon Nicholas F
Published: October 2014

In policy and research, there is increasing recognition that the scale of transitions necessary for a low carbon society will require significant reductions in energy demand. Concurrently, advancing knowledge about energy practices has been highlighted as important in developing a basis for the delivery of less energy intensive configurations. In this article, we examine interview (participant n = 53) and visual (photographic) data collected across two UK communities to develop understanding of energy consumption as part of everyday life. We conduct our analysis through a practice theoretical lens, in particular drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts, to develop social theoretically informed interpretations of energy demand and its constitution through daily practice. We conclude reflecting on the implications of our analysis for conceptualising societal change and the role of policy in reducing energy demand.
Comparison of adequate relief with symptom, global, and responder endpoints in linaclotide phase 3 trials in IBS‐C
Authors: Camilleri Michael , Lembo Anthony J , Lavins Bernard J , MacDougall James E , Carson Robyn T , Williams Valerie SL , Nelson Lauren M , Shiff Steven J , Currie Mark G , Kurtz Caroline B , Johnston Jeffrey M
Published: October 2014

Background

Optimal clinical trial endpoints for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS‐C) are uncertain.

Objective

The objective of this article is to compare adequate relief (AR) to abdominal/bowel symptoms, global endpoints, and FDA and EMA responder criteria; and to use AR as an anchor to assess clinically meaningful change (CMC) in IBS‐C symptoms.

Methods

Using pooled 12‐week data from two phase 3 linaclotide clinical trials, daily abdominal/bowel symptoms and weekly global assessments were correlated with AR. Symptom CMC thresholds were estimated using AR as an anchor. Agreement between AR and FDA/EMA responder criteria was assessed.

Results

Correlations of AR with percentage change in abdominal symptoms, bowel symptoms, and global endpoints ranged from 0.48–0.54, 0.32–0.39, and 0.61–0.71, respectively. Using AR as an anchor, CMC thresholds were 29% improvement in abdominal pain, 29% improvement in abdominal discomfort, and 0.7/week increase in CSBMs, similar to thresholds for IBS‐C responder endpoints recommended by the FDA and EMA. There was considerable agreement of weekly responder rates between AR and the FDA and EMA endpoints (on average, 70%–76% and 71%–82% of weeks with agreement, respectively).

Conclusions

AR bridges IBS‐C clinical trials, putting into perspective the disparate primary endpoints recommended by professional societies and regulatory authorities, and allowing researchers, practitioners, and regulators to compare trial results.
Combined Type II Odontoid Fracture With Axis Anterior Arch Fracture
Authors: Malagelada Francesc , Tibrewal Saket , Lucar Gustavo A. , Jeyaseelan Luckshmana , Fahmy Amr , Gonzalez Jose Sanchez
Published: October 2014

Associated fractures of the atlas and axis are frequent, particularly in the elderly patients following a simple low-energy fall. This injury can be easily misdiagnosed on initial plain radiographs, and therefore computed tomography scan is a useful adjunct in patients with a degenerative spine. There is still no consensus as to the optimal treatment of combined axis–atlas fractures, and the majority of authors propose a therapeutic strategy dependent on the odontoid fracture pattern. We describe a combined atlas and axis fracture in a 92-year-old patient who was managed with nonoperative treatment in a rigid collar. The association of C1 anterior arch with a C2 type II odontoid fracture is a rare combination, which to our knowledge has never been reported following nonoperative treatment. There was a good functional outcome at 1-year follow-up with the fracture progressing to a fibrous nonunion of the odontoid process.
Incidence and Risk Factors of Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in HIV-Infected Individuals in Comparison to HIV-Uninfected Individuals: A Case–Control Study
Authors: Kotpal Ruchi , S. Krishna Prakash , Bhalla Preena , Dewan Richa , Kaur Ravinder
Published: October 2014

The study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of nasal colonization of Staphylococcus aureus in individuals with HIV infection attending the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre in a teaching hospital and compare the prevalence with HIV-uninfected individuals. A case–control study was conducted among newly diagnosed HIV-infected individuals and an equal number of age-group and sex-matched HIV-uninfected individuals, and nasal swabs were collected from both the samples. Sociodemographic and clinical data were collected through individual interviews. Ethical aspects were respected. A total of 100 individuals participated in the study, and 22 (44%) of the 50 HIV-infected cases were colonized by S aureus, including 19 (86.4%) methicillin-sensitive S aureus (MSSA) and 3 (13.6%) methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA). Only 12 (24%) strains were isolated from 50 HIV-uninfected individuals, with 11 being MSSA and 1 being MRSA. This difference in the isolation rate was statistically significant ( P = .035). The 2 most commonly encountered risk factors in both the groups appeared to be history of tuberculosis and history of surgical procedures but none being statistically significant ( P = .093 and P = .996). All the strains of S aureus were sensitive to mupirocin. The study concluded that HIV-infected individuals are at a higher risk of carriage as compared to HIV-uninfected individuals. By eliminating carriage in immunocompromised individuals, infections due to S aureus can also be minimized.
Dyslipidemia in ART-Naive HIV-Infected Persons in Nigeria—Implications for Care
Authors: Kuti Modupe Akinrele , Adesina Olubukola Adeponle , Awolude Oluwatosin Alaba , Ogunbosi Babatunde Oluwatosin , Fayemiwo Samuel Adetona , Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo , Adetunji Adedotun Adeyinka , Irabor Achiaka Emmanuelle , Odaibo Georgina Njideka , Prosper Okonkwo , Taiwo Babafemi Olapoju , Olaleye David , Murphy Robert L. , Kanki Phyllis , Adewole Isaac Folorunso
Published: October 2014

Aims:

This study aimed to describe the prevalence and pattern of lipid abnormalities among antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naive HIV patients, understand if there is any relationship to virologic and immunologic status, and discuss the implications for care.

Methods:

This was a cross-sectional study in which baseline demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of all ART-naive HIV-infected individuals recruited into the adult ARV clinic, University College Hospital, Ibadan, between January and December 2006, were analyzed.

Results:

In total, 1316 ART-naive HIV-infected persons were recruited in the period. Females subjects and participants aged ≦35 years accounted for 67.1% and 57.7% of all participants, respectively. At least 1 abnormal lipid fraction was seen in 73.3% of participants. It was observed that in 11.5% participants the total cholesterol (TC) was ≧5.2 mmol/L, in 2.7% the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL)-C was >4.1 mmol/L in 56.5% the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL)-C was <1.0 mmol/L, and in 27.6% the triglyceride (TG) was >1.7 mmol/L. The TC, LDL-C, and HDL-C were all significantly positively correlated with CD4 counts and negatively correlated with viral load. On the contrary, the TG levels were negatively correlated with CD4 counts and positively correlated with viral load. Multivariate linear analysis showed a significant relationship between all the lipid parameters and viral load. CD4 counts were only significantly associated with TC.

Conclusions:

A significant burden of dyslipidemia exists among ART-naive HIV-infected persons. Low HDL-C was the most frequently observed abnormality. The abnormalities related more with viral load levels than with CD4 counts. Dyslipidemia screening should be done in ART-naive HIV-infected persons. Simple healthy lifestyle changes should be emphasized, with other care given to those with the disorder.
Three-dimensional modeling of IP effects in time-domain electromagnetic data
Authors: Marchant David , Haber Eldad , Oldenburg Douglas W.
Published: October 2014

Understanding the effects of induced-polarization (IP) effects on time-domain electromagnetic data requires the ability to simulate common survey techniques when taking chargeability into account. Most existing techniques preform this modeling in the frequency domain prior to transforming their results to the time domain. Even though this technique can allow for chargeable material to be easily incorporated, its application for some problems can be computationally limiting. We developed a new technique for forward modeling the time-domain electromagnetic response of chargeable materials in three dimensions. The frequency dependence of Ohms’ law translates to an ordinary differential equation when considered in the time domain. The system of ordinary-partial differential equations was then discretized using an implicit time-stepping algorithm, that yielded absolute stability. This approach allowed us to operate directly in the time domain and avoid frequency to time-domain transformations. Although this approach can be applied directly to materials exhibiting Debye dispersions, other Cole-Cole dispersions resulted in fractional derivatives in time. To overcome this difficulty, Padé approximations were used to represent the frequency dependence as a rational series of integer order terms. The resulting method was then simplified to generate a reduced time-domain model that can be used to forward model the IP decay curves in the absence of any electromagnetic coupling. We found numerical examples in which the method produced accurate results. The potential application of the method was demonstrated by modeling the full time-domain electromagnetic response of a gradient array IP survey, and the occurrence of negative transients in airborne time-domain electromagnetic data.
Association Between BRAF V600E Mutation and Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Authors: Xing Mingzhao , Alzahrani Ali S. , Carson Kathryn A. , Shong Young Kee , Kim Tae Yong , Viola David , Elisei Rossella , Bendlová Bela , Yip Linwah , Mian Caterina , Vianello Federica , Tuttle R. Michael , Robenshtok Eyal , Fagin James A. , Puxeddu Efisio , Fugazzola Laura , Czarniecka Agnieszka , Jarzab Barbara , O'Neill Christine J. , Sywak Mark S. , Lam Alfred K. , Riesco-Eizaguirre Garcilaso , Santisteban Pilar , Nakayama Hirotaka , Clifton-Bligh Roderick , Tallini Giovanni , Holt Elizabeth H. , Sýkorová Vlasta
Published: October 2014

Purpose

To investigate the prognostic value of BRAF V600E mutation for the recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC).

Patients and Methods

This was a retrospective multicenter study of the relationship between BRAF V600E mutation and recurrence of PTC in 2,099 patients (1,615 women and 484 men), with a median age of 45 years (interquartile range [IQR], 34 to 58 years) and a median follow-up time of 36 months (IQR, 14 to 75 months).

Results

The overall BRAF V600E mutation prevalence was 48.5% (1,017 of 2,099). PTC recurrence occurred in 20.9% (213 of 1,017) of BRAF V600E mutation–positive and 11.6% (125 of 1,082) of BRAF V600E mutation–negative patients. Recurrence rates were 47.71 (95% CI, 41.72 to 54.57) versus 26.03 (95% CI, 21.85 to 31.02) per 1,000 person-years in BRAF mutation–positive versus –negative patients (P < .001), with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.82 (95% CI, 1.46 to 2.28), which remained significant in a multivariable model adjusting for patient sex and age at diagnosis, medical center, and various conventional pathologic factors. Significant association between BRAF mutation and PTC recurrence was also found in patients with conventionally low-risk disease stage I or II and micro-PTC and within various subtypes of PTC. For example, in BRAF mutation–positive versus –negative follicular-variant PTC, recurrence occurred in 21.3% (19 of 89) and 7.0% (24 of 342) of patients, respectively, with recurrence rates of 53.84 (95% CI, 34.34 to 84.40) versus 19.47 (95% CI, 13.05 to 29.04) per 1,000 person-years (P < .001) and an HR of 3.20 (95% CI, 1.46 to 7.02) after adjustment for clinicopathologic factors. BRAF mutation was associated with poorer recurrence-free probability in Kaplan-Meier survival analyses in various clinicopathologic categories.

Conclusion

This large multicenter study demonstrates an independent prognostic value of BRAF V600E mutation for PTC recurrence in various clinicopathologic categories.
Diverse modes of evolutionary emergence and flux of conserved microRNA clusters
Authors: Mohammed Jaaved , Siepel Adam , Lai Eric C.
Published: October 2014

Many animal miRNA loci reside in genomic clusters that generate multicistronic primary-miRNA transcripts. While clusters that contain copies of the same miRNA hairpin are clearly products of local duplications, the evolutionary provenance of clusters with disparate members is less clear. Recently, it was proposed that essentially all such clusters in Drosophila derived from de novo formation of miRNA-like hairpins within existing miRNA transcripts, and that the maintenance of multiple miRNAs in such clusters was due to evolutionary hitchhiking on a major cluster member. However, this model seems at odds with the fact that many such miRNA clusters are composed of well-conserved miRNAs. In an effort to trace the birth and expansion of miRNA clusters that are presently well-conserved across Drosophilids, we analyzed a broad swath of metazoan species, with particular emphasis on arthropod evolution. Beyond duplication and de novo birth, we highlight a diversity of modes that contribute to miRNA evolution, including neofunctionalization of miRNA copies, fissioning of locally duplicated miRNA clusters, miRNA deletion, and miRNA cluster expansion via the acquisition and/or neofunctionalization of miRNA copies from elsewhere in the genome. In particular, we suggest that miRNA clustering by acquisition represents an expedient strategy to bring cohorts of target genes under coordinate control by miRNAs that had already been individually selected for regulatory impact on the transcriptome.
A Bayesian Framework for Quantifying Uncertainty in Stochastic Simulation
Authors: Xie Wei , Nelson Barry L. , Barton Russell R.
Published: October 2014

When we use simulation to estimate the performance of a stochastic system, the simulation often contains input models that were estimated from real-world data; therefore, there is both simulation and input uncertainty in the performance estimates. In this paper, we provide a method to measure the overall uncertainty while simultaneously reducing the influence of simulation estimation error due to output variability. To reach this goal, a Bayesian framework is introduced. We use a Bayesian posterior for the input-model parameters, conditional on the real-world data, to quantify the input-parameter uncertainty; we propagate this uncertainty to the output mean using a Gaussian process posterior distribution for the simulation response as a function of the input-model parameters, conditional on a set of simulation experiments. We summarize overall uncertainty via a credible interval for the mean. Our framework is fully Bayesian, makes more effective use of the simulation budget than other Bayesian approaches in the stochastic simulation literature, and is supported with both theoretical analysis and an empirical study. We also make clear how to interpret our credible interval and why it is distinctly different from the confidence intervals for input uncertainty obtained in other papers.
Improving Community Cohesion in School Choice via Correlated-Lottery Implementation
Authors: Ashlagi Itai , Shi Peng
Published: October 2014

In school choice, children submit a preference ranking over schools to a centralized assignment algorithm, which takes into account schools’ priorities over children and uses randomization to break ties. One criticism of existing school choice mechanisms is that they tend to disperse communities, so children do not go to school with others from their neighborhood. We suggest improving community cohesion by implementing a correlated lottery in a given school choice mechanism: we find a convex combination of deterministic assignments that maintains the original assignment probabilities, thus maintaining choice but improving community cohesion. To analyze the gain in cohesion for a wide class of mechanisms, we first prove the following characterization, which may be of independent interest: any mechanism that, in the large market limit, is nonatomic, Bayesian incentive compatible, symmetric, and efficient within each priority class is a “lottery-plus-cutoff” mechanism. This means that the large market limit can be described as follows: given the distribution of preferences, every student receives an identically distributed lottery number, every school sets a lottery cutoff for each priority class, and a student is assigned to her most preferred school for which she meets the cutoff. This generalizes liu-pycia-2012 to allow arbitrary priorities. Using this, we derive analytic expressions for maximum cohesion under a large market approximation. We show that the benefit of lottery-correlation is greater when students’ preferences are more correlated. In practice, although the correlated-lottery implementation problem is NP-hard, we present a heuristic that does well. We apply this to real data from Boston elementary school choice 2012 and find that we can increase cohesion by 79% for kindergarten 1 (K1) and 37% for kindergarten 2 (K2) new families. Greater cohesion gain is possible (tripling cohesion for K1 and doubling for K2) if we reduce the choice menus on top of applying lottery correlation.
Lower-limb oedema: assessment, treatment and challenges
Authors: Atkin Leanne
Published: October 2014

The incidence and prevalence of lymphoedema and chronic oedema is increasing as a result of the ageing population and increased obesity rates. It is becoming increasingly common for long-term conditions to be managed in the community, and community nurses are highly likely to be involved in identifying and providing care for patients affected by lower-limb oedema. Oedema is frequently recognised but often not treated, and practitioners must remember that oedema is a symptom and the underlying cause needs to be established to ensure that appropriate treatment can be initiated. Many community nurses regularly see the same patients with chronic oedema for months, and even years. This article is designed to promote reflection on whether current treatment regimes are proving effective.
Use of compression shorts in the management of lymphoedema and lipoedema
Authors: Wigg Jane , Lee Natalie
Published: October 2014

Compression therapy is the mainstay of treatment in the management of lymphoedema and lipoedema. However, due to variance in the location, severity and type of the condition, patients often have to compromise on garments to ensure that the affected area of oedema is controlled. This article discusses the use of Veni compression shorts (Haddenham Healthcare) and Capri garments as an alternative treatment option to full-leg compression garments. The article explains treatment areas and conditions where the application of these garments will enhance care—for example, for trunkal swelling—and where compression may not generally be required—for example, in the feet.
Focus on the physical first
Authors: Sally Goddard Blythe
Published: October 2014

Physical abilities act like building blocks, not only for motor skills and coordination but for the formation of neural connections that empower learning. Awareness of this is vital, says Sally Goddard Blythe.
Shine a light on Divali
Authors: Williams Brenda
Published: October 2014

Invite your children to enjoy and explore Divali, starting with Brenda Williams' poem which captures its sense of warmth, joy and renewal. Children can represent their ideas through role-play and stories.
Cytoglobin expression in oxidative stressed liver during systemic chronic normobaric hypoxia and relation with HIF-1α
Authors: Jusman Sri W.A. , Iswanti Febriana C. , Suyatna Franciscus D. , Ferdinal Frans , Wanandi Septelia I. , Sadikin Mohamad
Published: October 2014

Background: Liver is sensitive against hypoxia and hypoxia will stabilize HIF-1α. At the same time, hypoxia will produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) which can be scavenged by Cygb. The purpose of our study is to know, if normobaric hypoxia can induce Cygb expression and its association with HIF-1α stabilization.Methods: This is an experimental study using 28 male Sprague-Dawley rats, 150-200 g weight. Rats are divided into 7 groups: control group and treatment groups that are kept in hypoxic chamber (10% O2: 90% N2) for 6 hours, 1, 2, 3, 7 and 14 days. All rats are euthanized after treatment and liver tissue are isolated, homogenized and analyzed for oxidative stress parameter, expression of Cygb and HIF-1α.Results: Expression of Cygb mRNA and protein was increased on the day-1 after treatment and reach the maximum expression on the day-2 of hypoxia treatment. But, the expression was decreased after the day-3 and slightly increased at the day-14 of hypoxia. The correlation between expression of Cygb and oxidative stress parameter was strongly correlated. Cygb mRNA, as well as protein, showed the same kinetic as the HIF-1, all increased about day-1 and day-2.Conclusion: Systemic chronic hypoxia and/or oxidative stress up-regulated HIF-1α mRNA which is correlated with the Cygb mRNA and protein expression. Cygb mRNA as well as Cygb protein showed the same kinetic as the HIF-1, all increased about day-1 and day-2 suggesting that Cygb could be under the regulation of HIF-1, but could be controlled also by other factor than HIF-1.
Universal health coverage in Indonesia – the forgotten prevention
Authors: Widjaja Felix F.
Published: October 2014

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Clinical presentation of myocarditis in pediatric: the role of cardiac magnetic resonance in diagnosis
Authors: Natalia Sisca , Lilyasari Octavia , Wicaksono Sony H. , Kasim Manoefris
Published: October 2014

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of myocard with varied onset and clinical presentation which lead to diagnosis difficulties. These difficulties often cause incoming patients with acute condition are not diagnosed as acute myocarditis that subsequently may lead to improper therapy. This circumstance will probably cause more severe myocardial injury and even sudden death. On another circumstance, patients may also come late in conditions of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or aritmogenik cardiomyopathy (ARVD) due to complexities of myocarditis early detection. Therefore, myocarditis diagnosis is extremely important. This case shows how CMR is important and highly accurate in diagnosing myocarditis through a case whereby a boy had complaints of chest pain and his CMR examination showed normal cardiac morphology with normal function of right and left ventricular, but with myocardial edema and tissue fibrosis, which confirmed the diagnosis of myocarditis according to the Lake Louise Consensus criteria. CMR is an important and high accuracy non-invasive diagnostic tool in myocarditis diagnosis.
Endovascular treatment with transvenous approach for embolization of carotid cavernous fistula
Authors: Young Benny , Bojeng Agusmanan
Published: October 2014

The aim of endovascular treatment in carotid cavernous fistula is to close the tear side at cavernous sinus part. It can be dealt either by transvenous or transarterial approach. The option is influenced by type of fistula and angioarchitectural findings. We described two different transvenous routes emphasizing on anatomical consideration and its technical aspect.
Effect of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α induction by CoCl2 on breast cancer cells survival: influence of cytochrome-c and survivin
Authors: Paramita Reni , Sadikin Mohamad , Sutandyo Noorwati , Wanandi Septelia I.
Published: October 2014

Background: Tumor tissue usually became hypoxic due to disruption of oxygen supply. Adaptation response to hypoxia is mediated by transcription factor, hypoxia- inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α). HIF-1α signaling is known to increase the expression of pro-apoptotic protein cytochrome-c, and anti- apoptotic survivin. In this study we wanted to analyze the role of HIF-1α on breast cancer cells survival through pro-apoptosis cytohrome-c and anti-apoptosis survivin regulation.Methods: Breast cancer cell lines T47D were induced by CoCl2 then harvested to analyze the expression of HIF-1α, protein cytochrome-c, mRNA survivin and cell viabilities.Results: HIF-1α induction by CoCl2 causes the increase of  protein and mRNA of HIF-1α, cytochrome-c protein, and survivin mRNA, but does not cause the changes in cell viability.Conclusion: HIF-1α induction have no effects on breast cancer cell line T47D viabilities due to the balance regulation between pro-apoptosis expression cytochrome-c and anti-apoptosis survivin.
Theatre and friendship: A collaboration with the Prahran Mission St Kilda Drop In Centre
Authors: Popov Bagryana
Published: October 2014

This article outlines an ongoing theatre collaboration between a group of professional artists and participants from the Prahran Mission St Kilda Drop In Centre in Melbourne, which is dedicated to supporting people who live with mental illness. The collaboration began five years ago and so far four projects have been created. The writer is one of the theatre artists. The case story here, presented to the conference Evidence in a Different Form, demonstrates that friendship is central to the artistic process. Friendship is an initial driving force and a result of the projects and is intrinsic to the creative process itself. This evidence suggests that the non-hierarchical and personal quality of the process is an instance of egalitarianism, dissolving divisions between individuals and groups. It suggests that these qualities of the work promote health and have the potential to undo social stigma and isolation.
Art speaking for itself: Evidence that inspires and convinces
Authors: McNiff Shaun
Published: October 2014

The article defines the nature of artistic evidence, and discusses factors that make it convincing, and how it relates to the emerging practice of art-based research. Distinctions are made between scientific and artistic evidence with the goal of furthering a complementary environment for enquiry that appreciates the historic ability of the arts to inform and inspire through their expression.
Evidence in practice: Nurturing aesthetic reflexivity
Authors: Rumbold Bruce
Published: October 2014

This article examines the differing processes involved in forming evidence to guide practice in arts-based and in health-care disciplines. A social theory framework suggests that aesthetic reflexivity can link the rational and affective aspects of practice in both areas. Intentional communities of practice that incorporate both arts and health practitioners can develop evidence that will take into account both health system goals of recovery from illness and social transformational goals of building healthy communities.
Arts and health as an ecopsychological practice: Developing a conversation
Authors: Neville Bernie , Varney Helen
Published: October 2014

What place does therapy have in a world that is facing an ecological emergency? Once we come to see ourselves as cells of the whole system that we call the environment, it becomes impossible to ignore the well-being of the planet as we work to improve our clients’ well-being and our own. Bernie Neville, client-centred ecopsychologist, explains to Helen Varney, public health sociologist, how therapy can be imagined in a larger context, locating it within the ecological way of thinking. For the ecopsychologist and for the sociologist too the experience of the powerful, shared moment in therapy is one that is shared with the wider human community and with the universe itself. If we are looking for evidence of the benefit of arts and health for individuals and their communities, we should look more deeply into such experiences.
Sing-a-long DVD and activity package pilot study with older adults
Authors: Clements-Cortés Amy
Published: October 2014

This study investigated the utilization of an original sing-a-long DVD and activity package titled ‘Sing-A-Long of the 1930s’ to engage older adults’ participation in singing and therapeutic recreation activities. Participants (n=693) included a combination of persons residing and/or working at 25 long-term care facilities, retirement homes and adult day care centres across Canada engaging in a DVD sing-a-long and activity programme for five weeks. Following this experience, participants were individually interviewed or took part in one of 25 focus groups. The results focused on participant, caregiver and DVD facilitator’s perceived benefits and indicate the DVD was successful in engaging older adults with cognitive impairment in singing, social interaction and discussion, participation in meaningful activity, reminiscence, sensory stimulation, and quality of life in aging.
Synthetic activity: Semiosis, conceptualizations and meaning-making in music composition
Authors: Falthin Peter
Published: October 2014

This article is about composition learning of two students in a music programme in upper secondary school with a special regard to how they develop conceptual structures within the musical form of expression and understanding. Semiotics, spectromorphology and cultural historical theory are engaged to discuss the empirical findings that are collected through observation and interview. The compositional task in the study regarded sound-based composition within the field of electroacoustic music, more specifically applying additive synthesis to make raw material for composition, preparatory exercises and finally compositions. Musical meaning-making and compositional creativity were triggered by the encounter of newly learned concepts with internalized and familiar musical thinking. The learning process could be understood in terms of a concept development process (CDP) in language-based learning.
Vodcasting and instrumental practice in secondary school music classes
Authors: Herrera José Palazón , Hayes Andrea Giráldez
Published: October 2014

In the field of education the use of some of the ever-multiplying videos on the Web 2.0, such as those found on YouTube or video podcasts, is a relatively recent phenomenon, which is nevertheless starting to spread rapidly. Vodcasting – Web 2.0 video technology used in this research – is becoming a flexible and powerful tool for the delivery of educational content. Although it is certain that educational experiences using video podcasts are beginning to proliferate in higher education, very few are carried out in secondary schools, and examples in the area of musical education are scarce. The objective of the article is to show – through an action-research methodology – the effectiveness of podcasting/vodcasting in the instrumental performance of secondary school music students, who have used video podcasts for their instrumental training. The data obtained over the course of three academic years, based on video recordings carried out before and after having used video podcasts, highlight the progress in performance results amongst the students who used this tool.
Effect of web conferring on Social Presence in a Face-to-face choral ensemble class
Authors: Stover Sheri , Hambright Grant , Collins Drew
Published: October 2014

Classes where students have opportunities to interact with experts allow students to apply what they have learned and begin to contextualize the content learned in class. The instructor in this face-to-face choir ensemble class used web conferencing to set up a virtual interview with an expert, Dr David Dickau, to allow his students to have the opportunity to have direct contact with a living composer whose music has had a profound influence in the choir ensemble field. The interactive web conference included an interview with the composer, followed by a critique of the choir’s performance of his composition, ‘If Music Be the Food of Love’. Students completed a survey following the web conference session. This study examines the effect of the composer’s virtual visit on students’ understanding and performance of his song. It also looks at students’ recommendations to continue such virtual activities as well as the effect on Social Presence. Results of this case study show that Dr Dickau’s virtual visit had an overwhelmingly positive effect on all of these areas and students strongly recommended the continuation.
Leo’s legacy: Overcoming the success of Furtivos and failure of Río abajo
Authors: Kinder Marsha
Published: October 2014

Although Borau started out making genre films he hoped would have global reach, using strategies pioneered by European film-makers working in Hollywood, he experienced his greatest success with Furtivos (1975), his most exclusively Spanish film. This article explores how he returned to a transnational vision of Spain in Leo (2000), winner of Borau’s first Goya for best direction. Set in contemporary Spain, this melodrama converts the incestuous mother/son relationship from Furtivos into complex relations between a seductive young Leo and her paternalistic East European coach. Dealing with border-crossing, as he had done in Río abajo/On the Line (1984), Leo includes Romanian émigrés within Spain, who evoke the subaltern Romanis associated with Carmen. The narrative model being subverted is not only the Hollywood genre of noir but also the colonizing myth of Carmen, which limited Spaniards to national stereotypes. Drawing on his previous works, Leo demonstrates that transnational film-making is possible within Spain.
Reframing My Dearest Señorita (1971): Queer embodiment and subjectivity through the poetics of cinema
Authors: Gutiérrez Albilla Julián Daniel
Published: October 2014

Featuring a provincial spinster named Adela, who eventually becomes a man named Juan, Jaime de Armiñán’s My Dearest Señorita (Mi querida señorita, produced by José Luis Borau, 1971) became the first Spanish film to deal with the topic of transsexuality. Resorting to allegorical readings, previous scholarship has associated the film’s hermaphrodite with the Francoist cultural and ideological anomaly. While acknowledging the film’s progressive political critique of the Francoist regime, others have seen the protagonist’s eventual integration into heterosexuality as a symptom of the film’s conservative gender and sexual politics. This article moves from a focus on identity politics to an emphasis on queer subjectivity and from an allegorical reading to an emphasis on the film’s revolutionary stylistic choices. I read the film from a queer subject position that points towards a political form of a ‘becoming subjectivity’ that escapes, if only partially, a representational form of politics and the logic of identity. By focussing on seemingly inconsequential fragments and transitory details, this article explores how the film self-referentially mobilizes a queer body and subjectivity at key moments.
Border lives: Borau’s Río abajo/On the Line (1984)
Authors: William Evans Peter , Santaolalla Isabel
Published: October 2014

Set on either side of the Rio Grande, Rio abajo/On theLine (1984), Borau’s powerful border drama, touches on his constant themes of marginality, conflicted relationships, love and violence. It was beset by many problems, and earned mixed reviews in the United States and Spain, but remains a key work in Borau’s film career. This article examines the mise-en-scène and character construction in the light of Borau’s comments that, in Río abajo, his characters are personajes-consecuencia (consequence characters), inseparable from their physical and emotional contexts. An analysis of the challenges faced by border societies on either side of the Rio Grande, and of compromised individuals struggling to reconcile conflicting needs and desires, reveals the formal intricacy and psychological depth of the film.
Um espelho às avessas
Authors: Silveira De Paoli Dra. Arq. Paula
Published: October 2014

A administração de Pereira Passos como prefeito do Districto Federal (1902–1906) foi marcada pela realização de grandes reformas urbanas, que atingiram, sobretudo, a área central da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. As obras foram justificadas através de um discurso que contrapunha nitidamente duas imagens: de um lado, a velha cidade colonial, com vielas estreitas e casarões insalubres e sem arte. E do outro lado, a nova cidade que estava sendo produzida, dotada de amplas avenidas para a circulação do ar e do tráfego, ladeadas por belos edifícios higiênicos. Na Rua da Uruguayana, incluída no Plano de Melhoramentos da Cidade, a relação entre a nova e a velha arquitetura colocou–se de maneira aguda, já que a rua teve seu lado ímpar integralmente demolido para o alargamento, ao passo que o lado par permaneceu com as antigas edificações. No entanto, para além dos discursos de justificativa do Plano, este jogo de espelhos entre velho e novo revela, mais do que um antagonismo direto, uma teia de relações complexas, onde novo e velho se admiravam mutuamente.
A evolução do conceito de fachada
Authors: Lopes Carneiro Leão Dra. Arq. Silvia
Published: October 2014

O presente artigo faz ao mesmo tempo uma revisão e uma reflexão sobre o conceito de “fachada”, especialmente em relação à casa unifamiliar, considerando sua evolução ao longo da história da arquitetura até o período moderno. Tem origem na tese de doutorado intitulada As fachadas da casa moderna (Leão, 2011), por mim defendida em 2011, que tinha por objeto o estudo sistemático da fachada da casa unifamiliar moderna no período 1915–1960. Para melhor entendimento do assunto e de sua abordagem pela historiografia e crítica modernas, foi necessária uma revisão mais ampla sobre o conceito de fachada, considerando sua evolução ao longo de alguns dos principais períodos históricos. Do Renascimento Italiano, quando surge o conceito associado à casa unifamiliar, passando pelo Barroco Francês e Pitoresco Inglês, até os tempos modernos, a ideia de fachada sofreu transformações consideráveis, que repercutiram diretamente na prática de projeto. Tais modificações, entretanto, não são abordadas de forma ordenada e sistemática pela literatura arquitetônica. O artigo define e discute a ideia de fachada, em particular no âmbito da habitação unifamiliar, procurando sistematizar a evolução histórica do conceito. Discorre sobre suas origens, suas transformações e seu desenvolvimento, desde o Renascimento Italiano do século XV, até a crise que o conceito sofre com o advento do Modernismo, do início a meados do século XX. Lança, por fim, um breve olhar sobre a ideia de fachada do período moderno até os dias atuais.
Reflexiones sobre aspectos relevantes para la formación profesional en ámbitos no académicos
Authors: Pierro Mg. Arq. Nilda Rosa , Kullock Arq. David
Published: October 2014

El presente trabajo articula una serie de reflexiones sobre aspectos didácticos relevantes en procesos de formación sobre cuestiones urbano–territoriales en ámbitos no académicos para alumnos calificados, esto es, con diversos niveles de formación previa. La finalidad del proyecto de investigación en el cual se inscribe es generar y concretar procesos de actualización profesional para funcionarios municipales con tareas de responsabilidad institucional en dichas temáticas. Los aspectos que se desarrollan apuntan a acotados temas de interés, entre ellos concepción de enseñanza y aprendizaje, procesos de formación profesional y su relación con dispositivos pedagógicos. También se puntualizan los principales ejes conceptuales en urbanismo y se plantea la relación de toda la propuesta con la cuestión ética y el profesionalismo.
Ordenamento Territorial Ambiental Sustentável no Bioma Pampa
Authors: Simões Schwertner Mg. Arq. Amélia
Published: October 2014

O Bioma Pampa, tombado pela UNESCO (2008) se estende desde o Sul do Brasil aos países vizinhos Uruguai e Argentina. São Francisco de Assis, município da Metade Sul do Rio Grande do Sul, possui em seu território uma área de importante fragilidade ambiental: a zona de amortecimento entre a Mata Atlântica e o Bioma Pampa. Na sede urbana de São Francisco de Assis aconteceu um caso inusitado: um bando de bugios fez da sua praça central seu habitat. Adotados, a população urbana tomou para si a identidade “Querência do Bugio”. Este fato levou os Planejadores Urbanos a questionar–se do por que estes animais não permaneciam nas matas, seu local de origem –o desmatamento a degradação ambiental. Ao redor do sítio urbano, ao longo de três mananciais hídricos foi criado o Parque Municipal do Bugio e por prolongamentos destes mananciais aos bosques mais distantes na zona rural, corredores ecológicos. Propostas de ordenamento territorial determinaram diretrizes para reposição florestal, recuperação das matas ciliares e de inúmeras voçorocas que provocavam degradação do solo e um crescente processo de arenização. A presença de bugios na praça desencadeou um processo de recuperação e consciência ambiental na preservação do Bioma Pampa e identidade local.
Clinical criteria to screen for inpatient diagnostic errors: a scoping review
Authors: Shenvi Edna C. , El-Kareh Robert
Published: October 2014

Diagnostic errors are common and costly, but difficult to detect. “Trigger” tools have promise to facilitate detection, but have not been applied specifically for inpatient diagnostic error. We performed a scoping review to collate all individual “trigger” criteria that have been developed or validated that may indicate that an inpatient diagnostic error has occurred. We searched three databases and screened 8568 titles and abstracts to ultimately include 33 articles. We also developed a conceptual framework of diagnostic error outcomes using real clinical scenarios, and used it to categorize the extracted criteria. Of the multiple criteria we found related to inpatient diagnostic error and amenable to automated detection, the most common were death, transfer to a higher level of care, arrest or “code”, and prolonged length of hospital stay. Several others, such as abrupt stoppage of multiple medications or change in procedure, may also be useful. Validation for general adverse event detection was done in 15 studies, but only one performed validation for diagnostic error specifically. Automated detection was used in only two studies. These criteria may be useful for developing diagnostic error detection tools.
Analysis of the Simultaneous Gas–Liquid CO2 Absorption and Liquid–Gas NH3 Desorption in a Hydrometallurgical Waelz Oxides Purification Process
Authors: Wylock C. E. , Antuñano N. , Arias P. L. , Haut B.
Published: October 2014

This work deals with the analysis of the mass transfers taking place in a unit operation of a recently developed hydrometallurgical process. This process is a purification treatment of zinc-rich electric arc furnace dusts to generate high purity zinc oxide. In this operation, gaseous CO2 generated in a furnace is injected in a reactor containing an aqueous solution of ammonia and ammonium carbonate, which is the leaching solution of these dusts, to precipitate zinc carbonates. During the operation, the gas–liquid CO2 absorption is coupled with a simultaneous liquid–gas NH3 desorption and with several reactions in the leaching solution. This paper aims to propose a mathematical model of the coupling between the mass transports and the reactions and to present a simulation tool for the computation of the CO2 absorption, the NH3 desorption rates and their evolutions with the solution composition. The ability of the presented simulation tool to predict the time evolution of the liquid composition during a gas injection is evaluated by comparing simulation results to experimental results. The pH time evolution is used as the comparison criterion and the experiments are carried out at a bench-scale stirred tank reactor. In addition, simulations results showing the influence of the solution composition in conditions representative of the operating conditions on the CO2 absorption and NH3 desorption rates are presented and discussed.
Policy Analysis in Welfare and Policy Spaces: Applications to the Labyrinthine U.S. Ethanol Policy Literature
Authors: Bullock David S. , Couleau Anabelle
Published: October 2014

We discuss the analysis of policy in three “spaces”: the customary (q, p) space, “policy space,” and “welfare space.” Specific advantages of conducting policy analysis in welfare and policy spaces are as follows: (1) it makes clearer the distributional consequences of policy change instead of focusing solely on the aggregate welfare consequences of policy change; (2) it facilitates covering a very wide array of available policy options, instead of examining just a few; (3) it is a powerful tool for analyzing the effects of simultaneous use of multiple policy instruments; and (4) it clarifies what it means for policies to be more/less “efficient,” and for policy instruments to make each other more/less “efficient.” We demonstrate the usefulness of our framework in comparing and critiquing various conclusions recently expressed in the U.S. ethanol policy literature.
Triple Disjunctivism, Naive Realism, and Anti-representationalism
Authors: Johansson Ingvar
Published: October 2014

Contemporary defenders of non-disjunctivism take a representationalist philosophy of mind for granted; all kinds of conscious intentional states/acts/events are automatically regarded as being representations. The paper presents an alternative anti-representationalist view of the mind. It differs from other present-day anti-representationalisms in arguing that all conscious phenomena contains a this-worldly something called “from-pole”, and it denies that an intentional content and the corresponding intentional object always are distinct entities. The view is set in contrast to both a transcendental ego tradition and a no from-pole tradition. Hereby, the paper defends the common sense-like view that we are persons who directly perceive, act in, and talk about things in a common world.
Consciousness and Intentionality
Authors: Addis Laird
Published: October 2014

The thesis is that conscious states and intentional states are the same things, although the property that makes a state a conscious state is different from the property that makes it an intentional state. Against those who say that sensations such as pains are conscious but not intentional states, it is argued that they are in fact intentional states. Against those who say dispositional mental states such as beliefs are intentional states but not conscious states, it is argued that they are in fact not intentional states. It is further argued that those unconscious mental states that are not merely dispositional mental states are, in the relevant sense, conscious states and therefore also intentional states. The argument is conducted within the framework of a briefly summarized ontology of mind.
The Nominalist’s Gambit and the Structure of Predication
Authors: Calemi Francesco F.
Published: October 2014

Call the realist thesis that the truth of statements of the form “a is F” entails the existence of properties only via the schema “a is F iff a instantiates F-ness” introductionism; call the nominalist thesis that the schema “a is F iff a instantiates F-ness” doesn’t really introduce properties into the domain of discourse anti-introductionism. I’ll show that both introductionism and anti-introductionism presuppose two crucial assumptions concerning abstract singular terms and predicates, that in turn constitute the pivots of an (allegedly) cogent argument against realism, that is the so-called nominalist’s gambit. Moreover, moving from the phenomenon that I’ll call property-anaphora, I hold that these presuppositions are reciprocally incompatible. I’ll conclude that introductionism and anti-introductionism are positions based on an inconsistent ground, and that the nominalist’s gambit is without force.