bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Validation of the English and French versions of the Brief Health Care Climate Questionnaire
Authors: Czajkowska Zofia , Wang Hui , Hall Nathan C , Sewitch Maida , Körner Annett
Published: October 2017

Patient autonomy is a central value in medicine and critical component of adherence to medical advice. This article reports on a validation of the 6-item version of the Health Care Climate Questionnaire (HCCQ), a measure of autonomy support in health care settings, in a sample of 242 melanoma patients. The HCCQ showed excellent internal consistency ( α = .91), structural validity (Tucker–Lewis index = .99; comparative fit index = .99; root mean square error of approximation = .06, 90 per cent confidence interval (.00, .11); standardized root mean square residual = .02; χ2 (8, N = 235) = 13.99, p = .08) and construct validity (92.31% of hypothesized correlations with other measures confirmed). Acceptable 3-month test–retest reliability was observed ( r = .55, p < .001; intraclass correlation coefficient ( A, 1) = .54, p < .001). The French version was found equivalent to the English version.
Concussion beliefs in varsity athletes: Identifying the good, the bad and the ugly
Authors: Jorgensen Michael P , O'Hagan Fergal T , Lehmann Hugo
Published: October 2017

Objective

Identify and describe attitudes and intentions towards personal concussion risk and protective behaviours among varsity athletes. Determine subgroups of athletes characterized by problematic intentions towards concussion prevention and management behaviours.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Main outcome measures

Varsity athletes ( N = 175; 60% male; 55.4% contact athletes; 56.6% history of concussion) completed a survey examining attitudes and intentions towards personal risk and concussion-management behaviours. Cluster and discriminant analyses were used to identify athlete risk response subgroups on intention items. The clusters were examined for differences in attitudes towards concussion prevention behaviours, demographics and concussion exposure.

Results

A substantially problematic subgroup of athletes (28% of the sample) reported low intent to engage in post concussion management practices or primary prevention behaviours. These individuals reported high concussion-risk acceptance and very low belief in the efficacy of concussion-management behaviours. They were also more likely to have sustained a concussion. Two other clusters demonstrated more acceptable behavioural intentions towards concussion prevention and management, with one holding model attitudes and intentions.

Conclusions

Varsity athletes exhibit one of three different patterns of intentions and attitudes towards concussion prevention and management behaviours. Athletes in one of these groups are at much greater risk of concussion injury and poorly follow recommended treatments. Intervention programmes need to target and aim to change these problematic intentions and attitudes to improve the effectiveness of concussion prevention and injury management.
Influence of Trust and Participation in Decision Making on Employee Attitudes in Indian Public Sector Undertakings
Authors: Kumar S. Pavan , Saha Shilpi
Published: October 2017

Trust is an important component that needs to be present among individuals. Survey data from 712 managerial employees from public sector undertakings were used to examine the effects of trust and participation in decision making on attitudinal outcomes. Results indicate that trust is significantly related to job satisfaction, group commitment, and affective commitment. Participation in decision making is a predictor of job satisfaction and affective commitment, but it did not predict group commitment. Job satisfaction significantly influences group commitment and affective commitment. Group commitment predicts affective commitment and acts as a mediator between job satisfaction and affective commitment. These findings suggest that managers need to facilitate trust and active participation among employees by taking their opinions on different work aspects. Organizations that allow employees’ participation in decision making and are perceived as trustworthy have employees who exhibit more attachment and identification with their organization.
Exploring the Temporal Relationship Between Cognitive Insight and Neurocognition in Schizophrenia: A Prospective Analysis
Authors: Bredemeier Keith , Beck Aaron T. , Grant Paul M.
Published: October 2017

The present research is an investigation of prospective links between neurocognition (assessed with a well-validated, computerized battery of performance tasks) and cognitive insight (assessed with the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale), using data from two longitudinal studies of adult outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: a 6-month naturalistic follow-up ( N = 168) and a 24-month clinical trial of recovery-oriented cognitive therapy ( N = 60). In both studies, cognitive insight prospectively predicted changes in neurocognitive performance, suggesting that reductions in cognitive insight temporally preceded neurocognitive changes. It is important that in neither study was the reverse relationship supported, nor do the findings appear to be accounted for by differential stability of the measures or changes in symptomatology. If corroborated by further research, a significant implication is that increasing cognitive insight may bolster neurocognition (as a possible alternative or supplement to “cognitive remediation”). Potential mechanisms involved in this link are discussed.
Five-year results of brentuximab vedotin in patients with relapsed or refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Authors: Pro Barbara , Advani Ranjana , Brice Pauline , Bartlett Nancy L. , Rosenblatt Joseph D. , Illidge Tim , Matous Jeffrey , Ramchandren Radhakrishnan , Fanale Michelle , Connors Joseph M. , Fenton Keenan , Huebner Dirk , Pinelli Juan M. , Kennedy Dana A. , Shustov Andrei
Published: October 2017

Key Points

Patients with R/R ALCL who achieved CR with brentuximab vedotin had 79% OS and 57% PFS at 5 years, with median response duration not reached. An estimated 91% of patients who experienced peripheral neuropathy with brentuximab vedotin reported resolution or improvement of symptoms.
In vitroandin vivofunctional residual capacity comparisons between multiple-breath nitrogen washout devices
Authors: Tonga Katrina O. , Robinson Paul D. , Farah Claude S. , King Greg G. , Thamrin Cindy
Published: October 2017

Functional residual capacity (FRC) accuracy is essential for deriving multiple-breath nitrogen washout (MBNW) indices, and is the basis for device validation. Few studies have compared existing MBNW devices. We evaluatedin vitroandin vivoFRC using two commercial MBNW devices, the Exhalyzer D (EM) and the EasyOne Pro LAB (ndd), and an in-house device (Woolcock in-house device, WIMR).

FRC measurements were performed using a novel syringe-based lung model and in adults (20 healthy and nine with asthma), followed by plethysmography (FRCpleth). The data were analysed using device-specific software. Following the results seen with ndd, we also compared its standard clinical software (ndd v.2.00) with a recent upgrade (ndd v.2.01).

WIMR and EM fulfilled formalin vitroFRC validation recommendations (>95% of FRC within 5% of known volume). Ndd v.2.00 underestimatedin vitroFRC by >20%. Reanalysis using ndd v.2.01 reduced this to 11%, with 36% of measurements ≤5%.In vivodifferences from FRCpleth(mean±sd) were 4.4±13.1%, 3.3±11.8%, −20.6±11% (p<0.0001) and −10.5±10.9% (p=0.005) using WIMR, EM, ndd v.2.00 and ndd v.2.01, respectively.

Direct device comparison highlighted important differences in measurement accuracy. FRC discrepancies between devices were largerin vivo, compared toin vitroresults; however, the pattern of difference was similar. These results represent progress in ongoing standardisation efforts.
The Faces of Power
Authors: Deseure Brecht
Published: October 2017

When introducing Napoleonic rule in Belgium, French administrators were careful to adapt the representation of state power to local traditions and historical culture. As Napoléon's rule was presented as the continuation of earlier dynasties, Old Regime ceremonial was reactivated in his honor and local history was rewritten around his person. The goal of this operation was to gain support for the regime among the local population, which annexation and six years of revolutionary rule under the Directory had left distrustful of French authority. Different levels of government (mayors, prefects, ministers) joined efforts to bridge the gap by linking the new regime with local identities through the mobilization of the local past, resulting in a political representation wholly different from the one in the French heartland. The regime thus proved much more willing to consider local identities and traditions than has hitherto been assumed.

Lors de l'introduction du régime napoléonien en Belgique, les administrateurs français ont pris soin d'adapter la représentation du pouvoir de l'Etat aux traditions et cultures historiques locales. Le règne de Napoléon a été présenté comme la continuation des dynasties antérieures, réactivant des cérémonies de l'Ancien Régime en son honneur et réécrivant l'histoire locale autour de sa personnalité. Le but de cette opération était d'obtenir le soutien de la population locale, méfiante vis-à-vis des autorités françaises après six années de régime révolutionnaire sous le Directoire. Différents niveaux de gouvernement (maires, préfets, ministres) ont donc uni leurs efforts pour combler le fossé entre administrateurs et administrés en reliant le nouveau régime avec les identités locales. Grâce à la mobilisation du passé local, il en résulta une représentation politique totalement différente de celle utilisée dans la vieille France. Ainsi, le régime napoléonien s'avère avoir été beaucoup plus disposé à tenir compte des identités et des traditions locales que ce qui a longtemps été supposé.
“Napoléon in a Skirt”
Authors: Hobbs Jeffrey B.
Published: October 2017

In 1832 the Duchesse de Berry, the mother of the Bourbon heir to the throne, Henri V, returned to France to lead a rebellion against the newly formed July Monarchy. Lasting only a few days, her rebellion failed miserably in the western departments. However, the duchesse evaded capture until November 1832, when she was imprisoned in the Chateau de Blaye. The duchesse's rebellion and her subsequent imprisonment created national controversies that raised critical questions about the nature of representative government. After the Revolution of 1830, French liberals sought to ground political representation in the idea of male reason. However, capitalizing on the duchesse's popularity, legitimists countered that the state should represent the intimate emotions of private life. By examining public responses to the duchesse's rebellion, this article argues that legitimists and liberals contested state authority by employing competing emotional and gendered discourses about the nature of political representation.

En 1832, la duchesse de Berry, la mère du dauphin Bourbon, Henri V, est revenue en France pour diriger une rébellion contre le nouveau gouvernement, la monarchie de Juillet. Après quelques jours, sa rébellion a échoué dans les départements de l'ouest. Néanmoins la duchesse s'est évadée jusqu'en novembre 1832, quand elle a été emprisonnée au château de Blaye. La rébellion de la duchesse et sa captivité provoquaient des controverses nationales sur le caractère du gouvernement représentatif. Après la révolution de 1830, les libéraux français tentaient de fonder la représentation politique sur l'idée de la raison masculine. Tirant profit de la popularité de la duchesse de Berry, les légitimistes ripostaient que le gouvernement représentatif devait être fondé sur les sentiments intimes de la vie privée. Analysant les réponses publiques à la rébellion de la duchesse de Berry, cet article soutient que les libéraux et les légitimistes contestaient l'autorité de l'Etat avec des discours opposés sur les sexes, le sentiment et la représentation politique.
La France redessinée ?
Authors: Attali Michaël
Published: October 2017

Précis

Les années 1960 peuvent être considérées en France comme la décennie ayant donné une impulsion décisive dans le domaine des équipements de loisirs. Une volumineuse étude sur les comportements de loisirs vise à établir à la fois un état des lieux de la demande sociale et développe des préconisations novatrices en raison des représentations qui les caractérisent. Cette enquête introduit d'abord le principe de variabilité associé aux loisirs. Les auteurs de ce rapport définissent par ailleurs les fonctions sociales des loisirs qui doivent permettre d'assurer la cohésion sociale. Enfin, ils précisent leurs influences structurantes sur les espaces territoriaux. Les loisirs doivent en particulier permettre de compenser un mode de vie urbain et valoriser le rapport à la nature. Ces options participent d'une recomposition des formes culturelles liées aux loisirs. Ils s'inscrivent plus largement dans un phénomène de recomposition participant à étendre les villes pour intégrer de nouveaux espaces.

The 1960s in France were a decisive decade in the development of leisure facilities. A major study of behavior patterns relating to leisure sought both to establish the demand for facilities and to develop innovative recommendations based on those results. First, the study introduced the concept of variability associated with leisure. In addition, the study's authors defined the social function of leisure as the encouragement of community cohesion. Lastly, they explored the structural influence of leisure facilities on cityscapes and urban living. Specifically, leisure activities had to compensate for urban lifestyles and to promote a connection with nature. Proposals of the period participated in a broad transformation of cultural practices related to leisure. Leisure choices played an active role in urban restructuring and cities' expansion into surrounding areas.
The James Bond of Cherbourg
Authors: Isaacson Robert B.
Published: October 2017

In late 1969 five embargoed missile boats were spirited out of the French port of Cherbourg by the Israelis, for whom they were being produced. While the Pompidou government expressed outrage over the Cherbourg affair, as the incident became known, French media and political discourse on the affair were largely approving, paradoxically praising Israeli audacity at the expense of the French government. Examination of understudied media and archival sources indicates that the ideational and discursive underpinnings of the midcentury French-Israeli alliance had survived the official French-Israeli rupture on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War and continued to shape discourse and action into the 1970s. These findings indicate that the impact of 1967 must be understood as a process and not a paradigm-shattering moment in the history of French-Israeli relations, and they demonstrate that the erosion of French public and political support for Israel was slow and uneven.

Vers la fin de 1969 cinq vedettes sous embargo ont été sorties en douce du port français de Cherbourg par les Israéliens pour qui elles ont été produites. Alors que le gouvernement Pompidou a exprimé son indignation sur l'affaire Cherbourg, comme on appelait couramment l'incident, le discours populaire et politique français sur l'affaire a été largement approbatif. Paradoxalement on louait l'audace israélienne au détriment du gouvernement français. Un examen des sources médiatiques et archivistiques peu étudiées indique que les bases conceptuelles et discursives de l'alliance franco-israélienne au milieu du siècle avaient survécu à la rupture officielle entre les deux pays à la veille de la guerre des Six Jours de 1967, et ont continué à façonner discours et action dans les années 1970. Ces résultats indiquent que l'impact de 1967 doit être compris comme un processus et non comme un moment charnière dans l'histoire des relations franco-israéliennes, et démontrent que l'érosion du soutien populaire français pour l'Israël était lente et irrégulière.
Is the Affordable Care Act Cultivating a Cross-Class Constituency? Income, Partisanship, and a Proposal for Tracing the Contingent Nature of Positive Policy Feedback Effects
Authors: Chattopadhyay Jacqueline
Published: October 2017

Social Security and Medicare enjoy strong political coalitions within the mass public because middle-class Americans believe they derive benefits from these programs and stand alongside lower-income beneficiaries in defending them from erosion. By pooling data from nine nationally representative surveys, this article examines whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is cultivating a similar cross-class constituency. The results show that middle-income Americans are less likely than low-income Americans to say the ACA has helped them personally so far. On the other hand, partisanship conditions the relationship between income and beliefs about benefits likely to be derived from the ACA in the long run. In total, the results suggest that cross-class Democratic optimism about long-run benefits may enable the ACA to reap positive beneficiary feedbacks, but a large and bipartisan cross-class constituency appears unlikely. Drawing on these results, this article also makes theoretical contributions to the policy feedback literature by underscoring the need for research on prospections' power in policy feedbacks and proposing a strategy for researchers, policy makers, and public managers to identify where partisanship intervenes in the standard policy feedback logic model, and thereby to better assess how it fragments and conditions positive feedback effects in target populations.
Resource Allocation for Equity in the British National Health Service, 1948–89: An Advocacy Coalition Analysis of the RAWP
Authors: Gorsky Martin , Millward Gareth
Published: October 2017

Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is a universal, single-payer health system in which the central state has been instrumental in ensuring equity. This article investigates why from the 1970s a policy to achieve equal access for equal need was implemented. Despite the founding principle that the NHS should “universalize the best,” this was a controversial policy goal, implying substantial redistribution from London and the South and threatening established medical, political, and bureaucratic interests. Our conceptual approach draws on the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), which foregrounds the influence of research and ideas in the policy process. We first outline the spatial inequities that the NHS inherited, the work of the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP), and its new redistributive formula. We then introduce the ACF approach, analyzing the RAWP's prehistory and formation in advocacy coalition terms, focusing particularly on the rise of health economics. Our explanation emphasizes the consensual commitment to equity, which relegated conflict to more technical questions of application. The “buy-in” of midlevel bureaucrats was central to the RAWP's successful alignment of equity with allocative efficiency. We contrast this with the failure of advocacy for equity of health outcomes: here consensus over core beliefs and technical solutions proved elusive.
Saudi Tales of Love
Authors: Alsultan Tasneem
Published: October 2017

Saudi wedding photographer Tasneem Alsultan was curious about what happened to love and marriage after the big day. Alsultan, herself a divorcee, began to share (with their permission) the stories of the women whose weddings she photographed. As part of her project Saudi Love Stories, she has followed a widow, a happily married couple, and an exuberant single businesswoman.
Minimum Income Required
Authors: Einashe Ismail
Published: October 2017

Britain’s “minimum income requirement” restricts citizens and legal residents who earn less than £18,600 ($24,000) from bringing their spouses from outside Europe to live with them. Journalist Ismail Einashe looks at the consequences of this threshold, advanced by now-Prime Minister Theresa May when she was home secretary, on parents and children. Einashe describes how the 2012 law has created thousands of “Skype families” who go years without seeing one another, and how its opponents warn it will lead to a brain drain from the United Kingdom.
Love’s Labor’s Cost
Authors: Parreñas Rhacel Salazar
Published: October 2017

In homes across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, female migrant laborers are doing the difficult work of child and elder care. But these women often leave behind children of their own in countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, describes how the lack of legal protections for domestic laborers has made it more challenging for women to be present in their children’s lives.
How Meat Changed Sex
Authors: Rosenberg Gabriel
Published: October 2017

The article explores the history and structure of American laws criminalizing sexual contact between humans and animals to demonstrate how the ecological conditions of late capitalism are remaking sexual taxonomies, practices, and identities. It notes that the majority of these statutes have been enacted within the past three decades and most contain language that explicitly exempts animal husbandry and veterinary medicine from prosecution. The article explores the legislative politics that produce these exemptions and exposes an underlying ambiguity: in the age of industrial reproduction, the “accepted practices” of animal husbandry can be distinguished from bestiality only through legal fiat. The structure of the laws exempts human sexual contact with animals when it reproduces biocapital and produces “perverse” bestialists and “normal” farmers as mirrored categories, distinguished not by their relations to animals but by their relations to capital. Finally, the article reads this insight against the biopolitical theorist Giorgio Agamben's concept of anthropogenesis and notes that such exemptions reveal a limitation in his theory. In place of the timeless ritualism of Agamben's “anthropological machine,” the article argues for an account of speciation that recognizes strategic gradations of pain and pleasure, the critical role of sexual violence and reproduction, and processes of trans-speciative procreation.
The Dark Side of the Spectacle: Terror in Norway and the UK Riots
Authors: Kellner Douglas
Published: October 2017

In studies of the spectacle of terror in Norway and the UK riots in summer 2011, I highlight the roles of media spectacle and crises of masculinity in these eruptions of social violence, although I suggest multicausal explanation and do not wish to offer reductive analyses. The study breaks with a tendency of US and other Western media that associate terrorism with al-Qaeda and Islamic jihad and argues that there are many branches of domestic terrorism and eruptions of societal violence, two examples of which I explore in this study.
On the evolution of bilaterality
Authors: Genikhovich Grigory , Technau Ulrich
Published: October 2017

Bilaterality – the possession of two orthogonal body axes – is the name-giving trait of all bilaterian animals. These body axes are established during early embryogenesis and serve as a three-dimensional coordinate system that provides crucial spatial cues for developing cells, tissues, organs and appendages. The emergence of bilaterality was a major evolutionary transition, as it allowed animals to evolve more complex body plans. Therefore, how bilaterality evolved and whether it evolved once or several times independently is a fundamental issue in evolutionary developmental biology. Recent findings from non-bilaterian animals, in particular from Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, have shed new light into the evolutionary origin of bilaterality. Here, we compare the molecular control of body axes in radially and bilaterally symmetric cnidarians and bilaterians, identify the minimal set of traits common for Bilateria, and evaluate whether bilaterality arose once or more than once during evolution.
The effect of food properties on grasping and manipulation in the aquatic frog,Xenopus laevis
Authors: Anzeraey Aude , Aumont Madeleine , Decamps Thierry , Herrel Anthony , Pouydebat Emmanuelle
Published: October 2017

The ability to grasp an object is fundamental from an evolutionary perspective. Involved in many daily activities, grasping has been extensively studied in primates and other mammals. Yet, other groups of tetrapods, including anurans, have also evolved significant forelimb prehensile capacities that are often thought to have originated in an arboreal context. However, grasping is also observed in aquatic species. Yet, how aquatic frogs use their forelimbs to capture and manipulate prey remains largely unknown. The aim of this study is to explore how the grasping and manipulation of food items in aquatic frogs is impacted by food properties such as size and mobility. To do so we use the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis and quantified the use of the hands and fingers while processing mobile and stationary prey of different sizes (small, intermediate, and large prey). Our results show that X. laevis is able to individualize the digits and that the mobility and the length of the prey significantly influence the kind of grasping pattern used. Grasping abilities are thus not specific to terrestrial, nor arboreal species. These results illustrate how prey properties impact grasping and manipulation strategies in an aquatic frog and shed further light on the ecological contexts that may have given rise to the origin of grasping in frogs.
Effects of nutritional deprivation on development and behavior in the subsocial beeCeratina calcarata(Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae)
Authors: Lawson Sarah P. , Helmreich Salena L. , Rehan Sandra M.
Published: October 2017

By manipulating resources or dispersal opportunities, mothers can force offspring to remain at the nest to help raise siblings creating a division of labor. In the subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata mothers manipulate the quantity and quality of pollen provided to the first female offspring producing a dwarf eldest daughter, who is physically smaller and behaviorally subordinate. This daughter forages for her siblings and forgoes her own reproduction. To understand how the mother's manipulation of pollen affects the physiology and behavior of offspring, we manipulated the amount of pollen provide to offspring and measured the effects of pollen quantity on offspring development, adult body size and behavior. We found that by experimentally manipulating pollen provision quantities we could recreate the dwarf eldest daughter phenotype demonstrating how nutrient deficiency alone can lead to the development of a worker-like daughter. Specifically, by reducing the pollen and nutrition to offspring, we significantly reduced adult body size and lipid stores creating significantly less aggressive, subordinate individuals. Worker behavior in an otherwise solitary bee begins to explain how maternal manipulation of resources could lead to the development of social organization and reproductive hierarchies, a major step in the transition to highly social behaviors.
Sound production mechanism in Pomatoschistus pictus
Authors: Parmentier Eric , Petrinisec Maud , Fonseca Paulo J. , Amorim M. Clara P.
Published: October 2017

Fish acoustic signals play a major role during agonistic and reproductive interactions. Among the sound-generating fish, Gobiidae, a large fish taxa with 1866 valid species, is one of the most studied groups of acoustic fishes with sound production being documented in a number of species. Paradoxically, the sound producing mechanism remains poorly studied in this group. The painted goby Pomatoschistus pictus produces two distinct sounds called drums and thumps. A combination of morphological and experimental analyses involving high-speed videos synchronized with sound recordings supports that drums are produced during lateral head movements involving at least the alternate contractions of the muscles levator pectoralis originating on the skull and inserting on the pectoral girdle. These movements are reported in many Gobiidae species suggesting the pectoral-girdle based mechanism is common in the clade and could have evolved from locomotory movements.
Identification of high-risk patients for early death or unplanned readmission using the LACE index in an older Portuguese population
Authors: Fonseca João , Costa Flávio , Mateus José , Ferreira Diana , Clemente Hugo , Veríssimo Manuel , Caravalho Armando
Published: October 2017

Background: Unplanned readmissions are frequent, associated with high costs and potentially preventable. Pre-discharge risk screening is a crucial step to prevent hospital readmissions. This study evaluates the LACE index as a tool capable of identifying patients with high risk of early readmission or death in an older Portuguese population.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study in a tertiary care hospital in Portugal. All acute patients, aged ≥ 65 years, discharged from the Internal Medicine Service between 1 January and 30 June 2014 were included. Data was collected from hospital records. The LACE index was calculated for each patient. A comparative analysis was performed based on a cutoff of 10 (≥10 indicates a high-risk population) for the LACE score.

Results: 1407 patients were evaluated, with a mean age of 81.7±7.6 years; 41.2% were male, 52.2% were dependent for ≥1 activities of daily living, the average Charlson comorbidity index was 3.54±2.8. There were 236 (16.8%) readmissions, 132 (9.4%) deaths and 307 (21.8%) patients were dead and/or readmitted within 30 days of discharge. At 90 days, 523 (37.2%) patients were dead and/or readmitted. The LACE score was higher in patients who died or were readmitted within 30 days compared with those who were not (13.2±2.7 versus 11.5±3.0, p <0.0001). Patients with LACE score ≥10 had significantly higher mortality and readmission rates compared to those with LACE score <10: at 30 days, 25.5% versus 9.3% (OR 3.34, 95% CI 2.24-4.98, p <0.0001); at 90 days, 43.4% versus 16.2% (OR 3.98, 95% CI 2.89-5.49, p <0.0001). However, the discriminative capacity of LACE index assessed by C-statistic was relatively poor: 0.663 (95% CI 0.630-0.696) and 0.676 (95% CI 0.648-0.704), respectively.

Conclusions: This study shows that the LACE index should be used with reservations for predicting 30 and 90-day readmission or death in complex elderly patients.
MicroRNAs in the development and neoplasia of the mammary gland
Authors: Jena Manoj Kumar
Published: October 2017

Study on the role of microRNAs (miRs) as regulators of gene expression through posttranscriptional gene silencing is currently gaining much interest,due to their wide involvement in different physiological processes. Understanding mammary gland development, lactation, and neoplasia in relation to miRs is essential. miR expression profiling of the mammary gland from different species in various developmental stages shows their role as critical regulators of development. miRs such as miR-126, miR-150, and miR-145 have been shown to be involved in lipid metabolism during lactation. In addition, lactogenic hormones influence miR expression as evidenced by overexpression of miR-148a in cow mammary epithelial cells, leading to enhanced lactation. Similarly, the miR-29 family modulates lactation-related gene expression by regulating DNA methylation of their promoters. Besides their role in development, lactation and involution, miRs are responsible for breast cancer development. Perturbed estrogen (E2) signaling is one of the major causes of breast cancer. Increased E2 levels cause altered expression of ERα, and ERα-miR cross-talk promotes tumour progression. miRs, such as miR-206, miR-34a, miR-17-5p, and miR-125 a/b are found to be tumour suppressors; whereas miR-21, miR-10B, and miR-155 are oncogenes. Oncogenic miRs like miR-21, miR-221, and miR-210 are overexpressed in triple negative breast cancer cases which can be diagnostic biomarker for this subtype of cancer.  This review focuses on the recent findings concerning the role of miRs in developmental stages of the mammary gland (mainly lactation and involution stages) and their involvement in breast cancer progression. Further studies in this area will help us to understand the molecular details of mammary gland biology, as well as miRs that could be therapeutic targets of breast cancer.
Trace Element Composition of Snow Cover in Vicinity of Coal- Burning and Gas-Burning Boiler Houses as Used Fuel’s Environmental Performance Indicator
Authors: Таловская А. , Talovskaya A. , Язиков Е. , Yazikov E. , Филимоненко Е. , Filimonenko E. , Осипова Н. , Osipova N. , Шахова Т. , Shahova T.
Published: October 2017

Emissions of rural villages’ boiler houses remain insufficiently studied in comparison with emissions of big urban heat power engineering objects. In this paper have been presented the results of comparative analysis for a dust pollution level and trace element composition of solid particles in vicinity of rural villages’ boiler houses distinguishing by technological parameters and the fuel’s type (coal or gas) based on the snow cover’s trace element composition study. It has been established that the dust load value relating to background in vicinity of different coal-burning boiler houses is varying and depends on fuel consumption volumes, availability of dust and gas trapping system, coal depository and vehicle park. The dust load value does not exceeded background in vicinity of gas- burning boiler houses no matter of their technological parameters. It has been demonstrated that the trace elements accumulation level in the samples from vicinity of coal-burning and gas-burning boiler houses depends on type, composition and flow rates of fuel, as well as from the fly ash composition and local emissions sources. Have been marked general tracer elements (Hg, Zn, Ni, Mo, Co, Ba, Sr) and specific ones (Cd, As, Sb, Pb, V) of man-made impact for different coal-burning boiler houses. Hg, As, Cd have been proposed as general tracer elements of man-made impact for coal-burning boiler houses. It has been stated that natural gas is the most environmental friendliness fuel in comparison with coal regardless of boiler house’s technological parameters.
Novel Way for Continuous Filtration of Large Volumes of Water in Environmental Monitoring System
Authors: Гонтарев С. , Gontarev S. , Мошаров Сергей , Mosharov Sergey , Корсак М. , Korsak M.
Published: October 2017

During ecological researches and monitoring of the natural aquatic environment it is very often necessary to carry out filtration of water large volumes for extraction on filters the weighed components, and for subsequent analysis of mineral and organic suspension’s structure. The installations applied now for vacuum filtration have a number of essential restrictions. The most important deficiency of existing installations for vacuum filtration is the use of a leak-tight receiver with rigid design. At intensive filtration such receiver has to have a large volume that limits filtration installation’s possibilities for transportation and afield operation. Need of a vacuum pump’s protection against a filtrate intrusion demands constant monitoring for receiver filling at the large filtration volume. During receiver filling the filtration process needs to be interrupted for filtrate removal from the receiver, but sometimes such interruption significantly complicates the filtration process. In this paper is described the developed new mobile installation for continuous vacuum filtration based on a closed cycle water-jet pump for vacuum generation. The proposed installation for vacuum filtration of natural water’s weighed components allows carry out filtration of water large volumes in the continuous mode. The installation hasn’t a leak-tight vacuum receiver so that it has small dimensions.
Location of lesions versus intensity of psychopathological symptoms in patients with skin diseases
Authors: Kostyła Magdalena , Stecz Patryk , Wrzesińska Magdalena
Published: October 2017

Cel pracy

Umiejscowienie chorobowych zmian skórnych może mieć znaczenie dla doświadczania choroby dermatologicznej i wpływać na stan psychiczny pacjentów. W badaniu dokonano oceny zależności między lokalizacją zmian skórnych a nasileniem objawów psychopatologicznych. W analizach uwzględniono także wpływ takich zmiennych jak tendencja do celowego ukrywania zmian oraz subiektywne odczucie stygmatyzacji ze strony otoczenia.

Metoda

W badaniu wzięło udział 150 osób w wieku 18-80 lat (M=46,14; SD=17,28) leczących się z powodu różnych chorób skóry. Pacjenci zostali przydzieleni do 3 równolicznych grup wg kryterium lokalizacji zmian – na całym ciele, zasłoniętych i odsłoniętych częściach ciała. Nasilenie objawów psychopatologicznych mierzono skalą SCL-90. Dane socjodemograficzne oraz związane z doświadczaniem choroby skóry (m.in. tendencja do celowego ukrywania zmian oraz subiektywne odczucie stygmatyzacji ze strony otoczenia) zebrano za pomocą ankiety skonstruowanej na potrzeby badania.

Wyniki

Stwierdzono zależność między lokalizacją zmian skórnych a nasileniem niektórych objawów psychopatologicznych, szczególnie wśród pacjentów nie leczących się z powodu pozadermatologicznych dolegliwości. Wykazano także, że na stan psychiczny pacjentów pośredniczący wpływ może mieć obecność tendencji do celowego ukrywania zmian oraz subiektywnie odczuwana niechęć ze strony otoczenia z powodu choroby skóry.

Wnioski

Zgodnie z przewidywaniami najwyższe wyniki w zakresie nasilenia objawów psychopatologicznych uzyskiwali pacjenci ze zmianami na całym ciele. Pacjenci ze zmianami na odsłoniętych częściach ciała charakteryzują się wyższym nasileniem „nadwrażliwości interpersonalnej” w porównaniu z badanymi ze zmianami na zasłoniętych częściach ciała. W odniesieniu do pozostałych zmiennych SCL-90 prawidłowość ta jest odwrotna. Ten ostatni rezultat może skłaniać do kształtowania dalszego kierunku poszukiwań badawczych uwzględniających udział czynników psychospołecznych w funkcjonowaniu pacjentów z chorobami skóry.
Effect of Lime, Compost and Microbial Inoculants on Micronutrient Removal by Mustard and Maize in Trace Metal Contaminated Soil of Jharkhand
Authors: Jha Amrit Kumar
Published: October 2017

A field experiment was conducted on trace metal contaminated soil at Patratu (Ramgarh) to study the effect of lime, compost, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on micronutrient removal viz. Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe in mustard-maize cropping system. Results reveal that inoculation with Glomus mossae, Pseudomonas striata and Azotobacter chroococcum increased Zn concentration to the extent 13 to 32, 10 to 24 and 9 to 24 (%), respectively over control. Copper, manganese and iron uptake followed almost similar trend as that of Zn. Microbial inoculants with or without vermicompost increased the trace metal removal, however, vermicompost alone decreased the removal. It was observed that microbial inoculations reduced the total Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe content in soil. However, available micronutrients were significantly reduced by microbial inoculation and amendments.
Biology of Mahanadi Mahseer, Tor Mosal Mahanadicus (David) Reared in Freshwater Pond Culture System
Authors: Mohapatra B.C. , Sahoo S.K. , Gupta S. Das , Gupta S.D.
Published: October 2017

This paper is about the study on biology of Mahanadi Mahseer, Tor mosal mahanadicus (David) reared with Indian Major Carps (IMC) in Freshwater Pond Culture System conducted at ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar. The study focused on biological parameters, i.e., food and feeding habits; maturity; and length and weight relationship of Mahanadi mahseer, Tor mosal mahanadicus, a fish species under endangered group reared with IMCs such as Catla catla (Catla), Labeo rohita (Rohu) and Cirrhinus mrigala (Mrigal) in pond culture system. The fish was found to be omnivore and benthic feeder, and was acclimatized to pond culture condition and reared with supplementary feed such as rice bran and ground nut oil cake. In two years of pond rearing, male fish attended maturity and milting was recorded at an average size of 228 ± 11.36 mm length and 110 ± 6.61 g weight. Female fish attained early vitellogenic stage having primary vitellogenic oocytes in their ovaries at an average fish size of 287 ± 31.0 mm length and 224 ± 15.6 g weight. Length weight relationship of the fish in pond culture system reared from fry stage to adults was W= 0.0001339 L 2.4301 or log W = -3.8733 + 2.4301 log L and from fingerling stage to adults was W= 0.0000633 L 2.5920 or log W = -4.1986 + 2.5920 log L.
Informing and Equipping Parents of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Authors: Gilson Carly B. , Bethune Lauren K. , Carter Erik W. , McMillan Elise D.
Published: October 2017

The importance of supporting families with members who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is well-established in both policy and research. Yet little is known about how familiar parents are with existing resources (e.g., programs, supports, trainings), what information they would consider most helpful, and how they would prefer to access resources. Our study examined the resource needs of 1,738 parents of children and adults with IDD in the state of Tennessee. Most parents reported limited familiarity with programs across every domain (e.g., residential, vocational, postsecondary). The extent to which parents indicated various types of information would be helpful varied by demographic factors (e.g., daughter or son's age, disability diagnosis, socioeconomic status), as did the avenues through which they indicated they were most likely to access information and resources. We offer recommendations aimed at equipping parents with relevant supports and resources to guide their son or daughter's journey across the lifespan.
Coming of Age: Bollywood Productions of the Nineties
Authors: Kripalani Coonoor
Published: October 2017

The last decade has seen a dramatic departure from the formulaic films that the world's largest producer of films, Bollywood, has been feeding the Indian public. The success of a series of blockbusters in the 1990s– Hum Aapke Hain Kaun? (Who Am I to You?), Dilwale Dulhania Le
Jayenge (The Man With a Heart Wins the Bride), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Something Happens), Dil To Pagal Hai (The Heart Is Crazy), among others - has mystified cine critics. Relatively lightweight films, with thin to no storylines, but rich on the song and dance aspect and with stellar casts, they
have captured the imagination of Indian audiences from Delhi to Dubai, and New York to Hong Kong.
Los orígenes del frente para la victoria en Argentina (1988-2003)
Authors: Sosa Pamela
Published: October 2017

El artículo reconstruye la trayectoria del Frente para la Victoria en la provincia argentina de Santa Cruz entre 1988 y 2003. Periodo en el que esta fuerza política surgió, forjó sus principales atributos y construyó el capital político que le permitió llegar a la presidencia de la Nación en el año 2003, cargo que ocupó hasta diciembre de 2015. Esta organización se construyó por fuera de las estructuras y los grupos predominantes de la política provincial.
Avances en la implementación del voto extraterritorial mexicano: entre dudas y certezas
Authors: Calderón Chelius Leticia
Published: October 2017

Este artículo discute y describe el nuevo modelo de voto en el exterior mexicano ofreciendo algunos elementos que permiten entender la disputa política detrás de los cambios aprobados. Se realiza un recorrido por los principales elementos que han causado dificultades para ampliar el número de votantes y se cuestiona la intención de la autoridad mexicana de buscar el fortalecimiento de la ciudadanía mexicana en el extranjero a través de su participación electoral trasnacional.
Exploring Diverse Effects of Four Types of Mobility on University Entrepreneurship
Authors: Yasuda Satoko
Published: October 2017

This study explores the mechanism by which mobility influences university entrepreneurship through an empirical analysis of Japanese scientists working for the University of Tokyo. It presents theory-driven typology of mobility and applies it to the knowledge-transfer context.  First, this paper subdivides previously-studied mobility into four types – job mobility (JM), sector mobility (SM), international mobility (IM), and the educational background mobility (EBM). Then, it empirically shows that both JM and IM have positive and significant correlation with university entrepreneurship, whereas neither SM nor EBM does. Based on the result, this study discusses that JM and IM accelerate the formation of skills necessary for the commercialization of university research; however, SM and EBM may have no impact on it.
Mass Producing Innovation: A Case Investigation on Why Accelerators Might Not Be a Paradox
Authors: Barnes Andrew
Published: October 2017

There are a growing number of accelerator programmes designed to start and support innovative startup businesses. Many accelerators are increasing the size of their intakes, with some programmes now launching over 200 new companies per year. On first inspection the large numbers and consistent approach taken to accelerating the participating companies appears to be in conflict with producing innovative and disruptive companies. This paper uses Y Combinator as a single case study to investigate whether increasing the number of companies within a batch has resulted in longer or shorter timeframes for companies to achieve an exit (through acquisition or initial public offering). The paper finds that the timeframe for achieving an exit for Y Combinator companies is reducing, even while batch size has sharply increased. There is no statistically significant correlation between the cohort size and the initial money raised during the programme. Keyword : Accelerators, Startups, Innovation
Developing Marine and Fisheries Industry in Pangandaran Following a Bioecoregion-Based Technopark Framework
Authors: Nurhayati Atikah , Purnomo Agus Heri
Published: October 2017

From the bioecoregional point of view, the Pangandaran Regency is a land-water-mass with a strong ecological connectivity, and which also is chareacterized by the dominance of marine and fisheries resource potentials. In this region, a number of development variables exists and are available for transforming these natural resources into an advanced industry, which can sustain the region’s economy. Recognizing such a premise, this research aims at analyzing those variables in more detail, as associated with efforts to accellerate the establishment of a strong economy which is supported by a marine and fisheries industry in Pangandaran. The technopark concept is taken as the main reference for the industry to be developed while the gap analysis is taken as the research’s primary methodological approach. Primary and secondary data collected through literature study, discussion, consultation, field visits, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) are used to carry out the gap analysis, which is then followed up by the SWOT analysis. Based on the research, it can be concluded that the existing bioecoregional setting as well as the available development variables are conducive to facilitate development of a marine and fisheries technopark as long as a number of improvement are carried out. A proposal to operationalize such improvements as suggested by the result of this research is demonstrated in a roadmap as presented in the final section of this paper.
Sexualisierte Nazis
Authors: Munier Julia Noah
Published: October 2017

Sexualisierte Nazifiguren sind Teil eines fortwährend erweiterten kulturellen Bildrepertoires, das in (audio-)visuellen Repräsentationen von Nationalsozialismus und der Shoah zum Einsatz kommt. Julia Noah Munier verfolgt dieses in der Forschung bisher vernachlässigte Muster bis in die 30er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts zurück und zeigt, wie es nach 1945 bis heute immer wieder bedient wird. Sie richtet die Aufmerksamkeit auf eine Verdichtung von ähnlich strukturierten Figuren über mediale Grenzen hinweg zu spezifischen Deutungsmustern. Im Fokus stehen die subjektivierenden Effekte dieser Darstellungsmuster, in denen Täter und Täterinnen des Naziregimes wie des italienischen Faschismus als ganz Andere, als deviant erscheinen.