bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Adaptação de um modelo lógico da atenção à Hipertensão Arterial na Atenção Básica: uma Revisão Sistemática
Authors: Soares Liane Batista da Cruz , Figueiredo Ivan De Abreu
Published: November 2017

O presente estudo tem como objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática sobre o modelo lógico da atenção à hipertensão arterial na atenção básica. A revisão sistemática foi realizada em setembro de 2014, em 3 bases de dados indexadas: Periódicos CAPES, SciELO e MEDLINE. Foi identificado um artigo que descreveu a construção de um Modelo Lógico. Após análise do modelo lógico proposto e dos documentos oficiais do Ministério da Saúde, foram realizadas algumas modificações no componente de prevenção, componente de cuidado, processo (retirou-se orientação sobre hábitos e estilos de vida saudáveis e programação de atividade física; acrescentaram-se grupos terapêuticos de hipertensos, educação continuada para hipertensos sobre alimentação saudável e incentivo a atividade física). No componente controle, componente de cuidado, processo (acrescentou-se estratificação). Espera-se que o modelo lógico proposto sirva de “modelo” para as ESF, a fim de que ocorram mudanças decorrentes dos produtos gerados pelas ações. Mudanças especificas no comportamento, conhecimento, habilidades, ou nível de desempenho do participante do programa, que poderão incluir melhoria da qualidade de vida. Palavras-chave: Modelo Lógico. Hipertensão. Estratégia Saúde da Família
ПОЕЗІЯ ВІЙНИ В ЛІНГВОСТИЛІСТИЧНОМУ ВИМІРІ
Authors: СТЕЦИК Марія
Published: November 2017

У статті досліджено образно-лексичні й концептуальні особливості фронтової лірики Б. Гуменюка з урахуванням моментів формальної організації текстового рядка, авторської манери та широкого контексту соціальної поезії, інспірованої Майданом та війною на Донбасі. Виокремлено домінантні слова-концепти (мегаобрази) збірки, визначено спектр їхніх семантико-стилістичних, символічних та асоціативних прирощень.
Возможности лучевой терапии при лечении рака молочной железы
Authors: Семикоз Н. Г. , Бондарь А. В. , Фефелова И. И. , Тюменцева Ю. В. , Теряник В. Г. , Ермилова С. Ю.
Published: November 2017

В статье на основании обзора литературных источников приведены данные, методы и результаты многолетнего опыта, и современные подходы в выборе режимов лучевой терапии при лечении рака молочной железы. Проанализированы особенности проведения лучевой терапии согласно стадии заболевания, объема хирургического лечения, а также результатов морфологических данных.
Cравнительный анализ пункционных биопсий тонкой иглой с аспирацией и режущей иглой в окончательной диагностике пальпируемых объемных образований молочной железы
Authors: Азаб Хуссейн Ахмад
Published: November 2017

Рак молочной железы является наиболее распространенной злокачественной опухолью и ведущей причиной смерти женщин в мире. Основная задача комплексной лучевой диагностики, биопсии с аспирацией клеток тонкой иглой или/и режущей иглой (АБТ и БРИ) под контролем ультразвука – подтвердить/исключить рак, чтобы назначить правильный метод лечения. Целью исследования было сравнение АБТ и БРИ в диагностике рака молочной железы с окончательным гистологическим заключением после классической эксцизионной биопсии. С 2008 по 2016 годы АБТ и БРИ проведены у 1038 женщин. У 50 из них три метода диагностики были выполнены: АБТ, БРИ, а также иссечение патологического очага в молочной железе. Чувствительность, специфичность, положительная прогностическая ценность, отрицательная прогностическая ценность, и диагностическая точность АБТ составила 69%, 100%, 100%, 38,1% и 74% соответственно для диагностики рака. Чувствительность, специфичность, положительная прогностическая ценность, отрицательная прогностическая ценность и точность диагностики БРИ – 88,3%, 100%, 100%, 53,3% и 86% соответственно. Заключения по АБТ чаще не совпадали с гисто-патологическим исследованием, чем БТИ, а оба метода – при наличии доброкачественных процессов. АБТ является экономически обоснованным методом экспресс диагностики рака молочной железы и всегда в неясных случаях должен дополняться БТИ.  БТИ нужно рассматривать как метод «второй линии» первичной диагностики. Сочетанные АБТ и БТИ сводят до минимума вероятность ложно-отрицательной диагностики рака и его гистологического подтипа при наличии пальпируемого очага.
Representación matemática y técnicas de caracterización para celdas piezoeléctricas, una revisión bibliográfica
Authors: Leyton Vásquez Hernando Evelio , Roa Becerra Néstor Raúl
Published: November 2017

En este artículo se expone en forma autocontenida el esquema matemático que define el modelo piezoeléctrico, el cual se emplea para describir el comportamiento físico en los materiales capaces de crear carga eléctrica bajo la influencia de fuerzas mecánicas. Adicionalmente, se presentan algunas técnicas utilizadas en la caracterización eléctrica de celdas desarrolladas en grupos de investigación en contextos nacionales e internacionales, que trabajan en el desarrollo de fuentes de energía alternativas.
SINTESA BIOKERAMIK HIDROKSIAPATIT (HAp) DARI KERABANG TELUR AYAM KAMPUNG, AYAM BROILER DAN BEBEK MENGGUNAKAN METODE PENGENDAPAN BASA DAN HIDROLISIS BRUSHIT
Authors: Gintu Agung Rimayanto , Salenussa Marchelia Welma , Wadu Imelda , Hartini Sri
Published: November 2017

Biokeramik merupakan suatu komponen sintetik yang dimanfaatkan dalam dunia medis untuk menambal tulang yang mengalami fraktura. Biokeramik umumnya merupakan kalsium hidroksiapatit (HAp) sintetik namun menyerupai struktur kalsium pada tulang sesungguhnya. Pada penelitian ini dilakukan sintesa kalsium hidroksiapatit (HAp) dari kerabang telur ayam kampung, ayam broiler dan bebek menggunakan metode pengendapan basa dan metode hidrolisis brushit. Sebelum dilakukan sintesa, ketiga sampel dikarakterisasi dan dari hasil karakterisasi kerabang telur ayam kampung diperoleh kadar air 1,49 ± 0,00%; kadar kalsium 0,0188 ± 0,0007 g/g; dan kadar fosfat 0,001349 g/g. Hasil karakterisasi kerabang telur ayam broiler diperoleh kadar air 1,49 ± 0,00%; kadar kalsium 0,0195 ± 0,00 g/g; dan kadar fosfat 0,001355 g/g. Hasil karakterisasi kerabang telur bebek diperoleh kadar air 1,49 ± 0,00%; kadar kalsium 0,0195 ± 0,00 g/g; dan kadar fosfat 0,001294 g/g. Dari proses sintesa HAp menggunakan metode pengendapan basa diperoleh HAp sebesar 0,18786 ± 0,0179405 g/g dari kerabang telur ayam kampung; 0,35546 ± 0,0198763 g/g dari cangkang ayam broiler; dan 0,36145 ± 0,0289693 g/g dari kerabang telur bebek. Dari proses sintesa HAp menggunakan metode hidrolisis brishit diperoleh kadar HAp sebesar 0,0559 g/g dari kerabang telur ayam kampung; 0,0950 g/g dari kerabang telur ayam broiler; dan 0,3315 g/g dari kerabang telur bebek.
PENGARUH LAJU ALIR NITROGEN PADA METODE STARVASI NITROGEN TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KANDUNGAN LIPID MIKROALGA CHLORELLA SP. SEBAGAI BAHAN BAKU BIODIESEL
Authors: Senjaya Fredy Arief , Sulistyanto Dwi , Laira Inga , Nur Fatana Mardelia , Baeti Pridiana Dita , Widayat Widayat
Published: November 2017

Bahan bakar berbasis fosil masih sangat besar. Saat ini konsumsi bahan bakar berbasis fosil di indonesia mencapai 1,3 juta barel per hari. Sementara itu, produksi hanya mencapai 900.000 barel per hari. Seiring semakin berkurangnya material bahan non-terbarukan, timbulah teknologi lain yaitu dengan mengembangkan biodiesel. Biodiesel menggunakan bahan tanaman dan sangat berpotensi pada jenis mikroalga. Mikroalga mampu menghasilkan minyak 30 kali lipat lebih banyak daripada sejumlah tanaman tingkat tinggi lainnya. Potensi wilayah Indonesia yang 75% berupa lautan, mikroalga air laut menjadi kandidat yang potensial sebagai sumber bahan bakar nabati yang kontinyu. Chlorella sp. merupakan salah satu mikroalga yang berpotensi menghasilkan lipid dengan kandungannya 28%-32% dari berat kering, terhitunga masih rendah daripada beberapa mikroalga jenis lainnya. Dilakukan uji coba dengan starvasi nitrogen atau pembatasan nitrogen pada medium kultivasi mikroalga agar metabolism karbon pada mikroalga diarahkan pada sintesis lipid. Mikroalga dikultivasi terlebih dahulu menggunakan variabel air laut tertentu dan diamati laju pertumbuhannya untuk mengetahui medium optimum, yaitu air laut : aquadest = 50:50. Lalu, mikroalga dikultivasi pada medium optimum dengan variable konsentrasi mikroalga, didapat konsentrasi optimum sebesar 60%. Mikroalga kemudian dikultivasi dengan variable laju alir nitrogen, berdasrkan penelitian Noerdjito, dkk., bahwa kandungan lipid sebesar 16,83% berpotensi sebagai bahan baku biodiesel.Kata kunci : biodiesel, mikroalga, lipid, Chlorella sp, starvasi nitrogen
Are We All Feminists? The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
Authors: Iromuanya Julie
Published: November 2017

The politically voiceless, economically visible, and racially indeterminate middleman minority status as noted by sociologists Edna Bonacich and Pyong Gap Min hardly comes to mind when scholars envision women of Africa and the African Diaspora. Still, when considering the ways the global black hair industry acts as a mechanism for work, production, value, agency, and mobility, we would be remiss if we did not include a discourse on the black hair industry, for it alternately critiques, challenges, and participates in binary conceptions of race, socioeconomic class, and citizenship. Further, while the traditional concept of the middleman minority subsumes the female identity under that of the male head of the family, the global black hair industry—largely established, fueled, and energized by black and African women—centralizes the female. Like many industries with a commanding economic force, black hair as an industry acts both within and without the bounds of the patriarchal state, macrocosmically, and the male head of the patriarchal family, microcosmically.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah, while concerned with her protagonist's mediation of the “Americanah” identity—the repatriated immigrant “with odd affectations, pretending to no longer know” home (2013a, 78)—also presents a unique observation of the ways that black hair and its commerce are also attendant, if not central, to notions of feminist ideology, both African and Western, advocated by Adichie in her feminist treatise “We Should All Be Feminists” (2013b). This paper seeks to illuminate the questions that Adichie raises in Americanah regarding the centrality and alterity of women, who, like traditional middleman minorities, act as consumers and producers within a market that is deeply entrenched in the racial, political, and economic framework of the larger patriarchal society, while also operating with a great deal of autonomy.
From the Desk of Editor in Chief Vol.35(4)
Authors: Islam Ferdousi
Published: November 2017

Abstract not availableJ Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2017; 35(4): 209
Implications of Geometry and the Theorem of Gauss on Newtonian Gravitational Systems and a Caveat Regarding Poisson’s Equation
Authors: Hofmeister Anne , Criss Robert
Published: November 2017

Galactic mass consistent with luminous mass is obtained by fitting rotation curves (RC = tangential velocities vs. equatorial radius r) using Newtonian force models, or can be unambiguously calculated from RC data using a model based on spin. In contrast, mass exceeding luminous mass is obtained from multi-parameter fits using potentials associated with test particles orbiting in a disk around a central mass. To understand this disparity, we explore the premises of these mainstream disk potential models utilizing the theorem of Gauss, thermodynamic concepts of Gibbs, the findings of Newton and Maclaurin, and well-established techniques and results from analytical mathematics. Mainstream models assume that galactic density in the axial (z) and r directions varies independently: we show that this is untrue for self-gravitating objects. Mathematics and thermodynamic principles each show that modifying Poisson’s equation by summing densities is in error. Neither do mainstream models differentiate between interior and exterior potentials, which is required by potential theory and has been recognized in seminal astronomical literature. The theorem of Gauss shows that: (1) density in Poisson’s equation must be averaged over the interior volume; (2) logarithmic gravitational potentials implicitly assume that mass forms a long, line source along the z axis, unlike any astronomical object; and (3) gravitational stability for three-dimensional shapes is limited to oblate spheroids or extremely tall cylinders, whereas other shapes are prone to collapse. Our findings suggest a mechanism for the formation of the flattened Solar System and of spiral galaxies from gas clouds. The theorem of Gauss offers many advantages over Poisson’s equation in analyzing astronomical problems because mass, not density, is the key parameter.
Effectiveness of Reduced Radioiodine Activity for Thyroid Remnant Ablation after Total Thyroidectomy in Patients with Low to Intermediate Risk Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
Authors: Haidvogl Sabine , Fendler Wolfgang Peter , Ilhan Harun , Rominger Axel , Haug Alexander Robert , Bartenstein Peter , Lehner Sebastian , Todica Andrei
Published: November 2017

Aim: To compare the success rates of radioiodine therapy (RIT) for thyroid remnant ablation (TRA) after the administration of a high-standard activity (3700 MBq; 100 mCi) to a lower-activity regimen of 2000 MBq (54 mCi) I-131 in a cohort of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) patients (papillary, follicular, mixed, pT1a(m) – pT3, N0 – NX, R0). Methods: 135 patients received approx. 2000 MBq I-131 (54 mCi) for thyroid remnant ablation after total thyroidectomy for DTC, 137 patients received approx. 3700 MBq (100 mCi) I-131. Ablation success was defined as thyroglobulin (TG) levels < 0.5 ng/ml after stimulation, negative I-131 whole-body scan and inconspicuous results on neck ultrasonography approximately 6 months after initial RIT. Results: In the follow-up 84.4 % of patients in the reduced-activity group and 87.6 % of the patients in the standard-activity group did not show any relevant residual I-131 uptake in the thyroid bed (p = 0.454). 90 % in the reduced-activity group and 91 % in the standard-activity group demonstrated a stimulated TG level < 0.5 ng/ml (p = 0.969). All patients were unre-markable in cervical ultrasonography. The success rate was comparable in both groups (81.5 % in the reduced-activity group vs. 83.9 % in the standard-activity group, p = 0.592). No re-therapy was required in 85.2 % of the patients in the low-activity group as compared to 87.6 % of the patients in the standard-activity group (p = 0.563). Conclusions: We could demonstrate that irrespective of the activity administered, the patients had comparable success rates with regard to TRA as defined by our criteria. We thus consider the use of a reduced-activity regimen for TRA safe and feasible in the patient cohort examined in this study.
Point and Compact Hα Sources in the Interior of M33
Authors: Moody J. Ward , Hintz Eric G. , Joner Michael D. , Roming Peter W. A. , Hintz Maureen L.
Published: November 2017

A variety of interesting objects such as Wolf–Rayet stars, tight OB associations, planetary nebulae, X-ray binaries, etc., can be discovered as point or compact sources in Hα surveys. How these objects distribute through a galaxy sheds light on the galaxy star formation rate and history, mass distribution, and dynamics. The nearby galaxy M33 is an excellent place to study the distribution of Hα-bright point sources in a flocculant spiral galaxy. We have reprocessed an archived WIYN continuum-subtracted Hα image of the inner 6.′5 × 6.′5 of M33 and, employing both eye and machine searches, have tabulated sources with a flux greater than approximately 10−15 erg cm−2s−1. We have effectively recovered previously mapped H ii regions and have identified 152 unresolved point sources and 122 marginally resolved compact sources, of which 39 have not been previously identified in any archive. An additional 99 Hα sources were found to have sufficient archival flux values to generate a Spectral Energy Distribution. Using the SED, flux values, Hα flux value, and compactness, we classified 67 of these sources.
Dynamical Imaging with Interferometry
Authors: Johnson Michael D. , Bouman Katherine L. , Blackburn Lindy , Chael Andrew A. , Rosen Julian , Shiokawa Hotaka , Roelofs Freek , Akiyama Kazunori , Fish Vincent L. , Doeleman Sheperd S.
Published: November 2017

By linking widely separated radio dishes, the technique of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) can greatly enhance angular resolution in radio astronomy. However, at any given moment, a VLBI array only sparsely samples the information necessary to form an image. Conventional imaging techniques partially overcome this limitation by making the assumption that the observed cosmic source structure does not evolve over the duration of an observation, which enables VLBI networks to accumulate information as Earth rotates and changes the projected array geometry. Although this assumption is appropriate for nearly all VLBI, it is almost certainly violated for submillimeter observations of the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which has a gravitational timescale of only

s and exhibits intrahour variability. To address this challenge, we develop several techniques to reconstruct dynamical images (“movies”) from interferometric data. Our techniques are applicable to both single-epoch and multiepoch variability studies, and they are suitable for exploring many different physical processes including flaring regions, stable images with small time-dependent perturbations, steady accretion dynamics, or kinematics of relativistic jets. Moreover, dynamical imaging can be used to estimate time-averaged images from time-variable data, eliminating many spurious image artifacts that arise when using standard imaging methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques using synthetic observations of simulated black hole systems and 7 mm Very Long Baseline Array observations of M87, and we show that dynamical imaging is feasible for Event Horizon Telescope observations of Sgr A*.
La V e République et les partis
Authors: Jan Pascal
Published: November 2017

Les partis politiques français, privés de statut spécifique, traversent une profonde crise révélée de façon spectaculaire par l’élection présidentielle et les élections législatives de mai et juin 2017, ainsi que par la judiciarisation croissante de leur fonctionnement interne. Pour autant, comme les formations traditionnelles en voie de perdition, les nouveaux mouvements politiques sont tout aussi présidentialistes dans leur stratégie que dans leur organisation.
Modes de scrutin et système de partis
Authors: Dolez Bernard , Laurent Annie
Published: November 2017

Les conséquences des modes de scrutin sur le système partisan ne sauraient être réduites à l’impact de la formule électorale. Magnitude des circonscriptions, taille de l’assemblée et seuils électoraux jouent un rôle tout aussi important. Leurs effets varient, surtout, en fonction du contexte institutionnel et politique dans lequel ils s’insèrent et avec lequel ils interagissent. L’ingénierie électorale est un art qui ne saurait se résumer au débat « scrutin majoritaire » versus « représentation proportionnelle ».
La crise du militantisme
Authors: Fretel Julien
Published: November 2017

Le militantisme, dans les partis politiques, souffre de nombreux maux. Ses causes sont multiples mais tiennent davantage à la manière dont les professionnels de la politique gèrent les aspirations militantes qu’à une éventuelle indifférence naturelle des Français vis-à-vis de l’engagement partisan. C’est donc au cœur de la politique de l’offre partisane que se trouvent les principales raisons de la désaffection des militants. Il reste que les phénomènes « En Marche ! » et « La France insoumise », par l’afflux d’adhérents qu’ils ont réussi à générer, obligent à s’interroger sur de possibles sorties de crise.
L’argent et les partis
Authors: Rambaud Romain
Published: November 2017

Le fait que le premier projet de loi déposé dans le cadre de la XV e  législature soit le projet de loi rétablissant la confiance dans l’action publique, qui concerne notamment la question des rapports entre les partis et l’argent, est révélateur du caractère crucial de cette question. L’argent des partis est en principe très réglementé, mais il s’agit aussi d’une des dernières « boîtes noires » du droit de la vie politique. Cependant, l’essentiel est peut-être ailleurs : quel système politique se cache derrière la moralisation ?
Le langage dans la psychosomatique
Authors: Denis Anne
Published: November 2017

Une remarque de Green a ouvert le champ sur la question du sens dont l’évitement, comme effet contre-évolutif du trauma, est fréquent dans les cures contemporaines. « L’hallucination négative du sens » est accompagnée de transferts latéraux sur la musique et de rêves traumatolytiques sur le thème d’une musique ratée. Un langage opératoire s’ensuit en tant que significations dépourvues de sens. Le partage et les répons objectaux métaphorisent les pulsions en « quelque chose de psychique » s’originant sur les rythmes vitaux de « vie et de mort ».
Considérer la personne en fin de vie
Authors: Haeringer Anne-Sophie
Published: November 2017

En nous intéressant à la manière dont l’équipe d’une unité de soins palliatifs a négocié l’envie de fumer exprimée par un de ses patients, allant jusqu’à la saisir comme une question existentielle, nous montrons dans cet article, comment la prise en charge palliative configure la personne comme étant en fin de vie. L’analyse vient enrichir la proposition de David Sudnow suivant laquelle la fin de vie n’est pas un état déjà donné mais le passage d’un être (vivant) à un autre (mort), en faisant valoir que les soins palliatifs invitent à ouvrir le « dying » aux multiples reprises et modulations qui accompagnent ce passage. Dans ce cas, reconnaître la personne comme étant en fin de vie, c’est non seulement considérer que bientôt elle ne sera plus mais, plus spécifiquement, que, avant même de n’être plus, certaines de ses capacités auront été entamées.
L’insupportable et l’incertain
Authors: Delaunay Catarina
Published: November 2017

Ce texte explore les tensions qui émergent chez les couples atteints d’infertilité qui recourent à l’assistance médicale à la procréation avec tiers donneur, en France et au Portugal, à partir de données empiriques recueillies par entretiens. Je m’appuie sur le modèle sociologique d’une pluralité de régimes d’engagement, mais aussi sur les concepts d’insupportable et d’incertain ; le premier permet d’analyser le rapport problématique et gênant au tiers donneur, le second d’analyser les incertitudes de ces couples sur la réussite du projet d’enfant à l’aide de technologies biomédicales, incertitudes qui s’inscrivent dans des épreuves et des échecs successifs. On assiste à une opération de détachement de la figure du tiers donneur, à travers des dynamiques de différenciation entre le vivant (les gamètes) et l’humain (un enfant). On constate des opérations de révision ou de sortie complète du projet, provoquées par l’épuisement capacitaire ou par la difficulté à définir l’intégralité de la personne ou du couple.
Politics, Security and Early Ideas of ‘Greater Malaysia’, 1945-1961
Authors: Fernando Joseph M. , Rajagopal Shanthiah
Published: November 2017

The formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 remains a source of much debate among historians. The official announcement by the Prime Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman, on 27 May 1961, urging a closer association of Malaya, Singapore and the three British-controlled Borneo territories is viewed by some studies as the trigger that led to the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963. While this study recognizes that Tunku’s proposal of May 1961 was a catalyst to the formal negotiations, it shows through a closer scrutiny of Colonial Office documents that the idea of a super-federation or “grand design” had been gradually planted in the minds of the elites in Malaya, Singapore and the Borneo territories, particularly from the early 1950s and that these confidential discussions were crucial to the acceptance of the basic premise of such a grand federation. It argues further that Tunku’s suggestion of a broader federation to Lord Perth in June 1960 merely speeded up the formal discussions for the federation that was already being seriously considered at the time by Colonial Office and British officials in the Borneo territories and Singapore. Thus the new federation was not merely a result of ‘local developments’ in Southeast Asia, but was also a by-product of a concerted effort in the Colonial Office to create a broader entity in Southeast Asia.
The Meaningfulness of Statistical Significance Tests in the Analysis of Simulation Results
Authors: Troitzsch Klaus G.
Published: November 2017

This article discusses the question of whether significance tests on simulation results are meaningful at all. It is also argued that it is the effect size much more than the existence of the effect is what matters. It is the description of the distribution function of the stochastic process incorporated in the simulation model which is important. This is particularly when this distribution is far from normal, which is particularly often the case when the simulation model is nonlinear. To this end, this article uses three different agent-based models to demonstrate that the effects of input parameters on output metrics can often be made “statistically significant” on any desired level by increasing the number of runs, even for negligible effect sizes. The examples are also used to give hints as to how many runs are necessary to estimate effect sizes and how the input parameters determine output metrics.
The Problems of Stage Acquisition Under the New Consolidation Accounting Standards
Authors: Yang James G.S. , Aquilino Frank J.
Published: November 2017

This article discusses some important components of how the accounting standards of consolidated financial statements have changed under FASB Nos. 141R and 160. Goodwill consists of both the parent and the noncontrolling interest. Noncontrolling interest includes goodwill and is treated as equity, rather than a liability. Consolidation is based on the fair value of the subsidiary's net assets. If the parent acquired the subsidiary in multiple stages, the accounting method may have to change from the cost method to the equity method. And, any gains or losses from the previous investment must be recognized. After the controlling interest is reached, consolidation is required and goodwill is established. Any disposition of an investment in a subsidiary is treated as an equity transaction. This article emphasizes the complexity of stage acquisition.
Exploring Student Engagement in an Augmented Reality Learning Game
Authors: VanMeerten Nicolaas , Varma Keisha
Published: November 2017

This article investigates the behaviors of middle school students during their participation in an AR game called Play the Past. The findings of this study show that engagement differed during discrete activities in the game environment and that there was a relationship between the roles that students were assigned and their engagement.
Categorizing Play Styles in Competitive Gaming
Authors: Hrabec Ondřej
Published: November 2017

This article addresses the concept of play style, which has been insufficiently explored in research on video game players despite the diversity of empirically observable play styles in competitive gaming. The main proposition of this article is that play style is a pattern that predicts players' behavior, their perceptions and their interactions. A qualitative analysis was conducted to better understand the term “style” in gamer culture based on an extensive examination of players' texts and interviews with professional gamers and commentators. The results identify categories corresponding to seven general styles that relate to gamer terminology and play theory. The results also suggest a richness, dynamic interrelatedness and changeability of styles. Furthermore, there may be similarities among different play styles with regard to their activity components despite the different intentional patterns that direct players' behaviors.
Cross-Platform Mobile Development Framework Based on MDA Approach
Authors: Salma Charkaoui , Abdelaziz Marzak , Ben Lahma El Habib , Issam Abdelbaki
Published: November 2017

This article describes how these days the mobile application market keeps getting bigger because of the different mobile operating systems. So, it has become a challenge for application vendors to provide an application planned for multiple platforms whose operating systems use different technologies. This fragmentation makes the development of mobile applications quite difficult and very expensive. This can be observed at all levels, data storage, software architecture, user interface, access to phone data, communication between applications, etc. To resolve this problem, several solutions exist in the mobile market to develop mobile applications according to the principle “develops once, use everywhere”. In this article, the authors propose a solution based on the MDA approach called “TimPhoneGenerator”. Using TimPhoneGenerator, applications only need to be coded once for all targeted platforms, which reduces development time and costs.
The Epistemology of Skill and Knowledge Development to Teach Portuguese in a Virtual Learning Environment
Authors: Hadjistassou Stella Kyprou
Published: November 2017

This article explores the underlying processes involved as two experienced Portuguese as a foreign language instructors, who are novices to 3D technologies, became immersed in the epistemology of teaching in a 3D context. The two instructors undertook a challenging initiative to develop and deliver two sections of oral Portuguese in a 3D environment. Through the contingent support of a European community of practitioners, the two instructors explored how the game-based elements and other semiotic resources of SL could be used to enact affordances for the development of goal-oriented tasks, collaborative activities, and interactions in order to guide students in building their oral proficiency in Portuguese. The skill and knowledge development were examined with the trajectories of Compton's framework and epistemological theory where teaching in virtual contexts is contingent upon the construction of technological, pedagogical, and evaluation skills.
Automatic Adaptable Intentional Service Generating and Publishing Framework using OWL-S Annotation
Authors: Khanfir Emna , Ben Djemaa Raoudha , Amous Ikram
Published: November 2017

This article presents a framework for automatic generation and publishing of these service descriptions in a register. This framework is an Adaptable Intentional Web Service-Publishing Framework (AIWS-PF). The authors opted for automatic generation because the service supplier is unaware of this new structure of services. For this reason, they chose to automatically generate the description of intentional adaptable service using semantic annotations and the automatic detection of service intention through Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP). Moreover, the authors proposed an extension of UDDI register so that it saves intentional, contextual and QoS information.
Thermal Stability of Nanograin Structure in Cu-Zn Alloy System
Authors: Tang Fa Wei , Song Xiao Yan , Wang Hai Bin , Liu Xue Mei , Hou Chao
Published: November 2017

To describe the thermal stability of the nanocrystalline solid solution with weak segregation such as Cu-Zn system, we developed a hybrid model combining the first principles calculation and thermodynamic evaluation. The dependence of the solute segregation behavior on the solute concentration, grain size and temperature were demonstrated. We found that the segregation energy does not change with the solute concentration monotonically. At a constant solute concentration and a given temperature, a nanograin structure can remain stable if the initial grain size is kept in a critical range. The model predictions were confirmed by the experimental measurements that a state of steady nanograin growth can be achieved by designing a certain solute concentration and a proper initial grain size.
The Gauteng Conservation Plan: Planning for biodiversity in a rapidly urbanising province
Authors: Pfab Michèle F. , Compaan Petronella C. , Whittington-Jones Craig A. , Engelbrecht Ian , Dumalisile Lihle , Mills Lorraine , West Sean D. , Muller Piet , Masterson Gavin P.R. , Nevhutalu Livhuwani S. , Holness Stephen D. , Hoare David B.
Published: November 2017

Background: Gauteng, the smallest of South Africa’s nine provinces, is rich in biodiversity; yet it is also the most densely populated province and thus faces significant development pressures.Objective: A project was therefore initiated in 2001 to identify areas of biodiversity importance in the province, using the systematic spatial biodiversity planning approach that has been adopted in South Africa. This article reports on the final version of the provincial conservation plan as completed in 2011.Method: Vegetation types and quaternary catchments constituted the coarse filter biodiversity features, while rare and threatened taxa constituted the fine filter features. Ecological processes were captured by a range of landscape features, while planning for climate change primarily involved the design of a corridor network. Planning was undertaken within the ArcView linked C-plan decision support system, where a cost surface preferentially directed the selection of available sites towards low-cost areas.Results: Forty-four per cent of the province is required to achieve targets. Only 8% of features are close to having their targets met or are adequately conserved in the current protected area network of 23 protected areas covering 2.4% of the province, while 73% of features are absent or poorly represented.Conclusion: The existing protected area network is inadequate for the conservation of biodiversity in Gauteng. The Gauteng Conservation Plan identifies a set of areas that are required to achieve conservation targets. It is important that identified areas currently not in the protected area network are protected either formally or through legislated land use management processes.
Corrigendum: Enhancing resilience to landslide disaster risks through rehabilitation of slide scars by local communities in Mt Elgon, Uganda
Authors: Nakileza Bob R. , Majaliwa Mwanjalolo J. , Wandera Abu-Baker S. , Nantumbwe Clare M.
Published: November 2017

No abstract available.
Corrigendum: Farmer–African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) relations in the eastern Kalahari region of Botswana
Authors: Fraser-Celin Valli-Laurente , Hovorka Alice J. , Hovorka Mark , Maude Glyn
Published: November 2017

No abstract available.
Range Spaces of Co-Analytic Toeplitz Operators
Authors: Fricain Emmanuel , Hartmann Andreas , Ross William T.
Published: November 2017

In this paper we discuss the range of a co-analytic Toeplitz operator. These range spaces are closely related to de Branges–Rovnyak spaces (in some cases they are equal as sets). In order to understand its structure, we explore when the range space decomposes into the range of an associated analytic Toeplitz operator and an identifiable orthogonal complement. For certain cases, we compute this orthogonal complement in terms of the kernel of a certain Toeplitz operator on the Hardy space, where we focus on when this kernel is a model space (backward shift invariant subspace). In the spirit of Ahern–Clark, we also discuss the non-tangential boundary behavior in these range spaces. These results give us further insight into the description of the range of a co-analytic Toeplitz operator as well as its orthogonal decomposition. Our Ahern–Clark type results, which are stated in a general abstract setting, will also have applications to related sub-Hardy Hilbert spaces of analytic functions such as the de Branges–Rovnyak spaces and the harmonically weighted Dirichlet spaces.
Об индуктивном подходе к стандартной гипотезе для расслоенного комплексного многообразия с сильными полустабильными вырождениями
Authors: Tankeev Sergey Gennadievich
Published: November 2017

Доказано, что стандартная гипотеза Гротендика $B(X)$ типа Лефшеца об алгебраичности операторов $\ast$ и $\Lambda$ теории Ходжа верна для 4-мерного гладкого проективного комплексного многообразия, расслоенного над гладкой проективной кривой $C$, если любой вырожденный слой является объединением гладких неприводимых компонент кратности $1$ с нормальными пересечениями, для общего геометрического слоя $X_{\overline\eta}$ верна стандартная гипотеза $B(X_{\overline\eta})$, существует хотя бы один вырожденный слой $X_\delta$ и для неприводимых компонент $V_i$ любого вырожденного слоя $X_\delta=V_1+…+V_m$ кольца рациональных когомологий $H^\ast(V_i,\mathbb{Q})$ и $H^\ast(V_i\cap V_j,\mathbb{Q})$ порождаются классами алгебраических циклов. Аналогичные результаты получены для $3$-мерных расслоенных многообразий с алгебраическими инвариантными циклами (определенными гладкой частью $\pi'\colon X'\to C'$ структурного морфизма $\pi\colon X\to C$) или с вырожденным слоем, все неприводимые компоненты которого $E_i$ обладают свойством $H^2(E_i,\mathbb{Q})= \operatorname{NS}(E_i)\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}}\mathbb{Q}$.
Библиография: 38 наименований.
Спектральный метод и центральная предельная теорема для общих цепей Маркова
Authors: Nagaev Sergey Victorovich
Published: November 2017

Рассматривается цепь Маркова с произвольным фазовым пространством. Разработана модификация спектрального метода, которая позволяет доказывать центральную предельную теорему для неравномерно эргодичных цепей Маркова. Условия, которые при этом налагаются на переходную функцию, являются более общими, чем у Атрейя-Нея и Нуммелина. Доказательство центральной предельной теоремы, данное в работе, является чисто аналитическим.
Библиография: 45 наименований.
CO2 and CH4 budgets and global warming potential modifications in Sphagnum-dominated peat mesocosms invaded by Molinia caerulea
Authors: Leroy Fabien , Gogo Sébastien , Guimbaud Christophe , Bernard-Jannin Léonard , Yin Xiaole , Belot Guillaume , Shuguang Wang , Laggoun-Défarge Fatima
Published: November 2017

Abstract. Plant communities play a key role in regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in peatland ecosystems and therefore in their ability to act as carbon (C) sinks. However, in response to global change, a shift from Sphagnum to vascular plant-dominated peatlands may occur, with a potential alteration in their C-sink function. To investigate how the main GHG fluxes (CO2 and CH4) are affected by a plant community change (shift from dominance of Sphagnum mosses to vascular plants, i.e. Molinia caerulea), a mesocosm experiment was set up. Gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (ER) and CH4 emission models were used to estimate the annual C balance and global warming potential under both vegetation covers. While the ER and CH4 emission models estimated an output of, respectively, 376 and 7 gC m−2 y−1 in Sphagnum mesocosms, this reached 1018 and 33 gC m−2 y−1 in mesocosms with Sphagnum rubellum and Molinia caerulea. Annual modelled GPP was estimated at −414 and −1273 gC m−2 y−1 in Sphagnum and Sphagnum + Molinia plots, respectively, leading to an annual CO2 and CH4 budget of −30 gC m−2 y−1 in Sphagnum plots and of −223 gC m−2 y−1 in Sphagnum + Molinia ones (i.e., a C-sink). Even if, CH4 emissions accounted for a small part of the gaseous C efflux (ca. 3 %), their global warming potential value makes both plant communities have a climate warming effect. The shift of vegetation from Sphagnum mosses to Molinia caerulea seems beneficial for C sequestration at a gaseous level. However, roots and litters of Molinia caerulea could provide substrates for C emissions that were not taken into account in the short measurement period studied here.
Historical Contemporaneity and Contemporaneous Historicity: Creation of Meaning and Identity in Postwar Trauma Narratives
Authors: Wilhelm Thorsten
Published: November 2017

This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction. Analyzing Jewish-American novels from three generations—survivors, their children, and their grandchildren—the author traces the trajectories and changing perspectives in the narrative productions of these three generations. The analysis uses Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma to analyze generational trajectories in identity formations.
Fantasies of the Library: Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, eds.
Authors: Gunn Chelsea
Published: November 2017

Review of Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, eds. Fantasies of the Library. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2016. 160 pp.; 30 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Hardcover $24.95. (9780262035200)
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 – 2016: Whitney Museum of American Art, October 26, 2016 – February 5, 2017
Authors: Ogrodnik Benjamin
Published: November 2017

Eschibition Review:Exhibition catalog: Chrissie Iles, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016. 256pp.; 300 color and 100 b/w ills.  Hardcover $65.00 (9780300221879) Exhibition schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, October 28, 2016–February 5, 2017
Boundless: Art and Identification Across Borders
Authors: Di Cicco Rae
Published: November 2017

Editorial Statement for volume six of Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture.
O corpo feminino, o movimento e a fluidez: as ninfas em Victor Meirelles e Pedro Américo
Authors: Queiroz Campos Daniela
Published: November 2017

A presente pesquisa aborda a construção corpórea feminina na pintura brasileira do século XIX. O estudo visa problematizar os corpos femininos formulados a partir dos parâmetros da recém instaurada Academia de Artes no Brasil em diálogo com as questões teórica elaboradas por Aby Warburg e Georges Didi-Huberman, em especial com a Ninfa. A Ninfa perpassa a produção de Aby Warburg, que figurara particularmente em sua tese doutoral, seus escritos sobre Domenico Ghirlandaio e seu Atlas Mnemosyne. A Ninfa será principalmente pensada nas pinturas de destacados pintores oitocentistas brasileiros, tais quais: Victor Meirelles e Pedro Américo.
Lead-Lag Relationships in International Stock Markets Revisited: Are They Exploitable?
Authors: Gruener Andreas , Finke Christian
Published: November 2017

This paper re-examines empirical lead-lag relationships in stock portfolios sorted by size, analyst coverage and institutional ownership across seven major developed markets. We find that lead-lag relationships continue to exist in a majority of countries. A simple trading strategy that exploits the return predictability based on lead-lag relationships yields significant abnormal returns in several markets. However, the abnormal returns quickly decline when transaction costs are introduced and become insignificant for one-way transaction costs of more than 40 basis points. Thus, lead-lag relationships are probably not exploitable in practice and will continue to exist in the future.
Sustainability of Community Based Water Projects: Dynamics of Actors’ Power Relations
Authors: Kilonzo Rehema , George Victor
Published: November 2017

Sustainability of Community Based Water Projects (CBWP) in Central Tanzania was examined. Actors’ power was hypothesized to influence sustainability of the CBWP. Power was analyzed from two aspects; power structures and power relations. A cross-sectional design was adopted, which allowed data to be collected once at a point. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to get the study sample. Stratified random sampling was employed to get 30 CBWP for the study and simple random sampling was used for obtaining 390 households. Purposive sampling was also employed to obtain the key informants for in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions Quantitative data obtained were processed and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 16v.) while qualitative data were transcribed and content analysis was employed in analyzing them. In examining the power structure the study shows that institutions and empowerment have significant correlation with sustainability status of the CBWP. The study also shows that global and national actors have high influence/power in effecting the CBWP critical activities. The local actors are perceived to be powerless; however, the study indicates importance of recognizing them because their position as powerless actors may limit their participation in the CBWP and thus jeopardizing the chances of yielding sustainable CBWP.
Measuring Economic and Environmental Performance of Energy Resources in ISIC codes: Evidence from Iran’s Industry Sector
Authors: Rashidi Payam , Homayounifar Masoud , Salari Taghi Ebrahimi , Rouhani Modjtaba
Published: November 2017

Recently, in accordance with global environmental conservation awareness, undesirable outputs of production and social activities (e.g., air pollutants) have harmful social and environmental dimensions especially in developing countries. Therefore, this study discusses how to apply Data Environment Analysis (DEA) for environmental assessment. However, previous DEA research has documented a limited use of DEA on environmental assessment. A unique feature of DEA-based environmental assessment is that it needs to classify outputs into desirable and undesirable outputs. On the other hand, there is a lack of literatures in field of measuring on economic and environmental energy efficiency between ISIC codes. Therefore, this paper measured the energy efficiency of Iran’s main ISIC sub sectors using non linear DEA approach. Results indicated that between studied ISIC codes, the codes 15 and 24 have most economic (0.97 and 1.00) and environmental (1.00 and 0.82) efficiency, respectively. Also, in comparison with the other studied ISIC codes, the code 23 is economically and environmentally inefficient (0.28 and 0.32).
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Modern Applied Science, Vol. 11, No. 12
Authors: Lee Sunny
Published: November 2017

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Modern Applied Science, Vol. 11, No. 12
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Mechanical Engineering Research, Vol. 7, No. 2
Authors: Bai Lenna
Published: November 2017

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Mechanical Engineering Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2017
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS AND THERAPY IN PATIENT WITH A BILATERAL THALAMIC ISCHEMIC STROKE DUE TO THE ARTERY OF PERCHERON TERRITORY INFARCT
Authors: Peda Barbara , Kotlęga Dariusz , Gołąb-Janowska Monika , Nowacki Przemysław
Published: November 2017

A bilateral thalamic ischemic stroke is a rare clinical manifestation resulting mainly from cardioembolism or small vessel disease. The ischemic stroke affecting the thalamus bilaterally may lead to memory and executive dysfunction, dis o rientation, oculomotor and conjugated gaze disturbances, motor deficit, cerebellar symptoms, apathy, stupor, somnolence and a coma. There have only been a few descriptions of the neuropsychological condition prevalent in this group of patients. The aim of the study was to present a detailed neuropsychological manifestation and follow-up with systematic rehabilitation. We present a 57-year-old female patient suffering from a bilateral thalamic ischemic stroke due to cardiogenic embolism of the artery of Percheron. The presented case summarizes the dynamics of the changes in cognitive and executive functions in the patient over the course of six months from the onset. We conclude that all bilateral stroke patients should undergo a detailed neuropsychological assess ment, an early, intensive rehabilitation process and a full cardiac investigation to unearth the potential causes.