bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Diagnostic criteria for diabetic polyneuropathy in a population study
Authors: Bursa T. R. , Strokov I. A. , Novosadova M. V. , Drepa O. I. , Ametov A. S.
Published: October 2019

Population surveys are of high informative value and reflect the actual prevalence of diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) in society. The purpose of the present study was to examine the spread of DPN among patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and to assess the diagnostic value of used diagnostic methods. Three hundred and forty-six patients (100 children and adolescents and 246 adults) with type 1 DM, living in Moscow and its region were examined. The criteria adopted at the Conference on Standardization of DPN Diagnosis in Saint Antonio in 1992 were used to diagnose DPN. The criteria proposed by P. Dyck et al. were applied to define DPN stages. The prevalence of DPN in the children and adolescents was 40%, the vast majority (75%) of the patients having subclinical (la and lb) stages of DPN. Autonomic deficit was revealed in 17% of the children and adolescents with type 1 DM. In the adults, the prevalence of DPN was 66.3% with a predominance (61%) of the clinical stages (2a and 2b) stages of DPN. Autonomic deficit was detected in 25.6% of the adults with type 1 DM. The most sensitive diagnostic tests in the examination of children and adolescents were found to be a neurological examination by using the NIS-LL scale (for neuropathic disorders), as well as temperature sensitivity study, and stimulation EMG. While examining the adults, an active detection of complaints showed a high sensitivity (79%) by applying the existing scales, which makes it possible to use this method at the first stage of a diagnostic search. The study of temperature sensitivity by employing the Thioterm tool increased the diagnostic value of a neurological examination by means of the NIS-LL in all age groups.
Current methods and means of metabolism automonitoring in diabetes mellitus
Authors: Starostina Ye G , Galstyan G R , Dedov I I
Published: October 2019

Self-control (SC) in the broad sense of the word is the registration of trained patients with diabetes mellitus, subjective sensations, glycemia, glucosuria and other indicators, as well as diet and physical activity in order to make independent therapeutic decisions. It is more correct to use the term “self-control” in the narrow sense, only to indicate SC metabolism, that is, to independently determine the patient’s blood sugar or urine content, which will be the subject of this lecture. Using modern methods of rapid analysis, patients can independently evaluate the most important parameters of metabolism with an accuracy close to laboratory. Since these indicators are determined in everyday conditions familiar to the patient, they are of greater value for the correction of therapy than glycemic and glucosuric profiles examined in a hospital or clinic when the patient is in completely different, unusual conditions. The main condition for the prevention and treatment of diabetic microangiopathies is the stable maintenance of a glycemia level close to normal. But only a few patients are able to feel the differences in glycemia from 4 to 10 mmol / l, and it is within these limits that you have to “work” to achieve close to normal blood sugar levels. In addition, patients with prolonged decompensation adapt to hyperglycemia and feel satisfactory, and their reduction to normal is perceived at the first stages of treatment as hypoglycemia. Therefore, one cannot rely on subjective feelings when trying to achieve normoglycemia.
Reproductive function in adolescents and men living in the dioxin-contaminated area of the Samara region
Authors: Goncharov N. P. , Katsiya G. V. , Nizhnik A. N. , Dobracheva A. D. , Todua T. N. , Britvin A. A. , Verbovaya N. I.
Published: October 2019

The study was undertaken to assess a potential risk of the elevated levels of dioxins in the town of Chapayevsk on reproductive function in adolescents during sexual maturation and in adults. It was ascertained that there was a regular trend for retarded sexual development by the Tanner stages in the adolescents living in the polluted areas as compared with control individuals of the same age. The incidence of cryptorchidism, varicocele, and inguinal hernias was 2-3 times higher in the boys from Chapayevsk than in those from Samara. However, the level of gonadotropic hormone was much higher in the Chapayevsk adolescents than that in the control group. Polluted area-living males with normal levels of reproductive hormones showed a drastic deterioration in the quality of sperm, mainly the morphological index with a characteristic reduction of the acrosomal area of the head of spermatozoons. They also displayed a decrease in the levels of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) sulfate and increases in the level of cortisol and in cortisol/ DHEA sulfate ratios. The above deviations in the balance of corticosteroids suggest impaired adaptive homeostasis, which is one of the mechanisms responsible for a potential human health risk of polychlorinated hydrocarbons.
The use of metformin for polycystic ovary syndrome
Authors: Zykova T. A. , Mel'nichenko G. A. , Strelkova A. V. , Savenko B. A. , Simonova E. V. , Dedov I. I.
Published: October 2019

Recently, there is strong evidence that insulin resistance and additive hyperinsulinemia are unique features of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Additional studies evaluating the effect of agents affecting hyperinsulinemia are no doubt to be required before making official recommendations on their use in clinical practice. The paper presents data of 12-week metformin therapy in 65 females with PCOS, by analyzing the results of studies of insulinemia and glycemia during oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) performed prior to and following the therapy. Insulin resistance and sensitivity, p-cell functions, and a secretory response of insulin to glucose stimulation were evaluated by using mathematical models and by calculating surrogate OGTT indices validated with the reference clamp test. Metformin was found to exert a positive effect on metabolic disorders in females with PCOS via increased insulin sensitivity and a decreased integral secretory response on insulin to oral glucose stimulation, by creating conditions for an adequate response to the stimulus as better insulin-mediated glucose uptake with decreased compensatory hyperinsulinemia. Recovery of adequacy of a secretory response to glucose stimulation promotes a reduction in additive hyperinsulinemia only in PCOSfemales with p-cell dysfunction caused by a predominance of decreased peripheral insulin sensitivity, rather than secretory defect.
The experience of using bigofan Siofor with polycystic ovary
Authors: Bershtein L. M. , Tsyrlina E. V. , Meshkova I. E. , Poroshina T. E. , Novik V. I. , Krasil'nikova L. A. , Kovalenko I. G.
Published: October 2019

The effect of the biguanide siofor (metformin) on the menstrual function of the endometrium and on hormonal and metabolic parameters was studied in 27 patients with ovarian polycystosis (OPC), of them 15 patients (mean age 30.7±1.7 years) were treated with the antidiabetic biguanide siofor (Berlin-Chemi) for 3 months. Siofor (metformin) used alone in patients with OPC was effective in restoring a regular menstrual cycle in 60% of cases and concurrently showed a moderate decrease in body weight. There was a significant reduction in the blood level of luteinizing hormone (LH) in most siofor-treated patients with OPC (more frequently in obese patients), which is indicative of that it is important to correct the states of central parts of the reproductive system, which are involved (along with insulin resistance and impaired steroidogenesis) in the development and formation of a clinical picture of the disease. The elevated concentration of C-peptide was found in the blood, which might be one of the manifestations of overcoming insulin resistance.
The importance of certain psychological factors in control
and treatment of diabetes
Authors: Surkova E. V.
Published: October 2019

The article is devoted to psychological factors in the control and treatment of diabetes
Complete form of the testicular feminization syndrome with dysherminoma in one testicle combiner with prolactinoma
Authors: Dzeranova L. K. , Bronstein M. E. , Marova E. I. , Vorontsov A. V. , Pishchulin A. A. , Rozhinskaya L. Ya. , Sazonova N. I. , Yershova Ye. V.
Published: October 2019

The article is devoted to the study of the complete form of the testicular feminization syndrome with dysherminoma in one testicle combiner with prolactinoma.
LA HISTORIOGRAFÍA COMO DISCURSO DISCIPLINAR
Authors: Giordano Juan Pablo
Published: October 2019

La concepción de la historiografía como un discurso disciplinar particular ha tenido poca repercusión en la formación de los estudiantes de grado en Historia. Reflexionaremos sobre las posibles dificultades que enfrentan dichos estudiantes para comprender, incorporar, producir y socializar la historia como discurso y los textos específicos de la cultura disciplinar de pertenencia. Para realizar un análisis exploratorio, elegimos El marxismo olvidado en la Argentina (1997), de Horacio Tarcus, sobre el que desarrollaremos una serie de operatorias preliminares que seleccionen dimensiones de análisis y que nos permitan construirlo como caso instrumental, siguiendo el modelo estratificado del contexto y del lenguaje propuesto por la lingüística sistémico-funcional. Sostendremos las hipótesis de que (a) hallaremos correspondencia entre las selecciones discursivas que conforman el ethos y la posición en el espacio social del agente extratextual, y que (b) al variar el agente su posición social por trayectoria, variarán sus selecciones discursivas y el ethos que conforman.
Evaluación de ruido ambiental en alrededores a centros médicos de la localidad Barrios Unidos, Bogotá
Authors: Chaux Alvarez Laura Maria , Acevedo Buitrago Baudilio
Published: October 2019

En este artículo se presentan los resultados de un  proyecto, el cual realizó la evaluación de ruido ambiental en zonas aledañas a tres centros médicos ubicados en la localidad de Barrios Unidos (Bogotá). Esto con el objetivo de determinar el cumplimiento de los límites máximos permisibles para este tipo de sectores catalogados como de tranquilidad y silencio; para así verificar la influencia del desarrollo y crecimiento de la localidad en la potencial afectación a la salud de personas. La metodología desarrollada para los procesos de medición en los diferentes centros médicos está basada en los lineamientos dados en la Resolución n.° 627 del 2006 del Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial. De esta manera, se realizó por cada centro médico la georreferenciación de la zona de estudio y mediciones preliminares, lo cual permitió establecer la existencia de contaminación por ruido y localizar un punto de mayor impacto en el que se hicieron las mediciones definitivas. De manera simultánea, se efectuó la toma de datos de condiciones meteorológicas, así como una caracterización de tráfico vehicular para construir mapas de ruido mediante el software SoundPlan. Los resultados obtenidos en cada centro médico demuestran, en general, que se sobrepasan los límites normativos de ruido ambiental (Leq A: 55dB), y que este fenómeno se correlaciona principalmente con el alto tránsito de vehículos, concurrencia de personas hablando y las actividades comerciales informales y formales que se han desarrollado de manera desordenada alrededor de la ubicación de los centros hospitalarios, convirtiendo a estos en un entornos comerciales y generando que no haya cumplimiento con relación al plan de ordenamiento establecido en la localidad.
STEAM as a tool to encourage engineering studies
Authors: Oliveros Ruiz Maria Amparo
Published: October 2019

In recent times women have been making their way into engineering, one of the most booming fields internationally. However, women enrollment in these careers in Mexico has grown slowly, only about 30 % of the total student population enrolled in an engineering related program are women. For the purposes of this research, a survey was applied to the students of three universities in the northwest region of Mexico confirmed a STEAM network aiming to promote enrollment, retention and gender equality on STEM careers, in order to present the outcome about their motivation for this career choice. As well as the future performance model of female students enrolled in engineering degrees. Findings have shown that there is no female model to follow, so it is proposed to include a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) model in the Schools of Engineering to increase preference and enrollment of women in this area of knowledge.
Microenseñanza en el laboratorio de ciencias para el alumnado del grado de educación infantil
Authors: Dulsat-Ortiz Carles
Published: October 2019

Esta investigación pretende acercarse al aprendizaje desde los pilares de Delors en un espacio tan específico como el laboratorio de ciencias, así como a la aplicación del concepto de la transposición didáctica de Chevallard. Para ello, se acerca a la utilización de la metodología activa: microenseñanza. El planteamiento de esta microdocencia se orienta a introducir los conocimientos científicos y mostrarlos mediante experimentos al resto del grupo clase. Por ello, la finalidad de esta investigación radicó en describir desde el punto de vista del alumnado las vivencias de esta metodología y las ventajas que supone esta metodología más participativa. La manera como se hizo la recolección y posterior análisis de la información siguió una metodología no experimental solo pos-pos-prueba con grupo no equivalente y único, siendo la población invitada el alumnado de segundo A del grado de educación infantil en la Universidade da Coruña. Entre los resultados, destacamos el elevado grado de aceptación de la metodología y cómo esta ha conseguido aumentar el grado de aceptación inicial hacia las ciencias naturales. Entre las conclusiones, cabe destacar que la metodología resultó acertada en su aplicación porque así lo mostraron las alumnas en sus respuestas, así como también por el aumento en el acercamiento a las ciencias y adquisición de los distintos saberes.
FEA Analysis of coupled thermo-mechanical response of grey cast iron material used in brake discs
Authors: Belhocine Ali , Afzal Asif
Published: October 2019

In this work, we will present numerical modeling using the ANSYS software adapted for finite element method, to follow the evolution of the global temperatures for the two types of brake discs, full and ventilated disc during a braking scenario. Also, the numerical simulation of the transient thermal analysis and the static structural one is performed here sequentially with the coupled thermo-structural method. A numerical procedure of calculation relies on important steps such that the CFD thermal analysis is well illustrated in 3D, showing the effects of heat distribution over the brake disc. This CFD analysis will help us in the calculation of the values of the thermal coefficients (h) that will be exploited in the 3D transient evolution of the brake disc temperatures. Three different brake disc materials were selected in this simulation and a comparative analysis of the results was conducted in order to derive the one with the best thermal behavior. Finally, the resolution of the coupled thermomechanical model allows us to visualize other important results of this research such as; the deformations, and the equivalent stresses of Von Mises of the disc, as well as the contact pressure of the brake pads. Following our analysis and the results we draw from it, we derive several conclusions. The choice will allow us to deliver the best suitable design of the brake rotor to ensure and guarantee the good braking performance of vehicles.
La solución de un problema matemático no convencional por estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Hernández-Morales Juan Arturo , Castañeda-Alonso Apolo , González-Polo Rosa Isela
Published: October 2019

En la enseñanza tradicional los problemas matemáticos suelen plantearse como una forma de aplicar conceptos o ejercitar procedimientos, sin embargo, en esta investigación se propuso replantear este enfoque al introducir a la clase de matemáticas otros tipos de problemas para propiciar nuevas tareas y reflexiones. En el artículo se reporta la implementación de un problema matemático no convencional con el objetivo de identificar y analizar los argumentos de estudiantes universitarios. Este tipo de problemas se caracteriza por plantear consignas abiertas y admitir diversos procedimientos para su solución. Para analizar las producciones de los estudiantes se utilizó el modelo argumentativo de Toulmin, el cual permitió identificar la estructura del razonamiento, desde los datos hasta la conclusión. Los resultados mostraron que algunos estudiantes enfrentaron dificultades debido a que la información en el problema no es del todo explícita y argumentaron la falta de datos o errores en su redacción. En el caso de aquellos estudiantes que lograron resolverlo, se observó que se involucraron ampliamente con el problema, analizaron y expusieron diversas interpretaciones, se propició la discusión de las variables y sus relaciones, se utilizaron conocimientos matemáticos para justificar sus procedimientos.
¿Qué es la Educación en Ingeniería?
Authors: Gallego-Torres Adriana Patricia
Published: October 2019

¿Qué es la Educación en Ingeniería?
RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE PROVISION OF PEOPLE’S BUSINESS CREDIT AS IMPLEMENTATION OF PRUDENTIAL PRINCIPLES
Authors: Disemadi Hari Sutra
Published: October 2019

The bank is a financial institution that has an intermediary function that bridges the interests of parties who are excess funds (creditors) and those who need funds (debtors). Banks in channeling funds, among others, through the provision of credit to the public. However, loans issued by banks contain a lot of risk, one of them is People's Business Credit (KUR). Issues regarding the risks of granting credit above will be discussed in this study, which this study uses a normative juridical method using the statutory approach. This study shows the arrangements regarding risk management are regulated in PBI Number 11/25/PBI/2009 concerning the Application of Risk Management in Commercial Banks and in Regulation of the Financial Services Authority Number 18 / POJK.03 / 2016 Regarding the Implementation of Risk Management for Commercial Banks. The implementation of the prudential principle internally for a bank's Human Resources (HR) is to apply the Banking Risk Management Principles. Banking practices usually assess five aspects of debtors (the five C’s analysis), namely: character, capital, capacity, economic conditions and collateral.
THE LEGAL REFORM OF THE WAQF LAW RESOLUTION BASED ON PANCASILA
Authors: Islamiyati Islamiyati , Rofiq Ahmad , Setyowati Ro’fah , Daengmuri Dewi Padusi
Published: October 2019

Nowadays, there are still some shortages in the rule of law of the waqf disputes resolution, therefore a lot of waqf disputes have not be solved, and moreover it has no justice value since it does not protect the rights of disputing parties. Why the legal renewal of  waqf disputes resolution based on Pancasila is important? The urgency is as the media for the enforcement and the law enactment of  the waqf dispute resolution based on Pancasila. This research is field research, and the approach method is juridical empirical. The result of the research is to explain that the legal reform of waqf dispute resolution is important because the waqf disputes always develope based on the socio-cultural development of the society. Besides, it also saves the waqf assets, gives the values of justice and certainty,makes  the rule of the law not rigid and closed, can finish the waqf disputes, and makes waqf  meaningful in the society. The legal reform  of waqf disputes resolution which is based on Pancasila means making the policy that includes determining and deciding the rules of waqf dispute resolution, hence it will be suitable with the direction of national development based on Pancasila.
STRENGTHENING FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY REGULATION TO EMPOWERMENT FINANCIAL INCLUSIVE
Authors: Abubakar Lastuti , Handayani Tri
Published: October 2019

After the global crisis at 2008; Financial Inclusion became a focus in many international forums including developing countries and Indonesia. Refers to international best practice, the solution is made: the national financial inclusion strategies that conducted among other things such as launch a certain programs such as branchless banking and peer to peer lending are the solutions has made.  One of the financial inclusive principles is technological innovation to expand public access using financial technology to reach financial systems. This research aims to study and analyze fintech regulation in Indonesia to empower the financial inclusive. Research method is used a normative juridical and descriptive analytics specification. Data has analyzed in a qualitative juridical. The results showed that Fintech has a role in broaden the access for community to financial systems so that it can be a tool for poverty alleviation and economic equality. Likewise, to strengthening and rearrange Fintech regulation is needed due to overcome the obstacles such as the misuse of personal data, the growth of shadow economy and consumer losses. Therefore, it is required a comprehensive regulation, cooperation between authorities and institutions in order that Fintech can be optimally empower the financial inclusion.
Geometric Accuracy Assessment for Shoreline Derived from NDWI, MNDWI, and AWEI Transformation on Various Coastal Physical Typology in Jepara Regency using Landsat 8 OLI Imagery in 2018
Authors: Wicaksono Arief , Wicaksono Pramaditya
Published: October 2019

Landsat 8 OLI imagery and water index utilization is expected to be able to complete the shoreline data that is difficult to obtain by using terrestrial and hydrographic surveys. In fact, coastal areas in Indonesia have a variety of coastal physical typology so that each water index characteristic in obtaining shoreline data needs to be understood in order to use water index method effectively. The objectives of this study are to map the shoreline using NDWI, MNDWI, and AWEI transformations and assess the shoreline geometric accuracy on various coastal physical typology. The shoreline derived from water index is obtained from Landsat 8 OLI imagery, while the reference shoreline for accuracy assessment is obtained from visual interpretation on Planet Scope imagery. Threshold 0 and subjective threshold based on per coastal physical typology sample experiments are used to separate land-sea. The horizontal accuracy standard of the shoreline derived from water index uses the regulation from Geospatial Information Agency of Indonesia No.15 in 2014 on technical guidelines for basic map accuracy. The results consisted of 1:100,000 scale shoreline map and shoreline geometric accuracy per coastal physical typology. Based on the shoreline geometry accuracy assessment, NDWI has the lowest shoreline geometry accuracy on artificial coast (RMSE=24.13 m). MNDWI has the lowest shoreline geometry accuracy on land deposition coast (RMSE=15.84 m), marine deposition coast (RMSE=29.53 m), and volcanic coast (RMSE=10 m). AWEIsh has the lowest shoreline geometry accuracy on the organic coast (RMSE=13.47 m), while AWEI does not superior to any coastal physical typology.
Antioxidant Activity of Daemonorops draco Resin
Authors: Purwanti Sri , Wahyuni Wulan Tri , Batubara Irmanida
Published: October 2019

Jernang resin is secretion of jernang rattan (Daemonorops draco, Arecaceae family) fruits which is endemic in Southeast Asia. This resin has various biological activities and empirically used as wound healing, headache medicines, and fever remedies by Anak Dalam ethnic group from Jambi. This study was performed to evaluate the antioxidant activity of nonpolar fraction of D. draco resin which collected from Jambi Province, Sumatera, Indonesia. Resin was extracted with n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol respectively. The antioxidant properties of the extracts were then evaluated using 1,1-diphenyl-2picryl-hidrazyl radical scavenging assay. The most active extract was further fractionated using n-hexane and methanol and separated using column chromatography and preparative thin layer chromatography. Separation of the extract was conducted through antioxidant assay-guided fractionation. Characterization of the active fraction was carried out by infrared spectroscopy. The result shows that ethyl acetate extract provides higher antioxidant activity (IC50 = 27.61 µg/mL) compare to methanol and n-hexane extracts. N-hexane fraction of ethyl acetate extract used for further separation using column and preparative thin layer chromatography due to its antioxidant activity. Separation using column chromatography resulting in 9 fractions (F.1-9). Fraction F.5 provide high antioxidant activity (IC50 = 17.27 µg/mL) and further separated using preparative thin layer chromatography resulting two fractions with lower antioxidant activity F.5.1 (IC50 = 85.18 µg/mL) and F.5.2 (IC50 = 34.94 µg/mL). Characterization of fraction F.5.2 using infrared spectroscopy showed that component in fraction F.5.2 contains NH-substituted benzene.
Road transport infrastructure: a longitudinal case study (2009-2017)
Authors: Oliveira Rodrigo Ribeiro , Schirrmeister Renata , Zatta Fernando Nascimento , Freitas Rodrigo Randow , Gonçalves Wellington
Published: October 2019

This article investigates the economic gains with the reduction of logistic costs after the asphalt pavement of the highway MT 235 for a Brazilian crystal sugar and alcohol industry. Investment in infrastructure is an attribute that increases economic growth and increases the competitiveness of companies. As far as road transport infrastructure is concerned, the problems are not limited to a specific area, but stretches of highways, which link urban transportation and ports to the generation and transmission of electricity, among others. Only 12.2% of Brazilian highways are paved. This work is the result of a longitudinal case study with participant observation, in a time line from 2009 to 2017. It was possible to identify that, after improvements in road transport infrastructure, the asphalt pavement of the highway MT 235 made possible a gain in travel time and a decrease in logistics costs, which led to the closure of the activities of one of the subsidiaries of the company studied, located in Manaus (Amazonas), in 2009. With the benefits of the asphalt pavement of the MT 235, in 2017 we found that sales volume increased 650% in relation to 2011, logistics costs have been significantly reduced in relation to gross revenues, maintaining an average of 11.58%. In 2017, the logistic costs of the company studied were 12.61% versus 20.7% from the group of Brazilian agribusiness companies. The findings show that investments in road transport infrastructure are crucial when it comes to fostering trade and competitiveness of domestic products in international markets, by reducing logistics costs.
Joint lot sizing and scheduling of a multi-product multi-period supply chain
Authors: El-meehy Ahmed Othman , El-Kharbotly Amin K. , El-Beheiry Mohammed M.
Published: October 2019

The joint lot sizing and scheduling problem can be considered as an evolvement of the joint economic lot size problem which has drawn researchers’ interests for decades. The objective of this paper is to find the effect of a capacitated multi-period supply chain design parameters on joint lot sizing and scheduling decisions for different holding and penalty costs. The supply chain deals with two raw materials suppliers. The production facility produces two products which are shipped to customers through distribution centers. A mathematical model is developed to determine optimum quantities of purchased raw materials, production schedule (MPS), delivered quantities and raw material and products inventory for predetermined number of periods. The model is solved to maximize total supply chain profits. Results showed that at high capacity and low holding cost, the supply chain tends to produce only one product each period, for limited capacity and high value of holding cost, the supply chain may produce the two products together each period.
Group Approximation in Cayley Topology and Coarse Geometry, Part II: Fibred Coarse Embeddings
Authors: Mimura Masato , Sako Hiroki
Published: October 2019

The objective of this series is to study metric geometric properties of disjoint unions of Cayley graphs of amenable groups by group properties of the Cayley accumulation points in the space of marked groups. In this Part II, we prove that a disjoint union admits a fibred coarse embedding into a Hilbert space (as a disjoint union) if and only if the Cayley boundary of the sequence in the space of marked groups is uniformly a-T-menable. We furthermore extend this result to ones with other target spaces. By combining our main results with constructions of Osajda and Arzhantseva–Osajda, we construct two systems of markings of a certain sequence of finite groups with two opposite extreme behaviors of the resulting two disjoint unions: With respect to one marking, the space has property A. On the other hand, with respect to the other, the space does not admit fibred coarse embeddings into Banach spaces with non-trivial type (for instance, uniformly convex Banach spaces) or Hadamard manifolds; the Cayley limit group is, furthermore, non-exact.
Decision Making and Games with Vector Outcomes
Authors: Park Jaeok
Published: October 2019

In this paper, we study decision making and games with vector outcomes. We provide a general framework where outcomes lie in a real topological vector space and the decision maker’s preferences over outcomes are described by a preference cone, which is defined as a convex cone satisfying a continuity axiom. Further, we define a notion of utility representation and introduce a duality between outcomes and utilities. We provide conditions under which a preference cone is represented by a utility and is the dual of a set of utilities. We formulate a decision-making problem with vector outcomes and study optimal choices. We also consider games with vector outcomes and characterize the set of equilibria. Lastly, we discuss the problem of equilibrium selection based on our characterization.
Sets of p-restriction and p-spectral synthesis
Authors: Puls Michael J.
Published: October 2019

In this paper we investigate the restriction problem. More precisely, we give sufficient conditions for the failure of a set E in ℝ
n
to have the p-restriction property. We also extend the concept of spectral synthesis to Lp
(ℝ
n
) for sets of p-restriction when p > 1. We use our results to show that there are p-values for which the unit sphere is a set of p-spectral synthesis in ℝ
n
when n ⩾ 3.
The strong maximum principle for Schrödinger operators on fractals
Authors: Ionescu Marius V. , Okoudjou Kasso A. , Rogers Luke G.
Published: October 2019

We prove a strong maximum principle for Schrödinger operators defined on a class of postcritically finite fractal sets and their blowups without boundary. Our primary interest is in weaker regularity conditions than have previously appeared in the literature; in particular we permit both the fractal Laplacian and the potential to be Radon measures on the fractal. As a consequence of our results, we establish a Harnack inequality for solutions of these operators.
Phase Analysis and Microstructural Investigations of Ce2Zr2O7for High-Temperature Coatings on Ni-Base Superalloy Substrates
Authors: Venkatesh G. , Subramanian R. , John Berchmans L.
Published: October 2019

Crystalline cerium-zirconate (CZ) powders were synthesized via solution-assisted combustion synthesis route and calcined at 850°C for 8 h to obtain coarse crystalline powders. SEM (scanning electron microscopy) characterization studies were done to evaluate the morphology of the powders. XRD analysis of the resulting powder confirmed the presence of crystalline α-Ce2Zr2O7along with a Ce2Zr2O8phase having a disordered fluorite cubic lattice. Phase composition, lattice parameters, and the atomic positions were also investigated. Refinement of XRD data was done to quantify the amount of α-Ce2Zr2O7and Ce2Zr2O8phases. Ni-base superalloy Inconel 625 was chosen as the coating substrate, and the powders were coated using an air plasma spraying (APS). A thermally grown oxide (TGO)/Al2O3layer was observed owing to the high temperature of the substrate as well as the diffusion of bond coat material into the substrate. Coated samples were characterized by SEM to study the surface morphology, coating thickness, and interface microstructures. The thickness of the coated sample was found to be 400 μm. Thermal cycling test of the coated sample was carried out at 750°C for 50 h to evaluate the thermal shock resistance of the coating as well as the spalling behavior of the coating. Preliminary oxidation tests were carried out for 50 h at 750°C to evaluate the oxide growth by measuring weight gain of the oxide layers formed. Oxide growth signifies the gradual increment of layers over a period with a parabolic rate constant of about Kp= 1.18 × 10–3mg2cm–4h–1.
Considerations of Resilience in the Homeland Security Literature: Towards Conceptual Convergence?
Authors: Haase Thomas W. , Demiroz Fatih
Published: October 2019

Scholars and policy makers argue that communities that increase their resilience are better positioned to protect themselves from disruptive events. The popularity of the resilience concept has created challenges for scholars and public policy makers. The most substantial challenge relates to whether there exists sufficient common understanding of resilience to enable the concept to be applied in research and public policy contexts. This article presents the findings of an analysis of resilience discussions in the homeland security literature. The analysis included the 56 articles that reference resilience terminology and are published in the journals:Homeland Security Affairsand theJournal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Our findings indicate that resilience discussions in the homeland security literature seem to be converging towards a hybrid conceptualization of resilience, which suggests that a resilient system would have the capacity to both resist a disturbance and to quickly restore services if a disturbance could not be prevented. Despite this possible movement towards conceptual convergence, additional steps must be taken if resilience is to become a concept that can be used to guide the development and implementation of homeland security policy.
Towards a typology of spatial deictic expressions
Authors: Nintemann Julia , Robbers Maja
Published: October 2019

In response to the typology of spatial interrogatives (Stolz et al. 2017b), the morphologically corresponding spatial deictic declaratives pursuant to the three basic relations place – goal – source are brought into focus for a comparison of both related paradigms. A canonical model (Corbett 2005) is applied to assess paradigms of spatial deictic forms. Logical outcomes considering all possible distributions of (a)syncretic patterns are discussed. To prepare our data for statistical evaluations, both parallels and differences between the two related paradigms are surveyed. Our corpus data is presented to outline what a typology of spatial deictic paradigms should encompass.
Jüdische Selbstbehauptung in Berlin
Authors: Georgiev Anna
Published: October 2019

Vorspann

Während der NS-Zeit wurden rund 500 Thorarollen auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Berlin Weißensee vor der Zerstörung bewahrt. Bisher galt die Erforschung der konkreten Umstände als Desideratum. Anna Georgiev kann die Geschichte der in Weißensee versteckten Thorarollen von ihrer Einlagerung bis hin zu ihrer Verteilung nach dem Krieg durch Hannah Arendt im Rahmen ihrer Tätigkeit für die Jewish Cultural Reconstruction nun weitergehend rekonstruieren, dabei greift sie auch auf bisher unveröffentlichtes Bildmaterial zurück. Das Verstecken der Thorarollen lässt sich als Form von Widerstand und jüdischer Selbstbehauptung begreifen. Trotz drohender Deportation setzten sich die Beteiligten für den Erhalt der Rollen und somit für die Bewahrung jüdischer Traditionen ein.
„Anständige“ Täter – „asoziale“ Opfer
Authors: Wiedemann Felix
Published: October 2019

Vorspann

Die Ermordung tausender „asozialer“ Justizgefangener zwischen 1942 und 1944 gehört zu den weniger bekannten NS-Verbrechen. Dabei war das Geschehen bereits in der Nachkriegszeit Gegenstand umfangreicher Ermittlungen, die 1951 im Wiesbadener Juristenprozess gegen führende Ministerialbeamte des ehemaligen Reichsjustizministeriums mündeten. Als unmittelbares Nachfolgeverfahren des Nürnberger Juristenprozesses markiert der mit Freisprüchen endende Wiesbadener Prozess den Übergang von der Besatzungsjustiz zur Justiz der frühen Bundesrepublik. Darüber hinaus reflektiert das Verfahren die spezifischen justiz- und vergangenheitspolitischen Entscheidungen, gesellschaftlichen Narrative und Moralvorstellungen der frühen 1950er Jahre.
Die Bibel als Text, Schrift und Übersetzung. Exegetische Skizzen zur Bibeldidaktik
Authors: Schneider Michael
Published: October 2019

Der Beitrag gibt zunächst einen Einblick in bibelhermeneutische Diskurse der Gegenwart. Dies geschieht exemplarisch anhand der Leitbegriffe Text, Schrift und Übersetzung. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Ansätzen der Bibelwissenschaft wird abschließend nach Impulsen für die Bibeldidaktik gefragt.
Kontrapunktisches Lesen – intertextuelle Anregungen für eine interkulturelle Bibeldidaktik
Authors: Jahnel Claudia , Konz Britta
Published: October 2019

Der Artikel geht von der Beobachtung aus, dass die Curricula und Konzepte des Religionsunterrichtes der interkulturellen christlichen Vielfalt von Schülerinnen und Schülern und dem interkulturellen Lernen bislang kaum Rechnung tragen. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt er das Konzept einer interkulturell-intertextuellen Bibeldidaktik. Sie verbindet die Wahrnehmung der Vielfalt biblischer Auslegungstraditionen innerhalb der Weltchristenheit mit der Einsicht in die innerbiblische kulturelle Vielfalt. Entsprechend werden Interkulturelle Theologie und Arbeiten zur Intertextualität als Bezugswissenschaften in den Blick genommen und hinsichtlich ihres inhaltlichen wie methodischen Potentials für eine interkulturelle Bibeldidaktik skizziert. Drei Beispiele illustrieren Möglichkeiten der praktischen Umsetzung der interkulturellen Bibeldidaktik.
Effects of a Multimodal Exercise Program Plus Neural Gliding on Postural Control, Pain, and Flexibility of Institutionalized Older Adults: A Randomized, Parallel, and Double-Blind Study
Authors: Mateus Ana , Rebelo Jessica , Silva Anabela G.
Published: October 2019

Background and Purpose:

The effect of adding neural mobilization to a multimodal program of exercises has not been investigated, despite its potential positive effects. The aim of this study was to compare the acute effects of a multimodal exercise program and neural gliding against a multimodal exercise program only, on pain intensity, gait speed, Timed Up and Go (TUG) test, lower limb flexibility, and static balance of institutionalized older adults.

Methods:

Older adults who were institutionalized (n = 26) were randomized to receive a multimodal exercise program plus neural gliding or a multimodal exercise program only. Both interventions were delivered twice a week for 8 weeks. Participants were assessed for pain, gait velocity, balance, flexibility, and TUG at baseline and postintervention.

Results:

A significant main effect of time for pain intensity (F
1,24 = 8.95, P = .006), balance (F
1,24 = 10.29, P = .004), and gait velocity (F
1,24 = 5.51, P = .028) was observed, indicating a positive impact of both interventions. No other significant effects were found (TUG and flexibility; P > .05).

Discussion:

A 45-minute multimodal exercise program, twice a week for 8 weeks, has a positive impact on pain intensity, balance, and gait velocity, but neural gliding has no additional benefit. It is unclear whether dose and type of neural mobilization may have had an impact on results. Considering the structural and physiological changes that tend to occur with age, future studies could explore the effects of neural tensioning or of higher doses of neural mobilization.

Conclusions:

This study suggests that adding neural gliding to a multimodal exercise program has no additional benefit.
Examining the functionality of peripheral vision: From fundamental understandings to applied sport science
Authors: Vater Christian , Kredel Ralf , Hossner Ernst-Joachim
Published: October 2019

In sports, it is important not only to locate gaze on the right location to utilize the high acuity of foveal vision, but also to attend to other objects in the environment without looking directly at them, accordingly, using peripheral vision. Peripheral vision becomes especially important if, for example, the processing of information from more than one location (e.g. players) is decisive in making accurate decisions. Since such decisions generally must be made under high spatio-temporal demands, costly eye-movements might be advantageously avoided by using peripheral vision for information pick-up from multiple cues. In a series of studies, we aimed to translate the demands found in sports and to investigate the functionality of peripheral vision in a well-controlled experimental paradigm, the multiple object tracking (MOT) task. MOT was implemented in a dual task, along with an additional event-detection task. The present article first presents an overview of sport-specific studies focusing on the functionality of peripheral vision and following, summarizes a series of three published MOT studies. These studies show that peripheral vision is used for simultaneous target monitoring and target-change detection and that visual and attentional demands affect gaze anchoring and change-detection rates. Results also reveal a dysfunctionality of saccades, and further suggest an event- and distance-optimized gaze-anchoring position. In the final portion of this article, we derive specific applications for future sports-specific research. Specifically, we suggest to: (a) use dual-task situations in sport-specific settings, such as monitoring multiple players in soccer and playing a pass at specific moments, (b) investigate the costs of saccades in sports situations with high spatio-temporal demands, as in martial arts, and finally, (c) manipulate attentional and visual demands. For each of these avenues of research, we sketch sports-specific experiments currently being conducted in our research group.
Reconciling new with old injury paradigms and the need to dig deeper – comment on Nigg et al.
Authors: Paquette Max R. , Miller Ross H.
Published: October 2019

In response to the target article by Nigg et al (2017) suggesting the need to shift towards new running injury paradigms, we comment on the need to continue investigating a variety of paradigms, new and old, and on poorly studied factors that necessitate the need to continue digging deeper in the pursuit of better prediction of injury development. Lastly, we argue that new and old paradigms can be reconciled under the more general paradigm that running injuries are most directly an issue of tissue adaptation.
From the crowdfunding of sport to shared sponsorship
Authors: Leroux-Sostenes Marie-Josèphe , Bayle Emmanuel
Published: October 2019

The rise of crowdfunding as a way of funding sport projects has prompted numerous companies to become involved in these campaigns. This paper explores a model of crowdfunding in which a sponsor company supports individual projects. A qualitative study based on interviews with crowdfunding executives showed that campaigns are more likely to be successful if they include a sponsor company, and that crowdfunding platforms and the projects they support have become a new interactive, online communication tool for sponsors. Our data revealed four modes of corporate involvement in crowdfunding and fourteen objectives companies hope to achieve through this involvement. Three of these objectives can be attained exclusively via this communication tool. In addition, companies focus on five “success factors” when deciding whether or not to sponsor a crowdfunding campaign. This model of corporate-supported crowdfunding is creating a new paradigm of “shared” (by a community) sponsorship that will complement the current system of “confined” (to specific companies) sponsorship.
Temporal evolution of IP25 and other highly branched isoprenoid lipids in sea ice and the underlying water column during an Arctic melting season
Authors: Amiraux Rémi , Smik Lukas , Köseoğlu Denizcan , Rontani Jean-François , Galindo Virginie , Grondin Pierre-Luc , Babin Marcel , Belt Simon T.
Published: October 2019

In recent years, certain mono- and di-unsaturated highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkene biomarkers (i.e., IP25 and HBI IIa) have emerged as useful proxies for sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic, respectively. Despite the relatively large number of sea ice reconstructions based on IP25 and HBI IIa, considerably fewer studies have addressed HBI variability in sea ice or in the underlying water column during a spring bloom and ice melt season. In this study, we quantified IP25 and various other HBIs at high temporal and vertical resolution in sea ice and the underlying water column (suspended and sinking particulate organic matter) during a spring bloom/ice melt event in Baffin Bay (Canadian Arctic) as part of the Green Edge project. The IP25 data are largely consistent with those reported from some previous studies, but also highlight: (i) the short-term variability in its production in sea ice; (ii) the release of ice algae with high sinking rates following a switch in sea ice conditions from hyper- to hyposaline within the study period; and (iii) the occurrence of an under-ice phytoplankton bloom. Outcomes from change-point analysis conducted on chlorophyll a and IP25, together with estimates of the percentage of ice algal organic carbon in the water column, also support some previous investigations. The co-occurrence of other di- and tri-unsaturated HBIs (including the pelagic biomarker HBI III) in sea ice are likely to have originated from the diatom Berkeleya rutilans and/or the Pleurosigma and Rhizosolenia genera, residing either within the sea ice matrix or on its underside. Although a possible sea ice source for HBIs such as HBI III may also impact the use of such HBIs as pelagic counterparts to IP25 in the phytoplankton marker-IP25 index, we suggest that the impact is likely to be small based on HBI distribution data.
The role of basigin in reproduction
Authors: Li Kailiang , Nowak Romana A
Published: October 2019

Basigin is a highly glycosylated transmembrane protein that was originally identified as a product of tumor cells. Basigin is a potent inducer of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and angiogenic factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Basigin is also a chaperone protein for specific metabolite transporters in the plasma cell membrane such as the monocarboxylate transporters and is an important regulator of cell metabolism. Studies in reproductive model systems have demonstrated that basigin is expressed in the testis, ovary, uterus and placenta and is necessary for normal fertility in both males and females. Overexpression of basigin is associated with reproductive diseases including uterine leiomyomas and endometriosis. This review presents an overview of the literature regarding the physiological role of basigin in reproductive tissues and the mechanistic pathways involved in its actions.