bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Modular Energy-Efficient and Robust Paradigms for a Disaster-Recovery Process over Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Razaque Abdul , Elleithy Khaled
Published: July 2015

Robust paradigms are a necessity, particularly for emerging wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. The lack of robust and efficient paradigms causes a reduction in the provision of quality of service (QoS) and additional energy consumption. In this paper, we introduce modular energy-efficient and robust paradigms that involve two archetypes: (1) the operational medium access control (O-MAC) hybrid protocol and (2) the pheromone termite (PT) model. The O-MAC protocol controls overhearing and congestion and increases the throughput, reduces the latency and extends the network lifetime. O-MAC uses an optimized data frame format that reduces the channel access time and provides faster data delivery over the medium. Furthermore, O-MAC uses a novel randomization function that avoids channel collisions. The PT model provides robust routing for single and multiple links and includes two new significant features: (1) determining the packet generation rate to avoid congestion and (2) pheromone sensitivity to determine the link capacity prior to sending the packets on each link. The state-of-the-art research in this work is based on improving both the QoS and energy efficiency. To determine the strength of O-MAC with the PT model; we have generated and simulated a disaster recovery scenario using a network simulator (ns-3.10) that monitors the activities of disaster recovery staff; hospital staff and disaster victims brought into the hospital. Moreover; the proposed paradigm can be used for general purpose applications. Finally; the QoS metrics of the O-MAC and PT paradigms are evaluated and compared with other known hybrid protocols involving the MAC and routing features. The simulation results indicate that O-MAC with PT produced better outcomes.
Targeting CTCF to Control Virus Gene Expression: A Common Theme amongst Diverse DNA Viruses
Authors: Pentland Ieisha , Parish Joanna
Published: July 2015

All viruses target host cell factors for successful life cycle completion. Transcriptional control of DNA viruses by host cell factors is important in the temporal and spatial regulation of virus gene expression. Many of these factors are recruited to enhance virus gene expression and thereby increase virus production, but host cell factors can also restrict virus gene expression and productivity of infection. CCCTC binding factor (CTCF) is a host cell DNA binding protein important for the regulation of genomic chromatin boundaries, transcriptional control and enhancer element usage. CTCF also functions in RNA polymerase II regulation and in doing so can influence co-transcriptional splicing events. Several DNA viruses, including Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human papillomavirus (HPV) utilize CTCF to control virus gene expression and many studies have highlighted a role for CTCF in the persistence of these diverse oncogenic viruses. CTCF can both enhance and repress virus gene expression and in some cases CTCF increases the complexity of alternatively spliced transcripts. This review article will discuss the function of CTCF in the life cycle of DNA viruses in the context of known host cell CTCF functions.
Modeling Flood Hazard Zones at the Sub-District Level with the Rational Model Integrated with GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches
Authors: Asare-Kyei Daniel , Forkuor Gerald , Venus Valentijn
Published: July 2015

Robust risk assessment requires accurate flood intensity area mapping to allow for the identification of populations and elements at risk. However, available flood maps in West Africa lack spatial variability while global datasets have resolutions too coarse to be relevant for local scale risk assessment. Consequently, local disaster managers are forced to use traditional methods such as watermarks on buildings and media reports to identify flood hazard areas. In this study, remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques were combined with hydrological and statistical models to delineate the spatial limits of flood hazard zones in selected communities in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin. The approach involves estimating peak runoff concentrations at different elevations and then applying statistical methods to develop a Flood Hazard Index (FHI). Results show that about half of the study areas fall into high intensity flood zones. Empirical validation using statistical confusion matrix and the principles of Participatory GIS show that flood hazard areas could be mapped at an accuracy ranging from 77% to 81%. This was supported with local expert knowledge which accurately classified 79% of communities deemed to be highly susceptible to flood hazard. The results will assist disaster managers to reduce the risk to flood disasters at the community level where risk outcomes are first materialized.
L’hôtel des seigneurs de Harcourt à Paris. Une résidence aristocratique de la fin du XIIIe siècle
Authors: Garrigou Grandchamp Pierre
Published: July 2015

Les vestiges de l’hôtel des seigneurs de Harcourt, situé immédiatement au sud du Palais des Thermes, furent découverts en 1852 à l’occasion de la percée de la rue des Écoles. Relevés avec soin par Théodore Vacquer, ils furent impitoyablement détruits dans le courant de la même année. Les planches que celui-ci avait préparées pour La statistique monumentale de Paris, d’Alexandre Lenoir, restèrent inédites et l’édifice sombra dans l’oubli dès la fin du XIXe siècle. Une étude attentive des minutes des relevés et des plans les plus anciens de Paris, puis un réexamen des sources ont autorisé la restitution du plan de masse de l’hôtel, une évocation détaillée de son principal corps de bâtiment, renfermant la grande salle, et une proposition de datation de celle-ci après 1256 et avant 1269, fondée sur l’identification des armoiries. La confrontation entre ces données et l’étude formelle des réseaux des grandes fenêtres conduit à souligner la modernité d’une oeuvre dont les seuls points de comparaison contemporains se trouvent dans l’oeuvre de Pierre de Montreuil. L’hôtel d’Harcourt est à ce jour la seule résidence d’un Grand de l’époque de Saint Louis ainsi restituable.
IV. L’Ouest de l’Allemagne
Authors: Freckmann Klaus
Published: July 2015

Western Germany, by Klaus Freckmann

Two main factors bear on our knowledge of civil architecture in the Rhineland. On the one hand, the losses due to the Second World War were gigantic, especially in Cologne, Aachen, Mainz, Koblenz and Trier. On the other hand, research on medieval architecture has been very dynamic in recent decades. Knowledge concerning durable construction from the thirteenth century onward has grown considerably. In the valleys of the Rhine and Moselle and in the Palatinate, a number of half-timber constructions dating from the fourteenth century have been discovered. Dendrochronological analysis has opened new horizons and permitted more accurate dating of the preserved structures. Culturally, the Rhineland played a central role in Germany and had links with more western European regions. It thus appears increasingly evident that its architecture and that of eastern France were closely related, a fact already noted in the nineteenth century by historians of French and German architecture. More intensive research in common (FR and GE) in this area is warranted by the fact that the architecture presents both a trans-regional and cross-border character, reflecting that of the medieval world.
La restauration du décor polychrome du choeur de la cathédrale de Chartres
Authors: Calvel Patrice
Published: July 2015

En 2008-2009 fut menée la première étape de restauration des enduits intérieurs de la cathédrale de Chartres, dont la polychromie avait été bien reconnue par Jürgen Michler dès 1989. Au XIIIe siècle, les parements avaient été recouverts d’un enduit ocre clair à faux joints blancs, tandis que les colonnettes et les moulurations des arcs avaient été badigeonnées de blanc. La restauration de deux chapelles rayonnantes a été une restitution à partir de vestiges. En revanche, les niveaux supérieurs du choeur ainsi que les voûtes ont conservé en grande partie leur décor primitif. Celui-ci avait été une première fois restauré à la fin du Moyen Âge avec la superposition partielle d’un second enduit polychrome fort semblable à celui d’origine. À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, un badigeon orangé à faux-joints rouges a recouvert l’ensemble. La campagne de travaux a également permis de découvrir un décor héraldique peint sur les clefs de voûte. Cette restauration, qui rend sa couleur et sa luminosité d’origine au choeur de la cathédrale, redonne aux vitraux restaurés leur juste place dans l’architecture.
Le décor héraldique des clefs de voûte de la cathédrale de Chartres
Authors: Pastoureau Michel
Published: July 2015

La redécouverte du décor et de la polychromie d’origine a mis au jour des armoiries peintes sur les cinq clefs de voûte du choeur. Elles appartiennent à cinq rois et princes : Louis IX, roi de France ; Alphonse X, roi de Castille ; Hugues IV, duc de Bourgogne ; Charles, comte d’Anjou et du Maine ; Henri III, duc de Brabant. En s’appuyant sur les données historiques, l’auteur aboutit à une fourchette de dates de quatre ans pour cette conjonction : 1257-1261. Il rappelle que la date de la dédicace solennelle de la cathédrale se situe le 17 octobre 1260.
En marge de l’Extraordinario Libro de Serlio, un projet pour l’hôtel dit de Massas à Toulouse : Dominique Bachelier delineavit ?
Authors: Pagazani Xavier
Published: July 2015

Ein Architekturprojekt für ein Stadtpalais in Toulouse, das Hôtel dit de Massas, in Form von Randzeichnungen in einem Exemplar von Serlios

Extraordinario Libro : Dominique Bachelier delineavit ? Von Xavier Pagazani

Im 16. Jahrhundert waren die soziale Stellung oder das Prestige eines französischen Architekten nicht so bedeutend, dass seinem zeichnerischenWerk eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wurde. Deshalb sind nur wenige Skizzen und Architekturzeichnungen überliefert. Es ist also immer ein Ereignis, wenn ein solches Dokument entdeckt wird. Die Bibliothek INHA-Collections Doucet besitzt ein Exemplar des Extraordinario Libro von Sabastiano Serlio (Lyon 1551). Das Besondere daran sind Tintenzeichnungen am Textrand und auf den weißen Rückseiten der Folien. Unter den Rissen befinden sich detaillierte Skizzen eines Fensters, die vermuten lassen, das es sich um dasWerk eines Architekten handelt. Die Fenster des Hôtel dit deMassas in Toulouse (in der rue de la Dalbade Nr. 29) wurden nach genau diesen Skizzen geschaffen. Die Vergleichsanalyse der Architektur dieses Stadtpalais’, der Skizzen und der tolosanischen Architektur des 16. Jhds. lassen eine Zuschreibung zu : danach wäre Dominique Bachelier der Architekt des Hôtel de Massas und der Zeichner in Serlios Buch. Das mit Randnotizen versehene Exemplar des Extraordinario Libro gäbe uns also Einblicke in zwei intime Arbeitsweisen eines Architekten der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jhds. : in den Rückgriff auf Serlios Buch als Grundlage eines schöpferischen Prozesses und, auf den weißen Blättern, die räumliche und zeitliche Zurschaustellung einer Architekturerfindung.
Liberté russe et tolérance européenne
Authors: Podrabinek Alexandre
Published: July 2015

Culturally, Russia is, for its most important part, a European country. Politically, it is only partially European, and, psychologically, not European at all. Now, for the past eight years, its government has driven Russia away from Europe, from the European values and institutions. A quasi-Soviet regime has reappeared, as freedoms have been reduced. Contrary to stereotypes, the Russian population does appreciate freedom, but is not ready to pay very much for it. Furthermore, most of the opposition does not dare to be active, fearing that it would irritate the government. And the West is surprisingly tolerant for dictatorial and totalitarian regimes, and does not defend enough the principles it advocates.
Éthique et « RealPolitik »
Authors: Kovalev Sergueï
Published: July 2015

At the present time, an ethical catastrophe is happening in Russia, as the principles proclaimed in the Russian Constitution do not exist in real life, and everybody knows about it. Every Russian citizen knows, for example, that the results of the past elections were falsified and that the judicial system is not independent from political influences. Lying has therefore become some kind of a ritual, in which the majority of Russian society participates. Faced with this situation, the Western countries act very hypocritically. On the one hand, they keep repeating, as they have been since the end of World War 2, that human rights must be respected and that these can guarantee international security. But, on the other hand, these statements are comprised merely of beautiful words, while decisions are dictated by « Realpolitik ». And if this goes on, the world will be committing suicide.
L'action de la Russie actuelle dans la vie des orthodoxes en France
Authors: De Beaulieu Olga
Published: July 2015

Numerous Russians emigrated to France after the Revolution of 1917, and they had to adapt to a new environment, while keeping their specificities, in particular their religion. They or their descendants started travelling to the USSR from the 70s and Soviet citizens were able to meet their fellow countrymen living in foreign countries. The USSR at first, and then Russia, have tried to intervene, quite a few times, in the community of Russian immigrants in France. The official relations of the Russian State towards these immigrants have evolved from indifference to a very pronounced interest, which has steadily increased since the time Putin became president. This has resulted in profound disagreements within immigrant circles, particularly among the Orthodox believers.
La prose de Minaev : phénomène d'altérité « dirigée »
Authors: Tokmakov Anatoly
Published: July 2015

Minaev's prose is a literature of manipulation. The author seems to dissect the world of glamour and success to dispute mass-culture, to denounce the new rich, the jet set - all those whom he calls « the soulless ». The writer claims to offer the diary of a new Pechorin, a present-day Byronic hero. The story, however, is not meant to show a character but to send the readers an ideological message which differs little from official discourse. Aiming at commercial success, many of Minaev's novels are bestsellers - the author tries to represent a false « other » comprised of the current power's admirers, who are presented as a minority. The support given to the writer by the Kremlin-directed media and the conjunction of Minaev's thesis with the main points of propaganda seem to suggest that his prose might be part of a large-scale ideological project.
De l'ésotérisme politique ? Les symboles de l'Hyperborée dans la nouvelle formation discursive russe
Authors: Tchougounnikov Sergueï
Published: July 2015

During the last decade, a number of popular works have been published in Russia which treat the myth of the northern continent of Hyperborea. They belong to different contexts and discourses that aim to revise Russia's past by attributing to the Russian people a mythic origin, an original national historiography and an attempt at a new identity. As these writings are part of a popular undercurrent in contemporary Russia, the aim of this article will be first to make a synchronie, typological analysis of the discourse found in the above-mentioned texts, and, second, to make a diachronic, comparative analysis of parallel currents in the history of Western thought.
Le discours publicitaire automobile comme révélateur de la diversité russe
Authors: Ivanova-Glédel Elena
Published: July 2015

The discourse of advertising, following the example of political discourse, likes to refer to another Russia. Our corpus, made up of 89 automobile ads drawn from Kommersant-Vlast (2002-2008), all offer a social status to the would-be buyer. The recurrence of the idea of being « exceptional » leads us to resort to two types of the isotopy theory (Rastier : 1987, 1989) : 1) the car's technical qualities and 2) the would-be buyer's social status. It was found that the second category is more important than the first one. It remains to be determined whether the prioritisation of the car or its buyer in our corpus is a temporary rhetorical mode or a deeply engrained tendency of the Russian market and society.
La représentation sémantique du mot inostranec dans les discours médiatiques russes
Authors: Beliakov Vladimir
Published: July 2015

This article examines the stereotype associated with the word « inostranec ». The stereotype is understood as an image of the relevant object, shaped in the social experiential framework and encoded in a language which is accessible via lexis and phraseology and inherent in the world knowledge associated with this word in a particular community. The analysis of the lexical-semantic functioning of the word « inostranec » in contemporary Russian media discourse allows us to establish two profiles of this stereotype : the dominant profile - « a foreigner is an enemy, an aggressor » and the minor profile - « a foreigner is a partner ».
Portrait de Gogol en « toutiste » : Iliazd et Gogol
Authors: Gayraud Régis
Published: July 2015

Gogol's portrait as an « everythingist » : Iliazd and Gogol

Nothing seems to connect a priori Gogol's works with any artistic avant-garde XXth century theory. The "everythingism" invented by the painter M. V. Le-Dantu and practiced by the poet Iliazd in dramaturgy proposes therefore a vision of the artistic world not far from Gogol's in his novel "The Portrait". The similarities between Le- Dantu's theory and the points of view expressed by the different voices of the Portrait's author are numerous and underlined by the references to the Gogol's Portrait in the dramas of Iliazd. As the first Russian author to have drawn attention to the art of self-taught artists, Gogol turns curiously like a distant predecessor of the modern neo-primitivists and everythingists.
L'émigration et la quête identitaire dans l'œuvre de fiction de Zinaïda Guippious
Authors: Blinova Olga
Published: July 2015

Inspired by the works of Judith Schlanger, Isabelle Poulin and Stephanie Sandier, this article aims at understanding how the words chosen by Pushkin define a Russian identity without any identification with rigid patterns. Pushkin's works offer a paradigm within which a moving and imaginative private life stands out against an indifferent world. In Eugene Onegin, for example, a living community surrounds Tatiana's pain expressed by contractions and enjambments. Djamilia by Aïtmatov echoes that kind of writing when the off-camera end paradoxically makes the characters brighter. Erected by authoritarian regimes and, as Droujnikov notes in Pushkin 's second wife, often mistaken for others in the age of globalization, the statue of Pushkin does not fit the freedom of his works. Indeed, the creativity of Pushkin should rather encourage us to translate, rewrite, and play with his words.
Viktor Chklovski et la vie littéraire et matérielle des années 1920
Authors: Ourjoumtseva Elena
Published: July 2015

Viktor Shklovsky, one of the founding fathers of the Russian formalist group opoyaz, devoted much of his work, together with other theoreticians, in order to develop Poetics as an independent science. His efforts were nevertheless troubled by the difficult political and social situation of the late 1910s-1920s in Russia. Therefore the hard material conditions he was experiencing tended to have an influence on his theoretical priorities. The acceptance of the pressure of the « literary material » he was fighting for logically led to the acceptance and use of political and material pressure to define his identity as a writer and language theoretician.
Les identités professionnelles des agents de cinéma en URSS et Fédération de Russie, 1957-2009 : construction, conflits, revendications
Authors: Darmon Clara
Published: July 2015

By creating the Union of Soviet Filmmakers (SK) in 1965, the Communist Party aimed at gathering the professional filmmakers within a bureaucratic structure that would serve the official ideology. The SK appeared at first as a pure executive organ of the Party's policy : the system of honorific titles, of appointments by the top, the promotion of the most docile filmmakers as heroes to which one should identify and the plethora of seminaries, conferences on ideological themes were different ways of imposing identical values to every filmmaker. However such a system contradicted talent as the brand value of the sk and rapidly led to a professional crisis. The situation was bored as other factors enabled the filmmakers to construct their identity on personal values : the professor of the Institute of Cinematography at first, then the comrades in the sk recognized the individual style of every member, unlike the Party functionaries. The end of censorship under the Perestroika engendered a radical change, as new values were claimed, such as democracy and creative freedom, values associated with the young generation. At the same time though, the drastic fall of professionalism led to the election of the conservative filmmaker N. Mikhalkov at the head of the organization, which led the sk to once again collaborate with the State policy, notably by promoting the return to « Slavic values », religion and patriotism. Nevertheless, behind this program the Union has lost its unity as the authoritarian policy of Mikhalkov does not enable the members to take an active part in an organization in which they now feel alienated.
Les usages du passé soviétique dans la construction de la nouvelle identité nationale russe
Authors: Morenkova-Perrier Elena
Published: July 2015

More than with facts, history is concerned with their representation. This statement takes a particular meaning in the context of contemporary Russia, where the issue of the political use of the past is tightly connected with the construction of national identity. In order to analyse how the contemporary Russian authorities reassess Soviet history, I focus on school textbooks. Indeed, textbooks largely shape the self and the other, and are a major vector of socialisation. The analysis of recently published school textbooks on the soviet period highlights three dominating tendencies of the actual history narrative : the attenuation of the "dark pages" of Soviet history, the reconstruction of historical continuity and the presence of a strong patriotic dimension. These three elements seem to set the basis of a new Russian national identity.
L'Islam au pluriel dans la formation des identités centrasiatiques lors de la conquête russe
Authors: Kantarbaeva-Bill Irina
Published: July 2015

The Russian conquest provoked the emergence of an identity quest among the peoples of Central Asia, which was only accelerated during the Soviet period. The present paper aims at reconsidering the interaction between the Tsarist power and the Kazakh noblemen under Russian rule : far from fueling the islamic resistance as in other parts of Russian Turkestan, this cooperation largerly contributed to the consolidation of Kazakh proper and unique sense of national identity.
Atomic force microscopy as analytical tool to study physico-mechanical properties of intestinal cells
Authors: Schimpel Christa , Werzer Oliver , Fröhlich Eleonore , Leitinger Gerd , Absenger-Novak Markus , Teubl Birgit , Zimmer Andreas , Roblegg Eva
Published: July 2015

The small intestine is a complex system that carries out various functions. The main function of enterocytes is absorption of nutrients, whereas membranous cells (M cells) are responsible for delivering antigens/foreign substances to the mucosal lymphoid tissues. However, to get a fundamental understanding of how cellular structures contribute to physiological processes, precise knowledge about surface morphologies, cytoskeleton organizations and biomechanical properties is necessary. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used here as a powerful tool to study surface topographies of Caco-2 cells and M cells. Furthermore, cell elasticity (i.e., the mechanical response of a cell on a tip indentation), was elucidated by force curve measurements. Besides elasticity, adhesion was evaluated by recording the attraction and repulsion forces between the tip and the cell surface. Organization of F-actin networks were investigated via phalloidin labeling and visualization was performed with confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy (CLSM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results of these various experimental techniques revealed significant differences in the cytoskeleton/microvilli arrangements and F-actin organization. Caco-2 cells displayed densely packed F-actin bundles covering the entire cell surface, indicating the formation of a well-differentiated brush border. In contrast, in M cells actins were arranged as short and/or truncated thin villi, only available at the cell edge. The elasticity of M cells was 1.7-fold higher compared to Caco-2 cells and increased significantly from the cell periphery to the nuclear region. Since elasticity can be directly linked to cell adhesion, M cells showed higher adhesion forces than Caco-2 cells. The combination of distinct experimental techniques shows that morphological differences between Caco-2 cells and M cells correlate with mechanical cell properties and provide useful information to understand physiological processes/mechanisms in the small intestine.
Hybrid macrocycle formation and spiro annulation on cis-syn-cis-tricyclo[6.3.0.02,6]undeca-3,11-dione and its congeners via ring-closing metathesis
Authors: Kotha Sambasivarao , Chinnam Ajay Kumar , Ali Rashid
Published: July 2015

We have developed a simple methodology to transform cis-syn-cis-triquinane derivative 2 into the diindole based macrocycle 6 involving Fischer indolization and ring-closing metathesis (RCM). Various spiro-polyquinane derivatives have been assembled via RCM as a key step.
Baffling Cases: A Case/Reference Analysis of Hopi Nominal Constructions
Authors: Luthin Herbert W.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 170-183
Hierarchical Representation of Phonological Features
Authors: Vijayakrishnan K. G.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 310-320
Paths Through Different Domains: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mandarin Dào
Authors: Poteet Stephen
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 408-421
Topic Constructions in Spoken French: Some Comparisons with Chichewa
Authors: Hanson Christin
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 105-116
Aspect as a Discourse Category in Tamil
Authors: Herring Susan C.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 280-292
Discourse and Functional Factors in the Development of Southern Interior Salish Ergative Case Marking
Authors: Kroeber Paul D.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 114-123
Encounters with Japanese Verbs: The Categorization of Transitive and Intransitive Action Verbs
Authors: Rispoli Matthew
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 213-222
From Bound Grammatical Markers to Free Discourse Markers: History of Some Japanese Connectives
Authors: Matsumoto Yo
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 340-351
Linguistic Consequences of Complex Social Structures: Rank and Task in Police Helicopter Discourse
Authors: Linde Charlotte
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 142-152
New Compounds from the Old: An Unexpected Source of Verb + Noun Compounds in Romance
Authors: Klingebiel Kathryn
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 88-99
The Bilingual Child as a Word Maker: Word Formation Processes in Turkish and Dutch
Authors: Verhoeven Ludo T.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 232-243
Topics, Grammaticalized Topics, and Subjects
Authors: Comrie Bernard
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 265-279
Creative Idiomaticity
Authors: He Zili
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 150-160
Path Predicates in English and Spanish: A Closer Look
Authors: Aske Jon
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 1-14
Reduplication and Tone in Hausa Ideophones
Authors: Newman Paul
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 248-255
The Linguistic Implications of Early and Systematic Variation in Child Language Development
Authors: Lieven Elena V. M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 203-214
“…that part of the city”: Mental Spaces and Ethnic Neighborhoods
Authors: Rubba Jo
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 268-277
A Neurophysiological Investigation of Wh-Islands
Authors: Kluender Robert
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 187-203
Defined and Neutral Categories in Lexicogrammatical Patterns: The Motivated Alignment Hypothesis
Authors: Schwartz Linda
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 392-304
Experiential vs. Agentive Constructions in Korean Narrative
Authors: Chun Soon Ae , Zubin David A.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 81-93
Parts of Speech in Autolexical Syntax
Authors: Sadock Jerrold M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 269-281
Philosophy of Language Meets the Real World; or, When is “English” Enough?
Authors: Lakoff Robin
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 472-481
Quantifier Float in Korean
Authors: Hong Ki-Sun
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 175-186
The Role of Trigger-Target Similarity in the Vowel Harmony Process
Authors: Hare Mary
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 140-152
The Universality of Gricean Interpretation
Authors: Green Georgia M.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 411-428
Ergativity and Accusativity in Nisgha Syntax
Authors: Belvin Robert S.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on General Topics in American Indian Linguistics (1990), pp. 3-18
Tzeltal Maya Affect Verbs: Psychological Salience and Expressive Functions of Language
Authors: Maffi Lusia
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on General Topics in American Indian Linguistics (1990), pp. 61-72
Unordered Morphology: The Problem of Axininca Reduplication
Authors: Spring Cari
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on General Topics in American Indian Linguistics (1990), pp. 137-157
Null Heads and Noun Incorporation in Southern Tiwa
Authors: Frantz Donald G.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on General Topics in American Indian Linguistics (1990), pp. 32-38
Adverbial Quantification and Event Structures
Authors: Partee Barbara H.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 439-456
Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative
Authors: Hopper Paul J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 402-413
Event-Packing: The Case of Object Incorporation in English
Authors: Rice Sally , Prideaux Gary
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 283-298
Synchronic Rule Inversion
Authors: McCarthy John J.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 192-207
The Effect of F0 Rate on Accent Perception in English
Authors: Hata Kazue , Hasegawa Yoko
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 121-129
The Moraic Status of Initial Geminates in Trukese
Authors: Hart Michele E.
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 107-120
Unifying Syntactic and Semantic Approaches to Unaccusativity: A Connectionist Approach
Authors: Legendre Géraldine , Miyata Yoshiro , Smolensky Paul
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 156-167
Facts Count: An Empiricist Looks at Indirect Objects in Hausa
Authors: Newman Paul
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 155-165
The Intersection of Syntax, Semantics and Phonology in Kikongo
Authors: Odden David
Published: July 2015

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 188-199
High-Throughput miRNA Sequencing Reveals a Field Effect in Gastric Cancer and Suggests an Epigenetic Network Mechanism
Authors: Assumpção Monica B. , Moreira Fabiano C. , Hamoy Igor G. , Magalhães Leandro , Vidal Amanda , Pereira Adenilson , Burbano Rommel , Khayat Andrέ , Silva Artur , Santos Sidney , Demachki Samia , Ribeiro-dos-Santos Ândrea , Assumpção Paulo
Published: July 2015

Field effect in cancer, also called “field cancerization”, attempts to explain the development of multiple primary tumors and locally recurrent cancer. The concept of field effect in cancer has been reinforced, since molecular alterations were found in tumor-adjacent tissues with normal histopathological appearances. With the aim of investigating field effects in gastric cancer (GC), we conducted a high-throughput sequencing of the miRnome of four GC samples and their respective tumor-adjacent tissues and compared them with the miRnome of a gastric antrum sample from patients without GC, assuming that tumor-adjacent tissues could not be considered as normal tissues. The global number of miRNAs and read counts was highest in tumor samples, followed by tumor-adjacent and normal samples. Analyzing the miRNA expression profile of tumor-adjacent miRNA, hsa-miR-3131, hsa-miR-664, hsa-miR-483, and hsa-miR-150 were significantly downregulated compared with the antrum without tumor tissue ( P-value < 0.01; fold-change < 5). Additionally, hsa-miR-3131, hsa-miR-664, and hsa-miR-150 were downregulated ( P-value < 0.001) in all paired samples of tumor and tumor-adjacent tissues, compared with antrum without tumor mucosa. The field effect was clearly demonstrated in gastric carcinogenesis by an epigenetics-based approach, and potential biomarkers of the GC field effect were identified. The elevated expression of miRNAs in adjacent tissues and tumors tissues may indicate that a cascade of events takes place during gastric carcinogenesis, reinforcing the notion of field effects. This phenomenon seems to be linked to DNA methylation patterns in cancer and suggests the involvement of an epigenetic network mechanism.
What Are We Telling Our Students? A National Survey of Clerkship Directors' Advice for Students Applying to Internal Medicine Residency
Authors: Chretien Katherine C. , Elnicki D. Michael , Levine Diane , Aiyer Meenakshy , Steinmann Alwin , Willett Laura R.
Published: July 2015

Background

Little is known about the advice fourth-year medical students receive from their advisors as they prepare to apply for residency training.

Objective

We collected information on recommendations given to medical students preparing to apply to internal medicine residencies regarding fourth-year schedules and application strategies.

Methods

Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine conducted its annual member survey in June 2013. We analyzed responses on student advising using descriptive and comparative statistics, and free-text responses using content analysis.

Results

Of 124 members, 94 (76%) responded, and 83 (88%) advised fourth-year medical students. Nearly half (45%) advised an average of more than 20 students a year. Advisors encouraged students to take a medicine subinternship (Likert scale mean 4.84 [1, strongly discourage, to 5, strongly encourage], SD = 0.61); a critical care rotation (4.38, SD = 0.79); and a medicine specialty clinical rotation (4.01, SD = 0.80). Advisors reported they thought fourth-year students should spend a mean of 6.5 months doing clinical rotations (range 1–10, SD = 1.91). They recommended highest academic quartile students apply to a median of 10 programs (range 1–30) and lowest quartile students apply to 15 programs (range 3–100). Top recommendations involved maximizing student competitiveness, valuing program fit over reputation, and recognizing key decision points in the application process.

Conclusions

Undergraduate medical advisors recommended specific strategies to enhance students' competitiveness in the Match and to prepare them for residency. The results can inform program directors and encourage dialogue between undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education on how to best utilize the fourth year.
Triple Duty: Integrating Graduate Medical Education With Maintenance of Board Certification to Improve Clinician Communication at Hospital Discharge
Authors: Shaikh Ulfat , Slee Christina
Published: July 2015

Background

Complete and accurate discharge summaries can improve communication and continuity of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings as well as reduce adverse events. However, discharge summaries commonly lack key information.

Objective

To determine if a quality improvement intervention that actively engages residents and attending physicians would improve the timeliness and quality of hospital discharge summaries at our academic children's hospital, and would help trainees and clinicians complete educational requirements.

Methods

Electronic health record queries were used to assess time to completion of discharge summaries. A total of 120 discharge summaries from 36 eligible residents were reviewed by 9 attending pediatricians using an objective discharge summary scoring instrument. Improvement was facilitated through monthly learning sessions and Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.

Results

The proportion of summaries completed within 24 hours of discharge increased from 38% to 73%; mean discharge summary scores improved from 54% to 99%; and percentage of summaries that included all 13 elements in the scoring instrument increased from 0% to 80%. All elements most likely to be deficient at baseline showed a higher likelihood of being included in summaries following the intervention. The rate of summaries that were scored as containing appropriate detail and being an appropriate length also increased from 0% to 80%. The 9 attending pediatricians received maintenance of certification credits for their participation.

Conclusions

A multifaceted quality improvement intervention, which included stakeholder involvement, clinician education, standardization of documentation, policy changes, and provision of board certification credits, improved the quality and timeliness of discharge summaries at our academic children's hospital.
Análisis de la percepción y conducta ambiental mediante una red bayesiana
Authors: Sánchez Martha Patricia , De la Garza-González Arturo , Rodríguez María Concepción
Published: July 2015

Se presenta un estudio descriptivo y de simulaciones con redes bayesianas, en el cual se analiza la percepción y conducta ambiental de un grupo de 471 estudiantes universitarios de dos escuelas de una universidad pública mexicana. Se encuestó a los participantes y, en base a sus respuestas, se construyó una red bayesiana con la finalidad de determinar las relaciones de dependencia entre las variables. Los resultados mostraron que existe una percepción clara sobre el cambio climático, así como conductas acordes con la problemática ambiental en casi todos los casos. La red bayesiana indicó que las variables que presentan una mayor dependencia fueron de poseer árboles y utilizar luces ahorradoras. Se discuten los resultados en relación a otras investigaciones, así como su utilidad en términos de análisis estadísticos y ecológicos.
Inteligencia emocional: un estudio exploratorio en escolares argentinos de contextos rurales
Authors: Castillo Karen , Greco Carolina
Published: July 2015

El objetivo fue describir las características de las habilidades cognitivas que componen la inteligencia emocional en relación a una emoción positiva (alegría), en una muestra de 30 niños de 4° a 6° grado de una escuela de gestión pública de ámbito rural, mediante una entrevista semiestructurada creada ad hoc. Se observó que los escolares pudieron identificar la emoción en el área intrapersonal (percepción) aunque con dificultades en el dominio de identificación cognitiva; consideraron la redireccionalización y priorización del pensamiento en los estados positivos (facilitación); identificaron las causas del estado emocional (comprensión), asociándolas a aspectos de interacción social familiar; y mostraron un uso de estrategias activas y sociales para la situación mencionada (regulación). Se intenta un análisis de estas características en función del contexto rural estudiado. Se contribuye con datos empíricos al conocimiento de la inteligencia emocional y las emociones positivas en niños, considerando que su estudio podría aportar información útil para la creación de programas de intervención y estimulación tendientes a lograr mayores niveles de bienestar psicológico y social en la infancia.
Pseudo-Bacterial Potential Field Based Path Planner for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation
Authors: Orozco-Rosas Ulises , Montiel Oscar , Sepúlveda Roberto
Published: July 2015

This paper introduces the pseudo-bacterial potential field (PBPF) as a new path planning method for autonomous mobile robot navigation. The PBPF allows us to obtain an optimal and safe path, in contrast to the classical potential field approach which is not suitable for path planning because it lacks a means of obtaining the optimal proportional gains. The PBPF uses the pseudo-bacterial genetic algorithm (PBGA) and a fitness function based on the potential field concepts to construct viable paths in dynamical environments to mostly result in the optimal path being obtained. Comparative experiments of sequential and parallel implementations of the PBPF for off-line and online in structured and unstructured conditions are presented; the results are contrasted with the artificial potential field (APF) method to demonstrate how the PBPF proposal overcomes the traditional method.
Experimental Investigation for RUAV's Actuator Fault Detections with AESMF
Authors: Song Dalei , Qi Juntong , Yang Liying , Han Jianda
Published: July 2015

The adaptive extended set-membership filter (AESMF) algorithm for robots' online modelling is today proposed for use in this field. Compared to the traditional ESMF, this novel filter method improves estimation accuracy under variable boundaries of unknown but bounded (UBB) process noise, which is often caused by the uncertainties of robotic dynamics. However, the applicability and stability of the AESMF method have not been tested in detail or demonstrated for real robotic systems. In this research, AESMF is applied for the actuator fault detections of a rotor-craft unmanned air vehicle (RUAV). The stability of AESMF is firstly analysed using mathematics and actuator healthy coefficients (AHC) are introduced for building the actuator failure model of RUAVs. AESMF is employed for the online boundary estimation of flight states and AHC parameters for fault tolerance control. Based on the proposed AESMF actuator fault estimation, flight experiments are conducted using a ServoHeli-40 RUAV platform and the flight results are compared with traditional ESMF and the adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) in order to demonstrate its effectiveness, as well as for suggesting improvements for the actuator failure detection of RUAVs.
ZnO Tetrapods: Synthesis and Applications in Solar Cells
Authors: Yan Luting , Uddin Ashraf , Wang Haiwei
Published: July 2015

Zinc oxide (ZnO) tetrapods have received much interest due to their unique morphology, that is, four arms connected to one centre. Tetrapod networks possess the excellent electronic properties of the ZnO semiconductor, which is attractive for photoelectrode materials in energy-conversion devices because of their advantages in electron extraction and transportation. In this review, we have discussed recent advancements in the field of ZnO tetrapod synthesis, including vapour transport synthesis and the wet chemical method, together with their advantages and disadvantages in terms of morphology control and yield regulation. The developments and improvements in the applications of ZnO nanotetrapods in photovoltaics, including dye-sensitized solar cells and polymer solar cells, are also described. Our aim is to give readers a comprehensive and critical overview of this unique morphology of ZnO, including synthesis control and growth mechanism, and to understand the role of this particular morphology in the development of solar cells. The future research directions in ZnO tetrapods-based solar cell are also discussed.
Addressing Barriers to the Development and Adoption of Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Global Health
Authors: Miller Eric , Sikes Hadley D.
Published: July 2015

Immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have demonstrated significant potential for use as point-of-care diagnostic tests in resource-limited settings. Most notably, RDTs for malaria have reached an unparalleled level of technological maturity and market penetration, and are now considered an important complement to standard microscopic methods of malaria diagnosis. However, the technical development of RDTs for other infectious diseases, and their uptake within the global health community as a core diagnostic modality, has been hindered by a number of extant challenges. These range from technical and biological issues, such as the need for better affinity agents and biomarkers of disease, to social, infrastructural, regulatory and economic barriers, which have all served to slow their adoption and diminish their impact. In order for the immunochromatographic RDT format to be successfully adapted to other disease targets, to see widespread distribution, and to improve clinical outcomes for patients on a global scale, these challenges must be identified and addressed, and the global health community must be engaged in championing the broader use of RDTs.