bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
General Anesthetics to Treat Major Depressive Disorder: Clinical Relevance and Underlying Mechanisms
Authors: Vutskits Laszlo
Published: November 2017

Major depressive disorder is a frequent and devastating psychological condition with tremendous public health impact. The underlying pathophysiological mechanisms involve abnormal neurotransmission and a relatedly impaired synaptic plasticity. Since general anesthetics are potent modulators of neuronal activity and, thereby, can exert long-term context-dependent impact on neural networks, an intriguing hypothesis is that these drugs could enhance impaired neural plasticity associated with certain psychiatric diseases. Clinical observations over the past few decades appear to confirm this possibility. Indeed, equipotency of general anesthesia alone in comparison with electroconvulsive therapy under general anesthesia has been demonstrated in several clinical trials. Importantly, in the past 15 years, intravenous administration of subanesthetic doses of ketamine have also been demonstrated to have rapid antidepressant effects. The molecular, cellular, and network mechanisms underlying these therapeutic effects have been partially identified. Although several important questions remain to be addressed, the ensemble of these experimental and clinical observations opens new therapeutic possibilities in the treatment of depressive disorders. Importantly, they also suggest a new therapeutic role for anesthetics that goes beyond their principal use in the perioperative period to facilitate surgery.
CyTOF workflow: differential discovery in high-throughput high-dimensional cytometry datasets
Authors: Nowicka Malgorzata , Krieg Carsten , Weber Lukas M. , Hartmann Felix J. , Guglietta Silvia , Becher Burkhard , Levesque Mitchell P. , Robinson Mark D.
Published: November 2017

High dimensional mass and flow cytometry (HDCyto) experiments have become a method of choice for high throughput interrogation and characterization of cell populations.Here, we present an R-based pipeline for differential analyses of HDCyto data, largely based on Bioconductor packages. We computationally define cell populations using FlowSOM clustering, and facilitate an optional but reproducible strategy for manual merging of algorithm-generated clusters. Our workflow offers different analysis paths, including association of cell type abundance with a phenotype or changes in signaling markers within specific subpopulations, or differential analyses of aggregated signals. Importantly, the differential analyses we show are based on regression frameworks where the HDCyto data is the response; thus, we are able to model arbitrary experimental designs, such as those with batch effects, paired designs and so on. In particular, we apply generalized linear mixed models to analyses of cell population abundance or cell-population-specific analyses of signaling markers, allowing overdispersion in cell count or aggregated signals across samples to be appropriately modeled. To support the formal statistical analyses, we encourage exploratory data analysis at every step, including quality control (e.g. multi-dimensional scaling plots), reporting of clustering results (dimensionality reduction, heatmaps with dendrograms) and differential analyses (e.g. plots of aggregated signals).
The rise and fall of machine learning methods in biomedical research
Authors: Koohy Hashem
Published: November 2017

In the era of explosion in biological data, machine learning techniques are becoming more popular in life sciences, including biology and medicine. This research note examines the rise and fall of the most commonly used machine learning techniques in life sciences over the past three decades.
Game technologies in the educational process of the high school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Authors: Мальцева Татьяна , Maltseva Tatyana , Авдеева Елена , Avdeeva Elena
Published: November 2017

The article is devoted to the effectiveness of the use of gaming technologies in the process of professional training of police officers with the aim of forming general cultural and professional competences, increasing the effectiveness of the educational process, and developing special knowledge and practical skills in the educational process. The article analyzes gaming technologies as contributing to the formation of general cultural competences. The empirical material shows that they contribute to the organization with further self-organization of cognitive activity of students, the development of research skills, the formation of the ability to use knowledge in practical activities.
Speech in the operational and official activities of the head of the internal affairs body. The influence of the criminal subculture on the speech of an employee of the internal affairs body
Authors: Пырчев Сергей , Pyrchev Sergey
Published: November 2017

The peculiarities of the speech of the head of the internal affairs body are considered in the article, characteristic audiences are distinguished, the features of communication with each kind of addressees are determined. The negative influence of the criminal subculture on the speech of the head of the internal affairs body is briefly analyzed.
Usage of Bonding Meters in Aviation
Authors: Petrýdes Patrik , Hůlek David , Novák Martin
Published: November 2017

This paper is about bonding meters, their principles, specifications and usage of bonding meters in aviation. The bonding meter is essentially a milliohm meter. It is used for measuring small values of resistance. The word “bonding” means that conductive parts of aircraft are bonded together by a conductive connection. The bonding meter tests, if the conductive connections are really conductive. This paper is, in its essence, a study how to use bonding meter and its usage. The usage is focused on the aviation. The first part of the paper describes bonding meter´s purpose and its specifications. There are several types of the bonding meters and every type has different specifications. The next part describes bonding meter´s usage, its application and measuring principles. The bonding meters can be used by different ways so it is good to explain the most used principles. The last part of this paper summarizes all mentioned knowledge and shows authors opinion to a development of the bonding measurements.
Aircraft gas turbine engine vibration diagnostics
Authors: Fábry Stanislav , Češkovič Marek
Published: November 2017

In the Czech and Slovak aviation are in service elderly aircrafts, usually produced in former Soviet Union. Their power units can be operated in more efficient way, in case of using additional diagnostic methods that allow evaluating their health. Vibration diagnostics is one of the methods indicating changes of rotational machine dynamics. Ground tests of aircraft gas turbine engines allow vibration recording and analysis. Results contribute to airworthiness evaluation and making corrections, if needed. Vibration sensors distribution, signal recording and processing are introduced in a paper. Recorded and re-calculated vibration parameters are used in role of health indicators.
Applied Algorithmization in Optimization of Airport Processes Simulation Models
Authors: Adamčík František , Galanda Jozef , Šulej Radoslav , Jezný Martin
Published: November 2017

The authors of this contribution are dealing with the potential of applied algorithmization as a methodology of improving efficiency and accelerating the process of designing as well as program implementation of simulation models for the purpose of computer-based modeling and simulation of airport processes. At this simulation, quality is built upon on a precisely defined model of airport processes are set forth by the authors as part of the process of designing a modern Departure Control System (DCS) of airports, which currently designated for automation of a complex management of processes in the field of passenger and baggage handling, the airports offer to individual air carriers. The resulting algorithms designed for the separate separate processes of the DCS will help the authors understand real processes taking place at the airport with the aim to optimize the course of actions at the airport operation. A precisely built model of airport processes is the prerequisite of proper implementation of the simulation, pointing out both the advantages and disadvantages of this models and their implementation in practice.
Desafíos: El teatro itinerante del Sol
Authors: Romero Rey Sandro
Published: November 2017

ResumenDesde comienzo de la década del 80, el Teatro Itinerante del Sol se ha convertido en uno de los referentes esenciales del teatro colombiano. No se trata solamente de una "compañía" convencional para la realización de espectáculos escénicos, sino de una experiencia vivencial en la que intérpretes y espectadores se sumergen en una comunión donde se combinan la búsqueda de las raíces esenciales de las culturas aborìgenes de América Latina, con las mejores tradiciones del teatro, tanto de Oriente como de Occidente. El autor analiza las conexiones entre el grupo liderado por Beatriz Camargo y los fundamentos comunes de lo que se ha dado a llamar la "antropología teatral".
Enero 17, 2003
Authors: Mendez Rafael Mauricio
Published: November 2017

ResumenUna de las fotografías más célebres de Jesús Abad Colorado, muestra una escena en la cual dos personajes, Karina, una niña de corta edad, y Misael, su padre, huyen, acarreando sus pertenencias más preciadas, de un grupo armado que los persigue. Se trataría, simplemente, de una imagen más que da cuenta de las tribulaciones que han vivido, y viven, infinidad de seres humanos expulsados de sus territorios a causa de la guerra que azota al país desde hace décadas. Y, sin embargo, haciendo eco de la sutileza y la profundidad con la que el pensador alemán Aby Warburg se  enfrenta a las imágenes, ésta en particular se encuentra muy distante de la continuidad simple de la percepción cotidiana. Hay allí sobrevivencias de un ritual bárbaro que, a pesar de haber, en apariencia, sido borrado de la faz de la tierra, se encuentra allí y coexiste atrozmente con la civilización.
El horizonte formativo y el campo de expectativas de los estudios artísticos
Authors: Gómez Moreno Pedro Pablo
Published: November 2017

La aparición de este segundo número de la revista Estudios Artísticos coincide con dos procesos importantes para la consolidación del campo de los estudios artísticos desde la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, con una amplia proyección nacional e internacional.El primero, la renovación ante el Ministerio de Educación Nacional, del Registro Calificado de la Maestría, que inició sus actividades académicas en el año 2011, y para finales de 2015 mostró entre otros los siguientes resultados: un total de 273 aspirantes en sus cinco cohortes, número que muestra la aceptación, por parte de los profesionales del campo del arte y afines, a la convocatoria para formar parte del proyecto y dar consistencia a este campo emergente de la formación postgradual en Colombia. El promedio de aspirantes admitidos ha permanecido relativamente constante con un número de 25 estudiantes por año, a excepción de la tercera cohorte donde fueron admitidos dos estudiantes adicionales.
Escritores, fotografías y retratos; una entrevista a Abdú Eljaiek (3 de febrero 2005)
Authors: Rueda Fajardo Santiago , Eljaiek Abdú
Published: November 2017

ResumenAbdú Eljaiek, es uno de los fotógrafos colombianos más importantes de la segunda mitad del Siglo XX. En esta entrevista se recuerda junto a él parte de su vida y de sus principales obras como retratista. Se hace un recorrido por la personalidad y las circunstancias que envuelven los retratos de personajes de la cultura colombiana como Eduardo Caballero y León de Greiff. Algunos aspectos técnicos son analizados, así como el acercamiento a uno de sus temas principales: El campesinado del altiplano cundiboyacense. Por último, Eljaiek hace un recorrido breve por algunos nombres de la fotografía colombiana.Palabras claveFotografía; Colombia; Abdul Ekjaeik; memoria
Retratos de ciudad billares bicicletas galladas y prostitutas: Fernell Franco, en corto diálogo con la fotografía colombiana
Authors: Rueda Fajardo Santiago
Published: November 2017

La valoración reciente de la obra de Fernell Franco, contrasta con la ignorancia generalizada sobre la fotografía colombiana, haciendo creer, por ejemplo, que Franco fue una figura única, desligada de un contexto en realidad muy rico.Este ensayo pone en diálogo la obra de Franco con artistas y fotógrafos parcialmente conocidos y desconocidos, que se corresponden con él y fueron sus contemporáneos. Posteriormente se relaciona su trabajo con el de los artistas y la escena de la ciudad de Cali, y los diferentes momentos del arte colombiano de 1970 al presente, demostrando cómo el fotógrafo siempre fue parte de los mutantes intereses, gestos y resultados del arte local.
Re-escribiendo la historia del modernismo en África
Authors: Cippitelli Lucrezia
Published: November 2017

En este artículo la autora se propone hacer visible la clara intención de una generación de productores culturales africanos empeñados en modelar la historia moderna de sus países y de reescribir la Historia del Modernismo artístico en África, desde una perspectiva no eurocéntrica; intención que se caracteriza por la apropiación de la heterogénea experiencia de los procesos de descolonización.Para tal fin, se realiza el análisis de dos importantes proyectos expositivos y académicos: Khartoum School: The Making of Modern Art Movement in Sudan (desde 1945 hasta el presente) co-curada por Hoor Al-Qasimi y Salah M. Hassan y When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938- 1965) comisariada por Hoor Al-Qasimi y Salah Has-san.
Conocimiento y pluriversidad de mundos en universidades indígenas: Amawtay Wasi (Ecuador) y UAIINCRIC (Colombia)
Authors: Huanca Soto Ramiro
Published: November 2017

La investigación que se presenta trata sobre las concepciones de conocimiento de dos universidades indígenas: Amawtay Wasi (Ecuador) y UAIIN-CRIC (Colombia). A partir de una investigación cualitativa de campo realizada en las comunidades y pueblos donde operan dichas universidades, se establece una interrelación de documentos curriculares y voces de sabios y sabias. El trabajo de campo ha permitido escuchar y poner atención en los lugares de enunciación desde donde hablan los sabios y sabias y cómo el conocimiento fluye desde sus perspectivas y experiencias. Se enfatizan dos ceremonias rituales, el Sakhelu (pueblo Nasa, Colombia) y el Raymi (pueblo Kichua, Ecuador), para dar cuenta de que el conocimiento está también en lasprácticas culturales. En este trabajo fluyen las ideas de pluriversidad y pluriverso como nociones explicativas de la diversidad de mundos espirituales y la manera cómo pueden dialogar de manera intercultural con el conocimiento experto. El enfoque teórico es a partir de redes conceptuales provenientes del pensamiento decolonial e intercultural.
The LILLIAD Innovation Learning Centre
Authors: Roche Julien
Published: November 2017

LILLIAD Innovation Learning Centre is a new building that incorporates a refurbishment of the former Central Library of Lille University of Science and Technologies, France, and an extension. LILLIAD is a project that has been developed over ten years and opened in September 2016. Three hubs have been created inside the new building: the library, the research showcase and the events facilities.
Library and Technology: The IE Library as a tool in the digital transformation of education’s reinvention
Authors: Real Zoco Bélen , de la Peña Martín María
Published: November 2017

The traditional view of the library is no longer applicable to the current, globalized and hyper-connected world. Users, eager for knowledge, demand data and information through the technology they use. The IE Library detects and anticipates the latest trends in technology and integrates them into the user experience. It is an essential part of the digital transformation in education. Being aware of the challenges and possibilities this transformation entails, the IE Library takes it to the next level by offering new formats and environments that are already part of its identity.
Neue Zentralbibliothek Dresden – gemeinsam mit Konzertsaal im denkmalgeschützten Kulturpalast eröffnet
Authors: Rabe Roman
Published: November 2017

Die Städtischen Bibliotheken Dresden konnten ihre beiden zentralen Einrichtungen und die Verwaltung jetzt in einem unter Denkmalschutz stehenden Bestandsgebäude von 1969 vereinen, in dem mit dem Umbau der alte Mehrzwecksaal durch einen Konzertsaal für die Dresdner Philharmonie ersetzt wurde. Ausgehend von einem bibliothekarischen Konzept entstand in einem fast zehnjährigen Planungsprozess eine Einrichtung, in der Anforderungen an eine moderne Öffentliche Bibliothek und Anforderungen, die das Gebäude stellte, zu tragfähigen Kompromisslösungen geführt werden mussten.
Formal Asymmetries between Active and Passive Clauses in Modern English: The Avoidance of Preposition Stranding with Verbs Featuring Omissible Prepositions
Authors: Rohdenburg Günter
Published: November 2017

This paper reports on the results of a corpus-based study that deals with a hitherto neglected kind of formal asymmetry between active and passive clauses involving two-place prepositional verbs like agree. These contrasts are found in the context of two satisfied conditions:

a) The preposition in question is omissible, which holds for agree in present-day British English as in They agreed (on/upon/to/with) the proposal.

b) Unlike active uses, passivization of relevant prepositional options necessarily results in preposition stranding as in The proposal has been agreed on/upon/to/with.

It is shown that – in both passive and active clauses – stranded prepositions tend to be omitted more often than non-stranded ones. Unlike the passive, the active provides only a restricted range of contexts compatible with the potential use of stranded prepositions. What is more, these environments are relatively infrequent with most verbs. This is what largely explains the active-passive asymmetries with the verbs explored in this paper. Crucially, however, stranded prepositions can in several cases be demonstrated to be more strongly avoided in the passive than the active, thus mirroring their cross-linguistic distribution (see e. g. Maling and Zaenen 1985; Truswell 2009). The voice contrast is found to be independent of diachronic changes resulting in either the loss or the acquisition of the prepositions involved.
Assessment of Characteristic Boundary Conditions Based on the Artificial Compressibility Method in Generalized Curvilinear Coordinates for Solution of the Euler Equations
Authors: Parseh Kaveh , Hejranfar Kazem
Published: November 2017

The characteristic boundary conditions are applied and assessed for the solution of incompressible inviscid flows. The two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations based on the artificial compressibility method are considered and then the characteristic boundary conditions are formulated in the generalized curvilinear coordinates and implemented on both the far-field and wall boundaries. A fourth-order compact finite-difference scheme is used to discretize the resulting system of equations. The solution methodology adopted is more suitable for this assessment because the Euler equations and the high-accurate numerical scheme applied are quite sensitive to the treatment of boundary conditions. Two benchmark test cases are computed to investigate the accuracy and performance of the characteristic boundary conditions implemented compared to the simplified boundary conditions. The sensitivity of the solution obtained by applying the characteristic boundary conditions to the different numerical parameters is also studied. Indications are that the characteristic boundary conditions applied improve the accuracy and the convergence rate of the solution compared to the simplified boundary conditions.
Are health care provider organizations ready to tackle diagnostic error? A survey of Leapfrog-participating hospitals
Authors: Newman-Toker David E. , Austin J. Matthew , Derk Jordan , Danforth Melissa , Graber Mark L.
Published: November 2017

Background:

A 2015 National Academy of Medicine report on improving diagnosis in health care made recommendations for direct action by hospitals and health systems. Little is known about how health care provider organizations are addressing diagnostic safety/quality.

Methods:

This study is an anonymous online survey of safety professionals from US hospitals and health systems in July–August 2016. The survey was sent to those attending a Leapfrog Group webinar on misdiagnosis (n=188). The instrument was focused on knowledge, attitudes, and capability to address diagnostic errors at the institutional level.

Results:

Overall, 61 (32%) responded, including community hospitals (42%), integrated health networks (25%), and academic centers (21%). Awareness was high, but commitment and capability were low (31% of leaders understand the problem; 28% have sufficient safety resources; and 25% have made diagnosis a top institutional safety priority). Ongoing efforts to improve diagnostic safety were sparse and mostly included root cause analysis and peer review feedback around diagnostic errors. The top three barriers to addressing diagnostic error were lack of awareness of the problem, lack of measures of diagnostic accuracy and error, and lack of feedback on diagnostic performance. The top two tools viewed as critically important for locally tackling the problem were routine feedback on diagnostic performance and culture change to emphasize diagnostic safety.

Conclusions:

Although hospitals and health systems appear to be aware of diagnostic errors as a major safety imperative, most organizations (even those that appear to be making a strong commitment to patient safety) are not yet doing much to improve diagnosis. Going forward, efforts to activate health care organizations will be essential to improving diagnostic safety.
The Labor Share Squeeze in Latin America: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach
Authors: Joy Ryan , Rodriguez Cesar M. , Ruprah Inder J.
Published: November 2017

This paper analyzes the long-run relationship between labor share and its determinants for 20 Latin American countries from 1980 to 2014. Using the pooled mean group estimator, we find evidence that technological change, the globalization process, and financial integration, have contributed to the decline of labor share in Latin America. We also find evidence of the importance of institutional factors and public spending for the labor share. Finally, we discuss the role of the informal sector on the dynamics of the decline. Our key findings are robust to various specifications and methodologies.
Operator m-convex functions
Authors: Rooin Jamal , Alikhani Akram , Moslehian Mohammad Sal
Published: November 2017

The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive study of operator m-convex functions.
Let

m
∈

[
0
,
1
]

{m\in[0,1]}

, and

J
=

[
0
,
b
]

{J=[0,b]}

for some

b
∈
ℝ

{b\in\mathbb{R}}

or

J
=

[
0
,
∞
)

{J=[0,\infty)}

.
A continuous function

φ
:

J
→
ℝ

{\varphi\colon J\to\mathbb{R}}

is called operator m-convex if for any

t
∈

[
0
,
1
]

{t\in[0,1]}

and any self-adjoint operators

A
,
B

∈

𝔹
⁢

(
ℋ
)

{A,B\in\mathbb{B}({\mathscr{H}})}

, whose spectra are contained in J, we have

φ
⁢

(

t
⁢
A

+

m
⁢

(

1
-
t

)

⁢
B

)

≤

t
⁢
φ
⁢

(
A
)

+

m
⁢

(

1
-
t

)

⁢
φ
⁢

(
B
)

{\varphi(tA+m(1-t)B)\leq t\varphi(A)+m(1-t)\varphi(B)}

.
We first generalize the celebrated Jensen inequality for continuous m-convex functions and Hilbert space operators and then use suitable weight functions to give some weighted refinements.
Introducing the notion of operator m-convexity, we extend the Choi–Davis–Jensen inequality for operator m-convex functions.
We also present an operator version of the Jensen–Mercer inequality for m-convex functions and generalize this inequality for operator m-convex functions involving continuous fields of operators and unital fields of positive linear mappings.
Employing the Jensen–Mercer operator inequality for operator m-convex functions, we construct the m-Jensen operator functional and obtain an upper bound for it.
Accuracy and reliability of gyro measurements at today’s tunnelling projects
Authors: Heunecke Otto , Liebl Wolfgang
Published: November 2017

Gyro theodolites – briefly gyros – allow the orientation transfer from a reference line to another line without need for a connecting geodetic network. They are routinely used for orientation control of networks in tunnelling projects. This is currently the only way to stabilize accuracy and reliability in tunnelling networks and is indispensable with respect of today’s requirements for excavation and breakthrough accuracy. In order to archive a reliable assessment of correctness, the measuring method has to be planned in a way that systematic influences in the determination of an underground directional angle are minimized. For this purpose, the principle of differential measurements is used for an azimuth determination both in terms of time as well as in space. All required corrections and reductions must be considered correctly to obtain the directional angle of interest with a measurement uncertainty less than 1 mgon ($\stackrel{\wedge }{=}3.{3^{\prime\prime }}$). Some accuracy considerations obtained from own experiences are discussed to state whether the specified standard deviations of the used gyros according to DIN 18723-7 can be confirmed.
Nonsolvable groups with few primitive character degrees
Authors: Qian Guohua
Published: November 2017

We study the finite nonsolvable groups in which
all nonlinear primitive (or nonmonomial) characters are of the same degree,
or of square-free, prime power, or odd degree.
Mitigation of Atmospheric Turbulences Using Mode Division Multiplexing based on Decision Feedback Equalizer for Free Space Optics
Authors: Almogahed Abdullah , Amphawan Angela , Fazea Yousef
Published: November 2017

In mode division multiplexing (MDM) free space optical (FSO) communication system, the atmospheric turbulences such as fog, rain, and haze cause adverse effects on system performance. This paper investigates the mitigation of atmospheric turbulences of FSO using MDM and decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with minimum mean square error (MMSE) algorithm. The implementation of the MMSE algorithm is used to optimize both the feedforward and the feedback filter coefficients of DFE. The proposed system comprises three parallel 2.5Gbit/s channels using Hermite–Gaussian modes. A data rate of 7.5Gbit/s over 40 m, 800 m, 1400 m, and 2km under medium fog, rain, haze, and clear weather, respectively, has been achieved. In addition, it is noticed that the link distance is reduced while increasing the attenuation. The simulation results revealed that a DFE improves the performance MDM FSO system while maintaining high throughput and desired low bit error rate.
Explaining asymmetries in number marking: Singulatives, pluratives, and usage frequency
Authors: Haspelmath Martin , Karjus Andres
Published: November 2017

This paper claims that crosslinguistic tendencies of number marking asymmetries can be explained with reference to usage frequency: The kinds of nouns which, across languages, tend to show singulative coding (with special marking of the uniplex member of a pair), rather than the more usual plurative coding (with special marking of the multiplex member), are also the kinds of nouns which tend to occur more frequently in multiplex use. We provide crosslinguistic coding evidence from a range of languages from different families and areas, and crosslinguistic corpus evidence from five languages, using large written corpora. Thus, the crosslinguistic pattern of singulative vs. plurative coding is a special instance of the tendency to devote more marking to rarer forms, and can be explained by the grammatical form-frequency correspondence principle.
Not that I know of: A polarity-sensitive construction
Authors: Hoeksema Jack
Published: November 2017

The paper discusses hedges such as
On the interplay of object animacy and verb type during sentence comprehension in German: ERP evidence from the processing of transitive dative and accusative constructions
Authors: Czypionka Anna , Spalek Katharina , Wartenburger Isabell , Krifka Manfred
Published: November 2017

Comprehension of transitive sentences relies on different kinds of information, like word order, case marking, and animacy contrasts between arguments. When no formal cues like case marking or number congruency are available, a contrast in animacy helps the parser to decide which argument is the grammatical subject and which the object. Processing costs are enhanced when neither formal cues nor animacy contrasts are available in a transitive sentence. We present an ERP study on the comprehension of grammatical transitive German sentences, manipulating animacy contrasts between subjects and objects as well as the verbal case marking pattern. Our study shows strong object animacy effects even in the absence of violations, and in addition suggests that this effect of object animacy is modulated by the verbal case marking pattern.
Effects of temperature on the extraction of U(VI) and Pu(IV) by tris(2-methylbutyl) phosphate from nitric acid media
Authors: Suresh A. , Jayalakshmi S. , Sarkar Subramee , Sivaraman N.
Published: November 2017

Extraction behavior of tris(2-methylbutyl) phosphate (T2MBP), a higher homologue of tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP), in the extraction of U(VI) and Pu(IV) from nitric acid media has been evaluated in the present study. Distribution ratios for the extraction of these metal ions by T2MBP were measured as a function of equilibrium aqueous phase nitric acid concentration, extractant concentration and temperature to understand the temperature effects on extraction. Enthalpies of extraction of T2MBP/n-dodecane-U(VI)-HNO3 and T2MBP/n-dodecane-Pu(IV)-HNO3 systems were calculated from the distribution ratio data using “second law” method. The data reveal that the extraction of U(VI) by T2MBP is exothermic in nature, whereas that of Pu(IV) is endothermic.
Temperatur-Komparator auf Basis eines druckgeregelten Wärmerohres
Authors: Krenek Stephan , Rudtsch Steffen
Published: November 2017

Der Vergleich der Temperaturwerte, die von unterschiedlichen Thermometern wiedergegeben werden, ist eine fundamentale
Aufgabe in der Thermometrie. Hierzu ist es notwendig die verschiedenen Interpolationsinstrumente zwischen den Fixpunkten
der Internationalen Temperaturskala von 1990 (ITS‑90) zu vergleichen, um konsistente Temperaturwerte mit geringsten
Unsicherheiten zu messen. Besonders zwischen den Erstarrungspunkten von Aluminium (660.323 ○C) und Silber
(961.78 ○C) sind diese Vergleiche wichtig. Trotzdem gibt es nur sehr wenige Vergleichsmessplätze für
diesen Temperaturbereich mit einer ausreichenden Temperaturstabilität.

Ein führender Hersteller von Wärmerohren und die PTB haben gemeinsam ein neues System entwickelt, das auf einem
Natriumwärmerohr und einer mechanischen Druckregelung basiert. Dieser sogenannte „Very Stable Temperature Comparator
(VSTC)“ kombiniert die exzellente Temperaturhomogenität, die von Wärmerohröfen bekannt ist, mit einer Stabilität im
Millikelvinbereich, die durch die Regelung des Natriumdampfdruckes erreicht wird. Mit diesem Messplatz können die
Messwerte von bis zu fünf Thermometern bei beliebigen Temperaturen zwischen 600 ○C und
1000 ○C verglichen werden. Erste Messungen zeigen eine Temperaturstabilität von 1.4 mK bei
1000 ○C.

Der VSTC und seine mechanische Druckregelung werden genauer beschrieben. Dabei werden auch die Aspekte diskutiert, die
notwendig sind, um ein sicheres Arbeiten mit Natrium als Arbeitsmedium des Wärmerohres zu gewährleisten.
Entwicklung und Aufbau eines Probenhalters für die Emissionsgradmessung an semitransparenten Materialien
Authors: Gieseler Julian , Monte Christian , Adibekyan Albert , Hollandt Jörg , Kersting Robert
Published: November 2017

An der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) wurden die vorhandenen Messanlagen zur Emissionsgradmessung um die
Möglichkeit der Messung des Emissionsgrads an semitransparenten Materialien erweitert. Ein für diesen Zweck
geeigneter Probenhalter wurde entworfen, durch Simulationen optimiert und realisiert. Einige Bauteile, die teilweise eine
komplexe interne Struktur aufweisen, wurden durch selektives Laserschmelzen im Pulverbett (SLM) gefertigt. Zur Auswertung
der mit dem neuen Probenhalter gewonnenen Daten wurde ein vereinfachtes Strahlungstransportmodell aufgestellt.
Influence of Team Rating on Running Performance in Elite Gaelic Football
Authors: Mangan Shane , Malone Shane , Ryan Martin , Mc Gahan Jason , Warne Joe , Martin Denise , O'Neill Cian , Burns Con , Collins Kieran
Published: November 2017

Mangan, S, Malone, S, Ryan, M, Mc Gahan, J, Warne, J, Martin, D, O'Neill, C, Burns, C, and Collins, K. Influence of team rating on running performance in elite Gaelic football. J Strength Cond Res 32(9): 2584–2591, 2017—It is currently unknown how team rating influences running performance in Gaelic football. Global positioning system technologies were used to quantify match-running performance within 5 elite Gaelic football teams over a period of 5 years (2012–2016). In total 780 player data sets were collected over 95 matches. Running performance variables included total distance, high-speed distance (≥17 km·h−1), and the percentage of high-speed distance. Team ratings were determined objectively using the Elo rating system for Gaelic football. Reference team rating had trivial effects on total distance (p = 0.011, partial η2 = 0.008) and high-speed distance (p = 0.011, partial η2 = 0.008). Opposition team rating had small effects on total distance (p = 0.005, partial η2 = 0.016) and high-speed distance (p = 0.001, partial η2 = 0.020). Top-tier teams cover greater total distances and high-speed distance than lower tier teams. Players cover considerably less total distance and high-speed distance against tier-3 and tier-4 teams. Tier-1 players ran a significantly higher percentage of distance at high speed than players who played for tier-2 teams (p = 0.020). The competitive advantage of top-tier Gaelic football teams is closely linked with their ability to demonstrate a higher physical intensity than lower tier teams.
Sequencing Effects of Neuromuscular Training on Physical Fitness in Youth Elite Tennis Players
Authors: Fernandez-Fernandez Jaime , Granacher Urs , Sanz-Rivas David , Sarabia Marín Jose Manuel , Hernandez-Davo Jose Luis , Moya Manuel
Published: November 2017

Fernandez-Fernandez, J, Granacher, U, Sanz-Rivas, D, Sarabia Marín, JM, Hernandez-Davo, JL, and Moya, M. Sequencing effects of neuromuscular training on physical fitness in youth elite tennis players. J Strength Cond Res 32(3): 849–856, 2018—The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of a 5-week neuromuscular training (NMT) implemented before or after a tennis session in prepubertal players on selected components of physical fitness. Sixteen high-level tennis players with a mean age of 12.9 ± 0.4 years participated in this study, and were assigned to either a training group performing NMT before tennis-specific training (BT; n = 8) or a group that conducted NMT after tennis-specific training (AT; n = 8). Pretest and posttest included: speed (5, 10, and 20 m); modified 5-0-5 agility test; countermovement jump (CMJ); overhead medicine ball throw (MBT); and serve velocity (SV). Results showed that the BT group achieved positive effects from pretest to posttest measures in speed (d = 0.52, 0.32, and 1.08 for 5, 10, and 20 m respectively), 5-0-5 (d = 0.22), CMJ (d = 0.29), MBT (d = 0.51), and SV (d = 0.32), whereas trivial (10 m, 20 m, CMJ, SV, and MBT) or negative effects (d = −0.19 and −0.24 for 5 m and 5-0-5, respectively) were reported for the AT group. The inclusion of an NMT session before the regular tennis training led to positive effects from pretest to posttest measures in performance-related variables (i.e., jump, sprint, change of direction capacity, as well as upper-body power), whereas conducting the same exercise sessions after the regular tennis training was not accompanied by the same improvements.
Effect of Cold-Water Immersion on Elbow Flexors Muscle Thickness After Resistance Training
Authors: Matos Filipe , Neves Eduardo B. , Rosa Claudio , Reis Victor M. , Saavedra Francisco , Silva Severiano , Tavares Francisco , Vilaça-Alves José
Published: November 2017

Matos, F, Neves, EB, Rosa, C, Reis, VM, Saavedra, F, Silva, S, Tavares, F, and Vilaça-Alves, J. Effect of cold-water immersion on elbow flexors muscle thickness after resistance training. J Strength Cond Res 32(3): 756–763, 2018—Cold-water immersion (CWI) is commonly applied to speed up the recovery process after exercise. Muscle damage may induce a performance reduction and consequence of the intramuscular pressure induced by the muscular swelling. The aim of the study was to verify the CWI effects on muscle thickness (MT) behavior of the elbow flexors after a strength training (ST) protocol. Eleven men were submitted to an ST, performed in 2 different weeks. In one of the weeks, subjects experienced a passive recovery. In the other, subjects were submitted to a CWI (20 minutes at 5–10° C). Ultrasound (US) images were taken before, after, as well as 24, 48, and 72 hours after exercise, to evaluate the MT. Muscle thickness in both exercise arm (EA) and control arm (CA) was significantly higher 48 and 72 hours after exercise when subjects were submitted to a passive recovery compared with the CWI (p = 0.029, p = 0.028, p = 0.009, and p = 0.001, 48 hours, 72 hours, EA, and CA, respectively). When each arm was analyzed with or without using CWI individually, significantly higher MT was observed in the EA with CWI: before exercise in relation to 72 hours after exercise (p = 0.042) and after exercise in relation to the other measurements (p = 0.003, p = 0.003, p = 0.038, and p < 0.0001, before exercise and 24, 48, 72 hours after exercise, respectively). The evaluation of MT by US provides evidence that CWI after ST (and 24 hours after exercise) may reduce muscle swelling in the postexercise days when compared with a passive recovery. Seems to be a paradox between the uses of CWI for an acute reduction of muscle swelling.
Validity and Reliability of a New Test of Planned Agility in Elite Taekwondo Athletes
Authors: Chaabene Helmi , Negra Yassine , Capranica Laura , Bouguezzi Raja , Hachana Younés , Rouahi Mohamed Ali , Mkaouer Bessem
Published: November 2017

Chaabene, H, Negra, Y, Capranica, L, Bouguezzi, R, Hachana, Y, Rouahi, MA, and Mkaouer, B. Validity and reliability of a new test of planned agility in elite taekwondo athletes. J Strength Cond Res 32(9): 2542–2547, 2018—This study aimed to examine the validity, reliability, and sensitivity of a new test of planned agility in elite taekwondo athletes and to establish its relationship with sprint-time, jumping ability, and dynamic balance. Twenty-seven (20 males and 7 females) taekwondo athletes participated in this study. They performed taekwondo-specific agility test (TSAT) in 2 occasions (i.e., test-retest). In addition, they performed jumping ability (i.e., squat jump, countermovement jump, standing long jump, and 3-hop jump), sprint-time (5- and 20-m dash), and dynamic balance (i.e., Y-test) tests along with a planned agility test (i.e., T-test). To establish TSAT's construct validity, 2 subgroups were identified based on their international and national taekwondo results: top elite (9 males and 2 females) and elite (11 males and 2 females). Taekwondo-specific agility test showed high relative and absolute reliability as well as a good ability to detect small and meaningful performance change. Top-elite athletes showed greater (p < 0.001) TSAT performances (4.5 ± 0.4 seconds) compared with their elite (5.3 ± 0.4 seconds) counterparts. Receiving operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that TSAT was able to discriminate athletes of different competitive level as revealed by an area under the ROC curve of 0.94 (95% confidence interval: 0.76–0.99). Taekwondo-specific agility test demonstrated significant association with the T-test (r = 0.71; shared variance = 50%), which is considered as a gold-standard planned agility test. In addition, results showed moderate-to-large associations between TSAT and jumping ability, sprint-time, and dynamic balance tests. The TSAT might be considered as a valid and reliable test to evaluate specific agility of taekwondo athletes.
Acute Capsaicin Supplementation Improves 1,500-m Running Time-Trial Performance and Rate of Perceived Exertion in Physically Active Adults
Authors: de Freitas Marcelo Conrado , Cholewa Jason M. , Gobbo Luis A. , de Oliveira João V.N.S. , Lira Fabio S. , Rossi Fabrício E.
Published: November 2017

de Freitas, MC, Cholewa, JM, Gobbo, LA, de Oliveira, JVNS, Lira, FS, and Rossi, FE. Acute capsaicin supplementation improves 1,500-m running time-trial performance and rate of perceived exertion in physically active adults. J Strength Cond Res 32(2): 572–577, 2018—The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute effect of capsaicin supplementation on performance, rate of perceived exertion (RPE), and blood lactate concentrations during short-duration running in physically active adults. Ten physically active men (age = 23.5 ± 1.9 years, mass = 78.3 ± 12.4 kg, and height = 177.9 ± 5.9 cm) completed 2 randomized, double-blind trials: Capsaicin condition (12 mg) or a placebo condition. Forty-five minutes after supplement consumption, the participants performed a 1,500-m running time trial. Time (in seconds) was recorded. Blood lactate concentration was analyzed at rest, immediately after exercise, after 5, 10, and 30 minutes during recovery and the RPE was collected after exercise. The time was significantly (t = 3.316, p = 0.009) lower in the capsaicin (371.6 ± 40.8 seconds) compared with placebo (376.7 ± 39 seconds). Rate of perceived exertion was significantly (t = 2.753, p = 0.022) less in the capsaicin (18.0 ± 1.9) compared with the placebo (18.8 ± 1.3). Lactate increased across time for both conditions without significant differences between (p > 0.05). In summary, acute capsaicin supplementation improves middle distance running (1,500 m) performance and reduced RPE in physically active adults.
A Conserved Cytoskeletal Signaling Cascade Mediates Neurotoxicity of FTDP-17 Tau MutationsIn Vivo
Authors: Bardai Farah H. , Wang Liqun , Mutreja Yamini , Yenjerla Mythili , Gamblin T. Chris , Feany Mel B.
Published: November 2017

The microtubule binding protein tau is strongly implicated in multiple neurodegenerative disorders, including frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), which is caused by mutations in tau.In vitro, FTDP-17 mutant versions of tau can reduce microtubule binding and increase the aggregation of tau, but the mechanism by which these mutations promote diseasein vivois not clear. Here we take a combined biochemical andin vivomodeling approach to define functional properties of tau driving neurotoxicityin vivo. We express wild-type human tau and five FTDP-17 mutant forms of tau inDrosophilausing a site-directed insertion strategy to ensure equivalent levels of expression. We then analyze multiple markers of neurodegeneration and neurotoxicity in transgenic animals, including analysis of both males and females. We find that FTDP-17 mutations act to enhance phosphorylation of tau and thus promote neurotoxicity in anin vivosetting. Further, we demonstrate that phosphorylation-dependent excess stabilization of the actin cytoskeleton is a key phosphorylation-dependent mediator of the toxicity of wild-type tau and of all the FTDP-17 mutants tested. Finally, we show that important downstream pathways, including autophagy and the unfolded protein response, are coregulated with neurotoxicity and actin cytoskeletal stabilization in brains of flies expressing wild-type human and various FTDP-17 tau mutants, supporting a conserved mechanism of neurotoxicity of wild-type tau and FTDP-17 mutant tau in disease pathogenesis.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTThe microtubule protein tau aggregates and forms insoluble inclusion bodies known as neurofibrillary tangles in the brain tissue of patients with a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. The tau protein is thus widely felt to play a key role in promoting neurodegeneration. However, precisely how tau becomes toxic is unclear. Here we capitalize on an “experiment of nature” in which rare missense mutations in tau cause familial neurodegeneration and neurofibrillary tangle formation. By comparing the biochemical activities of different tau mutations with theirin vivotoxicity in a well controlledDrosophilamodel system, we find that all mutations tested increase phosphorylation of tau and trigger a cascade of neurotoxicity critically impinging on the integrity of the actin cytoskeleton.
Emancipation and Domesticity: Decoding Personal Manuscript Cookbooks from the Soviet Union
Authors: Lakhtikova Anastasia
Published: November 2017

A product of their time and of the internalized Soviet ideology that to a great extent shaped women's gendered self-fashioning as women and mothers, Soviet manuscript cookbooks became popular among Soviet women in the late 1960s. Based on the semiotic reading of two personal manuscript cookbooks in the author's family, this article explores what these cookbooks, in combination with the author's family history, tell about how Soviet women used and reshaped the gender roles available to them in late Soviet everyday life. The author also asks questions about the cost of emancipation in a society that could not truly support such progress socially or economically.
From Fecal Briquettes to Candy Kremlins: The Edible Ideal in Sorokin's Prose
Authors: Livers Keith
Published: November 2017

This article examines contemporary Russian postmodernist author Vladimir Sorokin's use of food thematics primarily in works written since the year 2000. Sorokin is perhaps best known for his signature technique of using grotesque sexual or violent imagery to parody the truth claims of various kinds of discourse, whether ideological, religious, or aesthetic. However, in a number of works, beginning with his first novel, The Norm (1983–87), and extending up to such recent short novels such as Day of an Oprichnik (2006) and Candy Kremlin (2008), Sorokin employs food imagery to critique the push for extreme ideological and social cohesion at the heart of Russia's re-embrace of nationalism and empire in the twenty-first century. The author also employs a broad array of food/eating images to critique the country's long-standing tradition of consuming utopian ideologies—from Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in the nineteenth century to Putinism in the twenty-first.
Variations on a Shchi Theme: Collective Dining and Politics in the Early USSR
Authors: Nérard François-Xavier
Published: November 2017

Canteens were a distinctive feature of the USSR during the years of the initial Five-Year Plans. They were intended to be at the core of the formation of the new Soviet citizen. The food they served was therefore supposed to validate the success of the Revolution: white bread, meat, and other good and healthy food were to be concrete markers of the plans' achievements. Huge “factory kitchens” appeared in the main cities of the country. Far from symbolizing the successes of the socialist vision, however, they illustrated to Stalinist Soviet society the fundamental discrepancy between official discourse and reality. Food was scarce; the people suffered from shortages and, in worst cases, from famine. The canteen nonetheless became one of the few places where Soviet workers and urban dwellers had a relatively reliable access to food, and it also served as a central place of contact between the population and the authorities. The intimate experience of eating became a highly political one, contributing to the formation of homo sovieticus.