bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Developing Strategic Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Law Enforcement Officers
Authors: Ramey Sandra L. , Downing Nancy R. , Knoblauch Angela
Published: July 2015

The purpose of this study was to use data triangulation to inform interventions targeted at reducing morbidity from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors among law enforcement officers. Using the Precede-Proceed Health Promotion Planning Model, survey data ( n = 672) and focus group data (n = 8 groups) from the Milwaukee Police Department were analyzed. Narrative transcripts disclosed that law enforcement officers encounter potential barriers and motivators to a healthy lifestyle. Survey results indicated rates of overweight (71.1 % vs. 60.8%) and hypertension (27.4% vs. 17.6%) were significantly ( p ⩽ .001) higher among Milwaukee Police Department law enforcement officers than the general population of Wisconsin ( n = 2,855). The best predictor of CVD was diabetes ( p = .030). Occupational health nurses are uniquely positioned to identify health risks, design appropriate interventions, and advocate for policy changes that improve the health of those employed in law enforcement and other high-risk professions.
Work–Heart Balance
Authors: Dickson Victoria Vaughan , McCauley Linda A. , Riegel Barbara
Published: July 2015

The complexities of managing heart failure among employees have not been studied. In this mixed methods study, the authors explored how cognition, physical functioning, attitudes, and self-efficacy influence self-care among employees with heart failure. Forty-one adults (White, 68.3%; male, 63.4%; median age, 51 years; employed, 48.8%) completed in-depth interviews and standardized instruments. Content analysis was used to derive themes from narrative accounts of self-care practices, attitudes, and self-efficacy within the context of employment. Descriptive and nonparametric statistics were used to describe the sample and generate hypotheses about relationships among the variables. Most of the employed participants ( N = 13) worked full-time (65%), primarily in sedentary jobs. Cognition and physical functioning were better in those who were employed ( p = .02), but self-care practices were lower ( p = .03). Those who successfully managed heart failure and work described strategies to incorporate self-care into their workdays, self-efficacy in managing symptoms while at work, and favorable attitudes toward employment.
Influenza Vaccination and Decisional Conflict among Regulated and Unregulated Direct Nursing Care Providers in Long-Term–Care Homes
Authors: Strasser Patricia B. , Sullivan Shannon M. , Pierrynowski-Gallant Donna , Chambers Larry , O'Connor Annette , Bowman Sherry , McNeil Shelly , Strang Robert , Knoefel Frank
Published: July 2015

The purpose of this study was to determine whether direct nursing care providers have decisional conflict about receiving influenza vaccinations and characteristics associated with decisional conflict. The researchers used a self-administered questionnaire mailed to direct nursing care providers in two long-term–care organizations. Most direct nursing care providers in both organizations (80% and 93%, respectively) intended to get the influenza vaccine. Unregulated direct nursing care providers had more decisional conflict than regulated providers, especially related to feeling uninformed about the pros and cons of influenza vaccination. Unclear valuing of the pros and cons of influenza vaccination was related to the age of the direct care providers in both organizations. Decisional conflict and influenza vaccination practices may be determined, in part, by age and by the culture of a health care organization. A decision aid to improve knowledge and clarify values may improve decision quality and increase influenza vaccination rates.
Preventing Burns in Restaurants
Authors: Papadopoulos Kate , Childre Frances
Published: July 2015

Restaurant burns are a significant and preventable source of occupational morbidity and economic hardship.
When is an Injury Compensable?
Authors: Foster Donna , Childre Frances
Published: July 2015

Whether an injury is compensable depends on many factors. This article addresses some of the factors surrounding this issue.
A Successful Occupational Health Nurse-Driven Health Promotion Program to Support Corporate Sustainability
Authors: Redmond Michael S. , Kalina Christine M. , Strasser Patricia B.
Published: July 2015

Health promotion programs offer an opportunity to support the health of employees, their families, and the communities in which they reside. By integrating health promotion programs with a company's sustainability efforts, the occupational health nurse can directly impact the company's bottom line by ensuring the benefits from a healthy, safe, and fully productive employee who is able to remain in the workplace for some time. This article discusses a successful health promotion program developed and implemented by an occupational health nurse in support of a company's sustainability effort.
Psychosocial Factors Affecting Employees' Abilities to Return to Work
Authors: Eggert Sirja
Published: July 2015

This literature review explored the experiences of workers with on-the-job injuries, and the effects of psychosocial factors on their abilities to return to work. Four common themes were discovered: frustration, depression, discrimination, and obstacles in understanding how the workers' compensation system works and in obtaining care. The literature review suggested that interventions such as rehabilitation programs and psychosocial interventions help injured workers return to work. Nursing implications, including early, comprehensive, and fair interventions, are discussed. Intervening in this manner contributes to holistic nursing care of injured workers.
Preliminary Validity and Reliability of Scores on the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report Version
Authors: Shogren Karrie A. , Wehmeyer Michael L. , Little Todd D. , Forber-Pratt Anjali J. , Palmer Susan B. , Seo Hyojeong
Published: July 2015

The purpose of this article is to describe preliminary psychometric characteristics of a student self-report measure of self-determination, the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report version (SDI-SR), designed for youth with and without disabilities. We administered the draft assessment to 311 youth and examined item functioning using structural equation modeling and item response theory. The 50 items that demonstrated strong psychometric properties were examined for construct validity using a series of confirmatory factor analyses. Overall, the pilot measure aligned well with the theoretical framework that guided its development, demonstrating acceptable model fit in adolescents with and without disabilities. Implications for further development and practice are discussed.
Identity Centrality and Psychosocial Functioning
Authors: Meca Alan , Ritchie Rachel A. , Beyers Wim , Schwartz Seth J. , Picariello Simona , Zamboanga Byron L. , Hardy Sam A. , Luyckx Koen , Kim Su Yeong , Whitbourne Susan K. , Crocetti Elisabetta , Brown Elissa J. , Benitez Cynthia G.
Published: July 2015

There has been increased recognition that identity operates within several “components” and that not every component is likely to be equally central to one’s sense of self. The aim of the current study was to determine the extent to which identity components (i.e., personal, relational, collective, and public) are differentially central to emerging adults’ identity. We used a two-step cluster analytic procedure to identify distinct clusters and determine how these configurations might differ in relation to psychosocial functioning (i.e., well-being, externalizing and internalizing symptoms, illicit drug use, risky sex, and impaired driving). The sample consisted of 8,309 college students (72.8% female; Mage = 19.94 years, 18–29, SD = 2.01) from 30 U.S. colleges and universities. Analyses identified six unique clusters based on the centrality of the four identity components. The findings indicated that a more well-rounded identity was associated with the most favorable psychosocial functioning. Results are discussed in terms of important directions for identity research and practical implications.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using a Flexible Reamer System
Authors: Fitzgerald Judd , Saluan Paul , Richter Dustin L. , Huff Nathan , Schenck Robert C.
Published: July 2015

Anatomic reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has been shown to improve stability of the knee, particularly rotational stability, potentially leading to superior clinical outcomes and a shorter return to sport. Nonanatomic ACL reconstruction has been linked to graft failure and abnormal cartilage loading thought to contribute to progression of degenerative joint disease. Use of the far anteromedial portal (FAMP) to uncouple the tibial and femoral tunnels has led to improved reproduction of the femoral footprint and facilitates drilling of the femoral tunnel in an anatomic position. The use of the FAMP and straight reamer systems introduces its own set of potential complications, including short femoral tunnels and peroneal nerve injury. These potential complications have been addressed by drilling the femoral tunnel in a hyperflexed position, which can lead to difficulty with positioning the operative extremity, visualization, and identification of anatomic landmarks. The purpose of this case report was to review the advantages and technical aspects of using a flexible reamer system and the FAMP to achieve an anatomic ACL reconstruction while avoiding potential complications and pitfalls. Flexible reamer systems allow an additional way of uncoupling the tibial and femoral tunnels to clearly visualize and establish an anatomic starting point within the femoral footprint of the native ACL while avoiding the complications associated with knee hyperflexion and straight reamers with the far anteromedial portal. In the authors’ experience, an anatomic reconstruction of the ACL can be achieved safely using flexible reamers while avoiding some of the difficulties seen with straight reamers used in conjunction with an uncoupled, far anteromedial approach.
PAK1 is a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
Authors: Pandolfi Ashley , Stanley Robert F. , Yu Yiting , Bartholdy Boris , Pendurti Gopichand , Gritsman Kira , Boultwood Jacqueline , Chernoff Jonathan , Verma Amit , Steidl Ulrich
Published: July 2015

Key Points

Targeting of PAK1 inhibits primary AML and MDS patients' cells including leukemia stem cells but spares healthy stem and progenitor cells. Inhibition of PAK1 induces differentiation and apoptosis of AML cells through downregulation of MYC and a core network of MYC target genes.
Inflammation rapidly reorganizes mouse bone marrow B cells and their environment in conjunction with early IgM responses
Authors: Moreau Joshua M. , Berger Alexandra , Nelles Megan E. , Mielnik Michael , Furlonger Caren , Cen Selena Y. , Besla Rickvinder , Robbins Clinton S. , Paige Christopher J.
Published: July 2015

Key Points

Mouse inflammation models cause accumulation of B cells in the bone marrow within 12 hours and prior to peak emergency granulopoiesis. Marrow B cells undergo spatial reorganization and are subjected to an altered cellular and secreted milieu.
Hyperspectral image classification via contextual deep learning
Authors: Ma Xiaorui , Geng Jie , Wang Hongyu
Published: July 2015

Because the reliability of feature for every pixel determines the accuracy of classification, it is important to design a specialized feature mining algorithm for hyperspectral image classification. We propose a feature learning algorithm, contextual deep learning, which is extremely effective for hyperspectral image classification. On the one hand, the learning-based feature extraction algorithm can characterize information better than the pre-defined feature extraction algorithm. On the other hand, spatial contextual information is effective for hyperspectral image classification. Contextual deep learning explicitly learns spectral and spatial features via a deep learning architecture and promotes the feature extractor using a supervised fine-tune strategy. Extensive experiments show that the proposed contextual deep learning algorithm is an excellent feature learning algorithm and can achieve good performance with only a simple classifier.
Vismodegib Exerts Targeted Efficacy Against Recurrent Sonic Hedgehog–Subgroup Medulloblastoma: Results From Phase II Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Studies PBTC-025B and PBTC-032
Authors: Robinson Giles W. , Orr Brent A. , Wu Gang , Gururangan Sridharan , Lin Tong , Qaddoumi Ibrahim , Packer Roger J. , Goldman Stewart , Prados Michael D. , Desjardins Annick , Chintagumpala Murali , Takebe Naoko , Kaste Sue C. , Rusch Michael , Allen Sariah J. , Onar-Thomas Arzu , Stewart Clinton F. , Fouladi Maryam , Boyett James M. , Gilbertson Richard J. , Curran Tom , Ellison David W. , Gajjar Amar
Published: July 2015

Purpose

Two phase II studies assessed the efficacy of vismodegib, a sonic hedgehog (SHH) pathway inhibitor that binds smoothened (SMO), in pediatric and adult recurrent medulloblastoma (MB).

Patients and Methods

Adult patients enrolled onto PBTC-025B and pediatric patients enrolled onto PBTC-032 were treated with vismodegib (150 to 300 mg/d). Protocol-defined response, which had to be sustained for 8 weeks, was confirmed by central neuroimaging review. Molecular tests to identify patterns of response and insensitivity were performed when tissue was available.

Results

A total of 31 patients were enrolled onto PBTC-025B, and 12 were enrolled onto PBTC-032. Three patients in PBTC-025B and one in PBTC-032, all with SHH-subgroup MB (SHH-MB), exhibited protocol-defined responses. Progression-free survival (PFS) was longer in those with SHH-MB than in those with non-SHH–MB, and prolonged disease stabilization occurred in 41% of patient cases of SHH-MB. Among those with SHH-MB, loss of heterozygosity of PTCH1 was associated with prolonged PFS, and diffuse staining of P53 was associated with reduced PFS. Whole-exome sequencing identified mutations in SHH genes downstream from SMO in four of four tissue samples from nonresponders and upstream of SMO in two of four patients with favorable responses.

Conclusion

Vismodegib exhibits activity against adult recurrent SHH-MB but not against recurrent non-SHH–MB. Inadequate accrual of pediatric patients precluded conclusions in this population. Molecular analyses support the hypothesis that SMO inhibitor activity depends on the genomic aberrations within the tumor. Such inhibitors should be advanced in SHH-MB studies; however, molecular and genomic work remains imperative to identify target populations that will truly benefit.
Detecting Germline PTEN Mutations Among At-Risk Patients With Cancer: An Age- and Sex-Specific Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Authors: Ngeow Joanne , Liu Chang , Zhou Ke , Frick Kevin D. , Matchar David B. , Eng Charis
Published: July 2015

Purpose

Cowden syndrome (CS) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by benign and malignant tumors. One-quarter of patients who are diagnosed with CS have pathogenic germline PTEN mutations, which increase the risk of the development of breast, thyroid, uterine, renal, and other cancers. PTEN testing and regular, intensive cancer surveillance allow for early detection and treatment of these cancers for mutation-positive patients and their relatives. Individual CS-related features, however, occur commonly in the general population, making it challenging for clinicians to identify CS-like patients to offer PTEN testing.

Patients and Methods

We calculated the cost per mutation detected and analyzed the cost-effectiveness of performing selected PTEN testing among CS-like patients using a semi-quantitative score (the PTEN Cleveland Clinic [CC] score) compared with existing diagnostic criteria. In our model, first-degree relatives of the patients with detected PTEN mutations are offered PTEN testing. All individuals with detected PTEN mutations are offered cancer surveillance.

Results

CC score at a threshold of 15 (CC15) costs from $3,720 to $4,573 to detect one PTEN mutation, which is the most inexpensive among the different strategies. At base-case, CC10 is the most cost-effective strategy for female patients who are younger than 40 years, and CC15 is the most cost-effective strategy for female patients who are between 40 and 60 years of age and male patients of all ages. In sensitivity analyses, CC15 is robustly the most cost-effective strategy for probands who are younger than 60 years.

Conclusion

Use of the CC score as a clinical risk calculator is a cost-effective prescreening method to identify CS-like patients for PTEN germline testing.
Chemotherapy for Late-Stage Cancer Patients: Meta-Analysis of Complete Response Rates
Authors: Ashdown Martin L. , Robinson Andrew P. , Yatomi-Clarke Steven L. , Ashdown M. Luisa , Allison Andrew , Abbott Derek , Markovic Svetomir N. , Coventry Brendon J.
Published: July 2015

Complete response (CR) rates reported for cytotoxic chemotherapy for late-stage cancer patients are generally low, with few exceptions, regardless of the solid cancer type or drug regimen. We investigated CR rates reported in the literature for clinical trials using chemotherapy alone, across a wide range of tumour types and chemotherapeutic regimens, to determine an overall CR rate for late-stage cancers. A total of 141 reports were located using the PubMed database. A meta-analysis was performed of reported CR from 68 chemotherapy trials (total 2732 patients) using standard agents across late-stage solid cancers—a binomial model with random effects was adopted. Mean CR rates were compared for different cancer types, and for chemotherapeutic agents with different mechanisms of action, using a logistic regression. Our results showed that the CR rates for chemotherapy treatment of late-stage cancer were generally low at 7.4%, regardless of the cancer type or drug regimen used. We found no evidence that CR rates differed between different chemotherapy drug types, but amongst different cancer types small CR differences were evident, although none exceeded a mean CR rate of 11%. This remarkable concordance of CR rates regardless of cancer or therapy type remains currently unexplained, and motivates further investigation.
Journey into a brave new world
Authors: Neville Sarah
Published: July 2015

The government has asked early years settings to promote British values; these lend themselves well to activities based on a need to provide children with smooth transitions.
Celebrating the art of water play
Authors: Francis-Pester Dawn
Published: July 2015

The warm and sunny days make water play not only fun, but almost essential, and the joy children feel is matched in many ways by the wonderful learning opportunities on offer.
Now is the time
Authors: Oshikanlu Ruth
Published: July 2015

At the beginning of 2015, Ruth Oshikanlu challenged health visitors to set targets to make this their best year ever. As we enter the second half of the year, the time has come to revisit some of those goals and renew the motivation to achieve them.
Research roundup: July 2015
Authors: Brook Judy , Rankin Jenny , Murray Joy
Published: July 2015

In this section, a range of brief synopses of articles that may be of interest to health visitors is presented. The aim is to provide an overview of the papers selected. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided.
Bringing the relationship to life: The power of video-feedback approaches
Authors: Domoney Jill , Iles Jane , O'Farrelly Christine , Kellett Patricia , Rosan Camilla
Published: July 2015

This article gives an overview of video-feedback approaches in parenting support, drawing on current research and models of best practice. Video-feedback approaches use a strength-based model to combine positive feedback from parent–infant film clips to promote sensitive parenting. There is a growing evidence-base for the use of video-feedback across a wide range of populations, and support for its use by front-line health professionals such as health visitors with families in the perinatal period and early years.
The world at your finger tips: how the hand functions
Authors: Swann Julie
Published: July 2015

Hands can achieve a multitude of positions, by simply moving the fingers and thumb towards or away from the palm. Julie Swann explores how the hand achieves a wide range of movement and the functions that it can perform
She Wears the Masks: Bluefacing in Nilaja Sun’s Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina
Authors: Herrera Patricia
Published: July 2015

This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to push the conceptual limits of racial identity, and expand the nodes of intersection within diasporic identities. The act of bluing up, as opposed to blacking up, is Sun’s way of provoking her audience to think more expansively about the performance of racialized identity outside of black and Latino paradigms, and toward a more complicated and not-clearly discernible Afro-Latino hybrid subjectivity. Sun uses what I call bluefacing , a performance tactic that magnifies the constrictive and monolithic perceptions of blackness and Latinidad as a means of generating alternative ways of living inside and outside racial and ethnic social masks. In her earlier works, Black and Blue (2001) and La Nubia Latina (1999), Sun demonstrates how the act of putting on and taking off various social masks both affirms and troubles her engagement with Afro-Latina diasporic lineages. I explore the ways Sun’s masking techniques are not simply about the mask itself, nor about what the mask conceals or reveals, but rather about bluefacing as a way to embody the lived experience of oppression across multiple and intersecting racial histories. What are the social and political implications rendered when Sun wears a blueface mask? What racial politics does Sun’s strategy of blueface perform in concert with traditions of blackface by African Americans? How does Sun’s creation of blueface masking embody and intervene in racial politics?
What the Folk Printed: Verse Culture and the Black Press in 1865 New Orleans
Authors: Hankins Laurel
Published: July 2015

This article examines the abolitionist ballads reprinted in the Black Republican , a newspaper that circulated in New Orleans immediately after Emancipation. Through these reprintings of performative verse genres, the Black Republican offered its readers opportunities to collectively revise white cultural productions of sentimentalized versions of themselves to foster membership in a counterpublic. Characterized in the white literary imagination as a preliterate oral folk, the black press responded by using print to destabilize verse that reinforced this fantasy. One consequence of this counterpublic revision is a changing notion of the ballad genre, as antebellum ballad gave way to Reconstruction minstrelsy.
Traditional Rebirth: The Epistolary Genre in When Washington Was in Vogue
Authors: Moore Christina
Published: July 2015

While When Washington Was in Vogue is set during the Harlem Renaissance, its genre and narrator belong to older times across the pond. Instead of recognizing the New Negro’s African ancestry, Edward Christopher Williams Charles Chesnutt’s son, portrays his British ideological history by narrating the Harlem Renaissance in a mode of epistolarity derived from Anglo-Saxon, European literary traditions. In Williams’s fictional account, the African American’s physical transplantation from Africa affected an ancestral and ideological transplantation that identifies more with America’s ancestral history—England. It offers a new way to understand the influence of America’s European ancestry on the black American.
"Speakin Arms" and Dancing Bodies in Ntozake Shange
Authors: Mahurin Sarah
Published: July 2015

This article considers ideas of embodiment and theatricality in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbox is enuf , which was originally conceived as a series of spoken-word poems. The production’s move to the stage signifies an almost-complete rewriting: the conversion from poem to performance presents the literal embodiment of a preexisting text, and, at least to some extent, the sublimation of language by body. This essay argues that Shange creates a theatre of the physical, and, in particular, a theatre that insists upon—depends upon—the primacy of its only constant: the black female body.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man : Secularizing the Fortunate Fall and Apocalypse
Authors: Welch Dennis , Greer Allison
Published: July 2015

This essay shows how Ellison secularizes the notion of the Fortunate Fall— vis-à-vis Genesis, Revelation, Augustine, and Milton—in order to deepen his novel’s characterization and socio-political meaning in relation to American history and its flawed founding and early fallenness based on slavery and racism. Gradually, the Invisible Man develops a potentially fortunate vision of his own life and American democracy, blending realism that respects diversity, division, and responsibility and idealism that seeks secular ( i.e. , broadly political) forms of transcendence.
Into the Heart of the Great Wilderness: Understanding Baldwin’s Quarrel with Négritude
Authors: Winks Christopher
Published: July 2015

This article analyzes James Baldwin’s 1957 essay, “Princes and Powers,” a critical assessment of the historic Paris Conference of Black Writers and Artists of September 1956. It registers and productively explores Baldwin’s intellectual tensions with an older generation of anticolonial activists, specific attending to his critical remarks on the conference presentations of the Négritude poets Aimé Césaire and Léopold Senghor. While the article takes issue with important elements of Baldwin’s analysis, it also points out Baldwin’s often unconscious affinities with the larger perspectives discussed in the conference, and considers these affinities as harbingers of his subsequent intellectual and activist trajectories.
Lost and … Found?: James Baldwin’s Script and Spike Lee’s Malcolm X
Authors: Miller D. Quentin
Published: July 2015

This article examines the relationship between James Baldwin’s “scenario” One Day, When I Was Lost (1972) and Spike Lee’s 1992 film Malcolm X . Baldwin’s scenario formed the basis for a script that was doctored by a Hollywood collaborator named Arnold Perl, and Baldwin, frustrated by Perl’s essential changes to his vision, stormed away from the project. Lee’s film used the Baldwin/Perl script as its blueprint. This article argues that Lee’s version is at odds with the spirit of Baldwin’s, and suggests that students of various representations of Malcolm X should not overlook One Day, When I Was Lost .
Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing
Authors: Moynihan Sinéad
Published: July 2015

This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a “blackened” version of Gatsby. Mapping the genealogy of Passing , from Gatsby through Larsen’s first published work of fiction, “The Wrong Man” (1926), it proposes that Larsen’s allusions to Fitzgerald’s novel work to destabilize radically any secure sense of Daisy Buchanan’s whiteness by linking her quite emphatically with Clare Kendry. By reading Passing in this way, the article also reveals the extent to which Larsen built covert engagements with reading, writing and authorship into a text thematically preoccupied with looking, seeing and interpreting.
“a responsibility to something besides people”: African American Reclamation Ecopoetics
Authors: Lynes Katherine R.
Published: July 2015

In this article, I focus on new directions in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American poetry, which lead to environmentalism (a call for the protection of non-human nature); however, this call does not abandon the idea of the human in the landscape, as social and environmental justice issues are never far away. I address poetry by George Moses Horton and Paul Laurence Dunbar to demonstrate the lineage and ultimately move to Lucille Clifton and Indigo Moor as representatives of African American reclamation ecopoetics.
Universality at War: Race, Nation, and Communism in Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go
Authors: Darda Joseph
Published: July 2015

This essay shows how Chester Himes’s first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), centrally engages with and contests two universalisms manifest in World War II-era Los Angeles: that of militarized US nationalism and that of procommunist organized labor. By emphasizing the irony of his protagonist’s nationalist and working-class identities, Himes points to the limits of these universalisms, the disparity between their claims and their lived realities, and instead gestures to emergent multiracial coalitions that look beyond the horizon of the nation to imagine counterhegemonic forms of social justice.
Antediluvian Sex: Countée Cullen, Christopher Smart, and the Queerness of Uplift
Authors: Kahan Benjamin
Published: July 2015

Reading Countée Cullen’s little known 1940 text The Lost Zoo (that imagines the animals left behind by the Biblical flood), this essay recovers the queerness of uplift discourses in the Harlem Renaissance. I argue that Cullen draws on the queer resources of the Noah story and its narration in Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno (1939) in ways that temporally remap the periodization of the Harlem Renaissance. I call this process “collective queer remembering” and offer it as an alternative to Houston Baker’s “renaissancism” and Issac Julien’s “meditation” in Looking for Langston (1989).
Konsequente Umsetzung von Zielen durch Coaching
Authors: Greif Siegfried , Benning-Rohnke Elke
Published: July 2015

Handlungsziele werden oft nicht praktisch umgesetzt. Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen legen nahe, dass die unzureichende Formulierung konkreter Umsetzungsabsichten sowie die fehlende Begleitung in der Verstetigung neuer Verhaltensroutinen dafür maßgeblich sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag vermittelt wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus der Grundlagenforschung und stellt Coaching-Interventionen zur Unterstützung der Umsetzung in die Praxis vor. Anhand von zwei Praxisprojekten in Banken wird beispielhaft gezeigt, wie ein stringentes Vorgehen in Anlehnung an die Methode des Ergebnisorientierten Coachings durchgeführt werden kann, mit Unterstützung der Formulierung konkreter Handlungsziele im Team, Entwicklung individueller Handlungsabsichten, Umsetzungsunterstützung und Verstetigung zur nachhaltigen Verhaltensveränderung. Nach einer Panelerhebung hat sich in einem der Projekte die Zielerreichung in Profitabilität um 29 % verbessert und in Wachstums sogar um 105 %. Abschließend wird empfohlen, Erkenntnisse und Methoden aus weiteren Feldern der Grundlagenforschung zur Innovation des Change Managements und Coachings in Unternehmen und Coachingpraxis zu nutzen.
Improvement of functional constipation with kiwifruit intake in a Mediterranean patient population: An open, non-randomized pilot study
Authors: Cunillera Oriol , Almeda Jesús , Mascort Juan José , Basora Josep , Marzo-Castillejo Mercè
Published: July 2015

Introduction: Kiwifruit consumption has shown to improve functional constipation in healthy elderly population, according to studies in New Zealand and China. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of kiwifruit intake on functional constipation in a Mediterranean patient population characterized by its distinctive nutritional habits.Material and Methods: An open, non-controlled and non-randomized longitudinal study was conducted in 46 patients with constipation (Rome III criteria). Patients monitored for five weeks: weeks 1 and 2 no kiwifruit and weeks 3-5 three kiwifruit per day (Green kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa var Hayward). Bristol Scale, volume of stools, and ease of defecation was self- reported daily. The evolution of the categorical variables was tested using the Bhapkar test; functional data methodology was used for continuous variables, and Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) models were adjusted.Results: The percentage of patients with ≥3 stools per week increased from 82.61% (95% CI: 69–91.2) at week 1 to 97.78% (95% CI: 87.4–99.9) at week 2 of kiwifruit intake, with 76.09% (95% CI: 61.9–86.2) responding during the first week. The reporting of stable ideal stools increased from 17.39% (95% CI: 8.8–31) at week 2 to 33.33% (95% CI: 21.3–48) at week 5. According to GEE models, the number of depositions increased significantly (p-values<0.001) in 0.398 daily units at week 1 the first week of intake, up to 0.593 daily units at week 5; significant improvements on facility in evacuation and volume of evacuation were found from the firstweek of intake (all p-values<0.001).Conclusions: The intake of three kiwifruits per day significantly improves the quality of evacuation (number of depositions, volume, consistency and ease) in a Mediterranean patient population suffering from functional constipation.
Procesos simples que disminuyen el contenido de sodio y nitritos en jamones
Authors: Franco-Avila Talia , Yañez-Sánchez Irinea , Avila-Guerrero Adriana Paola , Madera-Ibarra Cynthia Teresa , Navarro-Gómez Luis Gerardo , Gálvez-Gastélum Francisco Javier
Published: July 2015

Introducción: El jamón, producto altamente consumido por la sociedad, contiene algunos elementos que lo convierten en un alimento no recomendable, por lo que se ha buscado eliminar o reducir esos componentes.Material y Métodos: Se compararon los contenidos de sodio, nitritos, índice de peróxidos y coliformes totales resultantes de los procesos de Lavado (L) y Cocción Simple (CS) aplicados al jamón de pavo y de cerdo en un estudio transversal analítico experimental. Además, se evaluó la aceptación sensorial de las muestras a través de una prueba de aceptación de cinco puntos. Se aplicó la prueba ANOVA de 1 vía con post hoc de Bonferroni para valorar la diferencia de medias entre grupos. El valor de p≤0,05 se consideró estadísticamente significativo.Resultados: Ambos procesos redujeron la cantidad de sodio en ambos tipos de jamón de manera estadísticamente significativa (p≤0,001). El mayor porcentaje de reducción se presentó con CS: 73,4% para el jamón de pavo y 63,5% para el jamón de cerdo. Asimismo, el mayor porcentaje de reducción de nitritos fue de 50,6% con la técnica de CS en el jamón de cerdo (p≤0,05). El índice de peróxidos disminuyó con ambas técnicas en ambos jamones sin significancia estadística. El conteo de coliformes totales se mantuvo constante en todas las muestras. Se observó una mayor aceptación sensorial de L sobre CS en todas las características sensoriales.Conclusiones: Las técnicas de L y CS reducen sodio, nitritos e índice de peróxidos sin afectar la sanidad de los jamones. Asimismo, L es aceptada sensorialmente en todas sus categorías. Se recomienda utilizar la técnica de L antes del consumo del producto.
Semáforo nutricional: conocimiento, percepción y utilización entre los consumidores de Madrid, España
Authors: León-Flández Karimen Andrea , Prieto-Castillo Leandro , Royo-Bordonada Miguel Angel
Published: July 2015

Introducción: Describir el grado de conocimiento, comprensión, percepción y utilización del semáforo nutricional entre los consumidores madrileños.Material y Métodos: Estudio transversal realizado en dos fases en el año 2012. Se reclutaron consumidores madrileños de forma aleatoria en zonas de espera de 7 supermercados. Mediante un cuestionario, se recogió información referente al conocimiento, percepción y utilización del semáforo nutricional. Se procedió al cálculo de porcentajes de las variables de interés y al análisis estratificado por variables sociodemográficas, aplicando el test de la Ji Cuadrado.Resultados: La tasa de respuesta en la primera y segunda fase fue de 80,6% y 97,8% respectivamente. El 41,4% de los consumidores madrileños conocían el semáforo nutricional (fase 1) y el 18,6% comprendían su significado (fase 2). Entre los que lo conocían, al 61,5% les parecía muy útil (80% en mayores de 65 años y 90 % en aquellos con estudios primarios; p>0,05) y el 31,4% lo usaban habitualmente para comprar (70% en aquellos con estudios primarios; p=0,04). Este porcentaje también fue superior entre los que lo comprendían (66,6%; p<0,01).Conclusiones: El conocimiento y comprensión del semáforo nutricional fueron escasos. Los que lo conocen, lo consideran un instrumento muy útil para aportar información, y los que comprenden su significado, lo usan habitualmente al momento de la compra, sobre todo mayores de 65 años y con bajo nivel de estudios. La implantación generalizada de este sistema en España podría contribuir a mejorar hábitos y patrones alimentarios.
AFETIVIDADE NAS PRÁTICAS EDUCATIVAS DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL
Authors: Cacheffo Viviane Aparecida Ferreira Favareto , Garms Gilza Maria Zauhy
Published: July 2015

A pesquisa qualitativa, caracterizada como estudo de caso do tipo etnográfico, aqui apresentada, vincula-se à linha de pesquisa Infância e Educação, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação – Mestrado, da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – FCT/UNESP e foi realizada durante os anos de 2010-2012 – e têm por objetivos investigar as concepções de afetividade de professoras de uma creche universitária, e identificar como lidam com as manifestações afetivas das crianças, buscando dar visibilidade às práticas educativas que favoreçam o desenvolvimento infantil. Para a realização da investigação, foram selecionados os seguintes instrumentos metodológicos: pesquisa bibliográfica; análise documental; observação e entrevista semiestruturada, possibilitando a organização dos dados em cinco categorias, que foram analisados pela teoria walloniana e revelaram que as concepções de afetividade e suas manifestações são definidas com base nas relações de interação que as professoras estabelecem com as crianças. http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v26i0.2814
O QUE LEVA PROFESSORES APOSENTADOS RETORNAREM A DOCÊNCIA?
Authors: Meira Vanessa Ribeiro Andreto , Leite Yoshie Ussami Ferrari
Published: July 2015

Este artigo objetiva apresentar os dados de nossa pesquisa referentes aos motivos que levaram seis professoras das redes de ensino de Presidente Prudente-SP e Presidente Bernardes-SP a se aposentarem e retornarem à docência após a aposentadoria. O referencial teórico envolveu estudos sobre o contexto da escola pública e os dilemas enfrentados pelos professores, os ciclos de vida e carreira docente e os aspectos da inatividade ligados à aposentadoria. A pesquisa foi de caráter qualitativo e como instrumentos utilizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os resultados indicaram que os motivos que influenciaram o retorno das professoras têm relação com o contexto de precarização da profissão docente, tendo em vista os baixos salários. O medo de perder a identidade social e profissional, tornando-se inativas, somado ao sentimento de ainda possuir desejo de realizar o trabalho também foram justificativas apresentadas pelas professoras para a decisão de retornar à docência. http://dx.doi.org/10.14572/nuances.v26i0.2821
The use of cohesion in the verbal expressions of 8th grade students
8. Sınıf öğrencilerinin sözlü anlatımlarında bağdaşıklık kullanımları
Authors: Çintaş Yıldız Derya
Published: July 2015

Cohesion is grammatical and lexical relation between semantically related elements in a text. When communication dimension of language is taken into consideration, the area where grammatical elements can be used functionally is expressions of students. This is a field research in descriptive research model. The purpose of this study is to determine the use of cohesion of 8th grade students in their verbal expressions. With this purpose, the students were asked to narrate the books including “Falaka, The Book of Dede Korkut, Yalnız Efe, Selected Tales from The Masnavi, Selected Stories by Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Gulyabani and What Men Live By”. The study group of the research involved 42 students from 3 schools. The cohesion that the students used in their utterance included linking elements, ellipsis, reference, lexical cohesion and substitution respectively. Among components of cohesion, the most common mistakes that the students made in reference, substitution, lexical cohesion, linking elements and ellipsis. According to the results, it has been determined that students scoring high and low marks in Transition from Elementary to Secondary Education (TESE) test and in the exam of Turkish lesson make similar mistakes.

 

Özet

Bağdaşıklık, metinde anlamsal olarak birbirine bağlı unsurlar arasındaki dil bilgisel ve sözcüksel ilişkidir. Dilin iletişim yönü ele alındığında dilbilgisi unsurlarının işlevsel olarak kullanılabileceği yer öğrencilerin anlatımlarıdır. Betimsel tarama modelinde bir alan araştırması olan bu çalışmada 8. Sınıf öğrencilerinin sözlü anlatımlarında bağdaşıklık kullanımlarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla “Falaka, Dede Korkut Hikâyeleri, Yalnız Efe, Mesneviden Seçme Hikâyeler, Sait Faik Abasıyanık’tan Seçme Hikâyeler, Gulyabani ve İnsan Ne İle Yaşar” kitaplarını öğrencilerin sözlü olarak anlatmaları istenmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu üç okuldaki kırk iki öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Öğrencilerin konuşmalarında kullandıkları bağdaşıklık unsurarı sırasıyla; bağlama ögeleri, eksilti, gönderim, kelime bağdaşıklığı ve değiştirimdir. Öğrencilerin kullandıkları bağdaşıklık unsurları içinde en çok yaptıkları hatalar ise gönderim, değiştirim, kelime bağdaşıklığı, bağlama ögeleri ve eksiltilerdedir. Sonuçlara göre Temel Eğitimden Ortaöğretime Geçiş Sınavı (TEOG) ve Türkçe dersi sınavında yüksek not alan öğrencilerle düşük not alan öğrencilerin benzer hatalar yaptıkları tespit edilmiştir.
Cross-Sector Collaboration, Institutional Gaps, and Fragility: The Role of Social Innovation Partnerships in a Conflict-Affected Region
Authors: Kolk Ans , Lenfant François
Published: July 2015

The authors aim to contribute to the literature on subsistence marketplaces and the marketing field in general by exploring social innovation partnerships in a fragile country characterized by institutional gaps—specifically, by considering the role of cross-sector collaboration in conflict-affected areas. The empirical setting consists of coffee partnerships in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the authors collected data from and about companies, nongovernmental organizations, and cooperatives using both primary and secondary sources, including a field trip, interviews, and group discussions with farmers and their families. They show results at the organizational level (i.e., buildup of managerial capacities, transfer of financial-administrative skills, and improved functioning of cooperatives), the farmer level (i.e., better prices, livelihoods, and access to markets as well as increased revenues), and the community level (i.e., reduced tensions and collaboration between previously hostile groups as well as the creation of new governance modalities). The study suggests that partnerships may offer a systemic approach to addressing institutional gaps, which is necessary in such “extreme” contexts. The authors close with a discussion of further implications for research and public policy.
Multimodal processes scheduling in mesh-like network environment
Authors: Bocewicz Grzegorz , Banaszak Zbigniew
Published: July 2015

Multimodal processes planning and scheduling play a pivotal role in many different domains including city networks, multimodal transportation systems, computer and telecommunication networks and so on. Multimodal process can be seen as a process partially processed by locally executed cyclic processes. In that context the concept of a Mesh-like Multimodal Transportation Network (MMTN) in which several isomorphic subnetworks interact each other via distinguished subsets of common shared intermodal transport interchange facilities (such as a railway station, bus station or bus/tram stop) as to provide a variety of demand-responsive passenger transportation services is examined. Consider a mesh-like layout of a passengers transport network equipped with different lines including buses, trams, metro, trains etc. where passenger flows are treated as multimodal processes. The goal is to provide a declarative model enabling to state a constraint satisfaction problem aimed at multimodal transportation processes scheduling encompassing passenger flow itineraries. Then, the main objective is to provide conditions guaranteeing solvability of particular transport lines scheduling, i.e. guaranteeing the right match-up of local cyclic acting bus, tram, metro and train schedules to a given passengers flow itineraries.
Group and Phase Velocity of Love Waves Propagating in Elastic Functionally Graded Materials
Authors: Kiełczyński Piotr , Szalewski Marek , Balcerzak Andrzej , Wieja Krzysztof
Published: July 2015

This paper presents a theoretical study of the propagation behaviour of surface Love waves in nonhomogeneous functionally graded elastic materials, which is a vital problem in acoustics. The elastic properties (shear modulus) of a semi-infinite elastic half-space vary monotonically with the depth (distance from the surface of the material). Two Love wave waveguide structures are analyzed: 1) a nonhomogeneous elastic surface layer deposited on a homogeneous elastic substrate, and 2) a semi-infinite nonhomogeneous elastic half-space. The Direct Sturm-Liouville Problem that describes the propagation of Love waves in nonhomogeneous elastic functionally graded materials is formulated and solved 1) analytically in the case of the step profile, exponential profile and 1cosh2type profile, and 2) numerically in the case of the power type profiles (i.e. linear and quadratic), by using two numerical methods: i.e. a) Finite Difference Method, and b) Haskell-Thompson Transfer Matrix Method.

The dispersion curves of phase and group velocity of surface Love waves in inhomogeneous elastic graded materials are evaluated. The integral formula for the group velocity of Love waves in nonhomogeneous elastic graded materials has been established. The results obtained in this paper can give a deeper insight into the nature of Love waves propagation in elastic nonhomogeneous functionally graded materials.
Study of Energy Consumption of Potato Slices During Drying Process
Authors: Hafezi Negar , Sheikhdavoodi Mohammad Javad , Sajadiye Seyed Majid
Published: July 2015

One of the new methods of food drying using infrared heating under vacuum is to increase the drying rate and maintain the quality of dried product. In this study, potato slices were dried using vacuum-infrared drying. Experiments were performed with the infrared lamp power levels 100, 150 and 200 W, absolute pressure levels 20, 80, 140 and 760 mmHg, and with three thicknesses of slices 1, 2 and 3 mm, in three repetitions. The results showed that the infrared lamp power, absolute pressure and slice thickness have important effects on the drying of potato. With increasing the radiation power, reducing the absolute pressure (acts of vacuum) in the dryer chamber and also reducing the thickness of potato slices, drying time and the amount of energy consumed is reduced. In relation to thermal utilization efficiency, results indicated that with increasing the infrared radiation power and decreasing the absolute pressure, thermal efficiency increased.