bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Self-Concealment Mediates the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Help Among Adolescents
Authors: Abdollahi Abbas , Hosseinian Simin , Beh-Pajooh Ahmad , Carlbring Per
Published: June 2017

One of the biggest barriers in treating adolescents with mental health problems is their refusing to seek psychological help. This study was designed to examine the relationships between two forms of perfectionism, self-concealment and attitudes toward seeking psychological help and to test the mediating role of self-concealment in the relationship between perfectionism and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among Malaysian high school students. The participants were 475 Malaysian high school students from four high schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Structural equation modelling results indicated that high school students with high levels of socially prescribed perfectionism, high levels of self-concealment, and low levels of self-oriented perfectionism reported negative attitudes toward seeking psychological help. Bootstrapping analysis showed that self-concealment emerged as a significant, full mediator in the link between socially prescribed perfectionism and attitudes toward seeking psychological help. Moderated mediation analysis also examined whether the results generalized across men and women. The results revealed that male students with socially prescribed perfectionism are more likely to engage in self-concealment, which in turn, leads to negative attitudes toward seeking psychological help more than their female counterparts. The results suggested that students high in socially prescribed perfectionism were more likely to engage in self-concealment and be less inclined to seek psychological help.
“I Expect It to Be Great . . . but Will It Be?” An Investigation of Outcomes, Processes, and Mediators of a School-Based Mentoring Program
Authors: Laco Dávid , Johnson Wendy
Published: June 2017

Despite their growing popularity, quantitative studies of school-based mentoring (SBM) programs for youth have showed considerable variation in mentoring benefits, including negative effects of mentoring. We investigated the initial 3 months of one school’s SBM program, delivered by teachers and compulsory for all first- and second-year high school students ( N = 103). Students who reported higher quality of mentoring environment (QME) tended to report greater school engagement. No such association was found for grades. In addition, higher QME was associated with greater perceived benefits of discussing personal themes but not of academic themes. Evidence of personal benefit, but absence of evidence for academic benefit, was consistent with reported effects in other SBM programs. Protégé expectations, but not gender or initial school engagement, were associated with QME, suggesting self-fulfilling prophecy as a mediator of effects. We discuss the implications of this for managing SBM programs and future research.
Similar Predictive Accuracy of the Static-99R Risk Tool for White, Black, and Hispanic Sex Offenders in California
Authors: Lee Seung C. , Hanson R. Karl
Published: June 2017

Although considerable research has found overall moderate predictive validity of Static-99R, a sex offender risk prediction tool, relatively little research has addressed its potential for cultural bias. This prospective study evaluated the predictive validity of Static-99R across the three major ethnic groups (White, n = 789; Black, n = 466; Hispanic, n = 719) in the state of California. Static-99R was able to discriminate recidivists from nonrecidivists among White, Black, and Hispanic sex offenders (all area under the curve [AUC] values >.70; odds ratios >1.39). Base rates (at a Static-99R score of 2) with a fixed 5-year follow-up across ethnic groups were very similar (2.4%-3.0%) but were significantly lower than the norms (5.6%). The current findings support the use of Static-99R in risk assessment procedures for sex offenders of White, Black, and Hispanic heritage, but it should be used with caution in estimating absolute sexual recidivism rates, particularly for Hispanic sex offenders.
Construction of digital Korea: the evolution of new communication technologies in the 21st century
Authors: Jin Dal Yong
Published: June 2017

This article is to document digital Korea. It discusses the sociocultural contexts of the growth of digital technologies and culture because the current boom of digital technologies and culture cannot be separated from each other. Although it cannot go back several decades, it starts to address some early developments of the Internet directly influencing the contemporary Korean society. This historicization process allows us to firmly comprehend several key developments, in particular, the major reasons for development and the implications of the digital Korean phenomenon. While there are several digital technologies, it analyzes a few major digital technologies, such as the Internet, broadband services, and smartphone technologies, as well as relevant digital culture, from three different lens, including information and communication technology policies, corporate competition, and cultural perspectives.
Race and the construction of city and nature
Authors: Loughran Kevin
Published: June 2017

Recent scholarship in critical urban theory, urban political ecology, and related fields has emphasized the “hybridity” of urban–environmental systems. This argument is contrasted with the socially constructed “binary” relationship between “city” and “nature” that dominated historical understandings of urban–environmental connections. Despite wide agreement on these issues, the trajectories that precipitated this shift in city–nature boundaries have been understudied. Many explanations position accelerating urbanization or changes in global political economy as driving the decline of the city–nature binary. This paper proposes that this transformation is also a product of the changing cultural and spatial dynamics of “race” between the 19th-century and the present. Drawing on research on urban parks in Chicago, I consider the production of park space at four important historical moments: (1) the mid-to-late 19th-century, when large picturesque parks were built; (2) the early 20th-century, when reform-oriented “small parks” were constructed; (3) the post-World War II period, which was marked by the development of recreation facilities; and (4) the contemporary period, where linear parks like Chicago’s 606 (which I term “imbricated spaces”) bring together built and natural environments in new ways. Through this analysis, I argue that the social construction of “city” and “nature,” as spatialized through urban park development, was co-produced with racialized spaces and symbols and contributed to the creation of metropolitan racial boundaries. Further, I argue that historical shifts in these racialized spaces and symbols have been implicated in the weakening of the city–nature binary and the rise of the hybrid city–nature relationship.
Paying It Forward and Getting It Back: The Benefits of Shared Social Identity in Generalized Exchange
Authors: Whitham Monica M.
Published: June 2017

Generalized exchange is a powerful prosocial behavior with a number of individual and collective benefits, but indirect repayment makes it riskier than other forms of exchange, and this risk is reflected in comparatively lower rates of giving in generalized exchange systems. This study tests whether sharing a social identity motivates greater giving in generalized exchange. It also examines important, but often overlooked, differences between two forms of social identity: category-based social identity, which stems from similarities, and group-based social identity, which stems from interactive, interdependent relationships. As predicted, results of a controlled laboratory experiment demonstrate group-based social identity has a stronger impact than category-based social identity on giving in generalized exchange. The findings of this study have important implications for the study of social identity and, more generally, the study of categories and groups. The findings also shed light on ways groups, such as nonprofit and voluntary organizations, may motivate greater generosity in the prosocial process of generalized exchange.
Cultural safety and engagement: Keys to improving access to care
Authors: Ringer Justin
Published: June 2017

The challenges of providing equitable and timely access to high-quality care are numerous, and the proposed solutions are well documented. However, frequently absent from discussions dealing with access to care is how access is being defined and by whom. This article demonstrates the importance of engaging individuals and communities when defining access and developing improvement strategies, and the experience of an Indigenous regional health and social services authority.
Experimental research on the compressed joints with different geometrical parameters
Authors: Chen Chao , Fan Shuqin , Han Xiaolan , Zhao Shengdun , Cui Minchao , Ishida Tohru
Published: June 2017

In recent years, mechanical clinching has been widely used to join aluminium alloy sheets to build the automotive body. The high protrusion on the joint may limit the use of the mechanical clinching in the visible places. In order to get a lower protrusion, a compressing method was investigated in this work. Clinched joints with different geometrical parameters were used to conduct the experiments. AL5052 was taken as the material of the sheets. The protrusion of the clinched joint was compressed by two flat dies. A rivet placed in the pit of the clinched joint was used to control the metal flow in the compressing process. The top die moved downward to compress the protrusion, and the bottom die was fixed. The study shows that the tension-shearing strength and cross-tensile strength can be increased by the compressing method. The compressing method can increase the tension-shearing strength and cross-tensile strength by increasing the neck thickness. The compressed joint has larger neck thickness and lower protrusion than the clinched joint. Neck fracture mode is the main failure mode of the joints. The energy absorption can also be increased after the compressing process.
Investigation of an innovative non-free vortex aerodynamic procedure to design a single-stage transonic compressor
Authors: Shahsavari A , Nili-Ahmadabadi M
Published: June 2017

This paper presents an innovative design method for a transonic compressor based on the radial equilibrium theory by means of increasing blade loading. Firstly, the rotor blade of a transonic compressor is redesigned based on the constant spanwise de-Haller number and diffusion. The design method leads to an unconventional increased axial velocity distribution in tip section, which originates from non-uniform enthalpy distribution assumption. A code is applied to extract the compressor meridional plane and blade-to-blade geometry containing rotor and stator in order to design the blade three-dimensional view. A structured grid is generated for the numerical domain of fluid. Finer grids are used for the regions near walls to capture the boundary layer effects and behavior. Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations are solved by finite volume method for rotating zones (rotor) and stationary zones (stator). The experimental data, available for the performance map of NASA Rotor67, is used to validate the results of the current simulations. Then, the capability of the design method is validated by computational fluid dynamics that is capable of predicting the performance map. The numerical results of the new geometry by representing 11% improvement in efficiency and 19% in total pressure ratio verify the new method advantages. The computational fluid dynamics results also show that the newly designed rotor blades due to a higher velocity in the tip section have a special capacity to increase the loading without any separation. The mass flow reduction is observed in the new geometry, which could be easily improved by changing stagger angle.
Diffuse alveolar haemorrage as initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report
Authors: Cucuzza M E , Marino S D , Schiavone L , Smilari P , Filosco F , Barone P
Published: June 2017

Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage (DAH) is a rare life-threatening complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), associated with high mortality rates. It usually occurs in patients with an established diagnosis of SLE. It has been reported as the initial presentation of SLE in 11−20% of cases. It occurs most frequently in females.

We describe the case of a child, aged 14 years, with fever, asthenia, haemoptysis, dyspnea, anaemia, increased inflammatory markers, positivity to ANA, nDNA, direct Coombs tests, anticardiolipin antibodies and complement factors consumption. Computed tomography (CTscan) of the chest showed bilateral pulmonary alveolar infiltrates. He also developed renal involvement with nephritis later in the course of the disease. He was started on the treatment approved by the Euro Lupus Protocol for critical patients. After starting Mycophenolate Mofetil the clinical and radiological features were improved as was the survival outcome.
The Use of Self-Directed Relapse Prevention Booklets to Assist in Maintaining Abstinence After a 6-Week Group Smoking Cessation Treatment Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Veldheer Susan , Hrabovsky Shari , Yingst Jessica , Sciamanna Chris , Berg Arthur , Foulds Jonathan
Published: June 2017

Background. Identifying effective relapse prevention interventions is a vital step to help smokers maintain abstinence for the long term. Aims. The purpose of this study is to determine if providing recently quit smokers with self-directed relapse prevention booklets is effective at maintaining abstinence after intensive group smoking cessation treatment. Method. Two hundred and twenty-five participants were randomized to receive Forever Free (FF) relapse prevention booklets or a control booklet (Surgeon General’s report, SG) at the end of a 6-week group treatment program. Participants were then contacted by phone to assess whether they had read the materials. Smoking status was assessed 6 months after their target quit date. Primary analyses focused on the 115 participants who quit at the end of treatment. Results. There was no difference in the 6-month quit rate between groups (40.7% quit FF vs. 44.6% quit SG, p = .67). The FF group read a significantly smaller proportion of the materials versus the control booklet (20.0% read most or all of FF vs. 72.0% of SG, p < .001). Conclusion. Forever Free self-directed relapse prevention booklets did not reduce relapse or enhance cessation over general tobacco and health information when added to intensive group smoking cessation treatment. However, this study lacked power to detect a small but clinically meaningful positive effect.
Diagnostic bone marrow sampling in cats. Currently accepted best practices
Authors: Byers Christopher G
Published: June 2017

Practical relevance:

Hematologic disorders are relatively common in cats, as inflammatory, immune-mediated and infectious diseases have the potential to impact erythroid, myeloid and thrombopoietic lines within the bone marrow.

Clinical challenges:

Clinicians often benefit from information obtained from bone marrow cytology and histopathology in diagnosing hematologic disorders in feline patients. However, these sampling procedures are ones that many veterinarians are intimidated by and thus not comfortably performing in clinical practice.

Audience:

This review, aimed at all veterinarians who treat cats, highlights the reasons a clinician may elect to sample bone marrow, and details the collection of bone marrow for both cytology and histopathology. Potential complications and limitations of each procedure are also reviewed.

Evidence base:

The collection of bone marrow for cytology and histopathology is not new to feline medicine and several research studies have investigated various sampling modalities in cats. This article offers a comprehensive review of the currently accepted best practices.
Ballistic resistance and energy absorption of honeycomb structures filled with reactive powder concrete prisms
Authors: Jin Xiaochao , Jin Tao , Su Buyun , Wang Zhihua , Ning Jianguo , Shu Xuefeng
Published: June 2017

Two kinds of innovative re-entrant and hexagonal cell honeycomb sandwich structures filled with reactive powder concrete were proposed, and the ballistic resistance and energy absorption of the sandwich structures were investigated by numerical simulations. The deformation and failure modes of the different structures were analyzed and evaluated in detail. The honeycomb sandwich structures filled with reactive powder concrete prisms improved the capacity of ballistic resistance and energy absorption significantly, compared to the normal reactive powder concrete plates and sandwich structures without reactive powder concrete prisms. The analysis shows that the auxetic re-entrant cell honeycomb sandwich structures have a better ballistic performance than the hexagonal cell honeycomb sandwich structures. The sandwich structures were subjected to impact by three kinds of projectiles: flat, hemispherical and conical nosed. The ballistic limit of the flat nosed projectile is the highest, while the impact performance of the conical and hemispherical nosed projectiles is obviously different from the flat nosed projectile, especially in a relative high velocity range. The sharper nose leads to a higher value of exit velocity and mass loss. In addition, effects of different design parameters on ballistic resistance were also studied by changing the thickness of honeycomb cell and face plates. Results indicate that the thickness of honeycomb walls and face plates have significant effect on the ballistic resistance and energy absorption in a relative low velocity range, while there are no big differences when the initial impact velocity exceeds 400 m/s.
When pathogens determine the territory: Toward a concept of non-human borders
Authors: du Plessis Gitte
Published: June 2017

This article conceptualizes how infectious microbes create real borders that are not dependent on human meaning making or identity. By territorializing interfaces between contagion and ecology, infectious agents engage in bordering practices by determining where citizens can move around safely, and thereby challenge the bordering practices and biosecurity efforts of nation-states. Based on empirical examples of microbial borders, evidence from the natural sciences, interviews with public health practitioners, and theoretical support from ethnographic encounters with Amazonian ontologies, the conceptualization links the geopolitics of microbial bordering to biodiversity loss and deforestation, and suggests that microbial bordering should prompt acknowledgment of the role humans play in ecological patterns that far exceed human control and meaning making. The concept of microbial borders is relevant to global health and security efforts in general, expands the theoretical agenda for critical border studies, and contributes to the fields of global health security and New Materialism in International Relations by highlighting that international relations include our relations with non-humans, and that how we choose to cohabitate with them has large implications for human security.
Emotion regulation and prejudice reduction following acute terrorist events: The impact of reflection before and after the Boston Marathon bombings
Authors: Steele Rachel R. , Rovenpor Daniel R. , Lickel Brian , Denson Thomas F.
Published: June 2017

Research suggests that regulating negative emotional responses to threatening events can help reduce outgroup bias. The present research examined the effect of emotion regulation strategies on outgroup bias during relatively benign versus threatening time periods. Participants were assigned to regulate their emotions (reflection, rumination, or control) while reading a reminder of a past terrorist event and then reported their anger and bias toward Muslims. The bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon occurred during data collection, which allowed us to examine the effect of emotion regulation on bias before versus after these events via a 3 (emotion regulation) x 2 (timing of bombings) between-subjects design. A two-way interaction between emotion regulation condition and timing emerged on bias and anger. Reflection (compared to rumination or control) reduced bias and anger toward Muslims but only after the bombings. The reduction in anger mediated the effect of reflection on bias only after the bombings. The results provide evidence that reflection is effective at reducing bias when people are experiencing an intense outgroup threat.
When Polanyi met Farage: Market fundamentalism, economic nationalism, and Britain’s exit from the European Union
Authors: Hopkin Jonathan
Published: June 2017

The vote for Brexit is not an isolated event, but part of a wave of populist, anti-elite revolts: a new ‘anti-system’ politics Western democracies are experiencing, shaking the existing consensus around economic integration, free markets and liberal values. This wave takes a variety of forms, but has in common a robust, even violent, rejection of the mainstream political elites and their values, and a demand for governments to act on the sources of social and economic distress and inequality. This article views Brexit as a part of this new anti-system politics, a reaction to the decline in ideological competition in democracies and the increasing impotence of politicians to address the upheavals wrought by global free market capitalism. This reaction has become particularly acute after the financial crisis of the late 2000s, which affected Britain disproportionately, and the failure of austerity policies to revive growth, crystallising the ineffectiveness of existing policies to deal with economic stagnation and cultural change. This policy failure is compounded by a perceived refusal of politicians to engage with the broader public and a lack of real choice between the mainstream political parties. The article will present evidence that a failed policy consensus, a rise in inequality and a decline in the representativeness of political elites, rather than a resurgence of intolerance or xenophobia, are the principal causes of the Brexit vote.
Next generation human skin constructs as advanced tools for drug development
Authors: Abaci HE , Guo Zongyou , Doucet Yanne , Jacków Joanna , Christiano Angela
Published: June 2017

Many diseases, as well as side effects of drugs, manifest themselves through skin symptoms. Skin is a complex tissue that hosts various specialized cell types and performs many roles including physical barrier, immune and sensory functions. Therefore, modeling skin in vitro presents technical challenges for tissue engineering. Since the first attempts at engineering human epidermis in 1970s, there has been a growing interest in generating full-thickness skin constructs mimicking physiological functions by incorporating various skin components, such as vasculature and melanocytes for pigmentation. Development of biomimetic in vitro human skin models with these physiological functions provides a new tool for drug discovery, disease modeling, regenerative medicine and basic research for skin biology. This goal, however, has long been delayed by the limited availability of different cell types, the challenges in establishing co-culture conditions, and the ability to recapitulate the 3D anatomy of the skin. Recent breakthroughs in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology and microfabrication techniques such as 3D-printing have allowed for building more reliable and complex in vitro skin models for pharmaceutical screening. In this review, we focus on the current developments and prevailing challenges in generating skin constructs with vasculature, skin appendages such as hair follicles, pigmentation, immune response, innervation, and hypodermis. Furthermore, we discuss the promising advances that iPSC technology offers in order to generate in vitro models of genetic skin diseases, such as epidermolysis bullosa and psoriasis. We also discuss how future integration of the next generation human skin constructs onto microfluidic platforms along with other tissues could revolutionize the early stages of drug development by creating reliable evaluation of patient-specific effects of pharmaceutical agents.

Impact statement

Skin is a complex tissue that hosts various specialized cell types and performs many roles including barrier, immune, and sensory functions. For human-relevant drug testing, there has been a growing interest in building more physiological skin constructs by incorporating different skin components, such as vasculature, appendages, pigment, innervation, and adipose tissue. This paper provides an overview of the strategies to build complex human skin constructs that can faithfully recapitulate human skin and thus can be used in drug development targeting skin diseases. In particular, we discuss recent developments and remaining challenges in incorporating various skin components, availability of iPSC-derived skin cell types and in vitro skin disease models. In addition, we provide insights on the future integration of these complex skin models with other organs on microfluidic platforms as well as potential readout technologies for high-throughput drug screening.
Cellularizing hydrogel-based scaffolds to repair bone tissue: How to create a physiologically relevant micro-environment?
Authors: Maisani Mathieu , Pezzoli Daniele , Chassande Olivier , Mantovani Diego
Published: June 2017

Tissue engineering is a promising alternative to autografts or allografts for the regeneration of large bone defects. Cell-free biomaterials with different degrees of sophistication can be used for several therapeutic indications, to stimulate bone repair by the host tissue. However, when osteoprogenitors are not available in the damaged tissue, exogenous cells with an osteoblast differentiation potential must be provided. These cells should have the capacity to colonize the defect and to participate in the building of new bone tissue. To achieve this goal, cells must survive, remain in the defect site, eventually proliferate, and differentiate into mature osteoblasts. A critical issue for these engrafted cells is to be fed by oxygen and nutrients: the transient absence of a vascular network upon implantation is a major challenge for cells to survive in the site of implantation, and different strategies can be followed to promote cell survival under poor oxygen and nutrient supply and to promote rapid vascularization of the defect area. These strategies involve the use of scaffolds designed to create the appropriate micro-environment for cells to survive, proliferate, and differentiate in vitro and in vivo. Hydrogels are an eclectic class of materials that can be easily cellularized and provide effective, minimally invasive approaches to fill bone defects and favor bone tissue regeneration. Furthermore, by playing on their composition and processing, it is possible to obtain biocompatible systems with adequate chemical, biological, and mechanical properties. However, only a good combination of scaffold and cells, possibly with the aid of incorporated growth factors, can lead to successful results in bone regeneration. This review presents the strategies used to design cellularized hydrogel-based systems for bone regeneration, identifying the key parameters of the many different micro-environments created within hydrogels.
Children, myth and storytelling: An Indigenous perspective
Authors: Cajete Gregory A
Published: June 2017

This essay explores childhood education, storytelling, and the nature of myth from an Indigenous perspective. Aspects of Indigenous teaching and learning are discussed related to the ways myth and storytelling have traditionally functioned in Indigenous communities in the education of children. The deeper psychological nature of myth as an integral part of human learning, teaching, and socialization is also explored. These explorations form the basis for advocacy toward the re-vitalization of story as an essential foundation for intergenerational community education and as a component of global childhood education.
Carrying our Roots/llevar a nuestras raíces
Authors: Quintero Elizabeth P
Published: June 2017

This qualitative study presents examples of information about and analysis of stories of children and the early childhood teacher education students working with them. The data from the stories problematize the neocolonial roots of our conceptions of children and families, particularly institutional systems, pedagogies, assessments, and daily life realities. This current study considers evolving theoretical stances to early childhood work with children and families based upon a third space that combines aspects of the Global South and the Global North. Participants are student teachers in an early childhood teacher education program and the children they work with in Southern California. Many are bi-national and their histories and current lived experiences are reflective in many ways of communities around the world where intergenerational participants of two or more cultures and language groups with different economic and political histories find themselves learning together. Many participants, both children and adult student teachers, are living and studying in the Global North and yet, they bring with them generations of family history, knowledge, linguistic perspectives, and lived experiences from the Global South. Findings suggest that through stories there is ongoing problematizing of the neocolonial roots of our conceptions of children and families and the resulting learning experiences accessible to them. The work led us to matters of concern, Latour who urges “an understanding of common worlds as worlds in the process of ‘progressive composition’.” In other words, this research illustrates a focus on relations as generative encounters with others and shared events that have mutually transformative effects.
Writing beyond the call: One woman’s response to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Speaking in Tongues”
Authors: Rideaux Kia S
Published: June 2017

In her manuscript, “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers,” author Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa composes several open and honest letters to women of color, challenging them to actively incorporate the process of writing into their everyday lives. She encourages her readers to engage in organic writing by recapturing their own silenced narratives. In response, the following letters reflect on the lasting impact of Anzaldúa’s words and how we might incorporate her ideals of literary activism into our own writing practices. Particularly, the following text will consider how those drawn to epistemologies of the Global South might resist mechanisms of sameness and in doing so begin to rethink how we situate our own stories within the realm of early childhood.
What might get in the way: Barriers to the use of apps for depression
Authors: Stiles-Shields Colleen , Montague Enid , Lattie Emily G , Kwasny Mary J , Mohr David C
Published: June 2017

Objective

Smartphones are being used with increasing frequency to deliver behavioral interventions for depression via apps. However, barriers specific to using an app for depression are poorly defined. The purpose of the current study is to identify barriers to the use of a mobile app to deliver treatment for depression. Secondarily, design implications will be provided based upon identified barriers.

Method

A card sorting task that ranked and grouped barriers to the use of apps for depression was completed. Participants first completed a card sorting task identifying barriers to face-to-face treatment, as a primer to identification of treatment barriers. The sample consisted of those above ( n = 9) and below ( n = 11) the threshold for a referral to psychotherapy, to capture anticipated barriers for likely end users. Cluster analyses were conducted to analyze the card sorting data. Multiple analyses were conducted to identify: 1) the most important barriers, and 2) how consistently barriers were ranked as important.

Result

The card sorting task identified a number of primary barriers to the use of apps for depression treatment, including concerns over intervention efficacy, app functioning, privacy, cost, and lack of guidance and tailored feedback. The top face-to-face treatment barrier was cost, overlapping with mobile barriers.

Conclusion

This study identified perceived barriers to the use of mobile treatment apps. Identification of barriers implicates design recommendations for apps for depression.
Open Reduction and Internal Fixation Versus Hemiarthroplasty in the Management of Complex Articular Fractures and Fracture-dislocations of the Proximal Humerus
Authors: Thorsness Robert , Shields Edward , Chen Raymond E , Owens Kathy , Gorczyca John , Voloshin Ilya
Published: June 2017

Background

This study compares open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) versus hemiarthroplasty (HA) in the management of proximal humerus fracture-dislocations and complex articular humeral head fractures.

Methods

The records of consecutive patients with Neer 3- and 4-part fracture-dislocations, surgical neck fracture-dislocations with severe articular impaction, and any head-split fracture treated surgically at our institution were studied retrospectively. Constant–Murley scores, Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH), American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Shoulder (ASES), and Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) scores were obtained and compared between ORIF versus HA treatment.

Results

Thirty patients were included in the analysis: 15 treated with ORIF were compared to 15 treated with HA with an average follow-up of 60 months. The mean Constant score (72 ± 15 vs 54 ± 19; P = .007), DASH score (13 ± 17 vs 29 ± 18; P = .006), ASES score (87 ± 13 vs 66 ± 22; P = .003), and SF-36 physical composite score (PCS) (50 ± 11 vs 40 ± 11; P = .02) all favored the ORIF group. Because of the potential confounding variable posed by including younger patients, we performed a subgroup analysis of patients older than 50 years. In this group, the Constant, DASH, ASES, and PCS scores remained significantly better in the ORIF group.

Conclusion

Results of this retrospective study show improved patient-reported outcomes and quality of life scores in patients undergoing ORIF for complex proximal humerus fractures as compared to patients undergoing HA, despite a higher revision rate in the ORIF cohort. When considering patients older than 50 years, outcomes after ORIF were better than HA.
Gertrude Stein, Success Manuals, and Failure Studies
Authors: Sandler Matthew
Published: June 2017

This paper poses the work of Gertrude Stein as a challenge to contemporary scholarship centered on theories of failure. Demonstrating that Stein’s notion of failure as a precondition for success derived from nineteenth-century selfhelp books, I follow her work with this paradox from her early writing about ethnic women, through her more recondite grammatical experiments, to her public emergence at the outset of the Depression. And I argue that Stein’s move from literary experiments rooted in the question of identity to her conservative rhetoric about white masculinity in the 1930s should serve as a warning to critics invested in failure as a figure of opposition.
Theoretical Approach to [2+2] Excited Cyclic Reaction between 2-Pyridone and Methylacrylate through Conical Intersections
Authors: Sakai Shogo , Yada Mutsumi , Ito Shoko
Published: June 2017

The [2+2] photocycloaddition of 2-pyridone and methylacrylate through conical intersections was studied using ab initio molecular orbital (MO) methods. For the cyclic addition of 2-pyridone and methylacrylate, fourteen parallel-type conical intersections were located, which is the same type as that found in ethylene dimers. CiLC (CI/LMO/CASSCF) analysis of the conical intersections indicated that the ratio of regions proceeding toward products and reactants is nearly the same for all parallel-type conical intersections. These intersections are energetically located below the excited state of 2-pyridone and methylacrylate, and the order of the energies of the parallel type conical intersections corresponds to the quantity of products obtained experimentally. The regioselectivity of the photocycloaddition was explained from the conformation of the parallel type conical intersections with polarization.
Μακεδονία Νεολιθική
Authors: Μυλωνάς Γεώργιος Ε.
Published: June 2017

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Ιωάννου Σταυρακίου λόγος εις τα θαύματα του Αγίου Δημητρίου
Authors: Ιβηρίτης Ιωακείμ
Published: June 2017

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Η Θεσσαλονίκη κατά τον Μάιο του 1821
Authors: Παπάζογλου Αβρ. Ν.
Published: June 2017

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Ουγγροελληνικαί Μελέται, Διευθυνόμεναι υπό Ιουλίου Moravcsik. Εν Βουδαπέστη 1935 κ.εξής.
Authors: Τζιάτζιος Ευάγγ. Στ.
Published: June 2017

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Νικολάου Κ. Κασομούλη, Αγωνιστού του Εικοσιένα, Μακεδόνος, Ενθυμήματα Στρατιωτικά της Επαναστάσεως των Ελλήνων 1821-1833. Εισαγωγή και σημειώσεις υπό ΓΙΑΝΝΗ ΒΛΑΧΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ. Τόμ. Α' Αθήναι 1939. Σελ. οξ'+464 .
Authors: Βασδραβέλλης Ι. Κ.
Published: June 2017

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Ιστορικά αρχεία Μακεδονίας Α'. Αρχείον Ιεροδικείου Θεσσαλονίκης
Authors: Βασδραβέλλης Ιωάνν. Κ.
Published: June 2017

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Αναστασίου Κ. Ορλάνδου, Βυζαντινά μνημεία της Καστορίας. Αθήναι 1939. Σελ. 215, μεθ' 144 εικόνων εντός του κειμένου και ενός παρενθέτου πίνακος.
Authors: Σ. Α.
Published: June 2017

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Authors: Τόζης Γιάννης Αργ.
Published: June 2017

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Ιστορικαί τινές πληροφορίαι περί της ενταύθα Ορθοδόξου Ελληνικής κοινότητος από της εμφανίσεως του βουλγαρικού ζητήματος και εντεύθεν
Authors: Νευροκοπίου Θεοδωρήτου , Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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G. Β. Mylonas, The olynthian house of the classical period . Classical Journal XXXV (1940) σελ. 389-402.
Authors: Μπ. Γ.
Published: June 2017

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Τραγούδια Βαλλαχάδων
Authors: Τσούρκας Κωνστ. , Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Θωμά Παπαθανασίου, τέως οικονομικού Εφόρου, Το μεσαιωνικόν φρούριον τών Σερβίων, από της ιδρύσεως αυτού μέχρι της υπό των τούρκων αλώσεως. Θεσσαλονίκη 1939. Σελ. 6+95, μετά 10 εικόνων εν τω κειμένω, μιας παρενθέτου και 2 πινάκων εν τέλει.
Authors: Ξυγγόπουλος Α.
Published: June 2017

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Περί την Αχειροποίητον Θεσσαλονίκης
Authors: Ξυγγόπουλος Α.
Published: June 2017

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Μιχ. Καλινδέρη, Σημειώματα ιστορικά εκ της Δυτ. Μακεδονίας. Πτολεμαΐς 1939. Σελ. 70, σχ. 16ον. & Του αυτού, Γραπτά μνημεία από τη Δυτ. Μακεδονία χρόνων τουρκοκρατίας. Πτολεμαΐς 1940. Σελ. 90.
Authors: Σ. Α.
Published: June 2017

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Paul Lemerle, Philippos et la Macédoine orientale à l'époque chrétienne et byzantine. Recherches d' histoire et d' archéologie. Texte. [Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d1 Athènes et de Rome. Fase. 158] Paris 1945. 4<>v a. V + 568. Album πίνακες LXXXII.
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Fr. Dölger, Mönchsland Athos. Mit Beiträgen von Prof. Dr F. Dölger München, Prof. Dr E. Weigand Prag und Reichshauptstellenleiter A. Deindl Berlin. Herausgegeben von F. Dölger. Mit 183 Abbildungen und 1 Karte. F. Bruckmann Verlag, München [1943].
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Fr. Dölger, Ein Fall slavischer Einsiedlung im Hinterlande von Thessalonike im 10. Jahrhundert. (Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philos.— hist. Klasse. Jahrgang 1952 Heft 1). München, 1952.
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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A. Vasiliev, An edict of the emperor Justinian II, September 688. (An offprint from Speculum. A Journal of mediaeval Studies, vol. XVIII, January- 1943, No 1). 8ov σ. 1 - 13.
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Βασ. Κυπαρίσση, Τραγούδια της Χαλκιδικής. Παράρτημα «Λαογραφίας» αριθ. 2. Θεσσαλονίκη 1940. Σελ. γ'+107.
Authors: Τζιάτζιος Ευαγγ. Στ.
Published: June 2017

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Αθανασίου Ι. Χρυσοχόου, Η Κατοχή εν Μακεδονία. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Εθνική βιβλιοθήκη αρ. 12]. Έν Θεσσαλονίκη, 1949.
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Εμ. Θ. Γρηγορίου, Τό βουλγαρικόν όργιον αίματος εις τήν Δυτικήν Μακεδονίαν (1941-1944). Αθήναι, 1947. 8ον σ. 167.
Authors: Κυριακίδης Στίλπων Π.
Published: June 2017

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Ιωάννου Κ. Βασδραβέλλη, Ιστορικόν αρχείον Βεροίας. Εκλογαί. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Μακεδονική βιβλιοθήκη αρ. 3]. Θεσσαλονίκη. 1942. 8ο σ. ε'+128.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Ιωάν. Κ. Βασδραβέλλη, Ιωάννης Κωττούνιος ο εκ Βεροίας σοφός. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Μακεδονική βιβλιοθήκη αριθ. 4]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1943. 8ο σ. 31.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Ιωάννου Παπασταύρου, Οο αρχαίοι Μακεδόνες ως συντελεσταί της εθνικής των Ελλήνων ενώσεως. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1945. 8° σ. 19.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Δημ. Κακκάβου, Η Μακεδονία κατά την τελευταίαν τεσσαρακονταετίαν και τα εθνικά ημών δίκαια. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Εθνική βιβλιοθήκη αρ. 7]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1946. 8ο σ. 18.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Άντ. Σ. Τούσα, Η βουλγαρική δολιότης και οι ανθελληνικοί διωγμοί εν τη Ανατολική Ρωμυλία. (1900- 1906). [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Εθνική βιβλιοθήκη αρ. 13]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1949. 8ο σ. 31.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Φιλ. Δραγούμη, Προσοχή στη Βόρειαν Ελλάδα 1945-1948. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Εθνική βιβλιοθήκη αρ 12]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1949. 8ο σ. 72.
Authors: Βακαλόπουλος Απ.
Published: June 2017

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Ίω. Κ. Βογιατζίδου, Τα προς βορράν σύνορα τού Ελληνισμού. [Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών. Εθνική βιβλιοθήκη αρ. 9]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1946. 8ον σ. 18.
Authors: Κόλιας Γ. Τ.
Published: June 2017

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Απ. Βακαλοπούλου, Ο ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου (Rotonda) ως μητρόπολις Θεσσαλονίκης κατά τον 16ον αιώνα. Ανατύπωσις εκ του Μακεδονικού Ημερολογίου του 1940 σελ. 245-250.
Authors: Τσάρας Γιάννης
Published: June 2017

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Γεωργίου Αποατολοπούλου, Το Γυμνάσιον και Οικοτροφείον Τσοτυλίου. Κοζάνη 1938. Σελ. 68.
Authors: Τζιάτζιος Ευάγγ. Στ.
Published: June 2017

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Θεοδώρου Μ. Νάτσινα, Οι Μακεδόνες πραμματευτάδες εις τας χώρας Αυστρίας και Ουγγαρίας. Θεσσαλονίκη 1939. Σελ. 72.
Authors: Τζιάτζιος Ευάγγ. Στ.
Published: June 2017

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Αντ. Σιγάλα, καθηγητού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Ο Άγιος Δημήτριος και ο γνήσιος Ελληνικός πατριωτισμός. Λόγος πανηγυρικός ρηθείς τη 26η Οκτωβρίου 1940 εν τη Μεγάλη Αιθούση των Τελετών του Πανεπιστημίου επί τη 28η επετείω της απελευθερώσεως...
Authors: Τζιάτζιος Ευάγγ. Στ.
Published: June 2017

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The characteristics of the grounds, reinforced by the technology of deep soil mixing
Authors: Корпач А , Korpach A
Published: June 2017

In article features of the calculation of soil bases strengthened by Deep Soil Mixing (DSM) technologyfor the different soil conditions are presented; main parametersconsidering in calculation are provided; different methods of strengthened bases calculation are described.
Productive Efficiency and Output Capacity of Industrial and New Technological Structures in the World and in Russia
Authors: Басовский  , Basovskiy Leonid , Басовская  , Basovskaya Elena , Столяр  , Stolyar T.
Published: June 2017

The article gives evaluations of labor productivity, provided with industrial and new, fifth and sixth technological ways. It is established that average labor productivity in industrial technological way makes 10 000 Gehry-Hemis of dollars of 1990. Average labor productivity in the fifth technological way makes 26 000 Gehry-Hemis of dollars of 1990, in the sixth technological way — 54 000 Gehry- Hemis of dollars of 1990. The labor productivity provided with new technological ways make 42-45% of the general labor productivity in modern Russia. The new criteria for evaluation of production efficiency based on comparison of labor productivity to the labor productivity provided with industrial and new technological ways are offered.
Fundamentals of Philosophy
Authors: Голубева  , Golubeva Tat'yana
Published: June 2017

The manual is intended for the organization of independent development of discipline and a system of continuous monitoring in the training of mid-level specialists in accordance with GEF STR. The manual includes: tasks for independent work in theoretical classes, methodological recommendations for practical exercises, methodological recommendations for the implementation of out-of-class independent work, control and evaluation tools (CBS), a work program, calendar-thematic planning, a fund of assessment tools (FOS). The work program, calendar-thematic planning and WCF reflect the structure, content and conditions for the implementation of the academic discipline. Tasks for independent work in theoretical studies and methodological recommendations for practical studies and for out-of-class independent work provide a system of continuous monitoring of students' knowledge and contribute to the formation of general and professional competencies, the realization of knowledge and skills in discipline in accordance with GEF STR. The manual is addressed to teachers and students of the system of secondary vocational education.
Technical Note—Local Bargaining and Supply Chain Instability
Authors: Nguyen Thành
Published: June 2017

We analyze the behavior of a competitive n-tier supply chain system, where agents bargain with each other locally. We study the influence of transaction costs on the convergence of the system to a stationary outcome. In particular, we consider a dynamic bargaining game among a finite set of agents and its replications, and use a limit stationary equilibrium to examine the system’s behavior as the population’s size goes to infinity. The convergence of the system to a limit stationary equilibrium would capture the common belief that as the market gets large, it converges to a competitive and stable outcome. However, we prove that depending on the underlying transaction costs, the system might not converge to such an equilibrium. Interestingly, our result shows that a small increase in the transaction cost at one end of the chain can be greatly amplified and shifts the system away from the steady state. When a limit stationary equilibrium exists, we show that it is unique. We use such an equilibrium outcome to study trade surplus among sellers, buyers, and middlemen.
Multilevel Monte Carlo Metamodeling
Authors: Rosenbaum Imry , Staum Jeremy
Published: June 2017

Approximating the function that maps the input parameters of the simulation model to the expectation of the simulation output is an important and challenging problem in stochastic simulation metamodeling. Because an expectation is an integral, this function approximation problem can be seen as parametric integration—approximating the function that maps a parameter vector to the integral of an integrand that depends on the parameter vector. S. Heinrich and coauthors have proved that the multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method improves the computational complexity of parametric integration, under some conditions. We prove similar results under different conditions that are more applicable to stochastic simulation metamodeling problems in operations research. We also propose a practical MLMC procedure for stochastic simulation metamodeling with user-driven error tolerance. In our simulation experiments, this procedure was up to tens of thousands of times faster than standard Monte Carlo.

The electronic companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2017.1607 .
Making the NHS Litigation Authority more effective as NHS Resolution
Authors: Tingle John
Published: June 2017

John Tingle, Reader in Health Law at Nottingham Trent University, discusses a recent publication of the NHS Litigation Authority, now renamed NHS Resolution, which points to realignment of activity and focus in core areas