bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Phosphorus Abundances in FGK Stars
Authors: Maas Z. G. , Pilachowski C. A. , Cescutti G.
Published: May 2017

We measured phosphorus abundances in 22 FGK dwarfs and giants that span −0.55 < [Fe/H]

0.2 using spectra obtained with the Phoenix high-resolution infrared spectrometer on the Kitt Peak National Observatory Mayall 4 m telescope, the Gemini South Telescope, and the Arcturus spectral atlas. We fit synthetic spectra to the P i feature at 10581 Å to determine abundances for our sample. Our results are consistent with previously measured phosphorus abundances; the average [P/Fe] ratio measured in [Fe/H] bins of 0.2 dex for our stars are within ∼1σ compared to averages from other IR phosphorus studies. Our study provides more evidence that models of chemical evolution using the results of theoretical yields are underproducing phosphorus compared to the observed abundances. Our data better fit a chemical evolution model with phosphorus yields increased by a factor of 2.75 compared to models with unadjusted yields. We also found average [P/Si] = 0.02 ± 0.07 and [P/S] = 0.15 ± 0.15 for our sample, showing no significant deviations from the solar ratios for [P/Si] and [P/S] ratios.
Hints for Small Disks around Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs∗
Authors: Hendler Nathanial P. , Mulders Gijs D. , Pascucci Ilaria , Greenwood Aaron , Kamp Inga , Henning Thomas , Ménard François , Dent William R. F. , II Neal J. Evans
Published: May 2017

The properties of disks around brown dwarfs and very low mass stars (hereafter VLMOs) provide important boundary conditions on the process of planet formation and inform us about the numbers and masses of planets than can form in this regime. We use the Herschel Space Observatory PACS spectrometer to measure the continuum and [O i] 63 μm line emission toward 11 VLMOs with known disks in the Taurus and Chamaeleon I star-forming regions. We fit radiative transfer models to the spectral energy distributions of these sources. Additionally, we carry out a grid of radiative transfer models run in a regime that connects the luminosity of our sources with brighter T Tauri stars. We find that VLMO disks with sizes 1.3–78 au, smaller than typical T Tauri disks, fit well the spectral energy distributions assuming that disk geometry and dust properties are stellar mass independent. Reducing the disk size increases the disk temperature, and we show that VLMOs do not follow previously derived disk temperature–stellar luminosity relationships if the disk outer radius scales with stellar mass. Only 2 out of 11 sources are detected in [O i] despite a better sensitivity than was achieved for T Tauri stars, suggesting that VLMO disks are underluminous. Using thermochemical models, we show that smaller disks can lead to the unexpected [O i] 63 μm nondetections in our sample. The disk outer radius is an important factor in determining the gas and dust observables. Hence, spatially resolved observations with ALMA—to establish if and how disk radii scale with stellar mass—should be pursued further.
De la première directive bancaire à l'Union bancaire : l'Europe bancaire en construction
Authors: Cassou Pierre-Henri
Published: May 2017

Depuis l'adoption, il y a quarante ans, de la première directive de coordination, trois décisions importantes ont plus particulièrement contribué au projet de construction de l'Europe bancaire : le traité de Luxembourg, qui a permis de garantir la liberté d'établissement et la libre prestation de service à partir de 1993, le traité de Maastricht, qui a fondé l'Union économique et monétaire et servi de base à la création de l'euro en 1999, et enfin le lancement, en 2012, de l'Union bancaire dans la zone euro. Aujourd'hui, ce projet est en large mesure devenu réalité. Tous les établissements de crédit de l'Union sont ainsi soumis à une réglementation prudentielle unique et peuvent proposer à leurs clients un système commun de paiements scripturaux (le système SEPA). Mais c'est au sein de la zone euro que cette construction est la plus avancée, puisque le refinancement et la surveillance des banques y sont désormais totalement unifiés. Pour achever l'édification de l'Europe bancaire, de nouveaux progrès demeurent toutefois nécessaires, notamment la mise en œuvre de la proposition d'Union des marchés de capitaux. Classification JEL : E58, F36, G21, G28.
La politique de taux bas et de taux négatifs : raisons et conséquences pour les banques
Authors: Klein Olivier
Published: May 2017

La politique monétaire en zone euro menée depuis la crise financière, ayant conduit à des taux très bas, voire négatifs, a permis de raviver, même faiblement, la croissance. Elle a permis de soutenir la consommation et l'investissement et de relancer la demande de crédit par les agents économiques qui le pouvaient. Les taux d'intérêt inférieurs au taux de croissance nominal ont également facilité la possibilité de se désendetter pour les agents qui s'étaient fortement endettés avant la crise. Ils ont avant tout évité un risque de crise systémique, puis de déflation. Mais ces taux d'intérêt ne sauraient longuement encore être maintenus à des niveaux si bas, car ils risqueraient de déclencher une bulle de l'immobilier, voire des actions. En outre, en réduisant fortement et durablement à l'avenir la rentabilité des banques, alors que celles-ci doivent augmenter leur ratio de solvabilité, une telle politique contraindrait finalement l'offre de crédit, voire mettrait en danger le système bancaire, et serait in fine très défavorable à la croissance. Classification JEL : E43, E61, G21.
Déploiement de dispositifs numériques au sein de nouvelles formes d’organisation : de l’émergence à la stabilisation
Authors: Jemine Grégory
Published: May 2017

Résumé De plus en plus d'organisations du secteur des services s'équipent aujourd'hui de dispositifs numériques variés qui modifient les contextes et les contenus du travail. Ces outils sont présentés comme des ingrédients indispensables des modes managériales actuelles qui permettraient à divers dispositifs organisationnels promouvant la flexibilité et la mobilité de s'incarner. La présente contribution propose une étude des ressorts de l'émergence et de la stabilisation de ces dispositifs numériques qui émergent dans le cours de transformations organisationnelles. Nous montrons comment, dans une compagnie d'assurances, les dispositifs numériques sont mobilisés pour répondre à une volonté de « modernisation » de l'organisation et d'optimisation de l'espace de travail.
Sporadic Hemangioblastoma Arising from the Infundibulum
Authors: Pakdaman Michael Navid , Austin Matthew J , Bannykh Serguei , Pressman Barry D
Published: May 2017

Hemangioblastomas are rare vascular tumors most often found in the posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord and commonly associated with von Hippel-Lindau Disease. We report a case of sporadic hemangioblastoma in a patient without von Hippel-Lindau Disease. Imaging characteristics included a solid, suprasellar mass that was homogeneously enhancing. These findings most resembled a pituicytoma or choroid glioma because of the close association with the infundibulum and the homogeneous avid enhancement. Microscopically, the neoplasm was seen to be composed of vascular channels associated with foamy stromal cells, containing clear cytoplasmic vacuoles. Microscopic and immunohistochemical findings were consistent with hemangioblastoma. Hemangioblastomas are a rare form of vascular tumor most commonly associated with von-Hippel Lindau disease. Our finding of non-cystic hemangioblastoma arising from the infundibulum demonstrates that, while rare, hemangioblastomas should be considered on the differential diagnosis for an avidly enhancing suprasellar mass.
Dos supuestos testimonios del vino de Saguntum en Juvenal y en Frontón
Authors: Hernández Pérez Ricardo
Published: May 2017

Es muy probable que Iuu. V 24-49 y Fronto 134.23 ss. van den Hout (2ª ed.) no se refieran, como se ha creído, al vino de Saguntum. Juvenal parece referirse a la cerámica saguntina, cuya baja calidad era proverbial en la tradición epigramática y satírica. El pasaje de Frontón sería un ejemplo más de la confusión, en la tradición manuscrita, entre Saguntum y Zacynthos y entre Saguntinus y Zacynthius.
Students' Attitudes on Social Network Sites and their Actual Use for Career Management Competences and Professional Identity Development
Authors: Istenic Starcic Andreja , Barrow Margaret , Zajc Matej , Lebenicnik Maja
Published: May 2017

Social network sites (SNSs) have become strategic networking tools for employment-related activities. They shape professional identity and influence professional and career practices, providing new paths for career, employment and recruitment processes. Students’ professional identity is influenced by their career management and work experience. There is a lack of research on the use of SNSs for students’ on-line career management competences. A survey was conducted to examine students’ attitudes regarding the use of SNSs for career management competences and professional identity development. The students’ attitudes manifested career control, networking for learning, career reflection, self-presentation and work exploration. These attitudes have been identified as predictors for students’ actual use of SNSs for career management and professional identity development. For the career competences the main influencing predictors were found to be students’ beliefs that SNSs support work exploration, processes of self-presentation and career control. For professional identity development, the main influencing predictors were students’ beliefs that SNSs support career control and students’ engagement in professional events through networking for learning. Findings could contribute to understanding and facilitation of the SNS-related career management competences.
An Approach to Smart Study using Pen and Paper Learning
Authors: Siddiqui Ahmad Tasnim , Muntjir Mohd
Published: May 2017

With the emergence of new technologies the area of education is also growing very fast. By using new innovations teaching and learning has become technically very strong. Learning is becoming tech learning or e-learning. Educators and students are getting very smart and hence study and learning is also becoming smart. Maximum available learning systems don’t involve pen and paper based learning. Due to the emergence of ICTs in the learning atmosphere it doesn’t indicate that our traditional education methodologies have become outdated. Smart study is such a stage which allows students continue to learn in smart way by using smart pens and papers. Using smart paper and pen the contents written on the paper can be converted into digital format. Smart study using pen and paper is helpful for practicing handwriting in same traditional manner. This paper presents a smart study platform which combines work with printed and digital contents.
The Cognitive Dimension and Course Content Modeling: An Ontological Approach
Authors: Madhusudhana Kalla
Published: May 2017

The recent advances in web-based educational technology, is providing diverse needs of e-learner and revolutionized the process of learning. However, how to enrich the student’s understandability and stimulate the learning behavior towards cognitive learning beyond simple lookup is still remaining as open research issue. To facilitate the effective learning process the technology has numerous ways of providing pedagogical assistance. The course content description based on the dimensions of psychological factors and Bloom’s taxonomy can help in presenting course material so as to reduce cognitive load and to influence the effective learning style. This paper examines various cognitive strategies and resource description metadata in a course-based learning environment. Finally, the researcher proposed an ontology-based metadata for modeling the course contents of web-based learning environment that supports cognitive prerequisites of the learner.
Emerging Technologies (ETs) in Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature Published between 2006 and 2016
Authors: Sosa Neira Edgar Andres , Salinas Jesus , De Benito Barbara
Published: May 2017

This study systematically reviews, classifies and synthesizes the research related to Emerging Technologies (ETs) in the field of formal education between 2006 and 2016, aiming to identify areas of uncertainty for future research. In addition, this study is a tool to guide teachers in their decision making when incorporating technologies in the classroom. The research approach was mixed and it analyzed 288 studies that met the inclusion criteria. Results show that all the studies aimed to improve and to transform the different educational processes through the incorporation of ETs. The most used methodology was qualitative research; the survey was the most widely used instrument; the most affected population was the students in the context of higher education; the competences to improve was critical thinking, followed by problem solving, collaborative work, creative thinking, and decision-making. Emerging Technologies (ETs) are contextual, adaptable, evolving, ubiquitous, disruptive, innovative, complementary and generate a degree of uncertainty, they can be complex, accessible, functional, easy to use, interactive and it found that Web 2.0 technologies are the most used in the studies.
Deconstruction and Genealogy of Latin American Good Living (Buen Vivir). The (Triune) Good Living and its Diverse Intellectual Wellsprings
Authors: Hidalgo-Capitán Antonio Luis , Cubillo-Guevara Ana Patricia
Published: May 2017

The purpose of this chapter is to identify the different meanings of Latin American Good Living (buen vivir) and its diverse intellectual wellsprings, with a focus on the political economy of development. The authors try to answer the following questions: What different types of Good Living lie behind the overall concept? What intellectual wellsprings have the authors drunk from? The authors use the methodological strategies of deconstruction and conceptual genealogy, based on a broad bibliographic review. They conclude that three different types of Latin American Good Living exist: ‘indigenist’ and ‘pachamamist’, socialist and statist, and ‘ecologist’ and ‘post-developmentalist’. Moreover, they argue that synthesised notions of the concept exist. These versions are associated with different intellectual influences, such as sumak kawsay, suma qamaña and allin kawsay; the Andean world view; development with identity; the theory of reciprocity; post-development; liberation theology; dependency theory; the theory of ‘coloniality’; sustainable development; world-system theory; human development; endogenous development; eco-socialism; twenty-first century socialism; social justice; the economics of happiness; eudaemony; the economic theory of relational goods; the social and solidarity economy; intercultural feminism; the feminism of care; eco-feminism; the self-sufficient economy; community economy; barefoot economics and human scale development theory; the Buddhist economy; ‘post-extractivism’; ‘de-growth’; deep ecology and the theory of conviviality.
Territories in Dispute: Tensions between ‘Extractivism’, Ethnic Rights, Local Governments and the Environment in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Authors: Restrepo Botero Darío Indalecio , Peña Galeano Camilo Andrés
Published: May 2017

This chapter studies the underlying tensions between ‘extractivism’, decentralisation processes, the recognition of ethnic rights, and the protection of the environment in four countries in Latin America. Two of them, Bolivia and Ecuador, adhere to so-called twenty-first century socialism, while the other two, Colombia and Peru, apply policies driven by neo-liberalism. This ‘major ideological fissure,’ however, does not imply significant differences in terms of dependence on the extractives industry and its social, institutional and political consequences; nor does it explain differences in terms of the relationships between extractivism, decentralisation, and the governments’ policies concerning the environment and ethnic rights.
Relationship Quality
Authors: Duggal Ekta , Verma Harsh V.
Published: May 2017

With services becoming the impetus of growth in economies across the world, quality has emerged as one of the critical issues that need adequate attention. Customers have a larger role to play in defining the success of services as these are customer-oriented in nature. The complex nature of services makes it imperative to satisfy customers in the most competitive manner. This necessitates creation of bond with the customers. Relationship quality as a comprehensive construct aims at development of trust, commitment and satisfaction with the customers. The present study seeks to validate the relationship quality scale in the context of retail services in India. This would contribute to the upcoming retail sector in India by revealing the crucial parameters of relationship quality as it will assist retailers in achieving market success based on healthy customers' relationships.
From Human-Centric Systems to Community-Centric Systems
Authors: Botzheim Janos , Takama Yasufumi , Sato-Shimokawara Eri , Kubota Naoyuki , Yamaguchi Toru
Published: May 2017

Recently, the importance of community-centric systems is increasing in the human society. Human-centric systems can enhance the accessibility and usability of systems and devices, and they can improve the quality of life in many areas such as supporting human activities, communication and interactions in healthcare, and welfare. However, there is a need to shift from human-centric systems to community-centric systems and improve the quality of community in social networks and communities. This paper provides a survey of human-centric and community-centric systems. In the case of human-centric systems the acquisition of human data including sensing, monitoring and gathering data for life log are discussed. Constructing user models and applying the models for health care support are also proposed. In the case of community-centric systems, the community detection on the Web is presented. Various visualization systems for community detection on the Web are introduced. Emergency support systems as an important application of community-centric systems are discussed as well.
Human-Robot Communication Based on Self-Serving Bias for Daily Exercise Support
Authors: Obo Takenori
Published: May 2017

This paper presents a health promotion system with robot partner for elderly care. Aging society in Japan has been a big serious problem. The number of caregivers is not enough in the current situation and is not expected to substantially increase in future. Hence, comprehensive care and health promotion should be provided to heighten awareness about health. In this study, we built a daily exercise support system with a robot partner utilized as an exercise instructor. Moreover, we propose a human-robot communication model based on self-serving bias. In the experiment, we conduct a demonstration experiment and interview survey to discuss the validity of the communication model.
A Novel Pixel Merging-Based Lossless Recovery Algorithm for Basic Matrix VSS
Authors: Liu Xin , Wang Shen , Sang Jianzhi , Zhang Weizhe
Published: May 2017

Lossless recovery in visual secret share (VSS) is very meaningful. In this paper, a novel lossless recovery algorithm for the basic matrix VSS is proposed. The secret image is reconstructed losslessly by using simple exclusive XOR operation and merging pixel. The algorithm not only can apply to the VSS without pixel expansion but also can apply to VSS with pixel expansion. The condition of lossless recovery of a VSS is given by analyzing the XOR all columns of basic matrixes. Simulations are conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.
Perceptions of Play
Authors: Lace-Costigan Gemma
Published: May 2017

Playful and kinaesthetic learning approaches are used in numerous early years (birth to 5 years old) learning environments, however studies in HE STEM disciplines are uncommon. This study aimed to explore the use of Play-Doh in an undergraduate anatomy module as a method of enhancing engagement. 63 students attended the ‘kinaesthetic play' lecture, where students worked in teams to make a variety of epithelial cell types using Play-Doh. Before and after the activity, students were asked to ‘choose one word to describe how you feel'. Before the activity, 48.3% of responses were negative (E.g. confused, worried, childish). However, after the activity not a single negative response was recorded. 98% of students reported that they enjoyed the activity and 84% reported that the activity increased their understanding. This data suggests a utility for kinaesthetic playful practice in STEM teaching. Overcoming initial student perceptions towards alternative teaching practices is a challenge to be considered during session design.
Case Study 1
Authors: Seidl Tobias
Published: May 2017

Teamwork and cooperation are important 21st century skills and therefore important parts of the higher education curriculum. Following Kolb's ‘experiential learning cycle' model a combination of project work and moderated reflection can help students to acquire these skills. This article elaborates how LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) an be used to stimulate and moderate student's reflection on their teamwork skills in the setting of a university course. A focus is placed on the process and goals of the LSP method, the implementation in the workshop and the benefits of using LSP for this reason.
e-Sport as Leverage for Growth Strategy
Authors: Davidovici-Nora Myriam
Published: May 2017

While e-Sport today becomes a big business and a highly publicized industry, a big business and a highly-publicized industry, it is still studied from a descriptive perspective rather than from an analytical one. In this paper, the author proposes to analyze the relationship between e-Sport and the growth strategy of the game League of Legends (LoL) developed by Riot Games. How competitive community and casual community evolve together? What are the conditions for a virtuous growth? The author deepens the link between the traditional free-to-play dynamics based on acquisition-retention-monetization of players and the dynamics of e-Sport based on managing audience, pro-gamers, competitive events and broadcasting. The author finds that casual players and pro-gamers have specific roles that, combined with an active policy centered on player's experience developed by Riot Games and with a growing media ecosystem, create externalities on each other.
Real-Time, Location-Based Patient-Device Association Management
Authors: Rezaee Raoufeh , Baslyman Malak , Amyot Daniel , Mouttham Alain , Chreyh Rana , Geiger Glen
Published: May 2017

Background: Hospitals need to accurately manage mobile devices (e.g., intravenous pumps) associated to their patients and health providers to ensure patient safety. Some hospitals have already invested substantially in real-time location system (RTLS) technology, a specific type of Internet of Things (IoT) application for indoor positioning, to manage mobile clinical devices. Objective: This paper investigates the reuse of RTLS systems to monitor patients and their assigned devices and to manage their connectivity automatically, in real time. Method: A system called Real-time Patient-Device Association and Disassociation (RPDAD) is designed, implemented, and tested in a hospital room and in a university laboratory. Results: RPDAD helps manage patient-device associations through a tablet application, with accurate suggestions for closest devices and automated detection of unexpected disassociations, resulting in real-time alerts. Conclusion: RPDAD offers a usable means of managing associations that does not depend on bar-coding technologies. It also helps amortize investments in RTLS.
Optimal Model Parameters of Inverse Kinematics Solution of a 3R Robotic Manipulator Using ANN Models
Authors: Karkalos Nikolaos E. , Markopoulos Angelos P. , Dossis Michael F.
Published: May 2017

Solution of inverse kinematics equations of robotic manipulators constitutes usually a demanding problem, which is also required to be resolved in a time-efficient way to be appropriate for actual industrial applications. During the last few decades, soft computing models such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) models were employed for the inverse kinematics problem and are considered nowadays as a viable alternative method to other analytical and numerical methods. In the current paper, the solution of inverse kinematics equations of a planar 3R robotic manipulator using ANN models is presented, an investigation concerning optimum values of ANN model parameters, namely input data sample size, network architecture and training algorithm is conducted and conclusions concerning models performance in these cases are drawn.
Automated Control and Optimisation of Overhead Cranes
Authors: Kharola Ashwani , Patil Pravin P.
Published: May 2017

This study considers a fuzzy based computing technique for control and optimising performance of overhead gantry crane. The objective is to minimise load swing and stabilise crane position in the least possible time. The fuzzy controllers were designed using nine gaussian and triangular shape membership functions. The results clearly confirmed the effect of shape of memberships on performance of fuzzy controllers. Performance of overhead crane was measured in terms of settling time and overshoot. The study also demonstrates the influence of varying mass of the load, mass of crane and length of crane bar on stability of the crane. A mathematical model of the crane system has been derived to develop a simulink model of proposed system and performing simulations.
SiMAMT
Authors: Franklin D. Michael , Hu Xiaolin
Published: May 2017

Multi-agent multi-team systems are commonly seen in environments where hierarchical layers of goals are at play. For example, theater-wide combat scenarios where multiple levels of command and control are required for proper execution of goals from the general to the foot soldier. Additionally, similar structures can be seen in game environments, where agents work together as teams to compete with other teams. The different agents within the same team must, while maintaining their own “personality”, work together and coordinate with each other to achieve a common team goal. This paper develops strategy-based multi-agent multi-team systems, where strategy is framed as an instrument at the team level to coordinate the multiple agents of a team in a cohesive way. The authors present SiMAMT, a framework for strategy-based multi-agent multi-team systems. The different components of the framework, including strategy simulation, strategy inference, strategy evaluation, and strategy selection are described. A formal specification of strategy and strategy-based multi-agent multi-team systems is provided. An example and experimental results are given to illustrate the proposed framework and its efficacy.
Pareto Optimal Solution Selection for a Multi-Site Supply Chain Planning Problem Using the VIKOR and TOPSIS Methods
Authors: Felfel Houssem , Ayadi Omar , Masmoudi Faouzi
Published: May 2017

In this paper, a multi-objective, multi-product, multi-period production and transportation planning problem in the context of a multi-site supply chain is proposed. The developed model attempts simultaneously to maximize the profit and to maximize the product quality level. The objective of this paper is to provide the decision maker with a front of Pareto optimal solutions and to help him to select the best Pareto solution. To do so, the epsilon-constraint method is adopted to generate the set of Pareto optimal solutions. Then, the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOSIS) is used to choose the best compromise solution. The multi-criteria optimization and compromise solution (VIKOR), a commonly used method in multiple criteria analysis, is applied in order to evaluate the selected solutions using TOPSIS method. This paper offers a numerical example to illustrate the solution approach and to compare the obtained results using TOSIS and VIKOR methods.
School-Based Health Education in Yucatan, Mexico about the Chikungunya virus and Mosquito Illness Prevention
Authors: Choo Monica Seungah , Blackwood R. Alexander
Published: May 2017

The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has been rapidly spreading throughout Latin America, utilizing pre-existing vectors to infiltrate the immunologically naïve populations. With the current rise of the Zika Virus, there is an urgent need for more rigorous vector control efforts to prevent further Zika breakout. We designed a schoolbased education module on CHIKV and mosquito prevention and presented it to the local students of ages of 6-18 in a rural town called Sudzal in Yucatan, Mexico. We distributed questionnaires before and after education to test the students’ knowledge of CHIKV and mosquito prevention. Chisquared test was performed to determine the efficacy of the presentation in increasing their knowledge. The education presentation has proven to effectively educate the local residents in several critical methods of mosquito prevention, increasing the average test scores by 67% post-education. These include applying repellent, staying hydrated during recuperation, and cleaning indoor water containers to eliminate breeding sites (P<0.001). Furthermore, the questionnaire captured the residents’ behavioral patterns regarding CHIKV and mosquito prevention and identified cultural, ecological, and socioeconomic factors hindering effective implementation of vector control.
Epidemiological Distribution of Rodents as Potent Reservoirs for Infectious Diseases in the Provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan, Northern Iran
Authors: Esfandiari Behzad , Nahrevanian Hossein , Pourshafie Mohammad Reza , Gouya Mohammad Mehdi , Khaki Pejvak , Mostafavi Ehsan , Darvish Jamshid , Hanifi Hamed
Published: May 2017

Rodents are mammals that comprise more than 2000 species and approximately 30 families. There are many morphological and ecological differences among them as variations in their shape, size, weight and habitat. In addition to significant economic losses, rodents have a major role in the dissemination of infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites or other micro-organisms. Rodents are important reservoirs of diseases which have been observed in many cities of Iran provinces especially along Caspian Sea border to Alborz Mountain. The aim of this study is to assess the geographical distribution of rodents in three provinces of northern part of Iran as reservoir of potential endemic infectious diseases. Rodents in 10 major parts of each of the three provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan, northern Iran were collected and a total of 404 rodents were trapped alive. They were determined by the key characteristics such as gender, genus, species, different locations and topological situation. Statistical analysis was performed to characterize the study sample and to correlate all variables and parameters. The distribution frequencies of three, five and six genera of rodents were identified in Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan provinces respectively. The overall distribution frequency of eight genera of rodents in the three provinces were identified as Rattus (R.) norvegicus (67.3%), R. rattus (13.6%), Apodemus sylvaticus (13.9%), Arvicola (1%), Mus musculus (0.3%), Nesokia indica (2.5%), Cricetulus migrates (0.7%) and Rhombomys opimus (0.7%). The results of this study determined the geographic distribution of the rodents in the three northern provinces of Iran. It is indicated the association of various distribution and diversity of rodents with provincial location. The overall distribution frequency of eight genera of rodents was recognized in the above three provinces geographical locations. This study confirms epidemiological distribution of various rodents as potent reservoirs for infectious diseases, such as leptospirosis, salmonellosis, tularemia, leishmaniasis, etc. in the three provinces.
Analysis of piston cores and high-resolution sub-bottom profiler data, Baffin Bay slope, Nunavut
Authors: Campbell D C , Jenner K A , Higgins J , Piper D J
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Published: May 2017

Preface
This Open File report summarizes a set of 20 piston cores, up to 822 cm long, taken from the continental slope of Baffin Bay, Canada, in water depths between 833 and 1715 m. It provides down-core lithostratigraphy, physical properties measurements, core photography and core X-radiography, in
addition to high-resolution seismic data over most core sites, selected grain size data and portable X-ray fluorescence data. Preliminary along-slope correlation between cores and AMS radiocarbon ages are also provided. Further information on these cores is available through the Expedition Database
at http://ed.gdr.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php.
Celastraceae
Authors: Codd L. E,
Published: May 2017

Author Citation For Putterlickia Pyracantha
Ericaceae
Authors: Oliver E. G. H.
Published: May 2017

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‘These are not luxuries, it is essential for access to life’: Disability related out-of-pocket costs as a driver of economic vulnerability in South Africa
Authors: Hanass-Hancock Jill , Nene Siphumelele , Deghaye Nicola , Pillay Simmi
Published: May 2017

Background: With the dawn of the new sustainable development goals, we face not only a world that has seen great successes in alleviating poverty but also a world that has left some groups, such as persons with disabilities, behind. Middle-income countries (MICs) are home to a growing number of persons with disabilities. As these countries strive to achieve the new goals, we have ample opportunity to include persons with disabilities in the emerging poverty alleviation strategies. However, a lack of data and research on the linkages between economic vulnerability and disability in MICs hampers our understanding of the factors increasing economic vulnerability in people with disabilities.Methods: This article aims to present data related to elements of this vulnerability in one MIC, South Africa. Focusing on out-of-pocket costs, it uses focus group discussions with 73 persons with disabilities and conventional content analysis to describe these costs.Results: A complex and nuanced picture of disability-driven costs evolved on three different areas: care and support for survival and safety, accessibility of services and participation in community. Costs varied depending on care and support needs, accessibility (physical and financial), availability, and knowledge of services and assistive devices.Conclusions: The development of poverty alleviation and social protection mechanisms in MICs like South Africa needs to better consider diverse disability-related care and support needs not only to improve access to services such as education and health (National Health Insurance schemes, accessible clinics) but also to increase the effect of disability-specific benefits and employment equity policies.
Adquisición y carencia académica de competencias tecnológicas ante una economía digital
Authors: Alvárez-Flores Erika Patricia , Núñez-Gómez Patricia , Rodríguez Crespo Carlos
Published: May 2017

Las exigencias de cualificación y competencias que demanda la Economía Digital obligan a las universidades a incorporar estrategias académicas que posibiliten un aprendizaje de los requerimientos tecnológicos, que generen una mejora en las oportunidades individuales de inserción laboral. En este trabajo, se evalúan las competencias digitales de futuros profesionales de acuerdo a las necesidades empresariales que se están requiriendo en algunos países de Europa y América Latina. Metodología: Ha sido aplicado un cuestionario validado a estudiantes de dos titulaciones universitarias de España y México con el propósito de medir cinco áreas de competencias digitales. El análisis estadístico practicado consta de una primera fase descriptiva y una segunda inferencial (análisis de correlaciones). Resultados y conclusiones: Los resultados indican que los jóvenes tienen carencias digitales en las áreas de comunicación, seguridad y solución de problemas. Se demuestra que los alumnos no adquieren en su vida académica las habilidades requeridas para el actual contexto de transformación digital.
Infant Nutritional Status, Feeding Practices, Enteropathogen Exposure, Socioeconomic Status, and Illness Are Associated with Gut Barrier Function As Assessed by the Lactulose Mannitol Test in the MAL-ED Birth Cohort
Authors: Lee Gwenyth O. , McCormick Benjamin J. J. , Seidman Jessica C. , Kosek Margaret N. , Haque Rashidul , Olortegui Maribel Paredes , Lima Aldo A. M. , Bhutta Zulfiqar A. , Kang Gagandeep , Samie Amidou , Amour Caroline , Mason Carl J. , Ahmed Tahmeed , Yori Pablo Peñataro , Oliveira Domingos B. , Alam Didar , Babji Sudhir , Bessong Pascal , Mduma Estomih , Shrestha Sanjaya K. , Ambikapathi Ramya , Lang Dennis R. , Gottlieb Michael , Guerrant Richard L. , Caulfield Laura E. , _ _
Published: May 2017

The lactulose mannitol (LM) dual sugar permeability test is the most commonly used test of environmental enteropathy in developing countries. However, there is a large but conflicting literature on its association with enteric infection and host nutritional status. We conducted a longitudinal cohort using a single field protocol and comparable laboratory procedures to examine intestinal permeability in multiple, geographically diverse pediatric populations. Using a previously published systematic review to guide the selection of factors potentially associated with LM test results, we examined the relationships between these factors and mucosal breach, represented by percent lactulose excretion; absorptive area, represented by percent mannitol excretion; and gut barrier function, represented by the L/M ratio. A total of 6,602 LM tests were conducted in 1,980 children at 3, 6, 9, and 15 months old; percent lactulose excretion, percent mannitol excretion, and the L/M ratio were expressed as age- and sex-specific normalized values using the Brazil cohort as the reference population. Among the factors considered, recent severe diarrhea, lower socioeconomic status, and recent asymptomatic enteropathogen infections were associated with decreased percent mannitol excretion and higher L/M ratios. Poorer concurrent weight-for-age, infection, and recent breastfeeding were associated with increased percent lactulose excretion and increased L/M ratios. Our results support previously reported associations between the L/M ratio and factors related to child nutritional status and enteropathogen exposure. These results were remarkably consistent across sites and support the hypothesis that the frequency of these exposures in communities living in poverty leads to alterations in gut barrier function.
Integration of Medication Management Into Occupational Therapy Practice
Authors: Schwartz Jaclyn K. , Smith Roger O.
Published: May 2017

Occupational therapy practitioners enable clients to improve performance in everyday occupations. As health care reform precipitates changes across health care service organizations, occupational therapy professionals must seize the opportunity to apply their unique skills and perspective to meet the changing needs of clients and other stakeholders. In this article, we explore the role and distinct value of occupational therapy practitioners in one area of changing need: medication management. We find that occupational therapy practitioners have unique skills that complement the factors affecting medication nonadherence and evidence-based interventions. With reforms to research, teaching, and practice, occupational therapy practitioners can better integrate medication management into regular evaluation and treatment, thereby contributing to broader patient outcomes defined by the Affordable Care Act.
Advancing the cultural study of personality and identity: models, methods, and outcomes
Authors: Syed Moin
Published: May 2017

Personality and identity are overlapping but distinct constructs. This article describes the three-level model of personality and, specifically, how identity fits within it. Importantly, identity operates at multiple levels of personality, depending on whether the focus is on domain-specific identity development processes or the integrated life story on a broad scale. The strength of the three-level model of personality is then described with respect to a) how it provides an ideal framework for cultural psychological inquiries into universality and specificity, b) how it is well suited for mixed methods research that combines quantitative and qualitative methods, and c) how different levels of personality may be related to psychological outcomes.
Intrinsic – Extrinsic – Transcendent. A triarchic model of goal contents: introduction and validation
Authors: Górnik-Durose Małgorzata Ewa , Jach Łukasz , Langer Marcin
Published: May 2017

Background

The article refers to an 11-factor circumplex model of goal contents introduced by Grouzet et al., which suggested a consistent structure of goals allocated within two dimensions: extrinsic–intrinsic and self-transcendent–physical. A previous study showed a rather poor fit of this model in a Polish context. Therefore using data from the aforementioned replication project in Study I we re-examined the structure and found a triarchic configuration more adequately fitting existing data. This new model was further tested in Study II.

Participants and procedure

To find an adequate factor structure of life goals measured by the Polish version of the Aspiration Index in Study I we ran exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in three groups of 1,762 people in total. To check psychometric characteristics of the developed AI-23 questionnaire we conducted Study II on a group of 319 students.

Results

The analyses revealed a new structure of the Aspiration Index consisting of scales related to seven life goals connected with three general groups of goals: intrinsic, extrinsic and transcendent. Results of confirmatory factor analysis, convergent and divergent validation, internal consistency and test–retest reliability allowed AI-23 to be treated as an effective tool to measure life goals.

Conclusions

The results suggest a triarchic organization of goal contents, with self-transcendent goals supplementing well-established theoretical categories of intrinsic and extrinsic goals.
Trauma in relation to psychological characteristics in women with eating disorders
Authors: Izydorczyk Bernadetta
Published: May 2017

Background
 The aim of the article was to present the results of the author’s own study that sought relationships between having experienced psychological trauma and the psychological characteristics of people with eating disorders. The basic research question was the following: To what degree are the traumatic events experienced by females with various types of eating disorders related to these females’ psychological characteristics?

 Participants and procedure
 The sample comprised 120 females with eating disorders: 30 females aged between 20 and 26 diagnosed with bulimia nervosa, 31 females diagnosed with binge-eating disorder and 59 females aged between 20 and 26 diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. The research was carried out in the years 2007-2012 in outpatient clinics treating neuroses and eating disorders and mental health outpatient clinics in Poland. The study employed a clinical and psychometric (i.e., questionnaires for measuring psychological characteristics) approach.

 Results
 Statistical analysis confirmed the existence of significant differences between the females with eating disorders who have experienced relational trauma(s) in their lives (particularly in their childhood and adolescence) and those who did not reveal such experience. The females with anorexia and bulimia who have also experienced psychological, physical or sexual violence revealed a significantly different, higher level of bulimic thinking and tendencies for excessively uncontrolled, impulsive behaviors towards food and nutrition (i.e., vomit-provoking and other forms of body purgation, e.g. using purgative drugs and others) than did females with no relational trauma experience.

 Conclusions
 The frequency of relational trauma occurrence was significantly higher for females with bulimia and bulimic anorexia. For females with restrictive anorexia and binge-eating disorder, no significantly frequent occurrence of trauma was observed.
 Diagnosing the occurrence of relational trauma in patients’ histories is a key element that should be involved in the process of psychotherapy for people with eating disorders.
Family resilience – definition of construct and preliminary results of the Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)
Authors: Nadrowska Natalia , Błażek Magdalena , Lewandowska-Walter Aleksandra
Published: May 2017

Background
 The article describes construct of family resilience with the main focus on the model Walsh. The aim of this article is to present preliminary results: adaptation, reliability, statistical analyses of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) for the Polish population.

 Participants and procedure
 Participants (n = 329), aged 18-35, completed experimental Polish version of the FRAS (SPR – Skala Prężności Rodzinnej). In the procedure of adaptation, scale was translated and modified into Polish. Scale consists of the following subscales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Utilizing Social and Economic Resources, Maintaining a Positive Outlook, Family Connectedness, Family Spirituality and Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity.

 Results
 The reliability of the experimental Polish version of the FRAS for the entire scale and five subscales are satisfactory. Only subscale Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity obtained reliability of less than 0.7. Taking into account the diversity of gender and declaring the passage through the difficult events were observed significant differences in the three scales: Family Communication and Problem Solving, Family Connectedness, Ability to Make Meaning of Adversity and total scale of FRAS.

 Conclusions
 The work on the questionnaire is still in progress and the results presented here should be considered as preliminary. In the next steps, the number of men should be increased in order to perform confirmatory factor analysis. Future studies should take into account a number of factors and contexts (e.g. family structure, social and cultural context and the type of stressful event).
An experimental study of the bandwagon effect in conspicuous consumption
Authors: Niesiobędzka Małgorzata
Published: May 2017

Background

The phenomenon of conspicuous consumption is not new. Veblen (1994, 1899) described conspicuous consumption as expensive, luxury consumption, which provides evidence of wealth and status. In post-modern society the primary objects of consumption have become images and experience used by the middle class and the masses to demonstrate uniqueness or similarity with significant others. This paper focuses on the bandwagon effect in conspicuous consumption. In the study the bandwagon effect is treated as increased demand for luxury goods due to their popularity, especially among famous people.

Participants and procedure

Three studies were carried out. The samples consisted of 60 teenagers, 76 female students and 73 students and postgraduate students. The concept of the aspirational group was induced through the advertisement of a luxury product with reference to famous people and by direct reference to the aspirational group. Three different methods to measure a propensity to conspicuous consumption were applied: the amount of money spent on the luxury product, the size of the luxury brand logo, and the doubling of the luxury brand logo.

Results

The results show that the activation of the idea of the aspirational group enhances willingness to pay more for a luxury product, to double the luxury brand logo and the preference for a visible luxury brand logo at a tendency level.

Conclusions

The results experimentally supported the bandwagon effect within luxury conspicuous consumption previously established in correlative studies.