bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Is Telephysiotherapy an Option for Improved Quality of Life in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee?
Authors: Odole Adesola C. , Ojo Oluwatobi D.
Published: March 2014

This study investigated effect of a 6-week telephysiotherapy programme on quality of life (QoL) of patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Fifty patients with knee OA were randomly and equally assigned into two treatment groups: clinic group (CG) and telephysiotherapy group (TG). The CG received physiotherapist-administered osteoarthritis-specific exercises in the clinic thrice weekly for 6 weeks while the TG received structured telephone monitoring with self-administered osteoarthritis-specific exercises for the same duration at home. Participants’ QoL was assessed using WHOQoL-Bref at baseline, second, fourth, and sixth week of intervention. Data were analyzed using ANOVA and independent Student’st-test. Within-group comparison showed significant improvements in physical health domain (P=0.00*for TG and CG) and psychological domain (P=0.02*for TG;P=0.00*for CG) of WHOQoL following six-week intervention. However, there were no significant differences (P>0.05) in TG and CG’s social relationship and environment domains. Between-group comparison showed no significant differences (P>0.05) between CG and TG’s physical health, psychological, and social relationships domains of WHOQoL following 6-week intervention. However, there was significant difference in the environment domain (P<0.05). Telephysiotherapy using telephone medium improved QoL in patients with knee OA comparable to clinic based treatment.
The Cut-Off Values of Anthropometric Indices for Identifying Subjects at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome in Iranian Elderly Men
Authors: Gharipour Mojgan , Sadeghi Masoumeh , Dianatkhah Minoo , Bidmeshgi Shirin , Ahmadi Alireza , Tahri Marzieh , Sarrafzadegan Nizal
Published: March 2014

Aim. This study aimed to investigate which anthropometric indices could be a better predictor of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the cut-off points for these surrogates to appropriately differentiate MetS in the Iranian elderly.Method. The present cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of Isfahan Healthy Heart Program (IHHP). MetS was defined according to Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATPIII). In total, 206 elderly subjects with MetS criteria were selected. Anthropometric indices were measured and plotted using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.Results. WC followed by WHtR yielded the highest area under the curve (AUC) (0.683; 95% CI 0.606–0.761 and 0.680; 95% CI 0.602–0.758, resp.) for MetS. WC at a cut of 94.5 cm resulted in the highest Youden index with sensitivity 64% and 68% specificity to predict the presence of ≥2 metabolic risk factors. BMI had the lowest sensitivity and specificity for MetS and MetS components. WC has the best ability to detect MetS which followed by WHtR and BMI had a lower discriminating value comparatively.Conclusion. WC is the best predictor for predicting the presence of ≥2 metabolic risk factors among Iranian elderly population and the best value of WC is 94.5 cm. This cut-off values of WC should be advocated and used in Iranian men until larger cross-sectional studies show different results.
Prognostic Indices of Poor Nutritional Status and Their Impact on Prolonged Hospital Stay in a Greek University Hospital
Authors: Tsaousi Georgia , Panidis Stavros , Stavrou George , Tsouskas John , Panagiotou Dimitrios , Kotzampassi Katerina
Published: March 2014

Background. To ascertain the potential contributors to nutritional risk manifestation and to disclose the factors exerting a negative impact on hospital length of stay (LOS), by means of poor nutritional status, in a nonselected hospitalized population.Materials and Methods. NutritionDay project questionnaires were applied to 295 adult patients. Study parameters included anthropometric data, demographics, medical history, dietary-related factors, and self-perception of health status. Body Mass Index (BMI) and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) were calculated for each participant. MUST score was applied for malnutrition assessment, while hospital LOS constituted the outcome of interest.Results. Of the total cohort, 42.3% were at nutritional risk and 21.4% malnourished. Age, gender, BMI, MUST score, autonomy, health quality, appetite, quantity of food intake, weight loss, arm or calf perimeter (P<0.001, for all), and dietary type (P<0.01) affected nutritional status. Poor nutrition status (P=0.000), deteriorated appetite (P=0.000) or food intake (P=0.025), limited autonomy (P=0.013), artificial nutrition (P=0.012), weight loss (P=0.010), and arm circumference <21 cm (P=0.007) were the most powerful predictors of hospital LOS >7 days.Conclusion. Nutritional status and nutrition-related parameters such as weight loss, quantity of food intake, appetite, arm circumference, dietary type, and extent of dependence confer considerable prognostic value regarding hospital LOS in acute care setting.
Optimization of Variables for Aqueous Extraction of Gum from Grewia mollis Powder
Authors: Panyoo Akdowa Emmanuel , Boudjeko Thaddee , Woguia Alice Louise , Njintang-Yanou Nicolas , Gaiani Claire , Scher Joel , Mbofung Carl Moses F.
Published: March 2014

Grewia gum is a polysaccharide derived from the inner stem bark of the edible plant Grewia mollis. Juss (family Tiliaceae). It is a savanna shrub that grows wildly but is usually cultivated in Nigeria and Northern part of Cameroon. The main goal of the present study was to investigate the effect of aqueous extraction conditions on the extraction yield and physicochemical properties of the Grewia mollis. The studied aqueous extraction variables were water/powder (W/P) ratio (10 : 1–80 : 1 w/p), temperature (25.0–85.0∘C), time (1–3 h), and pH (4.0–10.0). The results indicated that the aqueous extraction variables exhibited the least significant (P<0.05) effect on the yield and the viscosity of the gum. The result shows that the ratio of extraction is the main factor affecting the extraction of gum. The optimized extraction condition for higher viscosity was at the powder/water ratio of 1 : 55.4, pH of 7, time of 1 h, and temperature of 50∘C. However, the optimized extraction condition for higher yield was at the powder/water ratio of 1 : 80, pH of 4, time of 3 h, and temperature of 73∘C.
Agent or Borrower? An Incentive of Moral Hazard with China Commercial Guarantee Company
Authors: He Feng , Zhang Wei , Zhang Yongjie , Xiong Xiong
Published: March 2014

This paper studies the behavior of commercial guarantee company in the game theory framework. Different payoff structures with guarantee company behavior for banks, borrowers, and the guarantors are formed in the presence of credit rationing. We derived and explained the surviving rule of different types of guarantee companies, and we further conclude the condition in which guarantee companies are likely to be involved in a moral hazard problem. We conclude that, in the presence of regulatory arbitrage opportunity, the guarantee company has incentive to switch its role from bank agent to the borrower, being a second‐hand lender. When the macroeconomic risk is high, the switching of this role will transfer the risk back to the banks.
A Pruning-Based Disk Scheduling Algorithm for Heterogeneous I/O Workloads
Authors: Kim Taeseok , Bahn Hyokyung , Won Youjip
Published: March 2014

In heterogeneous I/O workload environments, disk scheduling algorithms should support different QoS (Quality-of-Service) for each I/O request. For example, the algorithm should meet the deadlines of real-time requests and at the same time provide reasonable response time for best-effort requests. This paper presents a novel disk scheduling algorithm called G-SCAN (Grouping-SCAN) for handling heterogeneous I/O workloads. To find a schedule that satisfies the deadline constraints and seek time minimization simultaneously, G-SCAN maintains a series of candidate schedules and expands the schedules whenever a new request arrives. Maintaining these candidate schedules requires excessive spatial and temporal overhead, but G-SCAN reduces the overhead to a manageable level via pruning the state space using two heuristics. One is grouping that clusters adjacent best-effort requests into a single scheduling unit and the other is the branch-and-bound strategy that cuts off inefficient or impractical schedules. Experiments with various synthetic and real-world I/O workloads show that G-SCAN outperforms existing disk scheduling algorithms significantly in terms of the average response time, throughput, and QoS-guarantees for heterogeneous I/O workloads. We also show that the overhead of G-SCAN is reasonable for on-line execution.
Residential Relocation by Older Adults in Response to Incident Cardiovascular Health Events: A Case-Crossover Analysis
Authors: Lovasi Gina S. , Richardson John M. , Rodriguez Carlos J. , Kop Willem J. , Ahmed Ali , Brown Arleen F. , Greenlee Heather , Siscovick David S.
Published: March 2014

Objective. We use a case-crossover analysis to explore the association between incident cardiovascular events and residential relocation to a new home address.Methods. We conducted an ambidirectional case-crossover analysis to explore the association between incident cardiovascular events and residential relocation to a new address using data from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a community-based prospective cohort study of 5,888 older adults from four U.S. sites beginning in 1989. Relocation was assessed twice a year during follow-up. Event occurrences were classified as present or absent for the period preceding the first reported move, as compared with an equal length of time immediately prior to and following this period.Results. Older adults (65+) that experience incident cardiovascular disease had an increased probability of reporting a change of residence during the following year (OR 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.2–2.1). Clinical conditions associated with relocation included stroke (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.2–3.3), angina (OR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.0–2.6), and congestive heart failure (OR: 1.5, 95% CI: 1.0–2.1).Conclusions. Major incident cardiovascular disease may increase the probability of residential relocation in older adults. Case-crossover analyses represent an opportunity to investigate triggering events, but finer temporal resolution would be crucial for future research on residential relocations.
Indigofera himachalensis (Fabaceae: Indigofereae), a new species from Himachal Pradesh, India
Authors: Pandey Arun K. , Chauhan Vibha , Pandey Arun K. , Schaefer Hanno
Published: March 2014

Indigofera himachalensis, a new species of Fabaceae is described from Himachal Pradesh, India. It differs from I. heterantha in having longer and sparsely adpressed hairy pods and larger seeds that are greater in number per pod with a reticulo-rugulate pattern of the spermoderm.
Continuous Glucose Monitors
Authors: Walker Tomas C. , Yucha Carolyn B.
Published: March 2014

Background:

How patients are benefitting from continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) remains poorly understood. The focus on numerical glucose values persists, even though access to the glucose waveform and rate of change may contribute more to improved control. This pilot study compared outcomes of patients using CGMs with or without access to the numerical values on their CGM.

Methods:

Ten persons with type 1 diabetes, naïve to CGM use, enrolled in a 12-week study. Subjects were randomly assigned to either unmodified CGM receivers, or to CGM receivers that had their numerical values obscured but otherwise functioned normally. HbA1c, quality of life (QLI-D), and fear of hypoglycemia (HFS) were assessed, at baseline and at week 12. Baseline HbA1c for the entire group was 7.46 ± 1.27%. At week 12 the experimental group HbA1c reduction was 1.5 ± 0.9% ( p < .05), the control group’s reduction was 0.06 ± 0.61% ( p > .05). Repeated measures testing revealed no significant difference in HbA1c reduction between groups. Both groups had reductions in HFS; these reductions were statistically significant within groups ( p < .05), but not between groups. QLI-D indices demonstrated improvements ( p < .05) in QLI-D total and the health and family subscales, but not between groups.

Conclusions:

The results of this pilot study suggest that benefits of CGM extend beyond reductions in HbA1c to reductions in fear of hypoglycemia and improvements in quality of life. The display of a numerical glucose value did not improve control when compared to numerically blinded units.
Refresh Your Mind, Rejuvenate Your Body, Renew Your Spirit: A Pilot Wellness Program for Counselor Education
Authors: Wolf Cheryl Pence , Thompson Isabel A. , Thompson Eric S. , Smith-Adcock Sondra
Published: March 2014

As part of a semester-long student-led wellness program, graduate students in counselor education were introduced to a variety of self-care strategies, including dyadic and experiential activities for the mind, body, and spirit. The conceptual framework for the pilot program was the Adlerian-based Indivisible Self Model of Wellness. The complementary Five-Factor Wellness Inventory, which integrates Adler’s construct of holism and life tasks, was used as a pre- and post-test measure to determine changes to individual wellness. Additionally, the researchers gathered subjective feedback from participants regarding their experiences in the wellness program. Findings showed that offering this relatively simple and flexible wellness program had a positive impact on students’ knowledge and practice of wellness.
The Golden Complex
Authors: Stone Mark H.
Published: March 2014

Alfred Adler began his first U.S. lecture tour in 1926. He rose to national prominence concurrent with his first visit to the United States. Adler’s lecture tours and publications through the 1920s and into the following decade continually increased his public recognition, until his death in 1937. The 1920s were an exciting era—the Roaring Twenties—in American history. The book The Golden Complex , by Lee Dodd (1927), provides a unique 1920s view of Adler’s influence during that time.
An Integrative Adlerian Approach to Creating a Teen Parenting Program
Authors: Allen Kimberly , El-Beshti Rasha , Guin Autumn
Published: March 2014

Adlerian theory is a foundation used by numerous parent education programs, and it is also defensibly an unyielding theoretical foundation for teen parent educational programs. Teen programs can be supported and enhanced by the inclusion of additional theoretical approaches to serving youth. In this article, the authors discuss how integrating relationship education, life skill development, and educational attainment, as well as specific approaches to program engagement and delivery, can enhance the learning environment for young parents. This theoretical overview is designed to showcase a representation of principles and practices that are important for developing quality teen parenting programs.
Supervision in Group Play Therapy: A Skills Checklist
Authors: Garza Yvonne , Kinsworthy Sarah , Bennett Mary Morrison
Published: March 2014

The authors developed a skills checklist for use in teaching reflecting skills to play-therapists-in-training using the modality of group play therapy. Specifically, the skill sheet uses the construct areas of connect, capable, count, and courage, described in Adlerian play therapy literature as the Crucial Cs. The authors describe how the Crucial Cs can be used as a structure to facilitate deeper reflections on meaning in a context of Adlerian group play. The authors offer the Group Play Therapy Skills Checklist as a tool for supervisors to use when working with play-therapists-in-training.
Ottoman Royal Women’s Spaces: The Acoustic Dimension
Authors: Ergin Nina
Published: March 2014

In their discussion of space in relation to gender, historians of women in the Middle East so far have focused primarily on physical and visual access. This paper argues that women’s acoustic space merits closer consideration, especially since acoustic methods of communication very often could and did exceed the limits of vision and visually bounded space. This argument is based on three different case studies concerning Ottoman royal women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) harem women’s auditory access to imperial council meetings; (2) common petitioners’ auditory access to the mother of the sultan as she traveled by carriage through the imperial capital during her frequent processions; and (3) Qur’anic recitation and prayers as commissioned by female mosque patrons. These case studies have more wide-ranging implications in that they allow for conceptual experimentation leading towards a refinement of the categories of private/public, male/female space, based on the permeability of acoustic space.
Putting Boyd in His Place
Authors: Cronin Blaise , Sugimoto Cassidy R.
Published: March 2014

In this paper we provide a bibliometric profile of Boyd Rayward. We begin by describing and categorizing his output over the course of his career. We identify all those whom he has cited in his published works and those who, in turn, have cited him. We also identify those with whom he has collaborated and those whom he has acknowledged in his writings for their intellectual contributions. A picture emerges of an independently minded scholar who favors solo authorship.
Knowledge Space Revisited: Challenges for Twenty-First Century Library and Information Science Researchers
Authors: Cochrane Pauline Atherton
Published: March 2014

This paper suggests writing a companion work to the Bourne and Hahn book, History of Online Information Services, 1963–1976 (2003), which would feature milestone improvements in subject access mechanisms developed over time. To provide a background for such a work, a 1976 paper by Meincke and Atherton is revisited wherein the concept of Knowledge Space is defined as “online mechanisms used for handling a user’s knowledge level while a search was being formulated and processed.” Research that followed in the 1980s and 1990s is linked together for the first time. Seven projects are suggested for current researchers to undertake so they can assess the utility of earlier research ideas that did not get a proper chance for development. It is just possible that they may have value and be found useful in today’s information environment.
The Archives of Paul Otlet: Between Appreciation and Rediscovery, 1944–2013
Authors: Manfroid Stephanie , Gillen Jacques
Published: March 2014

This paper outlines the life and work of Paul Otlet (1868–1944). Otlet was a founder of the scholarly disciplines of bibliography, documentation, and information science. As a result of the work he undertook with Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943)—specifically, the establishment in 1895 in Brussels of the International Institute of Bibliography, which aimed to construct a Universal Bibliographic Repertory—Otlet has become known as the father of the Internet. Otlet’s grand project, as stated in his Traité de documentation (1934), was never fully realized. Even before his death, the collections he assembled had been dismembered. After his death, the problematic conditions in which Otlet’s personal papers and the collections he had created were preserved meant that his thought and work remained largely unacknowledged. It fell to W. Boyd Rayward, who began to work on Otlet in the late 1960s, to rescue him from obscurity, publishing in 1975 a major biography of the pioneer knowledge entrepreneur and internationalist progenitor of the World Wide Web.
The Decimal Office: Administration as a Science in the Netherlands in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Authors: Heuvel Charles van den
Published: March 2014

In 1983 Boyd Rayward described the early diffusion abroad of the Dewey Decimal Classification (and indirectly of the Universal Decimal Classification) in Australia, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Russia. Here, I discuss the enormous interest in the decimal system in the Netherlands that went far beyond its original role for the classification of bibliographic knowledge. I will present Johan Zaalberg (1858–1934) and Ernst Hijmans (1890–1987) as two advocates for the use of the decimal system in the administration of public organizations and private companies and its role in the development of scientific management in the Netherlands.
The Heritage of Boleslas Iwinski
Authors: Krummel D. W.
Published: March 2014

In 1911, in support of Paul Otlet’s plan for a universal bibliography, Boleslas Iwinski, a Polish-born economist and labor organizer, estimated the total number of book titles that had been printed since Gutenberg’s day. His totals have been largely forgotten (except by a few scholars like W. Boyd Rayward), but his goals and methods have been accepted and modified over the past century, and are still provocative.
Julius Hanauer: Bio-Bibliographical Traces of a German Special Librarian, Esperantist, and Documentalist
Authors: Hapke Thomas
Published: March 2014

The German librarian Julius Hanauer, primarily known for his support of decimal classification in the 1920s, was an important link between Germany and the international bibliographic movement and documentation network in the first third of the twentieth century. Working in the early twentieth century at the Institut International de Bibliographie in Brussels, Hanauer had regular contact with members of the documentation community, such as Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, and others outside Belgium, such as Wilhelm Ostwald. Tracing the facets of Hanauer’s activities and connections as an information pioneer mirrored the contemporary world of internationalism and documentation.
W. Boyd Rayward: Curriculum Vitae
Authors: D’Arpa Christine
Published: March 2014

W. Boyd Rayward’s career and intellectual work in library and information science span over forty years and many parts of the world. Major roles and undertakings in Rayward’s professional history are listed. Following this, as a resource for future scholars, his publications are cited in their entirety.
Information Management of British Military Intelligence: The Work of the Documentalists, 1909–1945
Authors: Brunt Rodney M.
Published: March 2014

After describing briefly the activities of information officers in the early decades of British security services MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, otherwise known as MI6), the work of these documentalists is thereafter explored in the wider context of the information manager in the knowledge organization. Early in the twentieth century, MI5 created its Registry to ensure the efficient use of the information it gathered on suspect aliens. Its equivalent in SIS, housed in Room 40 Admiralty Old Building, was concerned with signals intercepted first on cables and later transmitted by wireless. The Second World War saw similar operations, including those of the London Reception Centre (LRC) and of the Government Code & Cypher School (GCCS) in Bletchley Park. This paper describes briefly the means by which the intelligence could be put to efficient use to provide effective and efficient support to their customers, the “spycatchers,” “the watch,” and the researchers, or “back room.”
Enchanting Modernism: Mary Butts, Decadence, and the Ethics of Occultism
Authors: Clukey Amy
Published: March 2014

This article argues that both decadent writers and Mary Butts utilized sickness and the occult to alter perception and evade the strictures of bourgeois religiosity and experience. It looks at Butts's brief and troubled alliance with Aleister Crowley to demonstrate how she developed an ethics of occultism that sought to heal those sickened by modernity and then examines her literary experiments with magic through readings of her short stories "Mappa Mundi" and "Brightness Falls." Butts sought to create literature that revealed magic's latent presence in a disenchanted world and demonstrate its rejuvenating potential.
"Common People": Realism, Class Difference, and the Male Domestic Sphere in Nick Hornby's Collision with Britpop
Authors: McCombe John
Published: March 2014

My essay analyzes both High Fidelity and selected Britpop songs and videos, and reads these texts within the highly contested field of realism's larger relationship to "what's out there." The essay examines the ways in which Hornby's novel articulates a male domestic sphere and explores values typically associated with the British working class—ones regularly reinforced in 1990s (or "Cool Britannia"-era) texts such as Loaded magazine. Ultimately, I analyze how High Fidelity , like many canonical realist novels, imagines a form of social unity that supersedes the divergent social class "realities" depicted.
Immigration and Amnesia: Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Authors: Tromly Lucas
Published: March 2014

This essay argues that Andrew X. Pham's account of his trip from America to Vietnam, his country of birth, has the paradoxical effect of erasing the past. Building on Ali Behdad's argument that America's self-image as a nation hospitable toward immigrants requires the negation of history, I argue that Pham's celebration of American multiculturalism rests on the negation of information about his past that he travels to recover. Pham's narrative reveals the blind spots demanded by a nation that celebrates immigration as evidence of the highest American values while avoiding full knowledge of immigrant lives.
An "Unworkable Compound": Ireland and Empire in "Eveline"
Authors: Uphaus Maxwell
Published: March 2014

James Joyce's "Eveline" poses the question of Ireland's identity within the British Empire in indirect but powerful terms. In its depiction of Eveline's paralyzing suspension between home and world, Joyce's story echoes the contemporary cultural nationalist diagnosis of modern Ireland as an "unworkable compound" of imperial and national affinities. Joyce, however, presents this unworkable compound as a constitutive condition of modern Irish life, not an inauthentic imposition. "Eveline" thus highlights what is distinctive about Joyce's representation of Ireland and empire, as Joyce dramatizes how ordinary Irish people experienced that relationship in all its varied aspects of participation and subordination.
Haunted by the Past: Traumatic Rememory and Black Feminism in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora
Authors: Setka Stella
Published: March 2014

This essay analyzes the ways that Corregidora addresses issues of black female sexuality as they relate to the trauma of slavery. By engaging theories of memory and black feminist criticism, the essay suggests that Ursa liberates herself from historical cycles of oppression by reclaiming her agency and sexuality.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Warring Doctors and Meddling Ministers
Authors: Cerulli Anthony , Berry Sarah L.
Published: March 2014

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “The Rejected Blessing” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” dramatize ideological competition among doctors and clergymen from Renaissance Italy to colonial Boston over care of the body. In the context of Hawthorne’s life, these stories show his foresighted theorizing of medical hegemony and its dangers to public and individual health.
What Does Greimas’s Semiotic Square Really Do?
Authors: Corso John J.
Published: March 2014

Semiotician A.J. Greimas introduced the semiotic square to consider semiotic relationships (and constraints) between binary terms. Literary, art, and music critics have seized upon the procedure to analyze actants, narrative structures, and discursive paradigms. This essay argues that current literature ignores the visual aspects of the square.
Mapa cognitivo, memoria (im)política y medialidad: Contemporaneidad en Alejandro Zambra y Pola Oloixarac
Authors: de los Ríos Valeria
Published: March 2014

En “What is the Contemporary?”, Giorgio Agamben identifica cierta desconexión, cierto anacronismo que hace que los que él llama “verdaderamente contemporáneos” sean capaces de percibir mejor su propia época, aunque no su lado luminoso, sino su lado oscuro, ancestral (40). La contemporaneidad está marcada así por lo arcaico, de modo que la relación que se establece con el presente es arqueológica. El contemporáneo, en suma, es quien puede superar la linealidad histórica y pensar el tiempo en relación simultánea con otras temporalidades. Siguiendo a Agamben, el presente trabajo propone que nuestra contemporaneidad literaria podría definirse mediante tres aspectos: primero, por la elaboración de un mapa cognitivo trazado a partir de experiencias particulares; segundo, por la invocación de lo presente a través de referencias a momentos históricos específicos; y tercero, por la presencia de un archivo mediático visual/audiovisual que permite construir la memoria de un sujeto, uno que muchas veces aspira a confundirse con el autor o que utiliza la primera persona singular para dar cuenta de cierto grado de intimidad o subjetividad en conflicto o en construcción. Para ilustrar estos aspectos, se propone un breve análisis de pasajes representativos de las obras de Alejandro Zambra y Pola Oloixarac.
Placer solitario y homoerotismo femenino en La Condesita. (Memorias de una doncella) (1869) de Francisco de Sales Mayo: otro peligroso suplemento
Authors: de Rivera Itziar Rodríguez
Published: March 2014

Este ensayo está dedicado al estudio de La Condesita. (Memorias de una doncella) (1869), una obra a medio camino entre la novela erótica popular, el diario privado, el tratado de higiene y el manual médico, escrita por Francisco de Sales Mayo, considerado por la crítica como el precursor del naturalismo radical en España. El análisis se centra en las estrategias narrativas que Mayo utiliza para tratar la masturbación y el lesbianismo, los dos temas que vertebran la trama de la obra. Este estudio demostrará que tanto el placer solitario como la homosexualidad femenina en La Condesita participan provocativamente de la lógica de la suplementariedad derrideana, complicando así su estatus como placeres secundarios o artificiales con respecto a la heteronormatividad a la que supuestamente están subordinados. Asimismo, la novela de Mayo también puede ser interpretada como un “peligroso suplemento” con respecto a los manuales de higiene y medicina de la época, a los que suple y suplanta a la vez con un texto en el que los límites entre la ciencia y el erotismo se desdibujan.
Luis Gusmán y la guerra de los inconscientes
Authors: Vecchio Diego
Published: March 2014

Entre 2009 y 2011, Luis Gusmán, escritor y psicoanalista, publica Los muertos no mienten (una autobiografía que se presenta como el comentario de una biblioteca ocultista) y La pregunta freudiana (una recopilación de artículos de psiconálisis, publicados previamente en la revista Conjetural ). A pesar de ser publicados casi al mismo tiempo, estos dos libros no tienen la misma relación con lo contemporáneo. El primer libro invoca un saber anacrónico, mientras que el segundo expone un saber que ha gozado, al menos hasta los años 1990, de cierto prestigio intelectual y literario. En este desfase entre Los muertos no mienten y La pregunta freudiana se pueden leer las huellas de un conflicto epistemológico que se produjo a fines del siglo XIX y en el siglo XX entre saberes contemporáneos y rivales sobre la disociación subjetiva, como el psicoanálisis, el espiritismo y las ciencias ocultas. Estos saberes lucharon no solo por imponer diferentes maneras de concebir lo inconsciente sino también de pensar la temporalidad y la articulación (o desarticulación) entre presente, pasado y futuro, a través de nociones como sincronicidad, anacronismo o trauma.
An Overlooked Chapter in Spanish Feminist Histories: Ángeles López de Ayala’s El Gladiador del Librepensamiento (1914-20)
Authors: Arkinstall Christine
Published: March 2014

Las actividades feministas en España, bien documentadas a partir de los años veinte, entre 1909 y 1919, parecen casi inexistentes. Dicha omisión sorprende, dada la Primera Guerra Mundial, durante la cual un mayor número de españolas se metieron en el mundo del empleo. Una fuente esencial para entender mejor la trayectoria de los feminismos españoles y sus discursos es la prensa de mujeres, la cual aún ofrece sendas poco transitadas para rellenar los huecos. Un periódico librepensador que proporciona perspectivas esclarecedoras respecto a la segunda década del siglo XX es El Gladiador del Librepensamiento , dirigido por Ángeles López de Ayala (1856-1926) desde 1914 hasta marzo de 1920. Este artículo propone profundizar en sus discursos feministas para señalar cómo dieron ímpetu a la emancipación femenina, cómo fomentaron la igualdad de las mujeres mediante caminos culturales, legales y semánticos, y cómo se vinculaban con un feminismo español documentado. Se mantendrá que aquella década no era una página en blanco en la historia de los feminismos españoles sino un período rebosante de vitalidad cuyos efectos se harían sentir hasta mucho después.
Visiones del absoluto en Jorge Luis Borges y Javier Marías: “Funes el memorioso” y “Cuando fui mortal”
Authors: García-Donoso Daniel
Published: March 2014

Este artículo explora la relación que las escrituras de Jorge Luis Borges y Javier Marías han entablado con la problemática de la memoria absoluta en dos de sus relatos más conocidos: “Funes el memorioso” (1942) y “Cuando fui mortal” (1993). Como escritores críticos de las identidades literarias basadas en estrechos conceptos de la nación y la lengua, Borges y Marías transforman la memoria absoluta de sus protagonistas en una estrategia performativa de legitimación de una libertad radical de la escritura literaria.
Opinions of science teachers about the usage of visual media during science and technology course
Authors: Seçkin Kapucu Munise
Published: March 2014

This study aimed to find out the opinions of science teachers about the usage of visual media during science and technology course. Sample of the study consists of 15 science teachers who were working in Eskisehir, during 2012-2013 academic years. This research is designed using phenomenology approach, which is one of the qualitative research methods. Sample of the study was selected using purposive and easily accessible sampling; then criteria sampling was used to select teachers from the easily accessible sample. A semi-structured questionnaire, which has been developed by the researcher, was used for data collection. The interview form consists of two parts: First part includes questions about demographic characteristics whereas second part contains questions related with the sub-dimensions of the research. Content analysis was used on the data analysis. Based on the research findings, teachers stated that visual media enhances permanent learning, facilitates understanding, increases interest and curiosity and saves time. On the other hand, teachers may encounter several problems while using visual media, such as insufficiency of technological hardware, lack of subject-based images, existing visuals not being economical. According to the results of research, some recommendations have been made, which were supposed to contribute to increase the use of visual media while teaching topics, concepts and achievements in the science and technology course. In addition various suggestions have been developed for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers, media organizations.
Expression of multidrug resistance membrane transporter (Pgp) and p53 protein in canine mammary tumours
Authors: Koltai Zsófia , Vajdovich Péter
Published: March 2014

The aim of this study was to determine the expression rate of P-glycoprotein (Pgp), a multidrug resistance marker and the p53 tumour-suppressor protein in canine mammary tumours. A total of 30 tumours were examined in parallel to patient history. The tumours were allotted to four groups: tubulopapillar carcinomas, complex carcinomas, benign tumours, and other malignant tumours. A monoclonal mouse antibody (C494) was used for the immunohistochemical evaluation of Pgp and a polyclonal rabbit antibody for p53. We found that the intact ductal epithelium and connective tissue showed pronounced Pgp expression. The most intensive staining was detected in tubulopapillar carcinomas for both Pgp and p53. The expression rate of Pgp and p53 differed significantly between tubulopapillar carcinoma and complex carcinoma, and between tubulopapillar carcinoma and benign mammary tumour, respectively. The expressions of Pgp and p53 highly correlated statistically; therefore, both can determine malignancy in a similar manner. In the case of tubulopapillar carcinomas, more relapsed tumours occurred than in relation to complex carcinomas and other malignant tumours. Pgp expression rate was proportional to the probability of the tumour becoming recidivant postoperatively, as well. These results suggest that routine evaluation of Pgp expression in canine mammary tumours may be prognostically helpful.
Simultaneous detection of vaccinal and field infectious bursal disease viruses in layer chickens challenged with a very virulent strain after vaccination
Authors: Dobrosavljević Ivan , Vidanović Dejan , Velhner Maja , Miljković Biljana , Lako Branislav
Published: March 2014

Infectious bursal disease virus is an important poultry pathogen. It is distributed worldwide and causes significant economic losses. In this study, a system was adopted for the simultaneous monitoring of vaccine and virulent strains using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). After the decay of maternal antibodies, chickens were vaccinated at the age of 37 days with a virus of intermediate virulence and challenged at 5, 10 and 14 days post vaccination (dpv). The challenge was done with IBDV strain CH/99. Sequencing of the hypervariable region of VP2 has shown that CH/99 belongs to the very virulent group of viruses. The vaccine virus could be found in the bursa of Fabricius, spleen, thymus and bone marrow until 24 dpv. The CH/99 challenge virus was found in the bursa and lymphoid organs when chickens were challenged at 5 and 10 dpv. When challenge was performed at 14 dpv, the pathogenic virus could not be found in the bursa and other lymphoid organs.
Occurrence and genetic diversity of pigeon circovirus strains in Poland
Authors: Stenzel Tomasz , Pestka Daria
Published: March 2014

Pigeon circovirus (PiCV) is an immunosuppressive agent widespread throughout the world, which causes a disease in pigeons called Young Pigeon Disease Syndrome. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of PiCV in Poland and investigate the genetic diversity relative to other known PiCV isolates. Samples from 152 pigeon flocks (88 flocks of racing pigeons and 64 flocks of fancy pigeons) from various regions of Poland were tested by polymerase chain reaction and an approximately 326-base fragment of the capsid protein gene (Cap gene) of the virus was amplified. The average viral prevalence was found to be 70.3% (76.13% in racing pigeons and 62.5% in fancy pigeons). Among the obtained positive samples, 21 were selected for sequencing and a phylogenetic analysis was performed. It was found that the majority of Polish PiCV isolates, to varying degrees, are related to isolates occurring in Europe. It was also observed that the Cap gene is variable and mutations often occur in it, which impacts the amino acid sequences in the capsid protein (nucleotide similarity averaged 86.57%, amino acid similarity averaged 89.02%).
Serological and shedding patterns after Coxiella burnetii vaccination in the third gestation trimester in dairy cows
Authors: Tutusaus Joan , López-Gatius Fernando , Serrano Beatriz , Monleón Eva , Badiola Juan , Garcia-Ispierto Irina
Published: March 2014

This study sought to assess the effects of an inactivated phase I vaccine against Coxiella burnetii at the start of the third trimester of gestation on serological profiles, bacterial shedding patterns and subsequent reproductive performance in dairy cows. Cows were randomly assigned to a control (n = 78) or a vaccinated (n = 78) group on days 171–177 of gestation. Samples of placenta and colostrums at parturition, vaginal fluid, faeces, milk (PCR identification) and blood (anti-C. burnetii antibody detection) were obtained on the day of treatment and on days 91–97 post partum, and also on parturition day and weekly on days 1–7, 8–14, 15–21, 22–28 and 29–35 post partum in a subset of 70 animals. By Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, no significant effect of vaccination was detected on any of the reproductive variables studied. According to the odds ratio, C. burnetii shedding on days 171–177 of gestation was highly correlated with seropositivity against C. burnetii (OR = 9.1), while vaccination was not linked to reduced shedding of the bacterium. In shedders compared to others, the likelihood of pregnancy to first AI decreased and increased by factors of 0.26 and 16.1 on days 1–35 and 91–97 post partum, respectively. In conclusion, when administered at the start of the third trimester of pregnancy, the inactivated C. burnetii phase I vaccine failed to reduce bacterial shedding.
The B subunits of cholera and Escherichia coli heat-labile toxins enhance the immune responses in mice orally immunised with a recombinant live P-fimbrial vaccine for avian pathogenic E. coli
Authors: Oh In-Gyeong , Jawale Chetan , Lee John
Published: March 2014

This study aimed to investigate the adjuvant effect of recombinant attenuatedSalmonellaexpressing cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) andEscherichia coliheat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (LTB) for the P-fimbriae subunit-based vaccine of avian pathogenicE. coli(APEC) in a murine model. The PapA-specific sIgA and IgG responses were significantly enhanced after immunisation with theSalmonella-PapA vaccine in the presence of CTB or LTB. The group immunised with theSalmonella-LTB strain promoted Th1-type immunity, whereas that immunised with theSalmonella-CTB strain produced Th2-type immunity. We concluded that bothSalmonella-CTB and -LTB strains can enhance the immune response to PapA, and that the LTB strain may be a more effective adjuvant for APEC vaccination, which requires higher Th1-type immunity for protection. Thus, our findings provide evidence that immunisation with an adjuvant, LTB, is one of the strategies of developing effective vaccines against P-fimbriated APEC.
Host Cell Reactivation and Transcriptional Activation of Carboplatin-Modified BRCA1
Authors: Ratanaphan Adisorn , Canyuk Bhutorn
Published: March 2014

The breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 ( BRCA1) has been shown to maintain genomic stability through multiple functions in the regulation of DNA damage repair and transcription. Its translated BRCT (BRCA1 C-terminal domain) acts as a strong transcriptional activator. BRCA1 damaged by carboplatin treatment may lead to a loss of such functions. To address the possibility of the BRCA1 gene as a therapeutic target for carboplatin, we investigated the functional consequences of the 3′-terminal region of human BRCA1 following in vitro platination with carboplatin. A reduction in cellular BRCA1 repair of carboplatin-treated plasmid DNA, using a host cell reactivation assay, was dependent on the platination levels on the reporter gene. The transcriptional transactivation activity of the drug-modified BRCA1, assessed using a one-hybrid GAL4 transcriptional assay, was inversely proportional to the carboplatin doses. The data emphasized the potential of the BRCA1 gene to be a target for carboplatin treatment.
Urban Adolescents Readily Comply with a Complicated Asthma Research Protocol
Authors: Lovinsky-Desir Stephanie , Folch Candace , Jung Kyung Hwa , Torrone David , Gil Eric , Perera Frederica , Miller Rachel L. , Chillrud Steven N.
Published: March 2014

Purpose

Adolescents are often cited as having poor rates of compliance with medical regimens and research protocols. We quantified compliance in a cohort of urban adolescents participating in a complex research protocol in which measures were obtained without direct supervision by research personnel.

Methods

A total of 54 early adolescents ages 10-13 were asked to wear a vest containing a personal air pollutant exposure monitor for two 24-hour periods and to perform daily peak expiratory flow (PEF) for six consecutive days. Compliance with wearing the vest was measured by comparing accelerometer data from a device within the vest to one worn continuously on the child's wrist. Daily PEF data were recorded using an electronic meter.

Results

A priori definition of compliance was met by 85% of the adolescents by wearing the exposure monitoring vest and 72% by performing PEF.

Conclusions

These findings suggest that early adolescents can be compliant with complex research protocols that are needed to help bridge gaps in pediatric asthma research.
Article Commentary: TGF-β Mediated Crosstalk between Malignant Hepatocyte and Tumor Microenvironment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Authors: Gupta Devendra Kumar , Singh Neetu , Sahu Dinesh Kumar
Published: March 2014

In this article, we have reviewed current literature regarding the regulation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by the interaction of malignant hepatocytes and their tissue environment through cytokine signaling, here represented by transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling. We have discussed responses of TGF-β signaling in transition of hepatic stellate cells to myofibroblasts (MFBs), recruitment of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), and enrichment of tumor-associated endothelial cells (TECs). The malignant hepatocytes also secrete various factors such as platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and TGF-β. TGF-β, a super-family of cytokines, creates tumor microenvironment by interacting through other growth factors (epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), PDGF, fibroblast growth factor (FGF), hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), VEGF), cytokines and chemokines, and extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. Hence, the HCC tumor microenvironment may now be recognized as an important participant of tumor progression to act as potential target to systemic therapies compared to targeted therapies.
A graph counterexample to Davies’ conjecture
Authors: Kozma Gady
Published: March 2014

There exists a graph with two vertices

x

and

y

such that the ratio of the heat kernels

p(x,x;t)/p(y,y;t)

does not converge as

t\to\infty

.
On the abnormal structure of finite groups
Authors: Ballester-Bolinches Adolfo , Cossey John , Esteban-Romero Ramón
Published: March 2014

We study finite groups in which every maximal subgroup is supersoluble or normal. Our results answer some questions arising from papers of Asaad and Rose.
Restriction spaces of $A^\infty$
Authors: Vogt Dietmar
Published: March 2014

In the present paper it is shown that for certain totally disconnected Carleson sets

E

the restriction space

A_\infty(E)=\{f|_E : f\in A^\infty\}

has a basis. Its isomorphism type is determined. The result disproves a claim of S. R. Patel in [12]. To prove our result we analyze restriction spaces

C_\infty(E)=\{f|_E : f\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})\}

and then, using a result of Alexander, Taylor and Williams, we show that

A_\infty(E)=C_\infty(E)

. Among our examples there are the classical Cantor set and sets of type

E=\{x_n : n\in\mathbb{N}\}\cup\{0\}

, where

(x_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}

is a null sequence in

\mathbb{R}

with certain properties.
Sobolev, Poincaré, and isoperimetric inequalities for subelliptic diffusion operators satisfying a generalized curvature dimension inequality
Authors: Baudoin Fabrice , Kim Bumsik
Published: March 2014

By adapting some ideas of M. Ledoux ([12], [13] and [14]) to a sub-Riemannian framework we study Sobolev, Poincaré and isoperimetric inequalities associated to subelliptic diffusion operators that satisfy the generalized curvature dimension inequality that was introduced by F. Baudoin and N. Garofalo in [3]. Our results apply in particular on all CR Sasakian manifolds whose horizontal Webster–Tanaka–Ricci curvature is nonnegative, all Carnot groups with step two, and wide subclasses of principal bundles over Riemannian manifolds whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative.