bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Results from Polish Spondyloarthritis Initiative registry (PolSPI) – methodology and data from – the first year of observation
Authors: Guła Zofia , Barczyńska Tacjana , Brzosko Marek , Gąsowski Jerzy , Jeka Sławomir , Jodłowska-Cicio Katarzyna , Kwaśny-Krochin Beata , Leszczyński Piotr , Lubiński Łukasz , Łosińska Katarzyna , Pawlak-Buś Katarzyna , Przepiera-Będzak Hanna , Samborski Włodzimierz , Schlabs Małgorzata , Siedlar Maciej , Sikorska Dorota , Świerkot Jerzy , Węgierska Małgorzata , Wiland Piotr , Korkosz Mariusz
Published: May 2017

Objectives:  Report on one-year results from the Polish Spondyloarthritis Initiative registry (PolSPI), containing the cross-sectional analysis of clinical and imaging data as well as database methodology.

Material and methods:  The PolSPI registry includes patients with axial (axSpA) and peripheral (perSpA) spondyloarthritis according to ASAS classification criteria, and/or patients with ankylosing spondylitis according to modified New York criteria, psoriatic arthritis according to CASPAR criteria, arthropathy in inflammatory bowel disease, reactive arthritis, juvenile spondyloarthritis or undifferentiated spondyloarthritis. Epidemiologic data and history of signs, symptoms and treatment of spondyloarthritis are collected and assessment of disease activity is performed. Radiographic images of sacroiliac joint, cervical and lumbar spine, and results of bone densitometry are collected. Every 6 months blood samples for inflammatory markers, and for long-term storage are taken.

Results: During a one-year period from September 2015 to August 2016, 63 patients were registered on an electronic database; 44 (69.8%) of patients were classified as axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and 19 (30.2%) as peripheral spondyloarthritis (perSpA) according to ASAS criteria. Statistically significant differences between axSpA and perSpA were discovered in the percentage of HLA-B27 antigen occurrence (92.6% and 50%, respectively), BASDAI (2.8% and 4.1%, respectively), DAS 28 (2.66% and 4.03%, respectively), percentage of peripheral arthritis (20% and 88.8%, respectively), enthesitis (26.7% and 70.6%, respectively), dactylitis (6.7% and 88.9%, respectively), as well as extra-articular symptoms: acute anterior uveitis (26.7% and 5.6% , respectively) and psoriasis (6.9% and 55.6%, respectively). Patients with axSpA had significantly higher mean grade of sacroiliac involvement according to New York criteria, higher mSASSS score, and lower T-score in femoral neck in bone densitometry.

Conclusions: At the early stage of the disease patients with axSpA compared to those with perSpA, have more advanced structural damage of sacroiliac joints and spine, and lower bone mineral density in the femoral neck. In the upcoming years the PolSPI registry will prospectively follow-up patients with SpA, recording response to treatment and carrying out research on interaction of inflammation and bone remodelling.
The association of pathergy reaction and active clinical presentations of Behçet’s disease
Authors: Assar Shirin , Sadeghi Bahar , Davatchi Fereydoun , Ghodsi Seyyedeh Zahra , Nadji Abdolhadi , Shahram Farhad , Ashofte Farimah , Larimi Seyyedeh Roghieh , Sadeghi Masoud
Published: May 2017

Objectives: The pathergy skin test is a hypersensitivity reaction to a prick skin trauma caused by a pin or a needle, which is considered as a specific presentation in Behçet’s disease (BD) and the precise mechanism of this test is not well elucidated. This study was designed to evaluate the association of pathergy reaction (PR) with the active clinical manifestations of BD patients, to assess the clinical importance of PR.

Materials and methods: This was a cohort study on 1675 BD patients who fulfilled the entry criteria based on the International Criteria for Behçet’s Disease (ICBD) from 1975 to 2011. The patients were divided into two groups; the pathergy positive group included 841 patients (50.2%) and the pathergy negative group 834 patients (49.8%). The active mucocutaneous and systemic disease manifestations were analyzed according to the presence of the PR. The odds ratio and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were calculated for each item.

Results: In this study, 841 patients (50.2%) had a positive pathergy test. Patient’s mean age and mean disease duration were similar in the two groups (pathergy positive and pathergy negative patients). There was no association between positive pathergy test and age of patients, or disease duration. The PR was associated with male gender (p = 0.013), oral aphthosis (p < 0.001), pseudofolliculitis (p < 0.001), anterior uveitis (p = 0.001) and posterior uveitis (p = 0.028).

Conclusions: The presence of PR was associated with male gender, as well as some of mucocutaneous manifestations and uveitis in adult patients. There was no association with retinitis and vascular involvements. PR isn’t associated with the severity of the disease.
Coexistence of diabetes mellitus type 1 with diffuse systemic sclerosis – case report and literature review
Authors: Wielosz Ewa , Kurowska Maria , Suszek Dorota , Majdan Maria
Published: May 2017

Diabetic sclerodactyly is a frequently recognized skin finding that may occur in patients with diabetes mellitus but coexistence of diabetes and systemic sclerosis is rare. We describe a case of coexistence of type 1 diabetes mellitus and systemic sclerosis in 42-year-old man with the history of Raynaud’s phenomenon, progressive diffuse hardening of the skin and sclerodactyly, slowly worsening with time. The medical history included type 1 diabetes since childhood with microvascular complications. The patient presented a typical capillaroscopic scleroderma-like pattern, antinuclear antibodies and sclerotic lesions in gastrointestinal system. Summing up, our case represents the rare coexistence of autoimmune diseases like diabetes mellitus type 1 and systemic sclerosis.
A modeling study of the nonlinear response of fine particles to air pollutant emissions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
Authors: Zhao Bin , Wu Wenjing , Wang Shuxiao , Xing Jia , Chang Xing , Liou Kuo-Nan , Jiang Jonathan H. , Gu Yu , Jang Carey , Fu Joshua S. , Zhu Yun , Wang Jiandong , Hao Jiming
Published: May 2017

Abstract. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region has been suffering from the most severe fine particle (PM2.5) pollution in China, which causes serious health damage and economic loss. Quantifying the source contributions to PM2.5 concentrations has been a challenging task because of the complicated non-linear relationships between PM2.5 concentrations and emissions of multiple pollutants from multiple spatial regions and economic sectors. In this study, we use the Extended Response Surface Modeling (ERSM) technique to investigate the nonlinear response of PM2.5 and its major chemical components to emissions of multiple pollutants from different regions and sectors over the BTH region, based on over 1000 simulations by a chemical transport model (CTM). The ERSM-predicted PM2.5 concentrations agree well with independent CTM simulations, with correlation coefficients larger than 0.99 and mean normalized errors less than 1 %. Using the ERSM technique, we find that primary inorganic PM2.5 is the single pollutant which makes the largest contribution (24–36 %) to PM2.5 concentrations. The contribution of primary inorganic PM2.5 emissions is especially high in heavily polluted winter, and is dominated by the industry as well as residential and commercial sectors, which should be prioritized in PM2.5 control strategies. The total contributions of all precursors (nitrogen oxides, NOx; sulfur dioxides, SO2; ammonia, NH3; non-methane volatile organic compounds, NMVOC; intermediate-volatility organic compounds, IVOC; primary organic aerosol, POA) to PM2.5 concentrations range between 31 % and 48 %. Among these precursors, PM2.5 concentrations are primarily sensitive to the emissions of NH3, NMVOC + IVOC, and POA. The sensitivities increase substantially for NH3 and NOx, and decrease slightly for POA and NMVOC + IVOC with the increase in the emission reduction ratio, which illustrates the nonlinear relationships between precursor emissions and PM2.5 concentrations. The contributions of primary inorganic PM2.5 emissions to PM2.5 concentrations are dominated by local emission sources, which account for over 75 % of the total primary inorganic PM2.5 contributions. For precursors, however, emissions from other regions could play similar roles as local emission sources in the summer and over the northern part of BTH. The source contribution features for various types of heavy-pollution episodes are distinctly different from each other, and from the monthly mean results, illustrating the need of discrepant temporary control strategies for different pollution types.
The Geometric Calibration and Validation for The ZY3-02 Satellite Optical Image
Authors: Tang X. , Zhu X.
Published: May 2017

Abstract. Chinese ZY3-02 satellite, which is the second of ZY3 series satellites, was launched in May 30th 2016 for complementing the mapping and earth observation. In order to eliminate various system errors of the platform and payload, the on-orbit geometric validation and calibration was carried out. Firstly, we introduced the parameters of the three-line stereo camera and multispectral camera bound on ZY3-02 in this paper. There are four optical cameras on ZY3-02: a 4-band nadir-looking multi-spectral camera with 5.8 m resolution, a 2.1m resolution nadir-looking panchromatic band camera, as well as 2.5m resolution forward- and backward-looking panchromatic band cameras. Compared with ZY3-01, the resolution of the forward- and backward-looking cameras on ZY3-02 were upgraded from 3.5 m to 2.5 m. Then we presented the methods and datasets used for calibration in details. After our calibration, the total positioning accuracy of the three-line camera images is better than 10m without ground control points (GCPs). The plane and height accuracy are improved to 3 and 2 m respectively, with few control points. The band-to-band registration accuracy of the multispectral camera is better than 0.15 pixels.
Performance of a Low Speed Axial Compressor Rotor Blade Row under Different Inlet Distortions
Authors: Taghavi Zenouz Reza , Eshaghi Sir Mehran , Ababaf Behbahani Mohammad Hosein
Published: May 2017

Abstract. Responses of an axial compressor isolated rotor blade row to various inlet distortions have been investigated utilizing computational fluid dynamic technique. Distortions have been imposed by five screens of different geometries, but with the same blockage ratio. These screens were embedded upstream of the rotor blade row. Flow fields are simulated in detail for compressor design point and near stall conditions. Performance curves for distorted cases are extracted and compared to the undisturbed case. Flow simulations and consequent performance characteristics show that the worst cases belong to non-symmetric blockages, i.e., those of partial circumferential configurations. These cases produce the largest wakes which can disturb the flow, considerably. Superior performances correspond to the inner and outer continuous circumferential distortion screens. Since, they produce no significant disturbances to the main flow in comparison to the non-symmetric screens.
A comparison of the use of X-ray and neutron tomographic core scanning techniques for drilling projects: insights from scanning core recovered during the Alpine Fault Deep Fault Drilling Project
Authors: Williams Jack N. , Bevitt Joseph J. , Toy Virginia G.
Published: May 2017

Abstract. It is now commonplace for non-destructive X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans to be taken of core recovered during a drilling project. However, other forms of tomographic scanning are available, and these may be particularly useful for core that does not possess significant contrasts in density and/or atomic number to which X-rays are sensitive. Here, we compare CT and neutron tomography (NT) scans of 85 mm diameter core recovered during the first phase of the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP-1) through New Zealand's Alpine Fault. For the instruments used in this study, the highest resolution images were collected in the NT scans. This allows clearer imaging of some rock features than in the CT scans. However, we observe that the highly neutron beam attenuating properties of DFDP-1 core diminish the quality of images towards the interior of the core. A comparison is also made of the suitability of these two scanning techniques for a drilling project. We conclude that CT scanning is far more favourable in most circumstances. Nevertheless, it could still be beneficial to take NT scans over limited intervals of suitable core, where varying contrast is desired.
Evaluation of different methods to model near-surface turbulent fluxes for an alpine glacier in the Cariboo Mountains, BC, Canada
Authors: Radić Valentina , Menounos Brian , Shea Joseph , Fitzpatrick Noel , Tessema Mekdes A. , Déry Stephen J.
Published: May 2017

Abstract. As part of surface energy balance models used to simulate glacier melting, choosing parameterizations to adequately estimate turbulent heat fluxes is extremely challenging. This study aims to evaluate a set of bulk methods commonly used to estimate turbulent heat fluxes for a sloped glacier surface. The methods differ in their parameterizations of the bulk exchange coefficient that relates the fluxes to the mean meteorological variables measured 2 m above a glacier surface. The performance of 23 bulk approaches in simulating 30-min sensible and latent heat fluxes is evaluated against the measured fluxes from an open path eddy-covariance (OPEC) method. The evaluation is performed at a point scale of an alpine glacier, using one-level meteorological and OPEC observations from a multi-day periods in the 2010 and 2012 summer season. The analysis of the two independent seasons yielded similar findings, listed as following. The bulk method, with or without the commonly used Monin–Obukhov (M–O) stability functions, overestimates the turbulent heat fluxes over the observational period, mainly due to an overestimation of the momentum flux. In the absence of OPEC-derived M–O stability parameter, no method can successfully predict this parameter, which results in poor performances of the M–O stability corrections and consequently the bulk method. The OPEC-derived 30-min momentum flux is linearly related to the measured wind speed, contrary to the proposed quadratic relation by the commonly used bulk methods. An approach based on a katabatic flow model, which assumes a linear relation between the shear stress and the wind speed, outperforms any other bulk approach that we tested in simulating the momentum flux. In agreement with the katabatic flow model, we show that in a more stable atmosphere the bulk exchange coefficient for momentum is smaller. The sensible heat flux can be more successfully modeled if the bulk exchange coefficients for momentum and heat are allowed to follow different parametrization schemes, rather than assuming equal schemes as is the case in the common bulk methods. Further data from different glaciers are needed to investigate any universality of these findings.
Teaching the Adjunct Experience
Authors: Binford Arthur Leigh
Published: May 2017

The article discusses an upper division capstone class in Sociology focused on the adjunct experience, premised on the idea that students and their families could be important allies in adjunct struggles if they knew more about the conditions and remuneration of this new faculty majority. Students carried out survey research with other students in order to ascertain their knowledge about adjuncts and interviews with adjunct volunteers. The article discusses the class and results.
Introduction: Teaching Critical University Studies
Authors: Samuels Robert
Published: May 2017

This issue of Radical Teacher focuses on why we should teach courses and collaborate with students in research in Critical University Studies (CUS)— a handy label, but please take “university” is a stand-in for many kinds of post-secondary institution.
Narrative Construction of Sexual Violence and Rape Online
Authors: Nagy Victoria
Published: May 2017

The increased active participation of individuals in the creation of sexual violence narratives online, as opposed to the previously passive consumption of news stories offline, could prove problematic in ensuring justice is served. Social media allows for circumvention of the criminal justice system in response to its perceived inadequacies. With the 24-hour news cycle, the ease with which media consumers can interact with the story as it breaks online, and the manner in which social media has been used by laypersons and secondary bystanders to target victims or perpetrators before a case ever makes it to court, raises questions about how narrative construction online possibly influences people’s beliefs and understandings about sexual violence and the effect this may have for the justice system.
On Narrative and Green Cultural Criminology
Authors: Brisman Avi
Published: May 2017

This paper calls for a green cultural criminology that is more attuned to narrative and a narrative criminology that does not limit itself to non-fictional stories of offenders. This paper argues that (1) narratives or stories can reveal how we have instigated or sustained harmful action with respect to the environment and can portray a world suffering from the failure to effect desistance from harmful action; and (2) narratives or stories can, may and possess the potential to shape future action (or can stimulate thought regarding future action) with respect to the natural world, its ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole. A wide range of fictional stories is offered as examples and illustrations, and the benefits of a literary bend to the overall criminological endeavor are considered.
IDENTIDADE CULTURAL E CURRÍCULO ESCOLAR EM UMA COMUNIDADE DE VÁRZEA DA AMAZÔNIA PARAENSE
Authors: Carvalho Domingues Bruno Rodrigo , Da Costa Castilho José Artur , Silva Costa Tayara , Bezerra Barros Flávio
Published: May 2017

Este artigo visa compartilhar com a comunidade acadêmica, experiências vividas durante a execução do projeto “Agrobiodiversidade para comer, ser feliz e ter saúde: práticas educativas e diálogos de saberes entre universidade e comunidades tradicionais da Amazônia Paraense”, vinculado ao Núcleo de Ciências Agrárias e Desenvolvimento Rural da Universidade Federal do Pará. Este, por sua vez, visa relacionar conhecimento científico e conhecimento tradicional, não em uma perspectiva de sobreposição de saberes, mas sugerindo um diálogo e interação entre academia e comunidades tradicionais ao que se refere às práticas culturais como elementos para ressignificação do currículo escolar
A ARTE DE ESCUTAR: NUANCES DE UM CAMPO DE PRÁTICAS E DE CONHECIMENTO
Authors: Suzana de Souza Moura Maria , Giannella Valéria
Published: May 2017

Este artigo traz os resultados de uma pesquisa de pos doc, com o objetivo de explorar os sentidos, potencialidades e práticas da escuta no contexto da gestão participativa. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de caráter exploratório e qualitativa. As referências teóricas para o tema da escuta são incipientes no campo dos estudos organizacionais e da administração. Encontramos estudos na filosofia, comunicação, educação e psicologia; e nos embebemos de pesquisas anteriores sobre metodologias integrativas para a formação e a gestão social. Adotamos uma abordagem transdisciplinar e dialogamos com saberes de povos tradicionais e do budismo; bem como com as experiências de gestores entrevistados. Inicialmente, trazemos um breve estado da arte sobre o tema. Na sequência nos detemos sobre os tipos e a importância da escuta no âmbito da gestão Em seguida discorremos sobre as dimensões da escuta (de si, do outro, do grupo e do contexto), a partir da experiência dos gestores entrevistados, momento em que sinalizamos algumas práticas que podem ser utilizadas no sentido de cultivar esta arte. Por fim, as considerações finais apontam uma síntese preliminar sobre a importância da arte de escutar na atualidade.
“ESTOU A MUDAR, ESTOU SENDO OUTRA PESSOA”: A IDENTIDADE DOS ESTUDANTES GUINEENSES EM SEU PROCESSO EDUCATIVO NA UNILAB EM REDENÇÃO/CE.
Authors: Teixeira Maria Marluce , Maria Araújo Lima Deyseane
Published: May 2017

O presente artigo tem como objetivo investigar as transformações da identidade dos estudantes guineenses em relação ao seu processo educativo na Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB), com base na Psicologia Social Crítica. A UNILAB fica localizada em Redenção à 55 km de Fortaleza-CE. A pesquisa foi de abordagem qualitativa. Os registros foram feitos a partir de entrevista semiestruturada e círculo de cultura. Tendo como fundamentação teórica a Educação Libertadora de Paulo Freire e a Identidade na Psicologia Social Crítica. Participaram da pesquisa cinco estudantes de Guiné-Bissau, dois homens e três mulheres, cujas idades variavam entre 21 a 28 anos. Os guineenses, contaram um pouco da história de vida e expressaram que já estão adquirindo uma nova identidade, através dos estudos recebidos pela UNILAB, das novas perspectivas que, com o passar dos dias, vêm tornando-se presente. A pesquisa foi de grande relevância para a Psicologia Social Crítica por possibilitar uma compreensão da identidade na relação entre sujeito e sociedade.
Scaling down planning in Doha towards the neighborhood and its public realm
Authors: Qaddumi Dena , Ahmadi Ameena
Published: May 2017

The state of Qatar and its capital Doha are undeniably in a state of profound change. In this current phase of rapid development, neighborhoods, and especially their public realms, have often been neglected due to the prioritization of creating notable architectural objects that support national development plans. Without conscious and sensitive attention toward developing these spaces, it is difficult to encourage communal relations and practices at the point of residence.

Built environment practitioners face unique challenges when planning Doha. Qatar's population has dramatically increased in both numbers and diversity, resulting in resident communities that hold different expectations of and needs from the city. Moreover, traditional living is not commonly associated with urban communities; a lingering question remains regarding how the built environment can preserve tradition and identity.

Planning approaches in Doha have oscillated between rational comprehensive planning and entrepreneurial and management planning and, as a result, have overlooked the micro-scale of the neighborhood. Recent developments in policy approaches to urban planning, including the Qatar National Vision 2030 and the Qatar National Master Plan, include potentials and constraints to address the public realm in neighborhoods. Building on these policy foundations, that focus on the scale of the neighborhood and support local mechanisms for community participation, two entry tactics are developed as actions to be taken by governmental authorities: establish an urban forum at the neighborhood scale and launch a public awareness campaign.
The Effect of the Electoral System on Political Representation in Iraq Post 2003
Authors: Hammadi Mohammed Abed , Saleh Magda Ali
Published: May 2017

The study discusses the influence of the electoral system on the political representation of the social compositions of the Iraqi people, and the nature of their political participation in the ongoing political process in Iraq, by means of structuring entities and parties on basis of subsidiary identities, aside from the national identity. The study is divided into two research objectives. The first research objective is examining the nature of the political representation of the social compositions after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, through exploring the religious and nationalistic diversities of the social compositions of the Iraqi society, in addition to discussing the political blocs and parties in the Iraqi system post 2003. The study realizes that these parties and political blocs depend on the sectarian and doctrinal dimension as well as the nationalistic ideology shedding its shadow on the entire political process. In turn, the political process employs quota systems as an approach towards its formation, which also brings about weak leadership and personnel loaded with personal gain against loyalty and citizenship. The second research objective is discussing the development of the electoral system and its effect on the representation of social compositions within the political process, through tracing three legislative elections taking place after 2003. The study reached several points of results, the most important of which is the influence of the electoral system on the political process and its effect on the nature of political representation of social compositions, since this system produces a majority out of a single composition at the expense of other social compositions in the Iraqi society. As a result, it gave rise to a house of representatives unable to fulfill its legislative and inspective functions, and that operates as a field for settling preset agendas and expressing authoritative judgments.
The Nature of Mother’s Employment on Nurturing Campus Persistence among Undergraduate Students
Authors: N.S. Vijayalakshmi , Sequeira A. H.
Published: May 2017

Objective: The study aims to empirically test the relationship between types of campus adaptations across students’ mothers’ level of nature of occupation among engineering undergraduate B. Tech students pursuing a four-year study at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT’s) and National Institutes of Technology (NIT’s) in India.Method: The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (Manova) test was run with SPSS vs. 21 to compare the student’s campus adaptations of IIT’s and NIT’s by students’ mothers’ level of occupation. Multistage random sampling with n = 1420 students were selected comprising of employed at government (n = 172), employed at private (n =141), own a business (n = 71) employed as unskilled labourer (n = 10), farmer (n = 10), retired from government service or pensioner (n = 06), not alive (n = 03), unemployed (n = 107).Result: In the academic adaptation, students’ mothers’ who were employed by the government, owned a business, employed as unskilled labourer and pursued farming had positive outcome while students’ whose mothers’ were employed at private, retired from government service, not alive and unemployed had negative outcomes. In social adaptation students’ whose mothers’ were employed by the government, owned a business, retired from government service and unemployed had positive outcomes while students’ whose mothers’ were employed at private, employed as an unskilled labourer, pursued farming and not alive had negative outcomes. In physical - psychological adaptation, students’ mothers’ who owned a business, not alive and unemployed had positive outcomes while student’s mothers’ employed at the government, employed at private, employed as an unskilled labourer, pursued farming and retired from government service had negative outcomes. In the institutional adaptation, students’ mothers’ employed at the government, employed at private own a business, employed as an unskilled labourer, retired from government service and not alive had positive outcomes and students whose mothers’ were farmers and unemployed had negative outcomes.Conclusion: Campus adaptations do vary across student’s mother’s level of occupation influencing student’s experiences at IIT’s and NIT’s.
The Negotiation of Interactive Frames and Discourse Identities in China’s Rural Insurance Sales Interactions
Authors: Wang Weichao , Peng Huan
Published: May 2017

This paper analyzes dialogues between insurance sales agents and their clients in transformational rural China from the perspective of interactive frames, footings and discourse identities. Through the analysis of three types of talk, namely, friendship talk, institutional talk and task-oriented talk, the ambiguous and conflicting identities that both agents and clients adopt in the conversations are captured and described. It then describes and analyzes the dynamics of the mobilization and strategic management of relative identities that both parties assume and employ in order to resolve conflicts, justify oneself and resume control. The analysis further probes into the transforming nature of the modern Chinese rural society, where old and traditional value systems have, to a large extent, been shattered, while new value systems are yet to be established.
Deep-Subsea OTEC
Authors: Fachina Vicente
Published: May 2017

A deep-subsea OTEC concept is simulated, and a threefold increase in exergy efficiency can be achieved as to the topside one. On the environmental aspect, a deep-subsea OTEC concept can bring about negative CO2 emissions, which poses a positive environmental risk. On the economics, with appropriate public funding, a 100 MW deep-subsea OTEC asset would cost about USD2010 600 million. On the life-cost of energy, values between 40-60 USD2010/MWh are predicted.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Mechanical Engineering Research, Vol. 7, No. 1
Authors: Green Lily
Published: May 2017

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Mechanical Engineering Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2017
Red Sea Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) including new and re-described species
Authors: White Kristine N. , Krapp-Schickel Traudl
Published: May 2017

Examination of leucothoid amphipods of the Red Sea has revealed seven species not previously reported from this location. Leucothoe minoculis sp. nov., Leucothoe pansa sp. nov., Leucothoe reimeri sp. nov., and Paranamixis sommelieri sp. nov. are described and the range of Leucothoe predenticulata Ledoyer, 1978, L. acutilobata Ledoyer, 1978 and L. squalidens Ledoyer, 1978 is expanded to include the Red Sea. Clarification of reports of L. acanthopus Schellenberg, 1928 and L. bannwarthi (Schellenberg, 1928) is provided and Leucothoe alani sp. nov. is described from outside the Red Sea.
Value-personality link measured with novel instruments developed with an emic perspective
Authors: Tevrüz Suna , Turgut Tülay , Çinko Murat
Published: May 2017

The first aim of this study is to investigate whether instruments developed with an emic approach in Turkey produce the same trait-value links obtained with studies using near universal instruments, and if emic traits and value concepts are composed under agency and communal conceptions. So, the first aim of this study is to inspect the conceptual similarities in the links between traits and values. The second aim is to examine the moderating effect of disposable income on the strength of the trait-value relationship. Undergraduate and graduate students (N = 595) from six universities in Istanbul responded to the Personality Profile Scale (PPS) and the Life Goal Values (LGV) questionnaire. Second order factor analysis indicated that indigenous value and trait items were representative of communal and agency conceptions. Furthermore, most of the value-trait links revealed with regression analysis, and the sinusoid relationships revealed with Pearson correlation coefficients were consistent with the findings measured with near universal instruments. Additionally found relationships between traits and especially conservation values can be interpreted as the instrumentality of agentic traits for personal as well for social focused values. Disposable income had a moderating effect on five trait-value relationships and three out of five were weaker in the low-income group.
A cognitive distortions and deficits model of suicide ideation
Authors: Fazakas-DeHoog Laura L. , Rnic Katerina , Dozois David J. A.
Published: May 2017

Although cognitive distortions and deficits are known risk factors for the development and escalation of suicide ideation and behaviour, no empirical work has examined how these variables interact to predict suicide ideation. The current study proposes an integrative model of cognitive distortions (hopelessness and negative evaluations of self and future) and deficits (problem solving deficits, problem solving avoidance, and cognitive rigidity). To test the integrity of this model, a sample of 397 undergraduate students completed measures of deficits, distortions, and current suicide ideation. A structural equation model demonstrated excellent fit, and findings indicated that only distortions have a direct effect on suicidal thinking, whereas cognitive deficits may exert their effects on suicide ideation via their reciprocal relation with distortions. Findings underscore the importance of both cognitive distortions and deficits for understanding suicidality, which may have implications for preventative efforts and treatment.
Ditadura militar brasileira: aproximações teóricas e historiográficas
Authors: Fico Carlos
Published: May 2017

Como é comum na História do Tempo Presente, há um grande entrelaçamento entre política e pesquisa acadêmica no caso da história da ditadura militar brasileira. Consequentemente, é fundamental que a pesquisa arquivística seja conduzida por formulações teóricas bem assentadas. Este artigo discute o suposto revisionismo da historiografia sobre a ditadura militar brasileira; sustenta que o recrutamento de jovens simpatizantes para a luta armada gerou uma memória traumática; mostra o vício nominalista do debate sobre o caráter civil-militar da ditadura; argumenta que a moldura institucional do estado de exceção ainda estava ativa em 1985 e demonstra que a saída da ditadura foi controlada pelos militares. Palavras-chave: Ditadura Militar. Historiografia. Revisionismo. Memória. Trauma.
O lugar do tempo presente na aula de história: limites e possibilidades
Authors: Silva Daniel Pinha
Published: May 2017

Reconhecendo a importância do tempo presente na conformação da história ensinada e da concepção moderna de história como um todo, o texto delineia a história desta centralidade, associada à tensão entre aproximação inevitável e necessidade de afastamento do enunciado historiográfico em relação à experiência política presente na qual está inserido. Em um segundo movimento, é feita uma análise das perspectivas contemporâneas sobre a questão, levando em conta 1. a ampliação do repertório de sujeitos, objetos e métodos da história, desde a segunda metade do século XX, questionando o paradigma eurocêntrico e a ideia de Civilização que lhe é intrínseca; 2. a ênfase no conceito de cidadania como mola mestra da historiografia escolar, cuja elasticidade é tributária deste novo arsenal de experiências e narrativas históricas; e 3. a cultura histórica da atualidade e sua ênfase presentista, desconfiada da possibilidade de projeção de futuros estáveis, mas com apreço pela memória e pelo passado em circulação social. Em suma, em face deste contexto de elaboração, difusão e usos de narrativas históricas, o artigo problematiza o lugar ocupado pelo tempo presente em aulas de história na escola, em seus limites e potencialidades. Por um lado, o tempo presente é tido como fundamental para conferir condições de inteligibilidade e produção de sentido histórico, adequado aos objetivos pedagógicos da história e seu propósito formador; por outro, apontam-se os limites de uma ênfase exclusivamente centrada no presente, incapaz de permitir a experiência do descentramento no tempo e a compreensão das permanências, da dimensão cumulativa e da longa duração histórica. Palavras-chave: História – Estudo e Ensino. Historiografia. Tempo presente.
Predicting Fed Forecasts
Authors: R. Ericsson Neil
Published: May 2017

Monetary policy decisions by the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee have attracted considerable attention in recent years, especially with quantitative easing through large-scale asset purchases, the introduction of forward guidance, and increases in the federal funds rate. The FOMC's decisions are based in part on the Greenbook forecasts, which are economic forecasts produced by the Federal Reserve Board's staff and which are presented to the FOMC prior to their policy meetings. Drawing on Stekler and Symington's (2016) textual analysis of the minutes of the FOMC meetings, the current paper shows that those minutes provide a proximate mechanism for inferring the Fed staff's Greenbook forecasts of the U.S. real GDP growth rate, years before the Greenbook's public release. The FOMC minutes are thus highly informative about a key input to monetary policymaking.
Correlations between the Market Price of Interest Rate Risk and Bond Yields
Authors: Yasuoka Takashi
Published: May 2017

This paper examines empirical properties of the market price of interest rate risk, focusing on the relation between the price and interest rates. We briefly summarize how the market price of risk is estimated, and introduce the positive slope model to explain our empirical observation. The market price of risk is estimated for the U.S. Treasury market, 1970-2014, using the Hull–White model. We test the correlation between the market price of interest rate risk and bond yields. The results are that the yield change and term spreads are significantly correlated with the market price of risk, but the initial yields are not correlated with that. These results are theoretically interpreted by a mathematical model, and serve as a valuable reference for risk management as well as for study of financial policy.
OF WARS AND WOES A CHRONICLE OF LEBANESE VIOLENCE
Authors: Nisan Mordechai
Published: May 2017

In the subconscious of most Lebanese is the prevalent notion—and the common acceptance of it—that the Maronites are the “head” of the country. ‘Head’ carries here a double meaning: the conscious thinking faculty to animate and guide affairs, and the locus of power at the summit of political office. While this statement might seem outrageous to those unversed in the intricacies of Lebanese history and its recent political transformations, its veracity is confirmed by Lebanon’s spiritual mysteries, the political snarls and brinkmanship that have defined its modern existence, and the pluralistic ethno-religious tapestry that still dominates its demographic makeup.
MARGINAL LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS (ANIMAL CALLS, CHILD-DIRECTED LANGUAGE) AND POLITICAL FOLKLORE IN LEBANON: TWO CASE STUDIES
Authors: Płonka Arkadiusz
Published: May 2017

This paper takes a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of the informal usage of two words common in modern Lebanese political discourse; ħarf at-tanbīh (the warning interjection) “hā,” used in Arabic inter alia in calls to animals, and the hypocoristic forename “Roro,” borrowed from the French. The paper also demonstrates how these lexical characteristics of the Lebanese dialect reveal similarities to what Ferguson termed marginal systems within languages. The paper is supplemented by graphical representations and other extra-linguistic data.
THE LEVANT: ZONE OF CULTURE OR CONFLICT?
Authors: El-Youssef Samir
Published: May 2017

Palestinian novelist Samir El-Youssef writes that the question in the title of this essay, “is the Levant a zone of conflict or culture?” is an ironic one indeed. Anyone with a token knowledge of the Levant, argues El-Youssef, knows that these lands are of both conflict and culture; the problem dwells in the fact that the people of the Levant need to be reminded that theirs is a land of great culture that deserves recognition and valorization as such. The author was born and brought up in Rashidiyyé—a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. Rashidiyyé, writes El-Youssef, was and still is as bad as a refugee camp could get. Yet, a mere fifteen minutes walk from the camp stood the ancient Phoenician port-city of Tyr; a harbour town housing the awesome vestiges of one of the greatest, most pacifist, most benevolent builders of civilization.  El-Youssef concludes that "the refugee camp (in its indigence,) and the ancient city (in all its glory,) standing side by side, are a stark example of the Levant being both a land of conflict and culture."
ARAB DI-­NATIONALISM
Authors: Mabry Tristan
Published: May 2017

This paper presents a new conception of "Arab nationalism", which conventionally means pan-Arab nationalism and defines an Arab as an "Arabic speaker". Yet the term "Arabic" is elusive, as is the generic "Arabic speaker"...
FATHI YAKAN THE PIONEER OF ISLAMIC ACTIVISM IN LEBANON
Authors: Rabil Robert G.
Published: May 2017

This article explores the ideology of Fathi Yakan, the pioneer of Sunni Islamism in Lebanon and a principal founder of the Islamist party al-­‐Jama'a al-­‐Islamiya.  It also traces the establishment of  al_Jama'a as the first organized Islamist party in Lebanon.  As Secretary General of al-­‐Jama'a, Fathi Yakan blazed the ideological trail for Islamism's participation in Lebanon's political realm.  Significantly, Yakan's political activism, in much the same vein as that of Druze "Socialist" Kamal Jumblat, was also more about removing Maronite hegemony over the state.
JEWISH-­ARAB RELATIONS THROUGH THE LENSE OF ISRAELI CINEMA; THEN AND NOW
Authors: Shepkaru Shmuel
Published: May 2017

Israeli cinema has presented different aspects of the relationship between Israeli Jews and Arabs.  These aspects encompass topics such as personal friendships and conflicts, homosexual and heterosexual affairs, gender issues, politics and wars, and questions of identity.  This article focuses on the presentations of the relationships between Jews and Arabs and their desire for normalization and peace.
JIHAD AND JUST WAR
Authors: Spoerl Joseph
Published: May 2017

This paper attempts to demonstrate that the differences between the Western and Islamic traditions on the ethics of warfare run far deeper than what traditional scholarship suggests. The present study focuses on three main areas: the sources of our knowledge of morality, the objectives of warfare, and the principle of non-­combatant immunity. We shall see that these three topics are inter-­connected, and also that understanding the classical Islamic law of war is essential to understanding the ideology and allure of contemporary Islamism.
NAJI ATTALLAH’S CREW: STEREOTYPES OF JEWS, ARABS, AND AMERICANS IN EGYPT’S MOST-­‐WATCHED RAMADAN 2012 SOAP OPERA
Authors: Martin Amaya
Published: May 2017

In addition to its strict fasting regiments, observed by practicing Muslims, the month of Ramadan has become known for its high viewership of serialized television programs throughout the Arabic-speaking world.  During Ramadan - a month during which millions partake of festive fast breaking (Iftaar) gatherings after sundown - competition among television stations pull all the stops to attract the largest audiences possible, often by offering compelling seasonal soap operas featuring major local and pan-Arab actors.
HEBREW AND ARAMAIC ELEMENTS IN THE ISRAELI VERNACULAR CHRISTIAN-­‐ARABIC AND IN THE WRITTEN CHRISTIAN ARABIC OF PALESTINE, SYRIA, AND LEBANON
Authors: Bassal Ibrahim
Published: May 2017

This essay examines the Hebrew and Aramaic residues in the Arabic vernacular spoken by Israeli Christians and the written Arabic of Christians in the Holy Land, Syria, and Lebanon.  The corpus of the spoken Christian-Arabic under consideration here is based on cassette recordings of elderlies who live in Christian villages in northern Israel - namely in Fassuta, Me’ilya, Tarshiha, Bqe’a, Jiish, Kufir Yasif, Ekreth, Bir’im, Ibilleen and Shfa’amir.The corpus of the written Christian-Arabic being reviewed is based mainly on folk tales, poems, proverbs, dictionaries, Bible translations, books of interpretations, and liturgical sources.
Sectarian Identities, Narratives and Political Conflict in Baghdad
Authors: Al­‐Qarawee Harith Hasan
Published: May 2017

This article addresses some of the effects of political transformations and conflicts on the identity of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. It illustrates the gradual “Islamization” of space by Saddam Hussein’s regime, which reflected a sectarian bias as it denied Shi’a religious identity the level of visibility given to Sunni religious identity. After the fall of the regime, there was an upsurge in Shi’a symbolism and rituals in Baghdad, which further de-­secularized and sectarianized the public space. The article also addresses some of the cultural consequences for the sectarian segregation in Baghdad, especially by looking into the mosques and worship places, their sectarian distribution and the contesting claims regarding some of them. The rise of sub-­national cultures and the competition between Shi’as and Sunnis have further fragmented Baghdad’s identity and downgraded the cross-sectarian representations. This has been mirrored in the conflict of narratives about the city which is discussed in the last part of this article.
Finite-rank Bratteli-Vershik diagrams are expansive—a new proof
Authors: Høynes Siri-Malén
Published: May 2017

Downarowicz and Maass (Ergod. Th. and Dynam. Sys. 28 (2008), 739–747) proved that the Cantor minimal system associated to a properly ordered Bratteli diagram of finite rank is either an odometer system or an expansive system. We give a new proof of this truly remarkable result which we think is more transparent and easier to understand. We also address the question (Question 1) raised by Downarowicz and Maass and we find a better (i.e. lower) bound. In fact, we conjecture that the bound we have found is optimal.
The irreducibility of power compositional sextic polynomials and their Galois groups
Authors: Harrington Joshua , Jones Lenny
Published: May 2017

We define a power compositional sextic polynomial to be a monic sextic polynomial $f(x):=h(x^d)\in \mathbb{Z} [x]$, where $h(x)$ is an irreducible quadratic or cubic polynomial, and $d=3$ or $d=2$, respectively. In this article, we use a theorem of Capelli to give necessary and sufficient conditions for the reducibility of $f(x)$, and also a description of the factorization of $f(x)$ into irreducibles when $f(x)$ is reducible. In certain situations, when $f(x)$ is irreducible, we also give a simple algorithm to determine the Galois group of $f(x)$ without the calculation of resolvents. The algorithm requires only the use of the Rational Root Test and the calculation of a single discriminant. In addition, in each of these situations, we give infinite families of polynomials having the possible Galois groups.
Los trabajadores autónomos dependientes en Europa
Authors: Navajas-Romero Virginia , López-Martín Mª del Carmen , Ariza-Montes J. Antonio
Published: May 2017

En los últimos años se han producido cambios rápidos y profundos en la organización del trabajo y el contenido del trabajo, lo que ha contribuido a la aparición de los trabajadores autónomos dependientes, que realizan una nueva forma de trabajo que se encuentra dentro de una "zona gris" entre el trabajo por cuenta ajena y el autoempleo. El concepto de trabajadores autónomos dependientes también se ha utilizado para referirse a diferentes situaciones y, aunque la terminología empleada varía, se trata de una realidad conocida en toda Europa aunque existe poca evidencia empírica sobre sus características. En este trabajo se estudian las principales características de los trabajadores dependientes por cuenta propia comparando su perfil con los empleados por cuenta ajena y los trabajadores por cuenta propia “tradicionales”. Además, se analizan las condiciones de trabajo de los tres grupos para mostrar las diferencias entre ellos. Los datos utilizados se han obtenido a partir de la V Encuesta Europea de Condiciones de Trabajo. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que existe un tronco común en cuanto a los factores que discriminan a los autónomos de los asalariados, pero que existen algunos matices que diferencian y definen a cada grupo de autónomos con respecto a los empleados por cuenta ajena.