bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Determinants and Impact of Executive-Firm Matches
Authors: Pan Yihui
Published: December 2015

I estimate a model of executive-firm matching, in which both components of the executive labor market outcome—the assignment of managers to firms and the cross-sectional distribution of executive pay—are endogenously determined. Results in this paper reveal the importance of match specificity in productivity, driven by complementarities between firm and manager attributes. Therefore, one reason that larger, more diversified, research-intensive firms pay their executives more is because they are assortatively matched with managers that are talented, have more cross-industry experience, and are prone to innovation. More important, they outbid competing firms for these managers because they enjoy higher marginal productivity from given managerial skills. Announcement abnormal returns and executive tenure duration are both higher for matches with higher estimated productivity, suggesting mutual benefits for both the firms and the managers from assortative matching.

This paper was accepted by Amit Seru, finance.
Exploration of health promotion: an older person's perspective
Authors: Rigney Fiona
Published: December 2015

Health is an abstract and subjective topic, meaning different things to different people. In this article Fiona Rigney describe the findings of an Irish research study into health promotion and its influence on the quality of life of older people
Female sexuality as cultural blockage in Ingmar Bergman’s 1960s Spanish reception
Authors: Garnemark Rosario
Published: December 2015

Spanish film censors from the 1960s praised Ingmar Bergman for his religious films. However, they were not able to overlook his depictions of female sexuality, which were considered unacceptable and submitted to what Stephen Greenblatt terms ‘cultural blockage’. This short piece presents two examples of how Bergman’s filmography was manipulated accordingly.
Hardcore education: The case of Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Authors: Schaefer Eric
Published: December 2015

This article addresses John Lamb’s Sexual Freedom in Denmark (Von Hellen, 1970), an American film that explored the liberalization of censorship in Denmark in the late 1960s while advocating for similar changes in the United States. Lamb used explicit sexual imagery with educational material to promote enlightened attitudes. The film was a box office success and became a popular tool with teachers while paving the way for hardcore movies on American screens.
Image-Based 3D Modeling as a Documentation Method for Zooarchaeological Remains in Waste-Related Contexts
Authors: Macheridis Stella
Published: December 2015

During the last twenty years archaeology has experienced a technological revolution that spans scientific achievements and day-to-day practices. The tools and methods from this digital change have also strongly impacted archaeology. Image-based 3D modeling is becoming more common when documenting archaeological features but is still not implemented as standard in field excavation projects. When it comes to integrating zooarchaeological perspectives in the interpretational process in the field, this type of documentation is a powerful tool, especially regarding visualization related to reconstruction and resolution. Also, with the implementation of image-based 3D modeling, the use of digital documentation in the field has been proven to be time- and cost effective (e.g., De Reu et al. 2014; De Reu et al. 2013; Dellepiane et al. 2013; Verhoeven et al. 2012). Few studies have been published on the digital documentation of faunal remains in archaeological contexts. As a case study, the excavation of the infill of a clay bin from building 102 in the Neolithic settlement of Ҫatalhöyük is presented. Alongside traditional documentation, infill was photographed in sequence at each second centimeter of soil removal. The photographs were processed with Agisoft Photoscan. Seven models were made, enabling reconstruction of the excavation of this context. This technique can be a powerful documentation tool, including recording notes of zooarchaeological significance, such as markers of taphonomic processes. An important methodological advantage in this regard is the potential to measure bones in situ in for analysis after excavation.
Conflicting Interpretations in the Biography of a Modern Artist of African Descent
Authors: Ottenberg Simon
Published: December 2015

The author explores the uncertain history of the modern artist Suzanna Ogunjami Wilson, whose birth and death details are uncertain. She acquired a bachelor’s and a master’s in art education in 1928 and 1929, respectively, from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and from 1928 to 1934 she exhibited in the eastern United States, often with African Americans. If born in Nigeria of Igbo parentage, as all published accounts to the present attest, she would be the first African to exhibit modern art in the United States. If born in Jamaica, as U.S. Census records suggest, she would be the first Jamaican to do so. No actual birth records are available from either country. The author follows her marriage to a Sierra Leone Krio in New York City and their movement to that country, where she was the first person of African descent to exhibit modern art, and where she founded two children’s art schools. Regardless of her birthplace, her remarkable record is important to African and African-American art historians and other scholars.
Of Kola Nuts, Taboos, Leadership, Women’s Rights, and Freedom: New Challenges from Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Authors: Amadiume Ifi
Published: December 2015

Focusing on traditional ritual items and objects of power with a practice of gender exclusion, marginalization, and oppression of categories of women in Igbo societies, this article argues that such practices are rights issues and consequently a challenge to contemporary women. This insight derives from Chinua Achebe’s 2012 autobiography in which he seems to suggest that there are matters still outstanding in the fight for women’s liberation. Given imperialist circumstances in the social history of Igbo encounters with a hegemonic colonialism and Christian mission impositions, I argue a need for the use of internal logic to examine traditional practices of gender and to argue from within. In the face of what I refer to as empty spaces, or knowledge gaps, interdisciplinarity becomes a useful analytical tool, while oral traditions and the richness of an indigenous library of knowledge systems in sayings and proverbs can provide an invaluable comparative resource. Invariably, in spite of internal contradictions in Igbo traditional practices of gender empowerment and sociocultural pragmatism, achievements in women’s rights and freedom are not attributable to the postcolonial or simply the “modern,” as there remain deep and continuous traditional histories at play in these encounters.
Measuring multiple neuromuscular activation using EMG – a generalizability analysis
Authors: Pourmoghaddam Amir , Dettmer Marius , O’Connor Daniel P. , Paloski William H. , Layne Charles S.
Published: December 2015

Analysis of electromyography (EMG) data has been shown to be valuable in biomedical and clinical research. However, most analysis tools do not consider the non-linearity of EMG data or the synergistic effects of multiple neuromuscular activities. The SYNERGOS algorithm was developed to assess a single index based on non-linear analysis of multiple neuromuscular activation (MNA) of different muscles. This index has shown promising results in Parkinsonian gait, but it was yet to be explored whether the SYNERGOS index is generalizable. In this study, we evaluated generalizability of the SYNERGOS index over the course of several trials and over separate days with different walking speeds. Ten healthy adults aged from 18 to 40 years walked on a treadmill on two different days, while EMG data was collected from the upper and lower right leg. SYNERGOS indices were obtained and a generalizability analysis was conducted. The algorithm detected changes in MNA in response to altering gait speed and depicted a high generalizability coefficient (
Monsoonal Droughts In India – A Recent Assessment
Authors: Tyalagadi Manjunatha S. , Gadgil Alaka , Krishnakumar Gaddam
Published: December 2015

Drought frequencies during the years 1901–2010 were investigated over three spatial units – All India, 5 Homogeneous Regions (HR) and 36 Meteorological subdivisions (MSs). The All-India rainfall trend is in fact indicative of no trend, while the Northeast HR (NER) shows a significant decrease. Furthermore, a significant decrease in rainfallis to be observed over Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and the Southern Peninsular region, and a significant increase over West Bengal, Punjab, Haryana, Coastal Karnataka, North Interior Karnataka and Rayalaseema.

There have been 21 All-India drought years during the last century, of which 13 were linked to El Niño. When compared with HRs, the WCR is highly prone to El Niño while the NER is not affected by this global tele-connection. Western Uttar Pradesh, Eastern Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Vidharbha and Telangana shared 11–10 drought occasions with El Niño.

Maximum frequencies of droughts (21) were reported for East Madhya Pradesh within the WCR and Orissa within the Central Northeast Region (CNER), while Andaman, Nicobar and Rayalaseema experienced minimum drought episodes (12) over the last century.

Sixty percent of the MSs in the West Central Region (WCR) and the Northwest Region (NWR) were coherent with All-India droughts. During the years 1918, 1972 and 2002, the majority of HRs (except NER) witnessed normal or below-normal rainfall. Western Madhya Pradesh within the WCR saw maximum drought events (13). The highest degree of simultaneous occurrence of drought years between the MSs and all-India concern Eastern Rajasthan, Western Madhya Pradesh, East and West Uttar Pradesh. The study also found that the MSs in HRs highly affected are East Rajasthan (NWR), West Madhya Pradesh (WCR), West and East Uttar Pradesh (CNER), NER and Coastal Karnataka (Peninsular Region). Western Uttar Pradesh, Eastern Rajasthan, Vidarbha and Telangana had 10–11 occasions when El Niño and Drought years occurred.
Optimization, Validation and Application of UV-Vis Spectrophotometric-Colorimetric Methods for Determination of Trimethoprim in Different Medicinal Products
Authors: Stojković Goran , Dimitrieska-Stojković Elizabeta , Soklevska Marija , Velev Romel
Published: December 2015

Two simple, sensitive, selective, precise, and accurate methods for determination of trimethoprim in different sulfonamide formulations intended for use in human and veterinary medicine were optimized and validated. The methods are based on the trimethoprim reaction with bromcresol green (BCG) and 2,4-dinitro-1-fluorobenzene (DNFB). As extraction solvents we used 10 % N,N-dimethylacetamide in methanol and acetone for both methods, respectively. The colored products are quantified applying visible spectrophotometry at their corresponding absorption maxima. The methods were validated for linearity, sensitivity, accuracy, and precision. We tested the method applicability on four different medicinal products in tablet and powder forms containing sulfametrole and sulfamethoxazole in combination with trimethoprim. The results revealed that both methods are equally accurate with recoveries within the range 95-105 %. The obtained between-day precision for both methods, when applied on four different medicinal products, was within in the range 1.08-3.20 %. By applying the F-statistical test (P<0.05), it was concluded that for three medicinal products tested both methods are applicable with statistically insignificant difference in precision. The optimized and validated BCG and DNFB methods could find application in routine quality control of trimethoprim in various formulation forms, at different concentration levels, and in combination with different sulfonamides.
An Etymological Proposition: Old Germanic Gōd-Spōd ‘Good Fortune’ As Source Of Old Church Slavonic Gospodь ‘Lord, Master’
Authors: Poruciuc Adrian , Poruciuc Norbert
Published: December 2015

A thorough checking of the data provided by three etymological dictionaries, namely Georgiev et al. 1971 (s.v. gospod), Vasmer 1986 (s.v. gospod’) and Derksen 2008 (s.v. *gospodь), would be enough to raise serious doubts about the application of the label “inherited” to *gospodь and its large Slavic family. Vasmer (1986, s.v. Russian gospod’ ‘the Lord, God’), states that the putative origin of the Russian word under discussion is a Proto-Slavic compound *gostьpodь; but it is also Vasmer who mentions that some outstanding linguists (including Antoine Meillet) objected to the mainstream etymological interpretation of gospod’. More recently, Derksen has stated that there is “no convincing explanation” for at least one element of the Proto-Slavic reconstruction *gospodь. By starting from such doubts and uncertainties, the authors of the present article will propound an etymology according to which *gospodъ and its derivatives – to be found in Slavic languages as well as in Romanian – actually reflect a very early borrowing of the Old Germanic compound which is still visible in English godspeed.
Suceava On Camera: The County Council And Local Self-Identification In 21st Century Romania
Authors: Colăcel Onoriu
Published: December 2015

In post-communist Romania, regional self-identification has undergone significant change. Particularly, a paradigm shift occurred in relation to 20th century Romanian historiography (I have in mind the national communist as well as inter-war historic narratives). The literature and the promotional films of Suceava County Council (i.e., the local government branch) are a case in point. They are designed to advertise tourism products in travel marts and various media outlets. Next to the story of a multi-faith/ethnic community, particular images and symbols are employed in order to craft the public identity of the county. A regional iconography gradually emerges on screen as more video content about Suceava is being produced. Capturing the essence of Romanian Bucovina on camera is a challenge steeped both in the history of the Habsburg Duchy and in that of the Moldavian principality (whose northernmost part was incorporated into the Habsburg Empire in 1775). Next comes the attempt to ‘touristify’ natural sites of environmental interest. History and nature are narrative tropes that amount to a coherent story delivered to natives and visitors alike. Despite the industrial scarring of the landscape well known to the natives, areas of woodland and countryside are on display. City life is largely ignored for the sake of a multicultural history of Bukovina mainly located in a rural setting. Screening Suceava has everything to do with identity-building. The rhetoric of regional self-designation seems to rank high on the local political agenda. The cosmopolitan Austro-Hungarian Bukovinian identity is obviously at odds with the ethno-national legacy celebrated in the so-called ‘Northern monasteries’ of Moldavia or in the Suceava fortress of Stephen the Great (who was built into an icon of Romanian historiography). The recreational opportunities of Suceava County are marketed to tourist boards, hotel chains, etc. as the retention of a Mitteleuropean distinctiveness. Explicitly, it is ‘something’ that has stayed with the indigenous population ever since the Austrian state set out to instruct the natives in the arts of life. There is a video side effect to the story. The mountainous countryside of Suceava is sold to the public as being peopled by men and women in national dress, a community dramatically different from all other surrounding areas of 21st century Romania.
Canon, Classics, Tradition: Demarcation Of The Terms
Authors: Gavryliuk Nadiya
Published: December 2015

The canon is a concept with a long history. The religious canon was eventually re-established on secular grounds, where it was comprehended in the categories of official literary (general) and personal (individual) canons, educational canon (reading lists) being correlated to the concept of tradition (canon as selective tradition) and the classics (canon as synchronicity, the classics as diachronicity). These aspects have different features in each national literature, particularly in Ukrainian literature. The necessity of standards and hierarchical classifications remains important after postmodernism, when new concepts, such as corps, collection, postcanon, succeed or keep up with the concept of the canon.
The structural studies of aluminosilicate gels and thin films synthesized by the sol-gel method using different Al2O3 and SiO2 precursors
Authors: Adamczyk Anna
Published: December 2015

Aluminosilicate materials were obtained by sol-gel method, using different Al2O3 and SiO2 precursors in order to prepare sols based on water and organic solvents. As SiO2 precursors, Aerosil 200TM and tetraethoxysilane TEOS: Si(OC2H5)4 were applied, while DisperalTM and aluminium secondary butoxide ATSB: Al(OC4H9)3 were used for Al2O3 ones. Bulk samples were obtained by heating gels at 500 °C, 850 °C and at 1150 °C in air, while thin films were synthesized on carbon, steel and alundum (representing porous ceramics) substrates by the dip coating method. Thin films were annealed in air (steel and alundum) and in argon (carbon) at different temperatures, depending on the substrate type. The samples were synthesized as gels and coatings of the composition corresponding the that of 3Al2O3·2SiO2 mullite because of the specific valuable properties of this material. The structure of the annealed bulk samples and coatings was studied by FT-IR spectroscopy and XRD method (in standard and GID configurations). Additionally, the electron microscopy (SEM) together with EDS microanalysis were applied to describe the morphology and the chemical composition of thin films. The analysis of FT-IR spectra and X-ray diffraction patterns of bulk samples revealed the presence of γ-Al2O3 and δ-Al2O3 phases, together with the small amount of SiO2 in the particulate samples. This observation was confirmed by the bands due to vibrations of Al–O bonds occurring in γ-Al2O3 and δ-Al2O3 structures, in the range of 400 to 900 cm−1. The same phases (γ-Al2O3 and δ-Al2O) were observed in the deposited coatings, but the presence of particulate ones strongly depended on the type of Al2O3 and SiO2 precursor and on the heat treatment temperature. All thin films contained considerable amounts of amorphous phase.
A DFT study of the effects of Sc doping on electronic and optical properties of CdS nanoparticles
Authors: Ur Rehman Shafiq , Majid Abdul , Hassan Najmal , Shakoor Abdul , Murtaza G. , Khan Salah-Din
Published: December 2015

In the present work a systematic study was carried out to understand the influence of Sc doping on electronic and optical properties of CdS nanoparticles. The geometry optimization and symmetry computation for CdS and Sc doped CdS nanoparticles using Density Functional Theory (DFT) on B3LYP level with the QZ4P for Cd and DZ2P for sulphur and Sc were performed by Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF). The results show that HOMO-LUMO gap as well as electronic and optical properties of CdS clusters vary with Sc doping. The HOMO-LUMO gap is affected by the dopant and its value decreases to 0.6 eV. Through considering the numerical integration scheme in the ADF package, we investigated different vibrational modes and our calculated Raman and IR spectra are consistent with the reported result. The calculated IR and Raman peaks of CdS and Sc doped CdS clusters were in the range of 100 to 289 cm−1, 60 cm−1 to 350 cm−1 and 99 cm−1 to 282 cm−1, 60 cm−1 to 350 cm−1, respectively, which was also confirmed by experiment as well as a blue shift occurrence. Subsequently, for deeper research of pure and doped CdS clusters, their absorption spectra were calculated using time-dependent DFT method.
Pinball-Like Free-Floating Left Atrial Ball Thrombus Presenting with Hemiplegia: A Challenging Treatment Decision
Authors: Demir Tolga , Ergenoglu Mehmet Umit , Tanrikulu Nursen , Cizgici Ahmet Yasar , Yildirim Kemal Ilker , Demirsoy Ergun
Published: December 2015

We describe a case of a patient with a history of chronic atrial fibrillation who presented with sudden onset of left hemiplegia. Nine months earlier the longstanding warfarin therapy had been suspended due to a hemorrhagic stroke. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large free-floating highly mobile mass in the left atrium and severe mitral valve regurgitation. Due to the potential risk of an embolic event or a hemodynamic collapse, a decision to carry out an emergency operation was made irrespective of the neurological condition of the patient. Unfortunately, the patient died on the 18th postoperative day after a freshly occurring hemorrhagic stroke.
Artes y humanidades en la época de la globalización. Una mirada desde J. J. Brunner
Authors: Barreto Édgar Arturo Ramírez
Published: December 2015

El propósito del presente texto es el de examinar el sentido de la enseñanza de las artes y humanidades dentro de una de las actuales proyecciones de la educación universitaria en Latinoamérica. Me refiero a la propuesta educativa de José Joaquín Brunner que, en principio, se podría sintetizar como hecha para responder a los nuevos retos sociales que exige la globalización en nuestro hemisferio.
De la analítica al (neo) pragmatismo. El giro de la filosofía anglosajona
Authors: Santamaría Freddy
Published: December 2015

En el presente texto se encuentra, en un primer momento, un breve recorrido por los albores de la filosofía analítica liderados por Frege y Russell, y los dos momentos de la filosofía de Wittgenstein, para luego recalar la idea del fin y disolución de los problemas filosóficos. Luego, en un segundo momento, se hará una revisión a la filosofía analítica y “sus sucesivas transformaciones”; teniendo siempre presente la figura de Wittgenstein, hasta las más recientes versiones pragmatistas. Para finalizarse exponen los posibles encuentros y cambios, con los debidos matices, desde la filosofía del llamado segundo Wittgenstein con algunas tesis pragmatistas, y la ulterior transformación neopragmática, especialmente en la obra de Rorty y Shusterman.
The Ideas as Copies of our Impressions or Metaphors of the Reality: Dialogue Among David Hume, Locke and Nietzsche
Authors: Muñoz Edwin Adolfo Garavito
Published: December 2015

This article is about David Hume’s ideas regarding conception in a dialogue with Locke’s notion of language, in order to make a contrast with Nietzsche’s proposal about language in “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”. This is a risky way to focus a reflection, but hopefully it is going to find some additional ideas about the language world and the real world.
Los puertos seguros para los intermediarios de internet
Authors: Izquierdo Andrés
Published: December 2015

La observancia del derecho de autor es una prioridad en la agenda internacional, pues existe una búsqueda que pretende sustituir las actuales limitaciones de las leyes vigentes a fin de responder a los desafíos de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC). El presente artículo realiza un acercamiento comparado a la legislación concebida para la protección y observancia del derecho de autor en internet de países como Estados Unidos y de la Unión Europea, en relación con la responsabilidad de los intermediarios de internet frente a los contenidos infractores que puedan transitar o alojar en sus sistemas. Se hará un especial énfasis en la legislación actual relativa a los puertos seguros –safe harbours–, en la jurisprudencia que ha tratado de modelar este comportamiento y en los nuevos estatutos que se han generado como respuesta a una búsqueda de mayor protección y observancia del derecho de autor en internet.
Editorial
Authors: Rodríguez Juan Sebastián Ballén
Published: December 2015

¿Se puede creer en la humanidad hoy? Es una pregunta planteada por Carlos Eduardo Maldonado a propósito del tema del Congreso de Humanidades: “Pensar las humanidades”, celebrado en octubre de 2012 en la Universidad santo Tomás, Bogotá. El eco de la pregunta resuena una vez se considera que las decisiones fundamentales de la humanidad ya no son tomadas por las ciencias humanas, sino por las instituciones. El realismo de las determinaciones tecnocráticas se aplica en todas partes. sin embargo, como lo plantea el sugerente artículo del profesor Maldonado: “¿Qué significa creer en los seres humanos?”, que abre este número 82 de la revista Análisis, el realismo significa también la omisión de la fe y de la esperanza.
Los aportes de la fenomenología de Husserl a la metafísica de Zubiri: una reflexión sobre la conciencia intencional y la impresión
Authors: Martínez Alexánder Ávila
Published: December 2015

El presente texto intenta realizar una mirada al pensamiento de Zubiri, con el propósito de identificar la influencia de la fenomenología de Husserl en el pensamiento zubiriano. Específicamente se trabajan los conceptos de conciencia intencional e impresión. El texto también quiere mostrar la forma en que Zubiri encontró, a partir de la fenomenología, su camino propio para la construcción de su perspectiva metafísica y el análisis de la realidad.
América: Identidad, Integración e Independencia
Authors: Gutiérrez Álvaro Acevedo
Published: December 2015

El nombre que se le ha dado al continente a través de los cinco siglos de miscegenación histórica, ha marcado los niveles de dependencia e integración. En los siglos de dominación de España se enfatizó en llamarlo “Nuevo Orbe” y “Nuevo Mundo”, para diferenciarlo del viejo. Eran ante todo nombres impuestos. En la misma sincronía histórica se le otorgó el nombre de “Indias”, que marcaba una profunda discriminación tanto del continente como de todos sus habitantes, incluyendo a los mismos españoles que al regresar a su península natal se les denominaba de manera peyorativa como “Indianos”. El nombre de “América”, se originó en una equivocación, como también en una profunda injusticia con el Almirante Colón. Sin embargo, los hombres de la independencia lo reivindicarán y con orgullo sus habitantes se autodenominaran como “americanos” o “criollos americanos”, dándole sentido al origen de una identidad histórica de “Patria Grande”. En tal sentido el ideario de Simón Bolívar, buscaba armonizar la identidad de América con el proceso de independencia y a su vez afirmar el proyecto de integración continental. El sueño de Bolívar y de los americanos de principios del siglo XIX, estaba dirigido a sintetizar esos procesos en tres palabras claves: identidad, independencia e integración.
Entre el Rey y el Papa. La Inquisición: trayectoria de una institución plurisecular
Authors: Gómez Diana Luz Ceballos
Published: December 2015

Esta exposición se centrará en las interacciones entre las autoridades regias y las eclesiásticas en el campo del dominio de la fe, la religiosidad y, en últimas, el control social y de las ideas. Otro aspecto importante es, sin embargo, el del procedimiento penal, las diferentes formas de procesar de las autoridades seculares y de las inquisitoriales, los delitos perseguidos como herejías y las acciones concretas de ambas formas de justicia.
Editorial
Authors: Santiago Franco Didier
Published: December 2015

Filosofía para Niños (FpN) es un proyecto que nació a fiales de la década de 1970 en Estados Unidos a manos de Matthew Lipman, cuyo fin es ayudar a los niños y niñas a pensar por sí mismos a través de un programa para el desarrollo de habilidades de pensamiento basado en la introducción del diálogo filosófico en la escuela primaria. Lipman y su grupo de colaboradores proponían convertir las aulas de clase en comunidades de indagación filosófica, es decir, en espacios privilegiados para la educación del pensamiento.
Use of a Checklist and Clinical Decision Support Tool Reduces Laboratory Use and Improves Cost
Authors: Algaze Claudia A. , Wood Matthew , Pageler Natalie M. , Sharek Paul J. , Longhurst Christopher A. , Shin Andrew Y.
Published: December 2015

OBJECTIVE:

We hypothesized that a daily rounding checklist and a computerized order entry (CPOE) rule that limited the scheduling of complete blood cell counts and chemistry and coagulation panels to a 24-hour interval would reduce laboratory utilization and associated costs.

METHODS:

We performed a retrospective analysis of these initiatives in a pediatric cardiovascular ICU (CVICU) that included all patients with congenital or acquired heart disease admitted to the cardiovascular ICU from September 1, 2008, until April 1, 2011. Our primary outcomes were the number of laboratory orders and cost of laboratory orders. Our secondary outcomes were mortality and CVICU and hospital length of stay.

RESULTS:

We found a reduction in laboratory utilization frequency in the checklist intervention period and additional reduction in the CPOE intervention period [complete blood count: 31% and 44% (P < .0001); comprehensive chemistry panel: 48% and 72% (P < .0001); coagulation panel: 26% and 55% (P < .0001); point of care blood gas: 43% and 44% (P < .0001)] compared with the preintervention period. Projected yearly cost reduction was $717, 538.8. There was no change in adjusted mortality rate (odds ratio 1.1, 95% confidence interval 0.7–1.9, P = .65). CVICU and total length of stay (days) was similar in the pre- and postintervention periods.

CONCLUSIONS:

Use of a daily checklist and CPOE rule reduced laboratory resource utilization and cost without adversely affecting adjusted mortality or length of stay. CPOE has the potential to hardwire resource management interventions to augment and sustain the daily checklist.
Noninvasive Tests for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Meta-analysis
Authors: Holtman Gea A. , Lisman-van Leeuwen Yvonne , Reitsma Johannes B. , Berger Marjolein Y.
Published: December 2015

BACKGROUND:

The clinical presentation of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is often nonspecific and overlaps with functional gastrointestinal disorders.

OBJECTIVE:

To determine the diagnostic accuracy of symptoms, signs, noninvasive tests, and test combinations that can assist the clinician with the diagnosis of IBD in symptomatic children.

METHODS:

A literature search was conducted of Medline and Embase. Two reviewers independently selected studies reporting on the diagnostic accuracy of tests for IBD, with confirmation by endoscopy and histopathology or clinical follow-up, in children with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. Two reviewers independently extracted data and assessed study quality with the QUADAS-2, an evidence-based quality assessment tool for diagnostic accuracy studies.

RESULTS:

Nineteen studies were included (N = 2806). Symptoms (abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, and weight loss) had pooled sensitivities ranging from 0.48 to 0.82 and specificities ranging from 0.17 to 0.78. Of all the blood markers, C-reactive protein (CRP) (9 studies) and albumin (6 studies) had the best performance, with pooled sensitivities of 0.63 (0.51–0.73) and 0.48 (0.31–0.66), respectively, and specificities of 0.88 (0.80–0.93) and 0.94 (0.86–0.98). Assessment of fecal calprotectin (FCal) (10 studies) had a pooled sensitivity of 0.99 (0.92–1.00) and a specificity of 0.65 (0.54–0.74). One limitation was that none of the studies was conducted in nonreferred children.

CONCLUSIONS:

In children whose pediatrician is considering an endoscopy, symptoms are not accurate enough to identify low-risk patients in whom an endoscopy can be avoided. FCal, CRP, and albumin findings are potentially of clinical value, given their ability to select children at low risk (negative FCal test result) or high risk (positive CRP or albumin test result) for IBD.
Tense θ-valued Moisil propositional logic
Authors: Chiriţă Carmen
Published: December 2015

In this paper we study the tense θ-valued Moisil propositional calculus, a logical system obtained from the θ-valued Moisil propositional logic by adding two tense operators. The main result is a completeness theorem for tense θ-valued Moisil propositional logic. The proof of this theorem is based on the representation theorem of tense θ-valued Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras, developed in a previous paper.
Teletandem between French and Brazilian students: Some preliminary remarks
Authors: SANTOS Liliane
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT In its French-Brazilian version, the Teletandem Brazil project enables students from the University of Lille 3 (France) and from the State University of São Paulo (Unesp, Brazil), to take part in online exchanges, based on the principles of autonomy and reciprocity. In this work, we will present some preliminary remarks on the construction of cultural identity representations by the students who took part in the project, from 2006 to 2012, the specificity of the exchanges we analyze being that most of the French students involved in them are third generation Portuguese. We will examine the consequences of the introduction of a third culture within exchanges which, linguistically speaking, are bilateral. The French students are often experiencing conflicting feelings toward Brazil and, similarly, the Brazilian students may have conflicting feelings towards Portugal and France. Our preliminary results show that the most successful linguistic exchanges occur when students face their own cultural identity with no feeling of superiority or inferiority.
Teletandem language learning in a technological context of education: interactions between Brazilian and German students
Authors: SILVA Suelene Vaz da , FIGUEIREDO Francisco José Quaresma de
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT This paper presents data from a computer-mediated communication study conducted between a group of Brazilian university students - from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Goiás, Campus Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil - who wanted to learn English, and a group of German university students - from the University of Worms, in Germany - who wanted to learn Portuguese. The cross-cultural bilingual communication was conducted in the second semester of 2010 and involved discussions on environmental issues. Adopting a qualitative perspective in the analysis, the data were derived from conversation sessions through a webconferencing software known as Openmeetings and through e-mails and some written activities developed by the students. All these were analyzed by means of sociocultural theory. Among the conclusions we reached, we observed that the participants used the software features to help them in their language learning process, discussed issues related to environmental science, as well as topics related to their personal and academic life. Regarding the languages used, the participants used English during the teletandem sessions as an anchoring language to assist their partners in learning English itself and Portuguese, as well as introduced the German language in the interaction sessions.
INTERSETORIALIDADE E VULNERABILIDADE NO CONTEXTO DA EDUCAÇÃO INTEGRAL
Authors: Corá Élsio José , Trindade Letícia de Lima
Published: December 2015

Resumo: O artigo objetiva problematizar sobre a intersetorialidade no contexto da Escola de Tempo Integral, tomando como temas centrais educação e saúde. Para isso, tecem-se discussões acerca da vulnerabilidade e o debate acerca das políticas intersetoriais. Nesse sentido, recorre-se às políticas que fomentam a intersetorialidade como elemento central para o desenvolvimento da Escola de Tempo Integral e recurso para o enfrentamento das vulnerabilidades (individual, social e programática) das crianças e adolescentes. Esses processos apontam a necessidade de aproximação de determinados setores para consolidação da educação integral no Brasil como política pública que requer novos arranjos intersetoriais.
LAS CIUDADES COMO TERRITORIO DE LA EDUCACIÓN INTEGRAL
Authors: Serra Maria Silvia , Rios Guillermo A.
Published: December 2015

RESUMEN: Habitar las ciudades es un proceso en el que se encuentran anudadas cuestiones materiales y simbólicas. Este lazo debe ser atendido y puesto en valor en términos históricos y culturales ya que forma parte de nuestro aprendizaje como sujetos urbanos. En este sentido, tal como afirma Andreas Huyssen (2002: 191) "...la ciudad funciona como un tipo de prisma" que permite "enfocar" una multiplicidad de temáticas que no están solo ligadas al urbanismo o a la arquitectura, sino también a experiencias culturales y construcciones simbólicas que articulan el hecho concreto de vivir en las ciudades. Es así que, siguiendo a este autor, podemos afirmar que la ciudad es un texto que puede ser leído como un verdadero espacio de signos. Una casa, un barrio, un edificio, los espacios públicos, las calles y veredas, los monumentos son reservorios de un tiempo y una memoria que requieren de una multiplicidad de lecturas para transformarse en escenarios de aprendizajes integradores. Cuestionar a la ciudad como territorio de la educación integral así como reconocer las cuestiones centrales que se ponen a prueba cuando esto se postula como una política pública son los objetivos principales del presente artículo, para lo cual proponemos un recorrido a partir de considerar conceptos nodales como los de educación integral y pedagogía urbana.
DIÁLOGOS POSSÍVEIS À CONSTRUÇÃO DE PROJETO POLÍTICO E PEDAGÓGICO NA PERSPECTIVA CONTEMPORÂNEA DA EDUCAÇÃO INTEGRAL
Authors: Titton Maria Beatriz Pauperio , Pacheco Suzana Moreira
Published: December 2015

RESUMO: Este artigo discute aspectos presentes nos cenários escolares que envolvem experiências de jornada ampliada na perspectiva contemporânea de Educação Integral. Tal perspectiva tem entre seus pressupostos a centralidade, e não a centralização, da escola na coordenação dos processos educativos previstos no Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP). Problematiza-se a relação desse projeto, enquanto marca identitária de uma comunidade educativa, com a proposta de Educação Integral, através da extensão da jornada escolar e das experiências, como ampliação do direito à aprendizagem. O foco desta análise é refletir de que forma o PPP da escola dialoga com os pressupostos e as ações inerentes a essa proposta, a qual envolve saberes populares, outros espaços, agentes educativos e práticas de gestão escolar. Conceitos como identidade pedagógica, Educação Integral e Projeto Político Pedagógico são aportados neste texto, a partir das referências de Paulo Freire, Miguel G. Arroyo e Ilma Passos Veiga, dentre outros.
Tendências anuais e sazonais nos extremos de temperatura do ar e precipitação em campina grande - pb
Authors: Dantas Leydson Galvíncio , Santos Carlos Antonio Costa dos , Olinda Ricardo Alves de
Published: December 2015

RESUMO Devido à rápida expansão urbana e potencial turístico da região, o objetivo deste estudo foi a obtenção da distribuição temporal dos índices de extremos climáticos dependentes de dados diários de temperatura e precipitação, definido pela OMM, para o período de 1975 a 2011, e utilizando os testes estatísticos não paramétricos obter a magnitude das tendências dos referidos índices para a cidade de Campina Grande - PB. Os resultados mostram que as temperaturas mínimas e máxima diárias têm aumentado gradativamente ao longo das últimas décadas, apresentando tendências sazonais crescentes ao longo dos anos e que as temperaturas mínimas tiveram maior aumento. O número de dias e noites quentes por ano tem aumentado, proporcionando assim uma redução significativa dos dias e noites frias. Foi observado que as temperaturas mínimas e máximas apresentam maiores tendências de aumento nas estações do outono e primavera, respectivamente. Baseado nos índices extremos de precipitação, mesmo sem significância estatística, foi observado que as chuvas intensas tendem a aumentar, ocorrendo em um período menor de tempo.
Energy and mass transfer parameters in a brazilian semi-arid ecosystem under different thermohydrological conditions
Authors: Teixeira Antônio Heriberto de Castro , Andrade Ricardo Guimarães , Leivas Janice Freitas
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT In the Brazilian semi-arid region, the natural vegetation ("Caatinga") has been replaced by irrigated agriculture, emphasising the importance for quantification of the energy and mass exchanges. Eddy covariance and micro-climatic measurements in this natural ecosystem, were analysed for two years under different thermohydrological conditions. Sensible heat flux (H) accounted for 49 and 64% of the net radiation (Rn), respectively, during the wetter and the drier conditions of 2004 and 2005. The corresponding fractions of Rn partitioned as latent heat flux (LE) were 40% and 25%. Evapotranspiration (ET) in 2004, with 693 mm, represented 96% of precipitation (P), while in 2005 (399 mm), it was 18% higher than P, which evidenced the use of the remaining soil moisture from the previous wetter year. All the soil-water-vegetation-atmosphere transfer parameters were influenced by the rainfall amounts. However, the surface resistance (rs) was the most strongly affected by the soil moisture status, dropping with increases of the ratio of ET to reference evapotranspiration (ET0). On the other hand, the highest rs values were related to increases in both vapour pressure deficit (De) and aerodynamic temperature (T0). The current research aimed to quantify the energy and mass exchange between the "Caatinga" and the lower atmosphere, testing in which circumstances the biophysical controlling parameters can be reasonably predicted from agrometeorological data, throughout parameterizations, to incorporate in large-scale models.
Comparação dos dados de precipitação gerados Pelo gpcp vs observados para o estado do rio grande do sul
Authors: Saldanha Claudinéia Brazil , Radin Bernadete , Cardoso Maria Angélica Gonçalves , Rippel Matheus Lara , Fonseca Ludmila Losada da , Rodriguez Félix
Published: December 2015

RESUMO Fontes alternativas de dados de precipitação têm se tornado cada vez mais usuais, possibilitando também uma avaliação de áreas com ausência de série longa e/ou continua de dados meteorológicos ou com baixa densidade de estações meteorológicas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o desempenho das séries de dados do Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) para o Estado do Rio Grande do Sul e verificar a sua possível utilização na ausência de dados observados de precipitação. Nesse trabalho utilizaram-se séries mensais de precipitação do GPCP fornecidas pela National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) com uma resolução de 0,5° x 0,5° latitude-longitude, para o período de 1979 a 2010. As análises foram realizadas a partir da comparação com dados de precipitação de 22 estações meteorológicas localizadas no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A partir dos resultados das análises estatísticas, observa-se que o GPCP apresentou um bom desempenho na região de estudo, com o coeficiente de correlação em torno de 0,81. Com isso, infere-se que os dados do GPCP podem ser utilizados como fonte alternativa de dados de precipitação, quando as séries temporais possuem períodos de falhas.
Oral infection of neonate gerbils by Neospora caninum tachyzoites
Authors: Ferreira Maiara Sanitá Tafner , Vogel Fernanda Silveira Flores , Sangioni Luis Antonio , Weber Augusto , Bräunig Patricia , Vaz Marcos André Braz , Cezar Alfredo Skrebsky
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT: Neosporosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Neospora caninum which results in major economic losses for cattle breeding due to abortion and other reproductive disorders. Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) are commonly used as experimental models for neosporosis due to their high susceptibility to N. caninum infection, both by oocysts ingestion as by tachyzoites/bradyzoites parenteral inoculation. However, the risk of transmission by tachyzoites ingestion is not fully elucidated. In this study, infection of neonate gerbils by N. caninum (NC-1 strain) tachyzoites inoculated by the oral route and the parasite distribution in gerbils' tissues were evaluated by protozoan DNA detection. Seventeen neonate gerbils, aged 4-5 days, were inoculated with 4x105 tachyzoites by the oral route and one gerbil was kept as uninfected control. N. caninum DNA was detected in 100% of the inoculated gerbils, showing that the oral route is effective as a potential route of infection of neonates by N. caninum tachyzoites. N. caninum DNA was reported in all organs evaluated (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, spleen and brain), with different frequencies. These results showed systemically distributed infection of neonate gerbils after oral inoculation of tachyzoites.
Conditioning and aversion to toxic Solanum bonariense ("naranjillo") leaves in calves
Authors: Ruiz-Santos Paul , Pfister James Alan , Verdes José Manuel
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT: Solanum bonariense is a perennial poisonous shrub that induces cerebellar cortical degeneration when eaten by cattle. The aim of this research was to outline a protocol to induce a conditioned aversion to this plant. During the pre-conditioning period ten calves (126±12kg BW) were maintained at half of their normal energy intake with lucerne hay and water ad libitum, to stimulate consumption of S. bonariense. Every two days they were offered 100g ofS. bonariense leaves for 5 minutes. Calves began eating the target plant on day 10 and consumed all the plant material on day 12. The conditioning period began after each calf consumed the entire amount of S. bonariense for three consecutive sessions. Five animals were randomly selected for conditioning, and after ingestion ofS. bonariense they were dosed by oral gavage with lithium chloride (LiCl) at 200mg kg-1 BW (treated group), while the other five received a similar volume of water by oral gavage (control group). After 2 doses of LiCl the treated group ate no S. bonariense while the control group consumed the entire 100g. We confirmed that LiCl is a powerful tool to induce conditioned aversions against S. bonariense in calves, which persists for at least 3 months.
Representações sociais e crenças normativas sobre envelhecimento
Authors: Torres Tatiana de Lucena , Camargo Brigido Vizeu , Boulsfield Andréa Barbará , Silva Antônia Oliveira
Published: December 2015

Resumo Este estudo adotou a Teoria das Representações Sociais como referencial teórico, com o objetivo de caracterizar aproximações e distanciamentos de representações sociais e crenças normativas do envelhecimento para diferentes grupos etários. Os 638 participantes responderam um questionário autoaplicado e foram divididos paritariamente (sexo e idade). Os resultados demonstram que o envelhecimento se caracteriza por estereótipos positivos, além disso, a aposentadoria se vincula ao envelhecimento, mas de forma negativa, especialmente para homens, envolvendo adoecimento, solidão e incapacidade. Ao considerar a idade, verificamos que as conexões de elementos representacionais se tornam mais complexas para grupos de mais idade, mostrando funcionalidade da representação social, sobretudo para idosos. A fase adulta parece ser preferida e a velhice preterida. Houve divergências quanto ao início das fases da vida, notadamente em relação à velhice. O trabalho foi caracterizado como o oposto do envelhecimento, revelando a necessidade de ações voltadas para trabalhadores mais velhos e aposentados, com projetos pós-aposentadoria, além do necessário investimento em políticas públicas que incentivem contato intergeracional, na intenção de diminuir preconceitos e discriminação com base na idade das pessoas.