bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Мотив одиночества в раннем творчестве Ирен Немировски
Authors: Bortnowski Antoni 
Published: October 2020

The subject of analysis in this paper is the motif of loneliness in the early works of Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942). A pessimistic view on human life, which is typical for Némirovsky, is shown by the author of this article on the example of three works: L’Enfant génial, David Golder and Les Mouches d’automne. The main character of each of the works constantly feels misunderstood, alienated and eventually dies, convinced of the meaninglessness of his/her existence. These feelings become common for the characters, which at first glance seem completely different - a Jewish boy from the poor quarter of Odessa, a rich financier living in Paris, and an elderly Russian nanny, who emigrates with her masters. The problem of loneliness in Némirovsky’s writing is closely related to the issues of finding one’s own identity and attempts to overcome the past.
NS-Raubgut-Forschung an der Badischen Landesbibliothek. Eine Bilanz
Authors: Vogl Ulrike , Gaertringen Julia Freifrau Hiller von 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Die Badische Landesbibliothek hat in den Jahren 2016–2020 den Zugang der ihrer kompletten Zerstörung am 3. September 1942 folgenden Wiederaufbaujahre 1942–1950 auf NS-Raubgut hin überprüft. Aufgrund der Überlieferungssituation war das nur durch eine systematische Autopsie am Gesamtbestand möglich. Dabei wurde weit weniger NS-Raubgut aufgefunden als erwartet und Restitution ist nur in wenigen Fällen möglich. Der Beitrag zieht Bilanz und empfiehlt, die entstandene Datenbasis sinnvoll kontextualisiert weiterzunutzen.
The Production-Oriented Approach Updated: Introduction to the Special Issue
Authors: Sun Shuguang 
Published: October 2020

AbstractMore than a decade has passed since Wen Qiufang (2007) first proposed that foreign language teaching could benefit from output-driven practices in the classroom. Her original ideas were reformulated and further elaborated in the Production-Oriented Approach (POA), which aims to deal with the input-output separation in foreign language teaching in Chinese universities and colleges to optimize students’ learning (Wen, 2015, 2016b). Integrating the strengths of Chinese traditional pedagogy and Western instructional approaches, this approach engages learners with production, merging the learning and use of language to enhance the efficiency of language teaching (Illes, 2018, p. 242) in a Chinese context.This introduction to the special issues includes three major sections. It starts out with an overview of what the POA system includes and how it works with a focus on its teaching procedures. The second section is about dialectical research (DR), a new research paradigm specifically designed for instructed second language acquisition (Wen, 2017b) with “dialectical materialism as its philosophical basis” (Wen, 2019, p. 385). Finally, seven papers collected in this issue are introduced. We hope that this special issue sets a research agenda towards a better understanding of the POA.
Effects of the Production-Oriented Approach on EFL Learners’ Writing Performance in China’s Tertiary Education
Authors: Zhang Wenjuan 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe Production-Oriented Approach (POA) has been proposed as a remedy for overcoming the problem of input-output separation in the traditional text-centered teaching and learning paradigm in tertiary education in China. This two-week quasi-experimental study investigated the effect of the POA, compared with the traditional text-centered Intensive Reading Approach (IRA), on college students’ L2 writing performance in terms of overall quality of the writing and its components of language, idea, and discourse structure. Data included writing samples of both experimental and control groups before and after classroom instruction and the results of a language achievement test on mastery of target language forms predicating students’ language use in writing. The results showed that: 1) no significant difference was found between the two groups either in the overall quality or in the “idea” and “structure” of the written texts; 2) the experimental group outperformed the control group with respect to language use, in terms of both language quality and the frequency of target language use. These results indicated that the POA might have an advantage over the IRA in facilitating learners’ writing development.
Profiling the Chinese causative construction withrang(讓),shi(使) andling(令) using frame semantic features
Authors: Liesenfeld Andreas , Liu Meichun , Huang Chu-Ren 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThis behavioural profiling (BP) study examines the use of the near-synonymsrang(讓),shi(使) andling(令), three ways to express cause-effect relationships in Chinese. Instead of using an out-of-the-box BP design, we present a modified approach to profiling that includes a range of frame semantic features that aim to capture variation of slot fillers of this construction. The study investigates the intricate semantic variation ofrang,shiandlingthrough a comprehensive analysis of 38 contextual features (ID tags) that characterize the collocational, lexical semantic and frame semantic environment of the near-synonyms. Our dataset consists of around 100.000 data points based on the annotation of 1002 sentences of Mandarin Chinese of three varieties. The BPs of each near-synonym are compared using multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis. The results show thatrang,shiandlingare each characterized by a combination of distinctive features and how different feature types contribute to setting the near-synonyms apart based on their usage patterns. Methodologically, this study illustrates how behavioural profiling can be modified to include frame semantic features in accordance with the method’s emphasis on producing empirically verifiable results and how these features can aid a comparative analysis of near-synonyms.
Position et location en peul, l’usage de

ka

au Fouta Djallon
Authors: Diallo Abdourahmane 
Published: October 2020

Résumé
Le but de cette contribution est d’analyser les particules locatives en peul, plus particulièrement l’emploi de ka dans le dialecte du Fouta Djallon. L’étude a été menée majoritairement sur la base des données empiriques auxquelles s’ajoutent quelques données secondaires issues de sources publiées. Les données primaires ont été collectées entre mai et décembre 2017 en Guinée à partir de la variété du Fouta Djallon, qui est parlée en Guinée, en Sierra Leone, en Guinée-Bissau et dans la partie sud de la Gambie. L’analyse a conduit aux constats suivants : (i) il existe un répertoire varié de marqueurs pour exprimer la localisation : ce sont entre autres, ka, ɗo, to, ko, e et ga; (ii) ceux-ci sont distribués différemment dans les divers dialectes. Fouta Toro et Macina partagent certaines caractéristiques communes en utilisant ɗo, ga et to, alors que dans le dialecte du Fouta Djallon, où se complètent les particules locatives ka et e, émerge ko dans les agglomérations urbaines, ce qui vient enrichir davantage le répertoire des particules locatives de ce dialecte.
Hedges in Russian EAP writing: A corpus-based study of research papers in management
Authors: Smirnova Elizaveta , Strinyuk Svetlana 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe fact that English has become a lingua franca of academic communication has led to increased attention to teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) at the academia. Academic discourse markers, such as hedges, have been an important topic in academic writing research whose prime aim is helping non-Anglophone researchers to present their research findings in English for international publication. This study investigates the use of the most frequent hedging devices in a corpus of 58 works written by Russian university students and compares it to a corpus of articles published in peer-reviewed journals in business and management. The analysis of learner corpus data has provided evidence of how Russian ELF speakers use the language, showing significant differences between the use of hedges by the students and professional writers. The research has also highlighted a number of challenges which non-native learners face when writing academic texts. The study may contribute to a higher level of L2 academic writing in ELF contexts and have implications for creating EAP courses, research of second language acquisition and writing pedagogy.
Cytokine profiling: variation in immune modulation with preterm birth vs. uncomplicated term birth identifies pivotal signals in pathogenesis of preterm birth
Authors: Denney Jeffrey M. , Nelson Edward , Wadhwa Pathick , Waters Thaddeus , Mathew Leny , Goldenberg Robert L. , Culhane Jennifer F. 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Objectives
To assess deviations in longitudinally measured cytokines with preterm birth (PTB).

Methods
Prospective longitudinal study targeting 80 subjects. Phlebotomy specimens for broad panel of cytokine analysis were obtained at three time (T) intervals: first trimester (T1: 8–14 weeks’ gestation), second trimester (T2: 18–22 weeks’ gestation), and third trimester (T3: 28–32 weeks’ gestation). Important demographics and outcomes were tracked. Data were stratified and the target groups were analyzed as follows: “Uncomplicated” (delivered ≥37 weeks) or “Preterm Birth” (<37 weeks). Generalized Linear Modeling determined rate of change T1–T3 by outcome.

Results
Complete data replete with phlebotomy at all three visits were obtained on 80 women. Birth outcomes were as follows: 11 Uncomplicated Term Birth (UTB), 28 PTB, 4 low birth weight (LBW), 16 OB complications (OBC), 11 current infections (IFN), and 10 mixed complications (MC=2 or more of the above). 28 PTB were compared to 11 uncomplicated term deliveries. In both groups, T helper type 1 (TH1) cytokine (IL-1β), pleiotrophic pro-inflammatory cytokine (IL-6), and counter-regulatory cytokine (IL-10) responses decreased over gestation, but rates of change in IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-10 were significantly different. Stratification of women by smoking status additionally demonstrated significant variance in immune status over the course of pregnancy

Conclusions
Women delivering PTB demonstrated significant differences in cytokine trajectory over pregnancy; these data further validate key role played by immune regulation in directing pregnancy outcome. Likewise, smoking impacts longitudinal trajectory of cytokines over pregnancy.
Algorithmically deconstructing shot locations as a method for shot quality in hockey
Authors: Becker Devan G. , Woolford Douglas G. , Dean Charmaine B. 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
Spatial point processes have been successfully used to model the relative efficiency of shot locations for each player in professional basketball games. Those analyses were possible because each player makes enough baskets to reliably fit a point process model. Goals in hockey are rare enough that a point process cannot be fit to each player’s goal locations, so novel techniques are needed to obtain measures of shot efficiency for each player. A Log-Gaussian Cox Process (LGCP) is used to model all shot locations, including goals, of each NHL player who took at least 500 shots during the 2011–2018 seasons. Each player’s LGCP surface is treated as an image and these images are then used in an unsupervised statistical learning algorithm that decomposes the pictures into a linear combination of spatial basis functions. The coefficients of these basis functions are shown to be a very useful tool to compare players. To incorporate goals, the locations of all shots that resulted in a goal are treated as a “perfect player” and used in the same algorithm (goals are further split into perfect forwards, perfect centres and perfect defence). These perfect players are compared to other players as a measure of shot efficiency. This analysis provides a map of common shooting locations, identifies regions with the most goals relative to the number of shots and demonstrates how each player’s shot location differs from scoring locations.
Endometrial cancer in a renal transplant recipient: A case report
Authors: Liu Na , Yang Lei , Long Yan , Jiang Guoqing 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
As the most effective treatment for end-stage renal diseases, renal transplantation can improve the quality of life of patients and prolong the survival time. However, during the prolonged survival time, malignancy has become one of the main causes of death of recipients, which vary geographically. Tumors in the digestive system and urothelial tumors have been highly reported in Asia. In general, the gynecological malignant tumors have been rarely reported, especially the endometrial carcinoma. Herein, a 63-year-old female renal transplant recipient diagnosed with endometrial carcinoma (15 years after transplantation) was reported. The patient had suffered irregular postmenopausal bleeding for a short time before hospitalization. She underwent abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, right pelvic lymphadenectomy, right para-aortic lymphadenectomy and omental excision. Postoperative pathology showed ovarian and pelvic lymph node metastasis and pathological stage IIIC. After six courses of chemotherapy with paclitaxel 270 mg + carboplatin 500 mg, the patient’s renal function was normal. During the third cycle of chemotherapy, the patient suffered a third-degree bone marrow suppression and returned to normal soon when treated with the recombinant human granulocyte stimulating factor. In conclusion, early screening of gynecologic tumors is important for female patients after renal transplantation, which has a positive significance for the prognosis improvement.
Downregulation of lncRNA FGF12-AS2 suppresses the tumorigenesis of NSCLC via sponging miR-188-3p
Authors: Zhou Lili , Xing Chen , Zhou Dongxia , Yang Rong , Cai Maohuai 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Background
Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) seriously threatens the health of human beings. Aberrant expression of lncRNAs has been confirmed to be related with the progression of multiple malignant tumors, including NSCLC. LncRNA FGF12-AS2 has been considered to be upregulated in NSCLC. However, the mechanism by which FGF12-AS2 promotes the tumorigenesis of NSCLC remains elusive.

Methods
Gene and protein expressions in NSCLC cells were measured by q-PCR and western blot, respectively. CCK-8 and immunofluorescence staining were performed to detect the cell proliferation. Cell apoptosis was tested by flow cytometry. Transwell assay was used to detect the cell migration and invasion. Finally, the dual luciferase report assay was used to verify the relation among FGF12-AS2, miR-188-3p, and NCAPG2.

Results
Downregulation of FGF12-AS2 significantly inhibited the proliferation of NSCLC cells via inducing apoptosis. In addition, FGF12-AS2 silencing notably suppressed the migration and invasion of A549 cells. Meanwhile, FGF12-AS2 modulated the progression of NSCLC via regulation of miR-188-3p/NCAPG2 axis. Finally, knockdown of FGF12-AS2 inhibited the tumorigenesis of NSCLC via suppressing the EMT process of NSCLC.

Conclusion
Downregulation of lncRNA FGF12-AS2 suppressed the tumorigenesis of NSCLC via sponging miR-188-3p. Thus, FGF12-AS2 may serve as a potential target for the treatment of NSCLC.
Moraxella lacunatainfection accompanied by acute glomerulonephritis
Authors: Sawada Nami , Morohashi Tamaki , Mutoh Tomokazu , Kuwana Tsukasa , Yamaguchi Junko , Kinoshita Kosaku , Morioka Ichiro , Hao Hiroyuki 
Published: October 2020

AbstractMoraxella lacunata(M. lacunata) is a Gram-negative bacterium, which rarely causes serious infection. This is a rare case report of acute glomerulonephritis diagnosed by pathological findings in a child accompanied byM. lacunatainfection. The patient showed hematuria, proteinuria and hyperkalemia requiring emergency hemodialysis. After hospitalization,M. lacunatabacteremia became apparent. Pathological findings showed an increase in glomerulus inflammatory cells and glomerular C3 deposition was observed in the renal tissue biopsy. Final diagnosis was endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis. Clinical reports ofM. lacunatainfection requiring emergency hemodialysis in children are rare. Previous reports have suggested that lowered immune competency with chronic kidney disease may be a risk factor associated with serious invasive cases ofM. lacunatainfection. However, detailed clinical laboratory data and pathological findings have not been identified in previous case reports. Our case directly indicated complement activity and acute glomerulonephritis withM. lacunatainfection. Although there are various causes for acute glomerulonephritis, infection-related glomerulonephritis (IRGN) is an important concept.M. lacunatainfection might have a potential risk for IRGN with dysregulation of complement activity leading to serious and invasive clinical conditions than previously considered.
Crystal structure of (3S,8R,10R,12R,14R)-12-hydroxy-4,4,8,10,14-pentamethyl-17-((R)-2,6,6-trimethyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl) hexadecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl acetate, C32H54O4
Authors: Ma Ying , Wang Hui-Yun , Zhang Xiao-Fan , Zhao Feng-Lan , Meng Qing-Guo 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
C32H54O4, monoclinic, P21 (no. 4), a = 7.8727(1) Å, b = 19.9173(2) Å, c = 19.1801(2) Å, β = 94.539(1)°, V = 2998.06(6) Å3, Z = 4, R

gt
(F) = 0.0370, wR

ref
(F
2) = 0.0983, T = 293 K.
Crystal structure of the Cu(II) complex chlorido-(6-oxo-2-phenyl-1,6-dihydropyrimidine-4-carboxylato-k2
N,O)-(phenanthroline-k2
N,N')copper(II), C23H15ClCuN4O3
Authors: Yang Qi , Hou Meng-Qi , Chen Pei-Rou , Li Shuo , Zhou Guang-Peng , Li Gan , Chen Dong-Dong 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
C23H15ClCuN4O3, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 10.63346(14) Å, b = 17.99387(15) Å, c = 11.60320(16) Å, β = 116.2165(17)°, V = 1991.74(5) Å3, Z = 4, R

gt
(F) = 0.0315, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0898, T = 293(2) K.
Crystal structure of (E)-2-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzylidene)-7-methoxy-3,4-dihydronaphthalen- 1(2H)-one, C20H14F6O2
Authors: Luan Ming-Zhu , Wang Hui-yun , Zhang Mei , Song Jia , Hou Gui-Ge , Zhao Feng-Lan , Meng Qing-Guo 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

C

20

H

14

F
6

O
2

${\text{C}}_{20}{\text{H}}_{14}{\text{F}}_{6}{\text{O}}_{2}$

, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 14.791(2) Å, b = 8.5303(9) Å, c = 15.531(3) Å, β = 115.474(19)°, V = 1769.1(5) Å3, Z = 4,

R

g
t

${R}_{gt}$

(F) = 0.0574,

w

R

ref

$w\,{R}_{\text{ref}}$

(F
2) = 0.1451, T = 100 K.

CCDC no.: 2016723
Crystal structure of (E)-2-(4-fluoro-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzylidene)-7-methoxy-3,4-dihydronaphthalen-1(2H)-one, C19H14F4O2
Authors: Zhang Xiao-Fan , Wang Hui-yun , Zhao Sheng-Nan , Zhang Sheng-Nan , Zhao Feng-Lan , Meng Qing-Guo 
Published: October 2020

Abstract

C

19

H

14

F
4

O
2

${\text{C}}_{19}{\text{H}}_{14}{\text{F}}_{4}{\text{O}}_{2}$

, triclinic,

P

1
‾

$P&#x203e;{1}$

(no. 2), a = 8.1539(7) Å, b = 8.8584(6) Å, c = 11.8025(9) Å, α = 73.186(7)°, β = 76.184(7)°, γ = 69.512(7)°, V = 755.39(11) Å3, Z = 2,

R

g
t

${R}_{gt}$

(F) = 0.0436,

w

R

ref

$w{R}_{\text{ref}}$

(F
2) = 0.0965, T = 100 K.
Exploring the politics of visibility: Technology, digital representation, and the mediated workings of power
Authors: Creech Brian 
Published: October 2020

Abstract
For the better part of the past decade, global social movements have drawn popular attention to the power of image production and acts of representation, particularly the ways ubiquitous cameras challenge the exercise of power This essay lays out a theoretical schema for interrogating a broader “politics of visibility” at work in the early twenty-first century, most readily apparent through the activities of smartphone-enabled and visually-savvy activists. As new media technologies have opened up new strategies of representation, these modes of representation have been incorporated into existing media practices that delimit the ways in which the consequentiality of various movements and political projects can be understood. Theoretically revisiting the concept of visibility, this essay critiques the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge in media studies before arguing that the visibility of an event presages a consequentiality partially determined by the ways in which it is rendered perceptible and thus, intelligible.
Time embodied as space in graphic narratives: A study in applied Peircean semiotics
Authors: Nöth Winfried 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe paper is a study of how graphic narratives (graphic novels and the comics) represent time in external visual space as well as in inner (mental) representations. Peirce’s semiotics is the main tool of research. After a survey of various approaches to the study of time in narratives in general and in graphic narratives in particular, an outline of the various aspects of the embodiment of time in space in general is given before the forms of the embodiment of time in the space of graphic narratives is examined in detail. Signs of time are signs that represent time as their object and create mental representations of time as their interpretant. On this semiotic premise, the paper proposes a reinterpretation of Genette’s theory of time in narratives. A comparison with narratives in prose reveals that narrative time in graphic narratives evinces marked discontinuities in their spatial representation. The paper distinguishes between time as continuity, time as age, and points in time. It concludes that time as continuity is typically embodied in the form of spatial diagrams whereas time as age and points in time are mainly of the nature of indexical signs. The insights into the forms of embodiment of time in space derived from these premises are applied to examples from recent graphic novels and some traditional comics.
Copland’s Styles
Authors: Chowrimootoo Christopher 
Published: October 2020

This article examines the relationship between Aaron Copland’s activities as composer and as pedagogue in order to illuminate the fraught midcentury relationship between musical modernism and middlebrow culture. I situate his unpublished lecture notes and music appreciation books within the middlebrow context and trace their connections with the works he composed during this period. At the center of my investigation is the contentious midcentury category of “style,” which implicated both Copland’s music and his pedagogy in ways that illuminate middlebrow cultural appreciation at large. Challenging long-standing modernist depictions of the middlebrow as the straightforward commercialization of high culture, I excavate characteristic middlebrow commitments to compromise, novelty, and breadth that proved even more unsettling to midcentury hierarchies than mass culture’s supposedly shameless pandering.
By emphasizing Copland’s commitment to a canon of modern “styles,” in composition as in music appreciation, I draw out underlying tensions between his “middlebrow” approach to modern music and a “higher,” purer form imagined by Arnold Schoenberg and Theodor W. Adorno. At the same time, I show how these distinctions often threatened to collapse. On a broader methodological level, I chart a middle course between “social” conceptions of the middlebrow—as a means of marketing, distributing, and teaching high art to a mass audience—and “aesthetic” discussions of it as a compositional style. By examining the reciprocity between Copland’s pedagogy and music, I ultimately suggest that the problem which middlebrow culture posed to high modernism lay not just in its ability to mediate between high and low, modernism and mass culture, but also in the challenges it posed to fantasies of aesthetic immediacy and autonomy.