bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Starting Business Out of Unemployment: How Do Supported Self-employed Individuals Perform?
Authors: Dvouletý Ondřej 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
The study empirically contributes to the discussion on the effects of start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals as a part of the active labour market policy. The article provides insights into the survival and performance of the subsidized businesses in the Czech Republic. The study follows up cohorts of self-employed individuals that were supported during years 2009–2017. The obtained findings show that a vast majority of the supported businesses were still officially active 2 years after the allocation of the start-up subsidy, and even later. The firm-level data further relieve that most of the individuals starting a business out of unemployment stay solo (only less than four per cent of self-employed individuals employ besides themselves at least one employee) and the economic outcomes of the subsidized businesses, measured as annual turnover, are rather modest. The empirical results further showed that higher intensity of public support is negatively associated with business closure and positively with employment and turnover categories. The study concludes that the start-up subsidy for unemployed succeeded in activating unemployed individuals to pursue an economic activity, although further research concerning other outcome variables such as personal income, job satisfaction and well-being is needed.
“Reading the Ritual”: Representation and Meaning on an Etruscan Funerary Monument in Perugia
Authors: Taylor Laurel 
Published: July 2020

AbstractAn unusual circular funerary monument in the National Archaeological Museum in Perugia (inv. no. 634) depicts a remarkable, multifigured narrative combining generic and unique scenes of Etruscan funerary ritual. Despite its singular character, this Archaic-period monument has never been the focus of an in-depth study. The monument features a frieze with two distinct scenes, each composed around a central focal point. On one side appears a prothesis scene in which a corpse occupies the central space with figures aligned on each side of the funerary bed. On the opposite side, figures are arranged on both sides of an altar featuring a burning fire, a scene without comparison in Etruscan funerary iconography. Though many of the figures have parallels within Etruscan imagery in both gesture and in attribute, much about this monument from its morphology to its pendant scenes is exceptional. Prothesis scenes, which appear almost exclusively in the Chiusi area and only during the Archaic period, are typically combined with images of funerary banqueting, dancing, and/or lamentation scenes. The pairing here with the altar/fire image raises interesting interpretive questions about the constitutive effect of these two events and how these may have been read and comprehended by the ancient viewer. Formally, the scenes invite connection and comparison, perhaps even to convey a symbolic and/or temporal relationship between these two events. The prothesis may have preceded and necessitated some sort of ritual purification by fire. Alternatively, the fire may reference a type of sacrifice part of funerary ritual. Neither, however, was part of the iconographic tradition. In attempting to these scenes, this paper uses a proxemics-based approach (a model used frequently in New World archaeology), to understand how the formal and physical characteristics of the monument reflect aspects of ancient visuality that is, the interplay between viewer, perception, and space. The figuration, composition, and morphology of this monument suggest that these scenes were intended less as narratives to be read and more as evocations of a ritual landscape whose broad contours could be perceived and understood with even a cursory engagement. These scenes are the visual evocation of ritual performance and environments. Though unusual in many aspects, the Perugia monument may have more far-reaching implications for ancient viewership.
Energiewende in Zeiten des Populismus
Authors: Radtke Jörg , Drewing Emily 
Published: July 2020

ZusammenfassungAls zentrales Projekt der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation ist die Energiewende gleichermaßen Gegenstand gesamtgesellschaftlicher und lokaler Kontroversen. (Wahrgenommene) Defizite der Steuerung und Mitbestimmung begünstigen populistische Reaktionen. Zudem bietet das vermeintlicheGemeinschaftswerkPopulist*innen ein Themenfeld zur strategischen Aneignung. Der Beitrag geht schlaglichtartig auf bereits sich ausbreitende sowie naheliegende Verknüpfungen ein und diskutiert mögliche Ansätze zu ihrer vertieften Erforschung.
“The marquise went out at 5 o’clock”: Novel beginnings and realistic expectations
Authors: Mikkonen Kai 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis paper poses the question of how the beginning of a narrative may (or may not) imply a generic frame. More precisely, the objective is to examine the way in which the given narrative mood (perspective, type of discourse) and the initial narrating instance (or narrative situation) relate to generic expectations. Specific attention is given to cues of realism in the openings of nineteenth-century European novels. The discussion critically assesses F. K. Stanzel’s (A Theory of Narrative) and Philippe Hamon’s (“Un discours contraint”) assumptions about the way in which initial narrative choices might identify the genre of the text. Both Stanzel and Hamon, in their differing ways, over-emphasise the generic implications of the narrative mode. The crucial point of distinction for Stanzel in this regard is the reflector mode. More specifically, he argues that an initial figural narrative situation could be considered conspicuouslyfictional. Hamon, in turn, highlights the question of novelistic conventions in realistic discourse, one generic marker of which is what he calls the “narrative concretization (alibi) of the performance of the discourse,” such as the strategy of delegating the narration to a narrator-character at the beginning of the novel. It is maintained in this paper that although novelistic beginnings cannot determine the text’s fictionality or genre by their narrative mode alone, the narrative perspective and situation in the opening can evoke, in connection with other potential markers, such as perspective, personal pronouns, verb tense, peritexts, and their combined rhetorical function, generic expectations that shape the reader’s understanding of the text. Paul Valéry’s famous mock-novelistic beginning “The marquise went out at 5 o’clock” is used as a point of reference in the discussion, and representative examples of “realistic” beginnings are drawn from Charles Dickens, Émile Zola and contemporary literature.
Dynamics of mid-channel bars in the Middle Vistula River in response to ferry crossing abutment construction
Authors: Sosnowska Anna 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
The investigation focused on the non-migrating mid-channel bars that emerged in the river channel as a consequence of river engineering. A reach of around 280 km of Middle Vistula River (Poland) was taken into account as the study site. The most vivid examples of the river engineering works potentially influencing the river channel are the ferry crossings. Along the Middle Vistula River reach, there are 17 ferry crossings that were constructed from 1970s to 1990s. A cartographic analysis was carried out to determine the influence of the ferry crossing construction over the river channel. It was performed on the basis of aerial photographs (traditional aerial photography and UAV photography). In 3 out of 17 potential localizations, the emergence of large non-migrating mid-channel bars was observed. A study of cartographic materials (from 1950s to 2000s) allowed determination of the dynamics of those bars, including time of emergence and the changes of their size.
Wood grain angles variations inEucalyptusand their relationships to physical-mechanical properties
Authors: Coelho José Clailson Franco , Vidaurre Graziela Baptista , da Silva João Gabriel Missia , de Almeida Maria Naruna Felix , Oliveira Ramon Ferreira , Segundinho Pedro Gutemberg de Alcântara , Alves Rejane Costa , Hein Paulo Ricardo Gherardi 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe relationship between grain angle and wood properties has not been focus of researches in wood industry. The aim of this study was to establish grain angle variations in commercialEucalyptuslogs and their effects on physical-mechanical wood properties. Wood maximum angular deviation (MAD) was correlated with density, volumetric shrinkage, compressive strength parallel to grain, flexural strength and stiffness as determined by bending and acoustic methods in wood of sevenEucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus urophyllaclones at 13 years old. The relationship between MAD at pith-bark and base-top positions and its effect on the physical and mechanical properties were evaluated. Amplitude of MAD values was small for the seven clones, and the mean was 6.2°. The grain deviation decreased by only 8% in base-top direction, and the correlations among MAD and three logs heights were small and negative (r = −0.13). MAD values presented an increasing trend of 33% in pith-bark direction, with a small positive correlation (r = 0.42). Basic density (BD) presented a significant correlation with the MAD (r = 26). There was no significant correlation between the MAD and volumetric shrinkage, mechanical properties and modulus of elasticity dynamic (determined by stress wave timer, ultrasound or transverse vibration).
Trait cheerfulness sensitivity to positive and negative affective states
Authors: López-Benítez Raúl , Coll-Martín Tao , Carretero-Dios Hugo , Lupiáñez Juan , Acosta Alberto 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
Recent research suggests that trait cheerfulness triggers larger state cheerfulness variations after facing amusing and sad clips. The present study aimed at replicating and extending these effects. A sample of 80 psychology students (68 women) was selected depending on their scores in trait cheerfulness. Participants watched a set of positive and negative pictures, which was accompanied by statements, and were asked to report their affective states before and after watching them. The results showed that high versus low trait cheerfulness participants reported a larger increase in state cheerfulness, valence, and joy measures after the positive induction and a larger decrease in state cheerfulness after the negative induction. The results replicate and extend previous findings and support the idea that high trait cheerfulness people are more sensitive to the affective environment.
Study on drying characteristics of corn based on 3D model
Authors: Jin Xu , Wang Chen , Bi Qingyue , Liu Zhongyan , Zhang Zhentao 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
In this study, the moisture diffusion process and mass transfer resistances for the drying process of corn were studied numerically. A 3D mathematical model for the heat and mass transfer of the hot air drying of corn was established. The heterogeneity of the corn kernels' physical structure was designed by multi-component modeling of the corn geometry. The distributions of the temperature and moisture inside the kernel during the drying process were simulated by COMSOL Multi physics software. The effects of drying air temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity on the mass transfer process of drying corn were analyzed. The pericarp resistance comprised the majority of the mass transfer resistance in the drying process. The drying air temperature significantly reduced pericarp resistance. The higher the wind velocity was, the lower the boundary layer resistance.
Multilingualism in Luxembourg: (Dis)empowering Cape Verdean migrants at work and beyond
Authors: Tavares Bernardino 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis paper explores the entanglement of language with issues such as discrimination and the reproduction of social hierarchies. It unpacks this interplay to show how the use and abuse of language serve as the main mechanism of inclusion, exclusion and limitation of migrants in the labour market, contributing to certain migrant groups and their descendants remaining in the bottom stratum of society. It investigates how language use can both empower and disqualify migrants, creating ethnic pools of work. This paper draws on interviews with a successful middle-aged Cape Verdean man, Pedrinhu, to illustrate this language impact. He came to Luxembourg at a young age and his sports skills helped him to be fast-tracked to acquire Luxembourgish citizenship. He talks about his migration trajectories, his sociolinguistic life and his job interactions with Cape Verdean workers at a private employment enterprise where he now holds a high position. He seeks “to empower” Cape Verdean migrants, challenging some of the institutionalised linguistic demands of the state employment agency he collaborates with; at the same time, he is aware of the reproduction of inequality and the ethnic stratification of his enterprise. The paper concludes by highlighting the ambivalences of multilingualism and empowerment interventions in accessing resources, such as work, in the condensed migration contexts of Luxembourg.
Language as a resource with fluctuating values: Arabic speakers in humanitarian and social work
Authors: Hassemer Jonas , Garrido Maria Rosa 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
This paper investigates the fluctuating value of Arabic when constructed as a linguistic resource for multilingual, “languaged” workers in a counselling centre for refugees in Austria and in an international humanitarian agency operating in ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Drawing on a variety of ethnographic data (observations, interviews and documents), our analyses of the institutionalised division of labour and of workers’ narrative positioning show how workers in both organisations discursively construct this linguistic resource as being of ambivalent value in their positioning vis-à-vis their colleagues, for their careers and in work interactions. Stratifying and empowerment effects are interwoven in the varying and coexisting values of Arabic.
On integrals associated with the free particle wave packet
Authors: Patkowski Alexander E. 
Published: July 2020

AbstractWe discuss some properties of integrals associated with the free particle wave packet,ψ⁢(x,t){\psi(x,t)}, which are solutions to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a free particle. Some noteworthy discussion is made in relation to integrals which have appeared in the literature. We also obtain formulas for half-integer arguments of the Riemann zeta function.
Impact of Private Labels and Information Campaigns on Organic and Fair Trade Food Demand
Authors: Bougherara Douadia , Ropars-Collet Carole , Saint-Gilles Jude 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
We use two Almost Ideal Demand Systems models on scanner data to analyze the demand for two food products (milk and coffee). Each demand system is composed of four products varying in the presence of an ecolabel (with or without) and the brand (national brand vs. private label). First, we aim to compare the demand for PL and NB ecolabeled products. While PLs are brands owned and controlled by retailers and specific to each retailer, NBs are owned and controlled by manufacturers and can be offered by several retailers. Second, we aim to assess the impact of information campaigns designed to raise awareness and knowledge of ecolabels. We find that demand is more elastic for ecolabeled goods as in the literature but we find this result only for NB goods (milk and coffee) and not for PL goods. We also find substitutability between ecolabeled and conventional goods as in the literature but only within the NB goods (milk only) and within the PL goods (milk and coffee). We also find complementarity between NB conventional and PL ecolabeled goods (milk and coffee). Finally, we find that information campaigns increase the predicted expenditure shares of PL organic milk by 33% and of NB fair trade coffee by 50%. But these effects are non-lasting.
„Idemität“. Zum Konzept Meister Eckharts in seinem selektiven Kommentar zum Johannesevangelium
Authors: Mieth Dietmar 
Published: July 2020

Abstrakt
Der Philosoph Heinrich Rombach, einer der Interpreten Meister Eckharts, hat den Vorschlag gemacht, Wechsel-Beziehungen begrifflich nicht als Beziehung von Identitäten zu verstehen, sondern statt dessen den Begriff der „Idemität“ zu benutzen, d.h. die Fassung einer Einheit in einer sich ständig rückkoppelnden Bewegung: bei sich selber sein und sich doch aus der Beziehung verstehen. Sie hat zwar ihre eigene Selbigkeit, aber als Geschehen ist sie auf andere Weise in sich differenziert. Diese Figur nennt Meister Eckhart „Unterscheidung durch Ununterschiedenheit“. Er zielt damit nicht ein Paradox an, sondern eine innere Differenzierung ohne kategorialen Außenbezug. Von Eckhart übernimmt Rombach eine Struktur, die er „vermittelte Unmittelbarkeit“ nennt. Dietmar Mieth versucht, diese Struktur der „Idemität“ in Meister Eckharts Johanneskommentar gleichsam als strukturgleiche Parallele von Wort/Sprache, Beieinandersein („apud“), Sohn/Menschwerdung/Geburt, Gerechtigkeit zu erläutern. Dabei erinnert der Johanneskommentar an verschiedenen Stellen auch an die eckhartsche Bildlehre, führt sie aber weniger aus als z.B. im Genesiskommentar, in Pauluszitaten oder in den deutschen Predigten. Umso gewichtiger ist es, auch hier die strukturgleiche Parallele zu zeigen. Zusätzlich scheint es ihm wichtig, den im Johanneskommentar verwendeten Naturbegriff genauer zu betrachten. Denn entweder bezeichnet der Naturbegriff ganz verschiedene Dinge, also die Natur Gottes, die Natur des Menschen, die Natur der christlichen Sittlichkeit, die Natur der Naturgesetze, oder er bezeichnet die Gründe der Philosophen im Unterschied oder in Korrespondenz zu den Motiven des Glaubens. D.h. es geht gar nicht um das, was wir heute mit „Natur“ im Sinne säkularer Wissenschaft assoziieren, sondern um ein Lesegerät für eine metaphorische, d.h. über ihre immanente Rekonstruktion hinausweisende, Bedeutung der Eigengesetzlichkeit der Dinge. Dies käme dem nahe, was Bernhard von Claivaux im Unterschied zum „liber revelationis“ als „liber creaturae“ bezeichnet hat, das Buch der Schöpfung im Unterschied zum Buch der Erlösung. Der Unterschied bezieht sich bei Eckhart jedoch nicht auf zwei unterschiedliche Regionen der Erkenntnis sondern auf eine Beziehung, in welcher Zwei und Eines zugleich miteinander korrespondieren.
Thyroid peroxidase antibodies are common in children with HLA-conferred susceptibility to type 1 diabetes, but are weakly associated with thyroid function
Authors: Saare Liisa , Peet Aleksandr , Tillmann Vallo 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Objectives
The need for screening for autoimmune thyroid disease in children who have HLA-conferred susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (T1D), but have not yet been diagnosed with T1D, has not been thoroughly studied. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of positive thyroid peroxidase antibodies and its effect on thyroid function in children with genetic susceptibility to T1D as well as to describe the association between thyroid autoimmunity and HLA-DQ genotypes.

Methods
Cross-sectional study in 223 children (112 boys) aged 7.4–10.5 years with HLA-conferred susceptibility to T1D. TPOAb were measured in all children; thyroglobulin antibodies (TGAb) and thyroid function in TPOAb positive subjects.

Results
Girls had a significantly higher median TPOAb concentration than boys (12 vs 11 kU/L; p=0.001). Positive TPOAb occurred in 13.9% and positive TGAb in 4% of subjects. Only two children had mild changes in thyroid function. There was no association between HLA risk groups and the prevalence of TPOAb.

Conclusions
TPOAb are common in children with HLA-conferred susceptibility to T1D, yet are weakly associated with thyroid function, suggesting limited value of thyroid screening in this cohort.
Continuous glucose monitoring reduces pubertal hyperglycemia of type 1 diabetes
Authors: Nwosu Benjamin Udoka , Yeasmin Shamima , Ayyoub Sanaa , Rupendu Shwetha , Villalobos-Ortiz Tony R. , Jasmin Gabrielle , Parajuli Sadichchha , Zahedi Bita , Zitek-Morrison Emily , Alonso Laura C. , Barton Bruce A. 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Background
Physiologic hyperglycemia of puberty is a major contributor to poor glycemic control in youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D). This study’s aim was to determine the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to improve glycemic control in pubertal youth with T1D compared to a non-CGM cohort after controlling for age, sex, BMI, duration, and insulin delivery methodology. The hypothesis is that consistent CGM use in puberty improves compliance with diabetes management, leading to increased percentage (%) time in range (TIR70–180 mg/dL) of glycemia, and lowering of HbA1c.

Methods
A longitudinal, retrospective, case-controlled study of 105 subjects consisting of 51 T1D controls (60.8% male) age 11.5 ± 3.8 y; and 54 T1D subjects (48.1% male) age 11.1 ± 5.0 y with confirmed CGM use for 12 months. Pubertal status was determined by Tanner staging. Results were adjusted for baseline HbA1c and diabetes duration.

Results
HbA1c was similar between the controls and the CGM group at baseline: 8.2 ± 1.1% vs 8.3 ± 1.2%, p=0.48 respectively; but was significantly lower in the CGM group 12 months later, 8.2 ± 1.1% vs. 8.7 ± 1.4%, p=0.035. Longitudinal change in HbA1c was similar in the prepubertal cohort between the control- and CGM groups: −0.17 ± 0.98% vs. 0.38 ± 1.5%, p=0.17. In contrast, HbA1c increased with advancing age and pubertal status in the pubertal controls but not in the pubertal CGM group: 0.55 ± 1.4 vs −0.22 ± 1.1%, p=0.020. Percent TIR was inversely related to HbA1c in the CGM group, r=-0.6, p=0.0004, for both prepubertal and pubertal subjects.

Conclusions
CGM use significantly improved glycemic control in pubertal youth with T1D compared to non-CGM users.
Rechtspraxis als soziale Praxis. Das Beispiel der Huntingdonshire Eyre von 1286
Authors: Schwandt Silke 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThis article examines the practice of law as a social practice. Especially at a time when there were only a few professional courts, the interaction at court also has a social component. Courts come together and are formed by actors for whom the judicial service was only one of many (often vassal) tasks. This means: at the moment of the court, at the moment of the trial, a group is formed for a certain purpose. It will be observed how these groups form, how they are composed, and how the decisions of the actors for a particular jurisdiction influence these processes. A case in point will be the so-called Justices in Eyre and their session in Huntingdon in 1286, representing a royal court journeying into the localities to challenge local courts and to provide royal justice for the population.