bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The end of the affair: Catholic plots and sinful detectives
Authors: Valente Simão 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe first paragraph of Greene’sThe End of the Affairestablishes a clear link between two of the major themes of the novel: storytelling and Catholicism. Maurice Bendrix, the first-person narrator, considers whether it is his craft as a professional writer that leads him to begin telling his story the way he does, or, were he a believer, whether the hand of God played a role in organizing the events that he retells. The order in which a story is told is pitted against the chronological order of the events depicted, this contrast in turn masking the one between human choice and divine intervention. The gist of the story is the affair Bendrix conducted with Sarah Miles, and its unexpected and unexplained end at her behest a year before the opening scene, at the height of the Blitz. That mystery is the crux of the plot, for Bendrix’s obsession with uncovering it leads him to hire a private detective, Parkis, whose exploits allow Greene to appropriate the narrative structure of detective fiction to frame his work, especially in what concerns what Franco Moretti called a “double system of meanings”, following Todorov’s work on detective fiction: the superficial level of investigation hides the deeper level of the crime which is only revealed at the end. My suggestion is that Greene’s novel operates under this system, superimposing it to his concerns with jealousy, religion, and how to tell it. The concern with God, however posits issues of authorship and narrative that go beyond the classical detective story. The interplay between narrative time and experienced time expressed in the novel’s initial paragraph is in this way rendered more complicated by a detective story’s reliance on its conclusion for it to “work”. Although theThe End of the Affairopens by emphasizing its own opening, both title and structure point to the source of meaning: the end.
Characteristics of radio-frequency/vacuum combined with mechanical press drying of heavy softwood timbers with longitudinal kerf
Authors: Zhao Xuefeng , Lee Changjin 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of radio-frequency/vacuum combined with mechanical press (RF/VP) drying on three softwood timbers (Douglas fir, Hemlock, and Radiata pine) with longitudinal kerfs. The results were as follows: Due to the dielectric permittivity of wood, RF/VP drying at a fixed frequency of 13.56 MHz significantly influenced the moisture content (MC) distribution, the number of surface checks, shrinkage, and warp. These observations were attributed to the formation of a temperature gradient along the charge plate during the drying. The presence or absence of pith, more affected an occurrence of surface checks than that of the stresses within the wood during drying. The longitudinal kerf reduced the number of surface checks, but did not affect the MC distribution or the twist after drying.
Properties of a formaldehyde-free tannin adhesive and mechanical strength of oriented bamboo scrimber board bonded with it
Authors: Chung Min-Jay , Chang Tzu-Cheng , Chang Shang-Tzen , Wang Sheng-Yang 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
In this study, oriented bamboo scrimber board (OBSB) was manufactured with a synthesized formaldehyde-free tannin adhesive. The chemical properties of the tannin adhesive were analyzed with 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (13C-NMR) and diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFT). Results revealed that 70% aqueous acetone extractives of Acacia confusa bark (AcBAE) contained abundant phenolic compounds and condensed tannins comprising mainly B-type flavonoid bonds. Moreover, cross polarization magic angle spinning (CP/MAS) 13C-NMR mapping of cured Acacia confusa bark tannin glue (AcBTanGlu) revealed that condensed tannin reacted with hexamethylenetetramine to form a polymer with a cross-link structure through a polymerization mechanism. According to the results obtained from gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) analysis, no formaldehyde was emitted from AcBTanGlu-glued OBSB. Thermogravimetric analysis indicated that AcBTanGlu significantly improved the thermal stability of AcBAE after the curing reaction. Comparison of the DRIFT spectra of bamboos before and after AcBTanGlu-glued treatment indicated AcBTanGlu did not impact the chemical functional properties of the bamboo. Compared to phenol formaldehyde (PF) and urea formaldehyde (UF)-glued OBSBs, AcBTanGlu-glued OBSBs statistically had lower modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR). As for the nail withdraw resistance, AcBTanGlu-glued OBSBs are statistically comparable to PF-glued OBSBs and higher than UF-glued OBSBs.
Temperature-dependent proportional limit stress of SiC/SiC fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites
Authors: Li Longbiao 
Published: July 2020

AbstractIn this paper, the temperature-dependent proportional limit stress (PLS) of SiC/SiC fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) is investigated using the micromechanical approach. The PLS of SiC/SiC is predicted using an energy balance approach considering the effect of environment temperature. The relation between the environment temperature, PLS, and composite damage state is established. The effects of the fiber volume, interface properties, and matrix properties on the temperature-dependent PLS and composite damage state of SiC/SiC composite are analyzed. The experimental PLS and interface debonding length of 2D SiC/SiC composites with the PyC and BN interphase at elevated temperatures are predicted. The temperature-dependent PLS of SiC/SiC composite increases with the fiber volume, interface shear stress and interface debonding energy, and the matrix fracture energy and decreases with the interface frictional coefficient at the same temperature.
Bharatamuni’s hāsya in Nāṭya Śāstra and Bergson’s Laughter: A comparative study of the aesthetics of the comic
Authors: Venkat Vishaka , Balakrishnan Vinod 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe paper elucidates the “paradox of comedy”—a perpetual philosophical concern regarding the nature of theatrical/stage comedy—through a cross-cultural comparison between Bharatamuni’s (circa 500 A.D.) and Henri Bergson’s (1859–1941) theorization of the comic and thereupon, fathoms the Indian comic tradition in the canon of comedy studies. Bharata’s hāsya in Nāṭya Śāstra and Bergson’s Laughter become tenable for a comparative aesthetic study as they approach the stagecraft of the comic socio-aesthetically. The comic paradox implies the tension in the nature of comedy, which on one hand has to arouse emotion in the audience and simultaneously, has to detach them from the emotion for the comic manifestation. This is further elaborated through: the personal and social nature of the comic; the absence and presence of feeling; the degrees of the comic paradox through detachment and indifference; the identification and isolation of the character; the aim of the comedy. The authors argue for Bergson’s position of the comic as an ‘outward’ and Bharata’s as an ‘inward-outward’ operation. The study also includes an appendix, which validates Bergson’s approach to laughter as the earliest attempt to dedicate an elaborate study on the nature of the comic.
Endocannabinoids release after Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment. A brief review
Authors: Buscemi Andrea , Martino Simona , Scirè Campisi Santi , Rapisarda Alessandro , Coco Marinella 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Objectives
Since 70’s, scientific research has analyzed how many acute and chronic issues can affect body systems. In case of depression, chronic pain and overtraining, centrals and peripherals systems act to manage and maintain body adaptations. The aim of this study is to evaluate if the osteopathic treatment can increase the release of Cannabinoid receptor (CB) and promote the linkage with their receptors.

Content
Documents research is based on PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Keywords used were “osteopathic treatment”, “manual therapy”, “endocannabinoid”, “beta endorphin (BE)”, and “ CB1” “massage”. From 70 articles collected (published in the last 10 years) 52 were excluded as non-relevant to the study aim.

Summary
The Key points have been the similar results found by different authors during different treatment periods and with different doses. From 22 articles examined, 13 have established positive effects on CB increasing post osteopathic treatment, three articles have indicated the most targeted tissues in which the substances are most expressed, two articles indicate how physical activities produce antalgic effects by increasing CB’s values.

Outlook
As a result of this review, osteopathic manipulation treatment seems to be a valid and effective instrument for the treatment of a series of pathologies such as chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, spinal cord lesions, myofascial graft point, migraine, GI tract dysfunctions, and depression.
On the odd order composition factors of finite linear groups
Authors: Betz Alexander , Chao-Haft Max , Gong Ting , Ter-Saakov Anthony , Yang Yong 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
In this paper, we study the product of orders of composition factors of odd order in a composition series of a finite linear group.
First we generalize a result by Manz and Wolf about the order of solvable linear groups of odd order.
Then we use this result to find bounds for the product of orders of composition factors of odd order in a composition series of a finite linear group.
Convergence and stability analysis of the half thresholding based few-view CT reconstruction
Authors: Huang Hua , Lu Chengwu , Zhang Lingli , Wang Weiwei 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
The projection data obtained using the computed tomography (CT) technique are often incomplete and inconsistent owing to the radiation exposure and practical environment of the CT process, which may lead to a few-view reconstruction problem.
Reconstructing an object from few projection views is often an ill-posed inverse problem.
To solve such problems, regularization is an effective technique, in which the ill-posed problem is approximated considering a family of neighboring well-posed problems.
In this study, we considered the

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regularization to solve such ill-posed problems.
Subsequently, the half thresholding algorithm was employed to solve the

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regularization-based problem.
The convergence analysis of the proposed method was performed, and the error bound between the reference image and reconstructed image was clarified.
Finally, the stability of the proposed method was analyzed.
The result of numerical experiments demonstrated that the proposed method can outperform the classical reconstruction algorithms in terms of noise suppression and preserving the details of the reconstructed image.
Wavelength division multiplexing techniques based on multi transceiver in low earth orbit intersatellite systems
Authors: Alatwi Aadel M. , Zaki Rashed Ahmed Nabih , El-Gammal Eman Mohsen 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
System performance, which depends on the data transmission rates and propagation distances between two satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques, is thoroughly studied. This study demonstrates the effect of WDM techniques on multi transceiver inter-satellite wireless optical communications. The system performance parameters with propagation distance at a multiple transceiver system are discussed using two previous models. The system performance parameters are investigated with 250 Gb/s transmission bit rates and 5000 km propagation distances for 16 transceiver systems. The maximum quality factor (Q factor), light peak signal per noise ratio, and signal peak per noise ratio are the primary important performance parameters in this study.
On the application of nature-inspired grey wolf optimizer algorithm in geodesy
Authors: Yetkin M. , Bilginer O. 
Published: July 2020

AbstractNowadays, solving hard optimization problems using metaheuristic algorithms has attracted bountiful attention. Generally, these algorithms are inspired by natural metaphors. A novel metaheuristic algorithm, namely Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO), might be applied in the solution of geodetic optimization problems. The GWO algorithm is based on the intelligent behaviors of grey wolves and a population based stochastic optimization method. One great advantage of GWO is that there are fewer control parameters to adjust. The algorithm mimics the leadership hierarchy and hunting mechanism of grey wolves in nature. In the present paper, the GWO algorithm is applied in the calibration of an Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) instrument using the Least Squares (LS) principle for the first time. Furthermore, a robust parameter estimator called the Least Trimmed Absolute Value (LTAV) is applied to a leveling network for the first time. The GWO algorithm is used as a computing tool in the implementation of robust estimation. The results obtained by GWO are compared with the results of the ordinary LS method. The results reveal that the use of GWO may provide efficient results compared to the classical approach.
Expert advice about therapeutic exercise during pregnancy reduces the symptoms of sacroiliac dysfunction
Authors: Filipec Manuela , Matijević Ratko 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Objectives
There are growing evidence that exercise improves sacroiliac dysfunction symptoms in pregnant women; but no data about the effect of expert advice regarding this matter. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of expert advice about therapeutic exercise on sacroiliac dysfunction in pregnancy.

Methods
A total of 500 women with sacroiliac dysfunction diagnosed in pregnancy were randomized in study and control group. Study group has conducted expert advice on therapeutic exercise; while control group continued with their normal lifestyle. Pain intensity by Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and degree of functional disability by Quebec scale were assessed at enrolment and after 3 and 6 weeks.

Results
Significantly better reduction in pain intensity assessed by VAS (p=0.001) and degree of functional disability assessed by Quebec scale (p=0.001) was noted in study compared to control group. Better results for both outcome measures were obtained if intervention was implemented earlier i.e., in second (p=0.001; p=0.001) compared to third (p=0.005; p=0.001) trimester. Strong positive correlation was found between pain intensity and degree of functional disability in both groups.

Conclusions
Expert advice on therapeutic exercise is effective in reduction of sacroiliac dysfunction symptoms during pregnancy.

Trial registration
ACTRN12617000556347
unrechtliche peinliche schmehung oder dem gemeinen nutz nuetzlich?Eine Fallstudie zur Normenkonkurrenz im Schmähschriftprozess des 16. Jahrhunderts
Authors: Siegemund Jan 
Published: July 2020

AbstractLibel played an important and extraordinary role in early modern conflict culture. The article discusses their functions and the way they were assessed in court. The case study illustrates argumentative spaces and different levels of normative references in libel trials in 16th century electoral Saxony. In 1569, Andreas Langener – in consequence of a long stagnating private conflict – posted several libels against the nobleman Tham Pflugk in different public places in the city of Dresden. Consequently, he was arrested and charged with ‘libelling’. Depending on the reference to conflicting social and legal norms, he had therefore been either threatened with corporal punishment including his execution, or rewarded with laudations. In this case, the act of libelling could be seen as slander, but also as a service to the community, which Langener had informed about potentially harmful transgression of norms. While the common good was the highest maxim, different and sometimes conflicting legally protected interests had to be discussed. The situational decision depended on whether the articulated charges where true and relevant for the public, on the invective language, and especially on the quality and size of the public sphere reached by the libel.
Between Universalism and Fundamentalism: A Critique on the Position of Conservative Shia Clergy on Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Authors: Peykani Jalal , Khalili Mostafa 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe Islamic Republic of Iran is unsecular and follows religious interpretations from Shia Islam in deciding the laws of the land. In recent decades, the strengthening of civil society in the country has shaped various political debates on human rights among secular intellectuals and reflected in the discourse of some religious figures as well. While the regime has officially adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) since 1990, different views on the Islamic human rights and its social implications still exist among the conservative and reformist Shia clergy within the country. This paper examines the view of an influential conservative pro-regime clergy, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, who has been concerned about the Western interpretation of human rights and engaged in its theorization based on his interpretation of Shia Islam. He has criticized the theoretical and philosophical foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its each single item and has also proposed his own version of the Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and Obligations. While Islamic fundamentalists have no concrete theoretical support for their negative view of the Western conceptions regarding human rights, Mesbah Yazdi’s approach is based on a reading of Shia theology and Sadraean ontology. He engages in a dialogue with the Western ideologies and rejects UDHR after philosophical and theological reasoning. His stance can be viewed as a reflection of the unsecular political Shia Islam as the main characteristic of the conservative faction within the Islamic Republic of Iran which results in serious policy and social implications on the rights of the people living in the country.
Synthesis and crystal structure of 3-N-acetyl-5-(pyridin-3-yl)-2-(quinolin-2-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazoline, C18H14N4O2
Authors: Yu Xiang , Peng Lu , Wang Xin , Chen Ya-Fang 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
C18H14N4O2, triclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 7.6557(7) Å, b = 11.0905(8) Å, c = 11.3544(9) Å, α = 61.6430(10)°, β = 73.600(2)°, γ = 75.397(2)°, V = 805.86(11) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0609, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1633, T = 298 K.
Crystal structure of 4,4′-(oxybis(methylene))bis(bromobenzene), C14H12Br2O
Authors: Lo Kong Mun , Lee See Mun , Tiekink Edward R.T. 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
C14H12Br2O, monoclinic, C2 (no. 5), a = 29.7356(3) Å, b = 5.88712(4) Å, c = 11.10915(9) Å, β = 99.1700(8)°, V = 1919.88(3) Å3, Z = 6, R
gt(F) = 0.0166, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0443, T = 100(2) K.
Cooperation, Media and Framing Processes
Authors: Jönsson Anna Maria , Karlsson Mikael 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
Cooperation and communication play an important role for environmental governance. This holds true for the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe, one of the most disturbed ecosystems in the world, where insufficient cooperation between different stakeholders is one reason for goal failure. This article addresses the linkages between (media) framing on the one hand, and cooperation on the other. The case in focus is a set of negotiations related to the Baltic Sea Action Plan, the most central governance strategy in the Baltic Sea region. Our results show that in order to influence political decision-making, key stakeholders compete over the power to define and interpret problems, causes and solutions to an extent impeding cooperation. We focus the analysis on eutrophication, which we show to be a complex and controversial topic, framed in incompatible ways by different stakeholders.
Examining the Experiences of Older Women with ICTs
Authors: Ratzenböck Barbara 
Published: July 2020

Abstract
A current empirical study explores how Austrian women aged 60 to 70 use and ascribe meaning to ICTs such as television, radio, mobile phone, computer or the Internet. In the study, life-graphs, semi-structured interviews, and indoor walking interviews are used to examine the everyday usage and interpretation of ICTs by older women, coming from various social backgrounds and living in the Austrian region of Styria. Analysing empirical material of the study, this paper focuses on the interrelation of generation-specific media practices and individual (media) biographies as they both influence older women's usage of and attitude towards ICTs. By using Maierhofer's concept of “anocriticism” as a frame for the analysis of the material in addition to Mannheim's idea of “generation location”, it becomes possible to elaborate on a more nuanced understanding of the relation between collective experiences within time and individual life-course perspectives in the context of ICTs.
Types of allography
Authors: Meletis Dimitrios 
Published: July 2020

AbstractVariation in writing is highly frequent at both the visual and the functional levels. However, as of yet, the associated notion of allography has not been systematically described. In this article, two major types of allography are proposed: graphetic allography, conceptually comparable to allophony, depends on visual similarity and captures how concrete units are associated with visual abstractions, i.e., how three graphs in <cabana> are instances of the basic shape |a|. Graphematic allography, conceptually closer to allomorphy, does not depend on visual similarity but groups together units that share the same function, i.e., represent the same linguistic unit (phoneme, syllable, morpheme, etc.) and are complementarily distributed, meaning there exist no contexts in which they contrast. An example is the positionally conditioned alternation between |σ| vs |ς| for the Greek grapheme <σ>. By means of a number of criteria, subtypes of graphetic and graphematic allography are proposed and examples are given from different writing systems. A special case that is discussed is the complex phenomenon of capitalization. Additionally, examples of variation phenomena that are not included in the concept of allography are given, and orthographic variation is addressed as a marginal case of variation dependent on the norm rather than the system.
The state of Spanish /s/ variation in Concepción, Chile: Linguistic and social trends
Authors: Rogers Brandon M. A. 
Published: July 2020

AbstractThe current study examines /s/ variation in the southern-central city of Concepción, Chile and its relation to a variety of linguistic and social factors. A proportional-odds mixed effects model, with the random factor of “speaker”, was used to treat the categorically coded data on a continuum of acoustical variation ([s] > [h] > ∅). The results presented show that contrary to the previous assertions, heavy sibilant reduction, especially elision, in Concepción, Chile is the rule, rather than the exception, to the extent that it is no longer a marker of certain social demographics as has been reported previously. Furthermore, based on the trends reported, it is likely that this has been the case for several decades. Finally, the overall observed trends are indicative that the rates of /s/ elision will continue to increase across social demographics and different phonetic and phonological contexts in Concepción, Chile.