bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A Population of Neutron Star Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources with a Helium Star Companion
Authors: Shao Yong , Li Xiang-Dong , Dai Zi-Gao 
Published: November 2019

Abstract
It was recently proposed that a significant fraction of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) actually host a neutron star (NS) accretor. We have performed a systematic study on the NS ULX population in Milky Way–like galaxies, by combining binary population synthesis and detailed stellar evolution calculations. Besides a normal star, the ULX donor can be a helium star (the hydrogen envelope of its progenitor star was stripped during previous common envelope evolution) if the NS is accreting at a super-Eddington rate via Roche lobe overflow. We find that the NS−helium star binaries can significantly contribute to the ULX population, with the overall number of about several in a Milky Way–like galaxy. Our calculations show that such ULXs are generally close systems with orbital period distribution peaked at ∼0.1 day (with a tail up to ∼100 days), and the helium stars have relatively low masses distributing with a maximum probability at ∼1M
⊙.
Improving the Clinical Skills and Knowledge of Midwives and Nurses Caring for Late Preterm Neonates
Authors: Cooper Alannah L. , Brown Janie A. , O'Connor Therese , Eccles Siobhan 
Published: November 2019

Background:
Due to changes in funding, late pre-term neonates are no longer admitted to neonatal units unless diagnosed with a specific medical condition. Consequently, neonates born at a gestational age of 35 weeks and 0 days to 36 weeks and 6 days are cared for on postnatal wards. Compared with full-term infants, late preterm neonates are at increased risk of hypothermia, hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, feeding difficulties, respiratory complications, and mortality.

Method:
An educational intervention focusing on the care of the late preterm neonate was developed, and quantitative data were collected pre- and post-intervention to assess the effect on knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Results:

Of the midwives and nurses who participated, 65% (
n
= 13) strongly agreed and 35% (
n
= 7) agreed their knowledge and confidence had increased. The mean score increased from a range of 20 to 25 pre-intervention to 22 to 25 post-intervention.

Conclusion:

The intervention increased the self-reported confidence and self-reported competence of participants, who also felt more supported caring for late preterm neonates.

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J Contin Educ Nurs
. 2019;50(12):551–556.]
Comparison of High-Fidelity Simulation and Lecture to Improve the Management of Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
Authors: Lee Hsiu-Lan , Liu Pei-Chi , Hsieh Meng-Chen , Chao An-Shine , Chiu Ya-Wen , Weng Yi-Hao 
Published: November 2019

Background:
We developed a training course of fetal monitoring using high-fidelity simulation for obstetric nurses.

Method:
All participants were assessed by two standardized written tests for knowledge and interpretation of fetal heart rate tracing before and after the training. In addition, a self-estimated questionnaire survey was performed twice—after the training and 6 months later.

Results:
The knowledge and interpretation of fetal heart rate tracing significantly improved in the simulation group. Compared with the lecture group, the perceived improvements of knowledge and interpretation of fetal heart rate tracing in the simulation group were significantly better following the training and 6 months later.

Conclusion:

High-fidelity simulation courses are useful in improving the knowledge and interpretation of fetal heart rate tracings for obstetric nurses. They are more effective to improve both short- and long-term management in fetal heart rate monitoring.

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J Contin Educ Nurs
. 2019;50(12):557–562.]
Towards the Uberisation of Legal Practice
Authors: Thornton Margaret 
Published: November 2019

Uber and Airbnb signify new ways of working and doing business by facilitating direct access to providers through new digitalised platforms. The gig economy is also beginning to percolate into legal practice through what is colloquially known as NewLaw. Eschewing plush offices, permanent staff and the rigidity of time billing, NewLaw offers cheaper services to clients in order to compete more effectively with traditional law firms. For individual lawyers, autonomy, flexibility, a balanced life, wellbeing and even happiness are claimed to be the benefits. The downside appears to be that NewLaw favours senior and experienced lawyers while disproportionately impacting on recent graduates. This article draws on interviews with lawyers in Australian and English NewLaw firms in order to evaluate the pros and cons of NewLaw.
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Cognitive and Emotional satisfaction on Customer Loyalty
Authors: Omar Maznah Wan 
Published: November 2019

ABSTRACT Loyal customers are among the greatest revenue producer and are more likely to occur in a form of word-of-mouth. In the compound and vibrant Malaysian home computer retail market today, customer loyalty through word-of-mouth marketing tends to occur very slowly and is limited geographically but is a very potent method of marketing.The influence of cognitive and emotional satisfaction on the relationship between salesperson presentation skills and customer’s loyalty through intention to promote by word-of-mouth is vital. This will then lead to increased benefits for the organization in the form of customer loyalty. The cognitive evaluation of customer satisfaction was found to explain customer loyalty in a retail setting more than the emotional reaction. This finding holds importance to those retailers who have been able to generate high expectations in the eyes of their customers.
Reviewer Acknowledgements
Authors: Williams Richard 
Published: November 2019

Journal of Agricultural Studies (JAS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether JAS publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 7, Number 4Ali Fawzy Hamza, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, EgyptAngel Ramon Sanchez Delgado, Universidade federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAnil Kumar Matta, KLEF, IndiaBabak Mohammadi, University of Tehran, IranBenjamin Mudiwa, African Evaluation Association (AfriEA), ZimbabweCamilla H. M. Camargos, University of Campinas, BrazilEliana Mariela Werbin, National University of Cordoba, ArgentinianElizabeth Amélia Alves Duarte, College Maria Milza-FAMAM, BrazilEwa Moliszewska, Opole University, PolandFábio Cassola, UNICAMP, BrazilFabrício Oliveira Fernandes, State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho - FCAV, BrazilJeferson Coutinho, Federal Institute of Science, BrazilJiban Shrestha, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, NepalJuliana Nneka Ikpe, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, NigeriaMaryanne O. Egbeadumah, Federal University Wukari, NigeriaMohamed Mattar, King Saud University, Saudi ArabiaMohammed El Basuini, Kagoshima University, JapanServet Aras, Bozok University, TurkeySina Nabaei, Azad University, IranSomaia Alkhair, Alzaeim Alazhari University, SudanSudu Hakuruge Pushpa Malkanthi, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Sri LankaZakaria Fouad Abdallah, National Research Centre, EgyptZeinab Mohammadi Shad, University of Arkansas, USAZhao Chen, Clemson University, USAZsolt Domozi, Obuda University, Hungary Richard WilliamsEditorial AssistantJournal of Agricultural Studies--------------------------------------Macrothink Institute5348 Vegas Dr.#825Las Vegas, Nevada 89108United StatesPhone: 1-702-953-1852 ext.521Fax: 1-702-420-2900Email: jas@macrothink.orgURL: http://jas.macrothink.org
As Good as It Gets? “Optimal” Marginality in theLongue Duréeof the Mediterranean Islands
Authors: Dawson Helen 
Published: November 2019

AbstractThe small islands of the Mediterranean are generally considered to be marginal spaces, located on the periphery of mainstream processes occurring on the mainland. While we might acknowledge such marginality in terms of limited productivity, islands can also become critical nodes in networks of interaction, often owing to their location along maritime routes and/or desirable resources. This is evident during the Bronze Age, when extensive travel across the Mediterranean is first documented, and in historical times, when the islands were tied into market economies. Focusing on the Aeolian Islands and drawing on parallels both from the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, this article will explore how islanders experienced alternating periods of relative centrality and marginality, their possible reasons and effects, over the longue durée. The article calls for a reconceptualization of marginality, focusing on an island's in-betweenness rather than isolation. Thanks to their “optimal marginality,” islands become productive and innovative spaces.
Jacques Copeau: uma vida dedicada à renovação do teatro
Authors: Teixeira Evandro Luis 
Published: November 2019

O presente artigo é resultado do Projeto de Pesquisa Poética, Ética e Estética na Pedagogia Teatral de Jacques Copeau – financiado pelo PROBIC/UDESC – que se propõe a pesquisar os textos de Jacques Copeau ainda não disponíveis em Língua Portuguesa, através das traduções do orientador Prof. Dr. José Ronaldo Faleiro e de outros autores que discutem a sua obra. O objetivo deste artigo é possibilitar maiores esclarecimentos sobre a vida e a obra de Jacques Copeau.
The Media Snatcher
Authors: Therrien Carl 
Published: November 2019

An in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on the way we construct the cultural history of video games.
In The Media Snatcher, Carl Therrien offers an in-depth exploration of NEC's PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, a little-studied video game platform released in the late 1980s. The PC Engine was designed to bring technological expandability to the world of game consoles; The Media Snatcher's subtitle evokes some of the expansions and the numerous rebranded versions of the system released by NEC, including the first CD-ROM add-on in video game history. The platform makers hoped that expandability would allow its console to remain at the cutting edge and even catch up with such perceptually rich media as cinema and anime. More than a simple shape-shifter, the PC Engine became a media snatcher.
Therrien examines the multidirectional interactions of video game technologies, commercial structures, and cultural dynamics. He considers, among other things, hyperbolic marketing and its impact on how we construct video game history; glitches, technological obsolescence, and the difficulty of conducting media archaeology of the recent past; the emergence of male-centered power fantasies through audiovisual rewards; the rise of original genres such as visual novels; and the sustained efforts to integrate PC Engine software in the sprawling media landscape of Japan (where the PC Engine found much of its success). Avoiding the usual techno-industrial glorification, Therrien recounts the bold technological aspirations of the platform makers and the struggles to make the actual technology realize its potential.
Good Entertainment
Authors: Han Byung-Chul 
Published: November 2019

A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.
In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thinker as a man of pain; Kafka's hunger artist and the art of negativity, which takes pleasure in annihilation; and Robert Rauschenberg's refusal of the transcendent.
The history of the West, Han tells us, is a passion narrative, and passion appears as a killjoy. Achievement is the new formula for passion, and play is subordinated to production, gamified. And yet, he argues, at their core, passion and entertainment are not entirely different. The pure meaninglessness of entertainment is adjacent to the pure meaning of passion. The fool's smile resembles the pain-racked visage of Homo doloris. In Good Entertainment, Han explores this paradox.
A Brain for Numbers
Authors: Nieder Andreas 
Published: November 2019

How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.
Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers. How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In A Brain for Numbers, Andreas Nieder explains how our brains process numbers. He reports that numerical competency is deeply rooted in our biological ancestry; it can be traced through both the evolution of our species and the development of our individual minds. It is not, as it has been traditionally explained, based on our ability to use language. We owe our symbolic mathematical skills to the nonsymbolic numerical abilities that we inherited from our ancestors. The principles of mathematics, Nieder tells us, are reflections of the innate dispositions wired into the brain.
Nieder explores how the workings of the brain give rise to numerical competence, tracing flair for numbers to dedicated “number neurons” in the brain. Drawing on a range of methods including brain imaging techniques, behavioral experiments, and twin studies, he outlines a new, integrated understanding of the talent for numbers. Along the way, he compares the numerical capabilities of humans and animals, and discusses the benefits animals reap from such a capability. He shows how the neurobiological roots of the brain's nonverbal quantification capacity are the evolutionary foundation of more elaborate numerical skills. He discusses how number signs and symbols are represented in the brain; calculation capability and the “neuromythology” of mathematical genius; the “start-up tools” for counting and developmental of dyscalculia (a number disorder analogous to the reading disorder dyslexia); and how the brain processes the abstract concept of zero.
Sharenthood
Authors: Plunkett Leah A. 
Published: November 2019

From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children's privacy online.
Our children's first digital footprints are made before they can walk—even before they are born—as parents use fertility apps to aid conception, post ultrasound images, and share their baby's hospital mug shot. Then, in rapid succession come terabytes of baby pictures stored in the cloud, digital baby monitors with built-in artificial intelligence, and real-time updates from daycare. When school starts, there are cafeteria cards that catalog food purchases, bus passes that track when kids are on and off the bus, electronic health records in the nurse's office, and a school surveillance system that has eyes everywhere. Unwittingly, parents, teachers, and other trusted adults are compiling digital dossiers for children that could be available to everyone—friends, employers, law enforcement—forever. In this incisive book, Leah Plunkett examines the implications of “sharenthood”—adults' excessive digital sharing of children's data. She outlines the mistakes adults make with kids' private information, the risks that result, and the legal system that enables “sharenting.”
Plunkett describes various modes of sharenting—including “commercial sharenting,” efforts by parents to use their families' private experiences to make money—and unpacks the faulty assumptions made by our legal system about children, parents, and privacy. She proposes a “thought compass” to guide adults in their decision making about children's digital data: play, forget, connect, and respect. Enshrining every false step and bad choice, Plunkett argues, can rob children of their chance to explore and learn lessons. The Internet needs to forget. We need to remember.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from the MIT Libraries.
The Information Manifold
Authors: Badia Antonio 
Published: November 2019

An argument that information exists at different levels of analysis—syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic—and an exploration of the implications.
Although this is the Information Age, there is no universal agreement about what information really is. Different disciplines view information differently; engineers, computer scientists, economists, linguists, and philosophers all take varying and apparently disconnected approaches. In this book, Antonio Badia distinguishes four levels of analysis brought to bear on information: syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and network-based. Badia explains each of these theoretical approaches in turn, discussing, among other topics, theories of Claude Shannon and Andrey Kolomogorov, Fred Dretske's description of information flow, and ideas on receiver impact and informational interactions. Badia argues that all these theories describe the same phenomena from different perspectives, each one narrower than the previous one. The syntactic approach is the more general one, but it fails to specify when information is meaningful to an agent, which is the focus of the semantic and pragmatic approaches. The network-based approach, meanwhile, provides a framework to understand information use among agents.
Badia then explores the consequences of understanding information as existing at several levels. Humans live at the semantic and pragmatic level (and at the network level as a society), computers at the syntactic level. This sheds light on some recent issues, including “fake news” (computers cannot tell whether a statement is true or not, because truth is a semantic notion) and “algorithmic bias” (a pragmatic, not syntactic concern). Humans, not computers, the book argues, have the ability to solve these issues.
Arbeidsglede i hjemmesykepleien
Authors: Glad Tone 
Published: November 2019

Work enjoyment in home nursing
This essay is a reflection on work enjoyment in home care nursing. Nurses describe working days that provide little pleasure. Work enjoyment tends to be the result of nurses’ relationship with colleagues and the people they are in contact with and care for. In interviews, home nurses describe busy days of physical and mental pressure to complete all their tasks. There is little enjoyment and a feeling of inadequacy in their work. They call for space for joy that gives them the possibility to achieve work satisfaction. An attempt is made to describe the factors that promote and constrain work enjoyment in nursing through reflection on home nurses’ experiences and the use of texts from the history of ideas and from nursing.
Toxicity of Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) Leaf Dust on Enzymatic and Protein Synthesis Activities of African Mud Catfish (Clarias gariepinus)
Authors: Nkpondion N. N. , Ugwumba O. A. , Ugwumba A. A. A. , Esenowo I. K. 
Published: November 2019

The toxicity of tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) leaf dust with piscicidal and pesticidal properties was investigated on some enzymatic and protein synthesis activities of juvenile African mud catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Fish were exposed to both lethal and sub-lethal concentrations of tobacco leaf dust for 21 days in a renewal bioassay procedure. The median lethal concentrations (LC50) were derived using Finney probit method while protein and enzymatic activities were determined using Biuret and Randox methods respectively. The LC50 values for 48 hours acute bioassay test was 2.11g/l for tobacco leaf dust. Tobacco exposed fish showed significant increase (P≤0.05) in serum AST, ALT and ALP levels. Significant decrease (p≤0.05) were observed for liver AST (141.00 ± 2.52 to 154.67 ± 0.67), serum and liver total protein (6.47 ± 0.03 to 7.80 ± 0.40 and 3.30 ± 0.00 to 3.57 ±0.12) and serum albumin (4.23 ± 0.09 to 4.83 ±0.20) across all concentrations. The study showed that exposure of C. gariepinus juvenile to sub-lethal concentrations of tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) leaf dust can induce various toxicological effects in the form of enzymatic alteration. Therefore, the longer exposure of tobacco leaf dust in aquatic ecosystem is dangerous to fish and subsequently human health.
Comparative Studies of Spawning Potentials in Female African Bonytongue Heterotis niloticus (Curvier 1829) between Cross River and Great Kwa River, Nigeria
Authors: Udoudo Ikot, Ndueso 
Published: November 2019

The spawning potentials of Heterotis niloticus from Great Kwa River and Cross River was compared in a twelve-month study. Forty-nine female H. niloticus was sampled from Cross River and thirty four from Great Kwa River from January to December 2014. Gonadosomatic index (GSI), fecundity and histological examinations were investigated in the Institute of Oceanography laboratory. Each month of this study recorded at least one female specimen with eggs at different stages of development. In Cross River, the months of August and September recorded one hundred per cent female with eggs, while Great Kwa River exhibited such performance in July, an indication of spawning activities by the fish. Cross River had a major GSI peak in July with a minor one in August, but Great Kwa River did not exhibit any significant GSI peak throughout the study, and no significant difference in GSI between the rivers when compared with T-test (0.22; P>0.05). There was a significant difference (0.02, P<0.05) in fecundity of H. niloticus between the population in Cross River and Great Kwa River. Regression analysis of fecundity and body weight showed a positive correlation (P<0.05)(r=0.3686). Histological changes in the gonad of the fish showed no disparity between the rivers. H. niloticus has the ability to spawn all year round, but in the Cross River, the fish has high reproductive potentials than those in the Great Kwa River.