bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Capturing uncertainties through scenario-based integrated static reservoir modeling of lacustrine turbidites in the Barmer Basin, India
Authors: Konar Shubhodip , Majumdar Pinaki , Kumar Prem , Saha Chandan , Krishna Bora Ajoy , Kothari Vachaspati , Shankar Pranay 
Published: May 2018

Most static modeling workflows deal with stochastic simulations of the uncertain subsurface parameters on a base case model, although recent studies highlighted usefulness of discrete deterministic multiple geological scenario-based modeling. This paper illustrates the benefits of capturing the principal geological uncertainties through discrete subsurface scenarios, through a case study from the Vijaya and Vandana (V&V) field, Barmer Basin, northwest India. The 12 exploration and appraisal wells have established seven stratigraphically trapped oil pools with the maximum resources confined in the V&V mounds, consisting of turbidite sandstones and conglomerates in a shale background, inferred to be deposited in a deep lacustrine environment. Hydraulic fracturing of these sandstones resulted in significant production increase. Detailed subsurface analysis suggests that the V&V mounds consist of two channel complexes represented by a laterally migrating network of turbidite channels with a maximum thickness of 4–5 m for individual sandstones. Multiattribute seismic studies indicate that delineation of these channel sands, controlled mainly by the channel geometries, cannot be resolved by seismic signature/attribute studies alone, which necessitates the iteration of the facies model into five different scenarios. Each of the facies scenarios is further iterated with other key uncertain input parameters for STOIIP calculation (namely saturation, porosity, contact, etc.) to result in 50 deterministic static realizations that capture the wide uncertainty range of in-place volumes, through a cumulative distribution function plot. In the absence of a defined concept, our model highlights the importance of deterministic depiction of subsurface concepts (geologic, geophysical, petrophysical, and dynamic) through a scenario-based approach. This workflow captures a wide range of various high-impact uncertainties in an integrated manner and links discrete, deterministic, scenario-based outcomes to probabilistic reporting. This will help in the decision-making process by linking the model outcome with long-term well testing and ultimately the concept underlying the development plan.
Metabolic Effects of Betaine: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Betaine Supplementation in Prediabetes
Authors: Grizales Ana Maria , Patti Mary-Elizabeth , Lin Alexander P , Beckman Joshua A , Sahni V Anik , Cloutier Emilie , Fowler Kristen M , Dreyfuss Jonathan M , Pan Hui , Kozuka Chisayo , Lee Adrienne , Basu Rita , Pober David M , Gerszten Robert E , Goldfine Allison B 
Published: May 2018

AbstractContextPlasma betaine correlates with insulin sensitivity in humans. Betaine supplementation improves metabolic effects in mice fed a high-fat diet.ObjectiveTo assess metabolic effects of oral betaine in obese participants with prediabetes.DesignA 12-week, parallel arm, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial.SettingUniversity-affiliated hospital.Participants and InterventionsPersons with obesity and prediabetes (N = 27) were randomly assigned to receive betaine 3300 mg orally twice daily for 10 days, then 4950 mg twice daily for 12 weeks, or placebo.Main Outcome MeasuresChanges from baseline in insulin sensitivity, glycemia, hepatic fat, and endothelial function.ResultsThere was a 16.5-fold increase in plasma dimethylglycine [dimethylglycine (DMG); P < 0.0001] levels, but modest 1.3- and 1.5-fold increases in downstream serine and methionine levels, respectively, in the betaine vs placebo arm. Betaine tended to reduce fasting glucose levels (P = 0.08 vs placebo) but had no other effect on glycemia. Insulin area under curve after oral glucose was reduced for betaine treatment compared with placebo (P = 0.038). Insulin sensitivity, assessed by euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp, was not improved. Serum total cholesterol levels increased after betaine treatment compared with placebo (P = 0.032). There were no differences in change in intrahepatic triglyceride or endothelial function between groups.ConclusionDMG accumulation supports DMG dehydrogenase as rate limiting for betaine metabolism in persons with prediabetes. Betaine had little metabolic effect. Additional studies may elucidate mechanisms contributing to differences between preclinical and human responses to betaine, and whether supplementation of metabolites downstream of DMG improves metabolism.
Biblical Porn
Authors: Johnson Jessica 
Published: May 2018

Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"—the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.
SunRiSE – measuring translation elongation at single-cell resolution by means of flow cytometry
Authors: Argüello Rafael J. , Reverendo Marisa , Mendes Andreia , Camosseto Voahirana , Torres Adrian G. , Ribas de Pouplana Lluis , van de Pavert Serge A. , Gatti Evelina , Pierre Philippe 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT
The rate at which ribosomes translate mRNAs regulates protein expression by controlling co-translational protein folding and mRNA stability. Many factors regulate translation elongation, including tRNA levels, codon usage and phosphorylation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2). Current methods to measure translation elongation lack single-cell resolution, require expression of multiple transgenes and have never been successfully applied ex vivo. Here, we show, by using a combination of puromycilation detection and flow cytometry (a method we call ‘SunRiSE’), that translation elongation can be measured accurately in primary cells in pure or heterogenous populations isolated from blood or tissues. This method allows for the simultaneous monitoring of multiple parameters, such as mTOR or S6K1/2 signaling activity, the cell cycle stage and phosphorylation of translation factors in single cells, without elaborated, costly and lengthy purification procedures. We took advantage of SunRiSE to demonstrate that, in mouse embryonic fibroblasts, eEF2 phosphorylation by eEF2 kinase (eEF2K) mostly affects translation engagement, but has a surprisingly small effect on elongation, except after proteotoxic stress induction.
This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
Genetic dissection of the signaling pathway required for the cell wall integrity checkpoint
Authors: Sukegawa Yuko , Negishi Takahiro , Kikuchi Yo , Ishii Keiko , Imanari Miyuki , Ghanegolmohammadi Farzan , Nogami Satoru , Ohya Yoshikazu 
Published: May 2018

ABSTRACT
The cell wall integrity checkpoint monitors synthesis of cell wall materials during the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle. Upon perturbation of cell wall synthesis, the cell wall integrity checkpoint is activated, downregulating Clb2 transcription. Here, we identified genes involved in this checkpoint by genetic screening of deletion mutants. In addition to the previously identified dynactin complex, the Las17 complex, in particular the Bzz1 and Vrp1 components, plays a role in this checkpoint. We also revealed that the high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) and cell wall integrity mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways are essential for checkpoint function. The defective checkpoint caused by the deficient dynactin and Las17 complexes was rescued by hyperactivation of the cell wall integrity MAPK pathway, but not by the activated form of Hog1, suggesting an order to these signaling pathways. Mutation of Fkh2, a transcription factor important for Clb2 expression, suppressed the checkpoint-defective phenotype of Las17, HOG MAPK and cell wall integrity MAPK mutations. These results provide genetic evidence that signaling from the cell surface regulates the downstream transcriptional machinery to activate the cell wall integrity checkpoint.
Reproductive performance of asian catfish (Hemibagrus wyckii Bagridae), a candidate species for aquaculture
Authors: Aryani Netti , Suharman Indra , Syandri Hafrijal 
Published: May 2018

Background: Hemibagrus wyckii Bagridae is one of the most important economic fish species that lives in the rivers and reservoir in Riau Province, Indonesia. The present study aimed to determine the reproductive performance of H.wyckii under culture conditions. Methods: A total of 10 female and 10 male fish were selected, and weight, length, characteristics of egg and sperm, and hatchery performance were measured. Eggs were fertilized using the dry method. Egg weight and egg diameters were measured for 50 eggs per female. Egg size (50 eggs for each fish) was measured using an Olympus microscope (CX40). Then, saline solution was added over the eggs, followed by the addition of pooled sperm from 10 males. Results: Average relative fecundity, egg weight and egg diameter were 2060±512 eggs/kg fish, 29.86±1.21 mg and 2.67±0.26 mm, respectively. The fertilization rate and hatching rate were 60.91±4.68% and 42.91±2.92% respectively. Sperm characteristics such as volume per fish (mL), pH, concentration (per mL), motility (%) and duration of motility (second) were 0.82±0.20, 7.15±0.12, 3.68±0.15, 72.77±1.46 and 47.5±4.84, respectively. Conclusion: The study results and scientific observations regarding reproductive performance suggest that H. wyckii can be considered a new candidate species for aquaculture.
Translation of a community palliative care intervention: Experience from West Bengal, India
Authors: Vijay Devi , Zaman Shahaduz , Clark David 
Published: May 2018

Background: The community form of palliative care first constructed in Kerala, India has gained recognition worldwide. Although it is the subject of important claims about its replicability elsewhere, little effort has gone into studying how this might occur. Drawing on translation studies, we attend to under-examined aspects of the transfer of a community palliative care intervention into a new geographic and institutional context.Methods: Over a period of 29 months, we conducted an in-depth case study of Sanjeevani, a community-based palliative care organization in Nadia district, West Bengal (India), that is modelled on the Kerala approach. We draw upon primary (semi-structured interviews and field notes) and secondary data sources.Results:We identify the translator’s symbolic power and how it counteracts the organizational challenges relating to socio-economic conditions and weak histories of civil society organizing. We find that unlike the Kerala form, which is typified by horizontal linkages and consensus-oriented decision-making, the translated organizational form in Nadia is a hybrid of horizontal and vertical solidarities. We show how translation is an ongoing, dynamic process, where community participation is infused with values of occupational prestige and camaraderie and shaped by emergent vertical solidarities among members.Conclusions: Our findings have implications for how we understand the relationship between locations, institutional histories, and healthcare interventions. We contribute to translation studies in healthcare, and particularly to conversations about the transfer or ‘roll out’ of palliative care interventions from one geography to another.
Information Sharing and Spillovers: Evidence from Financial Analysts
Authors: Hwang Byoung-Hyoun , Liberti José María , Sturgess Jason 
Published: May 2018

We study how information sharing within an organization affects individual performance. We look at situations in which the same analyst, while working at the same broker, covers multiple mergers and acquisitions (M&As), in particular the acquirer prior to the M&A and the merged firm thereafter. We find that earnings forecasts for the merged firm are significantly more accurate when the analyst has a colleague (working at the same broker) covering the target prior to the M&A. This holds particularly true if acquirer analysts and target analysts reside in the same locale, if they are part of a smaller team, and if the target analyst is of higher quality. Our findings highlight the importance of information spillovers on individual performance in knowledge-based industries. This paper was accepted by Amit Seru, finance.
All your <data> base are belong to us
Authors: Buterman Jan Lukas 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
Using McLuhan and McLuhan’s tetrad of media effects, I analyse some of the challenges posed by limited label choices in social media environments. While social media programmers develop their platforms with a dual intent of usability and as a data-gathering instrument to aggregate useful demographics and psychographics for monetization purposes, users seeking social connections are not necessarily interested in programmer constructs resulting from assumed norms in database logic, particularly when those constructs limit the user in a way that is inappropriate to the users’ needs.
Default play mode text: Writing (Arteroids)
Authors: Andrews Jim 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
The following text is from my shoot-em-up poetry game Arteroids (vispo.com/arteroids). The player drives the Id Entity text (‘desire’) around the screen like it was a spaceship. Each line of the Outer Green Text moves randomly around the screen (not all at once) in straight lines. The player shoots these texts. When they are shot, they explode into a circular array of letters – the letters of the corresponding line of the Inner Green Text. If the player runs into a green text, the player dies. Each line of the Outer Blue Text is also out to kill the player; each line of that text hunts the player down; the player must shoot these ones too. When shot, a line of the Outer Blue explodes into the corresponding line of the Inner Blue. The goal of the game is to max out the Meanometer which rises with each text the player shoots. This text is editable in Word for Weirdos, a facility in Arteroids where the player can save poetry from themselves.
Paradox of ‘pictorial turn’: Reconsidering the interaction between drawing and linguistic activity
Authors: Ishizaki Kazuhiro , Wang Wenchun 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
A paradox of ‘pictorial turn’ seems to be occurring, as we are struggling to cope with the gap between the wealth of visual images and our ability to handle the experience relevantly. This study aims to investigate the relationship between drawing and linguistic activities in a process of appreciating artworks, and to discuss the significance of developing one’s abilities. A longitudinal study was conducted to integrate drawing, narrative writing and short essays for four years starting in the fourth grade. There is a significant correlation among those activities, and the correlation increases as the grade advances. The interaction has facilitated the students’ development, and provided the means to be familiar with imagery recollection and observation. Most importantly, a well-functioned interaction gives them opportunities to generate flexible thinking and metaphoric cognition. In preadolescence, when drawing activity slows and linguistic activity intensifies, facilitating the interaction is significant to tackle the issue of updated competencies.
Experiencing and understanding the arts as a compulsory final examination subject in the Netherlands: Purpose, problems, revision and effects
Authors: Schönau Diederik 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
The Netherlands is probably the only country in the world where all students in secondary education have to take a compulsory final exam in experiencing and understanding of the arts. This exam, named Cultural and Artistic Education (CKV), concentrates on the active experience and appreciation of live professional performances, presentations and public presence of the arts. After its introduction, in 1999, this exam subject faced some serious problems and was almost removed from the exam system. Thanks to a strong lobby of art teachers, art institutions and art organizations, the subject was saved from annihilation, but only on the condition the examination programme was completely revised and made acceptable to the national Parliament and Ministry. This article informs about the goals of this subject exam (CKV) and the ways these goals should or could be met, the history of its introduction, the difficulties arising after its implementation, the way these difficulties have been addressed by the Ministry and community of arts teachers, and the new examination programme that has become effective as of August 2017. The article also gives information about research done on the impact of CKV on student learning and on the participation of former students in cultural activities after they left school.
Book Reviews
Authors: Barnett Vanessa , Schönau Diederik , Smith Jill 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
Drawing as Language: Celebrating the Work of Bob Steele, Marni J. Binder and Sylvia Kind (eds) (2017) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 137 pp., ISBN: 9789463009782, p/bk, £28.00
Künstlerische Bildung: Theorie und Praxis einer künstlerischen Kunstpädagogik, Carl-Peter Buschkühle (2017) Oberhausen: Athena Verlag, 643 pp., ISBN: 9783898966733, p/bk, €39.50
Arts Education and Curriculum Studies: The Contributions of Rita L. Irwin, Mindy R. Carter and Valerie Triggs (eds) (2018) New York: Routledge, 220 pp., ISBN: 9781138205437, h/bk, US$149.95
Book Reviews
Authors: Patricia Soursos Nathalie , Taxidou Olga , Kallimopoulou Eleni 
Published: May 2018

Abstract

Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place and Identity, Liz Wells, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Nicos Philippou (eds) (2014)
London/New York: I. B. Tauris
ISBN: 978178076 6539, h/bk, £62.00/$135.00

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames: Rewriting Tragedy 1970–2005, Eleftheria Ioannidou (2017)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 195 pp.,
ISBN: 9780199664115, h/bk, £60.00

Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki & Ti Ypermaho: Kathreftisma i Antikatoptrismos? (‘Cloudy Sunday and Ti Ypermaho: Mirror or mirage?’), Nikos Ordoulidis (2017)
Athens: Fagottobooks, 196 pp.,
ISBN: 9790801151797, p/bk, 15.00 €
Accelerating a freefall? The impact of the post-2008 economic crisis on Greek media and journalism
Authors: Skamnakis Antonis 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
This article argues that the Greek media and journalism are undergoing a sector and profession crisis, which is not the result of a single cause but rather of the long-term accumulation of structural and political factors, which are exacerbated under the catalytic effect of the deep crisis of the Greek economy. An overview of the effects of media crisis includes crisis in the national and regional press industry, with dramatic decline in terms of newspaper circulation, readership and advertising revenue, fewer and lower-paying journalistic jobs, redundancies, degradation of media content quality and the resulting cultural product, changes in media ownership with strong concentration tendencies and thus monopolistic control of information. This article discusses the ways in which the Greek media system is in the process of constant transformation, due to the intersection of technological change and the decade-long financial crisis. Where the article aims to contribute in particular is by offering a better understanding of the ways in which the impact of an economic crisis is absorbed by different journalistic cultures and how journalism research can benefit from stronger conceptual clarity, regarding the complexity of journalism as the outcome of profound changes taking place in specific social contexts.
Blog wars in Fiji: Soft power in a South Pacific dictatorship
Authors: Edge Marc 
Published: May 2018

Abstract
Authoritarian governments have increasingly hired US-based public relations companies to improve their image in the twenty-first century. These services were pioneered by Hill+Knowlton and Burson-Marsteller in the 1950s and the 1960s, but recently Washington-based Qorvis Communications has emerged as a popular choice. From its initial client base at the millennium of mostly oil-rich Middle Eastern dictatorships, Qorvis has branched out, including to the South Pacific. It was hired in 2011 by the military dictatorship in Fiji in advance of a constitutional review and elections there in 2014. Following a 2006 coup by military commander Voreqe ‘Frank’ Bainimarama, the regime suppressed domestic media with the threat of fines and prison terms contained in a repressive 2010 Media Decree. Blogs thus emerged as an underground press, and under Qorvis a pair of pro-regime blogs began to attack regime critics in an attempt to silence them. This case study examines their discourse involving three parties. Bruce Hill of the Radio Australia programme Pacific Beat came under regular criticism for his reporting on the regime by Fijiborn Australian blogger Graham Davis and retired New Zealand professor Crosbie Walsh. Constitutional Commission chair Yash Ghai was discredited in a smear campaign on these blogs and in the pro-regime Fiji Sun newspaper after delivering a draft constitution that would have restored human rights and reduced the role of the military. The author, who was then head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific, was forced to resign at the end of 2012 following similar attacks after he criticized the regime.