bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
DUXAP8, a pseudogene derived lncRNA, promotes growth of pancreatic carcinoma cells by epigenetically silencing CDKN1A and KLF2
Authors: Lian Yifan , Yang Jiebin , Lian Yikai , Xiao Chuangxing , Hu Xuezhen , Xu Hongzhi 
Published: October 2018

AbstractBackgroundRecent studies highlight pseudogene derived long non‐coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as key regulators of cancer biology. However, few of them have been well characterized in pancreatic cancer. Here, we aimed to identify the association between pseudogene derived lncRNA DUXAP8 and growth of pancreatic cancer cells.MethodsWe screened for pseudogene derived lncRNAs associated with human pancreatic cancer by comparative analysis of three independent datasets from GEO. Quantitative real‐time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction was used to assess the relative expression of DUXAP8 in pancreatic cancer tissues and cells. Loss‐of‐function approaches were used to investigate the potential functional roles of DUXAP8 in pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis in vitro and in vivo. RNA immunoprecipitation, chromosome immunoprecipitation assay and rescue experiments were performed to analyze the association of DUXAP8 with target proteins and genes in pancreatic cancer cells.ResultsPancreatic cancer tissues had significantly higher DUXAP8 levels than paired adjacent normal tissues. High DUXAP8 expression was associated with a larger tumor size, advanced pathological stage and shorter overall survival of pancreatic cancer patients. Moreover, silencing DUXAP8 expression by siRNA or shRNA inhibited pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and promoted apoptosis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistic analyses indicated that DUXAP8 regulates PC cell proliferation partly through downregulation of tumor suppressor CDKN1A and KLF2 expression.ConclusionOur results suggest that tumor expression of pseudogene derived lncRNA DUXAP8 plays an important role in pancreatic cancer progression. DUXAP8 may serve as a candidate biomarker and represent a novel therapeutic target of pancreatic cancer.
“We Were Looking for Our Violins”
Authors: Khullar Sonal 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This essay examines a creative dialogue between painters and poets, among them Nissim Ezekiel, Adil Jussawalla, Bhupen Khakhar, Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Gieve Patel, and Sudhir Patwardhan, in Bombay (Mumbai) during a period that encompassed Khakhar's first solo show at the Jehangir Art Gallery in 1965 and the publication of four books of poetry by Clearing House, an independent press established in 1976 by Jussawalla, Kolatkar, Mehrotra, and Patel. Through a close analysis of word and image, it illuminates the distinctive aesthetics and politics of these artists encapsulated by the terms lifting and loafing. The Bombay painters and poets came to lifting—documenting and defamiliarizing—their environment by citing and subverting street signs, advertisements, state propaganda, calendar art, film posters, and newspaper photographs. They took to loafing—a mode of critical observation and analysis, and the pursuit of committed deprofessionalization and translation across spaces—and mobilized the ordinary, yet extraordinary, spaces of the paan (areca nut wrapped in betel leaf) shop and the Irani restaurant as metaphors of artistic sociability and subjectivity. Through lifting and loafing, the Bombay painters and poets offered a critique of nationalist and bourgeois values, as well as the artistic establishment represented by associations and institutions such as the Progressive Artists Group and Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art. They diverged from their predecessors and peers in an emphasis on everyday life and found objects, and in bringing together the visual and verbal worlds exemplified by the Baroda (Vadodara)-based journal Vrishchik.
Recent Progress on the Sensing of Pathogenic Bacteria Using Advanced Nanostructures
Authors: Sai-Anand Gopalan , Sivanesan Arumugam , Benzigar Mercy R , Singh Gurwinder , Gopalan Anantha-Iyengar , Baskar Arun Vijay , Ilbeygi Hamid , Ramadass Kavitha , Kambala Venkata , Vinu Ajayan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Ailment related to pathogenic bacteria and toxins remains a significant threat to the human body. Specifically, pathogenic bacteria are the main source of epidemic diseases and are infectious to human beings owing to their appearance in food, water, and other biological samples. Over the past several years, advanced nanomaterials-based sensing has been considered as an efficient and unique platform for the rapid, selective, ultrasensitive, qualitative, and quantitative detection of single or multiple pathogenic bacteria. Towards this end, various emerging nanomaterials have been purposefully designed and developed to integrate them onto sensor systems for the recognition of pathogenic bacteria. The present review describes a wide range of analytical techniques such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, electrochemistry (electrochemical and electronic), a field-effect transistor, fluorescence, calorimetry and surface-plasmon resonance etc. which incorporate nano-biosensor technology to develop a pathogenic bacterium based sensor. This review also highlights the progress, trends and strategy utilized toward the identification of harmful bacteria by focusing on the pertinent literature available on the various advanced nanomaterials (such as semiconducting, magnetic, noble metal and carbon-based nanomaterials) incorporating nano-bio sensor platforms.
Apoptosis inducing effects of chlorhexidine and essential oil mouthwashes on BHK-21 fibroblast cell line: An in vitro study
Authors: Ali El Basuony Shaimaa Ali Hamouda , El Hossary Naglaa , Raouf Amin Nermine 
Published: October 2018

Background: The maintenance of oral health can be achieved mainly by mechanical and chemical means. Among chemical agents, mouthwashes are widely used for personal oral hygiene because of their ability to inhibit dental plaque. The antibacterial effects of essential oils (EOs) and chlorhexidine (CHX) are well documented; however, the reaction of host tissue to these substances has a poor documentation. Until now studies have not examined the effect of EOs with sodium fluoride (EOF) on fibroblast cell lines. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of mouth rinse EOs, EOF and CHX on the apoptosis of fibroblast cell line. Methods: BHK-21 fibroblast cell line was cultured and incubated in Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium containing EOs, EOF and CHX mouthwashes with different doses (15% or 25%) and various exposure times. Cell apoptosis was assayed using RT-PCR. Results: EOs, EOF and CHX induce apoptotic effects on fibroblasts in a dose and time dependent manner. Conclusion: CHX is the most cytotoxic mouthwash to fibroblasts as compared to mouthwashes containing EOs and EOF.
Evaluation of Postural Stability in Young and Elderly Women
Authors: Marciniak Tomasz , Wiszomirska Ida , Ilnicka Lidia 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Study aim: Assessment of postural stability performed on an unstable stabilometry platform. Comparison of the results ob­tained by two groups consisting of elderly (OW) (60+ years old) and younger women (YW).Material and methods: Seventy-three female volunteers were divided into two groups: 40 young women (20.2 ± 1.75), and 32 elderly women (68.3 ± 7.43). Participants performed five stability tests on Biodex Balance System SD: three 20-second tries, the Postural Stability Test (PST) and the Fall Risk Test (FRT). Three stability indexes - overall (OSI), anterior-posterior (APSI), and medial-lateral (MLSI) - both with eyes open (EO) and closed (EC) were analyzed. The impact of vision on balance was calculated as EC-EO. Also effect size was calculated and evaluated.Results: All of the parameters differed significantly between groups in favour of YW. The largest difference in significance as well as effect size was noted for FRT, p < 0.001 and 1.86 respectively. Tries measure the impact of vision on balance (EC-EO). The results concerning tries with EC-EO showed the strongest discrimination between groups - OSI p = 0.0088 (relative differ­ence 0.23 ± 0.26) and APSI p = 0.0268 (relative difference 0.17 ± 0.2). YW had a significantly better outcome.Conclusions: YW had better results in all of the parameters taken into consideration, with most of them being significant. This confirms that all of the regressive changes appearing with age influence balance. Lack of visual input (EC) in OW caused sig­nificantly worse results in most of the measured parameters, showing that vision is a very important factor for balance mainte­nance in the elderly.
Picturing an Impossible American: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Photographic Transfers in Portals (2016)
Authors: Zelt Natalie 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This article considers artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s use of photographic transfers and popular culture in her 2016 painting “Portals” to craft an artwork specific to her experience across multiple points of social identification in the United States and Nigeria. Through close reading and the study of Crosby’s formal and conceptual strategies, Zelt investigates how varying degrees of recognition work through photographic references. “Portals” contests assimilationist definitions of American identity in favor of a representation which is multiplicitous, operating across geographies. By juxtaposing images from different times, in different directions, Crosby constructs “contact zones” and provokes a mode of looking that reflects a feeling dislocation from the country in which she stands, the United States, and the country with which she also identifies, Nigeria. After a brief introduction to the artist and her relationship to Nigerian national politics, the article explores how distance and recognition work through image references to express a particular form of transnational identity, followed by an examination of uses of popular culture references to engage with blackness and an interdependent “Nigerian-ness” and “American-ness.” It concludes by contextualizing the painting’s display amid waves of amplified nativist purity in the US.
Analysis of patient satisfaction with emergency medical services
Authors: Jaklič Tatjana Kitić , Kovač Jure , Maletič Matjaž , Bunc Ksenija Tušek 
Published: October 2018

Abstract

Background
This study analyses the degree of patient satisfaction regarding the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) by taking into account the waiting time which is considered to be associated with the success of the EMS organizational model.

Methodology
Between 1 Jan 2016 and 31 March 2016 a cross-sectional research study among visitors of the EMS clinics in the EMS of the Primary Health Services of Gorenjska was performed. The EUROPEP survey was used for rating the degree of patient satisfaction. Statistical methods were utilized to determine the differences among the studied variables, namely the t test, one way ANOVA, as well as post-hoc multiple comparisons, were used.

Results
Nearly all questions associated with the patient survey scored higher than 4.0, indicating patients were generally very satisfied with EMS treatment. Patients were least satisfied with the length of time spent waiting for an examination. The results showed that the waiting time is a statistically significant factor concerning all four dimensions of patient satisfaction: medical staff, clinical facilities, clinical equipment and organization of services (p < 0.05).

Conclusions
Research results have confirmed that the effectiveness of the EMS organizational model impacts on the degree of patient satisfaction. The research also revealed a deficiency in the current EMS organizational services at the prehospital level, given that triage frequently failed to be carried out upon a patient’s arrival at the EMS clinics.
Recurrent chronic subdural hematoma: Report of 13 cases
Authors: Hacıyakupoğlu Ersin , Yılmaz Derviş Mansuri , Kınalı Burak , Arpacı Taner , Akbaş Tuğana , Hacıyakupoğlu Sebahattin 
Published: October 2018

AbstractChronic subdural hematoma is a frequent type of hemorrhage, which terminates with mortality if not diagnosed and treated early. The aim of this clinical study is to evaluate the patients with unilateral and bilateral recurrent chronic subdural hematoma.The study group consisted of 13 cases with unilateral and bilateral recurrent chronic subdural hematomas who underwent aggressive wide craniotomy, duraectomy, inner and outer membranectomy, dural border coagulation, incision through cortical vein trace and hang up of dural edge, between 2009 - 2016. All of our patients were diagnosed by preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. We evaluated the age, gender, complaints and neurologic signs, localization and thickness of the hematoma.We can estimate that wide craniotomy, duraectomy and membranectomy is a good option in preventing recurrent chronic subdural hematoma and complications.
Congruences involving alternating harmonic sums modulo p
α
q
β
Authors: Shen Zhongyan , Cai Tianxin 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In 2014, Wang and Cai established the following harmonic congruence for any odd prime p and positive integer r,

∑

i
+
j
+
k

=

p
r

i
,
j
,
k

∈

P
p

1

i
⁢
j
⁢
k

≡

-

2
⁢

p

r
-
1

⁢

B

p
-
3

(

mod

p
r

)

,

$$\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{r}\\
i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{p}\end{subarray}}\frac{1}{ijk}\equiv-2p^{r-1}B_{p-3} \quad\quad(\text{mod} \,\, {p^{r}}),$$

where

P
n

$ \mathcal{P}_{n} $

denote the set of positive integers which are prime to n.
In this note, we obtain the congruences for distinct odd primes p, q and positive integers α, β,

∑

i
+
j
+
k

=

p
α

⁢

q
β

i
,
j
,
k

∈

P

2
⁢
p
⁢
q

1

i
⁢
j
⁢
k

≡

7
8

⁢

(

2
-
q

)

⁢

(

1
-

1

q
3

)

⁢

p

α
-
1

⁢

q

β
-
1

⁢

B

p
-
3

(

mod

p
α

)

$$ \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{\alpha}q^{\beta}\\
i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{2pq}\end{subarray}}\frac{1}{ijk}\equiv\frac{7}{8}\left(2-%
q\right)\left(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}}\right)p^{\alpha-1}q^{\beta-1}B_{p-3}\pmod{p^{%
\alpha}} $$

and

∑

i
+
j
+
k

=

p
α

⁢

q
β

i
,
j
,
k

∈

P

p
⁢
q

(

-
1

)

i

i
⁢
j
⁢
k

≡

1
2

⁢

(

q
-
2

)

⁢

(

1
-

1

q
3

)

⁢

p

α
-
1

⁢

q

β
-
1

⁢

B

p
-
3

(

mod

p
α

)

.

$$ \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}i+j+k=p^{\alpha}q^{\beta}\\
i,j,k\in\mathcal{P}_{pq}\end{subarray}}\frac{(-1)^{i}}{ijk}\equiv\frac{1}{2}%
\left(q-2\right)\left(1-\frac{1}{q^{3}}\right)p^{\alpha-1}q^{\beta-1}B_{p-3}%
\pmod{p^{\alpha}}. $$
On the factorizations of cubic polynomials with the same discriminant modulo a prime
Authors: Klaška Jiří , Skula Ladislav 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
Let D ∈ ℤ and let CD
be the set of all monic cubic polynomials with integer coefficients having a discriminant equal to D. In this paper, we devise a general method of establishing whether, for a prime p, all polynomials in CD
have the same type of factorization over the Galois field

F

p

$\Bbb F_p$

.
Some results on abstract convexity of functions
Authors: Mohebi Hossein , Barsam Hasan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In this paper, we study abstract convexity topical and sub-topical functions. We obtain some results on abstract convexity such as support set and subdifferential in view of new elementary functions. Indeed, first we show that the ICR and IR functions are dense in IPH functions then the topical function and sub-topical function on topological vector space by another elementary function is studied. These elementary functions lead to obtain similar results with easier proofs.
On microscopic sets and Fubini Property in all directions
Authors: Paszkiewicz Adam 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
For the σ-ideal

N

$\mathcal{N} $

of nullsets and σ-ideal

M

$\mathcal{M} $

of microscopic sets, it was recently obtained that there exists a Borel set

E
⊂

ℝ
2

$E\subset\mathbb{R}^{2} $

with the following property:

E
x

∈
M

$E_{x}\in\mathcal{M} $

for any

x
∈
ℝ

$x\in\mathbb{R} $

and

{
y
;

E
y

∉
N
}

∉
M

$\{y;E^{y}\notin\mathcal{N}\}\notin\mathcal{M} $

, for vertical sections

E
x

=

{
y
;

(
x
,
y
)

∈
E
}

$E_{x}=\{y;(x,y)\in E\} $

and horizontal sections

E
y

=

{
x
;

(
x
,
y
)

∈
E
}

$E^{y}=\{x;(x,y)\in E\} $

for

E
⊂

ℝ
2

$E\subset\mathbb{R}^{2} $

. Thus

(
N
,
M
)

$(\mathcal{N},\mathcal{M}) $

does not satisfy Fubini Property. In this paper we obtain such Borel set E, that

{
y
;

E
y

∉
N
}

∉
M

$\{y;E^{y}\notin\mathcal{N}\}\notin\mathcal{M} $

and all non-horizontal (in a natural sense) sections of E are in

M

$\mathcal{M} $

. Other Fubini type properties, with conditions written for all directions are also discussed.
Oscillation tests for difference equations with several non-monotone deviating arguments
Authors: Chatzarakis George E. , Dmitrović Lana Horvat , Pašić Mervan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to derive sufficient conditions for the oscillation of all solutions of a difference equation with several non-monotone deviating arguments and nonnegative coefficients. Corresponding difference equations of both retarded and advanced type are studied. Examples illustrating the significance of the results are also given.
Some reverse and numerical radius inequalities
Authors: Hosseini Mohsen Shah , Omidvar Mohsen Erfanian 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
In this paper, we present several numerical radius inequalities for Hilbert space operators. More
precisely, we prove if

T
,
U
∈

B

H

$ T,U\in\mathbb{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right) $

such that U is unitary, then

ω
⁢

(

T
⁢
U

±

U
*

⁢
T

)

≤

2
⁢

ω
⁢

(

T
2

)

+

∥

T
±

T
*

∥

2

.

$$\displaystyle\omega(TU\pm U^{*}T)\leq 2\sqrt{\omega(T^{2})+\|T\pm T^{*}\|^{2}}. $$

Also, we have compared our results with some known outcomes.
Contribution of Agricultural Produce Spice Zingiber Officinale to a Sustainable Food System: Green Extraction and Stability Study of Antioxidant Compounds
Authors: Jaiswal Swapnil G. , Naik Satyanarayan 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
The present study has focused on the extraction and utilization of antioxidant compounds from the agricultural produce Zingiber officinale for its sustainable use in terms of stabilizing food from oxidation. Two extraction methods, traditional soxhlet and green supercritical CO2 (SC-CO2), were used to compare yields of antioxidant (6-gingerol) rich extracts. For the SC-CO2 method, operating parameters including pressure (10000-20000 kPa), temperature (30- 40°C) and CO2 flow rate (5-20 g/min.) were optimized to get maximum recovery of [6]-gingerol rich extracts. The results of the extraction study revealed that ginger extract collected after soxhlet extraction (GE1) gives more yield (3.85%) than the extract (2.41%) collected after SC-CO2 extraction (GE2) at an optimum condition of 20000 kPa pressure, 40°C temperature and 20 g/min. flow rate. Contrarily, the yield of [6]-gingerol was found to be greater in GE2 (389 mg/g) than GE1. Total phenol (TPC) and flavonoid (TFC) content of GE1 and GE2 were measured against equivalent concentrations of gallic acid and quercetin. TPC and TFC of GE1 show slightly higher values (38.50 mg GAE/g, 5.62 mg QE/g) than GE2. At the concentration of 3000 μg/mL, DPPH percent inhibition activity of GE1 was again higher (up to 94%) than GE2 (up to 82%). Stability study result of both GE1 and GE2 revealed on the basis of antioxidant indices, showed desirable antioxidant index by stabilizing all three experimented oils and also found to be comparable with synthetic antioxidants (BHA, BHT). Therefore, it could be concluded that [6]-gingerol rich extracts from the SC-CO2 method have comparable phenol flavonoid, antioxidant and stability potential as those found in ginger extracts from the traditional soxhlet method.
The Contribution of Migration to Economics Growth. Evidence from Spain
Authors: Mihi-Ramírez Antonio , Ojeda-González Sara , Miranda-Martel María José , Agoh Eugene 
Published: October 2018

AbstractProductivity is crucial for economic growth. In a time of challenges such as the population ageing, a growing migration flows and slowdown of the economy it is very important to know the impact of migrant workers in productivity and development. Therefore, this paper studies relevant migration theories and the evolution of migration flows, productivity and their effect on economic growth. We analyse the contribution of immigrants’ workers to productivity, to the employment rate and to the demography of Spain in the last 10 years, a country where the last crisis deeply changes the migration patterns and economic conditions. The results show that, in this case, the impact of immigration on the level of development was small but positive.
Vote Buying in the 2018 Governorship Election in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Authors: Nwankwo Cletus Famous 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This paper aims to comment on the manifestation of vote buying regarding voter turnout and voter choices in the 2018 Ekiti governorship election in Nigeria and its implications. The article notes that vote-buying might not have significantly influenced voter turnout, but it changed voters’ choices as the two major political parties in the election resorted to a massive monetary inducement for electoral support at the poll. Even though the election was decided by secret balloting, the advent of “see and buy” shows that politicians are stepping up their games to manipulate elections. The paper thus argues for institutional electoral reform and strengthening the enforcement of the law.
What is a rite? Émile Durkheim, a hundred years later
Authors: D’Orsi Lorenzo , Dei Fabio 
Published: October 2018

Abstract
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's approach in Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1912). We discuss three different aspects of the Durkheimian perspective on religion and rituals: a) the sacred/profane dichotomy; b) the concept of collective representations - which establishes a substantial continuity between religious and scientific thought; c) a ‟practical” and performative interpretation of rites as the basis of social bond. During the twentieth century, these aspects have influenced different and sometimes opposing theoretical approaches (including ‟symbolist” and ‟neo-intellectualist” theories and Victor Turner's ‟anthropology of experience”). We briefly review each of them, arguing for the importance of reconsidering them into a unitary perspective, centred on religious phenomena as basically moral experiences and as the language of social relations. In the conclusions, we will show how such unitary approach helps us understand the transformations as well as the continuities of rituality in the individualized and secularized societies of what we call nowadays the Western world.