bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of comorbid conditions pre-existing and diagnosed at a tertiary care pediatric weight management clinic
Authors: Leon Griselle , de Klerk Elizabeth , Ho Josephine , Jackman Michelle , Reimer Raylene A. , Connors Kimberly E. , Luca Paola 
Published: February 2018

Abstract

Background:
Childhood obesity places individuals at risk for a multitude of physical and mental health problems. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of obesity related comorbidities diagnosed prior to and after attending a tertiary care pediatric weight management clinic.

Methods:
A cross sectional retrospective chart review of patients 2–17 years old seen in the weight management clinic at Alberta Children’s Hospital from May 2012 to May 2014.

Results:
A total of 199 patients were included in the review. Comorbidity prevalences were: hypertension 6 (3%), prediabetes 11 (5.5%), type 2 diabetes 3 (1.5%), dyslipidemia 105 (52.8%), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 31 (15.6%), asthma 45 (22.6%), obstructive sleep apnea 21 (10.6%), and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) 9 (12% of females ≥10 years at the first visit). Concerns related to depression and anxiety were present in 20 (10.1%) and 25 (12.6%) patients respectively. The majority of comorbidities were identified prior to joining the clinic. Conditions requiring more specialized tests, such as diabetes and PCOS, were more commonly identified after joining the clinic.

Conclusions:
These results give further insight into the prevalence of obesity-related comorbidities in overweight and obese children and adolescents, and demonstrate the importance of screening for these known comorbidities. It is important to have the resources and an experienced multi-disciplinary team to follow children and their families through treatment.
Tuning to languages: experience-based approaches to the language science of bilingualism
Authors: Beatty-Martínez Anne L. , Dussias Paola E. 
Published: February 2018

AbstractExperience-based approaches to language hold that individuals become sensitive to distributed emergent phenomena in their linguistic experience. The purpose of this paper is to bring together experience-based perspectives from the domains of cognitive psychology and linguistics. First, we present an overview of the cognitive processes that underpin experience-based learning, and review the cognitive biases that have been attributed to the emergence of distributional regularities in language. We then discuss the P-chain (Dell, G. S. & F. Chang. 2014. The P-chain: Relating sentence production and its disorders to comprehension and acquisition.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences369(20120394). 1–9.), an influential experience-based framework for experience-based theory in psycholinguistics, and present data from bilingual speakers to substantiate the assumptions of the model. Our goal is to focus on language usage in bilinguals to illustrate how individuals can become attuned to linguistic variation in the input and how this input can act as constraining information with critical psycholinguistic implications.
Generation of pseudo-random numbers with the use of inverse chaotic transformation
Authors: Lawnik Marcin 
Published: February 2018

AbstractIn (Lawnik M., Generation of numbers with the distribution close to uniform with the use of chaotic maps, In: Obaidat M.S., Kacprzyk J., Ören T. (Ed.), International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH) (28-30 August 2014, Vienna, Austria), SCITEPRESS, 2014) Lawnik discussed a method of generating pseudo-random numbers from uniform distribution with the use of adequate chaotic transformation. The method enables the “flattening” of continuous distributions to uniform one. In this paper a inverse process to the above-mentioned method is presented, and, in consequence, a new manner of generating pseudo-random numbers from a given continuous distribution. The method utilizes the frequency of the occurrence of successive branches of chaotic transformation in the process of “flattening”. To generate the values from the given distribution one discrete and one continuous value of a random variable are required. The presented method does not directly involve the knowledge of the density function or the cumulative distribution function, which is, undoubtedly, a great advantage in comparison with other well-known methods. The described method was analysed on the example of the standard normal distribution.
Ternary and n-ary f-distributive structures
Authors: Churchill Indu R. U. , Elhamdadi M. , Green M. , Makhlouf A. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
We introduce and study ternary f-distributive structures, Ternary f-quandles and more generally their higher n-ary analogues. A classification of ternary f-quandles is provided in low dimensions. Moreover, we study extension theory and introduce a cohomology theory for ternary, and more generally n-ary, f-quandles. Furthermore, we give some computational examples.
Characterization of posets for order-convergence being topological
Authors: Sun Tao , Li Qingguo 
Published: February 2018

AbstractWe study a basic problem: in what posets is the order-convergence topological? We introduce the notion of 𝓡∗-doubly continuous posets, which extends the notion of doubly continuous posets, and then prove that the order-convergence in a poset is topological if and only if the poset is 𝓡∗-doubly continuous. This is the main result which can be regarded as a complete characterization of posets for the order-convergence being topological.
Applications of Henstock-Kurzweil integrals on an unbounded interval to differential and integral equations
Authors: Borkowski Marcin , Bugajewska Daria 
Published: February 2018

AbstractIn this paper we are going to apply the Henstock-Kurzweil integrals defined on an unbounded intervals to differential and integral equations defined on such intervals. To deal with linear differential equations we examine convolution involving functions integrable in Henstock-Kurzweil sense. In the case of nonlinear Hammerstein integral equation as well as Volterra integral equation we look for solutions in the space of functions of bounded variation in the sense of Jordan.
Starlike and convex functions with respect to symmetric conjugate points involving conical domain
Authors: Ramachandran C. , Ambrose Prabhu R. , Sivasubramanian Srikandan 
Published: February 2018

AbstractEnough attentions to domains related to conical sections has not been done so far although it deserves more. Making use of the conical domain the authors have defined a new class of starlike and Convex Functions with respect to symmetric points involving the conical domain. Growth and distortion estimates are studied with convolution using domains bounded by conic regions. Certain coefficient estimates are obtained for domains bounded by conical region. Finally interesting application of the results are also highlighted for the function Ωk,βdefined by Noor.
More on cyclic amenability of the Lau product of Banach algebras defined by a Banach algebra morphism
Authors: Ramezanpour Mohammad 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
For two Banach algebras A and B, the T-Lau product A×
T

B, was recently introduced and studied for some bounded homomorphism T : B → A with ∥T∥ ≤ 1. Here, we give general nessesary and sufficent conditions for A×
T

B to be (approximately) cyclic amenable. In particular, we extend some recent results on (approximate) cyclic amenability of direct product A ⊕ B and T-Lau product A×
T

B and answer a question on cyclic amenability of A×
T

B.
Matrix generalized (θ, ϕ)-derivations on matrix Banach algebras
Authors: Batool Afshan , Kamran Tayyab , Park Choonkil 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
We introduce the concept of matrix generalized (θ, ϕ)-derivations on matrix normed algebras, and prove the Hyers-Ulam stability of matrix generalized (θ, ϕ)-derivations on matrix Banach algebras.
Nonlinear ∗-Jordan triple derivations on von Neumann algebras
Authors: Zhao Fangfang , Li Changjing 
Published: February 2018

AbstractLetB(H) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert spaceHand 𝓐 ⊆B(H) be a von Neumann algebra with no central summands of typeI1. ForA,B∈ 𝓐, define byA∙B=AB+BA∗a new product ofAandB. In this article, it is proved that a map Φ: 𝓐 →B(H) satisfies Φ(A∙B∙C) = Φ(A) ∙B∙C+A∙ Φ(B) ∙C+A∙B∙Φ(C) for allA,B,C∈ 𝓐 if and only if Φ is an additive *-derivation.
Rothe’s method for physiologically structured models with diffusion
Authors: Bartłomiejczyk Agnieszka , Leszczński Henryk , Marciniak Agnieszka 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
We consider structured population models with diffusion and dynamic boundary conditions. The respective approximation, called Rothe’s method, produces positive and exponentially bounded solutions. Its solutions converge to the exact solution of the original PDE.
The Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music Transformations of Programming Policies
Authors: Gąsiorowska Małgorzata 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The present paper surveys the history of the Warsaw Autumn festival focusing on changes in the Festival programming. I discuss the circumstances of organising a cyclic contemporary music festival of international status in Poland. I point out the relations between programming policies and the current political situation, which in the early years of the Festival forced organisers to maintain balance between Western and Soviet music as well as the music from the so-called “people’s democracies” (i.e. the Soviet bloc). Initial strong emphasis on the presentation of 20th-century classics was gradually replaced by an attempt to reflect different tendencies and new phenomena, also those combining music with other arts. Despite changes and adjustments in the programming policy, the central aim of the Festival’s founders – that of presenting contemporary music in all its diversity, without overdue emphasis on any particular trend – has consistently been pursued. The idea of introducing leitmotifs, different for each Festival edition (such as: music involving human voice, mainly electronic, etc.) – is not inconsistent with this general aim since the selected works represent different aesthetics, and the “main theme” is not the only topic of any given edition of the Warsaw Autumn.
Crystal structure of dimethyl 3,9-dibenzyl-6,12-dicyclohexyl-3,9-diazahexacyclo [6.4.0.02,7.04,11.05,10]-dodecane-1,11-dicarboxylate, C40H50N2O4
Authors: Zhu Hao , Li Yi-Fan , Guo Ying-Ying , Liu Shan , Lan Han-Yang , Zhuang Peng-Yu , Zhong Qi-Di 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
C40H50N2O4, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 10.355(2) Å, b = 17.809(4) Å, c = 8.9354(16) Å, β = 97.101(4)°, V = 1635.2(5) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0453, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1270, T = 113 K.
Identifying Municipal Risk Factors for Leftist Guerrilla Violence in Colombia
Authors: Holmes Jennifer S. , Mendizabal Agustin Palao , De La Fuente David Saucedo , Mets Kristjan , Cárdenas Alvaro , Armenteras Dolors , Dávalos Liliana M. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
This study examines determinants of leftist violence at the municipal level in Colombia from 2000 through 2010. A multilevel GLMM model with a negative binomial distribution is used to take advantage of the information available at the municipal and department level. Surprisingly, inequality was not a significant covariate of violence, and agricultural GDP tended to reduce, instead of increase, guerrilla violence. The main risk factors identified include physical characteristics such as rugged topography and prior violence, but also factors that are candidates for policy action, such as unemployment, incorporation of the poor into public services, repression, and the energy and mining sector. These findings suggest interventions to decrease risks of guerrilla violence beyond merely strengthening the state. While repression tends to escalate violence, targeted policies to provide health benefits to those currently underserved, and securing mining and oil operations can effectively reduce the risk of violence.
Influence of a Modified Plant Extract on Activity of Antioxidant Enzymes and Concentration of Pigments in Gamma-Irradiated Plants of Maize and Wheat
Authors: Azizov Ibrahim , Shamilov Elshan , Abdullayev Asim , Muslimova Zohra , Mamedli Gunel , Gasimova Gulnar 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The influence of a medicinal plant extract, immobilised by ligands, on the activity of antioxidant enzymes and photosynthetic pigment concentration of wheat and maize was studied. The object of study was seed of drought-resistant firm durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) and maize (Zea mays L.). Seeds were subjected to general uniform γ-radiation from a 60Co source on a Rkhund installation at average dose power of MD = 0.306 Gy/sec. Before radiation seeds were treated in modified extract from medicinal plants. The treatment of seeds with 0.1 and 0.01% solution of modified extract from Hypericum, Dandelion, and Calendula caused significant reduction in processes initiated by radiation and in formation of free radicals. On the basis of the obtained results it was concluded that the used modified plant extract collection had a protective effect, reducing the amount of free radicals produced by γ-irradiation.
Computational approach to the study of morphological properties of polymer/fullerene blends in photovoltaics
Authors: Gaitho Francis M. , Mola Genene T. , Pellicane Giuseppe 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Organic solar cells have the ability to transform solar energy efficiently and have a promising energy balance. Producing these cells is economical and makes use of methods of printing using inks built on solvents that are well-matched with a variety of cheap materials like flexible plastic or paper. The primary materials used to manufacture organic solar cells include carbon-based semiconductors, which are good light absorbers and efficient charge generators. In this article, we review previous research of interest based on morphology of polymer blends used in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells and introduce their basic principles. We further review computational models used in the analysis of surface behavior of polymer blends in BHJ as well as the trends in the field of polymer surface science as applied to BHJ photovoltaics. We also give in brief, the opportunities and challenges in the area of polymer blends on BHJ organic solar cells.
Reactions of Platinum II Complexes with Sulfur- and Nitrogen-Containing Biomolecules: Selective Intermolecular Migration of the Thioether-Bound Platinum II Complex to the N7 Nitrogen Atom of Guanosine-5’-Monophosphate
Authors: Vasic Ivana , Zivkovic Marija D. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The interactions of platinum(II) complexes with nitrogen- and sulfur-containing biomolecules are responsible for aider antitumor activity due to attack on DNA or a variety of toxic side effects. Therefore, the monofunctional Pt(II) complexes, [Pt(Gly-Gly-N,N,O)I]+ (Gly-Gly is the dipeptide glycyl-glycine coordinated through the oxygen and two nitrogen atoms) and [Pt(Gly-L-Met-S,N,N)Cl] (Gly-L-Met is the dipeptide glycyl-L-methionine coordinated through the sulfur and two nitrogen atoms) have been used to study their interactions with S-methylglutathione (GS-Me) and guanosine- 5’-monophosphate (5’-GMP). All reactions have been studied by 1H NMR spectroscopy and at room temperature in 50 mM phosphate buffer at pD 7.4. The investigation of the competitive binding of 5’-GMP and GS-Me to the Pt(II) complexes (1:1:1 molar ratio) has shown that in the initial stages of the reaction the corresponding Pt(II) complex only reacts with GS-Me, and second step of the reaction is very slow intermolecular displacement of the S-bound thioether ligand with N7 atom of the guanine base of 5’-GMP. The obtained results have been analyzed in relation to the antitumor activity and toxicity of Pt(II) complexes.
Public debt and economic growth conundrum: nonlinearity and inter-temporal relationship
Authors: Arčabić Vladimir , Tica Josip , Lee Junsoo , Sonora Robert J. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The influential paper by Reinhart and Rogoff (Reinhart, C. M., and K. S. Rogoff. 2010. “Growth in a Time of Debt.” The American Economic Review 100: 573–578.) has triggered a debate about the effects of the public debt on GDP growth. They argue that a debt-to-GDP ratio of over 90 percent has a deleterious effect on long-run economic growth. In this paper, we examine the inter-temporal relationship between public debt and GDP growth rates. We examine debt-to-GDP thresholds in nonlinear panel models, using various econometric strategies, methodologies, and data samples. We also evaluate confidence intervals around the estimated thresholds to determine the accuracy of estimated thresholds. Our results demonstrate that in the majority of estimated models, threshold values are not uniquely defined and the estimated coefficients are insignificant in most model specifications, as in Enders, Falk, and Siklos (Enders, W., B. L. Falk, and P. Siklos. 2007. “A Threshold Model of Real US GDP and the Problem of Constructing Confidence Intervals in TAR Models.” Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 11: 1322.). Next, we examine the inter-temporal relationship between the public debt and economic growth using structural panel data models as well as reduced form panel VAR models. In contrast to the standard presumption in the literature, we find that the inter-temporal effect of economic growth on the public debt is strong, but the effect of the public debt on economic growth is weak. We find similar results in sub-samples that include countries where the public debt is over 90 percent of GDP.
The Dimension of Normativity in Informal Social Relations
Authors: Ivana Greti-Iulia 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The aim of this article is to discuss the character of regularities occurring in informal social bonds, be they friendships, romantic partnerships, competitions or rivalries. Since Simmel’s work is emblematic for the theme of social norms involved in durable informal bonds, I take his original concept of forms of association as my point of reference. The argument I propose challenges several of Simmel’s assumptions, namely his objectivist stance, his formal sociology and the autopoiesis of systems of reciprocal effects. Based on this critical rereading of Simmel, I introduce the concept of “socially constructed typical bonds” as a more dynamic and versatile alternative to the static patterns of forms of association. By bringing a subjectivist turn (inspired by Berger, Luckmann and Butler) to Simmel’s forms of association, I argue for the recognition of the blurry, diverse and contradictory understandings of the typical social bond as the ground for relational normativity.
Correlated Factors on Performance of Tuberculosis Program Officers at Community Health Clinic in Increasing the Finding of New AFB Smear-Positive Cases
Authors: Latifah Meliana , Rahayu Sri Ratna , Indrawati Fitri 
Published: February 2018

ABSTRACT
Semarang regency had CDR issues under the national target. The activity of new cases finding determine the success of the tuberculosis eradication programs, so the process of find new AFB smear-positive cases by officers is crucial. The purpose of this study was to determine factors related to the performance of tuberculosis officers at the community health clinic in increasing the findingof AFB smear-positive new cases (case study in Semarang regency).
This type of research is observational analytic, with the cross-sectional design involving 45 saturated samples. Data analysis used was chi-square test.
The results showed that factors related to the performance of tuberculosis programs officers were knowledge (p = 0.022), training (p = 0.001), double duty (p = 0.014), screening for active TB suspect (p = 0.038), motivation (0.040) and attitude (p = 0.011). While there was no correlation between years of service (p = 0.152), facilities (p = 0.154), and incentive (p = 0.121).

ABSTRAK
Kabupaten Semarang memiliki permasalahan CDR di bawah target nasional. Kegiatan penemuan kasus baru menentukan keberhasilan program pemberantasan tuberkulosis, sehingga proses penemuan kasus baru BTA positif oleh petugas sangat menentukan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan kinerja petugas tuberkulosis puskesmas dalam meningkatkan penemuan kasus baru BTA positif (studi kasus di Kabupaten Semarang).
Jenis penelitian ini adalah analitik observasional, dengan desain cross sectional yang melibatkan 45 sampel jenuh. Analisis data menggunakan uji chi square.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan faktor yang berhubungan dengan kinerja petugas program tuberkulosis puskesmas adalah pengetahuan (p = 0,022), pelatihan (p = 0,001), tugas rangkap (p = 0,014), penjaringan suspek TB aktif (p = 0,038), motivasi (0,040), dan sikap (p = 0,011). Sementara tidak ada hubungan antara faktor masa kerja (p = 0,152), sarana (p = 0,154), dan insentif (p = 0,121).
Common fixed point of a power graphic (F,psi)-contraction pair on partial b-metric spaces with application
Authors: Singh Deepak , Chauhan Varsha , Altun Ishak 
Published: February 2018

The aim of this paper is to inaugurate power graphic (F,ψ)-contraction pair and to establish fixed point results for such mappings defined on partial b-metric spaces endowed with a graph. It is mentioning that, first time, we launch a class of fixed point results in the frame of partial b-metric spaces involving a graph. Results of this paper extend and generalize known results from metric, partial metric, and partial b-metric spaces in partial b-metric spaces with a graph. Further, appropriate examples are presented to emphasize the utility of the obtained results. At the end, an attempt to correlate the given work with application is turned out as solution for an integral equation.
Lie symmetry analysis, exact solutions and conservation laws for the time fractional modified Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation
Authors: Baleanu Dumitru , Inc Mustafa , Yusuf Abdullahi , Aliyu Aliyu Isa Isa 
Published: February 2018

In this work, Lie symmetry analysis (LSA) for the time fractional modified Zakharov–Kuznetsov (mZK) equation with Riemann–Liouville (RL) derivative is analyzed. We transform the time fractional mZK equation to nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) of fractional order using its point symmetries with a new dependent variable. In the reduced equation, the derivative is in Erdelyi–Kober (EK) sense. We obtained exact traveling wave solutions by using fractional DξαG/G-expansion method. Using Ibragimov's nonlocal conservation method to time fractional nonlinear partial differential equations (FNPDEs), we compute conservation laws (CLs) for the mZK equation.