bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Supporting the transition to parenthood: Development of a group health-promoting programme
Authors: Buultjens Melissa , Murphy Gregory , Milgrom Jeannette , Taket Ann , Poinen Darren 
Published: June 2018

Background Many Western countries have a strong record of obstetric safety; however, there are disparities in other indicators (such as morbidity) and best-practice outcomes, including breastfeeding rates and perinatal depression. Aims To pilot a multifaceted psycho-educational group programme for first-time parents. Methods This alternate-allocation study compared an intervention programme (n=10) and a comparison group (n=8) who received routine care with the addition of a weekly telephone call. Findings There were distinct differences between groups at follow-up, with the intervention group reporting lower depression scores and exclusive breastfeeding. Trends included positive adjustment to parenthood, perceived parenting competence and increased mother-infant attachment. Conclusion The intervention demonstrated benefits including learning opportunities, skills training and increased social capital.
The biological response to laser-aided direct metal-coated Titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V)
Authors: Shin T. , Lim D. , Kim Y. S. , Kim S. C. , Jo W. L. , Lim Y. W. 
Published: June 2018

Objectives Laser-engineered net shaping (LENS) of coated surfaces can overcome the limitations of conventional coating technologies. We compared the in vitro biological response with a titanium plasma spray (TPS)-coated titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) surface with that of a Ti6Al4V surface coated with titanium using direct metal fabrication (DMF) with 3D printing technologies. Methods The in vitro ability of human osteoblasts to adhere to TPS-coated Ti6Al4V was compared with DMF-coating. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to assess the structure and morphology of the surfaces. Biological and morphological responses to human osteoblast cell lines were then examined by measuring cell proliferation, alkaline phosphatase activity, actin filaments, and RUNX2 gene expression. Results Morphological assessment of the cells after six hours of incubation using SEM showed that the TPS- and DMF-coated surfaces were largely covered with lamellipodia from the osteoblasts. Cell adhesion appeared similar in both groups. The differences in the rates of cell proliferation and alkaline phosphatase activities were not statistically significant. Conclusions The DMF coating applied using metal 3D printing is similar to the TPS coating, which is the most common coating process used for bone ingrowth. The DMF method provided an acceptable surface structure and a viable biological surface. Moreover, this method is automatable and less complex than plasma spraying. Cite this article: T. Shin, D. Lim, Y. S. Kim, S. C. Kim, W. L. Jo, Y. W. Lim. The biological response to laser-aided direct metal-coated Titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V). Bone Joint Res 2018;7:357–361. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.75.BJR-2017-0222.R1.
Cao Fei: Rethinking the global/local discourse
Authors: Merlin Monica 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
Cao Fei (b. 1978) was born and raised in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou by the Pearl River Delta (PRD), ‘the factory of the world’, as the artist defined it. Working with multimedia, primarily video, photography and machinima, her practice engages with popular culture, regional trends and globalized fashions. With an early official participation at the China Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2007, Cao Fei is one of the most renowned Chinese artists of the post-Cultural Revolution ‘new new human beings’ (xinxin renlei), and one of the few women artists from the People’s Republic of China who has been recognized and collected internationally by art establishments such as the Tate Collection in Britain, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MoMA in New York. This article proposes to use Cao Fei’s work to explore the limitations of the global/local discourse and offer a more nuanced and complex understanding of this dichotomy in Chinese contemporary art.
‘Liao Garden’ and bodies of energy: Everyday madness and temporal magnetic fields in the work of Zheng Guogu
Authors: Mingjun Lu 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
The move from Age of Empires to ‘Liao Garden’ constitutes an important conceptual shift in Zheng Guogu’s artistic practice. If Age of Empires can be considered an expansion of thought, ‘Liao Garden’ creates a temporal magnetic field. Both works reveal Zheng’s penetrating insight and depth of understanding in relation to calligraphy, tea ceremonies, architecture, medicine and other everyday experience and forms of knowledge in China. This article examines how, in response to the changing conditions of globalization, Zheng’s continuous fantasy, and his experiments and actions, convey an extraordinary force and kinetic energy. In the context of a reality that does not lie in any specific geographical location, the artist seeks to explore a free world that eliminates the categories of the imperial, the colonial and the globalized.
Image or to image?
Authors: Corino Gianni 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
The proliferation of images towards an iconic communication in the hypermediacy of social media, of locative media, of Internet of Things (IoT) on one side and the visualization of real-time data, the deep learning algorithm on the other, question the essence of how reality is perceived, created and the nature and role of images itself. The common understanding of what constitutes an image is related to the representation of things and people. In the context of instant messaging, social media and Big Data, distributed and networked IoT, this seems not to be the case anymore. IoT extends the idea of social media to embrace ‘things’ into the equation, to form something that the author defines as the ‘Thingbook’. The Thingbook generates images of us from the perspective of things and data based on a heterogeneous system of technologies that sense, capture, analysis and learn about the world in real-time. Through this real-time dimension reality oscillates from a representational paradigm to a performative one and to certain extent towards a paradoxical condition. This article will collect evidence of how IoT hypermediacy is increasingly changing communication from linguistic to iconic, and how data visualization and Artificial Neural Networks are changing ways of learning from text to images at the level of the Google Cat Algorithm where Facebook and Thingbook converge. This will look into practices that make extensive use of the image in the immediacy of communication, into evidence of how information derived from sensors is recomposed into images, and, to a certain extent, how the discourse around image and IoT or Big Data questions our concept of image and reality.
Brass Art – Freud’s figure-ground in motion: Macabre, rare, banal, eerie and sentimental
Authors: Lewis Chara , Mojsiewicz Kristin , Pettican Anneke 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
Brass Art’s intervention into Freud’s house attempted to grant its solid objects, furniture and rooms a light, apparitional quality. Their performances at Maresfield Gardens were recorded with three Kinect sensors, the undifferentiated laser’s touch rendering all objects – alive, dead, static, breathing – with the same white, shining, pixellated brilliance. Objects and places that formed the props and settings for performances assume an intense luminosity, appearing to hover and tilt in a horizonless figure-ground. The interplay of focus, proximity and perception returns to consideration of the atemporal image. As artist Susan Hiller in her own observations of the Freud Museum states, ‘Close consideration of its beautiful, utilitarian, tedious, scholarly, macabre, rare, banal, eerie, and sentimental objects produces a picture in which figure-ground relationships seem to constantly shift’. This article introduces the new, multi-screen sonic work On the Thread of One Desire in development by Brass Art. It examines the way in which their recorded performances draw attention to the unconscious, the atemporal and the uncanny, and how the work foregrounds the loop, the arc and the full 360º revolution, with the intention of amplifying and revealing some of the unfolding narratives embedded in Freud’s London home.
A horizon is not flat: Photographic pattern compositions as expression for the atemporal
Authors: Heurling Julia 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
Avant-garde filmmaker and painter Hans Richter refers to visual rhythm as articulation of time, and film as articulation of time and movement: ‘Rhythm is the essence of filmmaking because it is conscious articulation of time. If anything is at the bottom of filmmaking it is the articulation of time, of movement. Film and pattern are both visual expressions based on multiple images. They relate to rhythm, continuity and time but somehow the approach is different. In my practice, I consider working with pattern as managing visual rhythm. I would like to use Richters’ statement to reflect on pattern as articulation of time. Could pattern be seen as articulation of time? How is the time aspect different depending if you work with film or pattern? This article will use the project ‘A horizon is not flat’ to propose how photographic pattern can be seen as representation of place but also representation of time. The patterns can be ‘read’ as experience of place but also as experience of time, not as information or measurement of time but in an abstract or a-temporal sense as visualization of the experience or perception of continuity. I will present the suggestion of how film and pattern relate differently to rhythm and articulation of time, illustrated in a visual model.
Atemporality, art, quantum phenomena and the jester
Authors: Thomas Paul 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
Contemporary physics, with its use of probability and uncertainty, has affected the way artists perceive and interpret the world. The impact of probability and uncertainty were initially challenged and explored by the Futurists and Dadaists at the beginning of the twentieth century. This article explores the analogous relationship between art and quantum phenomena such as the delayed choice quantum eraser (DCQE) and multiworlds. How artist when observing the world, translates it in to marks that measure the world and in that act, alter what they really see.
Zapis aleatoryzmu kontrolowanego jako instrukcja działania dla wykonawców na wybranych przykładach kompozycji Witolda Lutosławskiego.
Authors: Chrenowicz Jakub 
Published: June 2018

The goal of the article is to present the transcription system in Witold Lutosławski’s pieces composed using the technique of controlled aleatorism as a formal language for the transmission of instructions to the conductor and orchestra musicians performing those works. The starting point for my ruminations is to explore controlled aleatorism from the performer’s perspective.The text invokes excerpts from three pieces by Witold Lutosławski: Cello concerto, Chain I, and Piano Concerto. The author presents an account of the controlled aleatorism technique and analyzes the graphic signs used in the aforementioned compositions, along with the ways in which they are interpreted by performers. The author contends that the examined transcriptions are a collection of instructions of varying degrees of complexity, addressed to musicians performing the analyzed pieces. Such a system of notation can be interpreted as a formal language which the composer programmed the work of the conductor and orchestra musicians. Beginning with the simplest instructions, he proceeded to create complex, algorithmic commands.The conclusions drawn from the above analyses point to the essence of controlled aleatorism in music notation and its interpretations. The element of control overrides the element of randomness, and such a state of affairs is attained by using a particular type of transcription.
Carleman estimates and null controllability of a class of singular parabolic equations
Authors: Du Runmei , Eichhorn Jürgen , Liu Qiang , Wang Chunpeng 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
In this paper, we consider control systems governed by a class of semilinear parabolic equations,
which are singular at the boundary and possess singular convection and reaction terms.
The systems are shown to be null controllable by establishing Carleman estimates, observability inequalities and energy estimates for solutions to linearized equations.
Elements and Opposites in Heraclitus
Authors: Neels Richard 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the various characteristics of Heraclitus’ theory of elemental transformation that can reasonably be gleaned from the extant fragments. While there has been some recent work on Heraclitus’ theory of elemental transformation, there has been a lack of discussion concerning the properties of the particular elements and their relation to the cardinal opposites. In this paper I argue that fragment B126 (“Cold things warm up, warm things cool off; wet things dry up and dry things moisten”) is an explanandum for Heraclitus. It is meant to invoke certain questions in his readers’ minds: How is it that cold things come to hold an opposing property (i. e. “hot”)? What type of change occurs such that a wet thing can become dry? How is it that things hold these properties in the first place? I argue that Heraclitus’ theory of elemental transformation (B31, B36 and B76) is the explanans for B126 and is capable of answering these questions. That is, the observable change evident in B126 is explained by a set of transformations between elemental stuffs. Because of this connection between B126 and his theory of elements, Heraclitus’ theory of elemental transformation is rightly understood as a ‘unity of opposites’ thesis. However, I argue that the transformation of opposites can only be one opposites thesis among several opposites theses.
„Stierkampf in Bayonne“ – Corrida in Lissabon
Authors: Bub Stefan 
Published: June 2018

AbstractTwo bold descriptions of bullfighting in German literature – a section of Kurt Tucholsky’sEin Pyrenäenbuchand the final episode of Thomas Mann’sBekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull– can be read in the context of French authors who (about the 1920 s and 1930s) were fascinated by the corrida and the idea of abject sacredness and transgres­sion. The comparison of striking motives (e. g., the art of the matador, the suffer­ing of the horses) reveals how literary texts reflect the ritual character of bullfighting, represent its disgusting aspects, and deal with the taurobolic “scandalon” of death and eros. Whereas Tucholsky encounters a trivial spectacle and nevertheless feels the attrac­tion of violence, Thomas Mann’s narrator is confronted with mythic thought (Mithras) and Dionysiac excess.
Ex Uno Plures: Global French in, on and of the Rue Morgue and the Orient Express
Authors: Rolls Alistair 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
In the following paper, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express are considered, and compared, as exemplars of what Andrea Goulet has labelled “Global French,” which is to say that both texts convey non-English, and especially French, language use through their own original English. Both texts will be shown to be born in, stage, and depart from primal linguistic scenes: the Babelian confusion of Poe’s multiple foreign witnesses will be embodied in the impediments that keep them from the scene of the crime; in Christie’s case, the multilingual investigation on board the Orient Express will stand in place of stilted and curtailed conversation held, in the Global French of Christie’s English, on the platform of another train. As sites of original translation and communicative excess and failure, these classic texts are about language first and crime second; indeed, the murder on Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express embodies taking place but, ultimately, does not take place at all.
Determination of optimal positive end-expiratory pressure based on respiratory compliance and electrical impedance tomography: a pilot clinical comparative trial
Authors: Karsten Jan , Voigt Nicolas , Gillmann Hans-Joerg , Stueber Thomas 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
There is no agreement on gold standard method for positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) titration. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) may aid in finding the optimal PEEP level. In this pilot trial, we investigated potential differences in the suggested optimal PEEP (BestPEEP) as derived by respiratory compliance and EIT-derived parameters. We examined if compliance-derived PEEP differs with regard to the regional ventilation distribution in relation to atelectasis and hyperinflation. Measurements were performed during an incremental/decremental PEEP trial in 15 ventilated intensive care patients suffering from mild-to-moderate impairment of oxygenation due to sepsis, pneumonia, trauma and metabolic and ischemic disorders. Measurement agreement was analyzed using Bland-Altman plots. We observed a diversity of EIT-derived and compliance-based optimal PEEP in the evaluated patients. BestPEEPCompliance
did not necessarily correspond to the BestPEEPODCL
with the least regional overdistension and collapse. The collapsed area was significantly smaller when the overdistension/collapse index was used for PEEP definition (p=0.022). Our results showed a clinically relevant difference in the suggested optimal PEEP levels when using different parameters for PEEP titration. The compliance-derived PEEP level revealed a higher proportion of residual regional atelectasis as compared to EIT-based PEEP.
Dependency profiles in the large-scale analysis of discourse connectives
Authors: Laippala Veronika , Kyröläinen Aki-Juhani , Kanerva Jenna , Ginter Filip 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
This article presents dependency profiles (DPs) as an empirical method to investigate linguistic elements and their application to the study of 24 discourse connectives in the 3.7-billion token Finnish Internet Parsebank (http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/dep_search/). DPs are based on co-occurrence patterns of the discourse connectives with dependency syntax relations. They follow the assumption of usage-based models, according to which the semantic and functional properties of linguistic expressions arise based on their distributional characteristics. We focus on the typical usage patterns reflected by the DPs and the (dis)similarities among discourse connectives that these patterns reveal. We demonstrate that 1) DPs can be analyzed with clustering to obtain linguistically meaningful groupings among the connectives and that 2) the clustering can be combined with support vector machines to obtain generic and stable linguistic characteristics of the discourse connectives. We show that this data-driven method offers support for previous results and reveals novel tendencies outside the scope of studies on smaller corpora. As the method is based on automatic syntactic analysis following the cross-linguistic universal dependencies, it does not require manual annotation and can be applied to a number of languages and in contrastive studies.
Measurement and Control of Non-Linear Data Using ARMA Based Artificial Neural Network
Authors: Marshiana D. , Thirusakthimurugan P. 
Published: June 2018

Abstract
Non-linear processes like conical tank control system is complex because of its non-linear characteristics, long-term interval and time difference between the system input and output. In this context, neural network based controller works since it is able to control and train the non-linear data set of liquid level in order to optimize the network performance. Hence, this article proposes a neural network control using gradient descent with adaptive learning rate that improves the performance and minimizes the errors, by using moving average filter and Hanning window to enhance the non-linear data. The article mainly deals with an application involving ARMA and artificial neural-based network (ANN) to model a conical tank system. To remove the recurrent components and to predict the future values of the process, the present paper employs an Autoregressive Moving Average Model (ARMA) by identifying its time varying parameters and combining with artificial neural network. MATLAB R2016b was applied for the entire simulation and training of non-linear data set. The simulation results indicate a minimization in the difference between the net input to the output and target value with that of error. The results indicated that the simulation took only 13 s to train the entire network for 6,135 iterations with the ARMA based model.
Why Matter Matters in Theological Action Research: Attending to the Voices of Tradition
Authors: Stangeland Kaufman Tone , Ideström Jonas 
Published: June 2018

AbstractIn this article we show how a sensibility of materiality offers helpful perspectives on issues of tradition and normativity in theological action research. Employing Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as our conceptual framework, we analyze work published by the Action Research – Church and Society (ARCS) team. We argue that a sociomaterial understanding of the embodiment of the normative voices of tradition in ecclesial practices, such as the liturgy, offers resources to overcome a tension we see inherent in the work of the ARCS team. Developing the ARCS team’s conversational approach by including this sociomaterial sensibility allows for a more mutual relationship between the normative voices of the Christian tradition, the academy and the inherent theology of what is enacted and expressed by participants in the fieldwork.
Teaching Rituals: New Church Activities and Religious Education
Authors: Kilpeläinen Aino-Elina , Vejrup Nielsen Marie 
Published: June 2018

AbstractToday, a series of new initiatives are appearing within the established churches, many of them directed towards families with young children. The research presented in this article examines one specific new activity, “Babysalmesang” – baby hymn singing – within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. This study rests firmly on the results of a national study and provides a qualitative perspective on what takes place in babysalmesang from the perspective of ritual education. The analysis of the data showed that babysalmesang is a ritualized activity that, at the same time, teaches about a ritual: baptism.