bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Trends in the market structure of US residential solar PV installation, 2000 to 2016: An evolving industry
Authors: O'Shaughnessy Eric 
Published: June 2018

AbstractThe US residential solar photovoltaic (PV) installation grew from fewer than 100 firms in 2000 to about 3000 firms by 2016. The rapid expansion of this emerging industry prompts questions about the installation industry's market structure, such as how market shares are distributed among installers and how interinstaller competition affects PV deployment. This article leverages a rich dataset to describe trends in the evolution of the US residential PV installation industry. The data show that most residential PV installers are relatively small companies, with about half of installers installing fewer than 5 systems. At the same time, a subset of high‐volume installers have accumulated market share, especially from 2010 to 2016. Causes of this recent market concentration are explored, with an emphasis on the role of the emergence of alternative customer financing options in the United States.
Turbidity and dissolved organic matter as significant predictors of spatio‐temporal dynamics of phosphorus in a large river‐floodplain system
Authors: Mayora G. , Schneider B. , Rossi A. 
Published: June 2018

AbstractPhosphorus (P) inputs are increasing in river‐floodplain systems, but the factors which influence the dynamics of this nutrient are not clear. To assess P dynamics in this kind of river, the main channel of the Middle Paraná River, 3 anabranches, 9 secondary channels, and 20 lakes (7 permanently connected and 13 temporarily connected to the fluvial system) were sampled. Multiple linear regressions were applied to explain spatio‐temporal patterns of P through commonly measured limnological variables. Particulate P increased during the sediment peak (evaluated through turbidity). Soluble reactive P (SRP) was positively associated with dissolved organic matter (DOM, mainly the chromophoric fraction), which increased during high waters in the fluvial system but was highly variable in each kind of aquatic environment. In temporarily connected lakes, vegetated zones dominated by emergent macrophytes displayed the highest SRP and chromophoric DOM concentrations. The flood and sediment peak positively affected P load in the river due to the increase in dissolved and particulate fractions, respectively. In addition, particle‐bound alkaline phosphatase activity was positively associated with SRP concentration and load. These results suggest that the sediment peak incorporates particulate P in the system while the floodplain is a P source during floods through exportation of the dissolved fraction. Dissolved P could be largely exported associated with DOM, which stimulates phosphatase biosynthesis by decreasing P bioavailability. The effect of aquatic macrophytes on P dynamics seems to be influenced by DOM exudation. According to these considerations, DOM should be taken into account to analyse P dynamics in river‐floodplain systems.
Theoretical Investigation of a Novel One‐Dimensional Infinite Monatomic Zinc Wire with Excellent Electronic Properties
Authors: Wang Xin , Yin Xue , Yu Hai‐Long , Liu Ying‐Tao 
Published: June 2018

AbstractHerein, a novel and economical one‐dimensional infinite monatomic zinc wire (1D‐IMZW) is designed, and its structural and electronic properties are investigated by using density functional theory. It is found that this zinc nanowire can be stabilized by the Zn−Zn bonding interaction between the adjacent Zn atoms. From the band structure and the density of states, it is discovered that the 1D‐IMZW is a typical semiconductor material. Moreover, the 1D‐IMZW exhibits strong absorption across the entire visible range.
A Hydrogen‐Bond‐Assisted CHEF Approach for Colorimetric and Fluorescence Recognition of Picric Acid and Its Solid‐Phase Extraction by an Immobilized Probe
Authors: Ghosh Milan , Ta Sabyasachi , Banerjee Mahuya , Mahiuddin Md , Das Debasis 
Published: June 2018

AbstractTwo rhodamine derivatives derived from rhodamine B, salicyaldehyde (L) and benzaldehyde (R1) having ether spacer have been prepared and characterised by spectroscopic techniques. One of them (L) is very efficient to detect picric acid (PA) by colorimetric and fluorescence method while the other (R1) serves as model compound to unveil sensing mechanism. The probe (L) recognizes PA through hydrogen bond assisted Chelation Enhanced Fluorescence (CHEF) process in a ratiometric manner in aqueous‐methanol (4/1, v/v). The silica immobilised probe is suitable for highly efficient solid phase extractive removal of PA from environmental samples. The experimental results have been substantiated by DFT studies.
Chemical Protein Degradation Approach and its Application to Epigenetic Targets
Authors: Itoh Yukihiro 
Published: June 2018

AbstractIn addition to traditional drugs, such as enzyme inhibitors, receptor agonists/antagonists, and protein‐protein interaction inhibitors as well as genetic technology, such as RNA interference and the CRISPR/Cas9 system, protein knockdown approaches using proteolysis‐targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have attracted much attention. PROTACs, which induce selective degradation of their target protein via the ubiquitin‐proteasome system, are useful for the down‐regulation of various proteins, including disease‐related proteins and epigenetic proteins. Recent reports have shown that chemical protein knockdown is possible not only in cells, but also in vivo and this approach is expected to be used as the therapeutic strategy for several diseases. Thus, this approach may be a significant technique to complement traditional drugs and genetic ablation and will be more widely used for drug discovery and chemical biology studies in the future. In this personal account, a history of chemical protein knockdown is introduced, and its features, recent progress in the epigenetics field, and future outlooks are discussed.
Thermo‐elastic analysis of functionally graded multilayered two‐dimensional decagonal quasicrystal plates
Authors: Li Yang , Yang Lianzhi , Gao Yang 
Published: June 2018

AbstractFunctionally graded materials have been extensively used as thermal barrier materials and composite laminates to resist high temperatures and reduce the thermal stresses. In this paper, an analytical solution is presented to investigate the response of functionally graded multilayered two‐dimensional thermoelastic decagonal quasicrystal plates. The general solution for a functionally graded simply supported plate with the material properties being assumed to be exponentially distributed along the thickness direction is derived by using the pseudo‐Stroh formalism, and the solution for the corresponding multilayered case is obtained in terms of the propagator matrix method. Numerical results show the influences of functionally graded exponential factor, phonon‐phason coupling coefficient and the thickness of functionally graded quasicrystal layer on the phonon, phason and thermal fields of the plates under the steady‐state thermal load. The obtained results should be useful for future analysis and design of functionally graded layered thermoelastic quasicrystal plates.
Liver Regeneration is Preserved After At Least Four Repeated Liver Resections for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Authors: Yamaguchi Takamune , Kokudo Takashi , Akamatsu Nobuhisa , Kaneko Junichi , Arita Junichi , Sakamoto Yoshihiro , Kokudo Norihiro , Hasegawa Kiyoshi 
Published: June 2018

AbstractIntroductionRepeated resection is known to prolong survival, with an acceptable morbidity rate, in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. However, little is known about the effect of repeated liver resection on postoperative liver regeneration and liver function. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of repeated liver resections on the postoperative liver regeneration rate and liver function.MethodsA total of 71 patients, who had undergone more than three liver resections for hepatocellular carcinoma between May 2001 and December 2013 at a tertiary care hospital in Japan, were included in the analysis. Among them, CT‐volumetric data for the first, second, third, and fourth or more resections were available for 36, 49, 53, and 24 patients. We analyzed the regeneration index (RI) defined as the postoperative TLV/preoperative TLV × 100 was calculated after each operation to measure the degree of regeneration. Liver function was evaluated using the indocyanine green retention rate at 15 min (ICG‐R15).ResultsNo significant differences in RI were observed among the first, second, and third or more liver resection groups. No significant difference in the ICG R15 value was seen between the first liver resection group and the second or more liver resection group (P = 0.75). However, a significant difference in the RI was observed when the 1 segmentectomy or less liver resection group (median [range] RI 98.1 [72.9–119.9]) was compared with the 2 or more segmentectomy group (median [range] RI 90.5 [62.6–113.6]) (P = 0.005).ConclusionThe regeneration process is maintained after as many as four repeated resections. Patients with sustained liver function can safely undergo repeated liver resections for recurrences of HCC.
Managing Multiple Sclerosis: Treatment Initiation, Modification, and Sequencing
Authors: Freedman Mark S. , Selchen Daniel , Prat Alexandre , Giacomini Paul S. 
Published: June 2018

AbstractRecent therapeutic advances in the management of multiple sclerosis (MS) have raised questions about the selection of appropriate patient candidates for various treatments and, if the plan is to move from one treatment to another, the appropriate sequencing of these therapies. The selected approach should provide optimal disease management without limiting future therapeutic options based on safety concerns, and recognize potential future treatments and the possibility of combination therapies. Additional challenges include incorporation of patient needs and preferences into the overall therapeutic approach, in order to ensure optimal outcomes in the short and long term. The objective of this manuscript is to provide an overview of what is currently known regarding the impact of various therapies for MS on future therapeutic choices (sequencing). In this context, we reviewed the available evidence in support of various treatments and, based on the presence of disease activity, suggested a scheme for switching or escalating therapy with the main focus on sequencing of therapeutic approaches.
Musculoskeletal Pain is Associated With New-Onset Psychological Distress in Survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Authors: Yabe Yutaka , Hagiwara Yoshihiro , Sekiguchi Takuya , Sugawara Yumi , Tsuchiya Masahiro , Koide Masashi , Itaya Nobuyuki , Yoshida Shinichiro , Sogi Yasuhito , Yano Toshihisa , Tsuji Ichiro , Itoi Eiji 
Published: June 2018

AbstractObjectivePsychological distress is a common symptom after natural disasters. Although musculoskeletal pain also increases after natural disasters, its relation to psychological distress is not known. This study aimed to examine the association of musculoskeletal pain with new-onset psychological distress among survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake.MethodsA panel study was conducted with survivors at 2 and 3 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. New-onset psychological distress was defined as psychological distress absent at 2 years and present at 3 years after the disaster. The number of musculoskeletal pain sites at 2 years after the disaster was divided into 3 categories (0, 1, and ≥2). Multivariate logistic regression models were used to calculate the odds ratio and 95% confidence interval for new-onset psychological distress according to the number of musculoskeletal pain sites.ResultsThe rate of new-onset psychological distress was 6.7%. Musculoskeletal pain was associated with new-onset psychological distress. Using “0” as a reference, the adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence interval) were 1.65 (0.92-2.95) in “1” and 2.12 (1.24-3.64) in “≥2” (Pfor trend=.02).ConclusionsMusculoskeletal pain is associated with new-onset psychological distress among survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:295–300)
Maynooth, the ‘Godless colleges’ and liberal imperial thought in the 1840s
Authors: Biel Justin 
Published: June 2018

AbstractIn 1845, parliament passed an act establishing the three Queen’s Colleges in Ireland – Belfast, Galway and Cork – with the stipulation that ‘religious’ instruction in the colleges would have to be sponsored by voluntary organisations, not the state. Prior to 1845, parliament’s approach to providing spiritual guidance in state-run institutions had been one of ‘parallel patronage’, assuring that wherever there were individuals representing different denominational backgrounds, religious specialists from each denomination would be appointed to work in the institution. For example, the Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1826 required that Catholic, Presbyterian and Anglican chaplains serve their respective portions of the prison population in each gaol that housed any of their co-denominationalists. But in 1845, parliament took an ostensibly different tack, implying that denominations would have to sponsor their young men’s study of theology or any other ‘religious’ subject at university level. However, this article argues that the Irish colleges bill gained assent from the liberal wing of parliamentary opinion precisely because it seemed, to early Victorian liberals, to instantiate the logic of parallel patronage. Using Thomas Wyse, Charles Buller, and T. B. Macaulay as cases in point, this article reveals that the logic behind this vision of state ‘neutrality’ as simultaneous support for each denominational interest was steeped in a working knowledge of colonialism.
Management of advanced hypopharyngeal carcinoma: systematic review of survival following surgical and non-surgical treatments
Authors: Habib A 
Published: June 2018

AbstractBackground:Advanced hypopharyngeal carcinoma has a dismal prognosis. The optimal treatment for these patients remains under debate. This systematic review aimed to compare survival following surgical and non-surgical treatments.Methods:A systematic review was conducted of randomised studies, with a descriptive analysis of retrospective observational studies.Results:Two randomised trials and 11 observational studies were included in the review. A meta-analysis of randomised trials reported a hazard ratio of 0.89 for overall survival in favour of surgical treatment (p = 0.44). Neither treatment was favoured in terms of overall survival. Observational studies did not report a survival advantage with either treatment. The five-year larynx preservation rates for non-surgically treated patients were between 38 and 58 percent.Conclusion:Chemoradiotherapy offers similar survivorship compared to surgery in advanced disease, while also making larynx preservation feasible. It can be used as a treatment in all patients as an alternative to surgery.
A critique of the principle of error correction as a theory of social change
Authors: Lewis Mark C. 
Published: June 2018

AbstractThis article assesses the historical failures and limits of the dominant ‘error correction’ approach within sociolinguistics. The error correction approach supposes that social change can be achieved when knowledge is shared by researchers with the public or figures of institutional authority. This article reviews reflections on sociolinguists’ work toward social change, especially those of Labov, through scholarship in language ideologies and critical race theory. From a language ideological and critical race perspective, error correction is limited in its engagement with marginalizing representations of language because it does not jointly address material conditions and social positions supported by these representations. Exemplifying these limitations, sociolinguistic error-correction efforts that address the evaluation of language practices racialized as Black may have unfortunately distracted from social change agendas that confront material and institutionalized racism directly. To address these limitations, this article highlights existing critical reflexive scholarship that explicitly interrogates disciplinary assumptions. (Critical race theory, error correction, language ideologies, social change, critical reflexivity)*
Resolving knowledge discrepancies in informing sequences
Authors: Seuren Lucas M. , Huiskes Mike , Koole Tom 
Published: June 2018

AbstractThis article investigates a specific practice that recipients in Dutch talk-in-interaction use when responding to turns that have as one of their main jobs to inform. By responding to an informing turn with an oh-prefaced nonrepeating response that has yes/no-type interrogative word order, recipients treat that turn as counter to expectation and request both confirmation of the inference formulated in his/her response, as well as reconciliatory information for the two discrepant states of affairs. This practice is compared to similar cases where the nonrepeating response is not oh-prefaced to show that such turns implement different actions. Data are in Dutch with English translations. (Counterexpectations, change-of-state, yes/no-type interrogatives, action formation, practions)*
Methodische Vorgehensweisen bei der Ermittlung und Beurteilung psychischer Belastung in der betrieblichen Praxis
Authors: Schuller Katja , Schulz-Dadaczynski Anika , Beck David 
Published: June 2018

Zusammenfassung. In Deutschland verpflichtet der Gesetzgeber jeden Arbeitgeber und jede Arbeitgeberin, Gefährdungen durch psychische Belastung zu ermitteln und entsprechend zu vermeiden, spezifiziert jedoch nicht, wie eine Gefährdungsbeurteilung psychischer Belastung durchzuführen ist. In dieser Studie wird in 37 qualitativen betrieblichen Fallstudien anhand teilstrukturierter Interviews mit betrieblichen Akteuren und Dokumenten inhaltsanalytisch untersucht, ob und wie Arbeitgeber methodische Spielräume auch jenseits von normativen Empfehlungen nutzen, um Gefährdungen ihrer Beschäftigten durch psychische Belastungen zu identifizieren. Die vielfältigen methodischen Herangehensweisen folgen drei Orientierungen, die mehr oder weniger gemeinsam verfolgt werden: 1) Messen und Bewerten definierter Konstrukte psychischer Belastung, 2) Erklären und Verstehen von Entstehungszusammenhängen problematischer, mit psychischer Belastung assoziierter Arbeitssituationen, und 3) Erstellen eines (vermeintlich) rechtssicheren Dokumentes zum Nachweis einer Gefährdungsbeurteilung. Grenzen dieser Orientierungen werden in Fällen deutlich, in denen einseitig auf eine dieser Orientierungen fokussiert wird. Methodischer Entwicklungsbedarf wird insbesondere für (qualitative) Ansätze des „Erklärens und Verstehens“ aufgezeigt.
The Impact of Energetic Particle Precipitation on Mesospheric OH – Variability of the Sources and the Background Atmosphere
Authors: Zawedde Annet Eva , Nesse Tyssøy Hilde , Stadsnes Johan , Sandanger Marit Irene 
Published: June 2018

AbstractUsing a new analysis technique, we estimate the precipitating particle fluxes measured by the Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites. These fluxes are used to quantify the direct impact of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) on mesospheric hydroxyl (OH) measured from the Aura satellite during 2005–2009 in the Northern Hemisphere, covering the declining and minimum phase of solar cycle 23. Using multiple linear regression of nighttime OH volume mixing ratio with temperature, geopotential height, water vapor (H2O) volume mixing ratio, Lyman‐alpha (Ly‐α) radiation, and particle energy deposition, we account for the background variability and hence the EPP impact independent of season and other short‐term variability. We investigate the relative importance of solar proton events, energetic electron precipitation and the background to OH variability. The background dominates over EPP above 70‐km altitude. Below 70 km, EPP dominates. The maximum EPP contribution is 44% and 34% in the geographic and corrected geomagnetic (CGM) settings respectively at 67 km. Protons dominate over electrons at mesospheric altitudes with maximum contributions of 43% and 32% at 67 km in the geographic and CGM settings, respectively. In a CGM setting, the electrons contribution is comparable to that of protons above 70 km, with a maximum contribution of 11% at 75 km. Since the period investigated is during relatively low solar activity, these results represent a lower estimate of the general EPP contribution to OH variability.
Rapid Enhancements of the Seed Populations in the Heart of the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt: A Multicase Study
Authors: Tang C. L. , Xie X. J. , Ni B. , Su Z. P. , Reeves G. D. , Zhang J.‐C. , Baker D. N. , Spence H. E. , Funsten H. O. , Blake J. B. , Wygant J. R. , Dai G. Y. 
Published: June 2018

AbstractTo better understand rapid enhancements of the seed populations (hundreds of keV electrons) in the heart of the Earth's outer radiation belt (L* ~ 3.5–5.0) during different geomagnetic activities, we investigate three enhancement events measured by Van Allen Probes in detail. Observations of the fluxes and the pitch angle distributions of energetic electrons are analyzed to determine rapid enhancements of the seed populations. Our study shows that three specified processes associated with substorm electron injections can lead to rapid enhancements of the seed populations, and the electron energy increases up to 342 keV. In the first process, substorm electron injections accompanied by the transient and intense substorm electric fields can directly lead to rapid enhancements of the seed populations in the heart of the outer radiation belt. In the second process, the substorm injected electrons are first trapped in the outer radiation belt and subsequently transported into L* < 4.5 by the convection electric field. In the third process, the lower energy electrons are first injected at L* ~ 5.3 and then undergo drift resonance with ultralow‐frequency waves. These accelerated electrons by ultralow‐frequency waves are further transported into L* < 4.5 due to the convection electric field. This process is consistent with the radial diffusion. Our results suggest that these specified processes are important for understanding the dynamics of the seed populations in the heart of the outer radiation belt.