bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Green Technology for Motorway Overpasses
Authors: Zak Jaroslav 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Overpasses are essential to establish permeability of highways for the wildlife. Width and length are the key technical parameters influencing the overpass effectiveness. It is crucial to secure the proper technology and correct water management on its surface. Wildlife behaviour and their requirements for the above stated technical parameters of overpasses have also been investigated. In all cases, the overpass performance increases with enlarging the width and drop with an increasing length. The goal is therefore to achieve a balanced compromise allowing sufficient functionality while also sustaining reasonable costs. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a method to select a “good” solution in the sense of sufficient overpass performance with moderate total expenses. Overpass performance calculations were made on the original methodology pioneered by the author. Overall expenses were provided based on actual construction costs in the Czech Republic, including expenses for preparations, design, construction, maintenance, and demolition. The results show that DEA has proven to be a very appropriate method for identifying suitable solutions that can be effective in designing measures to secure the highway’s permeability for the wildlife.
Price indices for residential premises in small areas on the example of a selected market in Poland
Authors: Forys Iwona 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
The discussion about the real estate price indices in Poland dates back to the beginning of the transformation period. Despite the statutory regulations, the creation of these indices continues to face formal, organizational as well as methodological obstacles. The methodology for building these indices, despite the rich foreign experience in this area, is also not established. The proposed article refers to the Nobel Prize winner from 2013 prof. Robert Shiller, who pointed to the need to build house price indices in homogeneous areas, for example, due to the level of urbanization, population size and based on them, the construction of aggregated price indices for larger areas. The foundation of the construction of property price indices in this concept is the definition of a typical home, which is a permanent reference point in subsequent periods of the study. In the proposed article discusses the problem of constructing price indices of housing in small areas, indicating a typical dwelling in trading on the secondary market. On this basis, an attempt was made to determine the price index for a small area, i.e. a homogeneous area due to the price-setting factors important for the residential real estate market. Each transaction is described by a set of several quantitative and qualitative features. Price indices will be determined to take into account the methodology used to determine them in the literature. The research hypothesis concerning the discrepancy of the indices values will be verified using various criteria for selecting the spatial extent of the studied area. The obtained results are a contribution to further research on other local markets and for other types of real estate.
Monitoring the current state of the Czech section of the horse-drawn railway České Budějovice – Linz and the design of its revitalization – part 2
Authors: Sal Jiri , Novakova Petra 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
This article follows the article “Monitoring of the current state of the Czech section of horse-drawn railway České Budějovice - Linz and the design of its revitalization” and deals with mapping of the remains of the Czech part of the České Budějovice - Linz line. The article lists the remaining parts of the track that were not listed in the first article. In the first article, we dealt with parts from Holkov to the state border with Austria. In the current article, we focus on parts from České Budějovice to Holkov. Relics Horse-drawn tracks are kept as national cultural monuments, each separately. Unfortunately, for this reason, it is impossible to work with the railroad as a whole, and therefore, it is very difficult to revitalize this track, even though the horse-drawn railway is one of the first large logistics operations in the Czech Republic. In České Budějovice, all relics are in good condition, after previous renovations and regular maintenance. All these relics are buildings located in the city center. The track in these places can no longer be restored to connect the objects to a single unit as these sites are built. The remaining parts of this section of the track are neglected and often in a catastrophic technical condition. In this work, we propose measures to increase tourism on the remains of the track. The possibility of revitalizing a section of the track to make tourists more attractive could be seen as possible. The work proposes new educational trails on horse-drawn track on the remains of the track. Trails, positions and stops are suggested for the nature trails, and what they should be concerned about, but the panels themselves are not designed. It is also proposed to use modern technologies, usable in smart devices.
Synergy effect of speed management and development of road vicinity in Wrzosowo
Authors: Kacprzak Dominik , Solowczuk Alicja 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
In the era of increasing traffic volumes and traffic calming problems, the challenges that connect a number of related, although at face value independent, issues involving different social groups seem to be fundamental. The fundamental problem in smaller towns and villages is to ensure the road safety at pedestrian crossings on through roads. The domestic and international guidelines of road design recommend introducing traffic calming devices at places where the traffic enters a built-up area and in central zones, to reduce speeds along the road cutting through a village. One solution is to construct traffic calming devices in the entry zones. As a result, one obtains the so-called speed zoning even before a zone directly related to the scattered or dense housing development. The second issue is to apply traffic calming means in the built-up area. It would seem that the task should pose no difficulty and that it should be the responsibility of the road workers. However, research and analysis into the effectiveness of traffic calming devices show that the best effect is obtained through synergistic efforts of road builders, local authorities, urban planners and many other specialists. The example discussed in the paper, a village of Wrzosowo, clearly supports the thesis. The mere application of traffic calming devices may not necessarily bring the expected results. Combined efforts of road builders and urban planners can, however, be successful in the effective control of speed zoning and reduction in some road sections. The paper presents results of speed reduction measurements of a pedestrian crossing on a regional road in an exemplary village. Measurements of road conditions were conducted three times, before the reconstruction, after it and after the introduction of all the elements of traffic calming, as designed by road builders and urban planners responsible for the development of the vicinity of the road. Analysis of results showed that the chicanes constructed in the entry zones to the village, if used alone, did not provide speed reduction along the throughway cutting through the village. It was only a combination of traffic calming devices and elements of road vicinity development that brought about the expected speed reduction, providing better environmental conditions and improved road safety. Conclusions drawn on the basis of the conducted analysis confirm that the location of chicanes, the use of central reservation strip and traffic barriers must be closely linked to the development of the road vicinity and the location of the road signs that inform motorists about the built-up area.
Assessment of the condition, cause and possible other defects on the wooden façade of ThermoWood in terms of blackening the entire facade of the family house
Authors: Dedic Martin 
Published: September 2019

AbstractThe aim of the paper was to provide information about defects and causes of faults on the wooden facade of ThermoWood. The examined failure is the blackening of wooden elements on the entire area of the family house facade. The family house is now in a finished form and is therefore permanently used for housing people. Current damage does not jeopardize the stability of the object. A test sample of the blackened facade from the north-east side of the building at locations available and with a predominant blackening ratio was taken to determine the cause of the failure. The evaluation was based on general technical requirements for carrying out the work related to the implementation of the facade, technological details. Local examination of the facade revealed that the blackening occurs across the surface and shows signs of fungus. For this reason, a sample of the facade was taken from the north-eastern part and the opinion of the Czech Mycological Society was requested based on the photo documentation including the description of the impregnation used. At the end of the paper, we propose a comprehensive solution to the facade failure with the provision of the disposal and elimination of possible sources supporting the mold formation.
New NaCl-simulated concrete pore solution (New NaCl-SPS) for superhydrophobic coating of galvanized steel
Authors: Naing Thet Htet , Janudom Somjai , Rachpech Vishnu , Mahathaninwong Narissara , Thiwong Somkid 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
An anti-corrosive superhydrophobic surface was successfully fabricated on a galvanized coating of a porcelain insulator’s pin in HVAC transmission line, using the New NaCl-SPS immersion method and stearic surface modification. After 3 days immersion in New NaCl-SPS solution, the stable passive layer was formed on the galvanized surface and it was confirmed as highly crystallized ZnO layer with hexagonal wurtzite structure, which is environmentally friendly. This work represents a new route for the synthesis of ZnO micro and nano-structures on the galvanized coating by immersion in New NaCl-SPS solution. Moreover, the superhydrophobic surface has been successfully fabricated on the synthesized ZnO surfaces. The corrosion resistance of galvanized surfaces with or without superdydrophobicity has been investigated. The results demonstrate that the superhydrophobicity can effectively enhance corrosion resistance, to counter pin corrosion problems of electrical insulators and porcelain breakage by volume expansion of corrosion products on the zinc sleeve.
Usefulness of Dual Immunohistochemistry Staining in Detection of Hairy Cell Leukemia in Bone Marrow
Authors: Gupta Gaurav K , Sun Xiaoping , Yuan Constance M , Stetler-Stevenson Maryalice , Kreitman Robert J , Maric Irina 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Objectives
We evaluated efficacy of two dual immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining assays in assessing hairy cell leukemia (HCL) involvement in core biopsies and compared the results with concurrently collected flow cytometric data.

Methods
Overall, 148 patients with HCL (123 male, 25 female; mean age: 59.8 years; range: 25-81 years) had multiparameter flow cytometry performed using CD19, CD20, CD22, CD11c, CD25, CD103, CD123, surface light chains, CD5, and CD23. In parallel, bone marrow IHC was done using PAX5/CD103 and PAX5/tartrate-resistant alkaline phosphatase (TRAP) dual IHC stains.

Results
Overall sensitivity of dual IHC stains was 81.4%, positive predictive value was 100%, and negative predictive value was 81.7%. All IHC-positive cases concurred with flow cytometry data, even when HCL burden was extremely low in the flow cytometry specimens (as low as 0.02% of all lymphoid cells).

Conclusions
Dual IHC stain is a sensitive tool in detecting HCL, even in cases with minimal disease involvement.
Associations Between Midlife (but Not Late-Life) Elevated Coronary Heart Disease Risk and Lower Cognitive Performance: Results From the Framingham Offspring Study
Authors: Armstrong Nicole M , Bangen Katherine J , Au Rhoda , Gross Alden L 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
It is unclear how coronary heart disease (CHD) risk across the adult life span affects late-life cognition. We estimated associations of midlife and late-life elevated CHD risk with cognitive trajectories (general cognitive performance, processing speed/executive function, memory) in later life (after age 55 years or age 70 years) among 2,892 Framingham Offspring Study participants who had completed CHD risk assessments approximately every 4 years since 1971 and had undergone neuropsychological testing between 1999 and 2014. We stratified analyses by apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) Ɛ4 allele carrier status. Using linear mixed-effects models, elevated CHD risk in midlife (age 55 years) was associated with lower levels of general cognitive performance (β = −0.560 standard deviation (SD) units, 95% confidence interval (CI): −0.874, −0.246), executive function (β = −0.624 SD units, 95% CI: −0.916, −0.332), and memory (β = −0.560 SD units, 95% CI: −0.907, −0.213) at age 70 years but not with rates of cognitive change. Late-life (age 70 years) elevated CHD risk, however, was associated with somewhat better levels of general cognitive performance and memory. There were associations between duration of elevated CHD risk during midlife and levels (but not trajectories) of later-life cognitive outcomes. Associations were not modified by APOE-ɛ4 status. These findings suggest that midlife elevated CHD risk is associated with lower cognition, independently of APOE-ɛ4 status, suggesting that risk of vascular disease may not contribute a “second hit” to AD risk.
Consumption of Cow’s Milk in Early Childhood and Fracture Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study
Authors: Allison Riley M , Birken Catherine S , Lebovic Gerald , Howard Andrew W , L’Abbe Mary R , Morency Marie-Elssa , Maguire Jonathon L ,   The TARGet Kids! Collaboration
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Cow’s milk is consumed by most North American children, yet the relationships between the volume and fat content of cow’s milk consumed and childhood fracture risk are unclear. Our primary objectives in this study were to evaluate whether the volume or fat content of cow’s milk consumed at 1–3 years of age was associated with the risk of fracture between 3 and 10 years of age. This was a prospective cohort study of 2,466 children enrolled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2016. The primary exposure was volume of cow’s milk consumed between the ages of 1 and 3 years, and the secondary exposure was average percentage of milk fat consumed by each child during the same period. The primary outcome was a parental report of child fracture at ages 3–10 years. In the primary and secondary adjusted analyses, no association between milk volume and fracture risk (adjusted relative risk = 1.04, 95% confidence interval: 0.87, 1.26) or between milk-fat content and fracture risk (adjusted relative risk = 1.05, 95% confidence interval: 0.84, 1.31) was observed. In this study, we did not identify a protective association of early childhood cow’s milk volume or fat consumption with fracture risk in later childhood. Future prospective research is needed to understand whether cow’s milk is beneficial for fracture prevention through the life course.
Cerebral Hemorrhage and Alcohol Exposure: A Review
Authors: Peng Jialing , Wang Hongxuan , Rong Xiaoming , He Lei , Xiangpen L , Shen Qingy , Peng Ying 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Aims
To investigate the dose–response relationships between alcohol and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the impact of alcohol on the outcome of ICH and possible mechanisms underlying hypertensive ICH (HICH) caused by heavy drinking.

Methods
Literature search from 1985 to August 2019 in the PubMed database.

Results
The relationship between low-middle alcohol consumption and ICH remains controversial for various reasons, whereas chronic heavy drinking increases the incidence of ICH and exerts worse outcome. More attention is needed to clarify the characteristics of chronic alcohol intake and binge drinking. Chronic alcohol abuse tends to elevates blood pressure, resulting in increased occurrence of HICH and exaggerated HICH-contributed brain injury.

Conclusion
It is important to develop strategies to promote reasonable intake categories, prevent alcoholism and thus reduce the risk of ICH.
Far from Home and All Alone: The Impact of Prison Visitation on Recidivism
Authors: Lee Logan M 
Published: September 2019

Abstract
Tightening corrections budgets, the lack of a legal right to in-person prison visitation, and the increasing availability of video visitation have led many prison and jail administrators to consider limiting opportunities for in-person visitation. This is concerning given the large literature which argues inmates receiving in-person visits are less likely to recidivate upon release. On the other hand, these studies have not determined whether this relationship is causal or is instead driven by the correlation between receiving visits and having a network of family and friends that can offer support upon release. In this article, I estimate the causal effect of in-person visitation on recidivism using unique, administrative data from the Iowa Department of Corrections. I find that visitation itself, as currently implemented in Iowa, has no impact on recidivism. Instead, my results suggest prison policies that create meaningful support networks available to prisoners upon release may yield significant benefits.
Black Women’s Geographies and the Afterlives of the Sugar Plantation
Authors: McInnis Jarvis C 
Published: September 2019

AbstractThis essay examines how several contemporary black women artists—Attica Locke, Natalie Baszile, Beyoncé, Ava DuVernay, and Kara Walker—interrogate the afterlives of the sugar plantation in present day literature, performance, and visual art. Drawing on Katherine McKittrick’s conceptualization of “black women’s geographies,” I show how these artists turn to the landscape and built environment of the sugar plantation and factory to restore black women and the US South to the global history of sugar. Part one, “Plantation Pasts,” examines Locke’s 2012 novel, The Cutting Season, alongside Kara Walker’s 2014 installation, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, as critiques of the sugar plantation’s ongoing economic viability through plantation tourism and modern agribusiness. By foregrounding a “logic of perishability” that insists on the plantation’s dissolution and demise, Locke and Walker interrogate these sugar plantation afterlives to exhume, expose, and ultimately revise buried histories of racial dispossession and consumption in the US and global sugar industries. Part two, “Plantation Futures,” examines how Natalie Baszile’s 2014 novel, Queen Sugar, its television adaptation created by Ava DuVernay, and several of Beyoncé’s music videos—“Déjà Vu” (2006), “Formation” (2016), and the visual album Lemonade (2016)—“return” to Louisiana’s sugar plantation geographies to confront the violent histories of slavery and Jim Crow and to reconcile African Americans’ contentious relationship to land, agriculture, and contemporary southern identity in the post-Civil Rights era. Given the limits of colonial and state archives of slavery, I argue that these artists reestablish the landscape and architecture of the sugar plantation and factory as counter-archives, wherein the slave cabin, big house, refinery, and cane fields are figured as contested sites of official history and memory. In doing so, they “respatialize” hegemonic geographies, exposing and indicting the persisting legacies of racial-sexual dispossession and violence, on one hand, and positing embodied practices of pleasure, mourning, and collectivity as modes of “reterritorialization” on the other, imagining a new relationship to land, agriculture, and the earth.
Chronic Antibiotic Dependent Pouchitis Is Associated With Older Age at the Time of Ileal Pouch Anal Anastomosis (J-pouch) Surgery
Authors: Weaver Kimberly N , Kochar Bharati , Hansen Jonathan J , Isaacs Kim L , Jain Animesh , Sheikh Shehzad Z , Fichera Alessandro , Chaumont Nicole , Sadiq Tim , Koruda Mark , Long Millie D , Herfarth Hans H , Barnes Edward L 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Background
Risk factors for the development of chronic antibiotic dependent pouchitis (CADP) are not well understood.

Methods
Using multivariable logistic regression, we compared clinical factors between 194 patients with acute antibiotic responsive pouchitis or CADP.

Results
Individuals with CADP were significantly older (40.9 vs 30.8 years, P &lt; 0.001) and demonstrated a longer disease duration before IPAA (10.3 vs 7.0 years, P = 0.004). Age ≥55 years at the time of IPAA was significantly associated with CADP (adjusted odds ratio = 4.35, 95% confidence interval = 1.01–18.7).

Conclusions
Although older age should not represent a barrier to IPAA, further studies evaluating etiologies of this association are warranted.
Bumping into the Novelistic Scaffolding: Narrative Structure in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Authors: Zarour Zarzar Victor Xavier 
Published: September 2019

AbstractThis article aims to arrive at a thematics of emplotment by scrutinizing Elena Ferrante’s use of plot in the Neapolitan Novels. It investigates theories of structure and narrative advanced by critics like Hannah Arendt, Peter Brooks, Adriana Cavarero, and Henry James to examine these texts’ narrative complexity. It contends that the novels exhibit a liminal narrative orientation: looking outward, from the inside of the plotted ground, onto the forces that threaten to disintegrate plot. To support this contention, the article finds narrative correlatives for certain phenomena of disintegration that Ferrante has discussed at length, proceeding to examine the novels’ strongest moment of smarginatura (dissolving margins) – the earthquake – in an effort to understand how the novels incorporate or indirectly address forces that are antithetical to plot.
TASUKE+: a web-based platform for exploring GWAS results and large-scale resequencing data
Authors: Kumagai Masahiko , Nishikawa Daiki , Kawahara Yoshihiro , Wakimoto Hironobu , Itoh Ryutaro , Tabei Norio , Tanaka Tsuyoshi , Itoh Takeshi 
Published: September 2019

AbstractRecent revolutionary advancements in sequencing technologies have made it possible to obtain mass quantities of genome-scale sequence data in a cost-effective manner and have drastically altered molecular biological studies. To utilize these sequence data, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become increasingly important. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop a visualization tool that enables efficient data retrieval, integration of GWAS results with diverse information and rapid public release of such large-scale genotypic and phenotypic data. We developed a web-based genome browser TASUKE+ (https://tasuke.dna.affrc.go.jp/), which is equipped with the following functions: (i) interactive GWAS results visualization with genome resequencing data and annotation information, (ii) PCR primer design, (iii) phylogenetic tree reconstruction and (iv) data sharing via the web. GWAS results can be displayed in parallel with polymorphism data, read depths and annotation information in an interactive and scalable manner. Users can design PCR primers for polymorphic sites of interest. In addition, a molecular phylogenetic tree of any region can be reconstructed so that the overall relationship among the examined genomes can be understood intuitively at a glance. All functions are implemented through user-friendly web-based interfaces so that researchers can easily share data with collaborators in remote places without extensive bioinformatics knowledge.