bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Margaret Dunn: A life and career biographical study
Authors: Brien Donna Lee 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Despite the challenges and difficulties involved in crafting a viable living as a professional creative writer, a number of Australian women sustained careers as popular writers in the twentieth century. Some of these worked across multiple genres, media and professional descriptors, maintaining what can be described as portfolio careers. This case study recognizes that the task of writing the lives of such popular writers is important because, in addition to restoring women to the historical record, such narratives make an important contribution towards understanding the production and consumption of popular writing. Margaret Dunn (1919–2011) worked for 70 years as a popular journalist, radio dramatist, cookbook writer and historian in Adelaide, Sydney, New York, New Delhi and Geneva. In addition to outlining the trajectory of her life, this study provides the first profile of her career as a popular writer and of the narratives that she constructed and published for both Australian and international audiences. This will include discussion of the ‘golden age’ of radio and the roles that women played in the production of this media, her bestselling cookbook Mother’s Best Recipes (1974) and how she wrote engaging institutional and family histories that reached mainstream audiences.
Optimization and Reaction Kinetics Studies on Copper-Cobalt Catalyzed Liquid Phase Hydrogenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-Dimethylfuran
Authors: Srivastava Sanjay , Jadeja G. C. , Parikh Jigisha K. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
In the present work, hydrogenation of biomass derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into fuel additive 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) is studied over Cu-Co/Al2O3 catalyst. The influence of various operating parameters such as temperature, pressure, catalyst amount, time and HMF concentration on the conversion HMF to DMF was optimized using well known Taguchi method as statistical tool. According to Taguchi method, under optimum reaction conditions viz. temperature 220 °C, pressure 30 bar, reaction time 6 h, catalyst loading 0.5 g, and HMF concentration of 0.2 wt%, maximum DMF yield (87 %) was recorded. Analysis of variance suggested that temperature and pressure are the most influencing factor. Mechanistic study suggested that DMF can be obtained via C = O hydrogenation over Cu metal due to preferential adsorption of HMF on Cu metal which further undergoes acid catalyzed hydrogenolysis and resulted DMF. The initial rates of reaction HMF to BHMF varied linearly with hydrogen pressure at different temperatures, catalysts loading, and reactant substrate concentration. These observations indicate first order kinetics for HMF disappearance. According to power-law model, the order with respect to HMF was found to be 0.9. The experimental data could also be explained using Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetics. A competitive hydrogen with dissociative adsorption on catalysts surface and surface reaction as the rate-controlling step provided the best fit of the experimental data.
GPER was associated with hypertension in post-menopausal women
Authors: Liu Shichao , Ding Tongbin , Liu Hang , Jian Liguo 
Published: August 2018

Abstract

Objective
To explore the relationship between G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) and hypertension in post-menopausal women.

Methods
Using a matched case-control design, clinical and laboratory data were collected. Conditional logistic regression with stratified analysis was conducted to identify the association between GPER and hypertension.

Results
The GPER level was significantly lower in the case group than in the control group (126.3 ± 21.6 vs. 133.6 ± 27.3, P=0.000). The GPER levels of the hypertension cases with and those without menopause were significant (120.5 ± 11.8 and 127.2 ± 12.1, P=0.000). No significant difference in the GPER level between the controls with and those without menopause was observed (P=0.241). Logistic regression revealed that the GPER quartile was related to hypertension (odds ratio [OR]: 0.63, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.13–0.93, P=0.018) after adjusting for potential confounding factors. Stratified analysis revealed that the GPER quartile was not associated with hypertension in premenopausal women, and the fourth GPER quartile showed a predictive association with hypertension (OR: 0.43, 95% CI: 0.29–0.90) in menopausal women.

Conclusions
GPER level is associated with hypertension and is a protective factor for hypertension in menopausal women but not premenopausal women. Further research is required due to study limitations.
De-multiplexing free on-chip low-loss multimode switch enabling reconfigurable inter-mode and inter-path routing
Authors: Sun Chunlei , Wu Wenhao , Yu Yu , Chen Guanyu , Zhang Xinliang , Chen Xia , Thomson David J. , Reed Graham T. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Switching and routing are critical functionalities for a reconfigurable bandwidth-dense optical network, and great efforts had been made to accommodate mode-division multiplexing technology. Although the reconfigurable routing for spatial-mode groups between different optical paths was realized recently, a demultiplexing-switching-multiplexing process is necessary. Here we present a simplified and compact on-chip 2×2 multimode switch that can be easily upgradable to a larger scale. Fully and reconfigurable routing between not only optical paths but also spatial modes is achieved. To obtain a low loss multimode processing, a novel structure free from demultiplexing and re-multiplexing operations is adopted. The switch enables minimum and maximum insertion losses of 0.3 and 1.2 dB, with a compact footprint of 433 μm×433 μm and low crosstalk of <−16.6 dB for all channels. It is further extended to two types of 4×4 switch fabrics with cross-bar and ring-bus architectures, as demonstrations of high-level integration. System characterization with 32 Gb/s high-speed modulated signals is also carried out, reaching up to 256 Gb/s aggregate throughput. These results verify a general solution of 2×2 multimode switch for reconfigurable inter-mode and inter-path routing applicable in large-scale and high-density multimode optical network.
Measurements of activation cross sections by cyclic activation method for (n,2n) reaction on 144Sm isotope around 14 MeV neutron energy
Authors: Reyhancan Iskender Atilla 
Published: August 2018

Abstract
Measurement of activation cross sections for the 144Sm(n,2n)143gSm reaction was performed by Cyclic Activation Method (CAM) around 14 MeV neutron energy. Natural samarium samples were irradiated by the neutrons produced by 3H(2H,n)4He reaction using a neutron generator. Delayed γ ray activities produced by fast neutrons in samples were measured by a high resolution γ ray spectrometer [high-purity Germanium (HpGe) detector]. The measured cross sections are compared with the results of model calculation (STAPRE code) and evaluated data (JEFF 3.0/A).
Repeat Head CT for Expectant Management of Traumatic Epidural Hematoma
Authors: Flaherty Brian F. , Moore Hannah E. , Riva-Cambrin Jay , Bratton Susan L. 
Published: August 2018

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Guidelines regarding the role of repeated head computed tomography (CT) imaging in the nonoperative management of traumatic epidural hematomas (EDHs) do not exist. Consequently, some children may be exposed to unnecessary additional ionizing radiation. We describe the frequency, timing, and utility of reimaging of EDHs to identify patients who might avoid reimaging.

METHODS:
A retrospective cohort study of subjects aged 0 to 18 years with a traumatic EDH treated at a level I pediatric trauma center from 2003 to 2014. Radiographic and clinical findings, the frequency and timing of reimaging, and changes in neurologic status were compared between subjects whose management changed because of a meaningful CT scan and those whose did not.

RESULTS:
Of the 184 subjects who were analyzed, 19 (10%) had a meaningful CT. There was no difference in the frequency of CT scans between the meaningful CT scan and no meaningful CT groups (median 1 [interquartile range 1–2] in no meaningful CT and median 1 [interquartile range 1–2] in meaningful CT scans; P = .7). Only 7% of repeated CTs changed management. Neurologic status immediately before the repeat scan (odds ratio 45; 95% confidence interval 10–200) and mass effect on the initial CT (odds ratio 4; 95% confidence interval 1.5–13) were associated with a meaningful CT. Reimaging only subjects with concerning pre-CT neurologic findings or mass effect on initial CT would have decreased imaging by 54%.

CONCLUSIONS:
Reimaging is common, but rarely changes management. Limiting reimaging to patients with concerning neurologic findings or mass effect on initial evaluation could reduce imaging by &gt;50%.
Qualidade do serviço no comércio varejista de vestuário: lacunas percebidas pela clientela feminina
Authors: Campos Domingos Fernandes , Garcia Ellen Figueiredo Leão , Campos Daniel Cavalcanti Fernandes , Pereira Filho Evadio 
Published: August 2018

Resumo: No presente estudo apresenta-se um comparativo de expectativas e percepções do serviço no segmento do vestuário em três centros comerciais – um comércio popular de bairro, um shopping center e uma rua de comércio tradicional de alto poder aquisitivo – na Cidade de Natal, RN. Foram coletadas expectativas e percepções do serviço recebido de 1.155 mulheres sobre um conjunto de 23 atributos. O modelo das lacunas de qualidade foi utilizado para a avaliação da qualidade do serviço percebido em cada área. Em todos os centros comerciais houve predominância de lacunas negativas, indicando que as clientes percebem o serviço oferecido aquém de suas necessidades. O confronto entre os níveis de importância e as lacunas de qualidade possibilitou apontar os atributos que deveriam receber uma atenção destacada dos gestores. Os resultados sugerem que o comércio no bairro popular tende a atrair clientes menos exigentes. Ao mesmo tempo, esses clientes percebem níveis mais baixos de qualidade no serviço recebido.Palavras-chave: Qualidade do serviço. Lacunas de qualidade. Varejo. Matriz de importância e desempenho. Quality of service in retail clothing: gaps perceived by female customers Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to compare expectations and perceptions of service in the clothing segment in three commercial centers – a district, a shopping center and a strip retail – in Natal, RN. Expectations and perceptions of received service were collected from 1,155 women in a set of 23 attributes. The model of quality gaps was used to assess the quality of service perceived in each area. In all retail centers there was predominance of negative gaps, indicating that customers perceive the service offered below their needs. The confrontation between the levels of importance and quality gaps allowed to identify the attributes that should be given a prominent attention from managers. The results suggest that commerce in the popular neighborhood tends to attract less demanding customers. At the same time, these customers perceive lower quality levels in the service received.Keywords: Quality service. Quality gaps. Retail. Importance-performance analysis.
Crédito consignado: segmentos e efeitos econômicos
Authors: Medeiros Angélica Pott de , Oliveira Giulia Xisto de , Bender Filho Reisoli 
Published: August 2018

Resumo: O cenário de instabilidade política, a recessão econômica e as mudanças nas regras de concessão de crédito pautaram o objetivo de examinar o relacionamento do crédito consignado, por segmento de concessão, com variáveis macroeconômicas, caso do consumo, da produção industrial e do produto agregado, na última década (2007-2017). Os resultados foram obtidos por meio da estimação do vetor de correção de erros, funções de impulso-resposta e decomposição da variância, possibilitando a análise das relações de curto e de longo prazo entre as séries temporais e indicaram que as diferentes modalidades do crédito consignado implicam efeitos distintos sobre as variáveis econômicas em curto prazo. O segmento de aposentados e pensionistas impacta positivamente ambas as variáveis analisadas, com destaque para os bens de consumo das famílias. Já a concessão ao setor privado, embora represente a menor parcela do crédito consignado concedido, mostrou elevada sensibilidade a alterações na oferta dessa modalidade de crédito, enquanto que o crédito ao setor público, de maior participação, apresentou efeitos reduzidos e de curta duração.Palavras-chave: Crédito consignado. Segmentos. Economia brasileira. Payroll loans: segments and economic effects Abstract: The environment of political instability, economic recession and changes in the rules of granting credit were guiders to aim to examine the payroll loans relationship, by concession segment, with macroeconomic variables, case of consumption, industrial production and aggregate product, in the last decade (2007-2017). The results obtained by error correction vector estimation, and functions of impulse-response and variance decomposition, making it possible to analyze the short- and long-term relationships between the time series and indicated that the different modalities of payroll loans imply different effects on economic short-term variables. With retirees and pensioners segment positively impact on both analyzed variables, highlighting the household consumption goods. The concession to the private sector, although it represents the smallest portion of payroll loans granted, it showed high sensitivity to the changes of this modality. About credit to the public sector, which has the biggest portion, it showed reduced and short-term effects.Keywords: Payroll loans. Segments. Brazilian economy.
Toca Lab: Plants by T. Boca
Authors: Schock Katherine 
Published: August 2018

Boca, Toca. Toca Lab: Plants. June 2017. Version 1.1.1. iTunes App Store, https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1225994089?mt=8
Ages: 4-6Price: $2.99Available for Apple, Google Play, and Kindle Fire
Toca Lab: Plants, from developer Toca Boca complements other apps in the Lab series, which aim to make science accessible through play. Toca Lab: Plants provides an open and unstructured environment to both nurture and experiment with plants. Upon opening the app, players enter a lab where a plant bobs happily in in the center, waiting to be played with; the plants are quite friendly and invite the player to interact. Five lab stations offer chances to experiment: a grow light, watering tank, nutrition station, cloning machine, and crossbreeding apparatus. In playing with these lab tools, the player can propagate plants, discover new plants, nurture others in pots, and keep track of them all in a botany chart. The plants, as characters in this app, are endearing. They respond with joy and exuberance to stimuli they like and with fear and shudders at stimuli they dislike. They even giggle and shake their leaves in response to touch.
The lab itself is visually interesting and begs to be explored. Each station has machines to turn on, knobs to crank, faucets to open, or buttons to push. Since the play is wordless and largely without text (species are labelled with their Latin and common names at some points), the sound effects help to clarify what is happening and the materials in use, such as running water or electricity. The graphics are classic Toca Boca: beautiful bold colours, exaggerated blocky shapes, quirky plant characters, and uncluttered scenes. While all these elements – the app’s open play that supports experimentation and discovery, the beautiful visuals, and the endearing plants – make for a compelling play experience initially, the app is limited in extending play beyond these initial encounters.
When compared with the imaginative possibilities in Toca Builders or Toca Blocks, for example, which allow users to create new spaces, scenes, structures, and worlds, Toca Lab: Plants feels limited. Players can only create so many new plants before the species begin to repeat themselves. Similarly, with the experiments, once all the plants have been moved through each experiment, the play is essentially mastered. Other than the plant chart (which is simply compiled as the player plays), there is no opportunity to construct something here, such as a garden or living structure with which to extend the world. Still, the app is beautiful and engaging, invites discovery and experimentation, and provides surprises and excitement as plants grow and change in response to the player’s actions. There is much fun to be had here in Toca Lab: Plants.

Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Katherine Schock
Katherine is a high school English teacher currently working on an MLIS at the University of Alberta. Her passion for children’s literature is kindled daily by her two small children and her much larger students.
Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein by L. Bailey
Authors: Quirk Linda 
Published: August 2018

Bailey, Linda. Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein. Illustrated by Júlia Sardà. Tundra Books, 2018.
The subject of this book is the story-behind-the-story of Dr Frankenstein and his terrible creature. It is the story of how an 18-year-old girl came to write one of the best-known novels of all time, inspired by a friendly competition among a group of friends that included two of the most famous authors of the age (Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron).
While on summer vacation in 1816, staying at Villa Diodati (a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva), a dark and stormy night offered the ideal setting for Lord Byron to read aloud from a book of ghoulish stories called Fantasmagoriana and inspired him to propose a friendly competition in which each member of the assembled party would write a ghost story. Although it would take her almost a year to complete the novel, this competition was the beginning of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In a preface to the third edition, written many years later, the author describes these events to explain how a young girl “came to think of and to dilate upon so very hideous an idea.”
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s preface, Linda Bailey has reimagined this well-known history in a way that is very relatable for young readers. Bailey explores some of the formative moments in Mary’s childhood—in particular, the death of her mother when she was only 11 days old—and some of recent scientific discoveries that were challenging old ideas, all to explain how Mary could imagine a creature “made of dead body parts, stretched out—and coming to life.” While not at all suitable for very young or very sensitive readers, this story will be inspiring for some.
Perhaps the best part of the book, the gorgeously stylized illustrations by Júlia Sardà are powerfully evocative. Like the text, the illustrations are darkly appropriate reflections of Mary’s story without being overly gruesome.
This is a wonderful book for the right reader. Tundra is marketing this book as being suitable for children aged 5-8, but the subject matter will be too dark for many in this age group. Somewhat older children may be better equipped to deal with the difficult elements of the story and they may be interested in the research notes at the back of the book.
Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Linda Quirk
Linda taught courses in Canadian Literature, Women's Writing, and Children's Literature at Queen's University (Kingston) and at Seneca College (Toronto) before moving to Edmonton to become a librarian at University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections.
Dentists by E. Less
Authors: Plesuk Tabatha 
Published: August 2018

Less, Emma. “Dentists.” Real-life Superheroes. Amicus Publishing, 2018.
Aimed at emergent readers, this Real-life Superheroes series is intended to inform children of the ways community helpers do their jobs, understand what the jobs mean, inspire readers, and expose readers to vocabulary and action images specific to occupations in the spotlight. This is a review of three out of twelve Real-life Superheroes books. Other occupations in the series include chefs, librarians, construction workers, farmers, firefighters, mechanics, police officers, teachers, and veterinarians.
Each book begins with the relevant job title and a purpose statement. The “Dentists” and “Doctors” books have health-promotion statements while the “Nurses” introductory statement is limited to an illness focus. Health promotion is a primary focus of these three professions and it is incorrect to limit nursing to an illness focus in the primary introduction. Also, on the first pages of the “Dentists” and “Doctors” books the author says “They [Dentists/Doctors] are busy,” while the “Nurses” book does not include the same statement. Further, the “Doctors” book includes a “Maybe you will be a Doctor” statement, while the “Dentists,” and “Nurses” books do not. These statements should be included in all the books.
The books adequately introduce subject specific vocabulary and use child-centered action images. The images are high quality, and feature real-world tools (needles, syringes, stethoscopes, electronic vital signs monitors, etc.). Regarding the pictures of the professionals, there could have been greater effort to demonstrate diversity, to ensure all children could see themselves reflected in the images. For example, only one of seven nurses shown is male, reinforcing gender stereotypes related to this profession. In the “Dentists” and “Doctors” books the images show a more diverse picture of the professions, when race and gender is considered. The last page of each book is dedicated to tools seen in the workplace and these would encourage curious readers to ask questions about the profession.
As a tool to introduce early readers to health care jobs and inspire them to think of themselves in these roles, the books fall short; specifically, they do not give a full and accurate account of job tasks and job relationships. For example, the books mention the nurse-doctor team but do not mention the dentist-dental hygienist team. Overall, these books are of limited use as they do little to inspire children to imagine themselves in these roles, and they lack accurate job descriptions.
Not Recommended: 1 out of 4 StarsReviewer: Tabatha Plesuk
Tabatha Plesuk, is a first year MLIS Student at the University of Alberta (who spends free time teaching dance to children ages three to fourteen) with an enthusiasm for children’s books.