bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The intracavitary electrocardiography method for tip location of jugular internal vein access device in infants of less than 5 kg: A pilot study
Authors: Mastroianni Rossella , Capasso Antonella , Ausanio Gaetano 
Published: April 2018

Purpose: This is a prospective observational study conducted by neonatologists in neonatal intensive care unit from Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano Hospital, Caserta, Italy. The objective of the study is to verify the feasibility of intracavitary electrocardiography method for tip location of central venous access device in infants of less than 5 kg and evaluate the accuracy of the method in comparison with post-procedural echocardiographical verification of the tip position. Patients and methods: We enrolled 27 patients weighted between 0.660 and 5 kg, requiring central vascular access. Ultrasound-guided jugular internal vein access was used and after cannulation, we applied the intracavitary electrocardiography for tip location as well as post-procedural echocardiography. Results: No significant complication related to intracavitary electrocardiography occurred in the studied infants. The increase in P wave on intracavitary electrocardiography was detected in all cases (27/27). In only one case (false positive), the catheter had the tip out of cavoatrial junction–target zone (to post-procedural echocardiography). Conclusion: The intracavitary electrocardiography method for tip location of central venous access device is safe and accurate in infants, as demonstrated by post-procedural comparative echocardiographic controls. As an alternative to echocardiography, not always achievable, the diffusion of intracavitary electrocardiography method could reduce X-ray exposition and complications of a malpositioned tip.
Pulmonary paracoccidioidomycosis associated with the use of natalizumab in multiple sclerosis
Authors: Almeida Kelson James , Barreto-Soares Raissa Viera , Campos-Sousa Raimundo Nonato , Campos-Sousa Maria Graças , Bor-Seng-Shu Edson 
Published: April 2018

Background: Natalizumab (NTZ) is a monoclonal antibody with an immunosuppressive effect that reduces the inflammation of the central nervous system, and it has been used for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). In patients with low cellular immune response, systemic mycosis arising from endemic areas may occur. Results and Conclusion: In this article, we will describe a case of paracoccidioidomycosis as a complication to treatment with NTZ in an RRMS patient.
Anatomical Considerations and Open Surgery to Treat Juxtarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Authors: Samoila Georgiana , Williams Ian Michael 
Published: April 2018

Introduction: Historically, the open approach to the abdominal aorta has been transperitoneal (TP). In comparison, a retroperitoneal (RP) incision exposes the lateral wall of the suprarenal aorta for clamp application and midline structures such as the duodenum and pancreas are not encountered. Proximal clamp position for open repair of juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (JR-AAA) is suprarenal, supra-superior mesenteric, or supraceliac. While RP and TP approaches have previously been compared for physiological reasons, there are currently no randomized controlled trials comparing these methods from an anatomical perspective. Aims: The primary aim is to examine the evidence for adopting an RP approach for JR-AAA and compare it with TP approach from an anatomical perspective. The secondary aim is to assess optimum proximal clamp position and its effect on renal function and mortality for the 2 approaches. Methods/Design: Literature was reviewed searching databases Medline and Embase for studies on clamp positioning in JR-AAA repair using a TP or RP approach, up to December 2017. Conclusions: There is no clear evidence for the optimum cross-clamp position for open repair of JR-AAAs. More proximal clamps provide adequate operative space with the possible downside of increased afterload leading to visceral and renal ischemia. Clamps placed inferior to the superior mesenteric artery allow continued bowel and hepatic perfusion with the potential to cause trauma to the adjacent aortic branches during application. As far as the optimum approach is concerned, many series show a strong trend for RP as a more proximal clamp is required. Significant numbers develop renal failure after JR-AAA repair, with most recovering fully irrespective of the clamp position.
The effectiveness of therapeutic strategies for patients with radiculopathy: A network meta-analysis
Authors: Zhang Xiaoyu , Zhang Zhiqiang , Wen Jianzhong , Lu Jie , Sun Yingchun , Sang Dechun 
Published: April 2018

Objectives The aim of this network meta-analysis is to assess the effectiveness of therapeutic strategies for patients with radiculopathy, including physical, medical, surgical, and other therapies. Methods We electronically searched electronic databases including PubMed and Embase for randomized controlled trials. The response rate and visual analog scale of pain change were considered as primary outcomes. The outcomes were measured by odds ratio (OR) value and corresponding 95% credible intervals (CrIs) or standardized mean difference (MD) with 95% CrIs. Besides, surface under cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) were performed to rank efficacy and safety of treatments on each end points. Results A total of 16 eligible studies with 1071 subjects were included in this analysis. Our results showed that corticosteroid was significantly more effective than control regarding the response rate (OR = 3.86, 95% CrI: 1.16, 12.55). Surgery had a better performance in pain change compared with control (MD = −1.92, 95% CrI: −3.58, −0.15). According to the SUCRA results, corticosteroid, collar, and physiotherapy ranked the highest concerning response rate (SUCRA = 0.656, 0.652, and 0.610, respectively). Surgery, traction, and corticosteroid were superior to others in pain change (SUCRA = 0.866, 0.748, and 0.589, respectively). Conclusion According to the network meta-analysis result, we recommended surgery as the optimal treatment for radiculopathy patients; traction and corticosteroids were also recommended for their beneficial interventions.
A Review of Commercially Available Point-of-Care Devices to Concentrate Bone Marrow for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis and Focal Cartilage Lesions
Authors: Gaul Florian , Bugbee William D. , Hoenecke Heinz R. , D’Lima Darryl D. 
Published: April 2018

Objective Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a promising cell-based therapy treatment option for several orthopedic indications. Because culture expansion of MSC is time and cost intensive, a bedside concentration of bone marrow (BM) aspirate is used as an alternative. Many commercial systems are available but the available literature and knowledge regarding these systems is limited. We compared different point-of-care devices that concentrate BM (BMC) by focusing on technical features and quality parameters to help surgeons make informed decisions while selecting the appropriate device. Methods We compared published data on the BMC devices of Arteriocyte, Arthrex, Celling Biosciences, EmCyte, Exactech, ISTO Tech, Harvest Tech/Terumo BCT, and Zimmer/BIOMET regarding technical features (centrifugation speed/time, input/output volume, kit components, type of aspiration syringes, filter usage) and quality parameters of their final BMC product (hematocrit, concentration of platelets and total nucleated cells, concentration of MSC and connective tissue progenitor cells). Results The systems differ significantly in their technical features and centrifugation parameters. Only the fully automated systems use universal kits, which allow processing different volumes of BM. Only the Arthrex system allows selection of final hematocrit. There was no standardized reporting method to describe biologic potency. Conclusions Based on the data obtained in this review, recommending a single device is not possible because the reported data could not be compared between devices. A standardized reporting method is needed for valid comparisons. Furthermore, clinical outcomes are required to establish the true efficacy of these systems. We are conducting additional studies for more careful comparison among the devices.
Platinum-group element and gold contents of arsenide and sulfarsenide minerals associated with Ni and Au deposits in Archean greenstone belts
Authors: Le Vaillant Margaux , Barnes Stephen J. , Fiorentini Marco L. , Barnes Sarah-Jane , Bath Adam , Miller John 
Published: April 2018

ABSTRACTPost-magmatic alteration of certain magmatic Ni sulfide ores in Western Australia, the Miitel deposit and the Sarah's Find prospect, produced Ni–As–PGE haloes around massive sulfides. A study of the composition of arsenide grains from these hydrothermal haloes, along with arsenides from various magmatic and hydrothermal mineralized environments in other localities, was conducted in order to compare their composition, and assess their potential use as indicator minerals for exploration vectoring, as well as to gain knowledge on their crystallization history. Concentrations in trace elements such as platinum-group elements (PGEs), Au and other metals was obtained by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy analyses. Results show that variations in PGEs and Au compositions can be related to the magmaticvs.hydrothermal origin of the grains; and to their provenance from deposits enriched in either Ni, Au or both. Magmatic NiCoFe sulfarsenides have strongly correlated, high IPGE (Os, Ir, Ru, Rh) contents up to 100 ppm Ir, compared with maximum values in hydrothermal sulfarsenides of ~1 ppm. Gold in hydrothermal sulfarsenides from Au-mineralized ultramafic rocks extends up to 500 ppm, with typical values of 3–30 ppm; similar values are also found in nickeline (also called niccolite). These results suggest that nickel arsenides could potentially be used as indicator minerals for nickel and gold exploration. Trace-element contents of arsenide grains in shear zones could be used to deduce the presence of Ni or Au mineralization upstream in the fluid pathway.
Patients with CD3G mutations reveal a role for human CD3γ in Treg diversity and suppressive function
Authors: Rowe Jared H. , Delmonte Ottavia M. , Keles Sevgi , Stadinski Brian D. , Dobbs Adam K. , Henderson Lauren A. , Yamazaki Yasuhiro , Allende Luis M. , Bonilla Francisco A. , Gonzalez-Granado Luis I. , Celikbilek Celik Seyma , Guner Sukru N. , Kapakli Hasan , Yee Christina , Pai Sung-Yun , Huseby Eric S. , Reisli Ismail , Regueiro Jose R. , Notarangelo Luigi D. 
Published: April 2018

Key Points
CD3γ-deficient patients manifest T-cell phenotypic and functional defects that are especially prominent in Treg cells. The peripheral T-cell repertoire of CD3γ-deficient patients is restricted, with molecular signatures of self-reactivity.
Electric Charge Detection of Sparse Organic Acid Molecules Using an Organic Field-Effect Transistor (OFET)-Based Sensor
Authors: Furusawa Hiroyuki , Ichimura Yusuke , Harada Shuhei , Uematsu Mayu , Xue Shenyao , Nagamine Kuniaki , Tokito Shizuo 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Detection and measurement of organic acids, such as small carboxylic acids, are useful for quality control of processed food and drinks and in the healthcare sector. Previously, chromatographic and electrophoresis methods requiring a bench-top device were used for their detection. In this article, we report an organic field-effect transistor (OFET)-based sensor capable of sensing electrical changes, which was applied to the detection of citric acid, chosen as a small organic acid model. When citric acid was injected into the OFET-sensor equipped with a nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid-immobilized gold-electrode (Ni-NTA-immobilized Au-electrode), the shifts of the OFET transfer characteristic curves were observed to depend on the citric acid concentration, in the range from 0 to 1000 µM. On the other hand, there was no response after citric acid addition in the case of a quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM)-sensor, which is a mass-sensitive device, under similar low-salt conditions because the mass change on the sensor surface was below the detection limit of the QCM device owing to inter-anion repulsions. OFET-sensors have advantages in the detection of small organic molecules with an electro-charged group as well as the possibility to be incorporated into portable devices in the future.
Emancypacja etniczno-kulturowa Białorusinów na skrzyżowaniu epok i kultur (druga połowa XIX – początek XX wieku)
Authors: Kachanouski Alaksandr 
Published: April 2018

Alexander G. Kokhanovsky, Ethnocultural Emancipation of the Belarusians on the Border of the Epochs and Cultures (Second Half of the XIX – Beginning of the XX Century)
The article deals with the analysis of the sociocultural changes in the Belarusian society in the second half of the XIX – beginning of the XX century, when Belarus stood at the crossroads of the different civilizations and cultures. The author pays special attention to the processes of the widening of literacy among the Belarusians, formation of the intellectual elites and premises of the ethnocultural emancipation of the Belarusians in the conditions when the society had just taken first steps from the traditional culture towards modernity. The special features that distinguish the development of the mentioned processes on the territory of Belarus were emphasized.
Are Heavy Pirates also Heavy Buyers?: A Case of the Video Game Industry in Japan
Authors: Fukugawa Nobuya 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Purpose
This study aims to examine how piracy via peer-to-peer (P2P) network affects sales of original version in the video game industry.

Design/methodology/approach
This study conducted an online questionnaire survey in 2009 with a focus on 9970 users of portable video game platforms, and collected information of how familiar respondents were with techniques for downloading pirated video games via P2P network and how this knowledge affected their purchase behavior of original video games.

Findings
First, 38% of the respondents know how to download pirated video games via P2P network. Younger male respondents with greater enthusiasm for video games are exposed to greater opportunities to learn to pirate. Second, different respondents employ different channels to learn about piracy. Third, 95% of the respondents who knew how to pirate did not download any pirated video game. Once involved in piracy, jobless respondents with less enthusiasm for video games who were informed about piracy by their friends tend to download pirated video games more intensively. Fourth, there is no significantly negative relationship between the number of pirated video games respondents downloaded and the number of original video games they purchased. Fifth, respondents who downloaded pirated video games also purchased original video games of which pirated version they have downloaded.

Originality/value
This study clarified that heavy pirates are also heavy buyers not only at the aggregate level, but also at the individual level, and interpreted the results from the viewpoint of peculiarities of video games as a cultural product, making piracy harmless to sales of original version.
Die globale Dichtung des Orlando Furioso
Authors: Italiano Federico 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The epic poem of Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516–1532), oneof the most influential texts of Renaissance writing, shows not only a precisecognition of early modern cartographic knowledge, as Alexandre Doroszlaï hasillustrated it in Ptolemée et l’hippogriffe (1998), but also performs a complextransmedial translation of cartographic depictions. The journeys around the globeof the Christian paladins Ruggiero and Astolfo narrated by Ariosto are, in fact,performative negotiations between literary and cartographic processes. Riding theHippograph, the hybrid vehicle par excellence, Ruggiero and Astolfo fly over theEarth as if they were flying over a map. Their journeys do not merely transmediallytranslate the course to the West pursued by Early Modern Europe. Rather, bytranslating the map Ariosto performs a new geopoetics that turns away from thesymbolic dominance of the East (or “Ent-Ostung”, as Peter Sloterdijk has usefullycalled it) and offers us one of the first poetic versions of modern globalization.
Lässig – subtil – lakonischAbgesehen von den Anmerkungen und wenigen kleineren Modifikationen entspricht der folgende Text demjenigen der Antrittsvorlesung, die ich zur Übernahme meines Lehrstuhls für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (SoSe 2010) am 25. Mai 2011 an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn gehalten habe. Der Charakter des Vortrags (für ein nicht nur akademisches Publikum) wurde nach Möglichkeit gewahrt. Die Hinweise auf Forschungsliteratur beschränken sich auf ein Minimum.
Authors: Mainberger Sabine 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The concept of grace is as complex as it is wide-ranging: it is relevant to social history and the history of religion, to mythology, theology, law, ethics, social aesthetics, art theory, and the theory of culture. The Three Graces embody a structure of giving, receiving, and returning, i.e., actions that form part of the discourse on exchanging goods and gifts, – one that is normally quite distinct from the discourse on aesthetics and art theory. The question arises: how can aspects of the grace-discourse be reformulated by means of the gift-discourse? How can we form a conceptual configuration of gift, social interaction, and art? From a wide array of possible examples, some are singled out here for closer inspection: Castiglione’s sixteenth-century model of courtly society, the connection between the social aesthetic use of the concepts of grazia and sprezzatura, and their role in art theory, as well as the enhanced meaning of these concepts in the combined discourses on love, art, and (theological) grace that are to be found in the friendship between Michelangelo and the poet Vittoria Colonna; examples from the eighteenth to the twentieth century include Schiller’s considerations on grace and Charis, giving and being gifted, as well as Nietzsche’s new morality associated with lightness and self-giving. The essay is framed by Pliny the Elder’s anecdote about the competition between Apelles, the master of charis, and his fellow painter Protogenes, and by Pasternak’s modern version of it: a short story about two rival writers and their antagonistic exchange of gifts.
Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften
Authors: Pignotti Sandro 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThis literary critique of Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” combines three approaches. First, it follows the Italian Germanists Ladislao Mittner and Giuliano Baioni who showed the importance of Edmund Burke’s treatise “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful” (1757) for Goethe’s poetry. Second, it explores Walter Benjamin’s essay and some thoughts of Hermann Cohen. They show the significance story “Die Wunderlichen Nachbarskinder” for the novel as a whole, the philosophical sense banning images, and the relation between the halacha and aggadah in literature. Finally, this essay studies the differences between the spoken and the written word in Goethe’s novel, as well as in Jewish traditions and media theories.
Jean Pauls Titan als metaenzyklopädischer Roman
Authors: Schmitz-Emans Monika 
Published: April 2018

AbstractIn a programmatic way, Jean Paul’s novel “Titan” illustrates in how far novels are inclined to become ‘encyclopaedias’. First, it is based on abundant knowledge resources that are linked together in a complex way and may be regarded as ‘encyclopaedic’. On the intradiegetic level, the different kinds of knowledge are partially represented by single characters. Secondly, Jean Paul’s “Titan” reflects upon different strategies of creating orders of knowledge as well as of representing and mediating knowledge. Thirdly, it can be regarded as an encyclopaedic arrangement that reflects different novelistic genres. In order to cope with the complexity of encyclopaedic dimensions characteristic of this literary text, it appears to be helpful to present the multiple aspects concerned in alphabetical order.
Parables and Uses of a Stumbling Stone
Authors: Suvin Darko 
Published: April 2018

AbstractParallels are discussed between the Biblical (Jewish and then Christian) use of ‘stumbling stone’ and Shklovsky’s thisworldly notion of estrangement – ‘making the stone stony.’ To Shklovsky’s esthetic salvation through estranged perception, Brecht adds value criteria from salvational politics, using, for example, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle a Marxist figuralism, which rationalizes the sensual body. However, estrangement as a formal device which doubts the present norms is ideologico-politically ambiguous: in the Brecht or Marxist wing it is ‘critical,’ but in other hands it may be ‘mythical’: Hamsun, Jünger, Pound, and the Iranian Ta’ziyeh play use it with a lay or religious proto-fascist horizon. The final section follows Timpanaro’s insistence on biological death as not fully reducible to politics in the usual sense, and juxtaposes stumbling, death, and creative eros as politics. In spite of Hegel’s insistence on death as a powerful negative, it is a blind spot in canonical Marxism. Even Ernst Bloch, positing hope as the central principle, does not fully engage with it, though I mention some initial useful leads from him, Brecht, and Jameson. We are left with the Freudian topology pitting eros against thanatos, and the essay closes on a discussion of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress.
Sialylated isoforms of apolipoprotein C-III and plasma lipids in subjects with coronary artery disease
Authors: Olivieri Oliviero , Chiariello Carmela , Martinelli Nicola , Castagna Annalisa , Speziali Giulia , Girelli Domenico , Pizzolo Francesca , Bassi Antonella , Cecconi Daniela , Robotti Elisa , Manfredi Marcello , Conte Eleonora , Marengo Emilio 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background:
Apolipoprotein C-III (ApoC-III), a key regulator of plasma triglyceride (TG), is present in three isoforms, i.e. non-sialylated (ApoC-III0), monosialylated (ApoC-III1) and disialylated (ApoC-III2). We aimed at quantifying the distribution of the ApoC-III glycoforms in patients with angiographically demonstrated coronary artery disease (CAD) according to levels of total ApoC-III plasma concentration.

Methods:
ApoC-III glycoforms were quantified by a specifically developed, high-resolution, mass spectrometry method in unrelated CAD patients. Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity was estimated by a fluorescence-based method.

Results:
In 101 statin-treated CAD patients, the absolute concentrations of the three glycoforms similarly increased across ApoC-III quartiles, but the proportion of ApoC-III1 rose whereas that of ApoC-III0 decreased progressively by increasing total ApoC-III concentrations. The proportion of ApoC-III2 was quite constant throughout the whole range of total ApoC-III. A higher proportion of ApoC-III1 reflected an unfavorable lipid profile characterized by high levels of TG, total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ApoE and reduced ApoA-I. The correlations between ApoC-III glycoforms and TG were confirmed in 50 statin-free CAD patients. High concentration of total ApoC-III was associated with low LPL activity, while no correlation was found for the relative proportion of glycoforms.

Conclusions:
Specific patterns of ApoC-III glycoforms are present across different total ApoC-III concentrations in CAD patients. The inhibitory effect of ApoC-III on LPL appears related to total ApoC-III concentration, but not to the relative proportion of ApoC-III glycoforms.
Japanese pronoun hon-nin
Authors: Hatakeyama Yuji , Honda Kensuke , Tanaka Kosuke 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
This paper investigates the Japanese pronoun hon-nin, which has so far been paid little attention to, and proposes the binding condition to the effect that hon-nin must not be bound by the subject NP. We further show that the Japanese reflexive zibun and the Japanese pronoun hon-nin show complementary distribution just as the English reflexive (himself, etc.) and the English pronoun (him, etc.) do so.