bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Health-Promoting Potential of the “parkrun” Phenomenon: What Factors are Associated With Higher Levels of Participation?
Authors: Cleland Verity , Nash Meredith , Sharman Melanie J. , Claflin Suzi 
Published: April 2018

Purpose: “ parkrun” is a free and increasingly popular weekly 5-km walk/run international community event, representing a novel setting for physical activity (PA) promotion. However, little is known about who participates or why. This study aimed to identify sociodemographic, health, behavioral, individual, social, and environmental factors associated with higher levels of participation. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Tasmania, Australia; June 2016. Participants: Three hundred seventy two adult parkrun participants. Measures: Online survey measuring sociodemographic, health, individual, social and environmental factors, parkrun participation, and PA. Analysis: Descriptive statistics, zero-truncated Poisson regression models. Results: Respondents (n = 371) were more commonly women (58%), aged 35 to 53 years (54%), and occasional or nonwalkers/runners (53%) at registration. A total of 44% had overweight/obesity. Half had non-adult children, most spoke English at home, and 7% reported PA-limiting illness/injury/disability. Average run/walk time was 30.2 ± 7.4 minutes. Compared to regular walkers/runners at registration, nonwalkers/runners were less commonly partnered, more commonly had overweight/obesity, less physically active, and had poorer self-rated health. Multivariate analyses revealed relative parkrun participation was inversely associated with education level and positively associated with interstate parkrun participation, perceived social benefits, self-efficacy for parkrun, and intentions to participate. Conclusion: parkrun attracts nonwalkers/runners and population groups hard to engage in physical activity. Individual- and social-level factors were associated with higher relative parkrun participation. parkrun’s scalability, accessibility, and wide appeal confers a research imperative to investigate its potential for public health gain.
Comparative analysis of natalizumab versus fingolimod as second-line treatment in relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis
Authors: Lorscheider Johannes , Benkert Pascal , Lienert Carmen , Hänni Peter , Derfuss Tobias , Kuhle Jens , Kappos Ludwig , Yaldizli Özgür 
Published: April 2018

Background: No randomized controlled trials have compared the efficacy of fingolimod or natalizumab as second-line treatment in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Objective: To compare clinical outcomes after escalation to fingolimod versus natalizumab in patients with clinically active RRMS. Methods: Using the registry of the Swiss Federation for Common Tasks of Health Insurances, we identified patients with RRMS and ≥1 relapse in the year before switching from interferon beta or glatiramer acetate to fingolimod or natalizumab. Propensity score matching was used to select patients with comparable baseline characteristics. Relapse and Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) outcomes were compared in paired, pairwise-censored analyses. Results: Of the 547 included patients, 358 were matched (fingolimod, n = 179; natalizumab, n = 179). Median follow-up time was 1.8 years (interquartile range 0.9–2.9). Patients switching to natalizumab had a lower risk of relapses (incidence rate ratio 0.5, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.3–0.8, p = 0.001) and were more likely to experience EDSS improvement (hazard ratio (HR) 1.8, 95% CI 1.1–2.7, p = 0.01) compared to fingolimod. We found no differences in the proportion of patients free from EDSS progression (HR 0.9, 95% CI 0.5–1.5, p = 0.62). Conclusion: Natalizumab seems to be more effective in reducing relapse rate and improving disability compared with fingolimod.
Null-subject encounter: Variable subject pronoun expression in the Spanish of Quechua-Spanish bilinguals in the Central Peruvian Andes
Authors: Cerrón-Palomino Álvaro 
Published: April 2018

Objectives and Research Questions: This study explores the effects of bilingualism on the production of subject personal pronouns (SPPs) in speakers of two null-subject languages, Quechua and Spanish. The paper also seeks to determine if these effects can be explained by general bilingual accounts, such as the Interface Hypothesis (IH), or by contact-specific accounts. Methodology: This is a sociolinguistic variationist study; therefore, the data were collected with sociolinguistic interviews. Data and Analysis: The data consist of transcriptions of audio recordings of eight Spanish monolingual and eight Quechua-Spanish bilingual speakers of Huancayo (Peru). The data were analyzed by using the statistical software SPSS 23.0 and Goldvarb X. Findings: The IH predicts that the overt SPP rate of the bilinguals should be higher than that of the monolinguals and that the pragmatic switch reference constraint should be difficult for the Quechua first language speakers to master. The results show, however, that their rates are similar, and that switch reference was the most robust predictor for the bilinguals. This study’s results suggest that indirect transfer from the mandatory Quechua switch reference subordinating particle – pti is taking place. Originality: This is one of the first variationist studies examining the IH predictions regarding SPP production in bilinguals speaking an indigenous American null-subject language alongside Spanish. In addition, this is the first study to show, through statistical analyses, the contact-specific effect the other language can exert on a particular constraint in the subject pronoun expression of the bilinguals. Significance: The results of the study suggest that even subtle transfer in situations of language contact can be accurately explained by contact-specific accounts.
Exploring good practice in life story work with people with dementia: The findings of a qualitative study looking at the multiple views of stakeholders
Authors: Gridley Kate , Birks Yvonne , Parker Gillian 
Published: April 2018

Introduction Despite growing international interest in life story work as a tool for person-centred dementia care, there is little agreement on what constitutes good practice and little evidence from the perspectives of people with dementia or their family carers. Design and methods This paper reports the findings from the qualitative element of a larger study looking at the feasibility of evaluating life story work. Ten focus groups were held with 73 participants: four groups of people with dementia (25 participants); three with family carers (21 participants); and three with staff, professionals and volunteers with experience of life story work (27 participants). Findings: It became apparent through our focus groups that, when people talk about ‘life story work’, different people mean different things. This related to both process and outcomes. In particular, a person with dementia may have very different views from others about what life story work is for and how their life story products should be used. There was general agreement that a good practice approach would be tailored to the individual needs and preferences of the person with dementia. However, in practice many settings used templates and the process was led by staff or completed by family carers. Conclusion We produced nine key features of good practice which could be used to guide the life story work process. Key elements include the recognition that not everyone will want to take part in life story work and that some people may even find it distressing; the importance of being led by the person with dementia themselves; the need for training and support for staff, carers and volunteers; and the potential for life story work to celebrate the person’s life today and look to the future.
Relations between the residential fast-food environment and the individual risk of cardiovascular diseases in The Netherlands: A nationwide follow-up study
Authors: Poelman Maartje , Strak Maciej , Schmitz Oliver , Hoek Gerard , Karssenberg Derek , Helbich Marco , Ntarladima Anna-Maria , Bots Michiel , Brunekreef Bert , Grobbee Rick , Dijst Martin , Vaartjes Ilonca 
Published: April 2018

AbstractBackgroundThe food environment has been hypothesized to influence cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease. This study determines the relation between fast-food outlet density (FFD) and the individual risk for cardiovascular disease, among a nationwide Dutch sample.MethodsAfter linkage of three national registers, a cohort of 2,472,004 adults (≥35 years), free from cardiovascular disease at January 1st 2009 and living at the same address for ≥15 years was constructed. Participants were followed for one year to determine incidence of cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease, stroke and heart failure. Street network-based buffers of 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m around residential addresses were calculated, while FFD was determined using a retail outlet database. Logistic regression analyses were conducted. Models were stratified by degree of urbanization and adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, marital status, comorbidity, neighbourhood-level income and population density.ResultsIn urban areas, fully adjusted models indicated that the incidence of cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease was significantly higher within 500 m buffers with one or more fast-food outlets as compared with areas with no fast-food outlets. An elevated FFD within 1000 m was associated with an significantly increased incidence of cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease. Evidence was less pronounced for 3000 m buffers, or for stroke and heart-failure incidence.ConclusionsElevated FFD in the urban residential environment (≤1000 m) was related to an increased incidence of cardiovascular heart disease and coronary heart disease. To better understand how FFD is associated with cardiovascular disease, future studies should account for a wider range of lifestyle and environmental confounders than was achieved in this study.
Emigrant’s Remittances, Dutch Disease and Capital Accumulation in Bangladesh
Authors: Taguchi Hiroyuki , Shammi Rifah Tamannah 
Published: April 2018

This article examines varying macroeconomic impacts of international emigrant remittances in Bangladesh since 1976 by using a vector auto-regression (VAR) framework. Bangladesh has recorded better economic performance during last two decades, 1996–2014, compared to earlier two decades, 1976–1995. The time-series analysis therefore uncovers some transition in the remittance impacts composed of the ‘Dutch Disease’ effect and the capital accumulation effect. The empirical results reveal the existence of the Dutch Disease effect for the first period, 1976–1995, but turned to show the positive impact on capital accumulation for the second period, 1996–2014. We speculate that the recent manufacturing-oriented policies together with institutional improvements have contributed to the transformation in the remittance impact towards a positive direction between two periods. JEL: F22, F39, O53
Clonal interference of signaling mutations worsens prognosis in core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia
Authors: Itzykson Raphael , Duployez Nicolas , Fasan Annette , Decool Gauthier , Marceau-Renaut Alice , Meggendorfer Manja , Jourdan Eric , Petit Arnaud , Lapillonne Hélène , Micol Jean-Baptiste , Cornillet-Lefebvre Pascale , Ifrah Norbert , Leverger Guy , Dombret Hervé , Boissel Nicolas , Haferlach Torsten , Preudhomme Claude 
Published: April 2018

Key Points
Presence of ≥2 independent subclones in the receptor tyrosine kinase/RAS pathway, defining clonal interference, is found in 28% of CBF AMLs. Clonal interference predicts shorter event-free survival independently of clinical variables and presence of specific signaling mutations.
Between ‘home’ and migritude: Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite and the poet as migrant
Authors: Schenstead-Harris Leif 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
What is the relationship between migration and poetry? By examining poetry by Caribbean writers Louise Bennett and Kamau Brathwaite, this article provides historical context and alternative ways of answering this question. Theoretically speaking, this article embarks on the conceptual path of Aimé Cesairé’s use of négritude as a ‘compass of suffering’. It does so by adopting Vijay Prashad and Shailja Patel’s term migritude or an aesthetic attempt to live within the idea of the migrant subject. The article begins with a sketch that examines Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’ in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis. It then looks into the archive of Bennett’s and Brathwaite’s poetry to see how poems written by migrant authors help to shape visions of migration and migrant subjects.
Waiting zones and black holes: An analysis of the airport setting in Sérgio Tréfaut’s Journey to Portugal
Authors: Prata Ana Filipa 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
This article aims to discuss the representation of the airport as a waiting zone in the film Viagem a Portugal (Journey to Portugal) (2011) by Sérgio Tréfaut in which, within a minimal poetical and rhetorical composition overexposed and dramatized in fiction, are depicted the hidden procedures of borderland security and immigration policing. Combining an oppressive accumulation of spatial, temporal and communicational elements, this standstill territory is characterized simultaneously as a black hole from where one cannot escape and a threshold of segregation and prejudice where difference is produced. This article analyses how in this movie the airport assumes the form of a ‘banopticon’ where suspicious individuals are prevented from entering, interrogated and forced to return to their origin countries, in order to stress the different rhythms of waiting in contemporary contexts of travel and mobility.
Let’s talk about peace over dinner: A cultural experience on memory, dislocation and the politics of belonging in Cyprus
Authors: Photiou Maria 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
On Saturday 9 April 2011, Greek Cypriot artist Lia Lapithi invited a group of eighteen guests to join her for her own version of the Last Supper, a four-course dinner that took place in the warehouse of an old furniture factory in Nicosia, Cyprus. The dinner was the first project of a series of orchestrated meals that Lapithi hosted and participated, where the theme was hospitality and politics in Cyprus.1 Significant to Lapithi’s work are autobiographical experiences and the geopolitical division of Cyprus. Born in 1963 in Cyprus, Lapithi experienced at a young age the traumatic 1974 division of Cyprus and the on-going occupation of half of the island by Turkey.2 This article explores the significance of an orchestrated meal for the politics of belonging and remembering in contemporary Cyprus. It analyses the representation of the event by Lapithi, who engaged in questioning the meaning of peace by serving food as a ‘medium’ and as a ‘symbol of peace’. It also explores Lapithi’s strategies in communicating her own memories and experiences as a refugee who can visit her family’s house over the occupied northern side of Cyprus only as a guest. Through the discussion of food/taste and visuals, this article will consider how the dinner acts as a means of catharsis for the participants and develops a critical understanding of contemporary events in Cyprus and our reaction to them.
A travel in the narrative turn of the consciousness of a diaspora ghost in The Hounding of David Oluwale
Authors: Ojoniyi Olabode Wale 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
There is a sense in which African Diasporic contemporary narrative-centred drama helps in the reconceptualization of images, identity and the perception of ‘self’ against the ‘others’ within the totality of the experiences of the individual that form the sum of his/her consciousness. And, if we agree with Jean-Paul Sartre that consciousness is intentionality, it means that such images, identity, conceptualization and perception are prompts for narrative performance action and counter-action. In essence, narrative consciousness is not a mere dormant awareness and recreation of a state of being; it is perhaps an agent provocateur of crisis that often motivates characters to destructive actions. This is what we see in the recreation of Oluwole’s life in The Hounding of David Oluwale. The tragic end of Oluwole appears to have a link to the consciousness of his black ‘self’ against that of the white ‘others’, and this seems to, even now, underscore the uneasy life of the new African Diasporas in their host communities. It appears that there is an inherently sustained overt and covert conflict in the relationship between the Diasporas and their host. It is for this reason that one feels that the understanding of the narrative consciousness of the playwright and that of the characters in the play in existential dialectical terms is necessary as we continue to engage with the challenges of the life of the African Diasporas. This article, therefore, analyses the consciousness of the African Diaspora ‘selves’ against the ‘others’ of their hosts as reflected in the play.
Book Reviews
Authors: Ryom Knud , Pesarini Angelica 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

The Balotelli Generation: The Slurred Road to Inclusion and Belonging Through Football in Italy, Max Mauro (2016)
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford and Wien: Peter Lang, 204 pp., ISBN: 9783034325042, p/bk, £28

Global Mixed Race, Rebecca C. King-O’riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song and Paul Spickard (eds) (2014)
New York: NYU Press, 357 pp.,
ISBN: 9780814770733, p/bk, £21.99
Entrevista a Flavia Terigi
Authors: Baraldi Victoria 
Published: April 2018

Flavia Terigi es licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación, magister en Ciencias Sociales, especialista en Políticas Educativas y doctora en Psicología. Docente regular de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento y de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es autora de numerosos libros y artículos científicos y de divulgación sobre temas de aprendizaje, curriculum y formación docente. El 9 de agosto de 2017 desarrolló la Conferencia «Trayectorias educativas y educación rural» en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral (FHUC–UNL). En el transcurso de la visita a nuestra Facultad tuvimos la posibilidad de realizarle esta entrevista.
Measurement uncertainty and metrological traceability of whole blood cyclosporin A mass concentration results obtained by UHPLC-MS/MS
Authors: Rigo-Bonnin Raül , Alía Pedro , Canalias Francesca 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background:
Traceable and accurate results of cyclosporine A (CsA) mass concentrations in whole blood are required to ensure the monitoring of immunosuppressive therapy in transplant recipients. Metrological traceability and measurement uncertainty can allow ensuring reliability and comparability of these results over time and space. In this study, we provide a practical and detailed example of how the traceability and uncertainty of mass concentration of CsA results, obtained using an ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) procedure, can be described and estimated.

Methods:
Traceability was described mainly according to ISO 17511 and information obtained from certificates facilitated with the manufacturer’s calibrators. Uncertainty estimation was performed using the bottom-up and top-down approaches. For the bottom-up approach, the most relevant sources of uncertainty were identified and later used to estimate the standard, combined and expanded uncertainties. For the top-down approach, expanded uncertainty was estimated directly using intralab quality control data mainly.

Results:
Mass concentration of CsA results was traceable to the manufacturer’s product calibrators used to calibrate the UHPLC-MS/MS procedure. The expanded uncertainties estimated by the bottom-up and top-down approaches were 7.4% and 7.2%, respectively.

Conclusions:
After performing the bottom-up and top-down approaches, we observed that their results were quite similar. This fact would confirm that the top-down approach could be sufficient for estimating uncertainty of CsA mass concentrations in whole blood results in clinical laboratories. Finally, we hope that this study can help and motivate clinical laboratories to describe metrological traceability and to perform measurement uncertainty studies based on the simpler top-down approach.
Extractives of Cercidiphyllum japonicum twigs: isolation and structural elucidation of a new galloylflavonol glycoside, anomeric tannins and flavonoids
Authors: Si Chuan-Ling , Yang Xianghao , Li Zijiang , Lu Jinshun , Tao Xin , Zhang Jiayin , Liu Wei , Bae Youngsoo 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Cercidiphyllum japonicum is a deciduous tree that grows in East Asia, where its raw extracts have long been used in folk medicnes to treat various disorders or diseases. In the current work, extracts from C. japonicum twigs were studied for the first time. Seven individual compounds were isolated from the extracts, including a new galloylflavonol glycoside, namely 8-methoxykaempferol-4′-O-galloyl-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside (VII), and six known phenolics [two anomeric galloyltannins (3,4,6-tri-O-galloyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (I) and 2,2′,5-tri-O-galloyl-α/β-D-hamamelose (III)), one anomeric ellagictannin, pedunculagin (II), one flavonol, kaempferol (V) and two flavonol derivatives (kaempferol-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside (IV) and 8-methoxykaempferol (VI))]. Structural elucidation of I–VII was conducted mainly on the basis of their spectroscopic [ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS)] and physicochemical analysis, as well as by comparison of the analytical data with those in the literature. Compounds I, II, IV and VI have not yet been reported in the genus Cercidiphyllum. Compound VII, a previously undescribed flavonoid, was isolated and elucidated in this work for the first time.
Durability of Chemically Treated Plastic Soil for Unpaved Roads
Authors: Starcher Ryan D. , Pierce Charles E. , Gassman Sarah L. , Faris Mohammed 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Unpaved roads are subject to rapid deterioration and large deformations under mechanical and environmental stresses that can render them impassable. Prior work has shown that plastic soils can be mixed with a polymeric chemical admixture to create a hydrophobic material and potentially minimize these issues. The purpose of this work is to assess the durability of a low plasticity clay soil treated with a chemical admixture by evaluating changes in physical and mechanical behavior when subjected to alternating cycles of wetting and drying. Volumetric change, water content change, and mass loss were measured at the completion of each one of up to twelve wetting and drying cycles. Unconfined compression tests were performed after select cycles to assess changes in mechanical properties. Tests were also performed on specimens stabilized with Type I/II portland cement for comparison. It was found that the specimens with chemical admixture treatment survived a full twelve cycles of wetting and drying. The volume changes of the specimens were small (±2 %) and there was no apparent reduction in strength. The chemically stabilized soil retained its physical and mechanical properties in a manner comparable to cement stabilization of the same soil. These results suggest that the CAT produces a sufficiently stable material when subjected to alternating wetting and drying conditions and has potential applications in improving long-term performance of unpaved roads.