bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Jóvenes universitarios y pre-universitarios y actitudes cívico-políticas hacia una Europa social
Authors: Viejo Almanzor Carmen , Gómez-López Mercedes , Ortega-Ruiz Rosario 
Published: December 2018

RESUMENLa Universidad se ocupa de dotar a las nuevas generaciones de la capacidad para comprender ideas y procesos complejos, pero también de formar la personalidad de los y las jóvenes para ser capaces de identificar los retos para avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Con el objetivo de describir el análisis crítico que la juventud española hace de la Europa actual y futura, y determinar el valor que otorga a la educación, se analizaron las prioridades y preocupaciones con respecto al futuro, las visiones sobre el futuro de Europa, los valores y las actitudes de 268 jóvenes de entre 16 y 25 años (64.6% chicas, 35.1% chicos, 0.4% otro), con una edad media de 20.72 años. Los resultados señalaron el desempleo como una de las principales inquietudes, sólo superada por el terrorismo. Sin embargo, su visión sobre la Europa del futuro está marcada por la atribución de valor a la Educación, junto a valores democráticos, de atención y derechos a la diversidad, equidad y la justicia. Se discuten estos resultados con relación al valor que la Educación Superior tiene para la formación de un pensamiento crítico y la construcción de la Europa social que algunos de ellos deberán liderar.Palabras Clave: Juventud, Universidad, Educación, Europa.ABSTRACTThe University is the institution responsible for providing new generations with the skills to understand and analyze complex ideas and processes. But it must also shape the personality of young people to be able to identify the potentialities of different realities and visualize the possible challenges to move towards a better future. This study aims to describe the critical analysis that Spanish youth make of current and future Europe, and to determine the value that they give to Higher Education as a tool for improvement and advancement of society. This study analyses the priorities, visions and worries about future, and the values and attitudes of 268 young people; they were aged between 16 and 25 years old (64.6% females, 35.1% males, 0.4% other denomination). The results indicated unemployment as one of the main concerns, only overpassed by terrorism. However, the expectations and motivations profile of Spanish youth regarding their future Europe is positive. Their vision is marked by the attribution of value to Education, together with democratic values, attention and rights to diversity, equity and justice. These results are discussed in relation to the value that Higher Education has for the formation of critical thinking and the construction of the social Europe that some of those youngers should lead.Keywords: Youth, University, Higher Education, Europe.
Healthy feet between theory and technique: (re)constructing Camper’s ideal shoe
Authors: Hendriksen Marieke 
Published: December 2018

This article shows how the (re)construction of objects based on historical, textual sources can give us insight in how such sources may have functioned in their original context. In addition, they make us reflect critically on the development of their long-term reception history, and – through a ‘material turn’ in the history of science – can lead to a ‘historical turn’ in contemporary craft training. The connection of Camper’s 1799 text on shoemaking with the early modern obsession with regimen allowed it to retroactively become the theoretical foundation of a field that relied almost exclusively on practical, technical instruction and the development of material literacy until the early twentieth century.
Learn From Your (Markov) Neighbor: Coenrollment, Assortativity, and Grade Prediction in Undergraduate Courses
Authors: Gardner Joshua Patrick , Brooks Christopher , Li Warren 
Published: December 2018

In this paper, we evaluate the complete undergraduate co-enrollment network over a decade of education at a large American public university. We provide descriptive and exploratory analyses of the network, demonstrating that the co-enrollment networks evaluated follow power-law degree distributions similar to many other large-scale networks; that they reveal strong performance-based assortativity; and that network-based features can improve GPA-based student performance predictors. We model the university-wide undergraduate co-enrollment network as an undirected graph, and implement multiple network-augmented approaches to student grade prediction, including an adaption of the structural modelling approach from (Getoor, 2005, Lu, 2003}. We compare the performance of this predictor to traditional methods used for grade prediction in undergraduate university courses, and demonstrate that a multi-view ensembling approach outperforms both prior ``flat'' and network-based models for grade prediction across several classification metrics. These findings demonstrate the usefulness of combining diverse approaches in models of student success, and demonstrate specific network-based modelling strategies that are likely to be most effective for grade prediction.
Postpartum dönemde demir eksikliği anemisi olan hastalarda intravenöz ve oral demir tedavisinin karşılaştırması
Authors: KADİROĞULLARI Pınar , SEÇKİN Kerem Doğa , BAFALİ Olgu İçten , POLAT İbrahim 
Published: December 2018

Amaç : Kadınlarda postpartum demir
eksikliği anemisi oldukça yaygındır. Çoğu kadın oral veya intravenöz (iv) demir
ile ya da kan transfüzyonu ile tedavi edilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, intravenöz
ferrik karboksimaltozun postpartum anemisi olan kadınlarda ferröz sülfatla
karşılaştırıldığında etkinliğini, güvenilirliğini ve tolere edilebilirliğini
değerlendirmektir.Gereç ve Yöntemler: Çalışmamız postpartum 1.günde
hemoglobin değeri 8 ile 10 g/dl arasında olan hastalardan, hastanede yatışı
süresince iv demir tedavisi verilen ve taburculuk sonrası oral demir tedavisi
alan hastaların dosyalarının incelenmesi ile oluşturuldu. 1.grubu oluşturan
hastalar; postpartum 1.günde 15mg/kg den maksimum 1000 mg iv ferrik
karboksimaltoz tedavisi alan (n:100), 2.grubu oluşturan hastalar ise postpartum
taburculuk ile beraber oral ferroz sulfat (100 mg) / 2x1 den 6 hafta boyunca
tedavisi düzenlenen hastalardı (n:100). Her iki grupta yer alan hastaların
sistem üzerinden bilgileri ve tetkik sonuçları incelendi ve postpartum 1.gün,
14.gün ve 40.gün hemoglobin, hematokrit ve ferritin düzeyleri kaydedildi.Bulgular: Bu hastalardan 1. grubun yaş
ortalaması 29.8, 2. grubun yaş ortalaması 29.0 olarak
saptandı. Gruplar arasında gravida ve parite sayıları, doğum şekilleri ve
tedavi öncesi bakılan hemoglobin (Hb) ve hematokrit (Htc) değerleri arasında
fark yoktu. Tedavi sonrası 1. Gün bakılan Hb ve Htc değerleri iv demir tedavisi
alan 1.grupta, oral demir tedavisi alan 2.gruba göre anlamlı derecede yüksekti
(p&lt;0.005). İv demir tedavisinin Hb ve Htc değerlerini hızlı artırdığı
saptandı. 14. Gün bakılan Hb, Htc ve ferritin değerleri ortalaması 1. grupta
anlamlı olarak daha yüksekti (p&lt;0.005). Gruplar arasında 40. Gün bakılan
parametrelerde anlamlı fark görülmedi.

Tartışma : Postpartum demir eksikliği
anemisinin tedavisinde intravenöz ferrik karboksimaltoz güvenli ve iyi tolere
edilebilmektedir. İntravenöz demir tedavisinin postpartum anemisi olan
kadınlarda hemoglobin seviyesini oral ferröz sülfattan daha hızlı arttırdığı
gösterilmiştir. Ayrıca demir depolarını daha hızlı bir şekilde doldurduğu
görülmüştür.
An Affirmation of Black Culture through Revolution of Signs: A New Historicism Insight into Sue Mon Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees
Authors: Rajendran Jayanthi 
Published: December 2018

<p>The Secret Life of Bees begins with Lily’s encounter of bees in her bedroom. Bees and bee-related objects function as a central symbol and motif in the novel. Apparently, they also signify guidance and demonstrate the power of a female community through a bond of relationship. Signs and symbols study the life within the society which is a part of social, cultural and psychological relation to semiology. And, also this is a girl’s (Lily’s) journey to find the truth about her mother whereby setting the captive nanny Rosaleen free from the bondage and finally out of the cage from the confinement of her father T. Ray. Throughout this novel Lily is in search of truth about her mother and whether her mother loved her or not. Eventually, signs and truth converge at a point in understanding the whole novel in a better perspective. Thus, this paper focuses on applying the signs to the text using semiotic theory and further focus on applying the concept of new historicism to the text in the light of truth which is a matter of interpretation of culture and history through revolution whereby affirming the Black Culture and their identity in white. Reality and courage of the novel are highlighted in the scenario of culture identity.</p>
Tahıl Türlerinin Kaba Yem Olarak Değerlendirilmesi Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Authors: ÇAÇAN Erdal , KÖKTEN Kağan 
Published: December 2018

Amaç: Bu çalışma, tahıllardan elde edilen otun kaba yem olarak verim ve besleme değerlerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla 2015-16 ve 2016-17 yetiştirme sezonunda iki yıl süreyle yürütülmüştür.Materyal ve Metot: Çalışmada 3 adet ekmeklik buğday, 3 adet makarnalık buğday, 3 adet tritikale, 2 adet iki sıralı arpa ve 2 adet altı sıralı arpa çeşidi materyal olarak kullanılmıştır. Deneme tesadüf blokları deneme desenine göre üç tekerrürlü olacak şekilde kurulmuştur. Araştırmada; bitki boyu, yeşil ot verimi, kuru ot verimi, ham protein oranı, ham protein verimi, asit deterjanda çözünmeyen lif, nötral deterjanda çözünmeyen lif ve nispi yem değeri ile ilgili veriler ele alınmıştır.Bulgular: Araştırmada tahıl türlerinin ortalama olarak; bitki boyu 73.5-102.5 cm, yeşil ot verimi 1762-3532 kg da-1, kuru ot verimi 640-1268 kg da-1, ham protein oranı %11.1-12.0, ham protein verimi 76.2-141.2 kg da-1, asit deterjanda çözünmeyen lif %31.3-33.7, nötral deterjanda çözünmeyen lif %55.0-59.0 ve nispi yem değeri 99.7-108.3 arasında değişim göstermiştir.Sonuç: Bu araştırma sonuçları, tahıl hasıllarının kaba yem kaynağı olarak kullanılmasının Ülkemiz kaba yem açığının kapatılmasına katkı sağlayacağını göstermektedir. Türler arasında birkarşılaştırma yapıldığında, elde edilen verimin yüksekliğinden dolayı tritikale çeşitlerinin hasıl yem olarak kullanılmasının daha karlı olacağı sonucuna varılmıştır.
Effect of Different Pipe Wall Thicknesses on Flow Rate of Cylindrical Type Integrated Emitters Used in Drip Irrigation Pipes
Authors: DEMİR Vedat , YÜRDEM Hüseyin , YAZGI Arzu , GÜNHAN Tuncay 
Published: December 2018

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different pipe wall thickness on the flow rate of cylindrical type integrated emitters used in drip irrigation pipes.Material and Methods: Cylindrical in-line integrated type, non-pressure compensated two drip emitters were considered within the scope of this work. The drip emitters (E1 and E2) manufactured by two different companies were integrated in 1.1, 0.9 and 0.6 mm wall thickness pipes. The emitter flow rate measurements were carried out at five different pressure levels for all drip irrigation pipes.Results: The operating pressure and flow rate relationships for the emitters and drip irrigation pipes at each pipe wall thickness were also determined. In general, it was also observed that when the wall thickness decreased sequentially from 1.1 mm and 0.9 to 0.6 mm, average emitter flow rate increased about 30% based on the brand of the emitter as well as on pressure. The variation of emitters flow rate based on the wall thickness at the nominal pressure of 100 kPa was analyzed statistically. Based on the results, these variations were found statistically significant (P&lt;0.05) for all drip irrigation pipes equipped with E1 and E2 type emitters.Conclusion: The results of the study clearly showed that these wall thickness changes caused significant changes in emitter flow rates.
Teachers' Knowledge and Belief for Educating Sexuality for Kindergarten Students
Authors: Oktavianingsih Eka , Ayriza Yulia 
Published: December 2018

<p class="Abstract">Teachers play an important role in children’s sexual development, but they have limited knowledge and different views about communicating sexuality. This study aims to determine teachers’ knowledge and beliefs related to sexuality education and to investigate the predictors of the beliefs. This research used quantitative and qualitative approach (mixed method). A total of 40 kindergarten teachers were asked to fill out a questionnaire describing teachers’ knowledge and demographic information, as well as a scale of beliefs about what teachers feel in teaching sexuality education. Interview techniques were used to gather information about the factors influencing teachers’ beliefs. Quantitative results showed that teachers had limited knowledge (M = 8.75, SD = 2.56) and had low belief (M = 2.75, SD = 0.28) in teaching sexuality education to children. Based on qualitative data, the learning resources in teaching sexuality was very limited. These results served useful evidence in developing appropriate and effective guidance programs to ensure teachers to educate sexuality education in a timely and appropriate manner to the children's development.</p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p class="Abstract"><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>teachers, children, sexuality, knowledge, belief.</em><strong></strong></p>
A Novel Approach to Study the Effect of Ciprofloxacin on Biofilms of Corynebacterium spp. Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
Authors: OLENDER ALINA , BOGUT AGNIESZKA , MAGRYŚ AGNIESZKA , KRÓL-TURMIŃSKA KATARZYNA 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
Non-diphtherial corynebacteria are Gram-positive rods that cause opportunistic infections, what is supported by their ability to produce biofilm on artificial surfaces. In this study, the characteristic of the biofilm produced on vascular and urological catheters was determined using a confocal microscopy for the most frequently involved in infections diphtheroid species. They were represented by the reference strains of Corynebacterium striatum ATCC 6940 and C. amycolatum ATCC 700207. The effect of ciprofloxacin on the biofilm produced by the antibiotic-susceptible C. striatum strain was evaluated using three concentrations of the antimicrobial agent (2 ×, 4 ×, and 6 × the MIC – the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration). The basis for the interpretation of results was the statistical analysis of maximum points readings from the surface comprising a total of 245 areas of the biofilm image under the confocal microscope. It was observed that ciprofloxacin at a concentration equal to 4 × MIC paradoxically caused an enlargement of areas with live bacteria within the biofilm. Biofilm destruction required the application of ciprofloxacin at a concentration higher than 6 × MIC. This suggests that the use of relatively low doses of antimicrobial agents may increase the number of live bacteria within the biofilm, and further facilitate their detachment from the biofilm’s structure thus leading to the spread of bacteria into the bloodstream or to the neighboring tissues. The method of biofilm analysis presented here provides the original and novel approach to the investigation of the diphtheroid biofilms and their interaction with antimicrobial agents.
Culturable Endophytes Diversity Isolated from Paeonia ostii and the Genetic Basis for Their Bioactivity
Authors: YANG RUI-XIAN , ZHANG SHAO-WEN , XUE DONG , XUAN JUN-HAO , ZHANG YUAN-BO , PENG BIAO-BIAO 
Published: December 2018

Abstract

Paeonia ostii is known for its excellent medicinal values as Chinese traditional plant. To date, the diversity of culturable endophytes associated with P. ostii is in its initial phase of exploration. In this study, 56 endophytic bacteria and 51 endophytic fungi were isolated from P. ostii roots in China. Subsequent characterization of 56 bacterial strains by 16S rDNA gene sequence analysis revealed that nine families and 13 different genera were represented. All the fungal strains were classed into six families and 12 genera based on ITS gene sequence. The biosynthetic potential of all the endophytes was further investigated by the detection of putative polyketide synthase (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) genes. The PCR screens were successful in targeting thirteen bacterial PKS, five bacterial NRPS, ten fungal PKS and nine fungal NRPS gene fragments. Bioinformatic analysis of these detected endophyte gene fragments facilitated inference of the potential bioactivity of endophyte bioactive products, suggesting that the isolated endophytes are capable of producing a plethora of secondary metabolites. These results suggest that endophytes isolated from P. ostii had abundant population diversity and biosynthetic potential, which further proved that endophytes are valuable reservoirs of novel bioactive compounds.
Weak relationships between landforms and hydro-climatologic processes: a case study in Haiti
Authors: Gaucherel C. , Frelat R. , Polidori L. , El Hage M. , Cudennec C. , Mondesir P. , Moron V. 
Published: December 2018

AbstractOur dependence on the continental water cycle (CWC) is such that we clearly need to improve our understanding of its issues from a multidisciplinary perspective. We assess the water resources in an understudied country, Haiti, to estimate the geomorphological (8 variables), hydrological (7), and climatological (7) behaviors of the main (26) watersheds. This generated almost exhaustive knowledge of the surface and sub-surface components of the CWC. In this paper, we intend to integrate these components into a synthetic and coherent view of the environment by looking for relationships between each other. We explore the correlations between several variables (including daily rainfall, river discharge, and river network metrics) of the pre-mentioned water components using robust and rigorous statistical analyses. We found a significant yet weak (spatiotemporal) correlation between the geomorphologic and climatologic components (RV test comparing two datasets with permutations, p-value = 10−3). Some partial, weak, and contingent relationships between specific geomorphologic, hydrologic, and climatologic behaviors were apparent too. The final comparison between atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere in Haiti consists in the definition of four watershed categories showing strongly differentiated water cycle behaviors in the country, thus suggesting developing integrated mechanistic models for a multidisciplinary management of the CWC.
Monitoring water quality in Singapore reservoirs with hyperspectral remote sensing technology
Authors: Liew S. C. , Choo C. K. , Lau J. W. M. , Chan W. S. , Dang T. C. 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
In this work, algorithms were developed for retrieving water quality parameters related to Singapore's reservoirs. The main constituents that affect the water reflectance (WR) – i.e. proportion of incident light reflected from the surface of water bodies after removing the surface glint component – are the suspended particles, phytoplankton and coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM). The existing absorption spectrum model for phytoplankton in seawater is not accurate for the phytoplankton types that exist in the fresh water environment. The phytoplankton absorption spectrum was modelled by a series of Gaussian peaks from 400 to 750 nm. The peak strengths were dynamically derived from the WR measured. The phytoplankton absorption model is incorporated into a semi-empirical WR model for retrieving the absorption and backscattering coefficients of water components such as suspended sediments, CDOM and phytoplankton. The chlorophyll-a concentration and water turbidity estimated using this model correlate well with field sampling measurements, with coefficients of determination (R2) exceeding 0.8.
A laboratory study to determine the use of polluted river sediment as a substrate for extensive green roofs
Authors: Zhang Wei , Zhong Xing , Che Wu , Sun Huichao , Zhang Hailong 
Published: December 2018

Abstract
In this study, laboratory-scale green (e.g. living) roof platforms were established to assess the potential use of polluted river sediment in their substrate mixture. The mean runoff retention of the green roof platforms, which contained peat and/or river sediment, after 11 artificial rainfall events was &gt;72%, significantly higher than traditional roofs. However, green roof platforms that had been filled with peat soil showed chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) leaching. Green roofs that had used river sediment showed good leaching control for COD, TN and TP. The cumulative leaching masses from the green roofs contained 30% (COD), 42% (TN) and 47% (TP) as much as the total leaching mass from traditional roofs, and the Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb leaching risk from green roofs when river sediments are used as part of a substrate mixture was relatively low. Despite some nutrient leaching in the initial phase of runoff from the green roofs, river sediment has the potential to be used as a substrate for extensive green roofs.
Ozenoxacin: A Novel Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Impetigo
Authors: Sahu Jagdish K. , Mishra Arun K. 
Published: December 2018

Objective:
Ozenoxacin is one of the potent quinolone antibiotics, recently approved by the
United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) with reported pharmacology to treat the
impetigo. The demand for better acting topical formulation is increasing day by day. The present review
is an attempt to summarize the facts behind the chemistry and biological applications of Ozenoxacin.
Mechanism of Action: This novel drug being a quinolone antibiotic compound, acts by inhibiting DNA
gyrase A and topoisomerase IV and affects supercoiling, supercoil relaxation, chromosomal
condensation, chromosomal decatenation and many others.

Mechanism of Action:
This novel drug being a quinolone antibiotic compound, acts by inhibiting DNA
gyrase A and topoisomerase IV and affects supercoiling, supercoil relaxation, chromosomal
condensation, chromosomal decatenation and many others.

Pharmacology:
Ozenoxacin has demonstrated to have a bactericidal activity against organisms, such as
Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus pyogenes. Ozenoxacin is non-fluorinated quinolone and
being developed for the other dermatological bacterial infections as well. No sign of genotoxicity was
observed when tested experimentally.

Conclusion:
The present review also covers the complete picture of pharmacokinetics, clinical trials,
toxicity and future scope and possible avenues in this arena.
O Bom Leitor: Preditores da Literacia de Leitura dos Alunos Portugueses no PIRLS 2016
Authors: Marôco João 
Published: December 2018

Em 2016, 4642 alunos portugueses, selecionados aleatoriamente de todas as regiões de Portugal, a frequentar o 4.º ano de escolaridade em escolas públicas e privadas, participaram no PIRLS 2016, tendo alcançado um desempenho médio de 528 pontos (SE = 2,3), 13 pontos significativamente abaixo da média observada no PIRLS 2011. Neste artigo, por recurso a modelos de regressão linear hierárquica aplicados aos valores plausíveis de literacia dos alunos, procurou-se identificar as variáveis ao nível do aluno, das famílias, dos professores e das escolas capazes de explicar a variabilidade observada nos resultados de literacia de leitura dos alunos portugueses. Cerca de 26% e 32% desta variabilidade podem, respetivamente, ser explicadas por um conjunto reduzido de variáveis caracterizadoras do aluno e da família, e dos professores e das escolas. A confiança dos alunos como leitores e os recursos educativos disponíveis em casa são os melhores preditores da variação dos desempenhos ao nível do aluno e família. Ao nível da escola e dos professores, a ênfase da escola no sucesso académico e a perceção dos professores quanto à vontade de os alunos terem sucesso académico são os melhores preditores da variação observada nos desempenhos dos alunos portugueses no PIRLS 2016.
Palavras-chave: PIRLS; Literacia de leitura; Preditores de desempenho; Regressão linear hierárquica