bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Intelligent Systems for Structural Damage Assessment
Authors: Vrochidou Eleni , Alvanitopoulos Petros-Fotios , Andreadis Ioannis , Elenas Anaxagoras 
Published: February 2018

AbstractThis research provides a comparative study of intelligent systems in structural damage assessment after the occurrence of an earthquake. Seismic response data of a reinforced concrete structure subjected to 100 different levels of seismic excitation are utilized to study the structural damage pattern described by a well-known damage index, the maximum inter-story drift ratio (MISDR). Through a time-frequency analysis of the accelerograms, a set of seismic features is extracted. The aim of this study is to analyze the performance of three different techniques for the set of the proposed seismic features: an artificial neural network (ANN), a Mamdani-type fuzzy inference system (FIS), and a Sugeno-type FIS. The performance of the models is evaluated in terms of the mean square error (MSE) between the actual calculated and estimated MISDR values derived from the proposed models. All models provide small MSE values. Yet, the ANN model reveals a slightly better performance.
Did Catalonia endure a (cultural) genocide?
Authors: Vilanova Francesc 
Published: February 2018

AbstractDuring the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Spanish fascism developed its own repressive tools and resources against their enemies (Republicans, Socialists, Communists and Anarchists among others) in the same way other European fascisms did. The depth of the Spanish nationalism brought Franco’s repression against the Catalan society to the height of the processes of cultural and linguistic persecution in the same way that Nazism or Italian fascism had done in the territories they occupied during the years of World War II.
The Aberdeen Burgh Records of 1398–1531 and the Semantic Web
Authors: Havinga Anna D. , Wyner Adam Z. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
This paper provides an overview of two text analytic projects on the Aberdeen burgh records, which are legal records of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. These records contain detailed information about a range of activities in the city and their legal treatment. The projects cover the periods 1398–1511 (Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project – LACR) and 1530–1531 (A Text Analytic Approach to Rural and Urban Legal Histories project – TAHL). The completed TAHL project annotated a selected corpus with rich semantic information for the purpose of facilitating historical research by querying and extracting data from across the corpus. The LACR project, which is ongoing, focuses on transcribing the first eight volumes of the Aberdeen burgh records (1398–1511) into the Text Encoding Initiative’s standard, thus making the text machinereadable. This project lays the foundation for further analysis and enrichment of the corpus.
Induction of labor in twin gestation: can we predict success?
Authors: Razavi Armin S. , Chasen Stephen T. , Chambers Fiona , Kalish Robin B. 
Published: February 2018

Abstract

Objective:
To identify factors associated with a successful induction of labor in twin pregnancies and associated maternal morbidity.

Study design:
This was a retrospective review of twin pregnancies ≥24 weeks’ gestation undergoing labor induction from 2011 to 2016. The primary outcome was a successful induction of labor. The secondary outcome was a composite of maternal morbidity, including ≥1 of the following: estimated blood loss (EBL) >1500 ml, blood transfusion, hysterectomy, intensive care unit (ICU) admission or maternal death.

Results:
Of 104 twin pregnancies undergoing labor induction, 64 (61.5%) had a vaginal delivery of both twins. Multiparity [odds ratio (OR) 12.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.9–38.8, P≤0.005] and maternal age <35 years (OR 2.33, 95% CI 1.1–5.2, P=0.038) were independently associated with vaginal delivery. The overall rate of composite maternal morbidity was 7.7%. Cesarean delivery (CD) was associated with an increased rate of composite maternal morbidity compared to the successful induction group (17.5% vs. 1.6%, P≤0.005). An EBL >1500 ml, uterine atony and the use of ≥1 uterotonic agent were more frequent in the CD group.

Conclusions:
Multiparous women and those <35 years of age were more likely to have a vaginal delivery. Maternal morbidity is increased in women who required a CD after labor induction compared to those who achieved a vaginal delivery.
Efficacy of three different regimens in recovery of bowel function following elective cesarean section: a randomized trial
Authors: Ahmed Magdy Refaat , Sayed Ahmed Waleed Ali , Khamess Rasha Elsayed , Youwakim Manar S. , EL-Nahas Khaled Mohamed 
Published: February 2018

Abstract

Aim:
To compare the efficacy of three postoperative feeding regimens on bowel function recovery after term elective cesarean section (CS).

Methods:
Women recruited for this randomized trial were allocated into three groups. Women in group (A) were instructed to chew sugarless gum for 10 min every 2 h after surgery. Group (B) mothers received IV fluids for 6 h followed by sipping fruit juices sweetened with honey. Group (C) had oral intake of clear fluids after passage of flatus and regular diet with the passage of bowel movement. The main outcome measures were the timing of first return to bowel movement and initiation of regular diet.

Results:
The mean times to first hearing of bowel sounds, to first flatus passage and to first defecation were significantly lower in group A (10, 17.5 and 28.1 h, respectively) compared to groups B and C [15.1, 24.9 and 36 h (B) and 21.6, 38.8 and 49.4 h (C)]. Initiation of regular diet was significantly earlier in group A compared to groups B and C (21 vs. 27.5 and 40.3 h, respectively).

Conclusion:
Chewing gum appears to be more advantageous than early or traditional feeding regimens after term elective CS resulting in rapid recovery of bowel function.
Is the Appropriateness of Emotions Culture-Dependent? The Relevance of Social Meaning
Authors: Welpinghus Anna 
Published: February 2018

AbstractThis paper contributes to the question to what extent the socio-cultural context is relevant for the appropriateness of emotions, while appropriateness of an emotion means that the emotion entails a correct, or adequate, evaluation of its object. In a first step, two adequacy conditions for theories of emotions are developed: the first condition ensures that the socio-cultural context is not neglected: theories must allow for the fact that appropriateness often depends on the social meaning of the emotion’s particular object. The second condition rules out implausible forms of cultural determinism. In a second step, an account that meets both conditions is presented: the Acceptance within Social Context account.
How not to Appease Athena: A Reconsideration of Xerxes' Purported Visit to the Troad (Hdt. 7.42–43)
Authors: van Rookhuijzen Jan Zacharias 
Published: February 2018

Summary:
This article investigates the topography in Herodotus' account of Xerxes' visit to the Troad in 480 BC, which consists of Mount Ida, the Scamander river, the temple of Athena Ilias at Troy and the tumuli in the surrounding landscape. It suggests that this episode, rather than taking us back to historical events of 480 BC, may (partly) be a product of Greek imagination in the ca. fifty years between Xerxes' invasion of Greece and the publication of the „Histories“, with the landscape of the Troad functioning as a catalyst. To this end, the article traces the Iliadic associations of these places, exposes several topographical problems, and explains how the stories frame Xerxes' visit as hubristic. While the article is not concerned with the historicity of the episode per se, it suggests that this historicity cannot automatically be accepted, as has hitherto generally been done.
Civil Strife, Power and Authority in the Judicial Sphere: A Case Study from Roman Palestine
Authors: Czajkowski Kimberley 
Published: February 2018

Summary:This paper examines Josephus' account of a judicial incident that occurred in around 62 C.E., which involved both Judaean elites and the Roman imperial powers. While traditional readings of the passage have focussed on mining it for information about the nature of the Judaean council that is often referred to as the „sanhedrin“, it is here argued that this report sheds light on several other key issues related to the operation of law within the region: indigenous perspectives on loci of authority within a judicial context, the importance of judicial power within broader societal conflicts, and the role of Judaean-Roman interactions in maintaining and redefining jurisdictional boundaries. It thus constitutes a valuable testimony for understanding the operation of law in this particular part of the Roman Empire.
Positive polarity predicates
Authors: Hoeksema Jack 
Published: February 2018

AbstractThis paper presents Dutch and English predicates that behave as positive polarity items and provides a partial, semantically-grounded classification of this group of PPIs. The items are studied from the perspective of anti-licensing behavior (by negation, either locally or long-distance, in questions, and by weakly negative quantifiers such aslittleandfew). Predicates, unlike quantifiers, do not have wide scope readings (which allow quantificational PPIs such assomebodyto appear in the syntactic scope of negation). Using a mixture of corpus data and introspective judgments, we show that anti-licensing among PPIs is not uniform (mirroring earlier results on NPIs which likewise show considerable variation). Rescuing contexts are likewise shown to differ among PPIs. Some of the PPI predicates show complex interaction with illocutionary force (especially mandative force), and others with differences between presupposed and asserted propositions. High degree predicates, finally, point toward the existence of connections between the marking of degree and positive polarity. PPI status is argued to be the result of a complex interaction between the effects of negation and other nonveridical operators, and other semantic factors, which differ among subclasses of PPIs. Anti-licensing by weak negation correlates fairly well with anti-licensing by long-distance negation, a finding which is (partly) in line with a recent proposal by Spector (2014, Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity.Semantics and Pragmatics7(11). 1–61) concerning global PPIs. However, we find there to be more variation among the PPIs studied here than the classification of Spector (2014) or any binary classification stipulates.
Positive polarity indefinites? On how (not) to identify them: An exhaustification-based perspective
Authors: Fălăuș Anamaria 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
This paper discusses a class of so-called “marked” or “modal” indefinites in Romance, (e.g., Romanian un NP oarecare, Italian un NP qualunque, French quelque N), which have been shown to display the locality, shielding and rescuing effects familiar from the study of positive polarity items (PPIs) like someone (e.g., Săvescu-Ciucivara 2007, Oarecare indefinites are not just any indefinites. In Gabriela Alboiu, Andrei Avram, Larisa Avram & Daniela Isac (eds.), Pitar Moș: A building with a view: Papers in honour of Alexandra Cornilescu, 205–225. Bucharest: Editura Universității din București; Jayez and Tovena 2007, Evidentiality and determination. In Atle Grønn (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, 271–286. Oslo: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo; Chierchia 2013, Logic in grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press). Taking Romanian as a case study, I show that in positive contexts, these indefinites exhibit properties (obligatory non-specificity, free choice inferences) that set them apart from someone-PPIs and make them very similar to free choice indefinites. Adopting the framework in Chierchia (2013), we account for the interpretation of indefinites like un NP oarecare by assuming they activate scalar and domain alternatives. The computation of these alternatives is argued to be responsible for the observed interpretation and interaction with negation (as well as other positive polarity features). The proposed account emphasizes the connection between free choice and positive polarity and suggests that positive polarity behavior stems from more than one source.
A topological approach for protein
classification
Authors: Cang Zixuan , Mu Lin , Wu Kedi , Opron Kristopher , Xia Kelin , Wei Guo-Wei 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Protein function and dynamics are closely related to its sequence and structure.However, prediction
of protein function and dynamics from its sequence and structure is still a fundamental challenge in molecular
biology. Protein classification, which is typically done through measuring the similarity between proteins
based on protein sequence or physical information, serves as a crucial step toward the understanding of protein
function and dynamics. Persistent homology is a new branch of algebraic topology that has found its
success in the topological data analysis in a variety of disciplines, including molecular biology. The present
work explores the potential of using persistent homology as an independent tool for protein classification. To
this end, we propose a molecular topological fingerprint based support vector machine (MTF-SVM) classifier.
Specifically,we construct machine learning feature vectors solely fromprotein topological fingerprints,which
are topological invariants generated during the filtration process. To validate the presentMTF-SVMapproach,
we consider four types of problems. First, we study protein-drug binding by using the M2 channel protein of
influenza A virus. We achieve 96% accuracy in discriminating drug bound and unbound M2 channels. Secondly,
we examine the use of MTF-SVM for the classification of hemoglobin molecules in their relaxed and
taut forms and obtain about 80% accuracy. Thirdly, the identification of all alpha, all beta, and alpha-beta
protein domains is carried out using 900 proteins.We have found a 85% success in this identification. Finally,
we apply the present technique to 55 classification tasks of protein superfamilies over 1357 samples and 246
tasks over 11944 samples. Average accuracies of 82% and 73% are attained. The present study establishes
computational topology as an independent and effective alternative for protein classification.
Role of Dispersion Attraction in Differential
Geometry Based Nonpolar Solvation Models
Authors: Chen Zhan 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Differential geometry (DG) based solvation models have shown their great success in solvation analysis
by avoiding the use of ad hoc surface definitions, coupling the polar and nonpolar free energies, and
generating solvent-solute boundary in a physically self-consistent fashion. Parameter optimization is a key
factor for their accuracy, predictive ability of solvation free energies, and other applications. Recently, a series
of efforts have been made to improve the parameterization of these new implicit solvent models. In thiswork,
we aim at studying the role of dispersion attraction in the parameterization of our DG based solvation models.
To this end, we first investigate the necessity of van derWaals (vdW) dispersion interactions in the model
and then carry out systematic parameterization for the model in the absence of electrostatic interactions.
In particular, we explore how the changes in Lennard-Jones (L-J) potential expression, its decomposition
scheme, and choices of some fixed parameter values affect the optimal values of other parameters as well as
the overall modeling error. Our study on nonpolar solvation analysis offers insights into the parameterization
of nonpolar components for the full DG based models by eliminating uncertainties from the electrostatic polar
component. Therefore, it can be regarded as a step towards better parameterization for the full DG based
model.
Molnar on Truthmakers for Negative Truths
Authors: Kürbis Nils 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Molnar argues that the problem of truthmakers for negative truths arises because we tend to accept four metaphysical principles that entail that all negative truths have positive truthmakers. This conclusion, however, already follows from only three of Molnar´s metaphysical principles. One purpose of this note is to set the record straight. I provide an alternative reading of two of Molnar´s principles on which they are all needed to derive the desired conclusion. Furthermore, according to Molnar, the four principles may be inconsistent. By themselves, however, they are not. The other purpose of this note is to propose some plausible further principles that, when added to the four metaphysical theses, entail a contradiction.
Crystal structure of camptothecin, C20H16N2O4
Authors: Tan Zhuo-Jie , Wang Yun-Bo , Yang Quan-Nu , Li Yao-Lan , Wang Guo-Cai , Ouyang Yong-Zhong , Li Guo-Qiang 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
C20H16N2O4, monoclinic, P21 (no. 4), a = 8.0094(5) Å, b = 6.7689(3) Å, c = 29.577(2) Å, β = 95.809(6)°, V =1595.27(16) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0457, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1209, T = 293 K.
Application of gamma radiation and physicochemical treatment to improve the bioactive properties of chitosan extracted from shrimp shell
Authors: Aktar Jesmin , Hasan Zahid , Afroz Tahmina , Harun-or-Rashid  , Pramanik Kamruzzaman 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
The aim of this study is to exploit a suitable chitosan extraction method from the chitin of indigenous shrimp shells by employing different physicochemical treatments and to improve different bioactive properties of this extracted chitosan (CS) by applying gamma radiation. Chitin was prepared from shrimp shell by pretreatment (deproteination, demineralization and oxidation). Chitosan was extracted from chitin by eight different methods varying different physicochemical parameters (reagent concentration, temperature and time) and assessed with respect to the degree of deacetylation, requirement of time and reagents. The method where chitin was repeatedly treated with 121°C for 30 min with 20 M NaOH, produced the highest degree of deacetylation (DD) value (92%) as measured by potentiometric titration, with the least consumption of time and chemicals, and thus, selected as the best suitable extraction method. For further quality improvement, chitosan with highest DD value was irradiated with different doses (i.e., 5, 10, 15, 20 and 50 kGy) of gamma radiation from cobalt-60 gamma irradiator. As the radiation dose was increased, the molecular weight of the wet irradiated chitosan, as measured by the viscosimetric method, decreased from 1.16 × 105 to 1.786 × 103, 1.518 × 103, 1.134 × 103, 1.046 × 103 and 8.23 × 102 dalton, respectively. The radiation treatment of chitosan samples increased the antimicrobial activity significantly in concentration dependent manner on both gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli) bacteria, as determined by the well-diffusion method. Four to five percent wet chitosan treated with a radiation dose range of 5.0–10.0 kGy rendered the highest antimicrobial activity with least energy and time consumption. Solubility, water binding capacity (WBC) and fat binding capacity (FBC) also improved due to irradiation of chitosan.
Radiation activities and application of ionizing radiation on cultural heritage at ENEA Calliope gamma facility (Casaccia R.C., Rome, Italy)
Authors: Baccaro Stefania , Cemmi Alessia 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
Since the 1980s, research and qualification activities are being carried out at the 60Co gamma Calliope plant, a pool-type irradiation facility located at the Research Centre ENEA-Casaccia (Rome, Italy). The Calliope facility is deeply involved in radiation processing research and on the evaluation and characterization of the effects induced by gamma radiation on materials for different applications (crystals, glasses, optical fibres, polymers and biological systems) and on devices to be used in hostile radiation environment such as nuclear plants, aerospace and high energy physics experiments. All the activities are carried out in the framework of international projects and collaboration with industries and research institutions. In the present work, particular attention will be paid to the cultural heritage activities performed at the Calliope facility, focused on two different aspects: (a) conservation and preservation by bio-deteriogen eradication in archived materials, and (b) consolidation and protection by degraded wooden and stone porous artefacts consolidation.
Polypropylene/polyethylene two-layered by one-step rotational molding
Authors: Jansri Ektinai , O-Charoen Narongchai 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
At present, a two-layered product can be molded through various processes. The rotational molding process is a thermoplastics process that can produce products with a two-layered structure; however, it requires special equipment or additional steps in the processing, which make the processing more complex. However, previous research has shown that, through the use of materials with different particle sizes and melting points, two-layered products can also be molded. Thus, this research uses an axial powder flow apparatus to determine the possibility of a two-layered molding between polypropylene (PP) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE). The differences in the particle shapes of a PP homopolymer and copolymer have been considered. The particle sizes of both PPs were determined to be larger than that of LLDPE, and were mixed in a ratio of 50:50 (%wt) using a dry blending method. The results of this experiment show that the two-layered molding of PP and LLDPE using an uncomplicated technique for rotational molding has a high probability of success.
Cracking ShadowCrypt: Exploring the Limitations of Secure I/O Systems in Internet Browsers
Authors: Freyberger Michael , He Warren , Akhawe Devdatta , Mazurek Michelle L. , Mittal Prateek 
Published: February 2018

Abstract
An important line of privacy research is investigating the design of systems for secure input and output (I/O) within Internet browsers. These systems would allow for users’ information to be encrypted and decrypted by the browser, and the specific web applications will only have access to the users’ information in encrypted form. The state-of-the-art approach for a secure I/O system within Internet browsers is a system called ShadowCrypt created by UC Berkeley researchers [23]. This paper will explore the limitations of ShadowCrypt in order to provide a foundation for the general principles that must be followed when designing a secure I/O system within Internet browsers. First, we developed a comprehensive UI attack that cannot be mitigated with popular UI defenses, and tested the efficacy of the attack through a user study administered on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Only 1 of the 59 participants who were under attack successfully noticed the UI attack, which validates the stealthiness of the attack. Second, we present multiple attack vectors against Shadow-Crypt that do not rely upon UI deception. These attack vectors expose the privacy weaknesses of Shadow DOM—the key browser primitive leveraged by ShadowCrypt. Finally, we present a sketch of potential countermeasures that can enable the design of future secure I/O systems within Internet browsers.