bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Liquid Echoes
Authors: Morris Johnson Nicole M. 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
The breast and its milk are of central importance in Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights, published in French in 1995 (English translation 1998) and set in Guadeloupe and Cuba at the turn of the century. This essay explores ways in which patriarchal order is being undermined by its upholders’ own attempts to silence, control, and erase both the black and white breast. Milk becomes a liquid catalyst that enables an ever-slippery, ever-morphing creolization, the process that leads to the creation of an alternative space for the collection and projection of female voice and history. Condé’s novel shows that while controlled métissage is attempted through the violation of the black and white breasts, creolization is undercutting this project, allowing the breast agency as well as space for rebellion. While the breast cannot be represented through the colonizer’s language, the voices submerged under it rise to the surface when breast milk flows are followed. This essay maps out these streams through an examination of alternative modes of family expansion that run counter to patriarchal lineage. Additionally the alternative network, or the many unheard voices that make up Conde’s text, is examined, as are the ways in which these women subvert and reimagine origin myths.
Purine-rich low complexity regions are potential RNA binding hubs in the human genome
Authors: Antonov Ivan , Medvedeva Yulia A. 
Published: May 2019

Many long noncoding RNAs are bound to the chromatin and some of these interactions are mediated by triple helices. It is usually assumed that a transcript can form triplexes with a distinct set of genomic loci also known as triplex target sites (TTSs). Here we performed computational analyses of the TTSs that have been experimentally identified for particular RNAs. To assess the ability of these TTSs to bind other transcripts we developed a method to estimate the statistical significance of the predicted number of triplexes for a given RNA-DNA pair. We demonstrated that each DNA set included a subset of sequences that have a potential to form a statistically significant (adjusted p-value < 0.01) number of triplexes with the majority (>90%) of the analyzed transcripts. Due to the predicted ability of these DNA sequences to interact with a wide range of different RNAs, we called them "universal TTSs". While the universal TTSs were quite rare in the human genome (around 0.5%), they were more frequent (>15%) among the MEG3 binding sites (ChOP-seq peaks) and especially among the shared Capture-seq peaks (40%). The universal TTSs were enriched with the purine-rich low complexity regions. Nowadays, the role of the chromatin bound RNAs in the formation of 3D chromatin structure is actively discussed. We speculated that such universal TTSs may contribute to establishing long-distance chromosomal contacts and may facilitate distal enhancer-promoter interactions. All the scripts and the data files related to this study are available at: https://github.com/vanya-antonov/universal_tts
Contemporary diagnosis of lower urinary tract dysfunction.
Authors: Rosier Peter 
Published: May 2019

Introduction: Diagnosis of lower urinary tract (LUT) dysfunction starts with categorization in clinical syndromes, and initial management is based on the assumptions about pathophysiology that these syndromes contain. However, clinical practice guidelines are ambiguous in clinical specialists’ diagnosis of dysfunction after failure of initial management. This is a narrative and critical review of the existing evidence, and the aim is to suggest practice improvements in the process of clinical specialists’ diagnosis for patients resistant to initial management. Methods and Results: Evidence is collated on the basis of the author’s personal preference in combination with good clinical practice general principles. Statements and suggestions to improve reflect personal opinion. For two groups of patients with LUT dysfunction, the strategy of initial diagnosis is summarized and desirable principles of secondary care diagnosis are discussed. More specifically, a structure for the contemporary care of women with signs and symptoms of urinary incontinence is described and for that of the group of men older than 45 years with symptoms of LUT dysfunction. Conclusions: Urodynamic testing is the undisputed gold standard for objective assessment and is the only way to stage and grade the dysfunction. Clinical practice guidelines and clinical specialists are too modest about the use and applicability of objective or urodynamic testing for referred persons with LUT dysfunction that is resistant to initial pragmatic management. Objective assessment and diagnosis are mainstays in secondary care, and the indication to perform objective assessments in patients with LUT dysfunction should be advised much more specifically in guidelines and practice recommendations.
Older adults' views on their person-centred care needs in a long-term care setting in Ireland
Authors: Kelly Fiona , Reidy Mary , Denieffe Suzanne , Madden Catherine 
Published: May 2019

Background: Person-centred care should be responsive to the needs of older adults in long-term care. It is central to collaborative and high-quality healthcare delivery. Aim: To explore the perceptions of older Irish adults aged 65 years of age or more regarding the person-centred climate of the long-term care setting in which they live. Method: A cross-sectional study design using the Person-centered Climate Questionnaire–Patient (PCQ-P) was used to survey 56 older adults in a long-term care setting. Results: Overall, residents considered the setting to be hospitable, welcoming, clean and safe; the mean (SD) scale score was 5.39 (0.520). Psychosocial concerns about adapting to living in long-term care environments need to be addressed, particularly among the younger male residents when compared with older male residents (53.8% v 86.7%, P=0.018). Conclusion: Older people in long-term care may prioritise different facets of person-centredness to staff. Further research of approaches used in Irish older adult long-term person-centred care delivery is warranted.
Richard Rorty, Homo Academicus Politicus
Authors: Goldman Loren 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
This article explores Richard Rorty’s status in academic political theory in the decades after his conscious departure from disciplinary philosophy. Rorty found a receptive audience in this pluralistic field, and he became a point of orientation in a number of ongoing, research-agenda driving conversations, if often as an extreme example against which interlocutors could define themselves. In like fashion, Rorty refined his own self-conception as a patriotic liberal ironist in the course of his political theoretical engagements. I offer a sketch of political theory’s landscape as a contrast to the reductivism and esotericism Rorty criticized in disciplinary philosophy, and survey his presence in the field over the years substantively, qualitatively, and quantitatively.
Bottom fire behaviour of thermally thick natural rubber latex foam
Authors: Wang Shuwen , Huang Dongmei , Guo Chenning , Yuan Qi , Chen Yongliang , Lin Peng , Shen Liming , Duan Pengzhen 
Published: May 2019

AbstractIn this paper, the bottom fire behaviour of 25 cm × 25 cm × 5 cm natural rubber (NR) latex foam with uniformly distributed 6 mm diameter holes was investigated experimentally in a small-scale experimental platform under bottom ventilation. The bottom fire behaviour was analysed. The results show that the burning process of the thermally thick NR latex foam under bottom ventilation conditions can be divided into three stages: initial growing, full development, and decay. A deflagration covered the entire rear surface was observed at 308 s. The burning balls moving at a speed of 0.15 m/s were observed after the bottom ignition and they moved from the center to the sides along with the expansion. The mass loss rate of the sample was accelerated dramatically from 0.2 g/s to 0.5 g/s when the bottom surface was ignited at 308 s.
Revisiting the Place of Preparatory Documents in the Interpretation of Transformative Constitutions
Authors: Abungu Cecil 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
South Africa and Kenya are among some nations that have adopted what are referred to as ‘transformative constitutions’, with the aim of bringing about radical change that would repair the cumulatively deep fissures in their societies. In order to determine how to satisfactorily give these constitutions effect, judges may undertake to first understand the people’s past experiences and how that informed the constitutional provisions that were adopted. This will in turn allow them to grasp what sort of transformation the people sought.
One of the sources by which to undertake such a task is preparatory documents. In this study, these are the materials detailing the people’s views on the then-prospective constitutional provisions and discussions during constitutional conferences. By reference to the United States courts as a case study, this article seeks to find out the use to which judges interpreting provisions in the Constitution of Kenya and the Constitution of South Africa put preparatory documents. It does so through an empirical examination of select Human Rights decisions in both jurisdictions. It eventually finds that the examination of preparatory documents need not necessarily be viewed as an exercise that will restrain a judge, or fold back progress that has been made in progressive adjudication. At the very least, it will help a judge understand the transformation sought while in some cases, it may legitimize and enlighten a judge’s decision to interpret a provision in a more expansive manner.
The range of normative surface skin temperature changes in adolescents: prospective multicenter study
Authors: Roitblat Yulia , Buchris Noa , Hanai Jacob , Cohensedgh Sabrina , Frig-Levinson Eden , Burger Jacob , Shterenshis Michael 
Published: May 2019

Abstract

Aim
We aimed to establish a normative range of surface skin temperature (SST) changes due to blood redistribution in adolescents and to register the time needed for complete postural change-related blood redistribution.

Methods
The healthy volunteers (age 15–18, n = 500, M 217, F 283) were recruited for this prospective multicenter study. The volunteers were asked to keep one extremity down and another extremity up in supine rest, sitting with straight legs, and upright rest. We obtained temperature readings being taken from the tips of the middle fingers and temperature readings from the tips of the first toes at the ambient temperature of 25 °C and 30 °C. The control group consisted of a 100 of adult volunteers.

Results
The resting temperature of the middle fingers for a sitting participant was 28.6 ± 0.8 °C. The physiological change of this temperature during body position changes was 4.5 ± 1.1 °C and for most of the participants remained within the 26.5–31.5 °C range at 25 °C. For the toe, physiological skin temperature range was 25.5–33 °C. At 30 °C, these ranges were 27–33 °C for the fingers and 27–34 °C for the toes. On average, 2–3 min were needed for such temperature changes.

Conclusion
At normal room temperature, the SST of thermoneutral adolescents may vary within a range of approximately 5 °C only due to the blood redistribution in the body. This range is specific for each person due to individual peculiarities of the vasomotor activity. This normative range of SSTs should be taken into account during investigations of thermoregulation.
Wie verarbeiten Lernende Dozentenfeedback und welches Feedback ist für Lernende effektiv?
Authors: FANG Fan , FREUDENBERG-FINDEISEN Renate 
Published: May 2019

Zusammenfassung
Seit mehreren Jahren werden kontroverse Diskussionen über Dozentenfeedback geführt. Die Untersuchung wurde im Rahmen einer realen Unterrichtssituation durchgeführt. Die statistische SPSS-Analyse zeigt, dass die Gruppe, die indirektes Feedback bekommt, nachhaltigere Leistungen erzielen konnte, als die Gruppe, die direktes Feedback bekommt. Indirekte Feedbacks inspirieren die Studierenden zur selbstständigen Reflexion, zudem fördern Feedback-Gespräche mit Dozierenden das Verständnis der sprachlichen Strukturen. Um die Schreibkompetenz zu fördern und weiterzuentwickeln, sollten schriftliche Übungsformate daher in stärkerem Maße von indirekten Feedbacks begleitet werden.
Eine empirische Studie zur Stereotypisierung der deutschen Kultur in DaF-Lehrwerken des chinesischen Germanistikstudiums
Authors: ZHANG Xiaoling 
Published: May 2019

Zusammenfassung
Die vorliegende Studie geht von den DaF-Lehrwerken des chinesischen Germanistikstudiums aus, um die Stereotypisierung der deutschen Kultur bei Chinesen empirisch zu untersuchen. Dabei wird der Fokus dieser empirischen Untersuchung darauf gerichtet, wie die Stereotypisierung der deutschen Kultur in chinesischen DaF-Lehrwerken für Germanistikstudierende aussieht. Mittels einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse über alle kulturspezifischen Inhalte in den erforschten Lehrwerken stellt sich heraus, dass die DaF-Lehrwerke des chinesischen Germanistikstudiums eine Palette an Stereotypen über die deutsche Kultur aufweisen, wobei die chinesische Perspektive eine gewichtige Rolle spielt. Außerdem wird in den Lehrwerken bei der Herausbildung von Stereotypen ein Schwerpunkt auf das Germanistikstudium sowie das Deutschlernen gelegt. Schließlich stellt die ganze Stereotypisierung in den Lehrwerken ein Wechselspiel vielfältiger Elemente der Lehrwerke dar.
Wie kann der Erwerb von Prosodie bei chinesischen Deutschlernenden gefördert werden?
Authors: LI Xiang 
Published: May 2019

Zusammenfassung
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden die Bedeutung der Prosodie in der mündlichen Kommunikation hervorgehoben sowie suprasegmentale Ausspracheabweichungen chinesischer Deutschlernender und die muttersprachliche Interferenz durch kontrastive Sprachvergleiche diskutiert. Dazu wurden Erläuterungen und Übungen aus den aktuell am häufigsten verwendeten Lehrbüchern für chinesische DaF-Lernende analysiert. Die prosodischen Unterschiede beider Sprachen, die Relevanz und die Funktionen der Prosodie werden im DaF-Unterricht in großem Maße nicht berücksichtigt, was sich in den untersuchten Lehrwerken und Lehrbüchern zur Phonetik widerspiegelt. Damit der Erwerb der Prosodie bei chinesischen Deutschlernenden gefördert wird, werden in diesem Beitrag praktische Lösungsvorschläge anhand von drei Beispielen präsentiert.
Gender assignment strategies used by L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish
Authors: Martoccio Alyssa 
Published: May 2019

Abstract
This article compares gender assignment on known nouns by intermediate (n=15) and advanced (n=15) second language (L2) learners of Spanish (L1 English) and native Spanish speakers (n=15). Participants completed a written vocabulary task, which asked the meaning and gender of 63 nouns. Gender assignment scores revealed that only intermediate and native speaker groups scored significantly differently on known nouns, as shown by the vocabulary task. Results indicated that intermediate learners assigned the incorrect gender to known nouns significantly more than native speakers. Both L2 learner groups made errors on high frequency known nouns, whereas the few native speaker errors were on low frequency known nouns. Along with think-aloud data which showed the effectiveness of strategies that directly link the noun with its article, these results indicate that nouns need to be taught as units rather than bare nouns, using distributional co-occurrence relations.
Emotions in Eden and After: Ancient Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Genesis 2–4
Authors: Crislip Andrew 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis article traces a long-lived tradition of understanding the Eden narrative and its aftermath as a story about the birth of painful emotions, what one might translate into English as shame, fear, and, above all, sadness. The consensus reading of Genesis in the Anglo-American tradition does not reflect an underlying emotional emphasis in the fateful oracle to Eve and Adam in Gen 3:16–17. Translations and commentaries overwhelmingly interpret God’s words as physiological and material, sentencing the woman to painful childbirth and the man to onerous labor in the fields. Yet, as demonstrated by a number of scholars, God’s oracle to the pair in the Hebrew text deals with pain more broadly, with a focus on emotional pain, especially sadness, sorrow, or grief. This emotional suffering is shared by man and woman, and is the catalyst for the first murder. Hellenistic Jewish and later Christian readers embraced and elaborated on this very early emotional aspect of the Eden myth. The Septuagint translates the oracle in unmistakably emotional terms, adopting vocabulary typical of popular moral philosophy, and clarifies the thematic connection between Genesis 3 and 4 by highlighting the emotional repercussions of the emotional change wrought by the primal transgression. Authors like Philo and Josephus interpreted the Eden narrative in fundamentally emotional ways, and pseudepigrapha were particularly engaged in drawing out and elaborating on the emotions of the Eden myth. Most of all theGreek Life of Adam and Eveand 4 Ezra transform the story into meditations on emotional suffering, the former retelling the myth, the latter repurposing it into an apocalyptic vision of joy and sorrow at the end times. Both texts furthermore identify sadness (lupēortristitia, in Greek and Latin version of Gen 3:16–17) as dually significant, both as punishment and as a saving, divinizing quality, one which can also effect communion between human and divine. This way of reading Eden’s emotions dominated Christian reception of the Eden myth, from the Gospel of John on. Ptolemy, Didymus, Ambrose, Augustine, and others understood the Eden myth as primarily about the origin and meaning of emotional suffering. This style of reception remained a widespread reading until the turn of the twentieth century, when, for a variety of reasons, Christians began to read the oracle in the physiological and materialist terms (pain in childbirth and agricultural labor) that are now dominant.
Genesis by the Numbers: A Reassessment of the Years of the Patriarchs, Beginning with the Joseph Story
Authors: Driver Daniel R. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractDo the numbers of years in Genesis add up? Biblical scholars have learned to attend to the art of biblical narrative. Is there also an art of biblical numbers? If so, could its rediscovery lead to a better understanding of the contours of the biblical text, and its complex meanings, as well as its reception history prior to the Enlightenment? This article’s provisional answer to these questions is yes. It looks at two key numbers associated with the Joseph Story: a span of twenty-two years, which a variety of readers calculate as the time that Joseph lived away from his family in Egypt; and a double span of seventeen years, which the Bible suggests is the length of time that Joseph lived under his father’s protection in Canaan, and that Jacob in turn lived under his son’s care in Egypt. The study finds that, since Spinoza, modern assessments of these numbers have been constrained by a strongly linear view of time, as may be seen in the work of Robert Alter, among many others. It criticizes linear time as reductive insofar as it flattens the numbers of Genesis into chronologies and timelines. It also draws attention to an aspect of figural time, which it describes as symmetrically folded time, to help characterize the non-linear, isotropic way that numbers seem to behave in the Bible and in the Bible’s pre-modern reception. The findings about figural time in the Joseph Story raise significant questions about the compatibility of narrative, literary-critical, and theological approaches to the time-denominated numbers of Genesis.
Ready for His Closeup? Pasolini’sSan PaoloandPaul, Apostle of Christ(2018)
Authors: Walsh Richard 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThe article usesSunset Boulevard(1950) and the cinematic Paul pattern to reflect onSan Paolo, Pasolini’s script for an unrealized Paul film, and onPaul, Apostle of Christ(2018). Typical Paul films, including television and church-use productions, present Paul in terms of a repeated pattern including 1) a spectacularly conceived Acts, 2) his martyrdom, 3) hagiography, and 4) biopic film structure. Despite focusing on Luke’s writing of Acts, rather than the content of Acts,Paul, Apostle of Christfollows the cinematic pattern quite closely. Even though it follows Acts more closely,San Paolodeviates from the cinematic pattern extensively, primarily because it transposes Paul to modernity where Paul struggles weakly and apocalyptically, rather than spectacularly or hagiographically, against dominant institutions. Unlike most films about early Christianity,San Paolois not about the triumph of Christianity.Sunset Boulevardmakes a nice foil for Paul’s cinematic history and these two films specifically because of its story of a forgotten film star who fantasizes about a glorious cinematic return and because of its use of a dead, scriptwriter narrator to tell its story. Paul, too, still awaits cinematic celebrity. InSan PaoloandPaul, Apostle of Christ, scripts, scriptwriters, and dead narrators dominate the tales.
Testicular adrenal rest tumors in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: 6 years of follow-up
Authors: Werneck Gabriela , Rodrigues Enda M.R. , Mantovani Rafael M. , Lane Jovita S.S. , Silva Ivani N. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractBackgroundTesticular adrenal rest tumors (TARTs) leading to primary gonadal failure are the main etiology of infertility in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). We aimed at identifying the evolution of TART and related findings in young CAH patients.MethodsTwelve male patients (3–23 years old) with 21-hydroxilase deficiency (11 with classic salt-wasting form) were included. Testicular ultrasonography (US) was performed in two moments, by a single blinded specialist in pediatric diagnostic imaging. Tumor progression was classified according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). The clinical and laboratory data were retrieved from medical records. Serum 17-OH-progesterone (17OHP) and androstenedione concentrations were evaluated during the whole period of follow-up, from the CAH diagnosis. A logistic regression model with repeated measures was developed for the analysis.ResultsThe prevalence of TART was 41.6% (n = 5) in the initial US evaluation and 66.6% (n = 8) after 6 years of follow-up. Tumor progression was detected in 4 of the 5 patients, and 1 presented with a stable tumor. Three patients presented with new tumors in the second evaluation. Most of the patients (n = 11) were pubertal, including a 7-year-old child with TART who presented with central precocious puberty. At regression analysis, it was observed that an inadequate hormonal control led to a 16 times greater chance of a patient to present with TART (OR = 16.08; confidence interval [CI] 95% = 2.38–108.81; p = 0.004).ConclusionsWe found a high prevalence of progressive TART in young pubertal subjects. US testicular screening should help in improving therapeutic optimization in CAH patients to reduce future impairment in fertility.