bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
PROGRESSION OF CAROTID ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS DURING TREATMENT TO TARGET IN PATIENTS WITH EARLY RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Authors: Udachkina E. V. , Novikova D. S. , Popkova T. V. , Kirillova I. G. , Markelova E. I. , Gorbunova Yu. N. , Karateev D. E. , Luchikhina E. L. , Demidova N. V. , Borisova M. A. , Lukina G. V. , Glukhova S. I. , Volkov A. V. 
Published: September 2018

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease with a high cardiovascular risk. The results of works on the impact of antirheumatic therapy on carotid artery (CA) intima-media thickness (IMT) are contradictory. Objective: to assess the time course of changes in CA IMT and CA atherosclerosis (CAA) in patients with early RA during treatment to target at a 18-month follow-up. Subjects and methods. The investigation enrolled patients with early RA (disease duration of less than 12 months), who had not previously taken disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and glucocorticoids. Duplex scanning (DS) of the CA was performed with IMT measurement at baseline and at 18 months after treatment. Vascular atherosclerotic lesion was recorded when atherosclerotic plaque (ASP) was detected. Starting methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy was prescribed to all the patients, when it showed an insufficient effect at 3 months, a biological agent (BA), such as a tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor or abatacept, was added. RA remission was noted in 31 (42%) patients at 18 months of treatment. Results and discussion. The investigation included 74 patients with early RA; whose median (Me) age was 56 years, all the patients had moderate or high disease activity (Me DAS28-ESR, 5.4). At baseline, there was increased CA IMT in 51.4% of cases and CAA in 55.4%. At 18 months of treatment, there were no significant IMT changes. New CA ASPs were recorded in 8 (24.2%) patients who had no CAA at the time of inclusion in the investigation (p < 0.05). Nineteen (46.3%) patients were recorded to have the progression that had been identified when including CAA as a considerable increase in the number of ASPs (p < 0.05). The risk of CAA progression was correlated inversely with the mean 18-month level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-Cmean) and directly with the mean concentration of C-reactive protein (CRPmean). There was no significant correlation between HDL-Cmean and CRPmean. The changes of CAA were unassociated with the value of DAS28-ESR, the achievement of RA remission, and antirheumatic therapy (MTX monotherapy, MTX + BA). Conclusion. CAA shows progress in patients with early RA despite they are treated to target. DAS28-ESR remission in RA and ongoing RA treatment option had no substantial impact on the course of CAA. HDL-Cmean and CRPmean are independent risk factors for progression of CAA.
Architektur und Städtebau im geteilten Polen des 19. Jahrhunderts im politischen Kontext
Authors: Zabłocka-Kos Agnieszka 
Published: September 2018

The essay, focusing on architecture in the nineteenth-century partitioned Poland, is an attempt to read its meanings in the context of the colonial policies of Russia, Prussia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The analyzed material includes selected buildings and city centers of Poznań, Warsaw, and Cracow, while the problems addressed are the encoding of urban space meanings and its deciphering in the context of complex nineteenth-century Polish history.
Trzy kroki w stronę obrazów. Pierre Bonnard i percepcyjne opóźnienie.
Authors: Kiepuszewski Łukasz 
Published: September 2018

The essay is an analysis of three interpretations of Pierre Bonnard’s paintings offered by Jean Clair, John Elderfield, and Yves-Alain Bois. Their approaches are crucial in the context of the revaluation Bonnard’s works and his place in the history of modern painting, which has been continuing since the 1980s. Today’s scholars have been interested mostly in his late works from 1920-1947. At that time the artist created a multidimensional pictorial synthesis which addressed the most advanced dilemmas which appeared in the first half of the 20th century. The critical opinions analyzed in the essay, referring to physiology and the psychology of perception, the cognitive conditions of visual perception, and specific philosophical traditions, stem from individual visual experience and demonstrate significant tensions. Taking the painting as a starting point triggers differences in interpretation not just at the level of theoretical discourse, but in respect to visualization itself. Bonnard’s works significantly program the process of visual perception – grasping the changing rhythm of relation between the center and periphery and moving toward fixations scattered in the visual field. The specific composition of paintings makes the spectator deconcentrate; it can be grasped in an act of perception which extends in time. Such “delay” of perception means that Bonnard’s paintings are a challenge to the gestalt psychology which prevails in the analytical practice of art history. The unique quality of Bonnard’s works, based on the coexistence of the rhythms of organization and disorder,shows no superior coherence of the gestalt. They establish an “inconclusive” relation between the part and the whole, which results in continuing deference and delay of the integration of motifs and elements of the pictorial field. The discussed episode in Bonnard’s art’s reception confirms a belief that “he is not a painter for those in a hurry. The phenomenon of the perceptive delay seems to be significantly connected with the delay in discovering such qualities by art historians.
Szkice z dialektologii języka czeskiego 3. Czeska dialektologia od połowy XX w. i jej aktualne zadania
Authors: BOGOCZOVÁ Irena 
Published: September 2018

Článek Česká dialektologie od pol. 20. stol. a její aktuální úkoly je přehledem toho, čím se zabývala česká dialektologie od konce 2. světové války po současnost. Autorka se zaměřuje na významné badatele a jejich díla, na základní úkoly (projekty), na vývoj českého dialektologického myšlení obecně. Okrajově se dotýká nové politické a společenské situace v poválečném Československu, která přinesla změny také na jazykové mapě této země. Z celostních (komplexních) prací autorka upozorňuje hlavně na Nástin české dialektologie Jaroslava Běliče a na kolektivní dílo Český jazykový atlas (díl I–VI). Výběr dílčích témat i literatury zohledňuje do jisté míry potřeby a preference polského bohemisty.
A demonstration of PERC
Authors: Ke Xiangyu , Teo Michelle , Khan Arijit , Yalavarthi Vijaya Krishna 
Published: September 2018

This paper demonstrates PERC --- our system for crowdsourced entity resolution with human errors. Entity Resolution (ER) is a critical step in data cleaning and analytics. Although many machine-based methods existed for ER task, crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly important since humans can provide more insightful information for complex tasks, e.g., clustering of images and natural language processing. However, human workers still make mistakes due to lack of domain expertise or seriousness, ambiguity, or even malicious intent. To this end, we present a system, called PERC (<u>p</u>robabilistic <u>e</u>ntity <u>r</u>esolution with <u>c</u>rowd errors), which adopts an uncertain graph model to address the entity resolution problem with noisy crowd answers. Using our framework, the problem of ER becomes equivalent to finding the maximum-likelihood clustering. In particular, we propose a novel metric called "reliability" to measure the quality of a clustering, which takes into account both the connected-ness inside and across all clusters. PERC then automatically selects the next question to ask the crowd that maximally increases the "reliability" of the current clustering.
This demonstration highlights (1) a reliability-based next crowd-sourcing framework for crowdsourced ER, which does not require any user-defined threshold, and no apriori information about the error rate of the crowd workers, (2) it improves the ER quality by 15% and reduces the crowdsourcing cost by 50% compared to state-of-the-art methods, and (3) its GUI can interact with users to help them compare different crowdsourced ER algorithms, their intermediate ER results as they progress, and their selected next crowdsourcing questions in a user-friendly manner. Our demonstration video is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7nu3b8zXY.
Efficient adaptive detection of complex event patterns
Authors: Kolchinsky Ilya , Schuster Assaf 
Published: September 2018

Complex event processing (CEP) is widely employed to detect occurrences of predefined combinations (patterns) of events in massive data streams. As new events are accepted, they are matched using some type of evaluation structure, commonly optimized according to the statistical properties of the data items in the input stream. However, in many real-life scenarios the data characteristics are never known in advance or are subject to frequent on-the-fly changes. To modify the evaluation structure as a reaction to such changes, adaptation mechanisms are employed. These mechanisms typically function by monitoring a set of properties and applying a new evaluation plan when significant deviation from the initial values is observed. This strategy often leads to missing important input changes or it may incur substantial computational overhead by over-adapting.
In this paper, we present an efficient and precise method for dynamically deciding whether and how the evaluation structure should be reoptimized. This method is based on a small set of constraints to be satisfied by the monitored values, defined such that a better evaluation plan is guaranteed if any of the constraints is violated. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed mechanism is the first to provably avoid false positives on reoptimization decisions. We formally prove this claim and demonstrate how our method can be applied on known algorithms for evaluation plan generation. Our extensive experimental evaluation on real-world datasets confirms the superiority of our strategy over existing methods in terms of performance and accuracy.
Vocalizing large time series efficiently
Authors: Trummer Immanuel , Bryan Mark , Narasimha Ramya 
Published: September 2018

We vocalize query results for time series data. We describe a holistic approach that integrates query evaluation and vocalization. In particular, we generate only those parts of the query result that are relevant for voice output.
We exploit the fact that voice output has to be concise and simple to be understandable for listeners. Hence, the problem of generating voice output reduces to choosing between several coarse-grained alternatives. To make that choice, it is sufficient to evaluate the time series at a few carefully chosen locations. We use techniques from the area of optimal experimental design to choose optimal sampling points. Our algorithm is iterative and generates in each iteration a set of promising voice description candidates. We consider multiple metrics when generating voice descriptions, including the accuracy of description as well as its complexity and length. Then, we choose a near-optimal batch of sampling points to refine our choice between promising candidates.
We compare this algorithm experimentally against several baselines, demonstrating superior performance in terms of execution time and output quality. We also conducted a user study, showing that it enables users to execute simple exploratory data analysis via voice descriptions alone. We also compare against visual interfaces and sonification (i.e., non-speech sound) interfaces in terms of user performance.
Building Objective Thoughts: Stumpf, Twardowski and the Late Husserl on Psychic Products
Authors: Taieb Hamid 
Published: September 2018

AbstractSome Austro-German philosophers considered thoughts to be mind-dependent entities, that is, psychic products. Yet these authors also attributed “objectivity” to thoughts: distinct thinking subjects can have mental acts with “qualitatively” the same content. Moreover, thoughts, once built, can exist beyond the life of their inventor, “embodied” in “documents”. At the beginning of the 20th century, the notion of “psychic product” was at the centre of the debates on psychologism; a hundred years later, it is rather at the margins of the history of philosophy. While Twardowski’s theory of products has been frequently studied, those of Stumpf and the late Husserl have been much less discussed. A presentation of the Austro-German debates about psychic products is all the more important since these discussions might be of direct interest for contemporary philosophy of mind and epistemology. This paper examines the Austro-German notion of psychic products in Stumpf, Twardowski, and the later Husserl.
Trudinger–Moser Inequalities in Fractional Sobolev–Slobodeckij Spaces and Multiplicity of Weak Solutions to the Fractional-Laplacian Equation
Authors: Zhang Caifeng 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
In line with the Trudinger–Moser inequality in the fractional Sobolev–Slobodeckij space due to [S. Iula, A note on the Moser–Trudinger inequality in Sobolev–Slobodeckij spaces in dimension one, Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl. 28 2017, 4, 871–884] and [E. Parini and B. Ruf, On the Moser–Trudinger inequality in fractional Sobolev–Slobodeckij spaces, Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl. 29 2018, 2, 315–319], we establish a new version of the Trudinger–Moser inequality in

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Loop Type Subcontinua of Positive Solutions for Indefinite Concave-Convex Problems
Authors: Kaufmann Uriel , Ramos Quoirin Humberto , Umezu Kenichiro 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
We establish the existence of loop type subcontinua of nonnegative solutions for a class of concave-convex type elliptic equations with indefinite weights, under Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. Our approach depends on local and global bifurcation analysis from the zero solution in a nonregular setting, since the nonlinearities considered are not differentiable at zero, so that the standard bifurcation theory does not apply. To overcome this difficulty, we combine a regularization scheme with a priori bounds, and Whyburn’s topological method. Furthermore, via a continuity argument we prove a positivity property for subcontinua of nonnegative solutions. These results are based on a positivity theorem for the associated concave problem proved by us, and extend previous results established in the powerlike case.
Labor supply, income distribution, and tax progressivity in a search model
Authors: Fu Zhiming , Wu Liang , Zhuang Ziguan 
Published: September 2018

AbstractWe develop a search model with risk-averse households to study the impact of tax progressivity on labor supply and income inequality across education groups. Labor supply responses are considered along both intensive and extensive margins. Our quantitative results are consistent with those of the existing empirical literature. First, we find that a decline in tax progressivity associated with the Tax Reform Act of 1986 has a significant impact on the aggregate labor supply with approximately 61 percent occurred along the extensive margin. Second, households differ in their labor and income responses to tax reform. A decline in tax progressivity changes the income composition of each household by affecting labor supplies and asset holdings. This leads to an increase in income inequality. Therefore, the tax share paid by the most educated group rises due to an increase in capital income after tax reforms are instituted.
Normal elements of noncommutative Iwasawa algebras over SL3(ℤ_
p
)
Authors: Han Dong , Wei Feng 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Let p be a prime integer and let

ℤ
p

{\mathbb{Z}_{p}}

be the ring of
p-adic integers. By a purely computational approach we prove that each nonzero normal
element of a noncommutative Iwasawa algebra over the special linear group

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(

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p

)

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is a unit.
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[F. Wei and D. Bian,
Erratum: Normal elements of completed group algebras
over

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n

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(

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p

)

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[mr2747414],
Internat. J. Algebra Comput. 23 2013, 1, 215]
and makes up for an earlier mistake in
[F. Wei and D. Bian,
Normal elements of completed group algebras over

SL
n

⁢

(

ℤ
p

)

\mathrm{SL}_{n}(\mathbb{Z}_{p})

,
Internat. J. Algebra Comput. 20 2010, 8, 1021–1039]
simultaneously.
Awareness of bicycle light use of young adults
Authors: Chow Ronald , Hollenberg Drew , Viehweger Jaclyn , LaPierre Sydney , Pettit Trevor , Hui Harrison , Dzulynsky Raissa 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
Helmet use amongst bicyclists has been well documented in recent literature. Helmet use is not the only measure cyclists can take to reduce their chance of crashes. Many places, in addition to mandating helmet use by law for youths, also require bicycle lights to be used under low-light conditions (i.e. during sunrise, during sunset and at night). The aim of this study was to investigate the awareness of bicycle light use amongst young adults, with respect to the legalities and also utility of lights while cycling. An anonymous survey was developed and circulated to young adults in Canada, Ireland and the United States of America. A total of 112 individuals completed the survey. Only 13% of individuals had an unsatisfactory knowledge of bicycle light use. As knowledge is the first step towards advocating for new measures, young adults seem well -versed with respect to bicycle light use and may be able to be targeted to increase bicycle light use. Frequency of commute was related to the knowledge of bicycle light use; those who commuted more regularly were more knowledgeable. This study, however, was composed primarily of young adults residing in Canada. Future studies could investigate knowledge among young adults who reside in a region that more regularly commutes using a bicycle, to see whether this trend holds.
Feenreste: Zur latenten Feenhaftigkeit hofferner Frauenfiguren in
Diu Crône
Heinrichs von dem Türlin
Authors: Wiesinger Michaela 
Published: September 2018

Zusammenfassung
Es ist eine anerkannte Forschungsmeinung, dass im höfischen Roman in der Figur der Fee Reste keltischer Mythen bewahrt worden sind. In mittelhochdeutschen Texten ist das jedoch nur noch in sehr abgeschwächter Form sichtbar, da andersweltliche Frauenfiguren in höfischen Romanen meist in den Artushof integriert werden und damit ihr antagonistisches Potential und auch ihre Handlungsmacht verlieren. Entgegen der etablierten These, dass diese Integration unumkehrbar vonstattengeht, möchte dieser Aufsatz die Frage stellen, ob das in Texten, die mit mythischen Residuen spielen und sich durch eine Allgegenwärtigkeit des Wunderbaren auszeichnen, wirklich der Fall ist. Am Beispiel der Crône soll gezeigt werden, dass die Anderweltlichkeit der Frauenfiguren durch die Nähe zum Artushof nicht völlig aufgelöst, sondern lediglich in die Latenz verdrängt wird und unter bestimmten Bedingungen wieder reaktiviert werden kann. Armin Schulz folgend, wird die These aufgestellt, dass die Fee als Erzählfunktion viel stärker die Zeichnung der Frauenfiguren in der Crône prägt, als vordergründig ersichtlich ist.
Research on the Spatial Reconstruction of University Libraries: A Case Study of Liu Xiao Ling Tong Book Pavilion of Yunnan Normal University
Authors: Chen Xin , Liu Yingxi 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
With the spatial culture theory as the basis and from the perspective of cultural heritage, this paper elucidates the construction of the Liu Xiao Ling Tong Book Pavilion of Yunnan Normal University (which may also be interpreted as a Traditional Culture Commons), introduces modern library concepts such as ‘celebrity charm’, featured resources and space reconstruction, as well as provides enlightenment to the library cycle with Chinese wisdom and experience. This paper applies participant observation method, interviewing method and textual analysis method with the data collection period from September 2015 to December 2016. Through library space reconstruction and the inheritance of certain outstanding features of Chinese culture, the Liu Xiao Ling Tong Book Pavilion has had an influence among university faculty and students, the university library circle in China and even the entire education circle, while also complemented and improved the applicability of the spatial culture theory in the library circumstance.
The efficacy and safety of enoxaparin: a meta-analysis
Authors: Hai-long Wang , Xiao-hua Pang , Jian-jun Yang 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
The efficacy and safety of enoxaparin (ENOX) in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains unaddressed. The primary endpoint evaluated was myocardial infarction (MI) or death. The secondary endpoint was defined as major bleeding complications. Studies comparing the differences in the efficacy and safety of ENOX versus unfractionated heparin (UFH) in PCI for the treatment of STEMI were evaluated. We presented the odds ratios for individual studies and performed heterogeneity, quality assessment, and publication bias analysis. This meta-analysis examined four randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and 5585 patients were included (2334 ENOX patients and 3251 UFH patients). The follow-up period of the endpoints was 30 or 90 days. Compared with UFH, ENOX significantly reduced the incidence of MI (OR, 0.74; P<0.01) and death (OR, 0.74; P<0.03), while there was no significant difference between the two treatments on major bleeding (OR,0.81; P=0.33). The findings from this meta-analysis suggested that the efficacy and safety of ENOX in the treatment of STEMI patients undergoing PCI were significantly better than patients treated with UFH. According to this meta-analysis, ENOX is the preferred anticoagulant for STEMI patients receiving PCI compared to UFH.
Crystal structure of aqua-bis(1,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-4-(((E)-4-pyridylmethylene)amino)pyrazolidin-3-one-κN)-(nitrato-κO)-(nitrato-κ2
O,O′)zinc(II), C34H34N10O9Zn
Authors: Pang Haixia , Zou Xiaoqing , Xu Baoming , Zhang Hong 
Published: September 2018

Abstract
C34H34N10O9Zn, monoclinic, P1̄ (no. 2), a = 10.1188(13) Å, b = 12.9297(16) Å, c = 15.0668(19) Å, α = 88.032(2)°, β = 75.277(2)°, γ = 72.888(2)°, V = 1820.4(4) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0668, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1406, T = 298(2) K.