bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Horn and lens antenna with a small antenna substrate and high production tolerance for 77‐GHz automotive long‐range Radar
Authors: Kuriyama Akira , Nagaishi Hideyuki , Kuroda Hiroshi 
Published: May 2019

An antenna composed of a pyramidal horn and a dielectric lens with a small antenna substrate and high production tolerance for 77‐GHz long‐range radar was investigated. By employing a new horn‐to‐microstrip transition with a single microstrip antenna incorporated in the input aperture of the pyramidal horn, the antenna could be connected to monolithic microwave‐integrated circuits (MMICs) using a microstrip line. This structure enables integration of the antenna and MMICs on the same surface of an antenna substrate, which reduces material and production costs. A fabricated antenna had an antenna gain of 23.5 dBi, where the size of the antenna substrate was less than 20 × 20 mm. The antenna had half‐power beamwidths of 4.5° and 16° in elevation and azimuth, respectively. Moreover, the horn‐to‐microstrip transition was designed to provide robustness against misalignment of the horn and the microstrip antenna due to mechanical deviation during mass production. Measurement results showed that the antenna gain was degraded by less than 0.2 dB and that the beam was tilted less than 0.6° and 0.7° in elevation and azimuth, respectively, where the horn was misaligned to the microstrip antenna by 0.1 mm. © 2019 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Designing a Community Translanguaging Space Within a Family Literacy Project
Authors: Kim Sujin , Song Kim H. 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis article features a multilingual family literacy project to enhance family engagement in children's literacy development. First, the authors expand the emerging framework of translanguaging beyond the individual competency toward a collaborative practice across family/community members and diverse sign systems. Then, the authors describe how a multilingual family literacy project created a community translanguaging space that maximized leveraging of family funds of knowledge: collective community semiotic repertoires. Participating families (parents, children, and extended family/community members) collectively built larger communicative repertoires by connecting across individual linguistic, multimodal, and cultural capacities and experiences to create each unique family storybook. Finally, the authors provide suggestions on designing and implementing community‐based family literacy projects.
Pilot prescription survey of antineoplastic agents: real‐world data from veterinary teaching hospitals in Japan
Authors: Tanaka Noriko , Takizawa Tsuyoshi , Tanaka Ryo , Okano Shozo , Funayama Shinji , Iwasaki Toshio 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThe collection of real clinical records from veterinary practices and analysis of these records helps to establish evidence‐based veterinary medicine and further improves animal health and welfare. Prior to the collection of nationwide clinical records, we downloaded the data from the digital accounting systems of two veterinary teaching hospitals in Japan, and the prescriptions of antineoplastic agents were surveyed for a 5‐year period from 2009 to 2013. The ratio of the number of patients prescribed antineoplastic agents to the total number of prescriptions was <5% at both hospitals, and >80% of those patients were dogs. The overall number of prescriptions included more oral rather than injectable formations, whereas among antineoplastic agents, injectable formulations were prescribed more frequently at both hospitals. The most frequently prescribed agents were almost identical at both hospitals: platinum compounds, such as carboplatin and cisplatin (CDDP), vincristine and doxorubicin. The most frequently prescribed product combined with CDDP was doxorubicin at Hospital A. Antiemetic agents combined with CDDP included dexamethasone, ondansetron and metoclopramide, but these antiemetic agents were combined fewer than 10 times among 197 CDDP prescriptions. The prescription history, including the number of prescriptions, dosing intervals and combined medications, was provided by the survey. Although the present database consisted of data from two hospitals, our results indicate that a broad analysis can be conducted using integrated data from multiple hospitals and practices for further cohort studies.
Comparison of ciprofloxacin degradation in reclaimed water by UV/chlorine and UV/persulfate advanced oxidation processes
Authors: Yang Haiyan , Li Yi , Chen Yihua , Ye Guihong , Sun Xiaobo 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis study analyzed the ciprofloxacin (CIP) degradation in real reclaimed water through UV/chlorine and UV/persulfate (UV/PS) advanced oxidation processes. The influence of oxidant dosage, pH, inorganic anions, and humic acid (HA) on the oxidation capacity and performances of various UV‐based processes was investigated. The results revealed that the CIP degradation rate constants in the UV/chlorine and UV/PS processes were higher than that in UV/H2O2, direct‐UV, NaClO, and K2S2O8 processes. The removal rate peaked at 0.1 mM oxidant dosage for 1 μM CIP, while the rate constant was highest at pH 5 (UV/chlorine) and pH 7 (UV/PS). The presence of Cl−, HCO3−, and HA inhibited CIP removal in both processes. The degradation rate observed in reclaimed water was high, but still lower than that in laboratory water by 9.2 (UV/chlorine) and 9 (UV/PS) times. The UV/chlorine and UV/PS processes were found to be more cost‐effective and hence more feasible in removing refractory compounds in reclaimed water.Practitioner points

The addition of oxidant and UV irradiation together had a pronounced promotion in the degradation of CIP.

Cl· and SO4·− had potential importance for enhancing CIP degradation in UV/chlorine and UV/PS process, respectively.

UV/chlorine and UV/PS processes exhibited effective removal capability to CIP in real reclaimed water.
Statistical analysis of fMRI using wavelets: Big Data, denoising, large‐p‐small‐n matrices
Authors: Efromovich Sam 
Published: May 2019

AbstractOver the past decade functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has been intensively used to study the complex functional network organization of the human brain and how it changes in time. An fMRI machine produces 3D time‐course cerebral images that contain hundreds of thousands of voxels and each voxel is scanned for hundreds of times. This potentially allows the researchers to explore functional connectivity on a voxel‐to‐voxel level, and also yields a number of serious statistical complications. First of all, the high‐dimension property of fMRI data turns it into Big Data. Furthermore, the study of functional brain network for so many voxels involves the problem of estimation of and simultaneous inference for large‐p‐small‐n cross‐covariance matrices. Furthermore, all problems should be solved in the presence of notoriously large fMRI noise which often forces statisticians to average signals over large areas instead of considering a network between individual voxels. An attractive alternative to the averaging, discussed in the paper, is a multiresolution wavelet analysis complemented by special procedures of estimating noise and estimation and simultaneous inference for cross‐covariance and cross‐correlation matrices for hundreds of thousands pairs of voxels, and it is fair to say that if wavelets have not been already known, fMRI applications would necessitates their creation. Both task and resting‐state fMRI are considered, and lessons from the wavelet analysis of ultra‐fast and conventional neuroplasticity fMRI experiments are presented. The article is self‐contained and does not require familiarity with wavelets or fMRI.This article is categorized under:
Algorithms and Computational Methods > Numerical Methods
Applications of Computational Statistics > Signal and Image Processing and Coding
MRI Performance in Detecting pCR After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Molecular Subtype of Breast Cancer
Authors: Yu Nancy , Leung Vivian W. Y. , Meterissian Sarkis 
Published: May 2019

AbstractBackgroundMRI performance in detecting pathologic complete response (pCR) post‐neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer has been previously explored. However, since tumor response varies by molecular subtype, it is plausible that imaging performance also varies. Therefore, we performed a literature review on subtype‐specific MRI performance in detecting pCR post‐NAC.MethodsTwo reviewers searched Cochrane, PubMed, and EMBASE for articles published between 2013 and 2018 that examined MRI performance in detecting pCR post‐NAC. After filtering, ten primary research articles were included. Statistical metrics, such as sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV), were extracted per study for triple negative, HR+/HER2−, and HER2+ patients.ResultsTen studies involving 2310 patients were included. In triple negative breast cancer, MRI showed NPV (58–100%) and PPV (72.7–94.7%) across 446 patients and sensitivity (45.5–100%) and specificity (49–94.4%) in 375 patients. In HR+/HER2− breast cancer patients, MRI showed NPV (29.4–100%) and PPV (21.4–95.1%) across 851 patients and sensitivity (43–100%) and specificity (45–93%) across 780 patients. In HER2+‐enriched subtype, MRI showed NPV (62–94.6%) and PPV (34.9–72%) in 243 patients and sensitivity (36.2–83%) and specificity (47–90%) in 255 patients.ConclusionMRI accuracy in detecting pCR post‐NAC by subtype is not as consistent, nor as high, as individual studies suggest. Larger studies using standardized pCR definition with appropriate timing of surgery and MRI need to be conducted. This study has shown that MRI is in fact not an accurate prediction of pCR, and thus, clinicians may need to rely on other approaches such as biopsies of the tumor bed.
Model risk in real option valuation
Authors: Alexander Carol , Chen Xi 
Published: May 2019

AbstractWe introduce a general decision-tree framework to value an option to invest/divest in a project, focusing on the model risk inherent in the assumptions made by standard real option valuation methods. We examine how real option values depend on the dynamics of project value and investment costs, the frequency of exercise opportunities, the size of the project relative to initial wealth, the investor’s risk tolerance (and how it changes with wealth) and several other choices about model structure. For instance, contrary to stylised facts from previous literature, real option values can actually decrease with the volatility of the underlying project value and increase with investment costs. And large projects can be more or less attractive than small projects (ceteris paribus) depending on the risk tolerance of the investor, how this changes with wealth, and the structure of costs to invest in the project.
Using Google Scholar to track the scholarly output of research groups
Authors: Thoma Brent , Chan Teresa M 
Published: May 2019

Introduction It is often necessary to demonstrate the impact of a research program over time both within and beyond institutions. However, it is difficult to accurately track the publications of research groups over time without significant effort. A simple, scalable, and economical way to track publications from research groups and their metrics would address this challenge.
Methods Google Scholar automatically tracks the scholarly output and citation counts of individual researchers. We created Google Scholar profiles to track the scholarly productivity of five research groups: an institutional educational research program, a division of emergency medicine, a department of emergency medicine, a national educational scholarship working group, and an international organization dedicated to online education. We added the publications of each group member to their respective group Google Scholar profile and a junior faculty member monitored the citations that were suggested.
Results Google Scholar tracked a diverse collection of five research groups over 6–36 months. In addition to having different organizational structures and purposes, the groups varied in size, consisting of 8–60 researchers, and prolificacy, with group citation counts between 1006–58,380 and group h‑indexes ranging from 19–101.
Discussion We anticipate that as this innovation becomes better known it will increasingly be adopted by traditional and non-traditional research groups to easily track their productivity and impact. Additional initiatives will be needed to standardize reporting guidelines within and between institutions.
Preliminary Outcomes of the Male Urethral “Mini-Sling”: A Modified Approach to the Andrianne Mini-Jupette Procedure With Penile Prosthesis Placement for Climacturia and Mild Stress Urinary Incontinence
Authors: Valenzuela Robert J. , Ziegelmann Matthew J. , Hillelsohn Joel H. , Farrell M. Ryan , Kent Marissa A. , Levine Laurence A. 
Published: May 2019

Abstract

Introduction
Previous worked showed that the Andrianne Mini-Jupette (AMJ) procedure with inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) significantly improves climacturia or stress urinary incontinence (SUI) that may accompany erectile dysfunction (ED) after radical prostatectomy. However, with the AMJ procedure, the graft is incorporated into the medial aspect of the corporotomy, thereby requiring a more complex closure. Moreover, in the original report, multiple graft materials were used.

Aim
To describe our technique for “male urethral mini-sling” (MUMS) with a Virtue sling mesh, which is a modified approach to the AMJ, and to assess early postoperative outcomes.

Methods
A retrospective chart review was performed for men who underwent IPP and MUMS placement with a modified Virtue mesh by 2 high-volume prosthetic urologic surgeons using the same technique. After proximal urethral exposure, the MUMS is sutured to the latera corpora over the bulbar urethra, proximal to and separate from the planned corporotomy, with care taken to avoid excessive urethral tension. The IPP is then placed in standard fashion. Changes in patient-reported climacturia and pads per day for SUI were assessed before and after surgery.

Results
36 men underwent both IPP and MUMS placement between January 2016–October 2018. Mean patient age was 68 years. Etiology for ED and urinary symptoms was prostatectomy alone in 30 of 36 (83%) and prostatectomy plus radiation in 6 of 36 (17%). Preoperative urinary symptoms included climacturia in 30 of 36 (83%) and SUI in 27 of 36 (75%). Mean (SD) follow-up was 5.9 (3.7) months. Climacturia resolved in 28 of 30 (93%), and SUI improved in 23 of 27 (85%). The mean (SD) number of pads per day for those patients with SUI decreased significantly from 1.4 (1.1) before surgery to 0.4 (0.6) after surgery (P = .02). 1 patient required MUMS explantation for urethral erosion after prolonged postoperative catheterization.

Clinical Implications
The MUMS with modified Virtue mesh at the time of IPP placement can be used to treat ED with climacturia or mild SUI after radical prostatectomy.

Strengths & Limitations
Strengths include the use of a consistent operative technique with a single graft material by 2 experienced prosthetic urologic surgeons. Limitations include the retrospective study design, use of subjective postoperative outcomes, lack of comparison group, and relatively moderate follow-up duration.

Conclusions
Our early results suggest that the MUMS significantly improves bothersome climacturia and mild SUI in addition to treating ED, with little added morbidity. Although further study, including longer-term follow-up, is needed, this approach may be considered in the appropriately counseled patient.
Relationality and decolonisation in children and youth garden spaces
Authors: McVittie Janet , Datta Ranjan , Kayira Jean , Anderson Vince 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis article presents an analysis of three uniquely situated garden-based research studies. As colleagues intrigued by the rich, intricate, learning dynamics playing out within the garden spaces, our collaboration explored the broader meaning and potential for garden-based programming. As we discussed the three garden studies, two themes emerged as valuable for analysis: relationality and decolonisation. We understand the themes in relation to Gregory Cajete’s (2005) conceptualisation of coming to resonance within oneself, one’s community, and the surrounding ecosystem as being integral aspects of a holistic learning program. In addition, centring learning around relationality with place requires, as Delores Calderon (2014) asserts, a critique of colonisation that has shaped place over time. In our collaboration on the three studies and reading of current developments in the literature, it became clear that garden- and place-based education must grapple with the troubled histories of place and work towards decolonisation. Each garden project provided unique insight, but our collective analysis elicited an examination of assumptions about pedagogy and potential for decolonisation of land, body, and minds.
A late Pleistocene sedimentation in the Indus Fan, Arabian Sea, IODP Site U1457
Authors: Kumar Anil , Dutt Som , Saraswat Rajeev , Gupta Anil Kumar , Clift Peter D , Pandey Dhananjai Kumar , Yu Zhaojie , Kulhanek Denise K 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThe intensity of turbidite sedimentation over long timescales is driven by sea-level change, tectonically driven rock uplift and climatically modulated sediment delivery rates. This study focuses on understanding the effect of sea-level fluctuations and climatic variability on grain-size variations. The grain size and environmental magnetic parameters of Arabian Sea sediments have been documented using 203 samples, spanning the last 200 ka, obtained from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Site U1457. Grain-size end-member modelling suggests that between ~200 and 130 ka there was an increase in the coarse silt fraction caused by sediment transport following reworking of the Indus Fan and development of deep-sea canyons. The sediment size and enhanced magnetic susceptibility indicate a dominant flux of terrestrial sediments. Sedimentation in the distal Indus Fan atc. 200–130 ka was driven by a drop in sea level that lowered the base level in the Indus and Narmada river systems. The low sea-stand caused incision in the Indus delta, canyons and fan area, which resulted in the transportation of coarser sediment at the drilling site. Magnetic susceptibility and other associated magnetic parameters suggest a large fraction of the sediment was supplied by the Narmada River during ~200–130 ka. Since ~130 ka, clay-dominated sedimentation is attributed to the rise in sea level due to warm and wet climate.
The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome
Authors: Burrus Virginia 
Published: May 2019

Some three decades ago Michel Foucault sought to reestablish communication between “madness” and “non-madness” by going back to what he called the “zero point” in history at which the distance between reason and madness was first established. InMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Foucault suggested that returning to this point of initial differentiation requires renouncing all that we as modern persons know to be true about madness and reason. If we are to locate “that realm in which the man of madness and the man of reason, moving apart, are not yet disjunct,” he wrote,we must speak of that initial dispute without assuming a victory, or the right to a victory; we must speak of those actions re-examined in history, leaving in abeyance all that may figure as a conclusion, as a refuge in truth. … Then, and then only, can we… begin the dialogue of their breach, testifying in a fugitive way that they still speak to each other.
‘This Mixed Species of Population Will Consume’: Atlantic Expectations about Spanish American Consumers in the Age of Revolutions, 1780–1831
Authors: Otero-Cleves Ana María 
Published: May 2019

AbstractThis article explores how late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideas of the Spanish American consumer took shape. It argues that Atlantic debates on consumption, on the one hand, and on racial difference, on the other, provided a common ground on which foreign visitors, diplomats and commentators, as well as Colombian elite intellectuals, could jointly create a positive idea of the Spanish American consumer. The article demonstrates that, in the eyes of those who had either political or economic interest in the region, it was possible for Spanish American Indians, Blacks and ‘mixed races’ to gradually overcome their ‘backwardness’ by adopting new practices of consumption. The consumption of new necessities by the Spanish American popular sectors became, for many of these commentators, an irrefutably civilising force.
VALORI E DOMANDA POLITICA LATENTE
Authors: Calvi Gabriele 
Published: May 2019

IntroduzioneI risultati di numerosi sondaggi consentono di identificare la struttura del consenso ai valori, che mostra una sorprendente analogia con la struttura sociale e rispecchia la tensione culturale piò rilevante del nostro tempo. Mi propongo, ora, di riferire sommariamente tali risultati e di interpretarli secondo l'ipotesi che piò mi convince, ancorchè non sia l'unica possibile.
AUSTERITÀ CONSERVATRICE E RIGORE SOCIALISTA: CHE DIFFERENZA? I
Authors: Pappalardo Adriano 
Published: May 2019

IntroduzioneI partiti socialisti dell'Europa meridionale sono gli attori politici sui quali piò si è concentrata l'attenzione della comunità scientifica negli anni ottanta. Tre ragioni, piò o meno connesse, spiegano questo fenomeno, che rappresenta una svolta rispetto all'indifferenza, o all'interesse marginale, a lungo prodotti dal tema. La prima — ovvia — è la rapida scalata al potere dei partiti in questione, sull'onda di maggioranze elettorali senza precedenti nei paesi interessati. Quali caratteristiche avrebbe assunto la loro azione di governo, gli obiettivi ai quali si sarebbe rivolta e le probabilità di successo nel conseguirli, sono stati gli interrogativi inizialmente trattati dai commentatori, piò o meno suggestionati dalle ambizioni programmatiche del socialismo francese (Wright 1984; Beaud 1983), o dal piò cauto, ma pur sempre significativo, «cambio» annunciato da quelli spagnoli (Psoe 1982) o portoghesi.
SCIENZA POLITICA E DIRITTO: COMMENTO
Authors: Bartole Sergio 
Published: May 2019

IntroduzioneL'invito a intervenire sull'importante contributo di Leonardo Morlino (1989) mi consente di ritornare su un argomento — quello dei rapporti fra la scienza politica e la scienza del diritto costituzionale — cui ho già dedicato in altre occasioni una qualche riflessione (1985, 1986). Debbo confessare di guardare con un po’ di invidia all'iniziativa che Morlino ha preso di tracciare una sorta di bilancio dello stato della sua disciplina. Sono, in effetti, convinto che molto spesso gli studi di diritto costituzionale stiano procedendo senza una precisa consapevolezza della direzione da prendere, delle manchevolezza che li connotano e delle risposte di ordine scientifico che da essi si attendono: mancano adeguate meditazioni di ordine teorico e metodologico, e troppo spesso contributi monografici e saggistici nascono in obbedienza a quella che Morlino chiama una «logica esterna», e quindi senza una seria attenzione alla «logica interna» alla disciplina ed alle connesse preoccupazioni di ordine sistematico. Né vale rispondere che le preoccupazioni metodologiche e teoriche rappresentano fughe in avanti rispetto all'analisi e considerazione dei problemi concreti, di fronte ai quali soltanto ha senso proporre questioni di teoria e metodo, che, se formulate in astratto, restano nel limbo delle pie dichiarazioni di intenti, senza trovare adeguato riscontro nella attività pratica di ricerca. La mancanza di un bagaglio metodologico e teorico solo in apparenza allevia le fatiche del viaggiatore e, in realtà, lo obbliga a rifare il punto astronomico ad ogni giro di strada, anche al di là delle normali e corrette esigenze di una responsabile autocritica e di un doveroso autocontrollo.