bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Preliminary Study on Effect of Agricultural Activities in Pollen Spectrum of Argentinean Honey
Authors: Patrignani Mariela , Fagúndez Guillermina A. , Lupano Cecilia E. 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
Honey floral origin is determined by the harversting region, but anthropogenic factors as agriculture expansion might modify the environmental flora and consequently honey floral origin. Argentina is one of the most important honey producers worldwide which, since the 1990s, has undergone an important agriculture transformation by the adoption of transgenic crops like soybean (Glycine max). However, little is known about the effects of this anthropogenic activity on the floral origin of honey or the statistical tools that could be used to analyse it. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the impact that these environmental modifications have on the pollen spectrum of honey. In order to achieve this, thirty-two samples of blossom honey were collected from three different ecoregions of the Buenos Aires province: Parana Delta and Islands, Espinal and Pampa, in two different years: 1999 and 2014. The pollen spectrum of honey samples was determined and the data obtained was analysed with multivariate statistical techniques. It could be concluded that the pollen composition of honeys from different ecoregions has significantly changed in the past years because of agriculture expansion and adaptation of transgenic crops (p=0.007). Honey samples harvested in 1999 were characterized by high values of Helianthus annuus, while in 2014 an important presence of Eryngium sp., Gleditsia triacanthos, Baccharis type, Trifolium sp. and Glycine max was observed. The present results show that honey palynological results and multivariate statistical analysis could be used as a preliminary attempt to evaluate environmental modifications.
Geographic Range and Nest Architecture of Cephalotrigona Capitata Smith, 1854 (Apidae: Meliponini) in the State of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil
Authors: Alves Rogério M. D. O. , Waldschmidt Ana M. , Paixão Joana F. , Santos Daiane R. , Carvalho Carlos A. L. 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
The bees of the genus Cephalotrigona (locally known as “mombucas”) play a key role in natural environments but their bioecological features, required to design proper management and conservation strategies, are scarce in most species. Thus, the goal of the present study was to map the occurrence sites of C. capitata in the state of Bahia, north-eastern Brazil, and to provide useful information about nest architecture to their technical management. This species was recorded in fifteen municipalities in Bahia, totaling forty-one nests. The range of C. capitata varied from locations at sea level to seasonal ombrophilous forests at an altitude of 600 m high. The nests were built in trees with a mean diameter of 19.8 ±3.0 cm. The nest architecture was similar to that reported in other stingless bee species, with a variation in analyzed parameters. The thermoregulation was more efficient in highly populated boxes. The present results can be used for the conservation and management of this species, which represents a potential source of income for local farmers.
The Three Seas Initiative as a Political Challenge for the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Górka Marek 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
The Three Seas Initiative (TSI) is an informal association that focuses mainly on the economic integration of EU member states through the cooperation of specific sectors. It is meant to strengthen the single market and bonds among countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It also seeks to reduce developmental differences between these countries and the older EU member states. This study explores the background of the TSI, which was jointly conceived by the presidents of Poland and Croatia with the goal of strengthening ties among countries in the area between the Black, Baltic and Adriatic seas. The association brings together 12 states across Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Austria. As well as enhancing their political ties, it aims to develop cross-border cooperation and implement macro-regional projects. The analysis highlights both the diverging interests of the TSI countries and their common predicament. These states are connected by the fact that they stand to lose the most from the two-speed Europe idea that some Western politicians have imposed. They are also at a clear disadvantage when it comes to infrastructure investments. In the past, the European Union has emphasized East–West cooperation and overlooked the North–South communication and energy corridors. The Three Seas Initiative founders are trying to determine the best form of cooperation for the Central and Eastern Europe region.
Handling Missing Entries in Monitoring a Woman’s Monthly Cycle and Controlling Fertility
Authors: Łupińska-Dubicka Anna 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
Even a small percentage of missing data can cause serious problems with analysis, reducing the statistical power of a study and leading to wrong conclusions being drawn. In the case of monitoring a woman’s monthly cycle, missing entries can appear even in a woman experienced in fertility awareness methods. Due to the fact that in a system of controlling a woman’s fertility, it is the most important to predict the day of ovulation and, ultimately, to determine the fertile window as much precisely as possible, much attention should be paid to the quality of the used data. This paper presents the results of handling missing observations as far as predicting the time during the cycle when a woman can become pregnant is concerned. Data taken from a multinational European study of daily fecundability was used to learn the quantitative part of the variety of a higher-order dynamic Bayesian network modeling a woman’s monthly cycle. The main goal of this paper is to examine whether omitting observations has an influence on the model’s reliability. The accuracy of comparison was examined based on two measures: the average percentage length of the infertile time during the monthly cycle and average percentage of days inside the fertile window classified as infertile.
The Influence of Rotational Training on Muscle Activity of Young Adults in Thermographic Imaging
Authors: Zuzda Jolanta G. , Topczewska Magdalena , Borkowski Piotr , Latosiewicz Robert 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe and assess the energetic-metabolic activity of selected muscles of upper and lower extremities during Rotational Training (RT). The influence of RT on temperature changes in the biceps and triceps brachii muscles as well as the quadriceps and biceps femoris muscles of healthy university students were verified, in addition to temperature differences between the left and right side before and after RT. The study was conducted on 18 subjects. RT was conducted in accordance with accepted forms of training methodology of collective fitness. An important part of RT was the performance of circular and rotational movements. Thermograms taken before and immediately after RT focused on 4 regions of selected agonists and synergists in the upper and lower body. The camera used was the infrared hand-held CEDIP Titanium 560M IR (USA), located at a distance of 10 m from the subject. After RT, median Tsk
(skin temperature) decreased in almost all of the examined ROIs, except for the left and right Qf (the quadriceps femoris, rectus femoris, and sartorius muscles) as well as the left Tb (triceps brachii) in female subjects. In male subjects, left and right Tsk
of Qf increased both for the left and right Tb. Left-Right ΔTsk
(temperature difference) was statistically significant (p <0.05) for Of, Bf, Bb, Tb in female as well as male subjects. It was concluded that thermography is a non-invasive, safe, and low-cost method for the recording of physiological response of the skin to RT.
Observation of Eurasian Otter’s Diel Activity Using Camera Trapping in Central-Eastern Romania
Authors: Bouroş G. , Ionescu D. T. , Hodor C. 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
The observation of elusive mammals, is still problematic, particularly in flowing waters or wetlands. But with the usage of camera traps, it was possible to obtain valuable information about otters. The aim of this study was finding the diel activity of the otters that live in Central-Eastern Romania. The diel activity of the Eurasian otter along its habitat was studied from March 2011 to April 2016 over 1356 days & nights of camera trapping. The camera traps have recorded a total of 222 otter visits at all 10 observation sites. Otters, passing through the observation sites, were strongly nocturnal and displayed a trimodal diel activity pattern, one occurring just before dawn (between 04:00 and 06:30 h), the second one occuring just after dusk (between 18:30 and 22:00 h) and the third one occurring in the middle of the night (between 00:30 and 01:30). Otters have been also active during the Civil Twilight (7.2 %), more active during the dusk (5 %) than during the dawn (2.3 %). Seasonally the Eurasian otters were more active during winter (39.6 %) and progressively less active in spring (31.5 %) summer (9 %) or autumn (19.8 %).
Inspiring mobility for banking enterprises
Authors: Bagaria Sandeep 
Published: March 2019

Mobile banking is taking the world by storm, accounting for over 590 million users worldwide, which is expected to double to exceed 1 billion by 2017. Today consumers will not bank with a Bank that does not have internet banking. Tomorrow consumers will not bank with a Bank that does not have mobile banking.In order for banks to create a successful mobile banking strategy, banks need to do more than just provide their internet banking on the mobile phone. They have to focus on innovation and user experience to deliver leading edge mobile banking applications.This article describes how banks in Asia Pacific have leveraged innovation and user-experience to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Towards standardization during research – the Service Modelling Language
Authors: Zelm Martin 
Published: March 2019

Research and standardization are often considered concepts that exclude each other or follow one another with a time distance of years. On the other hand standards can be very beneficial to ease all kinds of interoperability problems in and between enterprises to integrate system components. Since based on consensus between many stakeholders, the time to develop standards is high. The article presents an example of early involvement in standardisation of product related services in Future Manufacturing Ecosystem during its research and development phase in the European project MSEE.
Illumination in times of Uncertainty: Fifty Shades of Innovation for Societal Impact
Authors: Pinto Ferreira João José , Mention Anne-Laure , Torkkeli Marko 
Published: March 2019

Innovate or die. This observation is nothing new; yet it is probably more true and topical than ever. Over the last decades, innovation has expanded in an unprecedented manner and is now part of most firms’ strategies, if not the nexus of their strategies. Originally, mainly centred around the introduction of manufactured novelties, innovation is now perceived and depicted by as many adjectives, categories and attributes as one can think of: service, organisational, process, marketing, social, environmental, strategic, business model, and so on. This extension of the nature, types and forms of innovation goes hand in hand with the development of the academic literature focusing not only on the tangibility nature of novelties, but also on the intangibility character of some, or even most, of those. Moreover, and, as the analysis of leading-edge companies shows, innovation is nowadays never restricted to a single specific form. Innovation now embraces bundles of products and services, which are subject to new business models, distributed through new channels increasingly benefitting from an accrued interaction with customers, enrolling them in the development and marketing processes. The boundaries between goods and services innovations have blurred over time, leading to an abundant literature stemming from the convergence or synthesis streams, aiming at building a unified theory for innovation, and highlighting the convergence between the typical features of product innovation (such as the tangibility and the standardization) and those of service innovation (customer-centric, less structured, intangible), as argued by e.g. Evangelista (2006) and Gallouj and Savona (2009). (...)
The Evolution of Open Innovation
Authors: Curley Martin 
Published: March 2019

The discipline of Innovation is constantly evolving and we are now arguably at a strategic inflection point where a new paradigm of innovation is emerging. In the last century often it was a brilliant scientist at a Bell Lab or IBM lab which drove new inventions and subsequent innovations. Then along came Open Innovation which was neatly conceptualized by Henry Chesbrough (2003) and concerns a systematic process where ideas can pass to and from different organizations and travel on different exploitations vectors for value creation. Open Innovation was based on the idea that not all of the smart people in the world can work for your company or organization and that you also have to look outside the organization for ideas. At this point Open Innovation was still seen a linear process which had an emphasis on licensing of technologies. (...)
The power of technology: A Fact or Fiction for Majority?
Authors: Torkkeli Marko , Mention Anne-Laure , Pinto Ferreira João José 
Published: March 2019

This Fall Issue will discuss about the power of technology and Internet. Innovation is taking place everywhere through new and emerging technologies changing the way we think, live, breathe, travel, and do shopping to name a few areas. Funny enough is that some of us believe that the most important technologies are on the market available to please customers and users, and nothing more important will show up later. We, as humans, systematically underestimate the power of technology and its impact on daily life. There are several well-known quotations from very smart people which have turned ridiculous after some time by basically shifting initial assumptions into market knowledge. Whatever is too expensive and complex today becomes a commodity in no time and shortly after doesn’t bring competitive advantage any longer (the S-curve effect, see e.g Bayus, 1998 or Rogers, 1962, for different explanations). Several notable studies illustrate (like the well cited and used BCG tools) how rapidly diffusion is influencing production costs and consequently, accelerates the speed of diffusion itself. The question here stems from where the balance between the minority of ‘crazy’ developers and the majority of pioneering consumers willing to try something new lies. (...)
The Democratization of Science: Blue Ocean or Chimera?
Authors: Mention Anne-Laure , Pinto Ferreira João José , Torkkeli Marko 
Published: March 2019

Knowledge builds on itself. Scientific progress is achieved through piecewise advances, and is based on the enlightenment of prior evidence and discoveries. Accessing prior information has been a tremendously complex venture for centuries, and restricted to the privileged few. Technological progress and namely, the advent of Internet have opened a world of possibilities, including the instant sharing and diffusion of information. Reaping the full benefits of technological advances has however been prevented by the prerogatives of the publishing industry, which have been increasingly challenged over the last two decades. Major historical milestones include the creation of ArXiv.org, an online repository of electronic preprints in 1991; the launch of SciELO in Brazil in 1997 and its extension to 14 countries; the foundation of PLOS by the Public Library of Science, established as an alternative to traditional publishing and nowadays known as PLOS ONE, which is by far the world’s largest series of journals with over 30,000 papers published in 2015; the Budapest Declaration on Open Access in 2002; the campaign Access2Research and the US Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act, a foundational piece in the establishment of Open Access in the USA; and the initiative of the European Commission to require all research publications funded under Horizon2020 to be openly accessible, free of charge. All these initiatives converged towards the same aim: fostering free and unrestricted access to publications, so as to ensure the widespread and rapid diffusion of research findings within, across and outside scientific communities. (...)
Embracing systematic futures thinking at the intersection of Strategic Planning, Foresight and Design
Authors: Buehring Joern Henning , Liedtka Jeanne 
Published: March 2019

In this conceptual paper, we review the literature spanning the Strategic Planning, Foresight and Design disciplines with the emphasis placed on how innovation stakeholders may engage with the future in order to explore the challenges to decision-making they highlight. From this review, and a series of facilitators identified by the authors in previous design and futures thinking field research, critical perspectives are presented that illustrate how systematic futures thinking can inform decision-makers concerning the innovation challenges and opportunities emerging over medium and longer-term (5-15 years) time horizons of social and technology environments. Combining Foresight and Design in an approach we call “Foresight by Design”, as part of Strategic Planning processes, can help the emergence of new and more creative possibilities, foster the inclusion and alignment of diverse stakeholders, and provide for ongoing learning through prototyping and experimentation by using design tools and approaches to achieve deeper insight and alignment around current reality, to facilitate a more productive conversation across difference, to aid in specifying a portfolio of desirable futures, and to engage ecosystem partners in active experimentation that generates new knowledge and learning.
UPOREDNA ANALIZA SISTEMA GRIJANJA TOPLOTNIM PUMPAMA I HIBRIDNIM SISTEMIMA
Authors: Lazić Dragan 
Published: March 2019

U ovom radu izvršena je uporedna analiza mogućih rješenja različitih sistema grijanja toplotnim pumpama i hibridnim sistemima. Dato je objašnjenje procedure dimenzionisanja i izbora različitih dijelova sistema grijanja pomoću toplotnih pumpi sa različitim izvorima toplote. Izvršena je i tehnoekonomska analiza različitih sistema grijanja toplotnim pumpama. Na kraju rada date su i neke prednosti i mane poređenih sistema grijanja.
ОПТЕРЕЋЕЊЕ ДИЗЕЛ ЕЛЕКТРИЧНОГ АГРЕГАТА
Authors: Старчевић Дејан , Васић Веран , Орос Ђура 
Published: March 2019

У раду је описан основни принцип рада и функционисања дизел електричног агрегата. У оквиру рада имамо увид у детаљан приказ техничких карактеристика, начина рада као и резултата огледа оптерећења са посебним акцентом на специфични систем побуде синхроног генератора у оквиру дизел електричног агрегата.
«Смерть ближе рубашки»: похоронная обрядность старообрядцев-часовенных
Authors: Danilko Elena S. 
Published: March 2019

В статье анализируется похоронно-поминальный комплекс современных старообрядцев-часовенных, проживающих в Туве (Россия), в г. Нукус, Турткуль и близлежащих поселениях (Республика Каракалпакия, Узбекистан), а также в г. Тараз и пос. Рыбзавод (Жамбыльская область, Казахстан). В основе статьи лежат авторские полевые материалы, собранные во время экспедиций в 2014–2016 г. в Средней Азии и в 2018 г. в Туве. Приводятся выдержки из интервью с информантами.Умирающего часовенные стараются вовремя исповедовать и причастить при помощи Великой («богоявленской», «крещенской») воды. Свечи, зажигаемые рядом с покойным, используются самодельные, из пчелиного воска, изготовление которых контролируется духовными лицами. Предпочтительнее использование для покойного домотканого полотна из натуральных материалов. Нередко в большинстве исследованных групп хоронят и в обычной, но обязательно новой одежде. У тувинских старообрядцев бытует более аскетичный архаичный комплект, не включающий сарафана и штанов. Как отличительный старообрядческий признак обязательно называется саван. Нательный крестик покойного также должен быть обязательно новым. Ни одна из деталей смертной одежды не должна завязываться на узел. Отмечается традиция пеленать покойного. Обмывание — процедура скорее символическая. Тело укладывают на лавку в красном углу, сначала головой к иконам, затем, когда оно перекладывается в гроб, лицом к ним.У тувинских часовенных до сих пор хоронят в гробах, выдолбленных из цельного ствола дерева — «домовинах». У уральцев (часовенных Средней Азии) используют гробы из досок, но как некий показатель их большей или меньшей «правильности» отмечается соединение деталей ящика «на деревянных шипах», то есть без гвоздей. Могилу, как правило, также копали уже непосредственно перед похоронами. Исследовались вопросы внутренней готовности старообрядцев к смерти, определявшей образ жизни человека и то, какими окажутся его проводы в последний путь.Обрядовые практики, способы организации кладбищенского пространства, артефакты и символы обнаруживают важный для рассмотренных старообрядческих сообществ арсенал маркеров, сигнализирующих об актуальной на данный момент групповой границе, дифференцирующей и интегрирующей одновременно. При неизбежности бытовых контактов с окружающим населением старообрядцы стараются максимально оградить от внешнего
Percepções da dor: diagnóstico de enfermagem em pacientes infartados
Authors: Júnior Adilson Mendes de Figueiredo , Galvão Mayara Melo , Souza Jhonatan Pereira 
Published: March 2019

Objetivo: Conhecer as percepções do sintoma da dor para os pacientes diagnosticados com Infarto Agudo do Miocárdio (IAM). Métodos: Estudo descritivo e exploratório com abordagem qualitativa, e consistiu de pesquisa bibliográfica e entrevista dirigida e semiestruturada. Resultados: 62,5% (5) pacientes são do sexo feminino. 75% (6) pacientes se encontram na faixa etária acima de 60 anos. 3 pacientes relataram que a dor iniciou após realizarem atividades diárias e 3 a descreveram como se fosse algo que não tem explicação. Conclusão: A definição e o enfrentamento da dor é algo pessoal e exclusivo de cada indivíduo, mesmo que ambos passem por situações similares, cada um terá seu modo de expressar e descrever o significado da dor e o que ela representou no determinado momento que ocorreu.
MANAJEMEN RANTAI PASOK PEMBANGUNAN GEDUNG ADMINISTRASI POLTEKES PONTIANAK
Authors: Wahyono - 
Published: March 2019

Dalam penyelenggaraan infrastruktur, yang berkaitan dengan dunia jasa konstruksi diharuskan penerapan Rantai Pasok konstruksi. Dengan demikian pembangunan dapat berjalan dengan efektif, efisien, pelaku usaha jasa konstruksi di Propinsi Kalimantan Barat pada umumnya belum memperhatikan Rantai Pasok Konstruksi, dengan masih mengunakan pratik logistik konvensional yang menekankan pada kegiatan transportasi, persediaan, pergudangan secara terpisah dan tidak memiliki perusahan pendukung dari pabrik material, sehingga kurang effisien.Untuk dapat melakukan efisiensi konstruksi seperti yang diinginkan, terlebih dahulu diperlukan suatu pemetaan pola rantai pasok konstruksi, dari studi kasus penelitian ini, akan diperoleh pemetaan yang mewakili gambaran hubungan rantai pasok yang terjadi pada suatu proyek.Perencaaan dan pengendalian aliran material harus selalu diperhatikan oleh pihak kontraktor, karena berpengaruh sangat besar terhadap biaya proyek, waktu dan kualitas Proyek. Pihak kontraktor harus mempunyai modal kerja yang cukup agar tidak terjadi keterlambatan pembayaran yang akan mempengaruhi arus dana proyek. Kata Kunci : Rantai Pasok, Efektif, Effisien