bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Motivation of Parents Towards Reading Multilingual eBooks To Pre-School Children
Authors: See Kwee Teck , Madhubala Bava Harji , Koo Ah Choo 
Published: January 2019

<span class="TextRun SCXW153678227" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">The use of mobile devices for language learning, under the Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) has been found to motivate children to read digital print. However, parents need to be convinced of the benefits of this new technology-assisted learning method within a multilingual learning context. A case study was conducted to propose a MALL framework in which educators and parents created a shared meaningful learning environment to develop the children’s emergent multilingual literacy skills, using mobile devices installed with interactive multilingual </span><span class="TextRun SCXW153678227" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">eB</span><span class="TextRun SCXW153678227" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">ooks. This paper reports the findings, specifically on the parents’ attitude and motivation towards reading multilingual </span><span class="TextRun SCXW153678227" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">eBooks</span><span class="TextRun SCXW153678227" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> with their children. A group of 25 multi-ethnic families, together with their 5-year-old children participated in this study. A mixed-method explanatory research design obtained parent's attitude and motivation from a questionnaire, interview, and feedback form. The results show a high level of parents’ acceptance toward reading eBook with their children. Parents attributed their positive attitude and motivation towards MALL to the use of the multimedia, multilingual, and mobile platform. The MALL framework was also found to encourage parents and other adults to scaffold the children’s multilingual skills development. However, there were also setbacks toward the use of eBook as some parents expressed a stronger preference for printed books and were concerned with health issues associated with the children’s eBook use. Areas for improvements and future research are also made in this paper.</span>
The Professional Quality of Life Among Health-Care Providers and its Related Factors
Authors: Keshavarz Zohreh , Gorji Maryam , Houshyar Zeinab , Tamajani Zeinab Talebi , Martin Jeno 
Published: January 2019

Introduction:
The professional quality of life is a type of emotion that every person perceives to his/her job. This study aimed to evaluate the professional quality of life among health-care providers including physicians, nurses, and midwives and its related factors.

Methods:
This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018. Participants were 464 doctors, nurses, and midwives working in educational hospitals of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences selected using a convenience method. Data were collected using demographic information questionnaire and Persian version of the professional quality of life questionnaire. Multivariate linear regression models were used to examine the related factors.

Results:
In the present study, 464 health-care providers including 150 doctors, 161 midwives, and 153 nurses participated. Their mean age was 32.29 ± 6.88 years. The majority of them (56.2%) reported a moderate job satisfaction. The mean (standard deviation) of participants' scores in the domains of compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress was 38.84 (6.23), 13.53 (4.34), and 27.05 (5.70), respectively. The regression model showed that high and medium job satisfaction, monthly income, and work shift arrangements were significant predictors for all domains of professional quality of life.

Conclusion:
Physicians, midwives, and nurses had a moderate professional quality of life. Factors such as high job satisfaction, monthly income, and work shift arrangements partly predicted their professional quality of life. Therefore, paying enough attention to improving job satisfaction and improving working conditions and income might improve the professional quality of life of health-care providers, and consequently, the quality of patient care.
Relationships among Health-Related Behaviors, Smartphone Dependence, and Sleep Duration in Female Junior College Students
Authors: Yang Shang-Yu , Chen Kai-Li , Lin Pin-Hsuan , Wang Po-Yu 
Published: January 2019

Introduction:
Inadequate sleep is common among adolescents. Females have been found to have higher sleep requirement than that in males. This study aimed at (1) investigating the associations of sleep duration with smartphone dependence and a health-promoting lifestyle, and (2) identifying predictor(s) of inadequate sleep among adolescent females.

Methods:
This questionnaire-based cross-sectional study recruited 385 female junior college students (mean age: 17.50 ± 3.30 years) at a single tertiary education institute in December 2014. The questionnaire comprised three parts: (1) demographic/anthropometric characteristics (i.e., age, body mass index) and habits of alcohol/tobacco consumption, (2) smartphone dependence score according to the participant's response to four questions rated with five-point Likert scale, and (3) scores on compliance with six dimensions of the health-promoting lifestyle profile (HPLP), including nutrition, health responsibility, self-actualization, interpersonal support, exercise, stress management, and total score. Correlations of the study parameters and sleep adequacy (defined as ≥7 h) were investigated.

Results:
The mean sleep duration of the participants was 7.35 ± 1.49 h. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated significant negative correlation between smartphone dependence and sleep duration (P < 0.01), as well as positive associations of sleep duration with the nutrition (P < 0.01), health responsibility (P < 0.05), stress management (P < 0.01) dimensions, and total score (P = 0.01) of HPLP. Stepwise regression further showed that smartphone dependence was the only significant predictor of inadequate sleep (B: −0.06; standard error: 0.02; P < 0.01).

Conclusion:
The results of the present study underscore the importance of promoting a healthy lifestyle including prevention of smartphone dependence in maintaining healthy sleep habits in adolescent females.
Re-thinking comparative education and religion: temptations, traditions, and politics
Authors: Cowen Robert 
Published: January 2019

This article opens by refusing some traditional ways to approach the theme of comparative education and religion-and-education. Partly, this is because some topics, in terms of religion and education, have been well covered. More generally, there is an explicit refusal of the clichéd assumption that ‘comparative education articles’ compare (e.g. education systems in Argentina and Australia, or in Brazil and Bolivia; and so on), juxtaposing narratives on any-old-topic which interests the writer, provided the narratives are about two or more different countries. Fortunately, some current changes in the ‘epistemic gaze’ of comparative education create new levels of theoretical difficulty and permit a break from the classic political equilibrium problem of the liberal secular state juggling education policy choices and juggling competing religious groups. Starting from a different axiom, a sketch of new possibilities is offered. The sketch is theoretically clumsy but it opens up a strategically different way to tell comparative education stories, of the kind which traditionally we have not tried to tell. The conclusion of the article makes a guess about why religion and education might again become a major topic in comparative education.
Poids et contrepoids : l’adhésion du Canada à la Convention américaine relative aux droits de l’homme
Authors: Rémy Quevedo Ariane 
Published: January 2019

Depuis l’abolition des appels au Conseil privé britannique en matière criminelle et civile, respectivement en 1933 et en 1949, il n’existe plus d’instance internationale (autre que la Cour pénale internationale) exerçant une autorité sur la protection des droits individuels au Canada. Bien que le Canada dispose d’un des systèmes judiciaires les plus efficaces et solides au monde, il est sain de se questionner sur le renforcement de ses liens avec les organismes internationaux des Amériques, qui luttent pour la défense des droits de la personne. Cela est d’autant plus vrai si l’on se fie aux politiques adoptées sous la gouverne du président Donald Trump, qui contreviennent non seulement aux obligations fondamentales des États-Unis en matière de droits de la personne, mais causent d’énormes torts aux communautés vulnérables des sociétés d’ici et d’ailleurs. Dans ce contexte, il est pertinent de se demander si une adhésion potentielle du Canada à la Convention américaine relative aux droits de l’homme, qui autorise la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme à recevoir des pétitions pour des violations des droits de la personne, serait bénéfique aux justiciables canadiens. Ce texte, au regard critique, a pour but d’analyser les répercussions possibles de l’adhésion du Canada à la Convention américaine ainsi que de présenter en preuve une liste d’arrêts et d’articles représentatifs de la situation actuelle devant la Cour interaméricaine afin d’enrichir le débat à ce sujet.
Mexico’s Relationship with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Success or Failure?
Authors: Argente Villarreal Arturo , Sigmond Karen 
Published: January 2019

This article describes Mexico’s path to the protection of human rights and its relation with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It analyzes two major cases against the Mexican Government (Castañeda Gutman and Gonzales et al “Cotton Field”) and the contrasting results from the decisions of the Court. It questions whether being a part of this regional Court has led to the further protection of human rights by examining the aftermath of each one of the mentioned cases. It also considers other factors that must be addressed in order to see an increase in the protection of human rights in this country.
The Emergence of a More Conventional Reading of the Conventionality Control Doctrine
Authors: Paúl Álvaro 
Published: January 2019

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights developed a doctrine called conventionality control. In general terms, this doctrine is somewhat similar to the idea of judicial review of legislation, but applied in a transnational forum. According to the Court, conventionality control would require domestic judges and other bodies of States parties to the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) to depart from domestic legislation that runs counter to the ACHR or the Inter-American Court’s interpretation of the ACHR. Many scholars contend that the application of this doctrine should be carried out even if the domestic bodies that apply it have no constitutional power to do so. Others have a more restrictive interpretation and consider that domestic bodies would have to apply it to the extent of their power, according to their national constitutions. Apparently, the latter interpretation is gaining a wider support, which is desirable, because only this reading would be compatible with the principles of international law, and possibly accepted by all member States.
Límites en el ejercicio del control de convencionalidad y aplicación de estándares internacionales por tribunales estatales: El caso peruano
Authors: Loayza-Tamayo Carolina 
Published: January 2019

El presente trabajo estudia el rol de los órganos de justicia peruanos en el respeto y garantía de los derechos humanos; analiza la aplicación por la judicatura peruana del control de convencionalidad y la observancia de los estándares establecidos por la Corte interamericana de derechos humanos, identificando los principios que aplica en dicha tarea como los principios pro-persona y de efecto útil, su rol en el cumplimiento de las sentencias de dicho tribunal, y su marco legal. Igualmente se analiza la aplicación por la judicatura peruana de los estándares internacionales establecidos en el Caso De La Cruz Flores al Caso de Luis Pollo Rivera y la supervisión de cumplimiento del Caso De La Cruz Flores (2004) vs Perú. Finalmente se cuestiona la interpretación que Perú realiza al invocar y/o aplicar estándares de la Corte interamericana de derechos humanos, en el ejercicio del control de convencionalidad y en el cumplimiento de sus sentencias.
Derechos de la infancia, adopciones irregulares y protección del vínculo familiar en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos: Un análisis del Caso Fornerón e hija vs Argentina
Authors: Herencia Carrasco Salvador 
Published: January 2019

El propósito de este artículo es realizar un análisis del Caso Fornerón e hija vs Argentina, decidido por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos en abril de 2012. Esta sentencia se centró en tres aspectos principales: (i) el interés superior del niño y de la niña, las garantías judiciales y la protección judicial en casos relativos al derecho de familia; (ii) el marco de protección del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos aplicable al vínculo entre padres e hijos; y (iii) el deber de implementar disposiciones de derecho interno para la protección del niño y de la familia en procesos de adopción.

El artículo se centrará en dos temas. En primer lugar, analizará el tratamiento de los derechos de la niña y del niño en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, particularmente en lo relativo al interés superior del niño en los procesos de adopción y la protección especial del vínculo entre el padre y la hija. La segunda parte analizará el tratamiento de la compraventa de niños en el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, proponiendo algunas medidas que la Corte IDH pudo haber tomado en cuenta en este caso. Finalmente, se presentarán algunos desarrollos recientes del caso, así como algunas conclusiones y posibles repercusiones para una mayor protección de la niñez.
Miné de l’intérieur
Authors: Krück Marie-Pierre 
Published: January 2019

Dans l’Histoire des Sévarambes (1677), utopie romanesque présentée comme un ouvrage d’histoire et de géographie, Denis Veiras recourt aux tropes attendus des récits de voyages, notamment celui de l’autopsie – le témoignage oculaire – pour avérer son récit. Toutefois, malgré sa prétention à la véracité, le récit est sans cesse ébranlé de l’intérieur, déstabilisé par les différentes voix qui le tissent et qui mettent en cause l’unité épistémologique du témoin ; par la présence du ouï-dire au coeur de la relation de première main ; par les éléments dystopiques qui minent subtilement ce monde parfait. Ces failles de crédibilité affectent tant l’ethnographie que l’historiographie de la relation du capitaine Siden et la frappent d’incertitude, un peu comme les Histoires d’Hérodote, l’inventeur de la notion d’autoptes, de témoin oculaire, et constamment soupçonné de mensonge dans son témoignage paradigmatique sur l’Égypte ancienne.
Le Testament de Philippe Fortin de La Hoguette entre témoignage sur soi-même et témoignage de l’esprit
Authors: Laliberté-Bouchard Louis 
Published: January 2019

En dépit de son titre, le Testament de Philippe Fortin de La Hoguette ne paraît pas testamentaire, surtout comparé à la tradition littéraire, ironique et polémique, incarnée par François Villon. Pour rendre compte d’un tel texte, il faut momentanément abandonner le modèle notarial de la tradition satirique pour se tourner vers l’étymologie : celle du testis, qui fait du testateur un témoin, et celle de la testatio mentis, qui fait du testament un témoignage de l’esprit. Ce détour permet de constater d’une part l’avantage rhétorique de la posture testamentaire – où l’on ne peut mentir, et où, pour cette raison, le témoignage ne peut être contesté –, et d’autre part la liberté intrinsèque de cette forme d’écriture, dans laquelle le message du testateur devient un bien à part entière.
Faire peuple
Authors: Bastien Pascal , Mazeau Guillaume 
Published: January 2019

Siméon-Prosper Hardy (1729-1806) est un ancien libraire de la rue Saint-Jacques, petit notable bien connu des circuits jansénistes. Adrien Duquesnoy (1759-1808) est député du Tiers-État aux États généraux réunis à Versailles en mai 1789. Les deux ont rédigé des centaines de pages de notes, d’observations, de témoignages et de récits d’événements sur lesquelles Pascal Bastien (Hardy) et Guillaume Mazeau (Duquesnoy) se sont penchés. Souvent présentés comme des « journaux », les manuscrits constituent surtout des notes à partager, par cahiers, lettres ou lectures publiques, dans les réseaux où l’un et l’autre s’inscrivent. Hardy est membre du district des Mathurins et a participé, en avril 1789, aux assemblées du Tiers-État : il suit donc les travaux de Versailles avec attention. Hardy et Duquesnoy offrent ainsi, dans un intéressant jeu de miroir, un regard sur Paris et Versailles. Sur les mêmes événements, les témoignages diffèrent largement et proposent une vision beaucoup plus complexe de la Révolution que celle à laquelle on l’a souvent réduite. En croisant leur récit parallèle de la Révolution, de mai à octobre 1789, il devient possible de comprendre le parcours, les regards et les temporalités différents, de deux « révolutionnaires ordinaires ». Un regard parallèle sur les pratiques d’écriture, sur la conscience historique et sur la citoyenneté vécue, sera ainsi présenté à travers l’écriture immédiate des premiers mois de la Révolution.
Design, optimization and validation of genes commonly used in expression studies on DMH/AOM rat colon carcinogenesis model
Authors: Bars-Cortina David , Riera-Escamilla Antoni , Gou Gemma , Piñol-Felis Carme , Motilva María-José 
Published: January 2019

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as colon cancer, is the third most common form of cancer worldwide in men and the second in women and is characterized by several genetic alterations, among them the expression of several genes. 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) and its metabolite azoxymethane (AOM) are procarcinogens commonly used to induce colon cancer in rats (DMH/AOM rat model). This rat model has been used to study changes in mRNA expression in genes involved in this pathological condition. However, a lack of proper detailed PCR primer design in the literature limits the reproducibility of the published data. The present study aims to design, optimize and validate the qPCR, in accordance with the MIQE (Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments) guidelines, for seventeen genes commonly used in the DMH/AOM rat model of CRC (Apc, Aurka, Bax, Bcl2, β-catenin, Ccnd1, Cdkn1a, Cox2, Gsk3beta, IL-33, iNOs, Nrf2, p53, RelA, Smad4, Tnfα and Vegfa) and two reference genes (Actb or β-actin and B2m). The specificity of all primer pairs was empirically validated on agarose gel, and furthermore, the melting curve inspection was checked as was their efficiency (%) ranging from 90 to 110 with a correlation coefficient of r2 > 0.980. Finally, a pilot study was performed to compare the robustness of two candidate reference genes.
WT1‐interacting protein inhibits cell proliferation and tumorigenicity in non‐small‐cell lung cancer via the AKT/FOXO1 axis
Authors: Wu Zhiqiang , Qiu Minghan , Mi Zeyun , Meng Maobin , Guo Yu , Jiang Xiangli , Fang Jiaping , Wang Hui , Zhao Jinlin , Liu Zhuang , Qian Dong , Yuan Zhiyong 
Published: January 2019

Lung cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer‐related death worldwide; hence, it is imperative that the mechanisms underlying the malignant properties of lung cancer be uncovered in order to efficiently treat this disease. Increasing evidence has shown that WT1‐interacting protein (WTIP) plays important roles both physiologically and pathologically in humans; however, the role of WTIP in cancer is unknown. Here, we investigated the role and mechanism of WTIP in cell proliferation and tumorigenesis of non‐small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We report that WTIP is a tumor suppressor in human NSCLC. We found that WTIP expression was significantly reduced in both NSCLC cell lines and clinical specimens compared to that in normal controls; this reduction was largely attributed to promoter hypermethylation. Downregulation of WTIP significantly correlates with poor prognosis and predicts a shorter overall survival and progression‐free survival among NSCLC patients. Moreover, ectopic overexpression of WTIP dramatically inhibits cell proliferation and tumorigenesis in vitro and in vivo; conversely, depletion of WTIP expression shows the opposite effects. Mechanistically, WTIP impairs AKT phosphorylation and activation, leading to enhanced expression and transcriptional activity of FOXO1, which further increases p21Cip1 and p27Kip1, and decreases cyclin D1, which consequently results in cell cycle arrest. Collectively, the results of the current study indicate that WTIP is an important proliferation‐related gene and that WTIP expression may represent a novel prognostic biomarker for NSCLC.
Highly Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting: Surface Modification of Cobalt‐Phosphate‐Loaded Co3O4/Fe2O3 p–n Heterojunction Nanorod Arrays
Authors: Yi Sha‐Sha , Wulan Ba‐Ri , Yan Jun‐Min , Jiang Qing 
Published: January 2019

AbstractHematite (α‐Fe2O3) as a photoanode material for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting suffers from the two problems of poor charge separation and slow water oxidation kinetics. The construction of p–n junction nanostructures by coupling of highly stable Co3O4 in aqueous alkaline environment to Fe2O3 nanorod arrays with delicate energy band positions may be a challenging strategy for efficient PEC water oxidation. It is demonstrated that the designed p‐Co3O4/n‐Fe2O3 junction exhibits superior photocurrent density, fast water oxidation kinetics, and remarkable charge injection and bulk separation efficiency (ηinj and ηsep), attributing to the high catalytic behavior of Co3O4 for the oxygen evolution reaction as well as the induced interfacial electric field that facilitates separation and transportation of charge carriers. In addition, a cocatalyst of cobalt phosphate (Co‐Pi) is introduced, which brings the PEC performance to a high level. The resultant Co‐Pi/Co3O4/Ti:Fe2O3 photoanode shows a photocurrent density of 2.7 mA cm−2 at 1.23 VRHE (V vs reversible hydrogen electrode), 125% higher than that of the Ti:Fe2O3 photoanode. The optimized ηinj and ηsep of 91.6 and 23.0% at 1.23 VRHE are achieved on Co‐Pi/Co3O4/Ti:Fe2O3, respectively, corresponding to the 70 and 43% improvements compared with those of Ti:Fe2O3. Furthermore, Co‐Pi/Co3O4/Ti:Fe2O3 shows a low onset potential of 0.64 VRHE and long‐time PEC stability.
Modulating Blue Phosphorene by Synergetic Codoping: Indirect to Direct Gap Transition and Strong Bandgap Bowing
Authors: Tian Xiaoqing , Duan Jingyi , Wei Yadong , Feng Naixing , Wang Xiangrong , Gong Zhirui , Du Yu , Yakobson Boris I. 
Published: January 2019

AbstractThe structural and electronic properties of synergistically modified blue phosphorene (BP) is investigated. The inversion and threefold rotational symmetries of BP are broken. The codoping of group IV and VI impurities can turn monolayer BP into direct bandgap semiconductors. The underlying physical mechanism is that group IV and VI impurities tailor the valence band maximum and conduction band minimum, respectively, and move them to Γ. All the bandgaps of monolayer, nanoribbons, and quantum dots of BP can be modulated in a wide range, and the strong bandgap bowing is found. In addition, the Coulomb interactions between the screened impurities are revealed. Lower formation energies indicate the fabricating practicability of synergeticly modified BP. Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) can also be tuned by the introduction of impurities.