bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Building power demand forecasting
Authors: Valgaev Oleg , Kupzog Friederich 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Buildings acting as flexible loads have been often proposed to
mitigate the volatility of renewable energy sources. Thereby, an
accurate short-term demand forecast is indispensable for effective
demand side management. At the same time, standardized load profiles,
commonly used in the distribution grid, are inadequate for load
forecasting within building domain. For this PhD, project a novel
short-term forecasting model is proposed for that domain. It considers
not only residual load, but also scheduled demand response as well as
the PV-generation of the building. Moreover, it is not building
specific and is, therefore, suitable for area-wide application within
building domain.
Factors Favouring the Development of Clostridium Difficile Infection in Critically Ill Patients
Authors: Grigorescu Bianca-Liana , Fodor Raluca Ştefania , Cioc Adrian Dan , Veres Mihaly , Orlandea Monica , Lăzescu Bogdan , Almasy Emoke 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Clostridium difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming, toxin-forming, gram-positive bacillus present in the bacterial flora of the colon is the principal cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in adults.
Aim: Assessment of favouring factors of Clostridium difficile infections as well as the interactions between them, in critically ill hospitalized patients undergoing complex medical and surgical treatments.
Material and Methods: A retrospective case-control study involving eighty patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the County Clinical Emergency Hospital Tîrgu-Mureş was conducted between January and October 2014. Patients aged eighteen years and over, who had undergone complex medical and surgical treatment, were divided into two subgroups. Group 1 included patients who developed diarrhoea but were not diagnosed as having a Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Group 2 included patients who developed diarrhoea due to CDI as indicated by a positive culture and the expression of exotoxin. The assessed parameters were age, length of stay (LOS), antibiotic spectrum, association with proton pump inhibitors (PPI) or H2-receptor antagonists, immunological status, the presence or lack of gastrointestinal tract surgery.
Results: The mean age was 64.6 years with an average LOS of 10 days. Fifty-six percent of patients came to the ICU from internal medicine wards and forty-three percent from surgical wards. 20.5% of them were immunosuppressed. Co-association of ceftriaxone and pantoprazole significantly increased the risk of CDI compared to co-administration of any other antibiotic or pantoprazole (p=0.01). The odds ratio for Pantoprazole together with any antibiotic versus antibiotic therapy alone was significantly higher (p=0.018) with a sevenfold increase in the risk of positive exotoxin increase.
Conclusions: Antibiotic use is associated with “no risk to develop CDI” in the first five days of administration. PPIs associated therapy increased the risk of CDI in first seventy-two hours regardless of the antibiotic type, and contributes to an active expression of CD exotoxin.
Generalized Poisson–Kac Processes: Basic Properties and Implications in Extended Thermodynamics and Transport
Authors: Giona Massimiliano , Brasiello Antonio , Crescitelli Silvestro 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
We introduce a new class of stochastic processes in

R

n

,

$${{\rm{\mathbb R}}^n}, $$

referred to as generalized Poisson–Kac (GPK) processes, that generalizes the Poisson–Kac telegrapher’s random motion in higher dimensions. These stochastic processes possess finite propagation velocity, almost everywhere smooth trajectories, and converge in the Kac limit to Brownian motion. GPK processes are defined by coupling the selection of a bounded velocity vector from a family of N distinct ones with a Markovian dynamics controlling probabilistically this selection. This model can be used as a probabilistic tool for a stochastically consistent formulation of extended thermodynamic theories far from equilibrium.
The problematic issue of grammatical gender in Arabic as a foreign language
Authors: Alkohlani Fatima A. 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Many languages of the world have a grammatical gender system that divides all nouns into gendered categories. The gender assigned to a given noun requires gender agreement with associated items in the sentence, such as: determiners, adjectives, and demonstrative pronouns. Research in the area of grammatical gender acquisition has found that this grammatical category poses considerable difficulty for L2 learners. However, rarely was this area of difficulty the focus of L2 studies in Arabic. The present study focuses on the problematic issue of grammatical gender in Arabic as a foreign language. It examines advanced Arabic L2 learners’ written errors of gender assignment and agreement in the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC) v2, compiled by Alfaifi, Atwel, and Hedaya (2014). Based on the classification and analysis of the errors, possible factors of the difficulty facing L2 learners in assigning the correct gender are discussed, and recommendations to reduce their effects are suggested.
Classification and quality criteria for Open Educational Resources in the field of foreign language learning
Authors: Krajcso Zita 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Foreign language teachers use online repositories on everyday basis to find appropriate activities for their lessons. The question is: How can content providers support them in finding exactly what they need and in retrieving high quality resources?
This question has been discussed in the context of the European project “Open Discovery Space”. The answers are: a taxonomy of searching mechanism and quality criteria of online resources from the methodologic point of view. Correspondingly, this paper introduces a classification of digital resources according to the four skills (speaking, writing, reading, listening/watching) and two language use types (grammar, vocabulary), representing the changing paradigm of foreign language teaching and learning. Further the paper identifies quality criteria for designing online learning materials with regard to content, methodology, technic and design. Finally, the findings are illustrated by an example of a learning scenario.
Subjective perceptions of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) university teachers’ professional beginnings: Quantitative research into pedagogical content knowledge
Authors: Jašková Jana 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present methodology and results of a quantitative phase within a research into English for Specific Purposes university teachers and their subjectively perceived changes in pedagogical content knowledge from a retrospective view of their professional beginnings. The introduction describes the investigated issues and explains key concepts. The first chapter refers to the theoretical background of teacher professional development. Since the quantitative research phase is a part of a mixed research design, the second chapter deals with the whole research including the research objective and questions. The third chapter is devoted to the quantitative research phase during which an anonymous electronic questionnaire was sent to the whole population of Czech university teachers of English for Specific Purposes and processed statistically as well as descriptively. The fourth chapter presents the obtained quantitative data discussed within the individual components of pedagogical content knowledge - conceptions of purposes for teaching subject matter, curricular knowledge, knowledge of instructional strategies, and knowledge of students’ understanding. The conclusion summarises all the information and proposes some recommendations for pedagogical practice.
A metric graph satisfying w41=1$w_4^1 = 1$ that cannot be lifted to a curve satisfying dim⁡ (W41)=1$\dim \;(W_4^1 ) = 1$
Authors: Coppens Marc 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
For all integers g ≥ 6 we prove the existence of a metric graph G with

w
4
1

=
1

$w_4^1 = 1$

such that G has Clifford index 2 and there is no tropical modification G′ of G such that there exists a finite harmonic morphism of degree 2 from G′ to a metric graph of genus 1. Those examples show that not all dimension theorems on the space classifying special linear systems for curves have immediate translation to the theory of divisors on metric graphs.
On the Riemann-Hilbert problem in multiply connected domains
Authors: Ryazanov Vladimir 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
We proved the existence of multivalent solutions with the infinite number of branches for the Riemann-Hilbert problem in the general settings of finitely connected domains bounded by mutually disjoint Jordan curves, measurable coefficients and measurable boundary data. The theorem is formulated in terms of harmonic measure and principal asymptotic values. It is also given the corresponding reinforced criterion for domains with rectifiable boundaries stated in terms of the natural parameter and nontangential limits. Furthermore, it is shown that the dimension of the spaces of these solutions is infinite.
Hamilton cycles in almost distance-hereditary graphs
Authors: Chen Bing , Ning Bo 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Let G be a graph on n ≥ 3 vertices. A graph G is almost distance-hereditary if each connected induced subgraph H of G has the property dH
(x, y) ≤ dG
(x, y) + 1 for any pair of vertices x, y ∈ V(H). Adopting the terminology introduced by Broersma et al. and Čada, a graph G is called 1-heavy if at least one of the end vertices of each induced subgraph of G isomorphic to K
1,3 (a claw) has degree at least n/2, and is called claw-heavy if each claw of G has a pair of end vertices with degree sum at least n. In this paper we prove the following two theorems: (1) Every 2-connected, claw-heavy and almost distance-hereditary graph is Hamiltonian. (2) Every 3-connected, 1-heavy and almost distance-hereditary graph is Hamiltonian. The first result improves a previous theorem of Feng and Guo [J.-F. Feng and Y.-B. Guo, Hamiltonian cycle in almost distance-hereditary graphs with degree condition restricted to claws, Optimazation
57 (2008), no. 1, 135–141]. For the second result, its connectedness condition is sharp since Feng and Guo constructed a 2-connected 1-heavy graph which is almost distance-hereditary but not Hamiltonian.
Regularly Varying Solutions of Half-Linear Diffferential Equations with Retarded and Advanced Arguments
Authors: Manojlović Jelena , Tanigawa Tomoyuki 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Sharp conditions are established for the existence of slowly varying solution and regularly varying solution of index 1 of the half-linear functional differential equation with both retarded and advanced arguments of the form (|x′(t)|α sgn x′(t))′ ± p(t)|x(g(t))|α sgn x(g(t)) ± q(t)|x(h(t))|α sgn x(h(t)) = 0, where α > 0 is a constant, p, q: [a,∞) → (0,∞), a ≧ 0 are continuous functions, g, h are continuous and increasing with g(t) < t, h(t) > t for t ≥ a and

.
Summation Process of Positive Linear Operators in Two-Dimensional Weighted Spaces
Authors: Akdağ Sevda 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
In this paper, using an A-summation process we give a theorem of the Korovkin type for double sequences of positive linear operators acting from a weighted space Cp1 into Bp2. We also give a quantitative version of our main theorem with the help of the weighted modulus of continuity.
Natural Boundary Conditions in Geometric Calculus of Variations
Authors: Moreno Giovanni , Stypa Monika Ewa 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
In this paper we obtain natural boundary conditions for a large class of variational problems with free boundary values. In comparison with the already existing examples, our framework displays complete freedom concerning the topology of Y - the manifold of dependent and independent variables underlying a given problem - as well as the order of its Lagrangian. Our result follows from the natural behavior, under boundary-friendly transformations, of an operator, similar to the Euler map, constructed in the context of relative horizontal forms on jet bundles (or Grassmann fibrations) over Y . Explicit examples of natural boundary conditions are obtained when Y is an (n + 1)-dimensional domain in ℝn+1, and the Lagrangian is first-order (in particular, the hypersurface area).
Further Remarks on an Order for Quantum Observables
Authors: Cīrulis Jānis 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
S. Gudder and, later, S. Pulmanová and E. Vinceková, have studied in two recent papers a certain ordering of bounded self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space. We present some further results on this ordering and show that some structure theorems of the ordered set of operators can be obtained in a more abstract setting of posets having the upper bound property and equipped with a certain orthogonality relation.
Teaching politeness strategies in the kindergarten: A critical literacy teaching proposal
Authors: Tsakona Villy 
Published: February 2016

AbstractThe present study explores the use of the genre of service encounters to teach (about) politeness strategies in the kindergarten. My teaching proposal involves a critical approach to politeness strategies which is expected to enhance students’ awareness of the social/interactional aspects of service encounters, and in particular to familiarize them with positive and negative politeness and with how the speech acts they may use in such contexts contribute to creating solidarity or distance with their interlocutors. Since young children participate in such interactions outside school, their own experiences could form the basis for language teaching. Concurrently, kindergartens are often equipped to host role play activities simulating service encounters, and teachers are usually trained to assist children in such activities. Given the above, the present teaching proposal will be based on the
Politeness in eighteenth-century drama: a discursive approach
Authors: Jucker Andreas H. 
Published: February 2016

AbstractFictional texts constitute complex communicative acts between an author and an audience, and they regularly depict interactions between characters. Both levels are susceptible to an analysis of politeness. This is particularly true for early eighteenth-century drama, which – in the context of the age of politeness – established new dramatic genres to educate and edify their audiences. Characters were used to demonstrate good or bad behaviour as examples to be followed or avoided. Early eighteenth-century drama was a reaction against what was considered to be the immorality and profanity of Restoration drama of the seventeenth century. Two plays serve as illustrations and a testing ground for an analysis of fictional politeness that considers both communicative levels; the play itself and the interactions within the play. Richard Steele’s sentimental comedy “The Conscious Lovers” (1722) gives an example of good behaviour by being exceedingly polite to the audience in the theatre through characters that are exceedingly polite to each other; and George Lillo’s domestic tragedy “The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell” (1731) shows the “private woe” of everyday characters in order to warn the younger generation against wrongdoing and to propagate middle-class virtues and moral values.
Identidades y transformación del orden social: Actualidad del pensamiento de Alfred Schutz
Authors: López Daniela Griselda 
Published: February 2016

<p>El artículo se propone recuperar la potencialidad analítica de la perspectiva fenomenológica de Alfred Schutz, para reflexionar acerca de temas vinculados a “lo político, las identidades y la transformación del orden social. Para ello, desarrollaremos, en primer lugar, algunos lineamientos propuestos por Ernesto Laclau (1985; 1990) y Jacques Rancière (1996) en torno a esas nociones. Nos interesa particularmente plantear el momento del surgimiento del campo “lo político” en relación con el orden social y el rol que cumplen las identidades en ese surgimiento. En segundo lugar, se intentará establecer un diálogo entre estas perspectivas y la fenomenología schutziana a fin de arrojar la luz sobre esos ejes analíticos implícitos en la obra del autor.</p>
LA PREGUNTA POR LA CREATIVIDAD. NOTAS SOBRE EL ANÁLISIS DE LA PRODUCCIÓN RECIENTE EN LAS INDUSTRIAS CREATIVAS ARGENTINAS
Authors: Miguel Paula 
Published: February 2016

<p> </p><p>Este trabajo reflexiona sobre la producción en las industrias creativas, tomando el caso argentino de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. En primer lugar, da cuenta del contexto general donde se inscriben estos procesos. Luego presenta una elaboración en relación con el lugar de la creatividad en este enfoque y los debates en torno a las industrias culturales y creativas, brindando algunos datos que dan cuenta de la relevancia de este sector productivo, al igual que de las políticas públicas desarrolladas en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Por último, se ocupa de presentar algunos casos para comprender las transformaciones que en los últimos años pudieron registrarse en la producción cultural y simbólica, en relación con la creatividad y la emergencia de nuevos productores.</p>
EL IMPOSIBLE TESTIMONIO: CELAN EN DERRIDA
Authors: Forster Ricardo 
Published: February 2016

<p>El presente escrito quiere poner de presente algunos problemas referentes al testimonio: la veracidad del testimonio, la comparación del conocimiento metódico y científico (que exige pruebas) y el conocimiento del testimonio (que no tiene pruebas y se basa en una apuesta por la fe y juramento de lo que se testimonia), la imposibilidad de representar lo irrepresentable después de Auschwitz y la apuesta por mantener la memoria a pesar de la incapacidad que existe para representar lo ocurrido en los campos de concentración. Estos problemas van a ser tratados por medio de la poesía de Celan, quien habla y da su testimonio con motivos de preservar la memoria, sin pretensiones de verdad y de representar lo irrepresentable, en contra del olvido y las representaciones artísticas sin límites; y por medio de la apuesta de Derrida porque nadie puede testimoniar por otro.</p><p> </p>
HURBINECK: LA PALABRA INAUDIBLE O EL DECIR DESPUÉS DE AUSCHWITZ
Authors: Forster Ricardo 
Published: February 2016

<p>Por medio de un lenguaje descriptivo y poético, el autor pretende mostrar partes del testimonio de un prisionero de Auschwitz, Primo Levi, que relata algunas vivencias de un niño, también prisionero, llamado Hurbinek, quien había nacido en los campos de concentración y no sabía hablar. Los demás prisioneros, especialmente un joven llamado Henek, intentan enseñarle algunas palabras. El escrito pretende mostrar cómo el relato de Hurbinek y las historias sobre el despojo del nombre y la identidad de los prisioneros de Auschwitz representan la inhumanidad que no solo se vivió en los campos de concentración, sino que será aquello que se manifestará en el periodo posterior a Auschwitz: la técnica y la industria inhumanas. También se hace presente el contraste con la resistencia que representa Henek al enseñarle el lenguaje hablado a Hubinek, lo que significa la humanidad en contra de la inhumanidad del olvido y la falta de identidad.</p>
HACIA UNA JUSTICIA SIN DERECHO: LA JUSTICIA DE LA MEMORIA
Authors: Gutiérrez Adriana María Ruiz 
Published: February 2016

<p>La memoria es el principio de la justicia que permite destruir el vínculo entre el poder y la violencia que funda y mantiene el orden del derecho. La justicia de la memoria es, en efecto, una fuerza revolucionaria que anuncia el sufrimiento de los oprimidos, de los vencidos, de los sojuzgados de la historia; es una especie de antihistoria que se rebela ante el poder que somete la vida natural a un estado de excepción permanente; es una justa apelación a la justicia más allá del derecho que<br />permite instaurar un nuevo orden fundado en la vida como potencia y como vida justa.</p>
LA LUPA DE DANIEL HERRERA RESTREPO: UNA DESCRIPCIÓN FENOMENOLÓGICA
Authors: Cepeda Juan 
Published: February 2016

<p>El artículo nos muestra cómo a partir de las experiencias compartidas con el maestro Daniel Herrera, la fenomenología no dista de ser un trabajo en el cual el filósofo detalla el mundo de la vida como si se tratara de un texto encriptado que exige la reflexión fenomenomenológica, como si este fuera una lupa en manos de un riguroso lector. El texto rememora las visitas del profesor Juan Cepeda a la casa del maestro Daniel Herrera, y cómo éste respondía a sus inquietudes haciendo uso de una lupa para asistir su lectura.</p>
PAUL RICOEUR (1913-2005)
Authors: González Jorge Enrique 
Published: February 2016

<p>Hace cien años nació en Valence (Francia) el filósofo Paul Ricoeur. Su obra ha sido objeto de variados análisis, y ha sido el origen de una gran cantidad de estudios filosóficos así como propios del ámbito las ciencias humanas y sociales contemporáneas. En estas breves líneas, se quiere rendir homenaje a uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, destacando no solo su trabajo estrictamente filosófico, sino una peculiaridad de su trabajo que lo aproxima de manera decisiva a algunas de las disciplinas de las ciencias humanas y sociales.</p>
LA HERMENÉUTICA Y EL MÉTODO DE LA CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Authors: Ricoeur Paul , González Jorge Enrique 
Published: February 2016

<p>El presente artículo es un texto de Paul Ricoeur, traducido por el profesor<br />Jorge Enrique González, con motivo de la publicación de este número conmemorativo de Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana. El texto presenta la importancia de la hermenéutica como medio teórico para la interpretación de los textos, capaz de proyectarse al campo prácticpo de las ciencias sociales.</p>
CORREGIR LA TÉCNICA
Authors: González Antonio 
Published: February 2016

<p>El autor presenta una reflexión en torno al concepto de technê según la tradición filosófica antigua hasta el periodo contemporáneo. Su propósito es exponer una nueva visión de la técnica, entendida como un surgir dirigido que nos permite considerar su vinculo con la naturaleza creativa del hombre y la ciencia.</p>
ESTÉTICA ANALÍTICA: ENTRE EL PRAGMATISMO Y EL NEOPRAGMATISMO
Authors: Castañeda Lozano Yebrail 
Published: February 2016

<p>Los doctores Porfirio Cardona-Restrepo y Freddy Santamaría Velasco iniciaron la edición de esta obra titulada Estética analítica: entre el pragmatismo y el neopragmatismo, en el primer semestre del año de 2013, en el ambiente académico del Doctorado de Filosofía de la Universidad Santo Tomás. Los autores emprendieron la tarea de publicar unos artículos reflexivos sobre el asunto estético desde la perspectiva de las vertientes filosóficas de la analítica, la pragmática y la neopragmática con el sello editorial de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.</p>
ESTUDIO SOBRE PROBLEMAS DE LA FILIOSOFÍA ANALÍTICA
Authors: González Hector Fabio 
Published: February 2016

<p>Alejandro Tomasini ha indicado, muy lúcidamente, la necesidad de pensar los problemas filosóficos en lengua castellana. Más aún, ha sugerido que es posible tratar los problemas propios de la filosofía analítica por medio de la lengua castellana y que, por otra parte, es necesario en nuestro continente pensar los problemas y enfrentarlos analíticamente. Independientemente de su alcance teórico, el mérito del libro que presentamos, Lecturas analíticas: una introducción a temas y problemas de la filosofía analítica, apunta a esa dirección.</p>