bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
In-patient rehabilitation: clinical outcomes and cost implications
Authors: Bunyan Mel , Ganeshalingam Yogesh , Morgan Ehab , Thompson-Boy Donvé , Wigton Rebekah , Holloway Frank , Tracy Derek K. 
Published: February 2016

Aims and methodA retrospective evaluation was undertaken of the clinical and economic effectiveness of three in-patient rehabilitation units across one London National Health Service trust. Information on admission days and costs 2 years before and 2 years after the rehabilitation placement, length of rehabilitation placement and the discharge pathway was collected on 22 service users.ResultsThere were statistically significant reductions in hospital admission days in the 2 years following rehabilitation compared with the 2 years before, further reflected in significantly lower bed costs. Longer length of rehabilitation placement was correlated with fewer admission days after the placement. A substantial proportion of the sample went into more independent living, some with no further admissions at follow-up.Clinical implicationsThe findings suggest that in-patient rehabilitation is both clinically and cost effective: if benefits are sustained they will offset the cost of the rehabilitation placement.
Betrayals
Authors: Zinsser Judith P. 
Published: February 2016

The career and writings of the philosophe Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) have recently been accorded their proper significance in the historical narratives of eighteenth-century philosophy and science. However, despite the best efforts of historians and biographers, the contrary image of the marquise as Voltaire's promiscuous mistress and a dabbler in physics and mathematics remains seductively popular, and Nancy Mitford's 1957 Voltaire in Love and Elisabeth Badinter's Emilie, Emilie: L'ambition féminine au XVIIIe siècle of 1983 continue to be recommended as the most authoritative accounts of Du Châtelet's life. This article gives a brief historiography of writings on the marquise into the twentieth century and then considers Mitford's and Badinter's sexualized portrayals. It also speculates on the reasons for the continuing popularity of these outdated, skewed interpretations.La carrière et les écrits de la « philosophe » Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) ont récemment trouvé la place qui leur est due dans l'histoire de la philosophie et des sciences au dix-huitième siècle. Cependant, malgré tous les efforts des historiens et des biographes, la représentation de la marquise en maîtresse volage de Voltaire et en dilettante qui se piquait de physique et de mathématiques reste toujours aussi séduisante et répandue. La biographie de Nancy Mitford, Voltaire amoureux, qui date de 1957, et celle d'Elisabeth Badinter, Emilie, Emilie: L'ambition féminine au XVIIIe siècle, de 1983, continuent à être considérées comme les ouvrages biographiques les plus fiables. Notre essai présente une courte historiographie des écrits sur la marquise au vingtième siècle et remet en question les portraits passablement érotiques de Mitford et de Badinter. Nous réfléchissons également aux raisons pour lesquelles ces interprétations infidèles et désuètes continuent à être aussi populaires.
Royal Agents and Templar Confessions in the Bailliage of Rouen
Authors: Field Sean L. 
Published: February 2016

Through a close examination of the two extant documents generated by the Templar arrests and interrogations in the bailliage of Rouen, this article sheds new light on the way Philip IV's agents there interpreted their mandates in the uncertain atmosphere of the week following October 13, 1307. These crucial documents (reedited in appendices) are uniquely revealing, because they were produced entirely by the king's secular agents: the bailli of Rouen and the knights empowered to act in the arrest and questioning of seven Templars in the bailliage. When considered in tandem these documents show how audaciously the king's men moved to obtain, record, and compile confessions to the ostensibly ecclesiastical crime of heresy.
Cet article propose une analyse minutieuse des deux documents qui subsistent de l'arrestation et des interrogatoires des templiers dans le bailliage de Rouen, pour apporter un nouvel éclairage sur la façon dont les agents de Philippe IV, dans l'incertitude qui domina au cours de la semaine suivant le 13 octobre 1307, ont interprété les ordres royaux. Ces documents cruciaux, réédités en annexes, constituent des sources uniques, particulièrement révélatrices, parce qu'ils furent produits par les seuls agents séculiers du roi, en l'occurrence le bailli de Rouen et les chevaliers mandatés pour procéder à l'arrestation et à l'interrogation de sept templiers dans le bailliage. Considérés ensemble, ces textes montrent avec quelle audace les hommes du roi agirent pour obtenir, enregistrer et mettre en forme les aveux du crime d'hérésie, dont la nature était clairement ecclésiastique.
“Entrepreneurial Nobles” Or “Aristocratic Serfs”?
Authors: Fitch Nancy 
Published: February 2016

This article examines the changing nature of aristocratic land acquisitions in central France in the centuries before the outbreak of revolution in 1789. It shows how nobles bought up or confiscated peasant land to engross large estates. Since their acquisition rarely altered the legal status of such lands, aristocrats surprisingly were among those responsible for paying the bulk of the feudal dues at the end of the Old Regime (and were probably the major beneficiaries when the French Revolution abolished them). These “entrepreneurial” nobles often blended new kinds of industry with traditional forms of agriculture; they also increasingly deprived peasants of land and grazing rights. By exploring changing patterns in aristocratic landholding, this article shows how the nobility in central France contributed both to the development of capitalism and industrialization in France and to rising peasant anger at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Cet article étudie l'évolution des acquisitions aristocratiques de terrains en France centrale pendant les siècles avant la Révolution de 1789. Il montre comment les nobles ont acheté ou confisqué les terres paysannes afin de les réunir en de grands domaines. Puisque ces achats n'ont que rarement modifié le statut juridique de ces terres, les aristocrates étaient obligés à payer la majeure partie de la cotisation féodale à la fin de l'ancien régime. Souvent ces nobles « entreprenants » mélangeaient de nouveaux types d'industrie avec les formes traditionnelles de l'agriculture; en même temps, ils ont de plus en plus privé les paysans de terres et de droits de pâturage. En explorant les nouvelles habitudes de l'aristocratie foncière, cet article montrera comment la noblesse de la France centrale a contribué au développement du capitalisme et de l'industrialisation en France et à la colère paysanne au début de la Révolution française.
Degradation of Peroxynitrite by Simple, Recyclable Selenolanes
Authors: Kumar Pavitra V , Singh Beena G , Kunwar Amit , Iwaoka Michio , Priyadarsini K Indira 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Two cyclic organoselenium compounds, DHS (trans-3,4-dihydroxy-1-selenolane) and MAS (3-amino-1-selenolane) were examined for their reaction with peroxynitrite. Both DHS and MAS scavenge peroxynitrite with rate constants of the order of 103 M−1 s−1. Additionally the two compounds efficiently react with carbonate (CO3•−) radical (formed by reaction of peroxynitrite with carbon dioxide) by one-electron oxidation and their selenoxides convert the nitrite formed by peroxynitrite reduction to nitrate. Even though the reactivity of DHS/MAS was fairly the same with peroxynitrite and its derived radicals, they differ in their ability to protect plasmid pBR322 DNA and CHO cells from peroxynitrite induced toxicity. To understand this, analysis of crucial products formed during peroxynitrite reaction was carried out. On reaction with peroxynitrite, both the compounds were converted to their corresponding selenoxide, identified and estimated by NMR and HPLC. Comparing the relative yields of the selenoxides, it has been confirmed that DHS produced significantly higher amount of selenoxide than MAS. The selenoxide can be regenerated back to the parent compound, either by thiols or by nitrite. Based on these results it is concluded that formation of stable and recyclable selenoxide makes selenolanes, a novel class of selenium compounds as antioxidants for peroxynitrite degradation.
Application of modern geotechnologies for protection of territories against rockfall processes
Authors: Мариничев Максим , Marinichev Maksim , Макушева Анна , Makusheva Anna 
Published: February 2016

An overview of traditional and modern engineering systems used rockfall protection is given. The main parameters which are considered in the study of stone-fall processes and in the designing of structures against rockfall are analyzed. Features of the calculation and the global experience of using flexible rockfall barriers are described.
Keywords: rockfall, structures against rockfall, flexible rockfall protection barriers, trajectory of rockfall, impact energy of rock
From confrontation to cooperation – institutional support in building cooperation of Polish enterprises
Authors: Bednarz Joanna Bednarz, , Markiewicz Magdalena Markiewicz 
Published: February 2016

The article presents results of critical theoretical and empirical analysis of cooperation between Polish enterprises based on two models: made by T. Ozawa and M.E. Porter, and followed by market research concerning opportunities to support cooperation of Polish enterprises. Polish companies seem to opt for confrontation as the main market strategy, basing on the development of one company while worsening the position of rivals at the same time. The aim of this paper is to show possibilities in supporting Polish companies to build their capabilities, as well as identifying barriers, in transition from confrontation to cooperation. The article is divided into four parts. In the first part, the stages of development of economy and enterprises in Europe are defined with reference to T. Ozawa model. The analysis covers the internationally recognised innovation indicators with regard to cooperation aspects. In the second part, the authors analyse the essence and forms of cooperation between companies. The third part of the paper concentrates on the market research of the support means available for Polish enterprises. In conclusion, a brief summary of the main findings was given, concerning the opportunities and barriers of institutional approach towards cooperation between Polish enterprises. In the paper, two types of research methods were used: methods of data collection and methods of organizing and processing information, especially methods of systems, cause and logical analysis of institutional support.
Features of Polish companies. Results of the company competitiveness barometer 2014
Authors: Flak Olaf , Głód Grzegorz 
Published: February 2016

In the paper there are results of the research on competitiveness of Polish companies which was conducted within the Company Competitiveness Barometer in 2014. The paper includes a short description of the integrated company competitiveness model, their integral elements and methodology of the research. Then there are results of a competitive potential, a strategy of competition, a competitive advantage, a competitive position of examined companies. 252 companies took part in the Company Competitiveness Barometer 2014. Answers to the survey placed on www.konkurencyjniprzetrwaja.pl allow to get knowledge about a sample of Polish companies in different sectors of economy. The data was also a foundation to verify some theoretical assumptions of the relations between the elements of competitiveness.
The use of the Delphi method as a tool determining management of contemporary economic organisations
Authors: Gajda Waldemar 
Published: February 2016

This article contains a model of a practical conduction of empirical research with the use of the Delphi method deriving from the group of inventive methods. Research material includes tools which directly determine management and operation of contemporary economic organisations. Identification of strategic spheres of operation of business entities was the starting point for the determination of research material. The five most important spheres were selected for this article and then described. The identification of the most important tools determining operation of each of them was made on the basis of the selected strategic spheres. As a result, identification and systematisation of economic and financial and organisational tools in the exogenic and endogenic aspect, determining the operation and development of modern economic entities was made. Subsequently, methodological guidelines were developed and practical use of the Delphi method concerning the research of identified economic and financial as well as organisational tools was presented.
Terapia Comunitária como intervenção na Saúde Mental
Authors: Giffoni Francinete Alves De Oliveira , Vieira Anny Caroline Costa , Matos Ana Bruna Macêdo , Barbosa Jailma Dos Santos 
Published: February 2016

<p>A saúde no Brasil tem passado por diversas mudanças, dentre elas, a aprovação de uma Política Nacional que abrange Práticas Integrativas e Complementares (PNPIC), desde 2006 e, que dá subsídios para se estender a Terapia Comunitária como prática em saúde. Esta modalidade já acontece há bem mais de vinte anos em Fortaleza e, em outras regiões do país. A Terapia Comunitária é uma forma de promoção da saúde orientada para o cuidado emocional. Historicamente tem Início na comunidade do Pirambu em Fortaleza, estado do Ceará. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza descritiva, quantitativa e qualitativa. Participaram 26 pessoas em tratamento no Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - CAPS em Barbalha, estado do Ceará. Participantes da proposta de Terapia Comunitária, implantada enquanto proposta experimental neste Centro. As entrevistas foram realizadas nos momentos dos encontros. O instrumento constou de um questionário, que foi aplicado individualmente. Os resultados demonstraram o seguinte: Quanto as concepções de Terapia Comunitária, uma categoria: Positiva, com três subcategorias: Bem estar, Encontro social e Mudança. Quanto a percepção das principais mudanças proporcionadas através das sessões de Terapia comunitária, duas categorias sobressaíram-se: Melhoria no estado mental e Melhoria nas atitudes. Finalmente, quanto a percepção dos motivos para continuar participando das sessões de Terapia comunitária, duas categorias foram eliciadas: Melhorar a saúde e relacionamentos saudáveis. Conforme verificado, ao participar das sessões de Terapia Comunitária, os entrevistados parecem perceber a importância da mudança da própria atitude no seu processo de cura. Portanto, participar da Terapia Comunitária produziu uma ruptura no cotidiano dos participantes, que relataram a ocorrência de mudanças em suas vidas durante esse período, abrangendo mudanças no estado emocional e mudanças de atitude nas relações familiares, conjugais, amorosas e sociais. </p>
Asynchronous memory access chaining
Authors: Kocberber Onur , Falsafi Babak , Grot Boris 
Published: February 2016

In-memory databases rely on pointer-intensive data structures to quickly locate data in memory. A single lookup operation in such data structures often exhibits long-latency memory stalls due to dependent pointer dereferences. Hiding the memory latency by launching additional memory accesses for other lookups is an effective way of improving performance of pointer-chasing codes (e.g., hash table probes, tree traversals). The ability to exploit such inter-lookup parallelism is beyond the reach of modern out-of-order cores due to the limited size of their instruction window. Instead, recent work has proposed software prefetching techniques that exploit inter-lookup parallelism by arranging a set of independent lookups into a group or a pipeline, and navigate their respective pointer chains in a synchronized fashion. While these techniques work well for highly regular access patterns, they break down in the face of irregularity across lookups. Such irregularity includes variable-length pointer chains, early exit, and read/write dependencies.
This work introduces Asynchronous Memory Access Chaining (AMAC), a new approach for exploiting inter-lookup parallelism to hide the memory access latency. AMAC achieves high dynamism in dealing with irregularity across lookups by maintaining the state of each lookup separately from that of other lookups. This feature enables AMAC to initiate a new lookup as soon as any of the in-flight lookups complete. In contrast, the static arrangement of lookups into a group or pipeline in existing techniques precludes such adaptivity. Our results show that AMAC matches or outperforms state-of-the-art prefetching techniques on regular access patterns, while delivering up to 2.3x higher performance under irregular data structure lookups. AMAC fully utilizes the available microarchitectural resources, generating the maximum number of memory accesses allowed by hardware in both single- and multi-threaded execution modes.
Ego-net community mining applied to friend suggestion
Authors: Epasto Alessandro , Lattanzi Silvio , Mirrokni Vahab , Sebe Ismail Oner , Taei Ahmed , Verma Sunita 
Published: February 2016

In this paper, we present a study of the community structure of ego-networks---the graphs representing the connections among the neighbors of a node---for several online social networks. Toward this goal, we design a new technique to efficiently build and cluster all the ego-nets of a graph in parallel (note that even just building the ego-nets efficiently is challenging on large networks). Our experimental findings are quite compelling: at a microscopic level it is easy to detect high quality communities.
Leveraging on this fact we, then, develop new features for friend suggestion based on co-occurrences of two nodes in different ego-nets' communities. Our new features can be computed efficiently on very large scale graphs by just analyzing the neighborhood of each node. Furthermore, we prove formally on a stylized model, and by experimental analysis that this new similarity measure outperforms the classic local features employed for friend suggestions.
Temporal rules discovery for web data cleaning
Authors: Abedjan Ziawasch , Akcora Cuneyt G. , Ouzzani Mourad , Papotti Paolo , Stonebraker Michael 
Published: February 2016

Declarative rules, such as functional dependencies, are widely used for cleaning data. Several systems take them as input for detecting errors and computing a "clean" version of the data. To support domain experts, in specifying these rules, several tools have been proposed to profile the data and mine rules. However, existing discovery techniques have traditionally ignored the time dimension. Recurrent events, such as persons reported in locations, have a duration in which they are valid, and this duration should be part of the rules or the cleaning process would simply fail.
In this work, we study the rule discovery problem for temporal web data. Such a discovery process is challenging because of the nature of web data; extracted facts are (i) sparse over time, (ii) reported with delays, and (iii) often reported with errors over the values because of inaccurate sources or non robust extractors. We handle these challenges with a new discovery approach that is more robust to noise. Our solution uses machine learning methods, such as association measures and outlier detection, for the discovery of the rules, together with an aggressive repair of the data in the mining step itself. Our experimental evaluation over real-world data from Recorded Future, an intelligence company that monitors over 700K Web sources, shows that temporal rules improve the quality of the data with an increase of the average precision in the cleaning process from 0.37 to 0.84, and a 40% relative increase in the average F-measure.
Effect Of Organic Selenium And Iodine Supplementation On Selenium And Thyroid Hormones Status Of Lactating Ewes And Lambs
Authors: Konečný Roman , Hasoňová Lucie , Trávníček Jan , Samková Eva , Hladký Jan , Křížová Zuzana 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The aim of this research was to determine the influence of 56-days (from day 4 to day 60 post partum) of simultaneous supplementation of selenium (Se) and iodine (I) enriched Chlorella algae on blood and urine Se concentrations and thyroid hormone levels in ewes and lambs. The study included 18 Šumava sheep ewes and their lambs divided into three groups (CON, HSe, HSeI). Selenium and I content in the diet of ewes measured 0.2 and 0.7 mg (CON), 0.4 and 0.7 mg (HSe), 0.4 and 1.3 mg (HSeI) per kg of dry matter. During the experimental period a significantly higher blood serum Se concentration was determined in ewes of the HSeI group (P< 0.001) and urine (P< 0.01). A significantly higher (P< 0.001) blood serum Se concentration was found also in lambs of the HSeI group. The highest Se concentration in the blood serum was recorded in ewes (128.0 μg/L) and lambs (74.2 μg/L) on the 26th day of the experiment. The results demonstrate a higher utilization of Se administered in the organic form accompanied by a higher intake of I applied also in the organic form. Plasma thyroid hormone levels in ewes were not explicitly affected by higher Se and I supplementation. A higher Se concentration in the lambs’ blood serum led to significantly higher (P< 0.05) T3 levels up to 30 days post birth.
Investigations On The Resistance Of Porcine Commensal E. Coli Isolates To Beta Lactams
Authors: Urumova Valentina 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of antibiotic resistance to beta-lactams and to evaluate two resistance genes bla
TEM and bla
OXA-1 in Escherichia coli isolates from faeces on six swine farms in the Republic of Bulgaria. A total of 186 E. coli isolates from 192 faecal swabs were tested by the disk diffusion method to determine resistance patterns to 11 antimicrobial agents. Resistance to beta-lactams was determined by disk diffusion method, E-test, micro-broth dilution method and PCR. About 40.3% of the E. coli isolates from swine were resistant to ampicillin. The highest resistance was observed in E.coli isolates from weaned pigs to ampicillin – 60.0% and to cephalotin – 45.5 %. The E. coli isolates resistant to beta-lactams were examined for the presence of bla
TEM and bla
OXA-1 genes. The most common bla gene identified was bla
TEM, which was found in 92.0% of swine isolates.
Priapism Following hCG Administration In A Cat
Authors: Quaranta Giuseppe , Rota Ada , Dogliero Andrea , Pecchia Flaviana 
Published: February 2016

Abstract
Priapism, defined as a persistent and painful penile erection in the absence of sexual excitation, is an uncommon disorder of cats that usually requires penile amputation and perineal urethrostomy. This report describes a case of priapism in a short-haired Persian male cat aged 3 years. The condition had appeared after attempted mating with a female at the end of oestrus and the time of referral to the authors was 10 days after onset. Previous treatment had consisted of corticosteroids and local lubricants. On physical examination, the cat appeared bright and alert; the penis was erect but the colour was normal; blood analysis excluded viral pathologies. The cat history revealed that he had been treated with 500 IU hCG i.m. because he had to mate with three queens in a short period of time. In consideration of the mild symptoms, conservative treatment was adopted. The condition resolved in about 40 days. This is the first report of priapism following hCG administration in a cat and indicates that the misuse of this gonadotropin might cause potentially harmful side effects.