bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Patients’ experience of Chinese Medicine Primary Care Services: Implications on Improving Coordination and Continuity of Care
Authors: Chung Vincent CH , Yip Benjamin HK , Griffiths Sian M , Yu Ellen LM , Liu Siya , Ho Robin ST , Wu Xinyin , Leung Albert WN , Sit Regina WS , Wu Justin CY , Wong Samuel YS 
Published: December 2015

AbstractChinese medicine (CM) is major form of traditional and complementary medicine used by Chinese populations. Evaluation on patients’ experience on CM service is essential for improving service quality. This cross sectional study aims (i) to assess how CM clinics with different administrative model differ in terms of quality from patients’ perspective; and (ii) to investigate how quality varies with patients’ demographic and health characteristics. Five hundred and sixteen patients were sampled from charity and semi-public CM clinics in Hong Kong and were invited to assess their experience using the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT). Results indicated that overall mean PCAT scoring is satisfactory, achieving 70.7% (91.26/129) of total score. Ratings were lower in areas of “coordination of patient information”, “continuity of care” and “range of service provided”. Impact of administrative models, including involvement of tax-funded healthcare system and outreach delivery, were minimal after adjusting for patient characteristics. Demographic and health characteristics of patients did not contribute to substantial variations in scoring. To improve patient experience, policy makers should consider strengthening care coordination, continuity and comprehensiveness in CM primary care services. Sharing of electronic records and establishing referral system are potential solutions for linking CM and conventional healthcare services.
Network-assisted analysis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome GWAS data in Han Chinese
Authors: Fang Kechi , Zhang Kunlin , Wang Jing 
Published: December 2015

AbstractPrimary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a complex autoimmune disorder. So far, genetic research in pSS has lagged far behind and the underlying biological mechanism is unclear. Further exploring existing genome-wide association study (GWAS) data is urgently expected to uncover disease-related gene combination patterns. Herein, we conducted a network-based analysis by integrating pSS GWAS in Han Chinese with a protein-protein interactions network to identify pSS candidate genes. After module detection and evaluation, 8 dense modules covering 40 genes were obtained for further functional annotation. Additional 31 MHC genes with significant gene-level P-values (sigMHC-gene) were also remained. The combined module genes and sigMHC-genes, a total of 71 genes, were denoted as pSS candidate genes. Of these pSS candidates, 14 genes had been reported to be associated with any of pSS, RA and SLE, including STAT4, GTF2I, HLA-DPB1, HLA-DRB1, PTTG1, HLA-DQB1, MBL2, TAP2, CFLAR, NFKBIE, HLA-DRA, APOM, HLA-DQA2 and NOTCH4. This is the first report of the network-assisted analysis for pSS GWAS data to explore combined gene patterns associated with pSS. Our study suggests that network-assisted analysis is a useful approach to gaining further insights into the biology of associated genes and providing important clues for future research into pSS etiology.
Correction: Patients with polymorphic light eruption have decreased serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D(3) that increase upon 311 nm UVB photohardening
Authors: Gruber-Wackernagel Alexandra , Obermayer-Pietsch Barbara , Byrne Scott N. , Wolf Peter 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Correction for ‘Patients with polymorphic light eruption have decreased serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D(3) that increase upon 311 nm UVB photohardening’ by Peter Wolf et al., Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, 11, 1831–1836.
No Evidence for Intercohort Cannibalism in Mixed-Size Cultures of Food-Size and Fingerling Channel Catfish × Blue Catfish Hybrids Grown in Ponds
Authors: Torrans Les , Ott Brian 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Female Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus × male Blue Catfish I. furcatus hybrids are normally harvested by seining single-batch pond or split-pond production systems in fall or winter. Ponds are typically restocked with fingerlings without draining. There is concern that without completely draining the pond after harvest, food-size hybrids that escape seining may cannibalize restocked fingerlings. The purpose of this study was to determine if such hybrid fingerlings stocked after the fall harvest would be cannibalized by the larger carryover fish during winter or the following growing season. Three 0.04-ha ponds were each stocked on November 25, 2013, with 100 food-size hybrid catfish averaging 1.07 kg. Those three ponds and an additional three ponds were then stocked on November 27, 2013, with 300 hybrid catfish fingerlings averaging 14.8 g. The fish were not fed over winter. Mean survival of the fingerlings after 4 months at 91.9% and 92.9% was not significantly different between treatments. Survival of the food-size fish was 99.7%. Four ponds stocked with fingerling and food-size hybrids and an additional four ponds stocked with just fingerlings in April 2014 were harvested in October. Survival of the fingerlings was not significantly different between ponds with (88.8%) and without (90.3%) food-size fish. We found no significant intercohort cannibalism by food-size hybrid catfish on understocked fingerlings either overwinter or during the following growing season.
Unrefined Peanut Oil as a Lipid Source in Diets for Juveniles of Two-banded Seabream Diplodus vulgaris
Authors: Kesbiç Osman Sabri , Acar Ümit , Yigit Murat , Bulut Musa , Gültepe Nejdet , Yilmaz Sevdan 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
A feeding study with Two-banded Seabream Diplodus vulgaris was conducted to determine the effects of replacement of fish oil (FO) by unrefined peanut oil (PO) on growth performance, feed utilization, body composition, fatty acid composition, and serum biochemical and hematological variables. Three isonitrogenous (35.8%) and isoenergetic (21.15 kJ/g) diets were formulated by replacing dietary FO with PO at levels of level 0% (PO0), 50% (PO50), or 100% (PO100). Fish were fed twice a day until satiation for an experimental period of 8 weeks. The best growth performance was observed in fish fed with the PO0 and PO50 diets. A significant increase was observed in hematocrit and mean corpuscular volume levels of fish fed with PO50 diet compared with the other groups. Hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, total protein, albumin, and globulin were not affected by dietary PO treatment and did not differ among experimental groups. The glucose level was highest in the PO100 group. Triglyceride and cholesterol levels were lower in fish fed diets with PO inclusions than in those fed the control diet. The fatty acid composition of fish was significantly affected by the experimental diets. Glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvictransaminase, lactate dehydrogenase, and alkaline phosphatase were not affected by dietary PO treatment. The n-3:n-6 ratio in fish fed the PO0 diet was also higher than in fish fed the PO-supplemented diets. The results of the present study showed that FO could be substituted by PO up to 50% in Two-banded Seabream diets without any negative effect on growth performance or serum biochemical and hematological features.
Montaigne and History
Authors: Lyons John D. 
Published: December 2015

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Montaigne declared that history was his favorite reading, but his views of history and of the best way to write about it differed considerably from those of contemporary historians. When historians such as Jean Bodin and Étienne Pasquier were emphasizing such historiographical qualities as critical evaluation of accounts of the past, accounts of national origins, periodization, distinct hierarchies of events separating the important from the unimportant, and continuity of major political trends, Montaigne sought to read and record unusual and striking events, regardless of the social importance of the individuals involved. He pioneered a form of historical explanation that emphasized character and private life against event and public performance. Montaigne’s attention was drawn to moments of suspense that would lead to decisive outcomes, and his use of history anticipates developments in early modern literature and drama in the domains of plausibility and dramatic suspense.
Montaigne’s Turn to Modern Philosophy
Authors: Hartle Ann 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Montaigne’s turn to modern philosophy is the turn away from the contemplation of the Whole to the study of himself. He transforms Aristotelian contemplation into “sociable wisdom” by becoming a “new figure” of the philosopher, an “unpremeditated and accidental philosopher.” The new figure of the philosopher is the “social-Subject” (the counterpart of Machiavelli’s “political-Subject” and Descartes’s “epistemological-SSubject”). Montaigne’s invention of the essay is, at the same time, the invention of modern society, a new form of association that overcomes the ancient hierarchy of weak and strong, masters and slaves. The unpremeditated and accidental philosopher does not attain the good as his natural end; he produces the good as his own effect. Society, then, has a philosophical, not a natural, origin. Montaigne’s “originality” is to be this origin.
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Authors: Hamlin William M. 
Published: December 2015

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This article examines the history of critical efforts to trace the nature and extent of Shakespeare’s reliance upon Montaigne. Such efforts began in the late eighteenth century with the English scholar Edward Capell, and they have continued quite vigorously up to the present. In addition, the article raises a number of key cognate questions: What constitutes evidence in an investigation of this sort? When does verbal reliance amount to intellectual dependence? What do we stand to gain if we cease to look for relations of influence and focus instead on synchronic affinities between Montaigne and Shakespeare? Does Shakespeare exhibit resistance to Montaignian thought? And why do the potential links between these extraordinarily independent writers continue to fascinate scholars of early modern literature?
Montaigne and Descartes
Authors: Moriarty Michael 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
Descartes’s exposition of his search for truth in the Discourse on the Method draws on Montaigne’s self-presentation in the Essays as well as on the recurrent metaphors of the “Apology for Raymond Sebond.” In his construction of reliable knowledge he is assisted by Montaigne’s demolition of existing knowledge-structures. Though claiming to achieve certainty on issues Montaigne proclaims philosophically doubtful (such as the existence of God and the nature of the soul), he emphasizes God’s transcendence of human reason; nor does his dualism deny the embodied nature of human experience, on which Montaigne insists. But, contrary to Montaigne, Descartes insists on the gulf between humans and animals.
Montaigne on Virtue and Ethics
Authors: Langer Ullrich 
Published: December 2015

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This article distinguishes three approaches to Montaigne’s Essays from the perspective of ethics: first, a view of the writer as an agreeable friend or companion to us, and his writing as a compilation of charming practical advice on how to get more out of life; second, Montaigne as a systematic moral philosopher, despite his often unsystematic writing, arguing for propositions that he defends more or less well with proofs and examples; third, Montaigne’s Essays as arising out of a moral culture steeped in the virtues that are incarnated in actions and narrative and assume praise and blame and judgment. I follow this third approach, defining virtue as a deliberate and habitual activity, analyzing several chapters that deal explicitly with different virtues and often the difficulty in discerning and judging them (especially temperance, prudence, courage), and then considering the question of whether Montaigne represents himself as a virtuous man.
Montaigne on Friendship
Authors: MacPhail Eric 
Published: December 2015

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This article surveys the numerous permutations and repercussions, political, ethical, and esthetic, of the hallowed notion of friendship in Montaigne’s Essays. It also studies the literary genealogy and intertextual relations of friendship in the classical and vernacular tradition. The fiction of friendship has sustained a long tradition in Montaigne studies and is no doubt one of Montaigne’s most generous gifts to posterity. Friendship in the Essays is by turns an artistic passion, a civil liberty, and a political profession, metamorphosizing and adapting through the different phases of composition. In this process, the written word remains the most trusted repository of friendship. The mutual obligation of author and book offers a most modern formulation of friendship.
The Humanist Tradition and Montaigne
Authors: O'Brien John 
Published: December 2015

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In contrast to the wider-ranging if loose definitions that are frequently given of humanism, the definition adopted in this chapter owes much to Kristeller’s study of the term umanista. Concentrating on classical scholarship and the new areas of knowledge and understanding it opened up, this essay deals with education, theology, law, and medicine, four key areas in Montaigne’s humanism and in his relationships with the humanists of his time. The argument is put forward that it is the story of knowledge itself that is at stake in his discussion of humanism. The chapter tries to demonstrate how Montaigne’s conception of humanism emphasizes a dynamic approach to the materials contemporary humanists produced.
Montaigne on Aging
Authors: Skenazi Cynthia 
Published: December 2015

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Scholars have long seen in Montaigne’s turn inward, toward a psychological and philosophical investigation of human identity a mark of the modernity of the Essays, but they have focused on a static conception of the self, without taking into account Montaigne’s emphasis on his decline. This article discusses the essayist’s pervasive references to his old age as a way to relate to oneself, the other, the world, and to his literary endeavor. The portrait of the writer as a man growing old is embedded in the systems of knowledge of the day, yet Montaigne’s pragmatic reflections on how to adjust to the damages of time on his physical and cognitive capacities still speak to us.
Montaigne
Authors: Schiffman Zachary Sayre 
Published: December 2015

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This article shows how Montaigne’s Essays can clarify the problem of historical periodization by demonstrating the differences between early modern, modern, and postmodern sensibilities. These terms have arisen in the wake of disputes over Jacob Burckhardt’s interpretation of the Renaissance, offering the appearance of a more value-free alternative to his period scheme. An examination of the Essays, however, reveals that these terms are not mere chronological markers but embody crucial, normative differences. In contrast to the modern sensibility that perceives selfhood as the product of historical and cultural context, Montaigne regarded it as reflected in, rather than shaped by, his context. This early modern tendency engendered in him a form of radical relativism akin to that of postmodernism, a form of relativism that appeals to twenty-first-century readers and that can provide a new orientation in a complex world.
Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View
Authors: Digeser P. E. 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
This chapter reviews Steven Lukes’ 1974 book Power: A Radical View (PRV). It begins by addressing the debate that erupted in the 1950s and 1960s between those who believed that power was concentrated in the hands of a few and those who argued that power was distributed “pluralistically.” It then considers a set of deeper philosophical/theoretical debates that supported Lukes’ own position, citing Antonio Gramsci’s claim that hegemony could be secured through ideology in which the ideas of the ruling class became the ruling ideas. It also examines Lukes’ approach to conceptual analysis and his distinction between the concept and conception of power, focusing specifically on his view that binding together power, agency, and responsibility was dependent on an understanding of responsibility. Finally, the chapter assesses the impact of PRV on debates over concepts such as authority, interests, and domination, and on issues surrounding agency, intentionality, responsibility, and structure.
The Impact of War and the Costs of Superpower Status
Authors: Edele Mark 
Published: December 2015

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Rather than recount the history of postwar society as a story of successive regimes identified with individual leaders, this chapter takes a thematic approach concentrating on the state’s attempts to balance the demands of international security against its ability to supply resources to the Soviet people. By the 1970s, the level of defence spending made it impossible to guarantee universal well-being and a good life through the official economy. So instead the state focused its attention on war veterans—a subgroup which by then encompassed most of the older generation—while allowing the rest of the citizenry to privatize everyday life. Soviet society’s spontaneous solutions to the war and postwar crises—suburban gardening at the dacha, barter, legal and illegal trade—thus became the base of the late socialist economy, while the new social entity born out of the war became a central status group in late socialist society.
How Genetics Can Inform Health Economics
Authors: Wehby George 
Published: December 2015

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This chapter reviews the main pathways through which genes can relate to health and health determinants, focusing on channels of primary interest to health economics research. Research implications and methodological considerations for using genetic data in health economics applications are also discussed, as is the potential for informing policy-making. As knowledge of the genetic architecture of outcomes and traits of interest to health economics expands, incorporating genetic data in health economics research is likely to become more fruitful, including in providing policy-relevant findings. However, identifying genetic variants and mechanisms that explain a substantial fraction of the heritability of complex human traits will take time. Meanwhile, research can continue to achieve piecewise advances in knowledge on interplays between genes and the environment in shaping health, preferences, and human capital.
Biological Measures of Well-Being
Authors: Steckel Richard H. 
Published: December 2015

AbstractBeginning with Bismarck’s Germany in the late 19th century, nations gave increasing attention to measures of well-being while traveling the path to welfare states of the 20th century. Following the ascent of the germ theory of disease, governments could play a large and cost-effective role in serving public health and national competitiveness. The Great Depression energized the creation of a second important policy tool, national income accounts. This chapter discusses the evolution and application of biological measures of well-being, with comparisons to per capita gross domestic product from vital registration and life tables to morbidity and to anthropometric measures such as stature, weight, and skeletal remains. Recently, surveys of happiness have entered scholarly debate.
Twins Studies in Economics
Authors: Behrman Jere 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThis chapter describes strengths and limitations of three twins methods developed in economics: control for unobserved genetic and family background endowments using monozygotic (MZ) twins fixed effects (FE) to estimate e.g. impacts of schooling on wages, health, and other outcomes; estimation of key parameters in intrafamilial models of investment in children using MZ and dizygotic (DZ) twins; and investigation of familial responses to fertility shocks within the quantity-quality fertility model using MZs and DZs. It also describes strengths and limitations of a fourth twins method used most widely outside of economics: variance decomposition of phenotypes into genetic and environmental components to obtain heritability estimates with additive genetics, common environment and unique environment (ACE) models using MZs and DZs. The chapter concludes that the first three twins methods remain valuable for learning about important empirical parameters in economics despite development of genetic sequencing. The fourth method is less useful in economics.
Race, Class, and Politics in the Black Community
Authors: Pattillo Mary 
Published: December 2015

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Class is an underdeveloped concept in both formal and informal U.S. political discourse. There is little historical or sustained popular discourse on elites, workers, the bourgeoisie, or the unemployed. Nonetheless, class is still a crucial axis upon which people organize themselves politically and through which political messages are pitched. This chapter offers a definition of class as that system of stratification that is rooted in economic productivity, resources, or capacities. It then lays out the role of class in racial and ethnic politics by focusing on cross-class political cleavages and unity within the African-American community. I develop the concept of black middlemen and middlewomen who act as brokers of political, economic, and symbolic resources. Such brokerage can alternately result in collective empowerment or internal class domination. I conclude by adding gender to the discussion of class, race, and politics to highlight the importance of an intersectional framework.
Bodies and persons
Authors: Perego Elisa 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThis chapter offers a critical review of the main research approaches focusing on the body and the notion of the person in archaeology. Particular emphasis is placed upon research trends that have emerged in the last thirty years, as this period witnessed the increasing importance of such themes in archaeological analysis. Initially, I discuss three research agendas that have approached the human body from a positivist viewpoint, largely drawing on research methodologies developed in the ‘hard sciences’ (i.e. bioarchaeology, processualism, and Darwinian and evolutionary archaeology). Secondly, I discuss approaches that tend to explore the person as both a social and a biological entity, thereby focusing on the socio-cultural practices through which past people were ‘constructed’ differently in different cultural contexts (i.e. postprocessualism and interpretative archaeology). In the final sections of the chapter I critically assess two major strands that have largely developed from this second framework, namely gender and personhood.
Materiality in Theory
Authors: Plotz John 
Published: December 2015

Abstract
The role that things, commodities, and ‘reification’ played in the writing of Marx and Dickens—as well as in the daily practice of nineteenth-century Britons—explains the Victorianist claim to intellectual priority when it comes to ‘thing theory’. Yet it is not easy to find helpful paradigms for explaining the distinctiveness of how Victorian thinkers make sense of the materiality of their habitus. Recent philosophical ‘object-centred’ approaches are generally unproductive when applied to the literary realm, while the anthropological bias towards rendering all study of objects the study of their social/communal function misses important, and distinctive, aesthetic features. Recent work by Isobel Armstrong, Leah Price, and others, however, suggests one approach: making sense of Victorian materiality and Victorian conceptions of materiality by considering Victorian books as the medium upon which representation occurs as well as a potential subject of such representation.