bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposure and Heart Disease Mortality Risks by Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Authors: Parker Jennifer D. , Kravets Nataliya , Vaidyanathan Ambarish 
Published: December 2017

Background:
Most US studies of mortality and air pollution have been conducted on largely non-Hispanic white study populations. However, many health and mortality outcomes differ by race and ethnicity, and non-Hispanic white persons experience lower air pollution exposure than those who are non-Hispanic black or Hispanic. This study examines whether associations between air pollution and heart disease mortality differ by race/ethnicity.

Methods:

We used data from the 1997 to 2009 National Health Interview Survey linked to mortality records through December 2011 and annual estimates of fine particulate matter (PM
2.5
) by census tract. Proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals between PM
2.5
(per 10 µg/m
3
) and heart disease mortality using the full sample and the sample adults, which have information on additional health variables. Interaction terms were used to examine differences in the PM
2.5
-mortality association by race/ethnicity.

Results:

Overall, 65 936 of the full sample died during follow-up, and 22 152 died from heart disease. After adjustment for several factors, we found a significant positive association between PM
2.5
and heart disease mortality (hazard ratio, 1.16; 95% confidence interval, 1.08–1.25). This association was similar in sample adults with adjustment for smoking and body mass index (hazard ratio, 1.18; 95% confidence interval, 1.06–1.31). Interaction terms for non-Hispanic black and Hispanic groups compared with the non-Hispanic white group were not statistically significant.

Conclusions:

Using a nationally representative sample, the association between PM
2.5
and heart disease mortality was elevated and similar to previous estimates. Associations for non-Hispanic black and Hispanic adults were not statistically significantly different from those for non-Hispanic white adults.
Medical Crises and Critical Days in Avicenna and After: Insights from the Commentary Tradition
Authors: Cooper Glen M. 
Published: December 2017

Conceptualized as a relationship between the patient, his illness, its resolution, the celestial bodies, and the doctor, and expressed through metaphors, such as divine judgment, or effects of the stars, crises and critical days were important elements of Galenic therapy. While the early Arabic physicians maintained Galenic imagery, Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037 CE) and his followers introduced new imagery that omitted supernatural influences, and emphasized physical agents. The crisis was now described as a separation instead of a verdict, and the critical days were caused by the lunar phases alone. The “body politic” metaphor was introduced to describe medical crises. By closely examining the writings of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288 CE) on the Canon of Ibn Sīnā and the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, these shifts in imagery are analysed in detail, and their implications for our understanding of a period that has been dismissed as “post-decline” and devoid of innovation.
Labor Analgesia as a Predictor for Reduced Postpartum Depression Scores: A Retrospective Observational Study
Authors: Lim Grace , Farrell Lia M. , Facco Francesca L. , Gold Michael S. , Wasan Ajay D. 
Published: December 2017

BACKGROUND:
Using labor, epidural analgesia has been linked to a reduced risk of postpartum depression, but the role of labor pain relief in this association remains unclear. The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that effective epidural analgesia during labor is associated with reduced postpartum depression symptomatology.

METHODS:
A single, institutional, retrospective, observational cohort design was chosen. The primary outcome was Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) score, measured at the 6-week postpartum visit. Subjects included in the final analysis had (1) received labor epidural analgesia; (2) pain assessed during labor both before and during initiation of labor epidural analgesia by 0–10 numeric rating scores; and (3) depression risk assessed by the EPDS and documented at their 6-week postpartum visit. Simple and multiple linear regression was used to identify the best model for assessing the association between pain improvement, defined as percent improvement in pain (PIP), and depression, after adjusting for a history of anxiety or depression, other psychiatric history, abuse, trauma, mode of delivery, and other maternal or fetal comorbid diseases.

RESULTS:
Two hundred one patients were included in the final analysis. Women with higher improvements in pain were associated with lower EPDS scores (r = 0.025; P = .002). Variables known to be associated with depression (body mass index, anxiety and/or depression, third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations, and anemia) were significantly correlated with EPDS score and included in the final model. After we adjusted for these covariates, PIP remained a significant predictor of EPDS score (r = 0.49; P = .008), accounting for 6.6% of the variability in postpartum depression scores. The full model including pain, body mass index, anxiety and/or depression, perineal lacerations, and anemia explained 24% of the variability in postpartum depression scores.

CONCLUSIONS:
Although the extent of labor pain relief by epidural analgesia predicts lower postpartum depression scores, the relative contribution of PIP to risk for postpartum depression symptoms may be less than other established risk factors for depression. These data support that the clinical significance of labor analgesia in the development of postpartum depression needs to be more clearly defined.
Brand references and music video intertextuality: Lessons from Summer Girls and She Looks So Perfect
Authors: Lascity Myles Ethan 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This article seeks to analyse the use of fashion brands in two pop music videos: LFO’s Summer Girls and 5 Seconds of Summer’s She Looks So Perfect. The analysis takes a multimodal discourse and intertextual approach, by teasing out the uses of the brand name and the imagery of the music videos, in order to compare the video-brand relations in each. Through this analysis, it is possible to see this intertextuality as a dialectic relationship that provides a unique meaning for each, while also evaluating the desirability of both. Moreover, using each pairing as a stand-in for cultural messages presented to teens, it is possible to tease out representational issues between the release of Summer Girls in 1999 and She Looks So Perfect in 2014. This suggests changes in sexual behaviour, the increasing sexualization of western society and general consumption habits, with less movement in representations of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Elsa Klensch: The inventor of fashion television
Authors: Arrington Deidra W. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
A show created and hosted by Elsa Klensch, a former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor, brought exclusive runway shows from global fashion capitals to a new and very receptive audience. Fashion had been acknowledged as a serious and an occasional news topic, but until 1980, the year Style with Elsa Klensch (1980–2001) was first broadcast, fashion coverage was both limited and sporadic. Her new show very soon became popular with viewers – of all ages. Klensch was arguably the inventor of the ‘fashion television’ we take for granted.
Experiencing Online Orchestra: Communities, connections and music-making through telematic performance
Authors: Rofe Michael , Geelhoed Erik , Hodsdon Laura 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Telematic performance offers significant potential for musicians in remote communities to perform together, increasing access to the type of ensemble music-making that is commonplace in urban areas. This article presents a range of perspectives taken from interviews with participants in the Online Orchestra pilot performance. Participants highlight the significant potential of telematic performance to overcome the challenge of music-making in geographically remote communities. The feasibility of making music in latency-rich environments is corroborated, as is the importance of the conductor in telematic performance. Suggestions are given for the fine tuning of peripheral equipment, and a preference emerges for the more traditional and simple music commissioned by the project.
A rare cause of hypophysitis: tuberculosis
Authors: Ates Ihsan , Katipoglu B. , Copur B. , Yilmaz N. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Objectives. Hypophysitis is a heterogeneous inflammatory disease of pituitary gland. As it causes headache and visual defects, it mimics sellar tumors in clinical and radiological aspects. It may occur due to primary or secondary causes. Tuberculosis is one of the rare secondary causes of the hypophysitis. Subject and Results. A 30-year-old male patient presented with fatigue and headache. Panhypopituitarism was considered due to the results and the diagnostic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed sagittal section diamater of pituitary gland higher than normal. Biopsy of the pituitary gland was concordant with the granulomatous hypophysitis. Other possible diagnosis was excluded. Conclusion. The tubercular hypophysitis, as a result of performed tests, is discussed hereby, in the case report.
The Constitutional Court and Others in Romanian Constitutionalism – 25 Years After
Authors: Selejan-Guțan Bianca 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The current Romanian constitutional system, established in 1991, has undergone numerous formal and informal developments in the last 25 years. The main issues that arose in the decade since the country’s adhesion to the European Union were the respect for the rule of law, independence of the judiciary and the fight against corruption. In this context, the Constitutional Court has been one of the central elements of the rule of law guarantee in Romania. This paper intends to present a critical overview of the actual role of the Constitutional Court in the Romanian constitutional system, in the different contexts that link the Court with ‘others’, ie mainly with State powers (the Court itself being and independent organ, placed outside the judicial power).
Al2O3-CeO2 Oxides: Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation as Catalytic Supports in Benzene Combustion. Surface Ceria Effects
Authors: Pérez-Pastenes Hugo , Barrales-Cortés César A. , Viveros Tomás 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Al2O3-CeO2 sol-gel oxides were obtained at ceria loadings of 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 wt.%, calcined at 700 °C and characterized by N2 physisorption, XRD, TEM, 27Al MAS-NMR, and TPR. All samples present high amounts of surface ceria species and bulk ceria has significant presence from 20 wt.% of ceria. The sample with 50 wt.% presents both the reduction of bulk and interfacial ceria species and X-ray diffraction peaks corresponding to cerianite phase. Surface ceria dispersion degree (surface ceria/total reduced ceria) was determined to be 100 % for samples with 2 and 5 wt.% CeO2, with a slight decrease to ca. 90 % and 75 % for samples with 10 and 20 wt.% CeO2 respectively, and a lower value of 41 % for the sample with 50 wt.% CeO2. It was found the amount of surface ceria has a good correlation with the amount of AlV sites, indicating that incorporated Ce ions distorts the alumina matrix and restricts the amount of surface ceria. Platinum supported on these materials showed that the catalytic activity in benzene combustion for oxygen-depleted environments increased as the surface ceria concentration increased.
Linguistic variation and legal representation in legislative discourse: A corpus-based multi-dimensional study
Authors: Sun Yuxiu , Cheng Le 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This study starts with the multi-dimensional analysis of describing linguistic variation in legislative discourse through three corpora (Chinese legislative corpus, the corresponding English translation corpus and American legislative corpus). Based on the findings from the multi-dimensional data derived from the factor analysis, contrastive interpretations are provided for related legal representations. This study then goes further to apply the corpus-based multi-dimensional analytical approach, deducing total 53 features into 5 interpretable underlying dimensions, represented as: Dimension 1 Involved Production vs. Specialized Information Density; Dimension 2 Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Discourse; Dimension 3 Author-centered Explicitness vs. Situational-dependent Reference; Dimension 4 Overly vs. Not Overly Expression of Persuasion; and Dimension 5 Abstract Description vs. Non-impersonal Style. After the analysis of certain typical patterns among these five dimensions, this study identifies and discusses four legal representations (non-narrative and explicitness, high informational density, the decontextualized style, and less overly persuasion) as key features represented in legislative discourse. Finally, general characteristics, tendencies and preferences identified in the three types of legislative texts are further deduced and interpreted from jurisprudential perspectives.
Is there a relationship between delivery mode and serum irisin levels in pregnant women?
Authors: Haberal Esra Tuştaş , Ulu İpek , Özcan Cemile , Gök Gülden Aday , Kıran Gürkan , Kucur Mine 
Published: December 2017

Abstract

Background:
The aim of our study was to find out whether exercise of the pelvic muscles during vaginal delivery increases maternal and cord blood irisin levels.

Methods:
This prospective study included 20 patients who vaginally delivered their babies and 20 patients that underwent elective cesarean section. In the vaginal delivery group, delivery occured either spontaneously or by induction. In the other group, the patients were electively operated before uterine contractions started. We compared serum irisin levels of the two groups and cord blood irisin levels of the babies of these mothers.

Results:
There was no statistically significant difference in maternal serum irisin levels between the two groups (p>0.05). We also found no statistically significant difference in cord blood irisin levels (p>0.05). The positive correlation between maternal and cord blood irisin levels was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). We also detected a significant positive correlation between maternal irisin levels and BMI in our study (p<0.05).

Conclusions:
Irisin is a challenging molecule. Although we did not find a significant difference in the irisin levels of women according to the method of delivery, we feel that further investigations are warranted.
American postmodern poetic texts: in search of rhythmicity
Authors: Zabuzhanska Inna 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
This paper highlights the results of the experimental phonetic research on American postmodern poetic texts, voiced by their authors. The acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency, duration, and intensity of rhythmic groups proves their rhythm-creating ability. Arrhythmicity is seen as a means of creating the effect of defeated expectancy, emphasizing those speech fragments, which are crucial in the decoding of the author’s intention.
How Do Public Libraries Assist Small Businesses in Rural Communities? An Exploratory Qualitative Study in Tennessee
Authors: Mehra Bharat , Bishop Bradley Wade , Partee II Robert P. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how public libraries assist small businesses in rural communities in the state of Tennessee in the United States. Tennessee’s rural residents, especially in its Appalachian counties, face debilitating economic and social challenges such as inadequate financial prospects, information poverty, unemployment and low degrees of information literacy and educational attainment. The article presents findings from interviews and focus groups with 25 public library small business liaison representatives gathering input about their needs, expectations and experiences with rural public libraries. The foci are the existing and proposed ways rural public libraries provide small business assistance and identify components of a
Evaluation of the Role of Inventory Management in Logistics Chain of an Organisation
Authors: Oluwaseyi Joseph Afolabi , Onifade Morakinyo Kehinde , Odeyinka Olumide F. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The operation of inventory management determines the efficiency of storage of products. The progress in techniques and management principles improves the moving load, delivery speed, service quality, operation costs, the usage of facilities and energy saving. Inventory management takes a crucial part in the manipulation of logistics. Reviewing the current condition, a strong system needs a clear frame of logistics and a proper inventory implements and techniques to link the producing procedures. The objective of the paper is to define the role of inventory management in logistics for the reference of further improvement. The research was undertaken to assist logistics managers, researchers and inventory planners to define and comprehend the basic views of logistics and its various applications and the relationships between logistics and inventory.
Research on Demand for Bus Transport and Transport Habits of High School Students in Žilina Region
Authors: Konečný Vladimír , Berežný Róbert , Petro František , Trnovcová Martina 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The paper deals with the analysis of demand for bus transport to examine determinants of demand and practices of high school students based on survey of their transport habits in Žilina Region. Transport habits of students are individual and variable in time. This group of passengers is dependent on public passenger transport services because of their travelling to schools. Significant part of demand for public passenger transport is also formed by this this group of passengers. The knowledge of student's transport habits may help in process of adaptation of offering and quality of transport serviceability what may subsequently stabilize demand for public passenger transport.
Crystal structure of bis(N′-((1H-pyrrol-2-yl)methylene)-1-methylthio-methanethiohydrazido-κ2
S,N)nickel(II), C14H16N6NiS4
Authors: Lin Long , Zhu Ling-Hao , Wang Yuan 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
C14H16N6NiS4, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 8.817(16) Å, b = 10.172(17) Å, c = 10.043(17) Å, β = 97.77(4)°, V = 892(3) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0788, wRgt(F2) = 0.1962, T = 296 K.
Sustainable Oil and Profitable Wind
Authors: Hoffmann Jochen , Kristensen Maria E. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Companies are confronted with differing public perceptions, which influence the way in which they present their social and environmental responsibilities. Our qualitative study compares the online responsibility communication of two companies from the energy sector: Shell, representing the controversial but profitable oil industry; and Vestas, representing the sustainable wind industry, the financial competitiveness of which is sometimes called into question. The website analysis reveals that both companies engage in inverted positioning. They invert perceived weaknesses into strengths: Shell highlights its social and environmental responsibilities, whereas Vestas, instead of capitalising on its potential as a CSR brand, highlights its economic responsibility. Theoretically, we integrate inverted positioning into a constitutive process model of responsibility communication. Inverted positioning might lead either to a reputational downward spiral, making a company less credible in the longer term, or the public communication of contested responsibilities functions as a self-imposed ambition that can, over time, induce substantial corporate learning processes.
Parasites and endobiotic fungi in digestive gland cryosections of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Northern Adriatic, Croatia
Authors: Kovačić Ines , Pustijanac Emina 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Histology has been used in the past to investigate the effects of diseases and parasite infections in native mussel populations that are often used as sentinel species in coastal environmental monitoring and as stock in mariculture. This paper presents the first study of parasite diversity using cryosections of the Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 digestive gland. Mussels were sampled across the annual cycle at two sampling sites: St. Andrew and ACI Marina in the Northern Adriatic (Croatia). The protozoan of the genus Nematopsis Schneider, 1892 (Apicomplexa, Gregarina) was detected in digestive tubules, while the turbellarian (Urastomidae) Urastoma cyprinae von Graff, 1913 was found in the connective tissue at the edge of the digestive gland. The filamentous fungus Alternaria sp. (Fungi, Ascomycota) was detected in epithelial cells of the digestive tubule in cryosections. Nematopsis sp. occurred with the prevalence ranging from 20 to 100%, and the intensity of infection in less than 30 oocysts in most of the cases. U. cyprinae was detected in mussels sampled at St. Andrew and had a prevalence of 20% in September. Conidia of Alternaria sp. were found in mussels sampled at St. Andrew in September and November. Cryosections provide a useful and affordable means for monitoring parasites and endobiotic fungi.
New records and redescriptions of three Cyprididae ostracods(Crustacea) from Turkey
Authors: Rasouli Hamidreza , Aygen Cem 
Published: December 2017

Abstract

Hemicypris vulgaris Okubo, 1990, Stenocypris bolieki Ferguson, 1962 and Bradleystrandesia parva (Hartmann, 1964) are reported from a tributary of the Gönen River (Balikesir) in Turkey. Hemicypris vulgaris is reported for the first time from Turkey. The finding of Bradleystrandesia parva is especially important as its original description is brief and inadequate. This paper provides details of redetection of the three species and comments on their variability and possible cryptic speciation.
Thermal cycling of composite laminates made of out-of-autoclave materials
Authors: Mahdavi Soheila , Gupta Shambhu Kumar , Hojjati Mehdi 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer material has been widely used in space/aerospace industries for manufacturing of spacecraft structures, satellite panels and antennas. In space, composites can be subjected to periodic thermal cycling (TC) in which temperature ranges from −196°C to 180°C, depending on the operational condition. The effect of TC on the properties of flat laminates made of unidirectional (UD) and fabric out-of-autoclave (OOA) material will be presented. Flat laminates were made using the recommended cure cycle by the material supplier. Then, the samples were cut and subjected to the thermal cycle. To do so, the samples were dipped into liquid nitrogen (−196°C) and then transferred to the oven (140°C). After different numbers of cycles (30, 60, 100, 150 and 200), the cross section of the specimens was examined under a microscope for microcrack detection. Other mechanical and physical properties including interlaminar shear strength, storage modulus and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) were measured. It was identified that TC can affect the examined properties by two competing factors: (i) more cross-linking in the polymer chain due to post-curing at high temperature during TC and (ii) microcrack formation due to the induced thermal stresses as a result of the matrix/fiber CTE mismatch. It was found that TC can cause microcrack formation and propagation around the voids in the laminate and affect its properties. Depending on the size and shape of the void, microcracks can form at different stages of TC.