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Web-Based Stress Management for Newly Diagnosed Patients With Cancer (STREAM): A Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Intervention Study
Authors: Urech Corinne , Grossert Astrid , Alder Judith , Scherer Sandra , Handschin Barbara , Kasenda Benjamin , Borislavova Borislava , Degen Sven , Erb Jennifer , Faessler Alexandra , Gattlen Laura , Schibli Sarah , Werndli Celine , Gaab Jens , Berger Thomas , Zumbrunn Thomas , Hess Viviane 
Published: January 2018

PurposeBeing diagnosed with cancer causes major psychological distress; however, a majority of patients lack psychological support during this critical period. Internet interventions help patients overcome many barriers to seeking face-to-face support and may thus close this gap. We assessed feasibility and efficacy of Web-based stress management (STREAM [Stress-Aktiv-Mindern]) for newly diagnosed patients with cancer.Patients and MethodsIn a randomized controlled trial, patients with cancer who had started first-line treatment within the previous 12 weeks were randomly assigned to a therapist-guided Web-based intervention or a wait-list (control), stratified according to distress level (≥ 5 v < 5 on scale of 0 to 10). Primary efficacy end point was quality of life after the intervention (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Fatigue). Secondary end points included distress (Distress Thermometer) and anxiety or depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). Treatment effect was assessed with analyses of covariance, adjusted for baseline distress.ResultsA total of 222 of 229 screened patients applied online for participation. Between September 2014 and November 2016, 129 newly diagnosed patients with cancer, including 92 women treated for breast cancer, were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 65) or control (n = 64) group. Adherence was good, with 80.0% of patients using ≥ six of eight modules. Psychologists spent 13.3 minutes per week (interquartile range, 9.5-17.9 minutes per week) per patient for online guidance. After the intervention, quality of life was significantly higher (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Fatigue: mean, 8.59 points; 95% CI, 2.45 to 14.73 points; P = .007) and distress significantly lower (Distress Thermometer: mean, −0.85; 95% CI, −1.60 to −0.10; P = .03) in the intervention group as compared with the control. Changes in anxiety or depression were not significant in the intention-to-treat population (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: mean, −1.28; 95% CI, −3.02 to 0.45; P = .15). Quality of life increased in the control group with the delayed intervention.ConclusionThe Web-based stress management program STREAM is feasible and effective in improving quality of life.
Accurate RNA Sequencing From Formalin-Fixed Cancer Tissue to Represent High-Quality Transcriptome From Frozen Tissue
Authors: Li Jialu , Fu Chunxiao , Speed Terence P. , Wang Wenyi , Symmans W. Fraser 
Published: January 2018

Purpose Accurate transcriptional sequencing (RNA-seq) from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor samples presents an important challenge for translational research and diagnostic development. In addition, there are now several different protocols to prepare a sequencing library from total RNA. We evaluated the accuracy of RNA-seq data generated from FFPE samples in terms of expression profiling. Methods We designed a biospecimen study to directly compare gene expression results from different protocols to prepare libraries for RNA-seq from human breast cancer tissues, with randomization to fresh frozen (FF) or FFPE conditions. The protocols were compared using multiple computational methods to assess alignment of reads to a reference genome, the uniformity and continuity of coverage, the variance and correlation of overall gene expression, patterns of measuring coding sequence, phenotypic patterns of gene expression, and measurements from representative multigene signatures. Results The principal determinant of variance in gene expression was use of exon capture probes, followed by the conditions of preservation (FF v FFPE) and phenotypic differences between breast cancers. One protocol, with RNase H-based ribosomal RNA depletion, exhibited the least variability of gene expression measurements and strongest correlation between FF and FFPE samples and was generally representative of the transcriptome from standard FF RNA-seq protocols. Conclusion Method of RNA-seq library preparation from FFPE samples had a marked effect on the accuracy of gene expression measurement compared with matched FF samples. Nevertheless, some protocols produced highly concordant expression data from FFPE RNA-seq data, compared with RNA-seq results from matched frozen samples.
A regional romance of the storming of the art museum: Cultural contradictions of The Lionel Lindsay Art Gallery and Library
Authors: Althofer Jayson 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This article examines cultural contradictions of a regional Australiana collection, namely The Lionel Lindsay Art Gallery and Library (Lindsay Collection). This collection was established in Toowoomba by W. R. F. Bolton (1905–73), opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1959 and rehoused at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery in the mid-1990s. Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961) was, among many other identities, an artist, critic and tastemaker who condemned ‘the mob invasion of Art’ and disseminated a catastrophist cultural politics. For Lindsay, the collection named in his honour was a microcosm of ‘old traditional Australia’, before the nation and the art museum were stormed by ‘mass’ culture. The vanguard of that storming was modernism, which he viewed as a manifestation of mass-cultural fashion and sensationalism. Lindsay himself, however, had been a sensationalist newspaper illustrator and fashionable commercial artist from the 1890s to the 1920s; examples of his work for mass cultural forms are held in the collection. Drawing on museological lemmas by Quiccheberg and Bataille, and on Frankfurt School theses, this article presents a critical overview of contradictory cultural drives and vectors integral to the Lindsay Collection’s formation in the 1950s. Cultural contradictions of the collection are analysed not as idiosyncrasies of Lindsay and Bolton’s collecting praxes, but as symptomatic of the condition of cultural heritage in commodity society.
Phytoplankton response to fish-induced environmental changes in a temperate shallow pond-type lake
Authors: Napiórkowska-Krzebietke Agnieszka 
Published: January 2018

AbstractSince 1967, the temperate, shallow, pond-type Lake Warniak has been subjected to different biomanipulation methods including the introduction of common carp,Cyprinus carpioL., grass carp,Ctenopharyngodon idella(Val.), silver carp,Hypophthalmichthys molitrix(Val.), and bighead carp,Hypophthalmichthys nobilis(Richardson) and then their removal in an effort to control macrophytes and phytoplankton. Recently, pilot stocking with predatory fish, particularly pike,Esox luciusL., has also been conducted. Hence, an examination of the long-term response patterns of phytoplankton to multiple fish-induced stressors was undertaken. In recent years,Charadomination (2000-2004) has helped to stabilize a clear-water state, high/good ecological status, and meso-eutrophic conditions. After the disappearance of Charales in 2004, the rapid, unstable changes in phytoplankton biomass, structure, and biodiversity suggested a shift toward a turbid-water state. As a result, the phytoplankton assemblages changed from those dominated by cryptophytes Y+X2+X1+LO(2000-2004) through those dominated by cyanobacteria K (2005-2008), dinoflagellates LO+Y (2009-2011), and cryptophytes Y+LO+F+X2 (2012), to those dominated by diatoms D+K+P+A (2013-2014) with representative taxa that occur in nutrient-rich and/or nutrient-poor water bodies. The 1967-2014 changes indicated that four periods, two with clear-water state and two with turbid-water state, alternately, one after the other, resulted from different fish pressure. Higher autochthonous fish biomass was usually accompanied by lower phytoplankton biomass. In contrast, the introduction of Cyprinidae fish had a stimulating effect on summer phytoplankton dominated by cyanobateria. Among the nutrients, only phosphorus played an important role.
A preliminary comparison of photometric (MWSC) and trigonometric (TGAS) distances of open cluster stars
Authors: Kovaleva Dana , Piskunov Anatoly , Kharchenko Nina , Scholz Ralf-Dieter 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The goal of this researchwas to compare the open cluster photometric distance scale of the global survey of star clusters in the MilkyWay (MWSC) with the distances derived fromtrigonometric parallaxes fromthe Gaia DR1/TGAS catalogue and to investigate towhich degree and extent both scales agree.We compared the parallax-based and photometrybased distances of 5743 cluster stars selected as members of 1118 clusters based on their kinematic and photometric MWSC membership probabilities. We found good overall agreement between trigonometric and photometric distances of open cluster stars. The residuals between them were small and unbiased up to log(d, [pc]) ≈ 2.8. If we considered only the most populated clusters and used cluster distances obtained from the mean trigonometric parallax of their MWSC members, the good agreement of the distance scales continued up to log(d, [pc]) ≈ 3.3.
Double CO WD systems from the WD+He subgiant channel and type Ia supernovae
Authors: Liu Dongdong , Wang Bo , Wu Chengyuan 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Recent studies suggested that at least some of the observed SNe Ia originate from the double-degenerate model, which involves the merging of double carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). However, the delay time distributions predicted by previous theoretical studies are inconsistent with the observed SNe Ia at the early epoches of < 1 Gyr and old epoches of > 8 Gyr. Previous studies suggested that the CO WD+He subgiant channel has a significant contribution to the formation of massive double CO WDs, the merging ofwhich may produce SNe Ia. In the presentwork, we added this channel into the double-degenerate model to investigate its influence on the delay time distributions of SNe Ia. We found that the delay time distributions would match better with the observed SNe Ia when the CO WD+He subgiant channel is included in the double-degenerate model.
Detection of stellar oscillations in HWVir
Authors: Baran Andrzej S. , Østensen Roy H. , Telting John H. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
We present our analysis of K2 observations of the binary system, HWVir. We processed the raw Kepler data and used Fourier analysis to search for periodic signals that could be associated with pulsations. We detect the binary frequency and its harmonic and discovered tens of peaks at both low and high frequencies. We interpreted those to be caused by stellar pulsations. Our discovery means we can apply the tools of asteroseismology to the HWVir system.
Outbound Tourism Demand of Turkey: A Markov Switching Vector Autoregressive Approach
Authors: Özcan Ceyhun Can , Uçak Harun 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Tourism has been one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world. Especially developed countries have been major markets for tourism destinations over the decades. Furthermore, the outbound tourism demand in emerging markets has increased rapidly in recent years. This study aims to investigate the determinants of Turkey’s outbound tourism demand by using the data from 1960 to 2013. For this purpose, the Markov Switching Vector Autoregressive Model is used as an empirical analysis. This model classifies the time period into different regimes in order to obtain more robust results. Finally, our findings show that Turkish citizens’ outbound visits have been influenced by income and the exchange rates.
Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education
Authors: Zejda Pavel , Zejda David 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Academics perceive a great potential of virtual worlds in various areas, including tourism and education. Efforts adapting the virtual worlds in practice are, however, still marginal. There is no clear definition of the virtual world. Therefore the author of this article attempts to provide one. The paper also focuses on the barriers of a wider exploitation of the virtual worlds and discusses the principles that might help to increase their potential in tourism area. One of the principles – gamification – favours a wider adaptation of the virtual worlds in tourism. Applying gamification principles provides visitors with some unique experiences while serving as a powerful marketing tool for institutions. The benefits of implementing tourism education activities based on cooperative principles set in an immersive environment of the virtual worlds are depicted afterwards. Finally, this paper includes successful case studies, which show advantages and drawbacks of some approaches in exploiting the virtual worlds in tourism and tourism education.
Children’s Camps as a Tourism Product – A Case Study
Authors: Kotíková Halina , Schwartzhoffová Eva 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article focuses on the issues of organized tourism, more specifically, on children’s summer camps, in which Czech children spend free time during their holidays. T he purpose of this paper is to present results of a pilot study on children’s participation in summer camps. On the basis of the research carried out in the form of a face-to-face survey conducted with a sample of 479 pupils – grades five and seven, selected criteria, which characterize these camps, were analysed in relation to the choice of the camps and children’s participation in them. T he results show that the majority of school children participate in summer children’s camps. T he most popular camps are overnight camps and sports camps run by the organizations which children attend during the school year.
Population surveys of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in the Murchison Falls National Park, Victoria Nile, Uganda
Authors: Behangana Mathias , Lukwago Wilber , Dendi Daniele , Luiselli Luca , Ochanda David 
Published: January 2018

Abstract1. A 12-month-long survey (April 2013 to March 2014) for Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) was conducted along a section of the Victoria Nile/Ramsar site of Murchison Falls National Park, in order to update the historic information on crocodile populations in the area, locating nesting areas, determining seasonality patterns and habitat use, and assess the current abundance and the population size trends since the 1960s. The methods employed included visual encounter surveys, transect counts and opportunistic methods, by using boats. 2. In general, there were diurnal and seasonal fluctuations in the number of crocodile sightings. The crocodile sightings peaked between the months of June and August, with the highest mean number of sightings encountered on any single day being 67 (in July 2013), and the second peak was between January and March with the highest mean of 118 recorded in January 2014. The second peak also coincided with the crocodile breeding season. This clearly shows that the distribution of the sub-population sampled followed a climatic regime. 3. Crocodiles were observed most frequently in water (37%). Grassy banks, islands, river mouths and sandy banks constituted about 47% of the habitats utilised by the crocodile population. Although basking was the most frequent type of activity performed by crocodiles (50%) over the entire survey period, their key activities varied significantly from month to month. Nesting was very visible during the last quarter of the year and the first quarter of the New Year. 4. There was a clear decline of the abundance of crocodiles in this population between 1960s and nowadays. This declining trend was obvious also taking into account the various survey methodologies employed over the decades.
Analysis of Distribution Channels’ Successfulness –The Case of the Retail Chains in the Republic of Serbia
Authors: Anđelković Aleksandra , Barac Nada , Radosavljević Marija 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe importance of distribution channels comes from the increasingly sophisticated consumer demands, producer’s focus on core competences, and the contribution of the distribution channels to achievement of goals at the national economy level. Due to the fact that intermediaries of distribution channel have the role to link producer and consumers, the results of their functioning have a direct impact on the mentioned partners in the channel. Therefore, the efficiency of the intermediaries directly affects the performance of related partners, producers and consumers. Retailers, as intermediaries in the channel, attracted great attention due to their leadership position and power, which proceed from direct communication with consumers. In this regard, the objective of the research presented in this paper is the analysis of the importance of distribution channels, from partners’ point of view, as well as from macro aspect, with special reference to the retailers, as the primary participants in the distribution channel, in the Republic of Serbia. As indicators of performance, authors use Return of Sale (ROS) and Return of Equity (ROE). By applying the regression analysis, the authors examine whether the performance and role of retail chain leaders in distribution channels depends on the size of the sales network, or the number of sales facilities. The survey shows that the largest retail chains in the Republic of Serbia are performing below the average for the retail sector, and that the size of their retail network has a significant impact on the achieved results.
The perturbation algorithm for the realization of a four-layer semi-discrete solution scheme of an abstract evolutionary problem
Authors: Rogava Jemal , Gulua David 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
In the present paper, we use the perturbation algorithm to reduce a
purely implicit four-layer semi-discrete scheme for an abstract
evolutionary equation to two-layer schemes. An approximate
solution of the original problem is constructed using the
solutions of these schemes. Estimates of the approximate solution
error are proved in a Hilbert space.
Diversity-oriented synthesis of amide derivatives of tricyclic thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones and evaluation of their influence on melanin synthesis in murine B16 cells
Authors: Nie Li Fei , Huang Guozheng , Bozorov Khurshed , Zhao Jiangyu , Niu Chao , Sagdullaev Shamansur S. , Aisa Haji A. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
A diversity-oriented synthesis of amide-containing thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones is reported. All compounds were tested for their influence on melanin synthesis in murine B16 cells. The azepine fragment in thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-one skeleton significantly increases the melanin content.
The Need for Unified Understanding of ‘Military Objective’ in the Context of Human Shields and Passive Precautions Concepts
Authors: Heikkinen Tuomas , Faix Martin 
Published: January 2018

Summary
Belligerent party being the target of military operations is under obligation to protect civilian population under its control by taking passive precautions and avoid using human shields. Prima facie such obligation is bound to the concept of “military objective”, since non-military objectives are already “immune” from targeting. However, such approach does not take into account the fact that the states have not been able to agree upon unified interpretation of the military objective. It seems counterproductive to limit the obligations to protect civilians only to military objectives. Furthermore, the law does not necessarily support such approach. While the Additional Protocol I speaks of military objectives in the passive precautions, it also includes an overall clause to protect civilians, and the specific references to military objectives should be taken as examples instead of limiting the overall obligations to protect civilians. There is no real reason to tie the obligations to protect civilians to military objectives and allow targeted party into neglecting its duties to protect civilians.
Group Insurance and Reinsurance Business in the Legal Relations with an International Element
Authors: Dobiáš Petr 
Published: January 2018

Summary
Currently, no internationally unified legal regulation of group insurance contracts and reinsurance contracts is available. As a result, a national legal regulation determined according to conflict-of-law rules is applied to both types of contracts in legal relations with an international element. The differences between national legal regulations could be overcome through the application of optional instruments, namely the Principles of the European Insurance Contract Law and the Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law.
Mandatory mediation in family law issues with domestic violence – limits and experience from USA
Authors: Valentová Lucia 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Mandatory mediation obliges parties to the dispute to firstly seek out alternative and amicable form of dispute resolution before addressing the court. This could prove suitable in family law disputes where the focus is on maintaining the relationships aft er the dispute is resolved in the best interest of children. However this presumption does not need to apply to all cases. Domestic violence is a phenomenon of family law for centuries. The impact of the abuse between partners is immense. The article focuses on conditions, upon which the mediation could be mandated, what are the key elements of successful mediation and what are the challenges of mandatory mediation in respect of these elements. The article analyzes provisions of acts that regulate mediation in various states of USA with focus on the most controversial regulation in California. At the end it debates the relation of mandatory mediation and right to fair trial.
Criminal Liability of Legal Persons in Case of Computer Crime: A European Union Response
Authors: Klimek Libor 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe contribution deals with the criminal liability of legal persons in case of computer crime. It is divided into three sections. The first section briefly introduces computer crime and relevant legislation of the European Union in the area of criminal law, which is the basis of that liability. While the second section is focused on provisions of criminal liability of legal persons, the third section is focused on sanctions for legal persons.
Comments on the Representation of Romania in the European Council and on its Consequences for Democratic Accountability
Authors: Banu Constantin Mihai 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The article approaches issues concerning the representation of Romania in the European Council, question that has received significant attention in recent years. Several decisions handed down by the Constitutional Court of Romania were meant to clear up to a certain degree the division of roles between the President of Romania and the Prime Minister in representation in the European Council meetings, while other matters are still waiting for a clearer answer. These developments occurred with parliamentary debates on what is today the Act no 373 of 18 December 2013 on cooperation between the Parliament and the Government in the field of European affairs. The article aims to asses this case-law of the Constitutional Court in the broader framework of EU affairs.
United States Financial Institution Resolution System as a Possible Inspiration for the European Union
Authors: Kropjok Vít 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
In the current time there are many initiatives that are aimed to protect financial institution clients in the European Union. Current economic and financial crisis has shown that there is a need for common approach in this area. Some proposals have been passed. But there are still some in the bill stage and the deposit guarantee schema is one of them. The aim of the article is therefore to describe briefly and assess the proposed European model. The article also contains comparison with the operating United States model due to the inspiration possibility.