bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Validity of Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale in a sample of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
Authors: Quiñones Ana R , Thielke Stephen M , Clark Michael E , Phillips Kristin M , Elnitsky Christine , Andresen Elena M 
Published: April 2016

Objectives: Optimal depression screening necessitates measurement tools that are valid across varied populations and in the presence of comorbidities. Methods: This study assessed the test properties of two versions of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale against psychiatric diagnoses established by the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview among a clinical sample of US Veterans deployed during Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn. Participants (N = 359) recruited from two Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals completed a clinical interview, structured diagnostic interview, and self-reported measures. Results: Based on diagnostic interview and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition criteria, 29.5% of the sample met diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder and 26.5% met diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder. Both Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-20 and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-10 scales performed well and almost identically against the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview-major depressive disorder in identifying Veterans with major depressive disorder (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-20 area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve 91%; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-10 area under the ROC curve 90%). Overall, higher cut points for the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scales performed better in correctly identifying true positives and true negatives for major depressive disorder (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-20 cut point 18+ sensitivity 92% specificity 72%; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-10 cut point 10+ sensitivity 92% specificity 69%). Conclusions: The specificity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scales was poor among Veterans with co-occurring post-traumatic stress disorder (13% and 16%). Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder who have a positive depression screen should have a more thorough assessment of mental health symptoms and comorbidities, rather than immediate diagnosis of and treatment for depression.
Two different pathogenic mechanisms, dying-back axonal neuropathy and pancreatic senescence, are present in the YG8R mouse model of Friedreich’s ataxia
Authors: Mollá Belén , Riveiro Fátima , Bolinches-Amorós Arantxa , Muñoz-Lasso Diana C. , Palau Francesc , González-Cabo Pilar 
Published: April 2016

ABSTRACT
Frataxin (FXN) deficiency causes Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA), a multisystem disorder with neurological and non-neurological symptoms. FRDA pathophysiology combines developmental and degenerative processes of dorsal root ganglia (DRG), sensory nerves, dorsal columns and other central nervous structures. A dying-back mechanism has been proposed to explain the peripheral neuropathy and neuropathology. In addition, affected individuals have non-neuronal symptoms such as diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance. To go further in the understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms of neuropathy and diabetes associated with the disease, we have investigated the humanized mouse YG8R model of FRDA. By biochemical and histopathological studies, we observed abnormal changes involving muscle spindles, dorsal root axons and DRG neurons, but normal findings in the posterior columns and brain, which agree with the existence of a dying-back process similar to that described in individuals with FRDA. In YG8R mice, we observed a large number of degenerated axons surrounded by a sheath exhibiting enlarged adaxonal compartments or by a thin disrupted myelin sheath. Thus, both axonal damage and defects in Schwann cells might underlie the nerve pathology. In the pancreas, we found a high proportion of senescent islets of Langerhans in YG8R mice, which decreases the β-cell number and islet mass to pathological levels, being unable to maintain normoglycemia. As a whole, these results confirm that the lack of FXN induces different pathogenic mechanisms in the nervous system and pancreas in the mouse model of FRDA: dying back of the sensory nerves, and pancreatic senescence.
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast at a glance
Authors: Lu Rebecca , Drubin David G. , Sun Yidi 
Published: April 2016

ABSTRACT
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is an essential cellular process that involves the concerted assembly and disassembly of many different proteins at the plasma membrane. In yeast, live-cell imaging has shown that the spatiotemporal dynamics of these proteins is highly stereotypical. Recent work has focused on determining how the timing and functions of endocytic proteins are regulated. In this Cell Science at a Glance article and accompanying poster, we review our current knowledge of the timeline of endocytic site maturation and discuss recent works focusing on how phosphorylation, ubiquitylation and lipids regulate various aspects of the process.
Eternal maidens: Kawaii aesthetics and otome sensibility in Lolita fashion
Authors: Nguyen An 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Originating in Japan, Lolita is a consumer lifestyle fashion unrelated to the Vladimir Nabokov novel. The concepts that inform Japanese words like kawaii (cuteness), shōjo (young girl) and otome (maidenhood) are complex and varied. These keywords are explored through interviews with Japanese women from their teens to mid-40s who wear or have worn Lolita fashion. Participants in this study were asked to define and discuss these concepts and their responses provide an example of how women outside the age range of young girlhood build an identity and a space removed from social and familial obligations through a fashion movement that cultivates a specific vision of cuteness. By surrounding and adorning themselves with the things they adore, Lolitas assert their individuality and personality through a kawaii revolution. Otome and shōjo are the backbone concepts that drive this personal sense of kawaii, while its incarnation as Lolita provides a site for a lived practice and performance in which happiness is built through feelings, affects and states of becoming.
Agentic cute (^.^): Pastiching East Asian cute in Influencer commerce
Authors: Abidin Crystal 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
There has yet to be a definitive study of cute culture that is organically Singaporean. Drawing on existing work on East Asian cute culture and the regional popularity of commercial social media microcelebrities or ‘Influencers’ in Singapore, this article annotates three modes of agentic cute used to obscure the soft power that Influencers hold. Through the qualitative textual and visual analysis of content from three popular Singaporean Influencers, and their associated blogs and social media, this article examines how three tropes that I term ‘the Doll’, ‘the Darling’ and ‘the Dear’ are enacted as cute femininities among adult woman. It argues that the subversive power of this performative cuteness is obscured by the corresponding sensual delight, romantic docility and homosocial desire that the Influencers develop in tandem with their cute self-presentations. By continually emphasizing stereotypical gendered relationships with their male partners, and relations with their followers, these Influencers are able to position themselves as non-threatening and submissive, when they are in fact quietly subverting these hierarchies for personal gain.
A lovable metaphor: On the affect, language and design of ‘cute’
Authors: Gn Joel 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Approaching the cute object as a metaphor for the lovable, this article provides a survey of the different approaches to the study of cuteness and uses their intersections to map out a three-domain approach that incorporates the dimensions of affect, language and design. When considered in isolation, these domains highlight specific facets of cuteness, but their intersection underscores an important etymological tension that continuously transforms the metaphors of cuteness. These changes do not compromise the primary meaning of cuteness, but lead to a reinvention of the lovable, whereby the cute object continues to represent an abstraction of a particularly affectionate connection to the other. Therefore, the arguments presented will demonstrate that the notion of cuteness emerges through a particular etymological tension embedded in the idea of ‘cuteness’ that reifies aesthetic concepts through the relationship between the individual’s affective experience and the operation of language through culture.
When erotic meets cute: Erokawa and the public expression of female sexuality in contemporary Japan
Authors: Aoyagi Hiroshi , Yuen Shu Min 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article addresses a conspicuous phenomenon within the burgeoning cute cultures of contemporary Japan – namely, pre-adult women adopting a fashion style that is simultaneously cute and hyper-sexy. While both cuteness and hypersexuality stand in contradiction to the norms of Japan’s patriarchal gender system, public amalgamations of these two elements constitute a trend initiated by and for some contemporary young Japanese women. Through a series of ethnographic observations and theoretical reflections, the authors aim to uncover how the initially subcultural cute fashion phenomenon was brought to public attention by incorporating hyper-sexy elements into a ‘sexy’ facade that publicly signalled these young women taking control of their own sexuality. Such a transformation not only works to reclaim these practitioners’ sexual identities as women, but may also destabilize prevailing perceptions of acceptable (or desirable) feminine behaviour through the very instruments of sexuality that are readily produced and made available in the heterosexual consumer market.
Reframing transitions and contesting memories: The archive and the archival object in Peruvian cinema
Authors: Barrow Sarah 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article considers the stories behind the production and screening of two very different Peruvian films that reveal much about the way the archive, the archival object and archival fragment have worked to disrupt and force a reconsideration of key moments in Peruvian political history of the twentieth century. One, a feature film by Francisco Lombardi, Ojos que no ven/Eyes That Don’t See (2003), provides a provocative perspective on the impact of the televisual revelations of the corruption at the heart of President Fujimori’s government (1990–2000). The second, a documentary made by Kurt Hermann at the behest of the military, Alerta en la Frontera/Border Alert (1941) offers a patriotic recording of the border campaign against Ecuador, which was banned at the time and had its first public screening 70 years later. This analysis suggests that the delay in viewing events of such national importance forces not only a reconsideration of those events and their disruptive effect on a collective, official sense of national history and identity but also a questioning of the way that contemporary political figures and events might be considered. This article also takes account of the key role of Peru’s national film archive in shaping the nature of national heritage, culture and memory.
But will it take off? Peronist Utopias, mythical pasts and crashes in Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad (Alejandro Fernández Mouján, 2007)
Authors: Sdrigotti Fernando 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
In his documentary Pulqui, un instante en la patria de la felicidad/Pulqui: An Instant in the Land of Happiness (2007a), Alejandro Fernández Mouján follows Argentine plastic artist Daniel Santoro’s attempt to recreate a plane prototype from the Peronist era, the Pulqui II. Santoro’s goal is to build a machine that not only looks the part but that can also fly, however briefly. This article pays attention to the way in which the film – parallel to this rather simple plot – sheds light upon the fascinating phenomenon of Peronism in Argentina. The notion of the archive is central to the film, both as something existing in oral and visual form – quoted at length and freely by Fernández Mouján – and as something that can be reproduced and brought back to life through the actual model of the plane. Through these uses of the archive, the film offers a critique of the socio-economic situation of Argentina post 2001 that might also be read as a criticism of the first Peronist project. In apparently innocuous ways Pulqui … is a critical tool that might allow an attentive viewer to think through some of the key events in contemporary Argentine history.
Reviews
Authors: Hanlon Dennis , Merás Lidia , Moore Andy , Mourenza Daniel 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Defa After East Germany, Brigitta B. Wagner (ED.) (2014) Rochester: Camden House, 349 pp., ISBN: 9781571135827, h/bk, £57.00
La Televisión Durante La Transición Española, Manuel Palacio (2012) Madrid: Cátedra, 472 pp., ISBN: 9788437630687, h/bk, 22.90
Experimental Film and Anthropology, Arnd Schneider and Caterina Pasqualino (EDS) (2014) New York and London: Bloomsbury, 208 pp., ISBN: 9780857858221, p/bk, £19.99
On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary, Lutz Koepnick (2014) New York: Columbia University Press, 336 pp., ISBN: 9780231168328, h/bk, £24.00
Using the Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Assess Socio-Technical Factors in Planning the Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Alert across Multiple Primary Care Clinics
Authors: Lin Ching-Pin , Guirguis-Blake Janelle , Keppel Gina A. , Dobie Sharon , Osborn Justin , Cole Allison M. , Baldwin Laura-Mae 
Published: April 2016

Background: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a leading cause of death in the United States. Patients with stage 3 and 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at particular risk because many medications are cleared by the kidneys. Alerts in the electronic health record (EHR) about drug appropriateness and dosing at the time of prescription have been shown to reduce ADEs for patients with stage 3 and 4 CKD in inpatient settings, but more research is needed about the implementation and effectiveness of such alerts in outpatient settings.Objective: To explore factors that might inform the implementation of an electronic drug–disease alert for patients with CKD in primary care clinics, using Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theory as an analytic framework.Methods: Interviews were conducted with key informants in four diverse clinics using various EHR systems. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. results Although all clinics had a current method for calculating glomerular filtration rate (GFR), clinics were heterogeneous with regard to current electronic decision support practices, quality improvement resources, and organizational culture and structure.Conclusion: Understanding variation in organizational culture and infrastructure across primary care clinics is important in planning implementation of an intervention to reduce ADEs among patients with CKD.
Electrical Properties of PPy-Coated Conductive Fabrics for Human Joint Motion Monitoring
Authors: Jiyong Hu , Xiaofeng Zhang , Guohao Li , Xudong Yang , Xin Ding 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Body motion signals indicate several pathological features of the human body, and a wearable human motion monitoring system can respond to human joint motion signal in real time, thereby enabling the prevention and treatment of some diseases. Because conductive fabrics can be well integrated with the garment, they are ideal as a sensing element of wearable human motion monitoring systems. This study prepared polypyrrole conductive fabric by in situ polymerization, and the anisotropic property of the conductive fabric resistance, resistance–strain relationship, and the relationship between resistance and the human knee and elbow movements are discussed preliminarily.
Hemostatic, Resorbable Dressing of Natural Polymers-Hemoguard
Authors: Wiśniewska-Wrona Maria , Kucharska Magdalena , Struszczyk Marcin H. , Cichecka Magdalena , Wilbik-Hałgas Bożena , Szymonowicz Maria , Paluch Danuta , Guzińska Krystyna , Rybak Zbigniew 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Investigations are presented for the preparation of a model hemostatic dressing that would exhibit an adequate hemostatic capacity in injuries and surgical wounds, an antibacterial activity to prevent primary and secondary infections, and offer safety in use. The Hemoguard dressing has been designed as a powder prepared from the complex chitosan/alginate Na/Ca in the form of micro- and nano-fibrids. Useful antibacterial and hemostatic properties of Hemoguard, which would qualify the material as first aid dressing and a temporary protection of injury wounds in field conditions, were assessed. Biocompatibility of the dressing was confirmed by biological in vitro examinations.
Modification of Cellulose Products by the Use of Chitosan and Chitosan-Alginate Nano-Particles
Authors: Brzoza-Malczewska Kinga , Kucharska Magdalena , Dymel Marzena , Pałys Beata , Bacciarelli-Ulacha Anna 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Aim of the presented research was the improvement of fibrous cellulosic products for uses in hygiene and medical sectors. Nano-particles of bioactive polysaccharides were imparted to cellulosic fibrous products to modify their properties: physical–chemical like absorption, biological like antibacterial and antifungal activity, and mechanical. Fibrous materials like dressing gauze, wood-wool, and hygiene tissues were modified by the addition of chitosan and chitosan-alginate nano-particles. Padding and freeze-drying was applied in the coating of the fibrous materials with the nano-sized polymers.
Design of Optimal Reliability Acceptance Sampling Plans for Exponential Distribution
Authors: Kumar Mahesh , P C Ramyamol 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
In this paper, an attempt is made to derive the most efficient economic reliability sampling plans for accepting a lot containing identical units having exponentially distributed lifetime with parameter θ. We consider two types of sampling plans, namely, (a) sequential sampling plan

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The Superplastic Deformation Behavior and Phase Evolution of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy at Constant Tensile Velocity
Authors: Guo Wei , Jia Qiang , Li Ruiting , Li Weidong 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The superplastic tensile behaviors of Ti-6Al-4V (TC4) titanium alloy were tested at temperature ranges from 850 ℃ to 950 ℃ and tensile velocities in the range of 0.3–6.0 mm/min. The microstructures of the specimen under various deformation parameters were evaluated by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron micrograph (TEM). The results indicate that the maximum tensile force decreases with the increase of temperature and the decrease of tensile velocity. The optimum tensile elongation of 1120.5 % is attained at 900 ℃ and 0.6 mm/min. α and β phase grain sizes increase with the increase of temperature and the decrease of tensile velocity. β phase volume fraction plays an important role in superplasticity, and the best elongation is attained under the condition of ~7.0 µm α phase and ~4.0 µm β phase and β phase volume fraction is about 31 %. High deformation velocity leads to finer grains and results in larger tensile force.
Phase Transition and Thermal Expansion of Ba3RB3O9 (R = Sm–Yb, and Y)
Authors: Simura Rayko , Kawai Shohei , Sugiyama Kazumasa 
Published: April 2016

AbstractHigh temperature powder X-ray diffraction measurements of Ba3RB3O9 (R=Sm–Yb, and Y) were carried out at temperatures ranging from room temperature to just below the corresponding melting temperatures (1,200–1,300 °C). No phase transition was found for the H-type phase (R$\overline 3 $) with R=Sm–Tb and the L-type phase (P63 cm) with R=Tm–Yb. On the other hand, phase transition from the L phase to the H phase was observed for R=Dy–Er, and Y at around 1,100–1,200 °C. The obtained axial thermal expansion coefficient (ATEC) of the a-axis was larger than that of the c-axis for the H phase, and the ATEC of the c-axis was larger than that of the a-axis for the L phase. The observed anisotropic nature of ATEC is attributed to the distribution of the BO3 anionic group with rigid boron–oxygen bonding in the structures of the H and L phases.
Explosive Strength of the Knee Extensors: The Influence of Criterion Trial Detection Methodology on Measurement Reproducibility
Authors: Dirnberger Johannes , Wiesinger Hans-Peter , Wiemer Nicolas , Kösters Alexander , Müller Erich 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The present study was conducted to assess test-retest reproducibility of explosive strength measurements during single-joint isometric knee extension using the IsoMed 2000 dynamometer. Thirty-one physically active male subjects (mean age: 23.7 years) were measured on two occasions separated by 48–72 h. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC 2,1) and the coefficient of variation (CV) were calculated for (i) maximum torque (MVC), (ii) the peak rate of torque development (RTDpeak) as well as for (iii) the average rate of torque development (RTD) and the impulse taken at several predefined time intervals (0–30 to 0–300 ms); thereby explosive strength variables were derived in two conceptually different versions: on the one hand from the MVC-trial (version I), on the other hand from the trial showing the RTDpeak (version II). High ICC-values (0.80–0.99) and acceptable CV-values (1.9–8.7%) could be found for MVC as well as for the RTD and the impulse taken at time intervals of ≥100 ms, regardless of whether version I or II was used. In contrast, measurements of the RTDpeak as well as the RTD and the impulse taken during the very early contraction phase (i.e. RTD/impulse0–30ms and RTD/impulse0–50ms) showed clearly weaker reproducibility results (ICC: 0.53–0.84; CV: 7.3–16.4%) and gave rise to considerable doubts as to clinical usefulness, especially when derived using version I. However, if there is a need to measure explosive strength for earlier time intervals in practice, it is, in view of stronger reproducibility results, recommended to concentrate on measures derived from version II, which is based on the RTDpeak-trial.