bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Collaboration between a human group and artificial intelligence can improve prediction of multiple sclerosis course: a proof-of-principle study
Authors: Tacchella Andrea , Romano Silvia , Ferraldeschi Michela , Salvetti Marco , Zaccaria Andrea , Crisanti Andrea , Grassi Francesca 
Published: December 2017

Background:Multiple sclerosis has an extremely variable natural course. In most patients, disease starts with a relapsing-remitting (RR) phase, which proceeds to a secondary progressive (SP) form. The duration of the RR phase is hard to predict, and to date predictions on the rate of disease progression remain suboptimal. This limits the opportunity to tailor therapy on an individual patient's prognosis, in spite of the choice of several therapeutic options.Approaches to improve clinical decisions, such as collective intelligence of human groups and machine learning algorithms are widely investigated.Methods:Medical students and a machine learning algorithm predicted the course of disease on the basis of randomly chosen clinical records of patients that attended at the Multiple Sclerosis service of Sant'Andrea hospital in Rome.Results:A significant improvement of predictive ability was obtained when predictions were combined with a weight that depends on the consistence of human (or algorithm) forecasts on a given clinical record.Conclusions:In this work we present proof-of-principle that human-machine hybrid predictions yield better prognoses than machine learning algorithms or groups of humans alone. To strengthen this preliminary result, we propose a crowdsourcing initiative to collect prognoses by physicians on an expanded set of patients.
Scale up of a Plasmodium falciparum elimination program and surveillance system in Kayin State, Myanmar
Authors: Parker Daniel M. , Landier Jordi , Thu Aung Myint , Lwin Khin Maung , Delmas Gilles , Nosten François H. ,   The Malaria Elimination Task Force Group
Published: December 2017

Background: Myanmar has one of the largest malaria burdens in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Throughout the GMS, Plasmodium falciparum parasites are increasingly resistant to artemisinin combination therapies. Given that there are no current alternative treatment therapies, one proposed solution to the threat of untreatable P. falciparum malaria is to eliminate the parasite from the region. Several small-scale elimination projects have been piloted in the GMS, including along the Myanmar-Thailand border. Following the success of the pilot elimination project along the Myanmar-Thailand border, there was a scale up to a broad area of Eastern Kayin State, Myanmar. Here we describe the establishment of the scale up elimination project in Easter Kayin State. Methods: The scale up relied on geographic reconnaissance and a geographic information system, community engagement, generalized access to community-based early diagnosis and treatment, near real-time epidemiological surveillance, cross sectional malaria prevalence surveys and targeted mass drug administration in villages with high prevalence of P. falciparum malaria. Molecular markers of drug resistance were also monitored in individuals with symptomatic and asymptomatic infections. Discussion: This protocol illustrates the establishment of an elimination project and operational research in a remote, rural area encompassing several armed groups, multiple political organizations and a near-absent health care infrastructure. The establishment of the project relied on a strong rapport with the target community, on-the-ground knowledge (through geographic surveys and community engagement), rapid decision making and an approach that was flexible enough to quickly adapt to a complex landscape. The elimination project is ongoing, now over three years in operation, and assessment of the impact of this operational research will follow. This project has relevance not only for other malaria elimination projects but also for operational research aimed at eliminating other diseases.
Back to the dance itself: In three acts
Authors: Fraleigh Sondra 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Back to the things themselves I cry, or else philosophy will die. My cry is an ontological one, asking, as constitutive phenomenology does, ‘what is this thing (called dance) made of’? How do we live consciousness in dance? Let me count the ways. In its aim to rescue consciousness and experience as key concerns of philosophy, phenomenology is no stranger to conceptual analysis, but not as a science. At the same time, definitional work is key in the performance of phenomenology, with the experiential study of things (anything) being basic. How does meaning arise in dance, for instance, and why is intentionality important? What is the difference between movement and action? What are the materials of dance? Or shall we assume that dance is wholly immaterial? These are fundamental questions of philosophical enquiry in phenomenology that interest me deeply in this essay, even as I have engaged phenomenology for 49 years and am still learning. Phenomenology is not a philosophy of closure, and in this spirit, is being developed on several fronts in dance, as recent Intellect journals show, Dance Movement and Spiritualities, 2:2, and Dance and Somatic Practices, 8:2. I hope to contribute further in this endeavour. When I first encountered non-dual discourses of ‘the lived body’ and ‘pre-objective world’, I realized what a goldmine this represented for bodily oriented studies. I barely scratch the surface here, or in the wider scope of Dance and the Lived Body (1987) and Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion (2004). Since Edmund Husserl’s initiation of phenomenology, questions regarding normative understandings of body, self, materiality and subjectivity continue. Consciousness is shaped, or we could say ‘intended’, in countless ways. This has consequences for understanding somatic movement arts as a field of study, as we take up.
Book Reviews
Authors: Batson Glenna , Stancliffe Rebecca 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Mindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action, Martha Eddy (2016) Chicago, IL, USA: Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 367 pp., ISBN: 9781783205837, inclusive of index, h/bk, £40, $57
Zoi Dimitriou’s The Chapter House, Bonnie Bird Theatre, Trinity Laban, 12 April 2016
Marginal adaptation in proximal cavities restored with composites and other materials
Authors: Rodrigues Raphaela Farias , Senna Suellen Scarcelli , Soares Ana Flávia , Mondelli Rafael Lia , Francisconi Paulo Silveira , Borges Ana Flávia Sanches 
Published: December 2017

Objective: To evaluate the marginal adaptation, in enamel (E) and dentin (D), of composite resin (CR) associated with flowable resin composite (flow), bulk fill flowable base (bulk) and resin modified glass ionomer cement (RMGIC) in slot cavities. Material and Methods: The study was conducted after approval (Protocol No. 21148413.4.0000.5417) from Ethics Committee. Forty extracted human molar teeth were randomly assigned in eight experimental groups: E-CR, E-BULK, E-FLOW, E-RMGIC, D-CR, D-BULK, D-FLOW, D-RMGIC. The occlusal surface was planned, two slot cavities with standard sizes (depth: 2.0 mm, height: 2.5 mm, width: 2.0 mm) were created on a machine for making cavities. The teeth were restored and after 24h subjected to 2000 cyclic loading and sectioned for analysis of marginal adaptation by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The micrographs were analyzed with the Image J program to measure the size of marginal gaps. The data were transformed into percentages (%GAPS = LG ÷ LM × 100) and analyzed by 2-way ANOVA followed by the post hoc Tukey test (?=0.05). Results: There was a significant difference between different treatments (p<0.01). The groups E-RMGIC (p=0.001) and D-RMGIC (p=0) had the highest percentage of marginal gap. Others groups showed similar percentage of marginal gap (p>0.05). Conclusions: It was concluded that restorations with flowable composite resin and bulk fill liners exhibit the same behavior, but the RMGIC liner increased marginal gap.Keywords: Composite resins; Dental marginal adaptation; Glass ionomer cements.
Comparative study of splinted and unsplinted implant-retained maxillary overdentures without palatal coverage: A literature review
Authors: Simões Ingrid ísis Nogueira , Spyrides Silvana Marques Miranda , Schanuel Fabiana Ribeiro da Silva , De Mello Elson Braga 
Published: December 2017

The palatal coverage is considered as an auxiliary element in the distribution of tensile strains on implant maxillary total prosthesis (implant overdentures) bases, either implant-supported or retained. However, complaints in some patients due to palate and phonetic impairment are constant. The palatal coverage removal would allow the improvement of these issues as well as pharyngeal control, salivary flow and hygiene. Thus, this literature review proposed to analyze the survival rates of dental implants retaining an implant maxillary overdenture without palatal coverage in edentulous maxilla. The review was conducted in Medline database, via PubMed between 2000 to 2016 period, and limited to English language publications. The search strategy took the following key-words, referencing title and / or abstract: dental implants; maxilla; maxillary; overdenture; and palatal coverage. According the data, the rehabilitation of the maxillary edentulous with four implant-supported overdentures with bar attachments and implant-retained with ball attachments has shown great survival rates of dental implants, but there are a few studies reporting the survival rate of implant overdentures. It was concluded that the prosthetic rehabilitation of total maxillary edentulous patients is viable through palateless implant overdentures when a minimum of four to six implants were used with careful planning and execution. KeywordsDental Implants; Maxilla; Overdenture and Palatal coverage.
Scaffold architecture for dental biomaterials: influence of process parameters on the structural morphology of chitosan electrospun fibers
Authors: De Souza Joyce Rodrigues , Sato Tabata Prado , Borges Alexandre Luiz Souto 
Published: December 2017

Objective: The electrospinning is a widely adopted technique used to produce the polymeric fibers. The process depends on process parameters (voltage, flow rate and distance from capillary to the collector). The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of these parameters on chitosan fibers, a biopolymer used as scaffolds in dental and oral tissue engineering. Material and Methods: A solution of 7%(m/w) was prepared dissolving 0.7g of chitosan in 7 mL of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and 0.3mL of dichloromethane (DCM) (TFA/DCM - 70:30). After 12 hours, polymer solution (5 mL) was drawn into the syringe and pumped through needles of 0.4 mm internal diameter, at a rate of 0.8 mLh-1, different needle-tip-to-collector distances and voltages, for 10 min. Electrospun fibers micrographies were obtained using the Scanning Electron Microscope for morphological analysis. Results: All voltages showed significant difference (p < 0.0001) between them. At 15kV fibers showed higher concentration of beads. At 10 and 12 cm of distance there was no statistical significance (p > 0.0001) but at 15 cm beads formation increased significantly (p < 0.0001). At 12 cm fibers showed lowest fibers diameter in comparison to 10 and 15 cm (p < 0.0001). There was no difference between 10 and 12 cm (p > 0.0001) but in comparison to 15 cm both distances presented significantly difference (p < 0.0001). Conclusion: Thus, it can be concluded that morphology, in chitosan electrospun fibers, is influenced by the voltage and distance and this could describe the mohphological control of these structures. KeywordsChitosan; Fibers; Electrochemical.
Eje 3. Producciones cinematográficas contemporáneas: características y estrategias narrativas: Imágenes ausentes. Documental performativo, testigo y testimonio
Authors: Zylberman Lior 
Published: December 2017

Numerosos son los autores que en las últimas décadas han pensado el lugar del cine como testigo, cómo éste ha trabajado para visualizar violaciones a derechos humanos, masacres y genocidios, al mismo tiempo que funciona como evidencia y promotor de conocimiento. Ejemplo paradigmático ha sido el archivo de imágenes alrededor del Holocausto, que desde 1945 hasta nuestros días no ha cesado de emplearse, de auscultarlo y estudiarlo. Ahora bien, ¿qué sucede cuando el cine documental, el cine de lo real, desea aproximarse a hechos como estos y cuenta con escasa o nula cantidad de imágenes para construir su relato? ¿A qué estrategias puede recurrir? La crisis de archivo lejos está de impedir la realización de obras sino que ha posibilitado y expandido las posibilidades creativas del cine documental a partir de estrategias que algunos autores han pensado bajo la idea de documental performativo. En esa dirección, nos proponemos analizar los filmes Vals con Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) y The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013) con el objetivo de estudiar sus estrategias de representación, lo que nos permitirá poner en tensión la relación entre cine, testimonio y testigo.
Eje 3. Producciones cinematográficas contemporáneas: características y estrategias narrativas: Imicraciones, mentira y ficción cinematográfica. Deconstruir a Pinocho, Desmontar a Gepetto
Authors: Rodríguez Herrero Virginia 
Published: December 2017

A lo largo del tiempo y del espacio, la mentira ha sido rechazada, enviada al infierno en diversos idiomas y señalada, para bien de la humanidad. La importancia sociológica y antropológica de la mentira queda implícita en el hecho de que mentir es algo propio del ser humano y una pieza más de la estructura social. La mentira es falsedad, artificio y este se acerca mucho a la esencia de la ficción, de modo que cine y mentira tendrían, a priori, motivos para encontrarse. Pero tantas condenas ha recibido la mentira que el gran peso negativo que arrastra constituye el principal obstáculo a la hora de hablar de ella como un componente más de la ficción cinematográfica. Una vez desestimada la contaminación simbólica de la mentira, su construcción social en relación con el cine confluye en una común aceptación de que la capacidad creadora del ser humano está íntimamente vinculada con su humana posibilidad de recurrir al juego de la manipulación, a la zentira, hasta el punto de que es posible considerar que el arte no pueda prescindir de ella. Efectivamente, la mentira es la herramienta base para crear ficciones, es el riesgo que hay que correr para poder construir nuevas realidades, es una vía legítima y honrada para transmitir verdad en un contexto creativo, es lo que el público espera y aquello en lo que está deseando creer.
¿Nuevas criadas y porteras en París?: reactivación de los campos sociales transnacionales de la emigración española tras la crisis económica
Authors: Oso Laura 
Published: December 2017

Este artículo analiza la migración de mujeres españolas a Francia tras la crisis económica de 2008, desde la perspectiva de la reactivación de los campos transnacionales, que se han ido construyendo históricamente entre ambos países. Muestra cómo los nichos ocupacionales generizados, que ocuparon las mujeres que migraron a París en los años 50-70 (bonnes à tout faire o criadas, empleadas de hogar, niñeras, porteras, limpiadoras) se están renovando, a raíz de la recesión, por la reactivación de los campos transnacionales, construidos a través de las redes sociales tejidas por las diferentes corrientes migratorias El texto señala como estos campos transnacionales se cruzan con las cadenas globales de producción y reproducción, en términos de reorganización patriarcal del mercado de trabajo y de la fuerza laboral, de tal manera que la crisis económica ha traído consigo un reforzamiento de los canales tradicionales de reproducción social a través de los yacimientos laborales generizados.
Physico-chemical Characteristics of Fine Nano-scaled Carbon Fibers from Bacterial Cellulose
Authors: Swaminathan Jiji , Kadirvelu K. , Rajendran Deepika 
Published: December 2017

<p class="p1">Recently, carbon nanofibers have gained immense attention in research due to its tremendous application. Here, this work highlights a simple, cost effective and reliable method to develop carbon nanofibers (CNF) from biomass. The biomass used is bacterial cellulose (BC) synthesized using <em>Acetobacter xylinus</em>. CNF was developed by freeze drying of BC followed by pyrolysis at different temperatures (300ºC - 900ºC). The conversions of BC to CNF were characterized using SEM, FTIR, TGA and XRD respectively. The results exhibit three dimensional, lightweight, fine nanoscale fibers with a diameter of 10nm which are tend to have hydrophobic and lipophilic characters, due to which it can be used in oil – water separation applications.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
Efecto de inclusión de anticoagulantes durante el beneficio de Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A.Juss.) Müll.Arg.
Authors: Mendoza Vargas Lina Paola , Jimenez Forero Javier Alexander 
Published: December 2017

Se evaluó el efecto de un agente anticoagulante del látex en el árbol de caucho (Hevea brasiliensis). Se caracterizó el contenido de solidos totales (TSC) y contenido de caucho seco (DRC) del látex, se evaluaron cuatro tratamientos de anticoagulantes en campo: (T1) amoniaco, (T2) bórax, (T3) amoniaco-bórax y (T0) sin anticoagulante. En las láminas se evaluaron cinco diluciones (v/v) de látex en agua D1 (100 %), D2 (75 %), D3 (50 %), D4 (25 %) y D5 (0 %), a estas se hicieron pruebas de tensión, compresión y espesor. El látex caracterizado obtuvo TSC (37.1 %+0.27), DRC (34.3 %+0.19). Encontrándose en T3D1 mayor resistencia de tensión hasta punto de ruptura de 13.37 KgF, compresión de 5 KgF, y menor espesor de 1.52 mm, sin diferencia significativa entre los tratamientos T3 y T2 y las diluciones D1 a D2, posibilitando reducir el consumo de agua (25 %), y la producción de ripio (38 %) con anticoagulantes, sin afectar negativamente sus propiedades mecánicas.
Pentaerythrityltetranitrate (PETN) improves utero- and feto-placental Doppler parameters in pregnancies with impaired utero-placental perfusion in mid-gestation – a secondary analysis of the PETN-pilot trial
Authors: Bowkalow Sandy , Schleussner Ekkehard , Kähler Christiane , Schneider Uwe , Lehmann Thomas , Groten Tanja 
Published: December 2017

Abstract

Aim:
In pregnancies complicated by impaired utero-placental perfusion, pentaeritrithyltetranitrate (PETN) has been shown to reduce the risk of severe fetal growth restriction (FGR) and perinatal death by 39%. The effect is most likely related to the vasodilatative influence of PETN. To assess its impact on utero-placental and fetal perfusion, we analyzed the Doppler parameters measured during the PETN pilot-trial.

Methods:
One hundred and eleven pregnancies presenting impaired utero-placental resistance at mid-gestation were included in the trial. Fifty-four women received PETN, while 57 received a placebo. Doppler velocimetry measurements were monitored biweekly. Statistical analysis was performed using a mixed linear model.

Results:
Within the first week of treatment, the mean pulsatility index (PI) of the uterine artery (UtA) dropped more prominently in the PETN group [−0.20, 95% confidence interval (CI): −0.34 to −0.05, P=0.007). The adjusted relative risk (RR) for abnormal cerebro-placental ratio (CPR) was significantly reduced by PETN [RR 0.412 (95% CI: 0.181–0.941)]. Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrates the postponement of absent end-diastolic flow (AED), absent or reverse end-diastolic flow (ARED), brain sparing and abnormal cerebroplacental ratio (CPR) in the PETN group.

Conclusion:
The demonstrated effect of PETN on utero-placental and feto-placental perfusion strengthens the evidence for a positive impact in pregnancies complicated by impaired placental perfusion and might explain the effect on neonatal outcome, as shown in the PETN-pilot trial.
The Politics of Selfhood with Constant Reference to Kierkegaard
Authors: Klee Louis 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn searching Kierkegaard’s authorship for a politics, what emerges most clearly is the negativity of his task: he does not so much write about politics, as lay the foundations for one through his conception of the self. Kierkegaard’s notion of the self challenges the prevailing understanding of selfhood in classical liberal economic models as an egoistic individual engaged in the maximisation of preferences-a vision that entails a community posited on the endless growth of material means to fulfil these preferences. In contrast, Kierkegaard presents a rich and nuanced depiction of the dialectical path of selfhood through immediacy and negativity to faith. The result is a complex understanding of the self in faith as answerable to its own ideals and dependent on the infinite that exceeds it. Such a self also demands a form of community: one that is dialectical and non-teleological, structured by each individual’s responsibility to their better I and the relationality of the self. This model of the self and community, I suggest, holds the potential for a Kierkegaardian politics.
«Être sans destin»: Imre Kertész, ou le concept d’existence constamment rapporté à Kierkegaard
Authors: Fox-Muraton Mélissa 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn his literary works as well as his published journals and papers, Imre Kertész develops a philosophy of existence inspired by the experience of Auschwitz and of the communist regime in Hungary. Questioning human existence under the hold of the forms of totalitarianism developed in the twentieth century, which make man a simple function of the system or supernumerary being, Kertész’s works develop a radical philosophy of existence (or non-existence) in quest of subjectivity, interiority and ethics. Reader of Kierkegaard, Kertész also revives some of the fundamental themes of Kierkegaardian philosophy of existence underestimated by existentialist philosophers.
Network Automation and Abstraction using Python Programming Methods
Authors: Mihăilă Paul , Bălan Titus , Curpen Radu , Sandu Florin 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Network programmability is a trend, enhanced and inspired by Software Defined Networks, that are based on scripting methods and standard programming languages used for controlling and monitoring of network elements. This paper is illustrating some new methods in configuring network devices by using automation, reducing time for equipment configuration and easier maintenance. It also improves network security by recognizing and fixing security vulnerabilities and it increases the network stability. These methods represent the future of networks, allowing the management of an increased number of devices in a unitary way.
DMA tests for 3D printed polymer specimens of fatigue test examination
Authors: Fodor Antal 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Alongside the using of „technical materials’, the direct 3D printed different plastic also speeded up lately. Accordingly to this, it is often designed parts, which have to sustain extreme stress. The proper definition of material qualities is expensive; despite in every phase of designing, we need it to be done perfectly. In every industrial section, it is important to work with exact material characteristics, especially in fields where strict safety rules have to be kept (in connection with the lifespan) the design of fatigue tests of 3D printed polymer specimens. We planned the examinations on the way to avoid the critical temperature range shown by the DMA examinations’ results in the bending point of the inner friction coming up in the local range. This information could be important for the Military to change the busted parts quickly and sound. That is the reason why we designed these examinations in this way, so, it could help for designers in the field of military, in development of security technology and improvement of recovery.