bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Lexikographische Lösungsansätze: Zur Bedeutung korpuslinguistischer Kontexualisierungsstrategien
Authors: Höhmann Doris 
Published: September 2017

AbstractIn recent years, both the availability of electronic resources (such as the BNC and the DWDS) and the possibility of compiling highly specialised large corpora (e.g. on the same topic, interaction type or communicative event) together with the development of ever more sophisticated corpus-linguistic tools, have opened new horizons in the study of language use and, consequently, in lexicography, translation and the teaching and learning of second/foreign languages. However, working with huge amounts of data and/or information remains a challenging issue, and search strategies are needed to cope more effectively with linguistic phenomena such as intralinguistic and interlinguistic variation in language use and polyfunctionality, which appear to be the rule rather than the exception in natural languages, not only in everyday language but in LSP communication, too.This paper will focus on different contextualization strategies. The examples offered, drawn from highly specialized subcorpora on the one hand and from very large general language corpora on the other, will illustrate once more the impact of variables such as domain, topic, text type etc., which can be observed even in the case of core vocabulary items. Furthermore it will discuss the potential offered by concgrams, which allow us to cope with many of the difficulties described above.
Improvement through/despite Emails
Authors: Pelikan Kristina 
Published: September 2017

AbstractEmail flooding, deleting emails without reading them – both common parts of our daily workflows. Emails need to motivate their recipients to read them and of course, the number of emails we receive every day play a crucial role. The present paper shall not only describe how the email communication between the members of a research project could be enhanced, but also show how helpful emails are for implementing strategic communication optimisation. By involving the project members as probands in a study based on AMASA (Research project “Accessing Medicines in Africa and South Asia”) emails for developing a restructuring of the internal communication, the process of communication optimisation was accepted by the project members and the strategic superiour aims could be met.
Comparison of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and metabolic parameters between women with and without polycystic ovarian syndrome
Authors: Ng Beng Kwang , Lee Chui Ling , Lim Pei Shan , Othman Hanita , Ismail Nor Azlin Mohamed 
Published: September 2017

Abstract

Background
There is increasing evidence that supports the contribution of vitamin D deficiency in metabolic disturbances among women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). The aim of this study was to compare 25-hydroxyvitamin D level and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the PCOS and normal women.

Materials and methods
A case-controlled study was conducted in a teaching hospital over a 6-month duration from June 2015 to January 2016. A total of 90 women, who consisted of 45 women with PCOS (study group) and 45 women without PCOS (control group), were recruited.

Results
The final analysis was of 80 women only and the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/mL) was high between both groups, i.e. 93.7% but there was no significant difference (p = 0.874). Nevertheless, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was significantly higher in the study group as compared to the control group (27.5% vs. 5.0%, p = 0.013). There was no statistically significant correlation between vitamin D level with clinical [age, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist and hip circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DPB, respectively)] and metabolic parameters (fasting glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein and low-density lipoprotein) among women with PCOS. However, height was positively correlated (r = 0.338, p = 0.033) and the contrary waist-hip ratio was negatively correlated with vitamin D level (r = −0.605, p = 0.048).

Conclusion
The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was high in our study population. Nevertheless, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was higher among women with PCOS as compared to women without PCOS.
The substance of style: Gender, social class and interactional stance in /s/-fronting in southeast England
Authors: Holmes-Elliott Sophie , Levon Erez 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThis paper proposes an empirical method for the quantitative analysis of stance-taking in interaction. Building on recent conceptualizations of stance as the primary building-block of variation in language style, we describe how to implement an analysis of stance within a variationist framework via an examination of the particular speech activities within which stances are embedded combined with a consideration of the specific interactional goals these activities achieve. We illustrate our proposals with an investigation of variation in /s/-quality in the speech of cast members from two British reality television programs. Examining nearly 2000 tokens of /s/ in over 6 hours of recorded speech, we demonstrate how different acoustic realizations of /s/ in the sample correlate with the level of “threat” of a given speech activity, and we argue that this interactionally based analysis provides a better explanatory account of the patterns in our data than an analysis based on large social categories would. Through this paper, we therefore hope to contribute not only to the development of a more robust method for examining stance in quantitative sociolinguistic research, but also to help clarify the relationship between stances, speech activities and speaker identities more broadly.
Implicit and explicit gender priming in English lingual sibilant fricative perception
Authors: Munson Benjamin , Ryherd Kayleigh , Kemper Sara 
Published: September 2017

AbstractPrevious research has shown that listeners’ identification of English anterior sibilant fricatives changes depending on whether they are primed to believe that the talker is a woman or a man. This article explored how stable this effect is across two types of priming. Listeners identified a nine-step
Application of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Method in Analyzing Active Separation Control With Periodic Vibration Wall
Authors: Wang Jin-Chun , Fu Xin , Huang Guo-Ping , Hong Shu-Li , Zou Yuan-Chi 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method is employed to analyze the unsteady flow control mechanism because it is a good approach to decouple the spatial and temporal structures of unsteady flow fields. The results showed that the main effect of the periodic excitation is reallocating the energy of each mode, and selectively strengthening or weakening certain modes. Under proper amplitude and frequency of periodic excitation, the energy in higher modes will be transferred to the first mode and the translation of the modal energy is coming from the reconstructing of spatial flow structures and the ordering of modal evolution characteristics. The best control effect will be achieved when the total energy ratio of the first mode is the highest and the excitation frequency reaches the separation vortex frequency at the same time. In order to quantitatively analyze the order degree of the unsteady flow field, the maximum Lyapunov exponent was introduced. The results showed that with the energy in higher modes transferred to the lower modes, the flow field transfers from a disordered pattern to an ordered one.
Control of Supersonic Elliptic Jet with Ventilated Tabs
Authors: Akram Saif , Rathakrishnan E. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Control of Mach 1.5 elliptic jet with ventilated triangular tabs is studied experimentally, in the presence of different levels of pressure gradient at the nozzle exit. Three different sets of ventilated tabs with circular, triangular and trapezoidal ventilations were studied. Two tabs were placed, at the ends of major and minor axes, at the exit of the elliptic nozzle of aspect ratio 3.37. The mixing enhancement caused by these tabs was studied in the presence of adverse and favorable pressure gradients, corresponding to nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) from 3 to 8. For Mach 1.5 jet NPR 3 corresponds to 18 % adverse pressure gradient and NPR 8 corresponds to 118 % favorable pressure gradient. The results of ventilated tabs are compared with unventilated truncated triangular tabs of identical geometry. The difference between the mixing promoting efficiency of the unventilated and ventilated tabs is only marginal (around 5–6 %). All tabs cause jet bifurcation and weaken the waves in the jet core. The tab with trapezoidal ventilation, at NPR 3, promotes mixing to an extent of reducing the core to about 92 %. At higher NPRs the mixing caused by unventilated tab is slightly better than the ventilated tabs.
Synthesis and properties of 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-2-(trimethylstannyl)- 2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborole
Authors: Schödel Frauke , Breunig Jens M. , Thiel Vasco , Bolte Michael , Wagner Matthias , Lerner Hans-Wolfram 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The diazaborole Me3Sn–B{N(Dipp)CH}2 (1; B{N(Dipp)CH}2=N,N′-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,3,2-diazaborolyl) was prepared by the reaction of Me3SnCl with one equivalent of Li[B{N(Dipp)CH}2]. Single crystals of 1 were obtained from hexane (triclinic space group P1̅). The diazaborole 1 was mono-deprotonated at the heterocycle upon treatment with Li[Me] to give product 2. In contrast to Li[B{N(Dipp)CH}2] which reacted with P4 to give the tetraphosphenediide Li2[{HC(Dipp)N}2B–P(1)P(2)P(3)P(4)–B{N(Dipp)CH}2] (3; δ
P=364.5, –29.4; 1
J
P(2),P(3)=–509.8 Hz, 1
J
P(1),P(2)=–434.3 Hz, 2
J
P(1),P(3)=–3.7 Hz, 3
J
P(1),P(4)=178.9 Hz) and the triphosphenide Li[{HC(Dipp)N}2B–PPP–B{N(Dipp)CH}2] (δ
P=665.1, 175.4; 1
J
P,P=500 Hz), the stannyl derivative 1 did not activate white phosphorus. The reaction of 1 with GaCl3 yielded either Me2ClSn–B{N(Dipp)CH}2 (4) or MeCl2Sn–B{N(Dipp)CH}2 (5) depending on the molar ratio of the reactants. The monochlorinated diazaborole Me2ClSn–B{N(Dipp)CH}2 was also obtained by the reaction of 1 with AsCl3.
Contacts de langues sans limites ?
Authors: Jablonka Frank 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe typology of language contacts is an important issue of contact linguistics. Different configurations of contact situations, such as of creoles, interlects between standard languages and dialects, or even the emergence of Romance languages have been tried to be explained by ecolinguistic parameters, such as the rapidity of evolution or geographical distance. Contemporary urban vernaculars, i.e. the contact variety spoken in French peripheral urban districts, and the postcolonial contact in Maghrebine Francophony with Arabic varieties can be joined to the list of specific contact cases. The notion of « limit » can be considered an essential category in contact typology, and it turns out that Juri Lotman’s semiotic approach can assign a specifically dynamizing function to the limits of language contacts. Under globalization conditions, even apparently very different outcomes of language contact can be explained by common underlying principles, even if we may accept the idea of a rupture in sociological terms.
Acerca del uso prehodiernal del pretérito perfecto compuesto resultativo en español
Authors: Azpiazu Susana , Kempas Ilpo 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe article focuses on certain cases in which the use of the compound perfect (CP) of Peninsular Spanish presents problems of interpretation, or apparently contradicts the norms for the use of this form, i.e., the CP is used together with a prehodiernal expression of time (e.g.,
El uso de las construcciones de adverbio locativo con pronombre posesivo en el español peninsular: un primer acercamiento diatópico
Authors: Salgado Hugo , Bouzouita Miriam 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThis diatopic study examines the characteristics of the locative adverb constructions that select possessive pronouns as complements in Peninsular Spanish oral corpora. Firstly, the range of locative adverbs that take part in this construction are scrutinised, as well as their frequency of use with respect to that of their counterparts, in which a prepositional phrase appears as a complement to the locative adverb. Secondly, the geographic spread within Spain and the diatopic differences between the various autonomous communities are discussed. Thirdly, this paper also explores the variation in use between the possessive affixes ‑
Valence, Not Utility, Underlies Reward-Driven Prioritization in Human Vision
Authors: Barbaro Ludwig , Peelen Marius V. , Hickey Clayton 
Published: September 2017

Objects associated with reward draw attention and evoke enhanced activity in visual cortex. What is the underlying mechanism? One possibility is that reward's impact on vision is mediated by unique circuitry that modulates sensory processing, selectively increasing the salience of reward-associated stimuli. Alternatively, effects of reward may be part of a more general mechanism that prioritizes the processing of any beneficial object, importantly including stimuli that are associated with the evasion of loss. Here, we test these competing hypotheses by having male and female humans detect naturalistic objects associated with monetary reward, the evasion of equivalent loss, or neither of these. If vision is economically normative, processing of objects associated with reward and evasion of loss should be prioritized relative to neutral stimuli. Results from fMRI and behavioral experiments show that this is not the case: whereas objects associated with reward were better detected and represented in ventral visual cortex, detection and representation of stimuli associated with the evasion of loss were degraded. Representations in parietal cortex reveal a notable exception to this pattern, showing enhanced encoding of both reward- and loss-associated stimuli. Experience-driven visual prioritization can thus be economically irrational, driven by valence rather than objective utility.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTNormative economic models propose that gain should have the same value as evasion of equivalent loss. Is human vision rational in this way? Objects associated with reward draw attention and are well represented in visual cortex. This is thought to have evolutionary origins, highlighting objects likely to provide benefit in the future. But benefit can be conferred not only through gain, but also through evasion of loss. Here we demonstrate that the visual system prioritizes real-world objects presented in images of natural scenes only when these objects have been associated with reward, not when they have provided the opportunity to evade financial loss. Visual selection is thus non-normative and economically irrational, driven by valence rather than objective utility.
Top-Down Modulation of Auditory-Motor Integration during Speech Production: The Role of Working Memory
Authors: Guo Zhiqiang , Wu Xiuqin , Li Weifeng , Jones Jeffery A. , Yan Nan , Sheft Stanley , Liu Peng , Liu Hanjun 
Published: September 2017

Although working memory (WM) is considered as an emergent property of the speech perception and production systems, the role of WM in sensorimotor integration during speech processing is largely unknown. We conducted two event-related potential experiments with female and male young adults to investigate the contribution of WM to the neurobehavioural processing of altered auditory feedback during vocal production. A delayed match-to-sample task that required participants to indicate whether the pitch feedback perturbations they heard during vocalizations in test and sample sequences matched, elicited significantly larger vocal compensations, larger N1 responses in the left middle and superior temporal gyrus, and smaller P2 responses in the left middle and superior temporal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, somatosensory cortex, right inferior frontal gyrus, and insula compared with a control task that did not require memory retention of the sequence of pitch perturbations. On the other hand, participants who underwent extensive auditory WM training produced suppressed vocal compensations that were correlated with improved auditory WM capacity, and enhanced P2 responses in the left middle frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, right inferior frontal gyrus, and insula that were predicted by pretraining auditory WM capacity. These findings indicate that WM can enhance the perception of voice auditory feedback errors while inhibiting compensatory vocal behavior to prevent voice control from being excessively influenced by auditory feedback. This study provides the first evidence that auditory-motor integration for voice control can be modulated by top-down influences arising from WM, rather than modulated exclusively by bottom-up and automatic processes.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTOne outstanding question that remains unsolved in speech motor control is how the mismatch between predicted and actual voice auditory feedback is detected and corrected. The present study provides two lines of converging evidence, for the first time, that working memory cannot only enhance the perception of vocal feedback errors but also exert inhibitory control over vocal motor behavior. These findings represent a major advance in our understanding of the top-down modulatory mechanisms that support the detection and correction of prediction-feedback mismatches during sensorimotor control of speech production driven by working memory. Rather than being an exclusively bottom-up and automatic process, auditory-motor integration for voice control can be modulated by top-down influences arising from working memory.
Revisiting biomarker discovery by plasma proteomics
Authors: Geyer Philipp E , Holdt Lesca M , Teupser Daniel , Mann Matthias 
Published: September 2017

AbstractClinical analysis of blood is the most widespread diagnostic procedure in medicine, and blood biomarkers are used to categorize patients and to support treatment decisions. However, existing biomarkers are far from comprehensive and often lack specificity and new ones are being developed at a very slow rate. As described in this review, mass spectrometry (MS)‐based proteomics has become a powerful technology in biological research and it is now poised to allow the characterization of the plasma proteome in great depth. Previous “triangular strategies” aimed at discovering single biomarker candidates in small cohorts, followed by classical immunoassays in much larger validation cohorts. We propose a “rectangular” plasma proteome profiling strategy, in which the proteome patterns of large cohorts are correlated with their phenotypes in health and disease. Translating such concepts into clinical practice will require restructuring several aspects of diagnostic decision‐making, and we discuss some first steps in this direction.
Familial MTC with RET exon 8 Gly533Cys mutation: origin and prevalence of second malignancy
Authors: Saltiki Katerina , Anagnostou Elli , Simeakis George , Kouki Sofia , Angelopoulou Anastasia , Sarika Leda , Papathoma Alexandra , Alevizaki Maria 
Published: September 2017

Introduction
High prevalence of RET p.Gly533Cys (c.1597G > T) has been found in familial MTC in Greece (exon 8 fMTC). We studied their origin and compared clinical characteristics with non-exon 8 fMTC.

Methods
102 fMTC (FMTC and MEN2A) patients (31.4% males) were followed for 2.9–37 years (median 6 years). Fifty-one carried the RET exon 8 mutation; the remaining were non-exon 8 fMTC (exons 10, 11, 13, 14). Pre-, post-operative calcitonin, disease extent at diagnosis and follow-up and families’ place of origin were recorded.

Results
Exon 8 fMTC were older (42.3 ± 13.3 vs 30.8 ± 17.8 years, P < 0.001), including index cases (P = 0.016). In index cases, the stage at diagnosis was more favorable in exon 8 fMTC compared to non-exon 8 fMTC (stage I and II: 65% vs 23.8%, stage III: 25% vs 57.1%, stage IV: 10% vs 19%, P = 0.025). More favorable outcome was noted in exon 8 fMTCs (remission: 72.5% vs 45.8%, stable disease: 27.5% vs 41.7%, progression: 0.0% vs 12.5%, P = 0.001). Exon 8 fMTC patients carried more frequently a second malignancy (25.5% vs 6.3%, P = 0.009); 69% of these were PTCs. Exon 8 fMTC patients were significantly older at diagnosis compared to non-exon 8 moderate-risk RET carriers and presented more favorable clinical outcome (remission: 72.5% vs 50%, stable disease: 27.5% vs 41.7%, progression: 0.0% vs 8.3%, P = 0.021). This difference remained when only index cases were analyzed. ‘Hot spots’ in the origin of exon 8 fMTCs families were recognized. No phenotype or outcome differences were found between the exon 8 families from the various regions.

Conclusions
In exon 8 fMTCs’ older age, favorable disease stage at diagnosis and favorable outcome suggest slow disease progression compared to non-exon 8 fMTC. Compared with moderate-risk RET mutation carriers, exon 8 fMTC patients have a more favorable clinical outcome. The higher prevalence of second malignancies, especially PTC, not previously reported, merits further investigation. Increased awareness for inherited disease is required for patients with apparently sporadic MTC originating from recognized ‘hot spots’, as the age at presentation is usually delayed.
La accesibilidad de las TIC en Costa Rica: Un cambio disruptivo en la mente de la sociedad costarricense
Authors: Ríos Navarro Darío 
Published: September 2017

El presente trabajo aborda la definición del concepto de accesibilidad universal, considerando datos del estado actual de la accesibilidad en Costa Rica, especialmente en el área de la tecnología. Tiene como objetivo concientizar y orientar al público lector, indicando algunos de los mitos que se han dado dentro de la definición de accesibilidad, tomando en cuenta diferentes perspectivas de otros estudios y ejemplificando situaciones relacionadas con la accesibilidad web, principalmente. Se analizan los datos generados mediante la INEC, sobre la población con discapacidad presente en Costa Rica, mediante información estadística, suministrada por los últimos censos realizados durante las décadas del presente siglo XXI, considerando la importancia de mejorar las TIC para las diferentes personas que presentan algún tipo de discapacidad, ocasionadas por naturaleza o por el tiempo. Realiza una revisión de diferentes proyectos que, actualmente, se están fomentando en las TIC y que son avances importantes para mejorar las condiciones de las personas con discapacidad. Fomenta la necesidad inherente de trabajar en el desarrollo de las TIC en Costa Rica desde diferentes marcos. En el político y legal, identifica la necesidad de ampliar las normas que fomentan las leyes a favor de las discapacidades en el país. En conclusión, analiza que Costa Rica podría convertirse en uno de los primeros países en Centroamérica y el Caribe, que cubra las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad, mediante el fortalecimiento y el reconocimiento de las TIC que dan valor agregado para construir una accesibilidad universal.