bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Frequency of refluxive tributaries of the junction region in the groin in patients with recurrent varicose veins of the thigh
Authors: Mendoza E. , Dörler M. , Stücker M. , Reich-Schupke S. 
Published: June 2016

SummaryBackground A long stump and neovascularisation are commonly discussed reasons for recurrence of varicosis in the groin after “disconnection” of the saphenofemoral junction (SFJ) and stripping of the great saphenous vein (GSV). A third possible reason for recurrence with non femoral reflux emerging from tributaries of the junction region, is often underrated. The aim of the study was to report on the source of reflux for recurrent varicose veins of the thigh in patients who already had a history of disconnection of the SFJ and stripping of the GSV.Methods In this two-centre study, consecutive patients with a history of disconnection of the SFJ, stripping of the GSV and visible or palpable varicose veins of the thigh region were included. Their data and venous diagnostics (DPPG, duplex scan) were recorded and evaluated by a standardised protocol.Results 101 legs were included. In 58.4 % there was a long stump of the GSV as a source for variose veins of the thigh. In the other legs (42,6 %) the source for the reflux was not a long stump with contact to the femoral vein but residual tributaries of the SFJ, e.g. the superficial epigastric vein or the superficial circumflex iliac vein.Conclusions Residual refluxive tributaries of the SFJ seem to be an important source for recurrent varicose veins of the thigh. Further prospective studies should focus on suitable therapeutic options.
New insights into the phylogeny and biogeography of the Gerbera‐Complex (Asteraceae: Mutisieae)
Authors: Pasini Eduardo , Funk Vicki A. , de Souza-Chies Tatiana T. , Miotto Sílvia T.S. 
Published: June 2016

AbstractThe inter‐generic relationships within the subfamily Mutisioideae (Asteraceae/Compositae) are historically uncertain. Most of the genera that once were recognized within the Mutisioideae s.l. are now segregated into a number of different tribes and subfamilies. In particular, the generic delimitations of the Gerbera‐Complex, an informal group inside the tribe Mutisieae s.str., have been widely discussed. The species are generally herbs with monocephalous scapes and are grouped in eight genera: Amblysperma, Chaptalia, Gerbera, Leibnitzia, Lulia, Trichocline, Perdicium and Uechtritzia. The characters that delimit the inter‐generic boundaries are still under discussion and the complex has never been the subject of a species‐level molecular investigation to test the monophyly of the genera. This study presents a molecular phylogeny of the Gerbera‐Complex based on both nuclear (ITS) and plastid (trnL‐trnF, trnL‐rpl32) markers, and provides the relative ages of this group and a reconstructed biogeographic history. The phylogenetic analysis showed two clades inside the Gerbera‐Complex. Clade A contains only South American endemic genera, in which Lulia is sister to Brachyclados + Trichocline. Clade B mainly contains groups of taxa that colonized other continents including areas in the northern temperate latitudes. Clade B is further divided into two clades where Gerbera is shown to be non‐monophyletic because the African Gerbera clade is sister to Amblysperma and the Asian Gerbera clade includes Uechtritzia. The biogeographic and molecular dating show a South American origin for the early‐divergent nodes of the subfamily with a node age of 47.52–49.67 Ma in the Eocene. The Gerbera‐Complex is likely to have originated in the Andes in the late Oligocene (mean node age of around 25.74 Ma) followed by long‐distance dispersal events to North America and Asia, and separate dispersal events to Africa and Australia. This is the first phylogenetic analysis to show the systematic positions of Amblysperma, Lulia and Uechtritzia.
Providing model of tourism industry organizations with highly qualified personnel
Authors: Сысова Елена , Sysova Elena 
Published: June 2016

The article describes the problem of qualitative training of highly qualified specialists for the tourism industry. It
presents the model of formation of professional competence of specialists. There are also the basic problems of the
domestic system of training personnel for the tourism industry on programs of additional professional education.
The author provides information about foreign experience of personnel training organization in tourism sphere of
activity. The article is devoted to the methodology of stepwise solution of existing problems of personnel training for
tourist industry in Russia. The study uses the methodology of theory of constraints system (TOC) by E. Goldratt,
which is built on logical reasoning and providing answers to three main questions to the management of improving
transformations: 1) what limits the development (improvement); 2) what needs to be sent to change limits, its complete
elimination, expansion limiting boundaries and so on; 3) how to implement this change. The article shows the
algorithm of building of logical circuits called E. Goldratt’s «current reality tree» (CRT) and «future reality tree»
(FRT). Analyzing the dendrogram, the author comes to the conclusion that the greatest factor of the local tourism
development is the mismatch of curricula to the needs of tourism organizations that can be solved by joint work
of the educational organizations of secondary professional and higher education and additional professional education
with professional unions, associations and other unions of organizations in the tourism sphere. This conclusion
is reinforced by findings based on the analysis and generalization of training professionals experience in tourism
business abroad. The necessity of cluster approach to the organization of training, including the cooperation
of organizations of higher and additional professional education with professional tourism community is proved.
A trip to Qiuzhuang to see Li Mu’s Qiuzhuang Project
Authors: Zweig Ellen 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Li Mu, a Chinese visual artist, created a special project in his hometown, a small remote village in China. He recreated ten western artworks, placing them in his childhood context in order to re-establish a relationship with the relatives and neighbours who he left behind when he moved to the city. Ellen Zweig was the first foreigner to visit this village, to see Li Mu’s project. She describes her trip and argues that Li Mu’s project is not ‘cultural colonialism’, but rather a life/art project.
Genetic diversity of geographically isolated Iranian populations of <i>Betula pendula</i> Roth: implications for conservation
Authors: Yousefzadeh Hamed , Hosseinzadeh Colagar Abasalt , Fallah Fatemeh 
Published: June 2016

The effects of long-term habitat fragmentations on genetic and population differentiation of Roth were investigated using chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) variations. Leaf samples were collected from four small remnant populations across the north of Iran. Three pairs of universal primers were used to amplify cpDNA, large single copy regions of C-D, trnK1-K2 and D-T. A total of 18 of the cpDNA haplotypes in the four populations were identified, however, no clear phylogeographic structuring of haplotypes could be detected. The total genetic diversity (H) for all populations was high (0.932). Average intra-population genetic diversity was estimated as Hâ=â0.729 and average differentiation of populations Gâ=â0.218. Mantel tests of isolation by distance revealed a significant relationship between Wrightâs inbreeding coefficient (Fst) and geographical distances for the four populations in Iran (râ=â0.77, â<â0.05). The results of the hierarchical analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA)Â indicated that a 66% variation was partitioned within populations, whilst the variance amongst the four populations was only 34%. We suggest that significant genetic differentiation amongst populations can likely be attributed to reduced gene flow as a result of habitat fragmentation.Betula pendulatrntrntrntrntrnTSSTp
Exploring the Effect of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation on Prevention of Short‐term Re‐admission: A Hospital‐based Study in Fukushima, Japan
Authors: Endo Noriko , Goto Aya , Suzuki Tomoko , Yasumura Seiji 
Published: June 2016

Objective: This hospital‐based study examined whether outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) prevents cardiac‐related re‐admission within 6 months.Method: Clinical records of Japanese cardiac disease patients who were hospitalized and recommended for cardiac rehabilitation at a general hospital were analyzed by comparing data from 78 outpatient CR (OCR) participants with data from 179 randomly selected non‐participants.Results: OCR significantly prevented cardiac‐related re‐admission (odds ratio: 0.24; 95% confidence interval: 0.06–0.91) after controlling for sex and OCR participation‐associated factors.Conclusion: OCR participation may improve short‐term prognosis. The positive effects of OCR should be promoted to increase participation.
Whither Teaching in the University Novel?
Authors: Switaj Elizabeth K. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Scenes of explicit teaching make only limited appearances in the university novel since World War II. While it would be easy – if cynical – to attribute this minimization to the devaluation of teaching in the modern university, the importance of teaching and learning to sympathetic characters (and their lack of importance to corrupted figures) suggests that this lack of focus on the classroom stems from something else. Indeed, university novels tend to be fairly conservative aesthetically, and the demands of traditional narrative make extended classroom scenes difficult if not impossible to manage. Because of these narrative demands, learning and teaching take on different forms in the university novel, creating stories in which education corresponds to the struggle of teachers and students with and against administrators and buildings – stories that, therefore, resemble Leo van Lier’s observation about how remembering our own educations as stories contradicts more bureaucratic visions of learning. This observation holds true whether one considers better-known works of university fiction such as David Lodge’s Campus Trilogy, Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe, and Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members or lesser-known works produced by micro-presses and writers who are enabled by current technologies to publish electronically.
“I’m a I’m a Scholar at the Moment”: The Voice of the Literary Critic in the Works of American Scholar-Metafictionists
Authors: Drąg Wojciech 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
In her seminal book on metafiction, Patricia Waugh describes this practice as an obliteration of the distinction between “creation” and “criticism.” This article examines the interplay of the “creative” and the “critical” in five American metafictions from the late 1960s, whose authors were both fictional writers and scholars: Donald Barthelme’s Snow White, John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse, William H. Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants and Ronald Sukenick’s The Death of the Novel and Other Stories. The article considers the ways in which the voice of the literary critic is incorporated into each work in the form of a self-reflexive commentary. Although the ostensible principle of metafiction is to merge fiction and criticism, most of the self-conscious texts under discussion are shown to adopt a predominantly negative attitude towards the critical voices they embody – by making them sound pompous, pretentious or banal. The article concludes with a claim that the five works do not advocate a rejection of academic criticism but rather insist on its reform. Their dissatisfaction with the prescriptivism of most contemporary literary criticism is compared to Susan Sontag’s arguments in her essay “Against Interpretation.”
Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Authors: Lai-Ming Tammy Ho 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender bias in the academic world and in society at large at that time, most scholars are male. The contemporary writers’ choice of female trainee academics is worth investigating as it speaks to the visibly changed gender make-up of contemporary academia. However, this utopian situation is complicated by the fact that the writers have chosen to frustrate the characters’ entry into the world of scholarship by having them leave the university environment altogether before the end of the novel. The fact that these females all choose to depart the university forms a contrast with notions of the university found in Victorian novels, in which leaving or not attending university might have detrimental effects on the characters.
Corrosion Resistance of Galvanized Steel in the Environment of a Bioreactor
Authors: Šustr Michal , Dostál Petr , Začal Jaroslav 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The article deals with monitoring the corrosion resistibility of welded materials in the anaerobic fermenter (bioreactor). The main goal of this research is to assess the change of hardness after degradation. The change of hardness occurs in the corrosion environment and it correlates with the corrosion resistibility of material. The purpose of this experiment is to recognize the possibilities of using the CMT welded materials in the defined environment. As an innovative technology the acoustic emission method is used for assessment of surface layer disruption during hardness testing. Aluminium alloy with galvanized steel (AluZinc) was used as an experimental material. The basic materials were welded by the filler material AlSi3.
Noise Emissions in Milking Parlours with Various Construction Solutions
Authors: Šístková Marie , Pšenka Martin , Celjak Ivo , Bartoš Petr , Mihina Štefan , Pavlík Ivan 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Mechanical devices in parlours are a source of noise, and this noise has an effect not only on the operators of the parlour but also on dairy cows. They have more sensitive hearing than humans. The aim of this article was to analyse the sound pressure level and determine the noise exposure of dairy cows at different technological solutions of milking parlours, during their day routine. In the experiment, tandem, herringbone and rotary milking parlours were used. Noise exposure was measured during the milking process. After evaluation of noise pressure levels of different types of milking parlours, it can be concluded that in this experiment, the equivalent noise pressure level was lowest in the tandem milking parlour. Equivalent sound pressure levels in the rotary and herringbone milking parlour were almost about the same values. These values are higher than values in the tandem milking parlour, about 10 decibels. The differences within mean LAFeq
values between the herringbone milking parlour and tandem milking parlour were highly statistically significant (P <0.001***).
Temperature patterns over Northeast and West Coast Regions of India
Authors: Jamir Tongdimenba , Gadgil Alka , De Uday , Krishnakumar Gaddam 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The study examines whether maximum/minimum temperature is responsible for a warming/cooling trend. In order to accomplish this, linear regression was used in temperature series such as mean (Tmean), maximum (Tmax), minimum (Tmin) and diurnal temperature range (DTR). A detailed analysis indicates that 11 out of 13 stations over the West Coast region (WCR) show a significant increase in annual Tmean as a result of an increase in annual Tmax. However, the Northeast region (NER) shows a mixed trend, with 6 stations displaying significant increases in annual Tmean and 2 showing significant decreases. Both these patterns can be ascribed to a decrease or increase either in Tmin or Tmax. In DTR, 85% of the stations over the WCR show a significant increasing trend, while 60% of stations in the NER display a significant decreasing trend. Analysis of meteorological parameters reveals that low/medium cloud, calm days, winds, forest cover and population growth influence Tmax/Tmin for the NER, whereas low cloud cover and wind direction have an influence over the WCR.
A description of the physical properties of selected sediments of the Weichselian and Wartanian glaciations
Authors: Labak-Mechowska Ewa 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
Subsurface sediments in Poland were deposited mainly in the Pleistocene, and have varying origins and, consequently, differing geological and engineering parameters. Fluvioglacial deposits were formed during both the glacial and interglacial periods, which differed from each other in climatic conditions. Based on the results of laboratory analysis and fieldwork, till and fluvioglacial sands were compared in Central and North-Eastern Poland. The research included consistency limits, relative density, plasticity index, constrained modulus of initial compressibility and modulus of initial deformation. Despite the existing view that there exists a large diversity of geological, engineering and geotechnical parameters of variously-aged deposits in Poland, no major differences in their properties were determined at the study sites.
ASIC Implementation of Highly Reliable IR-UWB Transceiver for Industrial Automation
Authors: Olonbayar Sonom , Fischer Gunter , Kreiser Dan , Martynenko Denys , Klymenko Oleksiy , Kraemer Rolf , Grass Eckhard 
Published: June 2016

AbstractAn in-depth treatment of impulse an radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) wireless system is provided reviewing theoretical background, proceeding with detailed implementation procedure, and finally giving simulation and test results. This is the first research and prototyping work to be published in the field of IR-UWB that operates in the 6–8 GHz band. The aim of this work is to implement an IR-UWB wireless system for industrial automation that is robust and reliable. To achieve this, an analogue bandwidth of 250 MHz and digital baseband processing at the clock frequency 499.2 MHz were realized in a 250 nm
Accuracy assessment of planimetric large-scale map data for decision-making
Authors: Doskocz Adam 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This paper presents decision-making risk estimation based on planimetric large-scale map data, which are data sets or databases which are useful for creating planimetric maps on scales of 1:5,000 or larger. The studies were conducted on four data sets of large-scale map data. Errors of map data were used for a risk assessment of decision-making about the localization of objects, e.g. for land-use planning in realization of investments. An analysis was performed for a large statistical sample set of shift vectors of control points, which were identified with the position errors of these points (errors of map data).
In this paper, empirical cumulative distribution function models for decision-making risk assessment were established. The established models of the empirical cumulative distribution functions of shift vectors of control points involve polynomial equations. An evaluation of the compatibility degree of the polynomial with empirical data was stated by the convergence coefficient and by the indicator of the mean relative compatibility of model. The application of an empirical cumulative distribution function allows an estimation of the probability of the occurrence of position errors of points in a database. The estimated decision-making risk assessment is represented by the probability of the errors of points stored in the database.
Influence of end Contsrains on the Global Behaviour of a Box Girder
Authors: Boca Daniela Mihaela , Faur A. , Boca A. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This study aims to presents the importance of end constrains, boundary conditions and position of the applied forces regarding the design of precast/prestressed concrete box girders. The study is based on a destructive test which was performed on a 37.1 m span single-cell prestressed concrete box girder. The scope of the test was to certify the usage of such girders for the new Transylvania motorway bridges. The test is numerically reproduced through a full 3D FEM model implemented in SAP2000. The influence of the end diaphragms is considered by analysing the beam’s behaviour to six loading conditions: one of which is replicating the loadings during the test, while the others are conceived as real vertical and horizontally loading scenarios. The results obtained for the girders with and without end constrains are compared. The performances of both design solutions in the presence of prestressing are highlighted where applicable. It is considered that the results of this study may provide very important data if considering that Romania has an urgent need to realize a modern and an adequate transport infrastructure.
Finite Element Analysis of Hollow-Core Slabs
Authors: Frăţilă E. , Kiss Z. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
The use of high resistance materials in nowadays structures has led to an increase in the span of the floors. Despite meeting the resistance and deformation criteria, floors might vibrate excessively due to increased slenderness. Based on a real-scale model experimental program, a parametric study has been developed in order to asses the vibration performance of prestressed hollow-core slab system on spans larger than the ones on which tests have been conducted, and the interaction between the concrete that have been poured in different stages. The measurements have been performed using Brüel and Kjӕr equipment, whereas the study has been carried out using Abaqus 6.11. finite element software. The simulations have been made by increasing the span of the slab, in order to observe the variation of the fundamental frequency. Also, the simulations have been conducted with different types of concrete topping thickness. The minimum acceptable value of the fundamental frequency has been considered 8Hz, according to existing literature.
Bearing Capacity Investigation of Silty Sandy Soil Layer Using Kunzelstab Test
Authors: Kererat C. 
Published: June 2016

Abstract
This study presents the effect of the 3 apex angles of cone and water levels on the bearing capacity of silty sandy soil (SM) layer by interpreting results from Kunzelstab test. The SM soil layer was prepared in the testing tank and it was used as the representative of sandy soil for some area in Thailand. As the results, the cone angle increase, a number of blows increase and the adjusted factors of the blows from the apex angles of 60° and 180 º to be that of the apex angle of 90º (control) were 1.118 and 0.878, respectively. The obtained correlation between the blows and the internal friction angles of SM soil can be used for calculating the soil bearing capacity which lowers the ground surface of 0.6 m. The soil bearing capacity of SM soil below ground water level decreases 70 to 75 percent (average values from testing results) comparing to that of dry soil. Moreover, the bearing capacity of SM soil above the water level up to 0.6 m decreases 25 to 30 percent (average values from testing results) comparing to that of dry soil at the same depth. Silty sandy soil layer was found determined to have lower bearing capacity due to higher ground water level. Therefore, the calculation of the soil bearing capacity in silty sandy soil layer should be considered the effect of ground water level.