bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Systematic review of interventions to improve patient uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD
Authors: Jones Arwel W. , Taylor Abigail , Gowler Holly , O'Kelly Noel , Ghosh Sudip , Bridle Christopher 
Published: January 2017

Pulmonary rehabilitation is considered a key management strategy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but its effectiveness is undermined by poor patient uptake and completion. The aim of this review was to identify, select and synthesise the available evidence on interventions for improving uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD.Electronic databases and trial registers were searched for randomised trials evaluating the effect of an intervention compared with a concurrent control group on patient uptake and completion. The primary outcomes were the number of participants who attended a baseline assessment and at least one session of pulmonary rehabilitation (uptake), and the number of participants who received a discharge assessment (completion).Only one quasi-randomised study (n=115) (of 2468 records identified) met the review inclusion criteria and was assessed as having a high risk of bias. The point estimate of effect did, however, indicate greater programme completion and attendance rates in participants allocated to pulmonary rehabilitation plus a tablet computer (enabled with support for exercise training) compared with controls (pulmonary rehabilitation only).There is insufficient evidence to guide clinical practice on interventions for improving patient uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD. Despite increasing awareness of patient barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation, our review highlights the existing under-appreciation of interventional trials in this area. This knowledge gap should be viewed as an area of research priority due to its likely impact in undermining wider implementation of pulmonary rehabilitation and restricting patient access to a treatment considered the cornerstone of COPD.
Fernand Braudel, Brazil, and the Empire of French Social Science
Authors: Merkel Ian 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
These previously untranslated essays by Fernand Braudel are invaluable sources for understanding the social sciences in a formative moment, as well as the relationship between French intellectuals and the colonial world. Published in Portuguese at the University of São Paulo during Braudel's tenure there between 1935 and 1938, they are translated into English here to make them more widely available to historians of France. “The Concept of a New Country” compares and contrasts the semicolonial relationship of Brazil and Algeria to Europe, and “The Teaching of History and Its Guidelines” sheds light onto Braudel's specific interdisciplinary interventions and how Brazil was part of a restructuring of the field of history in France. As a preface to the essays, I contextualize Braudel's tenure in Brazil and develop certain arguments of the essays so that readers less familiar with Brazil and the French university missions can grasp their full implications.
Ces essais de Fernand Braudel, nouvellement traduits, sont des sources pour comprendre les sciences sociales à un moment formateur, ainsi que le rapport entre les intellectuels français et le monde colonial. Publiés en portugais à l'Université de São Paulo pendant que Braudel y donnait des cours entre 1935 et 1938, ils sont publiés ici en anglais pour les rendre plus accessibles aux historiens étrangers. « The Concept of a New Country » compare le rapport semi-colonial du Brésil et de l'Algérie avec l'Europe, et « The Teaching of History and Its Guidelines » offre une perspective sur l'interdisciplinarité braudelienne, comme sur la manière dont le Brésil a contribué à la restructuration du champ de l'histoire en France. Dans sa préface à ces essais, Ian Merkel analyse le séjour de Braudel au Brésil, pour que les lecteurs puissent mieux comprendre les missions universitaires françaises et leur importance.
Comedy and Metacomedy: Eugene O’neill’sDesire Under the Elmsand Its Antecedents
Authors: Pettit Alexander 
Published: January 2017

AbstractDuring an eleven-year period that began in 1913 with the composition of his first play, Eugene O’Neill repeatedly experimented with New Comic forms. His seven “metacomedies” from this period—most focally Bread and Butter, “Anna Christie,” and Desire under the Elms—render grotesque the inseparably erotic, familial, and financial tendencies of comic plot. In Desire under the Elms, for example, lovers are brought together but placed under arrest. The metacomedies record O’Neill’s reaction against the coalescent endings common to two modes of drama that he knew well: the melodrama of his father’s generation and the melodramatic-cum-realistic Broadway fare of his own youth. Textual history has impeded their categorical recognition: in 1924, when Desire under the Elms was first published and performed, 39 percent of O’Neill’s oeuvre (seventeen of forty-four plays), but just 19 percent of his staged work (five of twenty-six plays) and 16 percent of his published work (four of twenty-five), was comic or metacomic. It is no wonder, then, that the metacomic O’Neill has remained invisible, at cost to our understanding of his early dramatic practice. The other plays principally at issue are A Wife for a Life, The Movie Man, The Personal Equation, and The Straw.
Results for the shallow structure of the broader region of Chania by HVSR measurements of ambient noise and their validation using simulation of ambient noise and independent geological information.
Authors: Papadopoulos I. , Papazachos C. , Savvaidis A. , Theodoulidis N. , Vallianatos F. , Tsourlos P. 
Published: January 2017

The city of Chania is located at the Western-North part of the island of Crete. It is mostly built over Neogene sediments of unknown thickness. In the southern part of the city the Chania basin is developed, filled mainly by Quaternary deposits overlyingthe deep Neogene sediments. In this complex geological setting, we conducted over 200 single station measurements of ambient noise, aiming to estimate the predominant frequency of the subsurface formations. The obtained results for the HVSR data show a different behavior between sites located on Neogene and Quaternarydeposits. In general, Neogene sediments show a single peak at low frequencies (below 1Hz, typically in the range 0.4-0.6Hz), indicating a very thick layer overlying the bedrock (Trypalion and Plattenkalk limestones). On the other hand, measurements at Quaternary deposits show two peaks, with the first one similar to the Neogene formations, while the second one is identified at higher frequencies, typically~0.8-4.0 Hz. Simulation of ambient noise 1-D models show a good correlation between the experimental and theoretical HVSR curves, especially when the initial model consists of two layers (typically Neogene sediments overlying high-velocity bedrock formations) with a clear identification of the lower frequency HVSR peak, while for three layered models (typically Quaternary sediments and underlying softerNeogene and Neogene/bedrock high-velocity formations) results are more complicated, although both HVSR frequencies can be partly reconstructed.
Rockfall hazard in Greece.
Authors: Saroglou H. 
Published: January 2017

The geological structure of Greece (frequent occurrence of rock formations, existence of faults and fracturing of rocks), the steep topography and mountainous terrain as well as its high seismicity, creates a significant rockfall hazard. During the last decades, rockfalls in Greece are becoming a frequent phenomenon due to the increase of intense rainfall events but also due to the extension of human activities in mountainous areas. The paper presents rockfall hazard in Greece trough an inventory of rockfalls and investigates the correlation of specific factors, namely: a) triggering mechanism (rainfall, seismicity), b) slope angle, c) lithology, d) fault presence, e) block size in the probability of occurrence of these, based on a statistical approach. The time and space frequency of the events is also investigated. Finally, the impact of the events on human and infrastructures (transportation infrastructure, inhabited areas, archaeological sites) is discussed.
Natural and human hazard assessment of the archaeological sites of Paphos area (Cyprus) with the use of remote sensing and GIS.
Authors: Alexakis D. D. , Agapiou A. , Themistocleous K. , Lysandrou V. , Sarris A. , Hadjimitsis D. G. 
Published: January 2017

The study focuses on the creation of an innovative methodology for the development of a risk assessment model for the archaeological sites of western Cyprus (Paphos district). On site observation is the most common way for monitoring cultural heritage sites and monuments in Cyprus. However, this procedure which includes data collection, periodical observations, and multivariate risk assessment analysis, is practically difficult to be accomplished with the traditional practices and methods since it is time consuming and cost insufficient. Thus, the use of modern technologies such as Remote Sensing and GIS is anticipated to provide a tool of directives for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage sites from anthropogenic and environmental threats. These technologies provide to scientists integrated monitoring capabilities and have the unique advantage to store and manipulate a large amount of spatial and attribute data simultaneously. This study aims to integrate both satellite remote sensing techniques and GIS in a multidisciplinary approach, for monitoring natural and anthropogenic hazards with the use of archived and up-to-dated multi-temporal remotely sensed images in the study area, namely in areas nearby cultural heritage sites and monuments in Paphos area (Cyprus).According to the results, extensive construction and building development has taken placein the broader area. It was also proved that vast number of sites is established on areas prone to erosion and landslide phenomena.
Producing landslide susceptibility maps by applying expert knowledge in a GIS - based environment.
Authors: Tsangaratos P. , Rozos D. 
Published: January 2017

In this paper two semi - quantative approaches, from the domain of Multi criteria decision analysis, such as Rock Engineering Systems (RES) and Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) are implemented for weighting and ranking landslide related factors in an objective manner. Through the use of GIS these approaches provide a highly accurate landslide susceptibility map. For this purpose and in order to automate the process, the Expert Knowledge for Landslide Assessment Tool (EKLATool) was developed as an extension tightly integrated in the ArcMap environment, using ArcObjects and Visual Basic script codes. The EKLATool was implemented in an area of Xanthi Prefecture, Greece, where a spatial database of landslide incidence was available
Estudio de la deserción estudiantil de la Licenciatura en Ciencias Naturales y Educación Ambiental de la Universidad de Córdoba-Colombia- 2011 – 2015. - Study of student desertion of the Degree in Natural Sciences and Environmental Education of the University of Córdoba-Colombia- 2011 - 2015.
Authors: Flórez-Nisperuza Elvira Patricia , Carrascal-Padilla Joe Jair 
Published: January 2017

Uno de los principales problemas que enfrenta el Sistema de Educación Superior Colombiano concierne a los altos niveles de deserción en el pregrado, el programa de Licenciatura en Ciencias Naturales y Educación Ambiental, de la Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad de Córdoba, no es ajeno a esta realidad. En relación a esta problemática, el propósito de esta investigación fue caracterizar y describir los factores que incidieron en la deserción estudiantil del programa en el periodo 2011 – 2015. La investigación de naturaleza Mixta, aplicó entrevistas y encuestas a la muestra y se concluyó que los factores que inciden en este fenómeno fueron entre otros, el económico, la falta de orientación vocacional, la poca motivación, el cambio de ciudad y la paternidad, en menor escala. Finalmente, este estudio mostró un conjunto de estrategias que ayudan a mitigar el problema de deserción, a partir de las voces de docentes, estudiantes, directivos y administrativos del programa
Recycling of Rare Earth Elements
Authors: Lorenz Tom , Bertau Martin 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Any development of an effective process for rare earth (RE) recycling has become more and more challenging, especially in recent years. Since 2011, when commodity prices of REs had met their all-time maximum, prices have dropped rapidly by more than 90 %. An economic process able to offset these fluctuations has to take unconventional methods into account beside well-known strategies like acid/basic leaching or solvent extraction. The solid-state chlorination provides such an unconventional method for mobilizing RE elements from waste streams. Instead of hydrochloric acid this kind of chlorination decomposes NH4Cl thermally to release up to 400 °C hot HCl gas. After cooling the resulting solid metal chlorides may be easily dissolved in pH-adjusted water. Without producing strongly acidic wastes and with NH4Cl as cheap source for hydrogen chloride, solid-state chlorination provides various advantages in terms of costs and disposal. In the course of the SepSELSA project this method was examined, adjusted and optimized for RE recycling from fluorescent lamp scraps as well as Fe14Nd2B magnets. Thereby many surprising influences and trends required various analytic methods to examine the reasons and special mechanisms behind them.
Chemical Synthesis of Cycloparaphenylenes
Authors: Segawa Yasutomo , Yagi Akiko , Itami Kenichiro 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Cycloparaphenylenes and analogues thereof are substances having excellent structural and electronic properties due to radial π-conjugation modes and porous structures. Since they are partial structures of carbon nanotubes, they have also attracted attention as a template for carbon nanotube synthesis. In this chapter, we introduce a series of research on the synthesis of cycloparaphenylenes and their analogues.
Early thyroxine treatment in Down syndrome and thyroid function later in life
Authors: Zwaveling-Soonawala Nitash , Witteveen M Emma , Marchal Jan Pieter , Klouwer Femke C C , Ikelaar Nadine A , Smets Anne M J B , van Rijn Rick R , Endert Erik , Fliers Eric , van Trotsenburg A S Paul 
Published: January 2017

Objective
The hypothalamus–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) axis set point develops during the fetal period and first two years of life. We hypothesized that thyroxine treatment during these first two years, in the context of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in children with Down syndrome, may have influenced the HPT axis set point and may also have influenced the development of Down syndrome-associated autoimmune thyroiditis.

Methods
We included 123 children with Down syndrome 8.7 years after the end of an RCT comparing thyroxine treatment vs placebo and performed thyroid function tests and thyroid ultrasound. We analyzed TSH and FT4 concentrations in the subgroup of 71 children who were currently not on thyroid medication and had no evidence of autoimmune thyroiditis.

Results
TSH concentrations did not differ, but FT4 was significantly higher in the thyroxine-treated group than that in the placebo group (14.1 vs 13.0 pmol/L; P = 0.02). There was an increase in anti-TPO positivity, from 1% at age 12 months to 6% at age 24 months and 25% at age 10.7 years with a greater percentage of children with anti-TPO positivity in the placebo group (32%) compared with the thyroxine-treated group (18.5%) (P = 0.12). Thyroid volume at age 10.7 years (mean: 3.4 mL; range: 0.5–7.5 mL) was significantly lower (P < 0.01) compared with reference values (5.5 mL; range: 3–9 mL) and was similar in the thyroxine and placebo group.

Conclusion
Thyroxine treatment during the first two years of life led to a mild increase in FT4 almost 9 years later on and may point to an interesting new mechanism influencing the maturing HPT axis set point. Furthermore, there was a trend toward less development of thyroid autoimmunity in the thyroxine treatment group, suggesting a protective effect of the early thyroxine treatment. Lastly, thyroid volume was low possibly reflecting Down-specific thyroid hypoplasia.
A Genealogy of Moderate Islam: Governmentality and Discourses of Islam in Indonesia’s Foreign Policy
Authors: Umar Ahmad Rizky Mardhatillah 
Published: January 2017

This article analyses the political construction of ‘Moderate Islam Discourse’ in contemporary Indonesian Foreign Policy. Since 2004, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has campaigned for ‘Moderate Islam’ as the main image of Indonesian Islam. Within this discourse, Islam is conceived as ‘moderate’ and ‘tolerant’ as well as inherently compatible with democracy. However, in a more critical perspective, ‘Moderate Islam’’ also contains a political and discursive construction. By using a genealogical approach, I argue that the articulation Islam in Indonesia’s foreign policy is influenced by the ideological underpinnings of each political regime as well as the hegemonic discourse operating in international politics. Furthermore, I argue that there have been three discourses of Islam in Indonesia’s foreign policy, as articulated by different political regimes, namely (1) Islam as religious identity; (2) Moderate Islam from below; and (3) Moderate Islam as a part of the Global War on Terror project.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v23i3.3157
Islamic School and Arab Association: Aḥmad Sūrkatī’s Reformist Thought and Its Influence on the Educational Activities of al-Irshād
Authors: Yamaguchi Motoki 
Published: January 2017

Al-Irshād is an organization formed by the Arabs in present-day Indonesia in 1914, which advocates Islamic reform. This article examines its educational activities in the Dutch colonial period, elucidating the thoughts of its founder and leader, Aḥmad Sūrkatī, and the process of the integration of Arabs into the host society. Sūrkatī’s thought is distinguished from other Arab reformists for its emphasis on “egalitarianism” and its lack of a tendency towards Arab nationalism. From early on, he attempted to adapt the al-Irshād schools to the colonial education system in order to attract indigenous (pribumi) students, as well. In the late 1920s, he began to be locally oriented, with a focus territorially limited to Indonesia. The educational activities of al-Irshād in the 1930s also indicated the weakning of Ḥaḍramī/Arab-orientation. By the late 1930s, the opinion of al-Irshād was decisively inclined toward integration within the host society.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v23i3.3268
Expansão e ativismo político de grupos evangélicos conservadores: secularização e pluralismo em debate
Authors: Mariano Ricardo 
Published: January 2017

O artigo parte da apresentação e análise crítica de O dossel sagrado, livro de Peter Berger que completa 50 anos em 2017, para discutir aspectos do debate e da revisão acadêmicos da teoria da secularização e do pluralismo cultural e religioso. Enfoca a relação entre secularização, pluralismo e expansão de grupos evangélicos conservadores, por meio do exame de sua identidade subcultural e de seu ativismo político conservador .
Experiencia de internacionalización y desarrollo humano entre Colõmbia y Brasil
Authors: Robayo Adriana Pineda 
Published: January 2017

La internacionalización, como parte de los procesos culturales, utilizados por las Instituciones de Educación Superior en el mundo, para establecer redes de intercambio, articulación y cooperación, se integra paulatinamente a sus funciones sustantivas de docencia, investigación y extensión, y está orientado a generar mayores niveles de competitividad global. Teniendo en cuenta estos elementos, y utilizando el modelo de investigación basado en la noción de experiencia vivida, propuesto por Van Manen (2003), se sustenta en el presente análisis, la importancia de hacer visibles las implicaciones ontológicas que entraña, este proceso, ya que producto del mismo, es posible evidenciar aspectos fundamentales en el desarrollo humano, como la re significación de la realidad, los saberes, la personalidad y la formación profesional. El artículo es producto de la experiencia vivida en procesos de internacionalización propiciados en diferentes ámbitos de la formación profesional (pasantía doctoral, posdoctorado), entre instituciones de Brasil y Colombia, y demuestra la importancia de asumir la internacionalización, como una instancia necesaria para propiciar el desarrollo humano y como un proceso de continua construcción del ser, a través de la dinámica que supone el conjunto de relaciones que propicia, con sigo mismo, con los demás y con la cultura. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Experiência de internacionalização e desenvolvimento humano entre Colombia e BrasilRESUMO: A internacionalização, como parte dos processos culturais, utilizados pelas Instituições de Educação Superior no mundo, para estabelecer redes de intercâmbio, articulação e cooperação, se integra paulatinamente a suas funções substantivas de docência, investigação e extensão, e está orientado a gerar maiores níveis de competitividade global. Levando em consideração estes elementos, e utilizando o modelo de investigação baseado na noção de experiência vivida, proposta por Van Manen (2003), se sustenta na presente análise, a importância de tornar viáveis as implicações ontológicas que entranha, este processo, uma vez que produto do mesmo, é possível evidenciar aspectos fundamentais no desenvolvimento humano, como a ressignificação da realidade, os saberes, a personalidade e a formação profissional. Este artigo é produto da experiência vivida em processos de internacionalização propiciados em diferentes âmbitos da formação professional (estágio doutoral, pós-doutorado), entre instituições do Brasil e Colômbia, e demostra a importância de assumir a internacionalização, como uma oportunidade para propiciar o desenvolvimento humano e como um processo de contínua construção do ser, através da dinâmica que supõe o conjunto de relações que propicia, com sigo mesmo, com os demais e com a cultura.PALAVRAS-CHAVES:internacionalización; desarrollo humano; experiencia vivida.
Enhanced Magnetic Transition of Core-Shell Cobalt-Platinum Nanoalloys
Authors: Park Jong-Il , Kang aNam-Jung , Lee Sang-Min , Kim Sehun , Oh S. J. , Ri H. C. , Cheon Jinwoo 
Published: January 2017

AbstractSynthesis of ‘solid solution’ and ‘core-shell’ types of well defined Co-Pt based nanoalloys smaller than 10nm have been achieved by redox transmetalation reactions. This redox transmetalation are selectively observed only if the redox potential between two metals is favorable. The composition of the magnetic alloys can also be tuned by adjusting the ratio of reactants. Annealed core-shell nanoparticles transformed into mixed nanoalloys with face centered tetragonal (fct) structures, which show large coercivity and ferromagnetism at room temperature. These nanoparticles can potentially be used as an independent single magnetic bit of tera-bit information storage. Also, this kind of redox transmetalation reaction can be utilized as a general process to synthesize various types of nanoalloys with controlled composition in a selective fashion.