bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Geophysical and Geological investigation of the Delga proposed Dam Site, Qala Diza, Sulaimani City, Kurdistan Region, NE-Iraq
Authors: Aziz Bakhtiar , Ali Salahalddin , Karim Kamal 
Published: July 2017

The use of two geophysical methods and geological study in the investigation of the
geological setting is aimed at evaluating the feasibility of the area for establishing a dam
foundation and reservoir. 2D resistivity tomography was conducted on abutments while
GPR was used on the river terraces in the trough of the valley. The framework and
mutual relations of the geophysics, stratigraphy, lithology, structure, hydrologeology and
geotechnique are used to study feasibility of a segment of river valley for dam building.
The study is aided by detail and uptodate geological maps and geological cross sections
which are all base on field data and geophysical measurements. This proposed dam is
located at the southeast Delga village and about 20.0 km upstream of Dokan reservoir on
little Zab River and about 19.5 km from the Iraqi-Iranian border. The dam site and
surround areas are located in the Imbricated Zone which characterized by southwest
overturning of the folds. The dam site is located on one of the overturned syncline in which
Shiranish and Kometan Formations are exposed and the foundation and abutments of the
dam are located on latter formation. The trend of the dam axis is N80W and the dip of the
strata of the Kometan Formation is nearly parallel to the dam axis. This structure relation
with dam axis improves water tightness and stability of the dam abutments against sliding
and collapse. The 2D resistivity tomography and GPR survey showed that there are
underground week zones (cavern and fractured zones) in restricted limited area. The site
is water tight as the river descended inside fresh Kometan and Shiranish Formation.
Cytological and Histological Effect of Paracetamol on the Testis and Liver in Albino Mice Mus musculus
Authors: W. Qader , O. Othman 
Published: July 2017

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the acute toxicity effects of pure paracetamol tablets
on laboratory mice. In this study Mus musculus mice (6-8) weeks old were used. The toxicity effects
were evaluated on fifteen mice, in which they were divided equally into three groups, each one
consists of five individual mice. The first group was labeled as a vehicle group and received 5mL/kg
DW. The second and third groups were labeled as experimental groups which received 2 g/kg and 5
g/kg of paracetamol respectively. After fifteen days the animals were examined for toxicity signs and
then the liver and testis were processed for histological examinations. Furthermore, the sperm
abnormalities were recorded. The results of this study demonstrated that the low dose did not show
any morphological changes while some changes such as shivering, nausea and mortality were
manifested after administration of high dose of paracetamol. Many histological changes have been
observed after high dose treatment of paracetamol, the frequencies of abnormal sperm were
increased as well. Therefore, Paracetamol, which is believed to be a strong pain killer for the
hangover headache may damage liver and testis when consumes beyond the recommended dose.
Assessing Combinatorial Design for Analyzing System Performance of a Computer Network
Authors: Ahmed Bestoun , Mohammad Amin , Essa Hemin 
Published: July 2017

Generally, combinatorial design concerns with the arrangement of finite set of elements into
patterns (subsets, words, arrays) according to specified rules. The usefulness of this design method is
that the number of input combination can be reduced dramatically but all of them are covered by
the combinatorial set. This paper presents the application of this design method in communication
networks. Communication engineers can use this novel method to generate test cases for producing
cost-effective set of experiments to recognize the factors that have the least and most impact on the
system's performance. A well-known scenario is used for the purpose of the experiment and five
factors with different values are chosen to qualify their effect on the network performance. The
experimental set is generated using combinatorial design method and then it is been used to analyze
the effect of each factor. The experiments showed the effectiveness of the method to be used for
analyzing the effect of factors on communication network.
Bioaccumulation, Enrichment and Translocation Factors of some Heavy Metals in Typha Angustifolia and Phragmites Australis Species Growing along Qalyasan Stream in Sulaimani City /IKR
Authors: Majid Salih , Khwakaram Ahmed , Mam-Rasul Ghafoor , Ahmed Zana 
Published: July 2017

The current study was undertaken to evaluate the mobility, bioaccumulation and transfer of the
heavy metals; Cr, Mn, Cu, and Pb from the wastewater of Qalyasan stream to roots tissues and from
roots tissues to shoots tissues by means of bioaccumulation factor (BAF), enrichment factor (EF) and
translocation factor (TF) in the macrophytes species of T. angustifolia and P. australis at two sites. The
analyzed macrophytes plant species were sampled along the streambank of Qalyasan in Sulaimani city.
Qalyasan stream is used as a source for irrigation water and also as a sink for the untreated urban and
industrial domestic's wastewater effluents. Domestic and industrial discharges are probably the most
two main sources for heavy metal contamination in the water of the stream. Our results showed that
concentrations of the studied metals in the root and shoot tissues of the macrophyte species were much
higher than those in the samples of wastewater from Qalyasan stream. Bioaccumulation factor and
enrichment factor values in both species were above 1. High variation among the values was noticed, this
indicating that these plants could be considered as trace metals accumulators and both have potential
for phytostabilization and phytoextraction. The ranking order of bioaccumulation factor by T.
angustifolia for the studied heavy metals was Mn> Cu > Pb > Cr, while by P. australis was Mn> Cu > Cr> Pb.
Translocation factor values for Cr, Mn and Cu was higher than 1 by P. australis, whereas by T.
angustifolia the values only for Cr and Mn were greater than 1, this is evident that the uptake and
accumulation of these metals were higher in the shoot tissues rather than root tissues of the investigated
macrophyte species.
Those That Cause Fear by N. Christopher
Authors: Campbell Sandy 
Published: July 2017

Christopher, Neil. Those That Cause Fear. Inhabit Media, 2016.Neil Christopher, who has spent 16 years working to preserve Inuit traditional tales in the Eastern Arctic has, with the work of illustrator Germaine Arnaktauyok, created a field guide to scary creatures of the Arctic. The book shows 20 creatures of whom we should be afraid. Each creature is shown in a full page image created by Arnaktauyok, while the facing page presents Christopher’s description. At the end of the book there is a pronunciation guide for the creatures’ names. Arnaktauyok’s prints are simple designs in shades of browns and greens. The images capture the essence of the stories. For example, the image of the sleeping giant (p. 22) shows how a sleeping giant could be mistaken for a hill. The text is conversational, often addressing the reader as “you." Many of the descriptions open with a question to engage the reader or ask the reader to imagine something. “Have you ever imagined seeing a giant? Do you think you would be scared?” Often the stories contain bits of the traditional knowledge that allowed the Inuit to survive over the millennia. For example, the Kajjait, we are told are the hungry spirits of animals that have been killed and the meat “not used properly” or “allowed to spoil." The spirits look like gaunt wolves. They roam the tundra, eating anything they can find, but in spite of that are constantly starving. The lesson that hunters must use the animals that they kill is clear.While the book is aimed at an upper elementary audience, the content will be valuable to anyone who wants to know about these scary creatures.Inhabit Media has produced a number of books dedicated to individual scary creatures, such as the Qallupilluk and the Amautalik, but this is the first extensive collection. Highly recommended for school and public libraries.Highly recommended: 4 stars out of 4 Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give.
Counting With Barefoot Critters by T. White
Authors: Aitken Leslie 
Published: July 2017

White, Teagan. Counting With Barefoot Critters. Tundra Books, 2016.White’s counting book for young children begins with a good concept: make them want to turn the page. She accomplishes this by leaving a rhyme unfinished for want of a number that the listener must volunteer. This is a clever technique and will, undoubtedly, produce engagement. Unfortunately, White is not an effective poet; the rhymed couplets comprising her stanzas fail to exploit the power of verse for children.English is a language with stressed syllables. Rhythm, the arrangement of non-stressed and stressed syllables within a poetic “foot”, can draw attention to key words and concepts. It can also facilitate memory. For early readers, it can be a key to pronunciation. Combined with witty and inventive language, rhythm creates humor and/or suspense. (Theodore Geisel, “Dr. Seuss,” set the bar quite high in this regard.) Rhythm and foot in poetry can contribute to a child’s understanding of beat and measure in music, inviting a physical response. Too often, the couplets in White’s work sound rhythmically forced, as in this example-- which, incidentally, also fails as a pronunciation guide: “Surely we’ve earned a nice, peaceful rest Now that we’ve finished our daring conquest.” (Eight, [p.15])Flaws such as this weaken what could have been a superb book. White’s colored drawings are enchanting. They are detailed enough to invite the joy of discovery, but not so cluttered as to confuse. Her “Barefoot Critters” are adorable. The map that introduces their adventures is easily followed by the intended audience and is another clever way of inviting children to learn a number sequence. None-the- less, literary quality and artistic excellence should go hand-in-hand in books for children. Counting With Barefoot Critters has much of the second, and not quite enough of the first.Recommended: 3 of 4 starsReviewer: Leslie AitkenLeslie Aitken’s long career in librarianship involved selection of children’s literature for school, public, special, and university collections. She is a former Curriculum Librarian at the University of Alberta.
As A Boy by Plan International
Authors: Aitken Leslie 
Published: July 2017

Plan International. As A Boy. Second Story Press, 2016.Plan International is a charity that attempts to end world poverty. It also raises humanitarian concerns through its publications; this one is, seemingly, for children. In it, both gender roles and educational expectations in impoverished countries are explored. Vivid and realistic photographs accompany the text. Preceded by the statement, “…I will be told…to fight, to be brave,” we see a photograph of a boy with a crude toy rifle perched on his shoulder. The image evokes the child soldier. In further photographs, we see both genders at work: boys dragging huge bundles of sticks across the floor of a primitive factory; girls hauling smaller but similar bundles on their backs. Clearly, all of these children are disadvantaged. Having depicted this reality, As A Boy then launches its primary message: because they have the privilege of schooling, boys are luckier than girls. Boys, therefore, must stand up for the right of girls to learn. The message raises a significant question: who is the intended reader?The text could easily be handled by a child reading at the grade two or three level but, surely, one does not enjoin a seven or eight year old child to “stand up” for everyone’s right to an education in defiance of a cultural norm that is centuries old. To whom can a child safely show his defiance? His father? His teacher? The school board? The religious authorities of his community?Clearly, the fight for gender equality has to be led by enlightened adults. They might well be fathers, teachers, religious leaders, and brave, determined women. Most significantly, the leaders must be “insiders,” members of the very community that is struggling toward change. Certainly, in the hands of such “insiders,” As A Boy could be an effective communication tool. Presented by “outsiders,” however, its appeal to little boys to take a stand against tradition could be deeply resented, even seen as an attempt to lead a “Children’s Crusade.”Recommended with Reservations: 2 out of 4 starsReviewer: Leslie Aitken Leslie Aitken’s long career in librarianship involved selection of children’s literature for school, public, special, and university libraries. She is a former Curriculum Librarian for the University of Alberta.
Resilience Science for a Resilience Society in Seismogenic and Tsunamigenic Countries
Authors: Kaneda Yoshiyuki ,   Institute of Education, Research and Regional Cooperation for Crisis Management Shikoku (IECMS), Kagawa University 1-1 Saiwai-cho, Takamatsu 760-8521, Japan
Published: July 2017

The world falls victim to many natural disasters, including disasters from tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornados, hurricanes, floods, landslides, and droughts.Above all, attention has been drawn to destructive tsunamis and earthquakes, such as the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, the 2010 Chile earthquake, and the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami.My personal experience with disasters, tsunamis, and earthquakes has taught me that they can cause severe damage to buildings, the environment, and people in societies in coastal areas (Fig. 1).Since the East Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, restoration and revival from the extensive damage caused by the natural disasters has not progressed rapidly in the coastal areas of East Japan.There are many reasons for this, such as the lead times for restoration and recovery, reconstruction budgets, and the time spent generating consensus among the national government, local governments, and people living in the coastal areas on the restoration plans.Furthermore, mental and economic restoration for each individual affected by the disaster in coastal areas and others is very far from returning to the normal state – the one before the disaster.Therefore, advanced measures for disaster mitigation, restoration, and revival in coastal areas are indispensable in advance of the next destructive earthquake and tsunami.In this paper, I will first present examples of tsunami and earthquake damage in Japan and the rest of the world, and countermeasures, resilience science, and resilience society.
Preliminary Study on Long-Term Flooding After the Tsunami
Authors: Baba Toshitaka , Taniguchi Junichi , Kusunoki Noriko , Miyoshi Manabu , Aki Hiroshi ,   Tokushima University 2-1 Minamijosanjima, Tokushima City, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan,   Nita Consultant Co. Ltd., Tokushima, Japan
Published: July 2017

After the Nankai earthquake in 1946, the resultant flooding lasted for a long time, because seawater remained on land after the tsunami in Kochi city. Large-scale flooding occurred in Ishinomaki city immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Long-term flooding may hamper disaster responses such as rescue and recovery activities. This paper studied the risks of long-term flooding after the Nankai earthquake in Tokushima city based on a paleographical survey and numerical analysis. The paleographical survey identified statements such as “seawater sometimes flowed onto the land at the full tide,” suggesting occurrences of long-term flooding after previous Nankai earthquakes. The numerical analysis separately calculated values inside and outside the levee.
The tsunami waveforms outside the analysis area obtained by tsunami numerical simulation was used as the boundary condition of the inland flow modeling, that is water was introduced inside the levee when the tsunami water level exceeded the upper end of the levee. The two layers of ground surface and the drain were defined to calculate the flow, including water exchange between the two layers, and the water was drained forcefully outside the levee using a drainage pump. The possibility of long-term flooding in the analysis area is suggested when a large-scale earthquake occurs in the Nankai trough.
Nitric oxide and pulmonary arterial hypertension
Authors: Chester Adrian H , Yacoub Magdi H , Moncada Salvador 
Published: July 2017

The pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension remains undefined. Changes in the expression and effects mediated by a number of vasoactive factors have been implicated to play a role in the onset and progression of the disease. The source of many of these mediators, such as nitric oxide (NO), prostacyclin and endothelin-1 (ET-1), is the pulmonary endothelium. This article focus in the role of nitric oxide in PAH, reviewing the evidence for its involvement in regulation of pulmonary a vascular tone under physiological conditions, the mechanisms by which it can contribute to the pathological changes seen in PAH and strategies for the use of NO as a therapy for treatment of the disease.
Complex Coronary Hemodynamics - Simple Analog Modelling as an Educational Tool
Authors: Parikh Gaurav R. , Peter Elvis , Kakouros Nikolaos 
Published: July 2017

Objective:
Invasive coronary angiography remains the cornerstone for evaluation of coronary stenoses despite there being a poor correlation between luminal loss assessment by coronary luminography and myocardial ischemia. This is especially true for coronary lesions deemed moderate by visual assessment. Coronary pressure-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) has emerged as the gold standard for the evaluation of hemodynamic significance of coronary artery stenosis, which is cost effective and leads to improved patient outcomes. There are, however, several limitations to the use of FFR including the evaluation of serial stenoses.

Method:
In this article, we discuss the electronic-hydraulic analogy and the utility of simple electrical modelling to mimic the coronary circulation and coronary stenoses. We exemplify the effect of tandem coronary lesions on the FFR by modelling of a patient with sequential disease segments and complex anatomy.

Results:
We believe that such computational modelling can serve as a powerful educational tool to help clinicians better understand the complexity of coronary hemodynamics and improve patient care.
Penetapan Harga Berbasis Penerimaan Konsumen di Dual-Channel Supply Chain
Authors: Widodo Erwin 
Published: July 2017

Dual-Channel Supply Chain (DCSC) is a mixed structure which simultaneously utilizes both offline and online channel to distribute one particular product or service. This structure provides market reach extension in which eventually leads to revenue increase. Whatsoever, aside of this advantage, DCSC also brings some challenging problems. One prominent problem is of about between-channel pricing-problem. In its practice, DCSC actors often apply intuitive offline and online pricing without further analytical evaluation. Yet there is no representative mechanism to address this critical problem. This paper attempts to resolute this challenge by proposing a qualitative estimation mechanism on customer acceptance on online channel relative to offline one. This proposed approach is about to utilize an interplay relationship between offline and online prices. The main parameter to consider is a ratio of customer acceptance parameters. These parameters are elicited from 3 groups of products which are sold under DCSC structure in Indonesian cases to exhibit the different properties in each product group. Numerical experiment result shows that the utilization of this pricing mechanism may increase the financial performance of DCSC under observation.
Perumusan Strategi Pengembangan Industri Kecil Menengah Topeng Malangan
Authors: Noya Sunday , Hidayat Khoirul , Melany M 
Published: July 2017

Topeng Malangan is one of potential cultural products developed to preserve culture and bring revenue for stakeholder in Malang. This study aims to identify internal and external factors affecting the existence of small medium enterprise (SME) Topeng Malangan and formulate its development strategy. The identification of problem and factors is done by focus group discussions (FGD) involving businessmen, cultural observer, academician, regional government and researchers. The results of FGD is then analyzed and developed by using SWOT matrix in order to determine formula of SME development strategies. To sharpen the strategy more effective in implementation, the analysis using IFAS and EFAS matrix is conducted. The result is final formula for SME Topeng Malangan development strategy that is more focused on strategy SO (Strength - Opportunities); which is the utilization of strength organization of SME Topeng Malangan for taking advantage of opportunities.
Analisis Variabel Yang Memengaruhi Pertumbuhan Dan Peningkatan Daya Saing Industri Amplang Samarinda
Authors: Isharyani Muriani Emelda , Ananta Muhammad Yuda , Kuncoro Deasy Kartika Rahayu 
Published: July 2017

Several problems occurred in amplang industry of Samarinda insists on discovering indicators and factors affecting the growth and improvement of amplang industry’s competitiveness of Samarinda. Identification and analysis are done by using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) method toward indicators and factors of Diamond Porter model. The results of this research indicates that all indicators that compose and build each factor of Diamond Porter model literally have a positive and significant correlation to each factor. Each indicator evidently influences positively and significantly on the growth and improvement of amplang industry’s competitiveness of Samarinda. Moreover, factors of Diamond Porter model positively and significantly evidently influence to the growth and improvement of amplang industry’s competitiveness of Samarinda. Based on the influential factors and indicators, it can be identified that condition & resource and capital resource availability are the most influential factor and indicator on the growth and improvement of amplang industry’s competitiveness of Samarinda.
20 AÑOS DESPUÉS DEL PROCESO DE APERTURA ECONÓMICA: MÁS MERCADOS CON POCA DIVERSIFICACIÓN EXPORTADORA
Authors: Mora Luis Nelson Beltrán 
Published: July 2017

Colombia implementó un proceso de apertura económica para modernizar y diversificar las exportaciones; el modelo se caracterizó por liberar los mercados y especialmente por atraer la inversión extranjera del exterior a Colombia, políticas bastante diferentes a las implementadas en el modelo de sustitución de importaciones que pudo funcionar hasta finales de los años ochenta donde la protección y el fomento público lograron un interesante desarrollo industrial.20 años después del proceso de apertura económica las exportaciones aumentaron más de seis veces con relación a la década de los noventa; sin embargo las ventas no tradicionales especialmente las industriales siguen siendo bajas para enfrentar la competitividad en un mundo globalizado.