bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Age, Year-Class Strength Variability, and Partial Age Validation of Kiyis from Lake Superior
Authors: Lepak T. A. , Ogle D. H. , Vinson M. R. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Age estimates of Lake Superior Kiyis Coregonus kiyi from scales and otoliths were compared and 12 years (2003–2014) of length frequency data were examined to assess year-class strength and validate age estimates. Ages estimated from otoliths were precise and were consistently older than ages estimated from scales. Maximum otolith-derived ages were 20 years for females and 12 years for males. Age estimates showed high numbers of fish of ages 5, 6, and 11 in 2014, corresponding to the 2009, 2008, and 2003 year-classes, respectively. Strong 2003 and 2009 year-classes, along with the 2005 year-class, were also evident based on distinct modes of age-1 fish (&lt;110 mm) in the length frequency distributions from 2004, 2010, and 2006, respectively. Modes from these year-classes were present as progressively larger fish in subsequent years. Few to no age-1 fish (&lt;110 mm) were present in all other years. Ages estimated from otoliths were generally within 1 year of the ages corresponding to strong year-classes, at least for age-5 and older fish, suggesting that Kiyi age may be reliably estimated to within 1 year by careful examination of thin-sectioned otoliths.
Received January 17, 2017; accepted June 26, 2017 Published online September 6, 2017
Detecting Multispecific Patterns in the Catch Composition of a Fisheries-Independent Longline Survey
Authors: Niella Yuri V. , Hazin Fábio H. V. , Afonso André S. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Understanding the main factors that regulate species composition in fisheries is of utmost importance for developing efficient management strategies, particularly under the scope of ecosystem-based conservation approaches. This study used multivariate statistics to analyze catch data collected during a ~10-year, fishery-independent, standardized longline survey conducted in coastal waters (&lt;20-m isobaths) off Recife, northeastern Brazil. A redundancy analysis (RDA) was performed to assess the influence of spatiotemporal, environmental, and bioecological variables on the variability in longline catch composition and to identify similarly distributed groups of species. Additionally, an analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) was conducted to investigate the likeness among the multispecific groups and identify the most influential variables. A total of 1,295 specimens representing 29 species of teleosts, elasmobranchs, and sea turtles were caught, but most species (62.0%) were little represented (&lt;1%) in the catch composition. The RDA model indicated that the catch composition was significantly influenced by habitat type, behavior, trophic level, year, site, water transparency, month, and sea surface temperature; bioecological variables provided the greatest contribution to explain the variability in catch composition. The ANOSIM revealed that marine catfishes, moray eels, and Nurse Shark Ginglymostoma cirratum were the most similar in their relation to several spatiotemporal and environmental variables. The patterns reported herein might be useful to improve coastal fisheries management because they present the species that are influenced by similar drivers and the main factors underlying their respective catch rates. Therefore, this approach could be a potentially useful tool for lessening the number of biological dimensions, which frequently limit the capacity to implement effective management strategies in multispecies fisheries.
Sorption Capacity Measurement of Chlorella Vulgaris and Scenedesmus Acutus to Remove Chromium from Tannery Waste Water
Authors: Ardila Liliana , Godoy Rubén , Montenegro Luis 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
Tanning process is a polluting activity due to the release of toxic agents into the environment. One of the most important of those toxic chemicals is chromium. Different alternatives have been proposed for the removal of this metal from tanning waste water which include the optimization of the productive processes, physicochemical and biochemical waste water treatment. In this study, the biological adsorption process of trivalent chromium was carried out in synthetic water and tannery waste water through two types of native green microalgae, called Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus acutus in Free State and immobilized in PVA state. This, considering that cellular wall of microalgae has functional groups like amines and carboxyl that might bind with trivalent chromium. Statistical significance of variables as pH temperature, chromium and algae concentrations was evaluated just like bio sorption capacity of different types of water and kind of bioadsorbent was calculated to determine if this process is a competitive solution comparing to other heavy metal removal processes.
Gothic Literature
Authors: Corazza Vittoria Dolcetti 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThis essay involves a review of Gothic literature through the presentation of the documents that have reached us today; the most important is the translation of the Bible completed by the Arian Visigoth bishop Ulfila in Moesia in the second half of the fourth century. To better understand the cultural background behind the composition of the Gothic documents, this essay also gives an overview of the cultural history of the Goths, in particular the process of their conversion to the Arian doctrine of Christianity, which came about in the multicultural, multiethnic environment in the Roman provinces of Dacia and Moesia. Particular attention is paid to the manuscript tradition that directs us to Ostrogothic Italy (in the fifth to sixth centuries), where the Bible enjoyed wide diffusion: it was copied several times, studied in Gothic and Latin exegetical schools, and used in the liturgy and catecheses.
Opioid Use in Children and Adolescents After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair
Authors: Taylor Nicole , Frick Shannon , Killilea Samantha , Dugan-Frost Teri , Solodiuk Jean 
Published: September 2017

ABSTRACT
Opioid overdose is a leading cause of death from unintentional injury in the United States. When more opioids are prescribed than needed, leftover opioids may be misused if not properly disposed. The purpose of this study is to describe the opioid use of subjects (aged 13–21 years) after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair. After obtaining IRB approval, we obtained consent from 100 subjects (over an 8-month period) undergoing ACL reconstructions performed by five sports medicine surgeons. The mean age of enrolled subjects was 16 years, most were female (60%) and white (72%). While in the hospital, many subjects received the following: a regional anesthetic technique through a single shot femoral nerve block (50%); ketorolac (89%); and acetaminophen (84%). One week after surgery, we interviewed subjects to determine the amount of opioid used (36%) as compared to the amount prescribed.
Quantitative Proton Spectroscopy of the Testes at 3 T
Authors: Storey Pippa , Gonen Oded , Rosenkrantz Andrew B. , Khurana Kiranpreet K. , Zhao Tiejun , Bhatta Rajesh , Alukal Joseph P. 
Published: September 2017

Objectives
The aim of this study was to compare testicular metabolite concentrations between fertile control subjects and infertile men.

Materials and Methods
Single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) was performed in the testes with and without water suppression at 3 T in 9 fertile control subjects and 9 infertile patients (8 with azoospermia and 1 with oligospermia). In controls only, the T1 and T2 values of water and metabolites were also measured. Absolute metabolite concentrations were calculated using the unsuppressed water signal as a reference and correcting for the relative T1 and T2 weighting of the water and metabolite signals.

Results
Testicular T1 values of water, total choline, and total creatine were 2028 ± 125 milliseconds, 1164 ± 105 milliseconds, and 1421 ± 314 milliseconds, respectively (mean ± standard deviation). T2 values were 154 ± 11 milliseconds, 342 ± 53 milliseconds, and 285 ± 167 milliseconds, respectively. Total choline concentration was lower in patients (mean, 1.5 mmol/L; range, 0.9–2.1 mmol/L) than controls (mean, 4.4 mmol/L; range, 3.2–5.7 mmol/L; P = 4 × 10−5). Total creatine concentration was likewise reduced in patients (mean, 1.1 mmol/L; range, undetectable −2.7 mmol/L) compared with controls (mean, 3.6 mmol/L; range, 2.5–4.7 mmol/L; P = 1.6 × 10−4). The myo-inositol signal normalized to the water reference was also lower in patients than controls (P = 4 × 10−5).

Conclusions
Testicular metabolite concentrations, measured by proton spectroscopy at 3 T, may be valuable as noninvasive biomarkers of spermatogenesis.
Clinical Parameter for Deciding the BRAFV600E Mutation Test in Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance Thyroid Nodules
Authors: Rho Miribi , Kim Eun-Kyung , Moon Hee Jung , Yoon Jung Hyun , Park Vivian Y. , Han Kyunghwa , Kwak Jin Young 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the usefulness of a thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TIRADS) to select thyroid nodules with atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) cytology for additional BRAFV600E mutation testing. Three hundred three thyroid nodules were included. Statistical analysis was performed at both patient and nodule levels according to BRAFV600E mutation positivity and clinical factors. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to assess independent associations between BRAFV600E mutation positivity and clinical factors. Of 303 AUS/FLUS nodules, 16 (5.3%) of 303 nodules had the BRAFV600E mutation. The frequency of the BRAFV600E mutation according to the TIRADS was 35.7% for category 5, 10.8% for category 4c, 2.5% for category 4b, 1.1% for category 4a, and 0% for category 3 nodules (P < 0.001). On multivariate analysis, BRAFV600E mutation positivity was significantly associated with high suspicion on the TIRADS (odds ratio, 15.247; P < 0.001). In conclusion, the ultrasonography patterns of the TIRADS can be used as a clinical parameter for deciding the BRAFV600E mutation test in thyroid nodules with AUS/FLUS cytology.
Graft Growth and Podocyte Dedifferentiation in Donor-Recipient Size Mismatch Kidney Transplants
Authors: Müller-Deile Janina , Bräsen Jan Hinrich , Pollheimer Marion , Ratschek Manfred , Haller Hermann , Pape Lars , Schiffer Mario 
Published: September 2017

Background
Kidney transplantation is the treatment choice for patients with end-stage renal diseases. Because of good long-term outcome, pediatric kidney grafts are also accepted for transplantation in adult recipients despite a significant mismatch in body size and age between donor and recipient. These grafts show a remarkable ability of adaptation to the recipient body and increase in size in a very short period, presumably as an adaptation to hyperfiltration.

Methods
We investigated renal graft growth as well as glomerular proliferation and differentiation markers Kiel-67, paired box gene 2 and Wilms tumor protein (WT1) expression in control biopsies from different transplant constellations: infant donor for infant recipient, infant donor for child recipient, infant donor for adult recipient, child donor for child recipient, child donor for adult recipient, and adult donor for an adult recipient.

Results
We detected a significant increase in kidney graft size after transplantation in all conditions with a body size mismatch, which was most prominent when an infant donated for a child. Podocyte WT1 expression was comparable in different transplant conditions, whereas a significant increase in WT1 expression could be detected in parietal epithelial cells, when a kidney graft from a child was transplanted into an adult. In kidney grafts that were relatively small for the recipients, we could detect reexpression of podocyte paired box gene 2. Moreover, the proliferation marker Kiel-67 was expressed in glomerular cells in grafts that increased in size after transplantation.

Conclusions
Kidney grafts rapidly adapt to the recipient size after transplantation if they are transplanted in a body size mismatch constellation. The increase in transplant size is accompanied by an upregulation of proliferation and dedifferentiation markers in podocytes. The different examined conditions exclude hormonal factors as the key trigger for this growth so that most likely hyperfiltration is the key trigger inducing the rapid growth response.
Accounting for “moral betterment”
Authors: Greer Susan , McNicholas Patty 
Published: September 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the roles of accounting within state-based agencies which interpreted the ideal of protection for the Aboriginal population as principally about the removal of children from the Aboriginal communities to institutions of training and places of forced indenture under government-negotiated labour contracts.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses the original archival records of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards (1883-1950) to highlight the link between pastoral notions of moral betterment and the use of accounting technologies to organise and implement the “apprenticeship” programmes.

Findings
The analysis reveals that accounting practices and information were integral to the ability of the state to intervene and organise this domain of action and, together with a legal framework, to make the forced removal of Aboriginal children possible.

Social implications
The mentalities and practices of assimilation analysed in the paper are not unique to the era of “protection”. The study provides a history of the present that evokes the antecedents to recent welfare policy changes, which encompass a political rationality directed at the normalisation of the economic and social behaviours of both indigenous and non-indigenous welfare recipients.

Originality/value
The paper provides an historical example of how the state enlisted accounting and legal technologies to construct a crisis of “neglect” and to intervene to protect and assimilate the Aboriginal children.
Role expectations and agency in the audit tendering process
Authors: Taminiau Yvette , Heusinkveld Stefan 
Published: September 2017

PurposeTenders are generally considered important in auditing research and practice, and are associated with significant difficulties for the auditing profession, as well as for individual auditors in the context of client relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore the way auditors respond to complex client expectations related to the audit tendering process.Design/methodology/approachUsing a role-theory perspective, the authors analyzed 75 client evaluations of auditors, along with in-depth interviews with high-level auditors.FindingsThe authors present a theoretical framework of audit tenders that identifies different formal and informal practices auditors may employ in response to evolving client expectations that arise throughout different phases of the tendering process, and elucidate relevant conditions that may enable or impede these practices.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, the study reveals that, in the context of auditor-client relationships, expectations cannot be considered stable, but may vary significantly throughout the tendering process. Second, the study indicates that auditors are not only determined by the formal tendering procedures, but are also influenced by their level of agency.Practical implicationsThe framework has practical value by providing individual auditors guidance in managing their client relationships and, further, top management guidance for creating favorable conditions for auditors to meet client needs.Originality/valueThe findings provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the autonomy auditors have in responding to the contemporary pressures exerted on them.
Construal of self and Chinese accountants’ aggressive financial reporting judgments
Authors: Pan Peipei , Patel Chris 
Published: September 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to respond to calls in the literature to examine personality variables which may provide sharper insights into accountants’ judgments in applying principles-based International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This paper contributes to the literature on the global convergence of financial reporting by examining the influence of an important personality variable, construal of self, on Chinese accountants’ aggressive financial reporting judgments.Design/methodology/approachA between-subjects quasi-experiment was applied. In total, 122 Chinese professional accountants were categorized as either independents or interdependents, on the basis of their scores on construal of self scales. Subjects made their consolidation reporting judgments in the manipulated situations based on the financial performance of the investee entity, which refers to the situation where the investee entity makes a significant profit or a significant loss in the reporting period.FindingsCompared to interdependent accountants, independent accountants used the flexibility allowed in the principles-based standards to make more aggressive consolidation reporting judgments. Also, adoption of IFRS may not necessarily ensure consistent judgments even within China.Originality/valueThis paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of construal of self in examining accountants’ aggressive judgments. The authors suggest that it may be premature to assume that adoption of IFRS will lead to comparable financial reporting. The findings are relevant to researchers who are interested in examining personality and cultural influences on accountants’ judgments both within and across countries. Companies and organizations may incorporate appropriate strategies to recruit and train independent and interdependent accountants, particularly by addressing the influence of construal of self on aggressive financial reporting judgments.
Using personality facets to understand the nature of personality-satisfaction relationships
Authors: Seltzer Benjamin K. , Ones Deniz S. , Tatar Arkun 
Published: September 2017

Purpose
The relationships between the Big Five personality traits and life and job satisfaction have been examined extensively. Despite this attention, however, most existing theories focus on a few global dimensions of the Big Five while relying primarily upon a selection of theoretically relevant but unmeasured facets to illuminate their factor-level explanations. The purpose of this paper is to examine personality–satisfaction relationships for job and life domains at the facet level to better identify and explain why certain global Big Five traits consistently relate to satisfaction, taking both factors and facets into account.

Design/methodology/approach
Data from over 20 specific occupational samples were pooled meta-analytically to examine personality facet of job/life satisfaction relationships and their generalizability. Bifactor latent variable modeling using meta-analytic input was used to examine independent contributions of general and unique personality facets.

Findings
The dominance facet of extraversion, low self-esteem facet of neuroticism, and responsibility facet of conscientiousness were most closely related to satisfaction variables. There were independent contributions of general and unique facet level personality–satisfaction relations for the neuroticism and conscientiousness domains, but not for the extraversion domain.

Research limitations/implications
Findings contribute to the literature on the bandwidth–fidelity dilemma in measuring personality and theories involving personality at work.

Originality/value
This study established the generalizability of Big Five traits–satisfaction relations and identified the empirically supported personality paths to understanding job and life satisfaction. This study also demonstrated how meta-analysis can be combined with bifactor models to understand substantive relations.
A meta-analytic investigation of cyberloafing
Authors: Mercado Brittany K. , Giordano Casey , Dilchert Stephan 
Published: September 2017

Purpose
Cyberloafing, using technology to idle instead of work, is a particularly concerning issue for many organizations due to its perceived widespread impact on productivity. The purpose of this paper is to meta-analytically examine the growing literature on this construct in order to gain insights into its nomological network and guide future research.

Design/methodology/approach
After a systematic literature search, the authors conducted psychometric meta-analyses to estimate the relationships of 39 different correlates with cyberloafing. The meta-analytic database was comprised of 54 independent samples contributing 609 effect sizes.

Findings
Results indicate that boredom, engagement, and self-control exhibit strong relationships with cyberloafing, but employees’ attitudes surrounding and opportunities to engage in cyberloafing also proved powerful predictors. Contrary to common stereotypes, age and other demographic variables exhibited negligible effects. Employment variables (e.g. tenure, organization level, and income) were also negligibly related to cyberloafing. Emotional stability, conscientiousness, and agreeableness exhibited modest negative relationships with cyberloafing, whereas self-control demonstrated a strong negative relationship. Although cyberloafing strongly correlated with overall counterproductive work behaviors, the findings suggest it is unrelated to other components of job performance.

Research limitations/implications
Because the cyberloafing literature is in its early stages, the present study drew on a limited number of samples for several of the relationships analyzed. Rather than providing conclusive evidence of the nomological network of cyberloafing, these analyses reinforce the need for empirical investigation into several important relationships.

Originality/value
As the first quantitative review of the emerging cyberloafing literature, this study synthesizes related studies from disparate disciplines, examines the nomological network of cyberloafing, and highlights future directions for research into this phenomenon.