bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Passifloraceae seeds from the late Eocene of Colombia
Authors: Martínez Camila 
Published: December 2017

PREMISE OF THE STUDY:The plant fossil record for the neotropics is still sparse and temporally discontinuous. The location and description of new fossil material are fundamental for understanding evolutionary and biogeographic patterns of lineages. A new fossil record of Passifloraceae from the late Eocene of Colombia is described in this study.METHODS:Plant fossils were collected from a new locality from the Eocene Esmeraldas Formation. Eighteen fossil seeds were selected, described, and compared with fossil and extant angiosperm seeds based on the literature and herbarium collections. Taxonomic affinities of the fossil seeds within Passifloraceae s.l. were evaluated by comparing morphological characters of the seeds in a phylogenetic context. Stratigraphic information associated with the fossil locality was used to interpret the environment and taphonomic processes associated with fossil deposition.KEY RESULTS:A new seed fossil genus and species, Passifloroidesperma sogamosense gen. and sp. nov., is described and associated with the subfamily Passifloroideae based on the presence of a foveolate seed surface, ruminate endosperm, and a seed coat with prismatic palisade cells. The depositional environment of the locality is described as a floodplain associated with river channels.CONCLUSIONS:A detailed review of the Passifloraceae fossil record indicates that P. sogamosense is the oldest confirmed record of Passifloraceae. Its late Eocene age provides a minimum age that can be used as a calibration point for the crown Passifloroideae node in future dating analyses that together with its neotropical geographic location can shed light on the origin and diversification of the subfamily.
VVV Survey Microlensing Events in the Galactic Center Region
Authors: Navarro María Gabriela , Minniti Dante , Ramos Rodrigo Contreras 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
We search for microlensing events in the highly reddened areas surrounding the Galactic center using the near-IR observations with the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea Survey (VVV). We report the discovery of 182 new microlensing events, based on observations acquired between 2010 and 2015. We present the color-magnitude diagrams of the microlensing sources for the VVV tiles b332, b333, and b334, which were independently analyzed, and show good qualitative agreement among themselves. We detect an excess of microlensing events in the central tile b333 in comparison with the other two tiles, suggesting that the microlensing optical depth keeps rising all the way to the Galactic center. We derive the Einstein radius crossing time for all of the observed events. The observed event timescales range from t
E = 5 to 200 days. The resulting timescale distribution shows a mean timescale of

days for the complete sample (N = 182 events), and

days if restricted only for the red clump (RC) giant sources (N = 96 RC events). There are 20 long timescale events (

days) that suggest the presence of massive lenses (black holes) or disk–disk event. This work demonstrates that the VVV Survey is a powerful tool to detect intermediate/long timescale microlensing events in highly reddened areas, and it enables a number of future applications, from analyzing individual events to computing the statistics for the inner Galactic mass and kinematic distributions, in aid of future ground- and space-based experiments.
Fureurs et mélancolie
Authors: Ansaldi Saverio 
Published: December 2017

Que signifie s’interroger sur des modes de vie qui dépassent l’ordinaire ? Quelles sont les formes d’affirmation d’une puissance humaine excessive et démesurée ? La fureur et la mélancolie peuvent-elles représenter le modèle anthropologique de cette puissance ? Cet ouvrage se penche sur ces questions en étudiant les auteurs majeurs de la Renaissance qui ont mis la fureur et la mélancolie au centre de leur philosophie, à commencer par Marsile Ficin, Pic de la Mirandole, Léon l’Hébreu et Giordano Bruno. Il apparaît ainsi que tout en étant liées par une relation constitutive, la fureur et la mélancolie n’en suivent pas moins des lignes de développement propres, faisant état d’une relative autonomie l’une à l’égard de l’autre. Sans l’excès ou la démesure exprimés par une puissance furieuse, il n’existe pas d’actes ou des paroles proprement « créatrices », puisque tout acte de création implique une transformation profonde des règles habituelles – soient-elles éthiques, politiques ou esthétiques.
Incivility and Professional Comportment in Critical Care Nurses
Authors: Oja Kenneth John 
Published: December 2017

Background:
Civility among critical care nurses is important for achieving positive patient outcomes. Professional comportment refers to nurse behaviors that are respectful, knowledgeable, deliberate, and compassionate.

Objective:
To examine the relationship between perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility and professional comportment among critical care nurses, and the extent to which nurse characteristics influence their perceptions.

Methods:
Data were collected from nurses in 14 critical care units. Correlational analysis examined the relationship between nurses’ perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility and professional comportment. Regression analysis was used to identify predictors of nurse-to-nurse incivility.

Results:
Decreased perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility were associated with increased perceptions of professional comportment. Nurses’ reports of receiving education about professional comportment was a significant predictor of increased nurse perceptions of professional comportment.

Conclusion:
Professional comportment education for critical care nurses is important and may provide an option to decrease incivility and promote healthy work environments for nurses.
La réflexologie d’après l’énergétique chinoise
Authors: Meunier Mireille 
Published: December 2017

La réflexologie d’après l’énergétique chinoise est une synthèse que j’ai développée dès 1987 dans mon cabinet à Berlin. Alliant la réflexologie avec les concepts de l’énergétique chinoise, les dysfonctionnements sont vus en terme de dominances yin ou yang, correspondant par exemple à des états inflammatoires, à des stases ou à des hypofonctions. Ces déséquilibres sont déterminés à partir de l’anamnèse, des signes cliniques, de la prise des pouls chinois et de la consistance des tissus réflexes. Corps et esprit ne formant qu’un seul continuum énergétique, la palpation des zones réflexes, et le rééquilibrage des tissus perturbés s’accompagne d’une écoute active des ressentis de la personne, dans le cadre des 5 éléments. Un même symptôme apparent pouvant avoir des origines différentes, la cause de ce symptôme est décelée en fonction des perturbations réflexes et des éventuels blocages émotionnels et affectifs, dans le respect du concept de la structure globale de l’être selon les 5 éléments : Eau, Bois, Feu, Terre et Métal. Ainsi, le traitement réflexologique d’un symptôme consiste à prendre en compte les zones réflexes locales, mais aussi métaboliques en fonction des liens physiologiques de la vision occidentale de la biologie humaine, tout en travaillant les zones des « ministres » selon l’approche énergétique chinoise. La technique du toucher réflexe varie par des effets de concentration ou de dispersion afin de rétablir un équilibre de la dynamique des réponses neurovégétatives.
4. Copeaux d’…images
Authors: André Jean-Marie 
Published: December 2017

Des carnets de moleskine noire… Une vingtaine d’années de griffonnages, mots, phrases, voire paragraphes qui m’ont marqué, interrogé… s’est écoulée. Les noms de leurs auteurs presque toujours lisibles y furent consignés, enfin presque… En revanche, les titres des quotidiens, hebdomadaires, mensuels, trimestriels, ouvrages, podcasts ne le furent pas toujours. Anonyme, lui, est parfois connu mais dans ce cas tient à le rester ! Tous mes remerciements au Professeur Bernard Dupuis, pharmacologue, sculpteur, peintre et auteur des fresques d’accompagnement.
Le programme RNPC ® , une thérapeutique non-médicamenteuse pour la prise en charge des patients atteints de surcharge pondérale
Authors: Fabre Odile , Legrand Rémy 
Published: December 2017

Ces dernières années, de nombreux travaux de recherche ont montré que la répartition des graisses au niveau du corps, plus que leur quantité totale, permettait d’estimer de façon plus fiable les risques liés à l’excès de poids. Les graisses localisées dans la cavité abdominale sont notamment particulièrement néfastes pour la santé. En effet, le tissu adipeux intra-abdominal (ou viscéral) est aujourd’hui reconnu comme un véritable tissu paracrine et endocrine qui secrète de façon continue des molécules potentiellement toxiques pour notre organisme car impliquées dans la genèse de nombreuses pathologies chroniques telles que les maladies cardiovasculaires, le diabète de type 2 et le cancer. La circonférence abdominale est fortement corrélée à la proportion de tissu adipeux viscéral. Le fait que même des personnes ayant un indice de masse corporelle (IMC) normal voient leur risque de mortalité accru à cause d’un périmètre abdominal élevé devrait fortement encourager les médecins à mesurer le tour de taille de tous leurs patients en plus de calculer leur IMC. Concernant la prise en charge de la surcharge pondérale, les médecins français avouent manquer de temps lors d’une consultation ainsi que d’expertise en matière de diététique. Les centres RNPC ® répondent en tous points aux besoins des médecins en leur offrant comme alternative de recommander le programme RNPC ® , spécifiquement conçu pour des patients que leur surpoids ou leur obésité expose à un risque cardiométabolique majeur.
De ervaren relatiekwaliteit van familierelaties - Het belang van waardenconsensus bekeken vanuit een multi-actor benadering
Authors: Noordhuizen Suzanne , Kalmijn Matthijs 
Published: December 2017

Assessing perceived relationship quality of family relations. The role of value similarity examined from a multi-actor perspective. It has often been claimed a positive relationship exists between value similarity and relationship quality. To assess the validity of this claim
Heckman regression models were conducted using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) survey. In addition, given the nature of the sibling relation, we assume value similarity to be more important for the sibling relationship compared to the parent- child relation. Therefore,
we compared the importance of value similarity for siblings (N = 2853) with the impact of consensus between parents and children (N = 2202). Our analyses yield interesting results. First, in both the sibling relation and the parent-child relation evidence for the relationship
between consensus and relationship quality is limited. Second, for parents and children value similarity is more strongly connected with relationship quality than for siblings. In sum, these results question the common assumption that relationship quality suffers from a lack of consensus.
Relatos de los poderes de las imágenes mágicas entre prescripción y prueba (siglos XII-XV)
Authors: Weill-Parot Nicolas 
Published: December 2017

El artículo muestra cómo diversos relatos en torno a los talismanes astrológicos proporcionan datos significativos, a la vez sobre la cuestión de la autoridad de la magia y el asunto del horizonte político de esta narrativa y, más allá, de la propia práctica talismánica. El argumento se basa esencialmente en los relatos contenidos en dos obras: la Summa astrología e judicialis del astrólogo inglés John of Eschenden (1347-1348) y del De occultis et manifestis del mago italiano Antonio da Montolmo (finales del siglo xiv). De hecho no solo John Eschenden cuenta relatos conocidos y difundidos en la edad media (la historia del anillo de Moisés contado por Petrus Comestor y el relato del guarda curado con el talismán de Escorpio mencionado en el Centiloqium del Seudo-Ptolemeo), sino que relata una historia de su tiempo: cómo un burgués avaro de Paris fue curado de la gota con un talismán de ese tipo. Antonio da Montolmo cuenta tres “experiencias” con talismanes astrológicos atribuidas a Tommaso da Pizzano, a Bartolomeo de Sangibene y a sí mismo. Estos últimos relatos muestran el proceso histórico que desemboca a finales del siglo xiv y a principios del siglo xv en Italia del Norte en la aparición del “autor-mago”, es decir el mago que se atreve a firmar con su nombre unos escritos de magia y a asumir la experiencia de la magia en un nuevo contexto intelectual. En cuanto al contexto político, las referencias al poder tienen dos funciones: autenticar y legitimar el relato. Además, fundamentalmente el poder mágico puede ser relacionado con el poder del rey, como lo muestra un fragmento crítico del De universo de Guillermo de Alvernia.
Employee’s Motivation in Rural Local Governments in Tanzania: Empirical Evidence from Morogoro District Council
Authors: Njunwa Kelvin M. 
Published: December 2017

Human resources apart from other resources in an organization are the most valuable resource for effective organizational performance. Organization either public or private is highly depends on employee’s performance and commitment towards achieving organizational goals. Employee’s commitment is associated with employee’s motivation at workplace and depends highly on how management treats employees. The purpose of this paper was to analyze employee’s motivation in rural Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Tanzania. The case study design was employed in which Morogoro District Council (MDC) was randomly selected as a study case. The sample size of the study was 55 employees from management, middle and lower levels. The methods of data collection used includes, Interview and self-administered questionnaires and observations. Data collected was analyzed through Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS). The study revealed that employees in local governments are not motivated in both financial and non financial aspects. Employees are dissatisfied with low salaries, lack of promotion and career development, poor training program, working environment, poor communication, unfair treatments and political interferences. The study recommends for the central government to improve salaries to employees, ensure fair promotion based on merits, invest in employee training and development, secure low rates loans, improve communication and relations between management and employees as well as to minimize political interference to local government employees by elected officials.
Les « régions carrefours » du moyen nord comme laboratoires interculturels de nordicité
Authors: Rivard Étienne , Desbiens Caroline , Basile Suzy , Guimond Laurie 
Published: December 2017

Contrairement à ce que peut laisser supposer la définition du Plan Nord, la limite entre l’espace nordique et le Québec laurentien ou méridional n’a rien d’une ligne continue et invariable. Fruit d’un ensemble de critères physiques et humains connexes, cette limite tient davantage de la zone de transition dynamique que de la ligne frontière. Plusieurs régions du Québec, qu’on connaît généralement sous les vocables de « régions périphériques » ou « régions ressources », se trouvent, du moins en partie, à l’intérieur de cette zone. À notre avis, elles sont des « régions carrefours » pouvant assurer un lien concret entre le Nord et l’axe laurentien et qui permettent de mieux comprendre la place du Nord dans l’ensemble québécois et ainsi, de redéfinir la nordicité (ou le caractère nordique) de la province. L’objectif principal de cet article est de vérifier la pertinence de cette hypothèse. En prenant appui sur des entretiens semi dirigés auprès d’acteurs régionaux allochtones – enquêtes qui visaient à mesurer la place des populations autochtones dans les stratégies de développement et de partenariat au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean et en Abitibi-Témiscamingue –, nous proposons d’établir une esquisse critique des relations interethniques dans ces deux régions.
Genetic differentiation and phylogeography of Mediterranean-North Eastern Atlantic blue shark (Prionace glauca, L. 1758) using mitochondrial DNA: panmixia or complex stock structure?
Authors: Leone Agostino , Urso Ilenia , Damalas Dimitrios , Martinsohn Jann , Zanzi Antonella , Mariani Stefano , Sperone Emilio , Micarelli Primo , Garibaldi Fulvio , Megalofonou Persefoni , Bargelloni Luca , Franch Rafaella , Macias David , Prodöhl Paulo , Fitzpatrick Séan , Stagioni Marco , Tinti Fausto , Cariani Alessia 
Published: December 2017

BackgroundThe blue shark (Prionace glauca, Linnaeus 1758) is one of the most abundant epipelagic shark inhabiting all the oceans except the poles, including the Mediterranean Sea, but its genetic structure has not been confirmed at basin and interoceanic distances. Past tagging programs in the Atlantic Ocean failed to find evidence of migration of blue sharks between the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic, despite the extreme vagility of the species. Although the high rate of by-catch in the Mediterranean basin, to date no genetic study on Mediterranean blue shark was carried out, which constitutes a significant knowledge gap, considering that this population is classified as “Critically Endangered”, unlike its open-ocean counterpart.MethodsBlue shark phylogeography and demography in the Mediterranean Sea and North-Eastern Atlantic Ocean were inferred using two mitochondrial genes (Cytb and control region) amplified from 207 and 170 individuals respectively, collected from six localities across the Mediterranean and two from the North-Eastern Atlantic.ResultsAlthough no obvious pattern of geographical differentiation was apparent from the haplotype network, Φst analyses indicated significant genetic structure among four geographical groups. Demographic analyses suggest that these populations have experienced a constant population expansion in the last 0.4–0.1 million of years.DiscussionThe weak, but significant, differences in Mediterranean and adjacent North-eastern Atlantic blue sharks revealed a complex phylogeographic structure, which appears to reject the assumption of panmixia across the study area, but also supports a certain degree of population connectivity across the Strait of Gibraltar, despite the lack of evidence of migratory movements observed by tagging data. Analyses of spatial genetic structure in relation to sex-ratio and size could indicate some level of sex/stage biased migratory behaviour.
Cytochrome c oxidase barcodes for aquatic oligochaete identification: development of a Swiss reference database
Authors: Vivien Régis , Holzmann Maria , Werner Inge , Pawlowski Jan , Lafont Michel , Ferrari Benoit J.D. 
Published: December 2017

Introduction
Aquatic oligochaetes represent valuable indicators of the quality of sediments of watercourses and lakes, but their difficult identification based on morphological criteria compromises their more common use for eco-diagnostic analyses. This issue could be overcome by using DNA barcodes for species identification. A 10% threshold of cytochrome c oxidase (COI) divergence was proposed for differentiating between oligochaete species based on molecular and morphological data. A Swiss database of COI sequences of aquatic oligochaetes was initiated in 2012. The aim of this study is to complement the Swiss oligochaete database of COI sequences and to confirm the relevance of this threshold for species delimitation.

Methods
We sequenced the COI sequence of 216 specimens collected in different regions of Switzerland and ITS2 region of some lineages whose delimitation with COI data was doubtful.

Results
We distinguished 53 lineages, among which 34 were new for Switzerland and 17 sequenced for the first time. All the lineages were separated by more than 10% of COI variation, with the exception of some species within Nais and Uncinais. In these two genera, the threshold was lowered to 8% to be congruent with the morphological analysis. The total number of lineages reported so far for Switzerland is 75, including 59 morphospecies or unidentified species and 16 cryptic species.

Discussion
Our study shows that the threshold of 10% of COI divergence is generally appropriate to distinguish aquatic oligochaete lineages, but that it must be adjusted for some species. The database reported here will be complemented in the future in parallel to the development of genetic oligochaete indices.
Genome-wide identification of ABA receptor PYL family and expression analysis of PYLs in response to ABA and osmotic stress in Gossypium
Authors: Zhang Gaofeng , Lu Tingting , Miao Wenwen , Sun Lirong , Tian Mi , Wang Ji , Hao Fushun 
Published: December 2017

Abscisic acid (ABA) receptor pyrabactin resistance1/PYR1-like/regulatory components of ABA receptor (PYR1/PYL/RCAR) (named PYLs for simplicity) are core regulators of ABA signaling, and have been well studied in Arabidopsis and rice. However, knowledge is limited about the PYL family regarding genome organization, gene structure, phylogenesis, gene expression and protein interaction with downstream targets in Gossypium. A comprehensive analysis of the Gossypium PYL family was carried out, and 21, 20, 40 and 39 PYL genes were identified in the genomes from the diploid progenitor G. arboretum, G. raimondii and the tetraploid G. hirsutum and G. barbadense, respectively. Characterization of the physical properties, chromosomal locations, structures and phylogeny of these family members revealed that Gossypium PYLs were quite conservative among the surveyed cotton species. Segmental duplication might be the main force promoting the expansion of PYLs, and the majority of the PYLs underwent evolution under purifying selection in Gossypium. Additionally, the expression profiles of GhPYL genes were specific in tissues. Transcriptions of many GhPYL genes were inhibited by ABA treatments and induced by osmotic stress. A number of GhPYLs can interact with GhABI1A or GhABID in the presence and/or absence of ABA by the yeast-two hybrid method in cotton.
Mesoscale Eddies in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean: Three‐Dimensional Eddy Structures and Heat/Salt Transports
Authors: Dong Di , Brandt Peter , Chang Ping , Schütte Florian , Yang Xiaofeng , Yan Jinhui , Zeng Jisheng 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe region encompassing the Kuroshio Extension (KE) in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean (25°N–45°N and 130°E–180°E) is one of the most eddy‐energetic regions of the global ocean. The three‐dimensional structures and transports of mesoscale eddies in this region are comprehensively investigated by combined use of satellite data and Argo profiles. With the allocation of Argo profiles inside detected eddies, the spatial variations of structures of eddy temperature and salinity anomalies are analyzed. The results show that eddies predominantly have subsurface (near‐surface) intensified temperature and salinity anomalies south (north) of the KE jet, which is related to different background stratifications between these regions. A new method based on eddy trajectories and the inferred three‐dimensional eddy structures is proposed to estimate heat and salt transports by eddy movements in a Lagrangian framework. Spatial distributions of eddy transports are presented over the vicinity of the KE for the first time. The magnitude of eddy‐induced meridional heat (freshwater volume) transport is on the order of 0.01 PW (103 m3/s). The eddy heat transport divergence results in an oceanic heat loss south and heat gain north of the KE, thereby reinforcing and counteracting the oceanic heat loss from air‐sea fluxes south and north of the KE jet, respectively. It also suggests a poleward heat transport across the KE jet due to eddy propagation.