bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Affix Meaning Knowledge in First Through Third Grade Students
Authors: Apel Kenn , Henbest Victoria Suzanne 
Published: April 2016

Purpose
We examined grade-level differences in 1st- through 3rd-grade students' performance on an experimenter-developed affix meaning task (AMT) and determined whether AMT performance explained unique variance in word-level reading and reading comprehension, beyond other known contributors to reading development.

Method
Forty students at each grade level completed an assessment battery that included measures of phonological awareness, receptive vocabulary, word-level reading, reading comprehension, and affix meaning knowledge.

Results
On the AMT, 1st-grade students were significantly less accurate than 2nd- and 3rd-grade students; there was no significant difference in performance between the 2nd- and 3rd-grade students. Regression analyses revealed that the AMT accounted for 8% unique variance of students' performance on word-level reading measures and 6% unique variance of students' performance on the reading comprehension measure, after age, phonological awareness, and receptive vocabulary were explained.

Conclusion
These results provide initial information on the development of affix meaning knowledge via an explicit measure in 1st- through 3rd-grade students and demonstrate that affix meaning knowledge uniquely contributes to the development of reading abilities above other known literacy predictors. These findings provide empirical support for how students might use morphological problem solving to read unknown multimorphemic words successfully.
High‐frequency ultrasound transducer by using inversion layer technique for intravascular ultrasound imaging
Authors: Sung J.H. , Jeong J.S. 
Published: April 2016

Inversion layer technique can increase the centre frequency (f0) and the −6 dB bandwidth of the ultrasound transducer without reducing thickness of active material. However, it suffers from the reduced −6 dB bandwidth when the centre frequency is increased more than 1.5f0. A modified inversion technique is proposed and applied it to high‐frequency intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) transducer. The performance was computationally verified by using finite element method (FEM) simulation. The proposed IVUS transducer consists of two sub‐elements with each aperture size of 0.6 × 0.6 mm, and each sub‐element has different types of inversion layer using PMN‐PT and PZT‐5H. The initial thickness of overall active material was designed for 40 MHz centre frequency and the FEM simulation showed that the centre frequency was increased by about 1.8f0 maintaining the −6 dB fractional bandwidth compared with the conventional transducer.
Micro‐motion of a moving train observed by a Ka‐band interferometric radar
Authors: Zhai Wenshuai , Zhang Yunhua , Yang Qingshan , Shi Xiaojin 
Published: April 2016

A moving train was imaged by a Ka‐band interferometric (In) radar of 2 GHz bandwidth working at the dechirping model. Two radar images from two channels as well as their In image were obtained after estimating the speed and direction of the train. The plots of In phases (InPhes) along the train exhibits periodic fluctuations, which are resulted from the back and forth motions of both locomotive and other compartments when the trains are moving ahead, and this can be attributed to the micro‐motion (m‐M) of the train. As far as it is known, this is the first time to experimentally demonstrate m‐M detection through InPhes.
High extinction‐ratio compact polarisation beam splitter on silicon
Authors: Chen Sitao , Wu Hao , Dai Daoxin 
Published: April 2016

A novel polarisation beam splitter (PBS) with a high extinction ratio in a broad band has been proposed and realised by cascading a bent directional coupler and a low‐loss transverse‐magnetic (TM)‐pass polariser based on a subwavelength grating. The realised PBS has a footprint as small as 3 × 22.5 μm, a high extinction ratio (>20 dB) and a low excess loss (∼1 dB) are obtained over a broad band of ∼60 nm for both transverse‐electric and TM polarisations.
Wideband dual‐mode planar endfire antenna with circular polarisation
Authors: Zhang Ji , Lu Wen‐Jun , Li Ling , Zhu Lei , Zhu Hong‐bo 
Published: April 2016

A novel wideband dual‐mode planar endfire antenna with circular polarisation is presented. The antenna consists of a semicircular disk radiator and a concentrically, stub‐loaded annular sector dipole. A pair of stubs is symmetrically loaded along the annular sector dipole so that the second odd‐order dipole mode is excited and moved downwards to the fundamental mode. Thus, a wideband, planar endfire circularly polarised antenna with dual‐resonant characteristic is achieved. It is shown that the prototype has an impedance bandwidth of more than 24.8%, and a 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 18.8%.
Doppler radar microphone with logarithmic square‐law detector
Authors: Aumann H.M. , Emanetoglu N.W. 
Published: April 2016

A Doppler radar based microphone is similar to an acoustic microphone except that it detects vibrations rather than sound. A microphone with a logarithmic square‐law detector for monitoring honeybees is described. The performance of a logarithmic square‐law detector is compared with a more conventional zero‐intermediate frequency (IF), direct down conversion receiver. It is shown that unavoidable coupling between the transmitter and receiver as well as stationary clutter have the same effect in the square‐law receiver as the local oscillator signal and mixer have in the direct down conversion receiver. The theoretical output of either configuration is formally the same. Both receiver designs were implemented in a low‐cost, low‐power radar microphone operating in the unlicensed 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific and medical band. The use of a logarithmic square‐law detector resulted in a significant simplification of the radar microphone design as well as a 10 dB improvement in signal‐to‐noise ratio.
Analysis of a distributed maximum power point tracking tracker with low input voltage ripple and flexible gain range
Authors: Wu Bin , Naderi Roozbeh , Smedley Keyue 
Published: April 2016

Partial shading effects on series‐connected solar cells (modules) motivate the development of distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) technology. This study reviews three dominant DMPPT architectures with preference given to DMPPT tracker technology based on its modularity, gain flexibility and technical maturity for decades of development. Topologies suitable for DMPPT tracker application are investigated. A modified buck–boost converter with reduced input voltage ripple and flexible‐gain range is adopted for DMPPT tracker application. At steady state, the topology can reduce the power oscillation at maximum power point and improve the tracking accuracy without increasing input filter capacitor. The flexibility in gain range makes it well‐suited for many commercial solar energy harvest systems under rapidly varying temperature and illumination conditions. The simulation and experiment of a 15 W low‐power prototype under small voltage scale confirm the feasibility of the proposed converter.
Mitigating the effects of rain‐induced fading in satellite communications systems using time diversity in concert with maximal ratio combining
Authors: Uggalla Leshan , Eastment Jon , Otung Ifiok 
Published: April 2016

This paper reports on a preliminary study using EutelSat Hotbird 13A beacon data at 19.7 GHz and 29.5 GHz (scaled data) to evaluate the benefit of using Time Diversity (TD) and Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) on an experimental next generation Ka‐band (26.5–40 GHz) satellite link in the UK. The authors have used the 2nd generation of video broadcasting via satellite (DVB‐S2) as the broadcasting standard to investigate the novel integration of TD and MRC. The benefit of the TD and MRC scheme was quantified in terms of percentage enhancement of the link availability. Long‐term statistics of rain and atmospheric attenuation were derived from a period of three year’s measurements made in Pontypridd, South Wales and in Chilbolton, England, at 19.7 GHz. A hypothetical Ka‐band satellite broadcast link between Pontypridd and Chilbolton has been designed to use 29.5 GHz as the uplink frequency while 19.7 GHz is used as the downlink frequency. The paper discusses the performance enhancement provided by TD and MRC during different types of fading events. The integration of TD and MRC into the DVB‐S2 standard provides the capability to continue delivering services at lower carrier‐to‐noise (C/N) levels by lowering the bit error rate (BER).
Cultural experiences of student and new‐graduate dietitians in the Gomeroi gaaynggal ArtsHealth program: a quality assurance project
Authors: Rae Kym , Bohringer Emma , Ashman Amy , Brown Leanne , Collins Clare 
Published: April 2016

Issue addressedUndergraduate dietetic students are required to demonstrate cultural awareness and culturally respectful communication to meet national competencies, but exposure to practical experiences may be limited. The Gomeroi gaaynggal ArtsHealth Centre was established in 2009 after community consultation with the Indigenous community in Tamworth, New South Wales. The Centre provides a safe and welcoming space where women can create art while discussing health issues with visiting health professionals and students. The present study aimed to evaluate the cultural experiences of student and new‐graduate dietitians visiting an Aboriginal ArtsHealth centre through a quality assurance project.MethodsSix student and new‐graduate dietitians were invited to provide feedback on their experiences for this report. A generic inductive approach was used for qualitative data analysis.ResultsKey qualitative themes of ‘building rapport’ and ‘developing cultural understanding’ were identified. Four of the participants interviewed felt they gained a deeper understanding of the context around health disparity for Indigenous Australians through their experiences. Key ways to build rapport with community members were identified.ConclusionsResults suggest that first‐hand experiences working in an Aboriginal ArtsHealth centre are effective in building cultural competency skills for student and new‐graduate dietitians. These experiences could be better supported through improved preparation for the cultural setting, and ongoing monitoring of participant experiences is recommended.So what?The authors encourage undergraduate dietetic programs and students to seek out opportunities for further development of cultural awareness through increased practical experiences working with Indigenous communities.
Reorientation of health services: enablers and barriers faced by organisations when increasing health promotion capacity
Authors: McFarlane K. , Judd J. , Devine S. , Watt K. 
Published: April 2016

Issue addressedPrimary healthcare settings are important providers of health promotion approaches. However, organisational challenges can affect their capacity to deliver these approaches. This review identified the common enablers and barriers health organisations faced and it aimed to explore the experiences health organisations, in particular Aboriginal organisations, had when increasing their health promotion capacity.MethodsA systematic search of peer‐reviewed literature was conducted. Articles published between 1990–2014 that focused on a health care‐settings approach and discussed factors that facilitated or hindered an organisation's ability to increase health promotion capacity were included.ResultsTwenty‐five articles met the inclusion criteria. Qualitative (n = 18) and quantitative (n = 7) study designs were included. Only one article described the experiences of an Aboriginal health organisation. Enablers included: management support, skilled staff, provision of external support to the organisation, committed staffing and financial resources, leadership and the availability of external partners to work with. Barriers included: lack of management support, lack of dedicated health promotion staff, staff lacking skills or confidence, competing priorities and a lack of time and resources allocated to health promotion activities.ConclusionsWhile the literature highlighted the importance of health promotion work, barriers can limit the delivery of health promotion approaches within primary healthcare organisations. A gap in the literature exists about how Aboriginal health organisations face these challenges.So what?Primary healthcare organisations wanting to increase their health promotion capacity can pre‐empt the common barriers and strengthen identified enablers through the shared learnings outlined in this review.
Agents of Latin
Authors: Qi Lintao 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Latin has a history of being used in English translations of erotic literary works,
but the process of producing and incorporating the Latin into the English
target texts has so far remained largely unexplored. Based on the
publisher’s archival materials, this paper uncovers the roles of and
relationships between the English translator, Latin translator, publisher,
printer and copyeditor for the use of Latin in Clement Egerton’s 1939 English translation
The Golden Lotus of the classic Chinese novel Jin
Ping Mei. I argue that pre-publication censorship was influenced
by sophisticated hierarchical and horizontal networks of agents. The Latin
passages in The Golden Lotus, which have always been
attributed to Egerton, are revealed by the archives to be the work of an
unknown Latin scholar. The use of Latin in The Golden
Lotus is both reflective of the social context of the 1930s and
representative of the complexity of the agential network in
translation.
From EPIC to EPTIC — Exploring simplification in interpreting and translation from an intermodal
perspective
Authors: Bernardini Silvia , Ferraresi Adriano , Miličević Maja 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article introduces EPTIC (the European Parliament Translation and Interpreting Corpus), a new bidirectional
(English<>Italian) corpus of interpreted and translated EU Parliament proceedings. Built as an extension of the
English<>Italian subsection of EPIC (the European Parliament Interpreting Corpus), EPTIC is an intermodal
corpus featuring the pseudo-parallel outputs of interpreting and translation processes, aligned to each other and to the
corresponding source texts (speeches by MEPs and their written up versions). As a first attempt at unearthing the potential of
EPTIC, we investigate lexical simplification replicating the methodology proposed by Laviosa (1998a; 1998b), but extending it to encompass both a monolingual comparable
and an intermodal perspective. Our results indicate that the mediation process reduces complexity in both modes of language
production and both language directions, with interpreters simplifying the input more than translators, and evidence of
simplification being more lexical in English and more lexico-syntactic in Italian.
Immunostimulatory effect of spinach aqueous extract on mouse macrophage-like J774.1 cells and mouse primary peritoneal macrophages
Authors: Ishida Momoko , Ose Saya , Nishi Kosuke , Sugahara Takuya 
Published: April 2016

AbstractWe herein report the immunostimulatory effect of spinach aqueous extract (SAE) on mouse macrophage-like J774.1 cells and mouse primary peritoneal macrophages. SAE significantly enhanced the production of interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α by both J774.1 cells and peritoneal macrophages by enhancing the expression levels of these cytokine genes. In addition, the phagocytosis activity of J774.1 cells was facilitated by SAE. Immunoblot analysis revealed that SAE activates mitogen-activated protein kinase and nuclear factor-κB cascades. It was found that SAE activates macrophages through not only TLR4, but also other receptors. The production of IL-6 was significantly enhanced by peritoneal macrophages from SAE-administered BALB/c mice, suggesting that SAE has a potential to stimulate macrophage activity in vivo. Taken together, these data indicate that SAE would be a beneficial functional food with immunostimulatory effects on macrophages.
MEMO: multi-experiment mixture model analysis of censored data
Authors: Geissen Eva-Maria , Hasenauer Jan , Heinrich Stephanie , Hauf Silke , Theis Fabian J. , Radde Nicole E. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Motivation: The statistical analysis of single-cell data is a challenge in cell biological studies. Tailored statistical models and computational methods are required to resolve the subpopulation structure, i.e. to correctly identify and characterize subpopulations. These approaches also support the unraveling of sources of cell-to-cell variability. Finite mixture models have shown promise, but the available approaches are ill suited to the simultaneous consideration of data from multiple experimental conditions and to censored data. The prevalence and relevance of single-cell data and the lack of suitable computational analytics make automated methods, that are able to deal with the requirements posed by these data, necessary.
Results: We present MEMO, a flexible mixture modeling framework that enables the simultaneous, automated analysis of censored and uncensored data acquired under multiple experimental conditions. MEMO is based on maximum-likelihood inference and allows for testing competing hypotheses. MEMO can be applied to a variety of different single-cell data types. We demonstrate the advantages of MEMO by analyzing right and interval censored single-cell microscopy data. Our results show that an examination of censoring and the simultaneous consideration of different experimental conditions are necessary to reveal biologically meaningful subpopulation structures. MEMO allows for a stringent analysis of single-cell data and enables researchers to avoid misinterpretation of censored data. Therefore, MEMO is a valuable asset for all fields that infer the characteristics of populations by looking at single individuals such as cell biology and medicine.
Availability and Implementation: MEMO is implemented in MATLAB and freely available via github (https://github.com/MEMO-toolbox/MEMO).
Contacts: eva-maria.geissen@ist.uni-stuttgart.de or nicole.radde@ist.uni-stuttgart.de
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
TreeQTL: hierarchical error control for eQTL findings
Authors: Peterson C. B. , Bogomolov M. , Benjamini Y. , Sabatti C. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Summary: Commonly used multiplicity adjustments fail to control the error rate for reported findings in many expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies. TreeQTL implements a hierarchical multiple testing procedure which allows control of appropriate error rates defined relative to a grouping of the eQTL hypotheses.
Availability and Implementation: The R package TreeQTL is available for download at http://bioinformatics.org/treeqtl.
Contact: sabatti@stanford.edu
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SCell: integrated analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data
Authors: Diaz Aaron , Liu Siyuan J. , Sandoval Carmen , Pollen Alex , Nowakowski Tom J. , Lim Daniel A. , Kriegstein Arnold 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Summary: Analysis of the composition of heterogeneous tissue has been greatly enabled by recent developments in single-cell transcriptomics. We present SCell, an integrated software tool for quality filtering, normalization, feature selection, iterative dimensionality reduction, clustering and the estimation of gene-expression gradients from large ensembles of single-cell RNA-seq datasets. SCell is open source, and implemented with an intuitive graphical interface. Scripts and protocols for the high-throughput pre-processing of large ensembles of single-cell, RNA-seq datasets are provided as an additional resource.
Availability and Implementation: Binary executables for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/scell, source code and pre-processing scripts are available from https://github.com/diazlab/SCell.
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Contact: aaron.diaz@ucsf.edu
gkmSVM: an R package for gapped-kmer SVM
Authors: Ghandi Mahmoud , Mohammad-Noori Morteza , Ghareghani Narges , Lee Dongwon , Garraway Levi , Beer Michael A. 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Summary: We present a new R package for training gapped-kmer SVM classifiers for DNA and protein sequences. We describe an improved algorithm for kernel matrix calculation that speeds run time by about 2 to 5-fold over our original gkmSVM algorithm. This package supports several sequence kernels, including: gkmSVM, kmer-SVM, mismatch kernel and wildcard kernel.
Availability and Implementation: gkmSVM package is freely available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), for Linux, Mac OS and Windows platforms. The C ++ implementation is available at www.beerlab.org/gkmsvm
Contact: mghandi@gmail.com or mbeer@jhu.edu
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
OREMPRO web server: orientation and assessment of atomistic and coarse-grained structures of membrane proteins
Authors: Postic Guillaume , Ghouzam Yassine , Gelly Jean-Christophe 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Summary: The experimental determination of membrane protein orientation within the lipid bilayer is extremely challenging, such that computational methods are most often the only solution. Moreover, obtaining all-atom 3D structures of membrane proteins is also technically difficult, and many of the available data are either experimental low-resolution structures or theoretical models, whose structural quality needs to be evaluated. Here, to address these two crucial problems, we propose OREMPRO, a web server capable of both (i) positioning α-helical and β-sheet transmembrane domains in the lipid bilayer and (ii) assessing their structural quality. Most importantly, OREMPRO uses the sole alpha carbon coordinates, which makes it the only web server compatible with both high and low structural resolutions. Finally, OREMPRO is also interesting in its ability to process coarse-grained protein models, by using coordinates of backbone beads in place of alpha carbons.
Availability and Implementation: http://www.dsimb.inserm.fr/OREMPRO/
Contact: guillaume.postic@univ-paris-diderot.fr or jean-christophe.gelly@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Plant innate immunity in rice: a defense against pathogen infection
Authors: Liu Wende , Wang Guo-Liang 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
A large number of pathogenic microorganisms cause rice diseases that lead to enormous yield losses worldwide. Such losses are important because rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's population. Over the past two decades, the extensive study of the molecular interactions between rice and the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae and between rice and the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae has made rice a model for investigating plant–microbe interactions of monocotyledons. Impressive progress has been recently achieved in understanding the molecular basis of rice pathogen-associated molecular pattern-immunity and effector-triggered immunity. Here, we briefly summarize these recent advances, emphasizing the diverse functions of the structurally conserved fungal effectors, the regulatory mechanisms of the immune receptor complexes, and the novel strategies for breeding disease resistance. We also discuss future research challenges.