bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
An Analysis of Excavation Support Safety Based on Experimental Studies
Authors: Gorska Karolina , Wyjadłowski Marek 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
The article presents the results of inclinometric measurements and numerical analyses of soldier-pile wall displacements. The excavation under investigation was made in cohesive soils. The measurements were conducted at points located at the edge of the cantilever excavation support system. The displacements of the excavation support observed over the period of three years demonstrated the pattern of steady growth over the first two months, followed by a gradual levelling out to a final plateau. The numerical analyses were conducted based on 3D FEM models. The numerical analysis of the problem comprise calculations of the global structural safety factor depending on the displacement of the chosen points in the lagging and conducted by means of the φ/c reduction procedure. The adopted graphical method of safety estimation is very conservative in the sense that it recognizes stability loss quite early, when one could further load the medium or weaken it by further strength reduction. The values of the Msf factor are relatively high. This is caused by the fact that the structure was designed for excavation twice as deep. Nevertheless, the structure is treated as a temporary one.
Influence of Structural Features and Fracture Processes on Surface Roughness: A Case Study from the Krosno Sandstones of the Górka–Mucharz Quarry (Little Beskids, Southern Poland)
Authors: Pieczara Łukasz 
Published: November 2015

Abstract
The paper presents the results of analysis of surface roughness parameters in the Krosno Sandstones of Mucharz, southern Poland. It was aimed at determining whether these parameters are influenced by structural features (mainly the laminar distribution of mineral components and directional distribution of non-isometric grains) and fracture processes. The tests applied in the analysis enabled us to determine and describe the primary statistical parameters used in the quantitative description of surface roughness, as well as specify the usefulness of contact profilometry as a method of visualizing spatial differentiation of fracture processes in rocks. These aims were achieved by selecting a model material (Krosno Sandstones from the Górka-Mucharz Quarry) and an appropriate research methodology. The schedule of laboratory analyses included: identification analyses connected with non-destructive ultrasonic tests, aimed at the preliminary determination of rock anisotropy, strength point load tests (cleaved surfaces were obtained due to destruction of rock samples), microscopic analysis (observation of thin sections in order to determine the mechanism of inducing fracture processes) and a test method of measuring surface roughness (two- and three-dimensional diagrams, topographic and contour maps, and statistical parameters of surface roughness). The highest values of roughness indicators were achieved for surfaces formed under the influence of intragranular fracture processes (cracks propagating directly through grains). This is related to the structural features of the Krosno Sandstones (distribution of lamination and bedding).
Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America
Authors: Zygmont Bryan J. 
Published: November 2015

Although primarily known as a portrait painter, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) also possessed a profound interest in natural history. Indeed, Peale eventually founded the first natural history museum in the United States, and, during the end of the eighteenth century, he began to overlap his two great interests: art and nature. The event Peale chronicled in his 1804 painting The Exhumation of the Mastodon caused an extreme stir within the intellectual and religious circles of its time, and brought about, at the very least, a serious questioning in the deeply held notion of the Great Chain of Being. Although now largely discredited, this religious conviction postulated two concepts that Peale’s Exhumation of the Mastodon seemingly contradicts. The first was the belief that no animals since creation had suffered the fate of extinction. The second was a lack of belief in geological time. Indeed, one Irish clergyman calculated the actual date of creation to 4004 BCE.
In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting positions within early-nineteenth-century America. When viewed together, Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon is not merely a record of an event that occurred in New York during the early nineteenth century, and instead is a document of Peale and the interaction of science and religion in early-Federal America.
thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person
Authors: Mengham Rod 
Published: November 2015

Many of the figures in Thurnauer’s paintings who fix us with their gaze have been borrowed from the work of Manet, the artist who organized so many of his paintings around a face-to-face confrontation of viewer and work. The painting returns the viewer’s gaze with total impartiality, making us see our own motives and investments more than the illusion that the figure in the painting will accommodate them.
Issues of language often surface literally in paintings by Thurnauer; written language appears sometimes as part of the material fabric in which human figures move or recline. The textual elements are not superimposed on the figures but appear to exist in the world they inhabit, requiring the painter to relate figure to ground in a process of interlacing. When the viewer’s eye traverses the painting it falls under the magnetic influence of the text to the extent that viewing must succumb in some degree to the operations of reading with its specific rhythms and expectations.
In these paintings, visual and verbal languages provide us with different maps of the same territory; and Thurnauer’s hybridized representations argue that the world can only be rendered through a dialogue, an interlocution of different forms, genres, media. We approach her work, not as viewers whose function is predicated through a gaze regulated according to the distorting demands of consumption or control, but as readers engaged in a critical activity seeing around the edges of historically produced versions of the self.
Actividad antifúngica in vitro de quitosanos sobre Bipolaris oryzae, patógeno del arroz
Authors: Rodríguez Pedroso Aida Tania , Plascencia Jatomea Maribel , Bautista Baños Silvia , Cortéz Rocha Mario Onofre , Ramírez Arrebato Miguel Ángel 
Published: November 2015

En el presente trabajo se evaluó el efecto y la Concentración Media Inhibitoria (CMI50) de quitosanos de diferentes masas moleculares en el crecimiento micelial, el diámetro de las hifas, los cambios estructura-les, la germinación de esporas y la producción de biomasa del hongo Bipolaris oryzae. Los resultados mostraron que el quitosano de masa molecular media presentó mayor efecto inhibitorio (P ≤ 0.05); sin embargo, el quitosano de masa molecular baja afectó más el diámetro de las hifas a la mayor concentra-ción utilizada (4000 mg/l). Las observaciones de las hifas realizadas por Microscopía Electrónica de Ba-rrido (MEB) mostraron que el hongo tratado con quitosano a la concentración de 3000 mg/l presentó una alta producción de esporas. El quitosano de masa molecular media presentó el valor más bajo (2182.9 mg/l). La germinación de las esporas tratadas con CMI50 y la producción de biomasa del hongo fueron afectadas por el quitosano.
A pesquisa em educação na Região Sul: percursos e tendências
Authors: Streck Danilo Romeu 
Published: November 2015

O artigo tem por objetivo analisar marcas do percurso e tendências da pesquisa na Região Sul do Brasil. Como base para o estudo foram utilizados relatórios dos programas de pós-graduação em educação e consultados coordenadores e pesquisadores selecionados da região. Dentre as marcas do percurso são destacadas as seguintes: a) a origem marcada pelos desafios da realidade regional; b) o forte espírito coletivo; c) a necessidade de construir a identidade através de suas revistas e temas de pesquisa. São também identificadas três tendências: a) o deslocamento da prática individual para a prática coletiva da pesquisa; b) o movimento em busca da internacionalização; c) a busca da qualidade da produção em meio a controvertidos processos de avaliação. Como conclusão, aponta-se para o fato de que a) existe um importante potencial de pesquisa construído na região, tanto em termos de cobertura geográfica quanto de recursos humanos, e b) a ‘consolidação’ ainda expressa a realidade de grande parte dos programas de pós-graduação.
Interrogações sobre o lugar do sujeito no delineamento de uma educação especializada
Authors: Rahme Mônica Maria Farid , Vorcaro Angela Maria Resende 
Published: November 2015

Neste artigo, buscou-se indicar alguns movimentos históricos e sociais que foram relevantes para a constituição da educação especializada e que possibilitaram o delineamento de um campo de intervenção em relação à infância distinguida como anormal, tanto no que diz respeito ao surgimento dos incipientes sistemas de ensino quanto à formalização de espaços destinados à abordagem clínica voltada para esse grupo. Nesse contexto, procurouse evidenciar a emergência da figura do especialista, que passa a intervir de modo decisivo nos espaços institucionais a partir de saberes, por vezes tomados como verdade, sobre esses sujeitos. A noção de discurso como forma de estabelecimento do laço social permite formalizar o modo como esses saberes produzem um lugar institucional e social para as pessoas consideradas diferentes, e discutir o quanto o percurso da educação especializada é marcado por uma alternância de significantes-mestres que tendem a cristalizar verdades sobre um sujeito que não é, em sua totalidade, passível de definição.
Avaliação de crianças pequenas em processo de educação inclusiva através do protocolo AP3
Authors: Bernardino Leda Mariza Fischer , Vaz Beatriz Gomes 
Published: November 2015

O desenvolvimento e a estruturação psíquica na primeira infância envolvem significativas mudanças biopsicossociais. No campo da prevenção e da intervenção precoce com crianças que apresentam falhas nesse processo, encontra-se o diálogo com a educação inclusiva. Esta pesquisa analisou a qualidade da experiência de inclusão escolar de oito crianças nos aspectos instrumentais e estruturais através do protocolo AP3, com análises individuais dos resultados de cada criança e análise qualitativa das turmas observadas. O alto índice de riscos para a constituição subjetiva apontou para uma necessidade de considerar as dificuldades psíquicas e um trabalho psicoterápico além daquele focado nas áreas instrumentais.
Da educação especial à educação inclusiva: esclarecendo as palavras para definir as práticas
Authors: Plaisance Eric 
Published: November 2015

O artigo propõe uma análise crítica da evolução das palavras e expressões utilizadas no campo da educação para as crianças com necessidades especiais: deficiência, especial, necessidades educativas especiais, integração, inclusão. Faz referências tanto às organizações internacionais como às especificidades francesas e, por fim, problematiza as ambiguidades, contradições e desafios da educação inclusiva. As palavras fazem as coisas, estruturam realidades sociais e até mesmo criam instituições. Portanto, é indispensável que os profissionais da Educação, mas também os da Saúde, estejam atentos para descobrir em suas próprias práticas os obstáculos que ainda subsistem à participação de todos nos espaços de vida compartilhados.
CARDIO-ANKLE VASCULAR INDEX (CAVI) AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS ASSESSMENT AT MEDICAL PREVENTION DEPARTMENTS AND UNITS
Authors: Linchak R. M. , Komkov R. M. , Prishchepa O. G. , Shvabskaya O. B. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To study the clinical potential and feasibility of the assessment of cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) at medical prevention departments and units.Material and methods. The study included 66 patients (13 men and 53 women; mean age 52,26±11,2 years) with very low to very high total cardiovascular risk (CVR) levels and SCORE index 0–25% (mean SCORE index 3,18±4,34%), who underwent volume sphygmography and automatic CAVI measurement.Results. There was a moderately strong, statistically significant correlation between CAVI and age; CAVI and systolic blood pressure (SBP); and CAVI and SCORE. While higher CAVI values were observed among non-smokers and patients with arterial hypertension, these differences were not statistically significant.Conclusion. As a method for arterial stiffness assessment, CAVI measurement is easy to perform, does not require any special preparation, and can be used at medical prevention departments and units as a part of a more detailed preventive examination. A moderately strong, statistically significant correlation was observed between CAVI and SCORE, as well as between CAVI and such SCORE components as age and SBP. However, further research is needed in order to clarify the possibility of CAVI inclusion in prognostic models.
DAYS OF THE WEEK, SEASONS OF THE YEAR, CHANGE TO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN MEN
Authors: Dulskyi V. A. , Mozerova E. M. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To study the association between cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality levels in men and day of the week, season of the year, and change to daylight saving time.Material and methods. This prospective study included the 13-year follow-up data for 2390 men aged 15 years and older.Results. The overall level of CVD mortality in men was 407,1 per 1000, with no associations with day of the week, season of the year, or change to daylight saving time. However, in the spring, the highest and lowest levels of CVD mortality were observed, respectively, on Thursday (21,2 per 1000) and Sunday (10,6 per 1000). In the autumn, the highest and lowest levels of CVD mortality were observed on Sunday (21,1 per 1000) and Monday (7,9 per 1000), respectively. The proportion of men dying from CVD on Monday was twice as high in the winter (33,3%, or 17,8 per 1000) than in the autumn (14,8%, or 7,9 per 1000). The proportion of men dying from CVD on Sunday was twice as high in the autumn than in the spring (38,1%, or 21,2% per 1000 vs. 19,0%, or 10,6 per 1000, respectively).Conclusion. The observed dynamics of CVD mortality during the week and across the seasons should be taken into account by the CVD prevention programmes.
LONG-TERM TRENDS OF THE MAIN BLOOD LIPID PARAMETERS IN SIBERIAN POPULATION
Authors: Nikitin Yu. P. , Malyutina S. K. , Makarenkova K. V. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To carry out the population analysis of blood lipid profile trends during the period from 1985 to 2005 in Novosibirsk population.Material and methods. The study was carried out based on the databases of two large international epidemiological projects done in Novosibirsk, WHO “MONIСA” and “HAPIEЕ”. The representative samples from nonorganized population of Novosibirsk were tested in compliance with protocol of the projects. The analysis included data of 10272 people aged from 45 to 64 years; among them 4783 were men and 5489 — women.Results. Blood TC, non-HDL–C and LDL–С levels from the citizens of Novosibirsk aged 45–64 were significantly lower in the year 1995: 5,50±0,03 mM/l, 4,07±0,03 and 3,48±0,03 mM/l, respectively. By 2005 these values increased significantly and became higher than those initial in 1985. For women 20-year changes in TC, non-HDL–C and LDL–С levels are more prominent than for men. Trends of blood triglyceride levels are analogous to the changes of the indexes described above: average levels were the lowest in 1995 and the highest — in 2005. During a twenty years period the gradual statistically significant increase of blood HDL–C concentrations was noted: in 1985 its concentration was 1,29±0,01 mM/l, in 1995–1,42±0,01 mM/l (p<0,001), in 2005–1,53±0,004 mM/l (p<0,001). HDL–C level for the first decade (1985–1995) increased at average by 10% for the all tenyear period, and for the twenty-year period — by 18,6%, at that for men the increase was more significant (20,2%) than for women (16,4%). By 1995 the absolute values of atherogenicity coefficient decreased significantly; for women in a greater degree. By 2005 the correlation of pro-atherogenic factor to atherogenic one has slightly increased however stayed lower in relation to 1985.Conclusion. In the year 1995 in Siberian population blood TC, non-HDL–C, LDL–С and TG levels appeared to be lower than in 1985 and 2005. Blood HDL–C content was increasing with each decade. Atherogenicity coefficient decreased during the first decade (by 1995), and during the subsequent years slightly increased for women, but did not change significantly for men.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH SCREENING ACTIVITY IN 2013 IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Authors: Kontsevaya A. V. , Kalinina A. M. , Boytsov S. A. , Ipatov P. V. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To estimate long-term socio-economic effectiveness of broad health screening activity of adults by the results in the year 2013.Material and methods. The study is performed with the method of mathematic modelling using the results of completed in the year 2013 health screening and with an estimate for adult productive and economically active age (up to 72) for 10-year perspective of potentially prevented deaths from the main chronic non-infectious diseases (CHID), saved years of life and economic expenses by 1 year of saved life.Results. Through analyzed malignant tumours (MT) maximum deaths are to be prevented from breast cancer. The most significant effect of the performed screening is decrease of cardiovascular (CV) deaths — quantity of potentially saved lifes at productive age during 10 years would be 10 times higher than from MT. Screening for the studied CHID is characteristic for certain economic expediency, because expenses on 1 year of potentially saved life appeared lower than gross domestic product by one inhabitant. The most economic expediency of screening was found at the matter of CV diseases: expenses on 1 year of saved productve life (15,5th RUR) and economically active age (11th RUR), that is significantly lower than domestic gross product by inhabitant. Return of investments into health improvement thank to earlier diagnostics of CHID and further treatment would reach 10 RUR per each invested 1 RUR by 10 years.Conclusion. The analysis and calculations showed a significant positive effect of health screening in 2013, most of all due to earlier diagnostics and complex action against CV diseases and MT, which are included into screening and observation. Expenses on 1 year of saved life were lower than domestic gross product by inhabitant (in prices of the 2013) and return of investment by maintaining labour potential of economically active population was 10 RUR by 1 invested RUR during 10 years. Economic efficiency of health screening as a strategy to prevent premature death, preventable death and to keep health is clear.
EFFECTS OF OLMESARTAN ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL RIGIDITY OF ARTERIES IN ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
Authors: Matrosova I. B. , Melnikova E. A. , Oleynikov V. E. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To evaluate 24-week treatment by olmesartan on rigidity of arteries in different vessel areas in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) with 1–2 grade arterial hypertension (AH).Material and methods. Into open-label, non-randomized trial 25 patients with CHD and 1–2 grade AH were included. During 24-week treatment period patients received olmesartan medoxomil 20–40 mg daily. Baseline and final parameters of arterial wall stiffness were measured using ultrasound method with echotracking. The thickness of intima-media (TIMC) was defined. To evaluate regional vessel stiffness the volume sphygmography method was used.Results. Acorrding to the data of volume sphygmography terapy by olmesartan significantly decrease PWVao by 19,4%, R-PWV b L-PWV — by 11,9% and 11,6% (p<0,05). CAVI1 decreased by 9,3%; L–CAVI1 — by 13,7%, CAVI2 — на 14,9% (p<0,05). В-PWV did not change significantly. During 24-week medication treatment the regress of carotid atherosclerosis was marked: decrease of TIMC from 773,6±155,7 μm to 736,3±124,1 μm (p<0,05). The values loc P sys and loc P dia significantly decreased by 13,5% and 11% (p<0,05); rigidity index β by 19,1% (p<0,05). Also we marked the increase of transverse pliability by 3,3% (p<0,05) and decrease of loc PWV by 17% (p<0,05). The coefficient of transverse pliability, locAix and DOCA did not show significant changes.Conclusion. Addition of olmesartan to the standard treatment of CHD and AH showed significant improvement of local and regional stiffness.
DELETIONAL POLYMORPHISM OF GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1 AND M1 GENES IN PATIENTS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND METABOLIC SYNDROME
Authors: Nevzorova V. A. , Panchenko E. A. , Isaeva M. P. 
Published: November 2015

Aim. To study associations of deletional polymorphism of genes GSTM1 and GSTT1 with myocardial infarction (MI) development on the background of metabolic syndrome (MS).Material and methods. Totally 86 patients with STEMI were included (from those 45 had signs of MS) and 30 healthy persons as control. By polymerase chain reaction the data on deletional polymorphism was obtained on the genes coding glutathiontransferase GSTM1 and GSTT1 in both groups.Results. The significant increase of prevalence of genotype GSTT10/0 is ascertained in patients with MI and without MS; presence of the “null” genotype increases relative risk of infarction in both patients with and without MS. In the first group (without MS) presence of genotype GSTT10/0 leads to increase of MI risk irrespective of smoking status, though in MS patients — only in those who smokes.Conclusion. Diagnostic of homozygous deletional mutation GSTT1 can be used for individual prognosis of MI risk in patients with MI risk factors — smoking and MS.