bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Capitalization in distressed couples: A pilot study and outline for future research
Authors: HERSHENBERG RACHEL , MAVANDADI SHAHRZAD , BADDELEY JENNA , LIBET JULIAN 
Published: September 2016

AbstractCapitalization—seeking “support” when good things happen—is linked to healthy couple functioning but has never been studied in distressed couples. We examined whether perceptions of capitalization and traditional social support related to couples' satisfaction prior to, and following, couples' therapy at a Veteran Affairs Medical Center. Perceptions of capitalization and traditional social support were associated yet distinct. Not all distressed couples had poor perceptions of support, and greater perceived support related to greater satisfaction at treatment entry. Relationship satisfaction was higher posttreatment for individuals whose partners reported providing them with greater capitalization support prior to treatment. We focus our discussion on the development of systematic research to investigate how capitalization may promote adaptive processes in vulnerable couples.
Resource rivalry between brood mates of a facultative gregarious parasitoid Dendrocerus carpenteri
Authors: Mackauer Manfred 
Published: September 2016

AbstractLarvae of Dendrocerus carpenteri Curtis (Hymenoptera: Megaspilidae) develop as solitary ectoparasitoids on the prepupae and pupae of primary aphid parasitoids inside the aphid mummy. First instars are aggressive and kill potential competitors; however, facultative gregarious development of two, and occasionally three, larvae may occur under superparasitism. To test the hypothesis that gregarious larvae share host resources equally, adult dry mass is compared between three brood types: ‘double’ mummies containing (i) two males; (ii) two females; or (iii) one male plus one female, respectively. Resource rivalry varies with the sex of the competing larvae. Surviving adults differ significantly in size if both wasps are of the same sex, male or female. A minimum amount of resources is required for a larva to be viable; this threshold does not differ between sexes and is independent of the sex of a competing larva. The outcome of competition between a male larva and a female larva varies with the amount of the available resources, with neither sex being inherently dominant over the other. Females are eight times more likely to be larger than a male competitor if the amount of host resources is ≥0.116 mg, whereas males can win over a female competitor in terms of adult size if the available resources are <0.116 mg. It is suggested that rivalry between larvae for limiting host resources constrains the transition from solitary to gregarious development and should be considered in studies of parasitoid life‐history evolution.
Automatic Rough Georeferencing of Multiview Oblique and Vertical Aerial Image Datasets of Urban Scenes
Authors: Verykokou Styliani , Ioannidis Charalabos 
Published: September 2016

AbstractMulti‐perspective airborne images that combine oblique and vertical views of the ground have proved to be a valuable source of information for numerous applications requiring a digital representation of the world. In this paper, an automatic methodology for rough georeferencing of large datasets of multiview oblique and vertical aerial images of urban regions without any metadata is proposed. Using feature‐based matching combined with robust model fitting and least‐squares techniques, the method requires the measurement of a minimum number of points with known coordinates in only one image. The results of this methodology are discussed through the presentation of a developed software suite which identifies the overlapping images, georeferences them, extracts their footprints, subdivides the images into groups based on these footprints and detects the images that cover a specific region.
The application of apoptotic inhibitor in apoptotic pathways of MII stage porcine oocytes after vitrification
Authors: Niu Y , Dai J , Wu C , Chen Y , Zhang S , Zhang D 
Published: September 2016

ContentsApoptosis is one of the main drivers of the decline in developmental potential of porcine oocytes after vitrification. However, which apoptotic pathways are engaged after vitrification remains poorly understood. To distinguish among the possible apoptotic pathways induced by vitrification of MII stage porcine oocytes, this study detected activity and expression levels of several key proteins and genes in both the death receptor and mitochondrial pathways using in situ fluorescence staining and real‐time PCR (RT‐PCR) following the addition of specific inhibitors of either the death receptor or the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway (Z‐IETD‐FMK or Z‐LEHD‐FMK, respectively) into the incubation solution. Survival and parthenogenetic developmental ability were also examined. The results showed the following: (i) compared with the vitrified group, the activities of pan‐caspase, caspase 3, caspase 8 and caspase 9 as well as the early apoptotic rate were significantly lower in the Z‐IETD‐FMK and Z‐LEHD‐FMK groups (p < .05); (ii) After vitrification, mitochondrial ΔΨm decreased from 1.33 for fresh oocytes to 0.90 for vitrified oocytes, while the addition of Z‐IETD‐FMK or Z‐LEHD‐FMK following vitrification increased mitochondrial ΔΨm to 1.09 and 1.05, respectively (p < .05); (iii) Relative expression levels of apoptotic‐related genes from both the death receptor pathway (caspase 8 and TNF‐α) and the mitochondrial pathway (caspase 9, Bcl‐2 and CuZnSOD) changed substantially after the addition of Z‐IETD‐FMK or Z‐LEHD‐FMK into the incubation solution; (iv) Survival, cleavage and blastocyst rates were higher in the Z‐IETH‐FMK or Z‐LEHD‐FMK groups than in the vitrified group (p < .05). In summary, both the death receptor and the mitochondrial apoptotic pathways participate in the apoptosis of MII stage porcine oocytes after vitrification.
Effect of climate region and stocking density on ostrich (Struthio camelus) productive performances
Authors: Bouyeh M , Seidavi A , Mohammadi H , Sahoo A , Laudadio V , Tufarelli V 
Published: September 2016

ContentsThe effects of three climates (hot and dry, mild and humid and Alpine) and three flock densities (<100, 100–300 and >300 m2) on ostrich reproductive and productive traits were studied. Data were compared with the benchmark target sets by the World Ostrich Association (Ostrich benchmark Performance Targets. Version 2, May, 2008) for reproductive qualifications of ostrich. No significant difference was observed on egg production, weight, fertility, hatchability and day‐old chicks weight among the three climate conditions; however, the Alpine climate had a lower performance trend. Mild and humid climates had a significant effect of age at sexual maturity for both males and females as well as on the duration of egg production season. Stocking density did not show significant difference on egg production, hatchability, age of male and female at sexual maturity and on duration of egg production season, while an area >300 m2 showed a reduction in egg weight and day‐old chick weight. Further, an area <100 m2 led to a weaker ostrich fertility rate. Results showed that the ostrich would have a better performance under hot and dry and mild and humid climates as compared to Alpine climate with a stocking density of 100–300 m2 area per breeder bird. Thus, climatic intervention strategies at Alpine regions may be carried out for maintaining optimal reproductive qualification of ostrich so as to improve the productivity in this sector.
Gut instincts: microbiota as a key regulator of brain development, ageing and neurodegeneration
Authors: Dinan Timothy G. , Cryan John F. 
Published: September 2016

AbstractThere is a growing realisation that the gut–brain axis and its regulation by the microbiota may play a key role in the biological and physiological basis of neurodevelopmental, age‐related and neurodegenerative disorders. The routes of communication between the microbiota and brain are being unravelled and include the vagus nerve, gut hormone signalling, the immune system, tryptophan metabolism or by way of microbial metabolites such as short chain fatty acids. The importance of early life gut microbiota in shaping future health outcomes is also emerging. Disturbances of this composition by way of antibiotic exposure, lack of breastfeeding, infection, stress and the environmental influences coupled with the influence of host genetics can result in long‐term effects on physiology and behaviour, at least in animal models. It is also worth noting that mode of delivery at birth influences microbiota composition with those born by Caesarean section having a distinctly different microbiota in early life to those born per vaginum. At the other extreme of life, ageing is associated with a narrowing in microbial diversity and healthy ageing correlates with a diverse microbiome. Recently, the gut microbiota has been implicated in a variety of conditions including depression, autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. There is still considerable debate as to whether or not the gut microbiota changes are core to the pathophysiology of such conditions or are merely epiphenomenal. It is plausible that such neuropsychiatric disorders might be treated in the future by targeting the microbiota either by microbiota transplantation, antibiotics or psychobiotics.
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A derivative‐free multistart framework for an automated noncoplanar beam angle optimization in IMRT
Authors: Rocha Humberto , Dias Joana , Ventura Tiago , Ferreira Brígida , Lopes Maria do Carmo 
Published: September 2016

PurposeThe inverse planning of an intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment requires decisions regarding the angles used for radiation incidence, even when arcs are used. The possibility of improving the quality of treatment plans by an optimized selection of the beam angle incidences—beam angle optimization (BAO)—is seldom done in clinical practice. The inclusion of noncoplanar beam incidences in an automated optimization routine is even more unusual. However, for some tumor sites, the advantage of considering noncoplanar beam incidences is well known. This paper presents the benefits of using a derivative‐free multistart framework for the optimization of the noncoplanar BAO problem.MethodsMultistart methods combine a global strategy for sampling the search space with a local strategy for improving the sampled solutions. The proposed global strategy allows a thorough exploration of the continuous search space of the highly nonconvex BAO problem. To avoid local entrapment, a derivative‐free method is used as local procedure. Additional advantages of the derivative‐free method include the reduced number of function evaluations required to converge and the ability to use multithreaded computing. Twenty nasopharyngeal clinical cases were selected to test the proposed multistart framework. The planning target volumes included the primary tumor, the high and low risk lymph nodes. Organs‐at‐risk included the spinal cord, brainstem, optical nerves, chiasm, parotids, oral cavity, brain, thyroid, among others. For each case, a setup with seven equispaced beams was chosen and the resulting treatment plan, using a multicriteria optimization framework, was then compared against the coplanar and noncoplanar plans using the optimal beam setups obtained by the derivative‐free multistart framework.ResultsThe optimal noncoplanar beam setup obtained by the derivative‐free multistart framework leads to high quality treatment plans with better target coverage and with improved organ sparing compared to treatment plans using equispaced or optimal coplanar beam angle setups. The noncoplanar treatment plans achieved, e.g., an average reduction in the mean dose of the oral cavity of 6.1 Gy and an average reduction in the maximum‐dose of the brainstem of 7 Gy when compared to the equispaced treatment plans.ConclusionsThe noncoplanar BAO problem is an extremely challenging multimodal optimization problem that can be successfully addressed through a thoughtful exploration of the continuous highly nonconvex BAO search space. The proposed framework is capable of calculating high quality treatment plans and thus can be an interesting alternative toward automated noncoplanar beam selection in IMRT treatment planning which is nowadays the natural trend in treatment planning.
Intracellular Growth of Bacterial Pathogens: The Role of Secreted Effector Proteins in the Control of Phagocytosed Microorganisms
Authors: Poirier Valérie , Av-Gay Yossef 
Published: September 2016

ABSTRACT

The ability of intracellular pathogens to subvert the host response, to facilitate invasion and subsequent infection, is the hallmark of microbial pathogenesis. Bacterial pathogens produce and secrete a variety of effector proteins, which are the primary means by which they exert control over the host cell. Secreted effectors work independently, yet in concert with each other, to facilitate microbial invasion, replication, and intracellular survival in host cells. In this review we focus on defined host cell processes targeted by bacterial pathogens. These include phagosome maturation and its subprocesses: phagosome-endosome and phagosome-lysosome fusion events, as well as phagosomal acidification, cytoskeleton remodeling, and lysis of the phagosomal membrane. We further describe the mode of action for selected effectors from six pathogens: the Gram-negative
Legionella
,
Salmonella
,
Shigella
, and
Yersinia
, the Gram-positive
Listeria
, and the acid-fast actinomycete
Mycobacterium
.
GPUnet
Authors: Silberstein Mark , Kim Sangman , Huh Seonggu , Zhang Xinya , Hu Yige , Wated Amir , Witchel Emmett 
Published: September 2016

Despite the popularity of GPUs in high-performance and scientific computing, and despite increasingly general-purpose hardware capabilities, the use of GPUs in network servers or distributed systems poses significant challenges.
GPUnet is a native GPU networking layer that provides a socket abstraction and high-level networking APIs for GPU programs. We use GPUnet to streamline the development of high-performance, distributed applications like in-GPU-memory MapReduce and a new class of low-latency, high-throughput GPU-native network services such as a face verification server.
New tribe Labiobaetini tribus n., redefinition of Pseudopannota Waltz &amp; McCafferty 1987 and descriptions of new and little known species from Zambia and Uganda
Authors: KLUGE NIKITA J. , NOVIKOVA EUGENIA A. 
Published: September 2016

A new tribe Labiobaetini tribus n. is established for a plesiomorphon Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge 1987 and a holophyletic taxon Pseudopannota Waltz & McCafferty 1987. New synonymy Pseudopannota Waltz & McCafferty 1987 = Ophelmatostoma Waltz & McCafferty 1987, syn. n. is proposed. A new species Pseudopannota pannota sp. n. closely related to P. berthrandi (Demoulin 1967) is described from Zambia based on imagoes of both sexes reared from larvae. Pseudopannota camerunense (Ulmer 1920) comb. n. is redescribed from Zambia based on imagoes of both sexes reared from larvae. A new species Pseudopannota fusca sp. n. is described from Uganda based on larvae and subimagoes of both sexes extracted from mature larvae. Pseudopannota maculosa (Crass 1947) is reported from Zambia based on larvae. Labiobaetis tenuicrinitus (Kopelke 1980) comb. n. (= Baetis spatulatus Gillies 1994 syn. n.) is redescribed from Uganda based on imagoes of both sexes reared from larvae.
Contrasting Responses of the Hadley Circulation to Equatorially Asymmetric and Symmetric Meridional Sea Surface Temperature Structures
Authors: Feng Juan , Li Jianping , Jin Feifei , Liu Zhengyu , Nan Xing , Guo Yipeng 
Published: September 2016

Abstract
The impacts of different meridional structures of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) on the Hadley circulation (HC) in the annual mean are investigated during the period 1948–2013. By decomposing the variations in SST and the HC into two components—that is, the equatorially asymmetric (SEA for SST, and HEA for HC) and the equatorially symmetric (SES for SST, and HES for HC) parts—it is shown that the long-term variability in SEA and SES captures well the temporal variations in equatorially asymmetric and symmetric variations in SST. The variation in HEA is closely linked to that of SEA, and the variation in HES is connected with that of SES. However, the response of HEA to a given amplitude variation in SEA is stronger (by ~5 times) than that of HES to the same amplitude variation in SES. This point is further verified by theoretical and numerical models, indicating that the meridional structure of SST plays a crucial role in determining the anomalies in HC. This result may explain why the principal mode of HC is dominated by an equatorially asymmetric mode in its long-term variability.
To the Problem of Standardization of Special Conditions of Education of Students with Disabilities
Authors: ��������  , Levchenko Irina , ���������  , Guseynova Ashcha 
Published: September 2016

The article discusses the issues of special conditions for students with disabilities in terms of inclusive education. It is shown that the inclusion in the
educational organization the child with developmental disorders can be eff ective only in the presence of personnel, logistical, educational and other
conditions.
Thermal Inspection of Aircraft Multilayer Nose Fairing
Authors: Чижов  , Chizhov Igor , Попов  , Popov Aleksey , Заец  , Zaets Nikolay 
Published: September 2016

Introduction. Multilayer structures have a high stiffness with low weight. The rigidity of the structures can be preserved only under condition of their integrity preservation. To identify emerging defects, there are different non-destructive testing methods and means. Increased use of composite materials leads to the development of new technologies for their inspection. The thermal inspection is a method preferred for defect detection in multilayer structures.
Method. The article presents a study on application of thermal method for testing of composite multilayer structures to enhance the testing efficiency. Using a mathematical model of thermal testing, the theoretical studies of defect detection possibility (POD) were carried out on the basis of temperature fields’ analysis. The values of varied factors, which provide the best detection of defects, were determined. The results of mathematical modelling served as a basis for the experimental research to determine the capabilities of the thermal method to detect defects.
Results. The experimental results were used to develop the inspection technique and hardware for defective areas identifying in the aircraft fairings. The developed technique helped to increase the reliability of the air fairing testing by 7% and efficiency by 40% (for labour costs).
Productivity and Reliability Study of Non Destructive Testing Techniques for Inspection of Structural Welds in Construction Industry
Authors: Чан  , Chan Alan , Бабу  , Babu Sajeesh Kumar , Чан  , Chan V. 
Published: September 2016

Introduction. The aim of this study is to evaluate the productivity and reliability of non-destructive testing techniques for the inspection of structural welds employed in the Hong Kong construction industry.
Method. Manual ultrasonic pulse echo method and semi-automatic ultrasonic techniques using phased array (PAUT) as well as radiographic testing were employed. Five classes of defects were analyzed: lack of penetration, lack of fusion, crack, porosity and slag inclusion. The tests were carried out on the specimen made from structural plate, on which artefacts were inserted on the weld metal. The results were being studied to compare the defect detection reliability by both ultrasonic techniques. The flaw detection productivity using phased array is also compared with conventional ultrasonic testing at a determined rate.
Results. The reliability of PAUT was 100% compared to 96.7% with manual ultrasonic testing, however with the inclusion of defect sizing and tolerance the reliability of manual UT is dropped to 57.4%, which implies there is a chance of 42.6% of improper sizing). PAUT exhibits the reliability of 87.5%. The research will be continued with the aim of determining the most appropriate and reliable NDT methods in each case.
Fluorescent Magnetic Particle Suspension for Indications Detection on the Extra Illuminated Working Area
Authors: Яременко  , Yaremenko Yuriy 
Published: September 2016

Application of fluorescent magnetic suspensions for magnetic particle examination increases process productivity because it eliminates the need to apply (and subsequently remove) priming paint for contrasting white background creating on the tested surface. To obtain contrast fluorescent indications it is necessary to ensure sufficient darkness for the working area. However it is practically impossible to provide the necessary darkness while testing large-size welded and cast products in the industrial premises. The aim of this work was to develop oil-based fluorescent suspension with fluorescence indications of a high level and minimal increase of background fluorescence.
As a result the suspension MR®761F has been developed; its fluorescence parameters are several times better than those of the standard product. In addition to high-contrast indications, the new suspension has a high flash point of dispersive medium (83°C); that allows not only reducing the risks of dispersive medium vapour flash from ignition sources (including sparks), but also reducing the amount of hydrocarbon products evaporation in the working area. Besides, the new suspension provides an opportunity to the companies, which were forced to work with far more dangerous radiation sources (450...460 nm), to work with UV radiation of less energy.
Preliminary test shrinkage estimators for the shape parameter of generalized exponential distribution
Authors: Salman Abbas Najim , Hadi Rana 
Published: September 2016

The present paper deals with the estimation of the shape parameter α of Generalized Exponential GE (α, λ) distribution when the scale parameter λ is known, by using preliminary test single stage shrinkage (SSS) estimator when a prior knowledge available about the shape parameter as initial value due past experiences as well as optimal region R for accepting this prior knowledge.The Expressions for the Bias [B (.)], Mean Squared Error [MSE] and Relative Efficiency [R.Eff (.)] for the proposed estimator is derived.Numerical results about conduct of the considered estimator are discussed include study the mentioned expressions. The numerical results exhibit and put it in tables.Comparisons between the proposed estimator withe classical estimator as well as with some earlier studies were made to show the effect and usefulness of the considered estimator.