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The potential effect of biological sealants on colorectal anastomosis healing in experimental research involving severe diabetes
Authors: Stergios K , Kontzoglou K , Pergialiotis V , Korou LM , Frountzas M , Lalude O , Nikiteas N , Perrea DN 
Published: December 2016

Colorectal anastomoses continuous to pose a significant challenge in current surgical practice. Anastomotic leakage remains one of the most frequent and dramatic complications of colorectal surgery, even in centres of high specialisation. Diabetes is a well-established independent factor which results in higher anastomotic leakage rates. Fibrin sealants have been applied in experimental and clinical studies for the prevention of anastomotic dehiscence. However, little is known regarding their impact on diabetic patients. Several fibrin sealants have been proposed as adjunct to standard surgical techniques to prevent leakage from colonic anastomoses following the reversal of temporary colostomies, approved for general haemostasis. This review summarises current advances in colorectal anastomoses and provides evidence that may strengthen the need for tissue sealants in colorectal anastomoses of diabetic patients. We searched Medline (1966–2016) and Scopus (2004–2016) for current evidence in the field. To date, there is no evidence to support the use of fibrin sealants as an adjunct in diabetic patients who undergo colorectal surgery. Experimental animal models with extreme diabetes could be of significant use in the present field and further research is needed prior to application of fibrin sealants in a clinical setting.
Imaginarios técnicos en el Obelisco. Representaciones culturales de modernización en Buenos Aires de la década de 1930.
Authors: Barboza Dri Nicolás 
Published: December 2016

El proyecto y construcción del Obelisco en el año 1936no estuvo exento de debates. La discusión disciplinar,polarizada entre los defensores de la tradición académicay los de una modernidad anclada principalmente enla valorización técnica desde su constitución formal ymaterial, promueve un estimulante diálogo. Las trans-formaciones políticas y económicas de la década de1930 en Argentina van de la mano del impulso para unamodernización del país, tanto en el plano social comoen términos espaciales y territoriales. En esta escena, latrascendencia del Obelisco radica principalmente en lasrepresentaciones e imaginarios que puede ser analizadoa partir de las revistas disciplinares del período y lasproducciones fotográficas con las que Horacio Coppolareproduce la Buenos Aires de aquella década. Analizarlas discusiones disciplinares en sede cultural que se pro-dujeron alrededor del monumento permite comprender una nueva realidad social anclada en el progreso de lamodernización.
La ciudad en su dimensión simbólica. El diseño de la comunicación visual en la construcción de la memoria cultural urbana santafesina
Authors: Montoro Claudia A. 
Published: December 2016

Históricamente, las producciones artísticas han cum-plido un rol preponderante al simbolizar, reaccionar, ointerpretar su época.En la actualidad, en la percepción y representaciónde la realidad existe una injerencia cada vez mayor deldiseño de la comunicación visual, nuevo modo de re-presentar, que alude a ciertos acontecimientos, espacioso áreas patrimoniales que identifican la ciudad. Estasconfiguraciones simbólicas, que se sintetizan tanto através de formas abstractas o figurativas, se conviertenen signos mediante productos publicitarios, logotipos eimágenes institucionales, que terminan por componer,en cierto modo, una imaginería secundaria, constituidapor el cruzamiento de figuras contemporáneas y patri-moniales. En este sentido, la ciudad, como espacio derepresentación simbólica de lo social, a partir de dichasfiguraciones, nos permite asociar dos de los fenómenos más típicos de nuestra época: el de lo efímero de lascosas, de su rápido e incesante desgaste, y el de su rescatecon la función de recobrar su memoria.
Museos, imaginarios y memorias en la «escenificación» de la historia
Authors: García Rosa 
Published: December 2016

Toda cultura provee a sus miembros repertorios icono-gráficos, ficciones organizadoras e ideologías que definensus relaciones, crean prácticas y sitios para ejercer lamemoria, lugares para dar sentido a la experiencia yconstruir, a partir de ellos, identidad.Los museos, como dispositivos culturales, son parte deesos espacios y colaboran activamente en la construcciónde memorias y en la reproducción de imaginarios através de lo representado en sus vitrinas y exposiciones(Lumbreras, 1980:20). En ellos, se «escenifican» ver-siones diversas de la memoria histórica a partir de larelación que se establece entre el patrimonio expuesto,el discurso museográfico y las estrategias y recursosdestinados a la socialización de su relato.Acotando esta reflexión al espacio del Museo Etno-gráfico y Colonial Juan de Garay, el ejercicio que mepropongo radica en preguntarme cómo se construyó museográficamente la escenificación del pasado co-lonial y qué relación guarda esa escenificación con laconstrucción de la memoria histórica, indagando losmarcos teóricos que sustentaron los inicios institu-cionales del museo. Este ejercicio intelectual no tienesólo un objetivo «biográfico–institucional», sino queen tanto preocupación y análisis de los procesos deconstrucción cultural de la memoria social es parte delpresente institucional de los museos, que han puesto enla agenda la tarea de comprender la diversidad culturaly sus conflictos.
La pinacoteca del humo Premios Benson & Hedges en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1977–1978)
Authors: Dios Alicia 
Published: December 2016

Durante los primeros años de la última dictaduramilitar en Argentina (1976–1983), el Museo Nacio-nal de Bellas Artes continuó funcionando con ciertaautonomía hasta el momento de la intervención porparte de las autoridades oficiales en 1982. Promovióuna serie de exposiciones y premios cuya participaciónera considerada consagratoria para los jóvenes artistasdel momento: los Premios De Ridder (de 1973 a 1977),los Benson & Hedges (1977–1978), y la reapertura delPremio Braque en 1979.En este trabajo propongo analizar la presentación delos Premios Benson & Hedges (b&h) de 1977 en el mnba,en relación con una serie de acontecimientos políticos y socioculturales que darán cuenta de la compleja tramadel campo artístico, atravesado inexorablemente porla coyuntura de la dictadura cívico militar. El objetivoen este estudio es encontrar las pistas que permitanargumentar una hipótesis política acerca de los crucesexistentes entre arte, instituciones públicas, privadas yel mercado publicitario.
Value Investing: Circle of Competence in the Thai Insurance Industry
Authors: Nettayanun Sampan 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
This study explores the strategy of value investing, specifically for the insurance industry in Thailand. It employs multiple measures of “value,” suitable for insurance companies, such as the price-to-earning (PE), price-to-book (PB), and cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE). Value premium exists in the Thai insurance industry, and most of the value portfolios constructed from these measures significantly outperform the market, even when adjusting for price volatility and portfolio’s

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. The cumulative returns are also higher for the value stocks, when compared to the growth stocks, and the Thai stock market. Constructing a value portfolio, using the PE ratio, results in the highest returns and is far better than PB and CAPE. The value anomaly cannot be fully explained by either the capital asset pricing model or the Fama-French three-factor models.
Monodispersed strontium containing bioactive glass nanoparticles and MC3T3-E1 cellular response
Authors: Naruphontjirakul Parichart , Greasley Sarah L. , Chen Shu , Porter Alexandra E. , Jones Julian R. 
Published: December 2016

AbstractNon-porous monodispersed strontium containing bioactive glass (Si2O-CaO-SrO) nanoparticles (Sr- BGNPs), were synthesised using a modified Stöber process. Silica nanoparticles (Si-NPs) with diameters 90 ± 10 nm were produced through hydrolysis and polycondensation reactions of the silicon alkoxide precursor, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), prior to the incorporation of cations; calcium (Ca) and strontium (Sr), into the silica networks through heat treatment (calcination). Sr was substituted for Ca on a mole basis from non- (0SrBGNPs) to fullsubstitution (100SrBGNPs) in order to increase the amount of network modifiers in the Si-NPs. The different ratios of Si: Ca; 1:1.3 and 1:8.0, presented various elemental compositions (i.e. 77–92 mol% of SiO
Impact of HLA-G 14 bp polymorphism and soluble HLA-G level on kidney graft outcome
Authors: Durmanova Vladimira , Bandzuchova Helena , Zilinska Zuzana , Tirpakova Jana , Kuba Daniel , Buc Milan , Polakova Katarina 
Published: December 2016

AbstractHuman leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G) is a non-classical HLA class I protein with various immunosuppressive functions. Besides its profound effect to induce fetal tolerance, HLA-G has been also found to enhance graft acceptance. The aim of the study was to analyse the association between HLA-G 14 bp insertion/deletion polymorphism, soluble HLA-G level and kidney graft outcome in the Slovak population. We investigated 69 kidney transplant recipients aged 27–65 years. Out of this group, 37 recipients developed acute rejection, confirmed by biopsy, and 32 patients had stable allograft function. Plasma was obtained from recipients at 1 day before transplantation and analyzed by ELISA. Genotyping of HLA-G polymorphism was performed by PCR. Significantly higher pre-transplantation levels of sHLA-G were found in the group with stable allograft function in comparison to group with acute rejection (P = 0.0409). In the homozygous −14/−14 recipients with stable allograft function, significantly higher values of sHLA-G were determined in comparison to the recipients with acute rejection (P = 0.0052). The study revealed an association between 14 bp deletion polymorphism and soluble HLA-G level that is proportional to kidney graft acceptance. It is suggested that pre-transplantation levels of soluble HLA-G should be monitored as additional marker to predict kidney graft outcome.
Remediation of deltamethrin contaminated cotton fields: residual and adsorption assessment
Authors: Rafique Uzaira , Nasreen Saima , Tufail Fatima , Ashraf Muhammad Aqeel 
Published: December 2016

AbstractPakistan occupies a significant global position in the growing of high quality cotton. The extensive application of pesticides on agricultural products leads to environmental risk due to toxic residues in air, water and soil. This study examined the chemodynamic effect of Deltamethrin on cotton fields. Samples were collected from the cotton fields of D.G. Khan, Pakistan and analyzed for heavy metal speciation patterns. Batch experiments were administered in order to study the adsorption of Deltamethrin in cotton fields. The effect of different factors including pH, adsorbate dose, and adsorbent mass on adsorption were studied. It was observed that in general, adsorption increased with increases in the mass of adsorbate, although the trends were irregular. Residual fractions of deltamethrin in the soil and water of cotton fields were analyzed to assess concentrations of xenobiotics bound to soil particles. Results indicated that such residues are significantly higher in soil samples due to high Koc in comparison to water, indicating the former is an efficient degradation agent. Results from the batch experiment resulted in 95% removal with alkaline pH and an adsorbent-adsorbate ratio of 250:1. These results may be used to environment friendly resource management policies.
ANFIS based Control Scheme for Binary Distillation Column
Authors: Singh Amit Kumar , Tyagi Barjeev , Kumar Vishal 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
In distillation process, composition control is very important. A continuous column has to be operated as precisely as possible to meet the purity specifications. In this work, ANFIS controllers are designed to control the methanol composition in BDC. The controller controls the methanol composition in BDC by the variation of reflux flow-rate and reboiler heat duty. Two separate ANFIS controllers namely: ANFIS A and ANFIS B are designed for the reflux flow-rate and the reboiler heat duty respectively. Each ANFIS controller has three inputs. The performance of this ANFIS control scheme is compared with NN-IMC control scheme on the basis of considered performance indicators (rise time, settling time, MSE). Performance of the ANFIS control scheme is evaluated for reference tracking and disturbance rejection cases. A perturbation of +10 % is incorporated in feed flow-rate for disturbance rejection case. In case of reference tracking, the obtained result shows that there is an improvement of 7 % in the settling time whereas, 14 % improvement in MSE with ANFIS scheme as compared to NN-IMC scheme. In case of disturbance rejection, the obtained result shows that there is an improvement of 14 % in the rise time, 41 % improvement in settling time whereas, 7 % improvement in MSE with ANFIS scheme as compared to NN-IMC scheme.
A Semiotic Key to The Waste Land
Authors: Hopkins John A. F. 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
This paper applies my expanded version of Michael Riffaterre’s theory of the semiotic structure of modern poetry to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Contrary to Riffaterre, multilingual examples show that modern poetry is built around not one but two central propositions. Moreover, the ability of the modernist work to change the preconceptions of the reader must be accounted for. This involves a triadic system whose interpretant is seen to have a counterpart in the sociolect, which has similar vocabulary but contrasting internal structure – a contrast that produces a change in the mind of the reader. My analysis shows that this long poem is based on just two kernel propositions, which generate two sets of variant images throughout the text. The result is that the poem has the capacity to change the reader’s preconceptions along religious lines. This influential poem has frequently been misunderstood as simply reflecting the depredations of post First World War Europe. From my analysis we can conclude that, while one proposition is concerned with the degraded state of faithless post-war European society, the other constitutes a semiotic key to the rehabilitation of that society.
The Impasse of Metaphorical Essentialism
Authors: Jiang Yicun 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThis paper anatomizes the cognitive theory of metaphor from the perspective of Peircean semiotics. As is defined by Peirce, iconic reasoning is the underlying logic of metaphor, which is open ended and heterogeneous, and therefore no particular metaphorical schema can be said to claim a monopoly over the structuring of our thinking and behavior. Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive theory, however, seems to follow the Platonic line of ontological realism, which advocates that concepts expressed in a language correspond to real states of things or affairs that exist independently of language. By viewing their “master tropes” as fundamental and prerequisite schemas, Lakoff and Johnson presume the ontological existence of some metaphorical concepts. Such an a priori assumption is not compatible with the polysemous nature of the sign. Consequently, this essentialist approach makes their postulation on metaphor unfalsifiable. What is missing from their framework is a structural space for dynamic interpretation on the part of metaphor users. Peirce’s theory of unlimited semiosis can remedy this deficiency through introducing the concept of “interpretant” as a mediating thirdness, where innumerable semantic features of objects or life situations are rhizomatically linked on the basis of encyclopedic knowledge shared by members of a particular culture.
Generalized Binomial Convolution of the mth Powers of the Consecutive Integers with the General Fibonacci Sequence
Authors: Kılıç Emrah , Akkus Ilker , Ömür Nese , Ulutas Yücel T. 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
In this paper, we consider Gauthier’s generalized convolution and then define its binomial analogue as well as alternating binomial analogue. We formulate these convolutions and give some applications of them.
A Variant of Jensen’s Functional Equation on Semigroups
Authors: Fadli Brahim , Zeglami Driss , Kabbaj Samir 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
We determine the solutions f : S → H of the following functional equation
f(xy) + f(σ(y)x) = 2f(x); x; y ∈ S;
and the solutions f1; f2; f3 : M → H of the functional equation
f1(xy) + f2(σ(y)x) = 2f31(x); x; y ∈ M;
where S is a semigroup, M is a monoid, H is an abelian group 2-torsion free, and σ is an involutive automorphism.
Bounds on integrals with respect to
multivariate copulas
Authors: Preischl Michael 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
In this paper, we present a method to obtain upper and lower bounds on integrals with respect to
copulas by solving the corresponding assignment problems (AP’s). In their 2014 paper, Hofer and Iacó proposed
this approach for two dimensions and stated the generalization to arbitrary dimensons as an open
problem. We will clarify the connection between copulas and AP’s and thus find an extension to the multidimensional
case. Furthermore, we provide convergence statements and, as applications, we consider three
dimensional dependence measures as well as an example from finance.
Variable Capacitor Energy Harvesting Based on Polymer Dielectric and Composite Electrode
Authors: Hahn Robert , Yang Yujia , Maaß Uwe , Georgi Leopold , Bauer Jörg , Lang K.-D. 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
This work focuses on a polymer based capacitive harvester which can be fabricated with help of roll-to-roll and low cost printing methods. In contrast to electrostatic MEMS based parallel plate transducers or dielectric elastomer systems here, the capacitance is varied as function of the mechanical load by changing of the top electrode area with help of an electrically conducting composite elastomer. In case of a composite elastomer electrode the maximum capacitance in compressed state does not only depend on the thickness and permitivity of the dielectric but first of all on the quality of the interface and the micro structure of the conducting phase in the composite electrode at the interface which was investigated by FEM Maxwell simulation. An equivalent circuit model is used to study the influence of the leakage current inside the dielectric and the bulk resistivity of the elastomer electrode. First experiments with state of the art polymer, thin film and novel printed dielectrics in contact with elastomer electrodes have been performed to prove the harvesting principle at low frequencies. Charges between 25 and 70 nAs per cm2 have been transferred per cycle at 100 V/200 V while the maximum capacity was between 0.4 and 0.8 nF/cm2.
Effect of the Annealing on the Low-Temperature Charge Transport Properties of Heavily Boron-Doped Nanocrystalline Silicon Films for Thermoelectric Applications
Authors: Zulian Laura , Segrado Francesco , Narducci Dario 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Silicon is the reference material of microelectronics, is readily available, relatively unexpensive, and its use may take profit of a fantastic technology. This may explain why a substantial effort has focused on improving its thermoelectric efficiency, either by top-down nanostructuring or through suitable processing. In this paper we report an analysis of the electronic transport properties of heavily boron-doped nanocrystalline silicon films. High-temperature thermal treatments are confirmed to remarkably increase its thermoelectric power factor. Electrical conductivity and Hall effect measurements were carried out over the temperature range 20–300 K along with Seebeck coefficient measurements. We provide evidence of the occurrence of low-temperature hopping conduction between impurity subbands. Dopant ionization was studied as a function of temperature. Freeze-out temperature was found to correlate with the Seebeck coefficient in agreement with Pisarenko equation. This brings to the conclusion that, while untreated samples are weakly degenerate, the thermal processing reverts them into non-degenerate semiconductors, in spite of the high doping level.
Composition of microbial PLFAs and correlations with topsoil characteristics in the rare active travertine spring-fed fen
Authors: Hanajík Peter , Zvarík Milan , Fritze Hannu , Šimkovic Ivan , Kanka Róbert 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
We studied soil PLFAs composition and specific soil properties among transect of small-scale fen in Stankovany, Slovakia. The aim of this study was to determine potential differences in the microbial community structure of the fen transect and reveal correlations among PLFAs and specific soil characteristics. PCA analyses of 43 PLFAs showed a separation of the samples along the axis largely influenced by i14:0, 16:1ω5, br17:0, 10Me16:0, cy17:0, cy17:1, br18:0 and 10Me17:0. We measured a high correlation of sample scores and distance from fen edge (Kendall’s test τ = 0.857, P < 0.01). Kendall’s test showed a negative correlation of PLFAs content (mol%) and distance from the fen border for Gram (+) bacteria, Actinomycetes, mid-chain branched saturated PLFAs and total PLFAs. The redundancy analysis of the PLFA data set for the eight samples using PLFAs as species and 21 environmental variables identified soil properties significantly associated with the PLFA variables, as tested by Monte Carlo permutation showing most significant environmental variables including dichlormethan extractables, water extractables, Klason lignin, acid-soluble lignin, holocellulose, total extractables, organic matter content, total PLFA amount, bacterial PLFA and total nitrogen negatively correlated to axis 1 and dry weight and carbonate carbon positively correlated to axis 1. The amounts of Klason lignin, acid-soluble lignin, holocellulose total extractables, total PLFA, bacterial PLFA and total nitrogen were significantly correlated positively to the distance from fen border while moisture and total carbonate carbon were correlated negatively.