bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Adiponectin concentration in mid-trimester amniotic fluid varies with the α-amylase level and maternal and neonatal outcomes
Authors: Chervenak Joseph , Sawai Mio , Kabab Lamis El , Lohana Rahul , Skupski Daniel , Witkin Steven S. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract

Objective:
Factors influencing intraamniotic adiponectin levels and their functional significance remain incompletely elucidated. We prospectively measured adiponectin in amniotic fluid and identified its associations with maternal parameters, mediators in amniotic fluid and pregnancy outcomes.

Study design:
Mid-trimester amniotic fluid from 571 women was tested for adiponectin, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and α-amylase by enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA), after which clinical data were obtained. Correlations between adiponectin and clinical or laboratory variables were analyzed by the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney and Spearman rank correlation tests.

Results:
As compared to median levels in 462 women with a term delivery (7.8 ng/mL), adiponectin was elevated in 14 women who subsequently developed preterm premature rupture of membranes (pPROM) (17.3 ng/mL) and 24 women with an iatrogenic preterm birth (IPTB) (13.9 ng/mL) (P=0.0003), but not in 30 women who subsequently had a spontaneous preterm birth with intact membranes (8.1 ng/mL) (P>0.05). Median adiponectin was also elevated in 13 women whose babies developed fetal growth restriction (FGR) (20.6 ng/mL) (P=0.0055) and in 22 women whose babies had respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (23.0 ng/mL) (P<0.0001). The adiponectin concentration was positively correlated with amylase (P=0.0089) and inversely correlated with maternal body mass index (P=0.0045).

Conclusion:
Adiponectin is a component of mid-trimester amniotic fluid and its concentration varies with maternal body mass index and subsequent development of pPROM, IPTB, FGR and RDS.
Kritischer Funktionalismus: Über die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer kritischen Systemtheorie
Authors: Osrecki Fran 
Published: July 2017

ZusammenfassungIm folgenden Beitrag soll das konzeptionelle Innovationspotential einer kritischen Lesart der Systemtheorie geprüft und erweitert werden. Hierfür werden zunächst einige klassische Argumente für die wechselseitige Unverträglichkeit zwischen Systemtheorie und kritischen Theorien vorgestellt. Im Anschluss daran werden die wichtigsten Perspektiven der „kritischen Systemtheorie“ zusammengefasst, die sich um eine Überbrückung der Gräben zwischen den beiden Paradigmen bemüht. Hierbei wird verdeutlicht, dass in der bisherigen Diskussion um kritische Systemtheorie allzu stark auf Kompatibilitäten zwischen klassischen Positionen geachtet wurde und nur unzureichend auf die Entwicklung einer systemtheoretischen Kritikformsui generis.Zwei solcher möglichen Kritikformen werden dargestellt: einerseits eine Kritik an Punkt-zu-Punkt Beziehungen zwischen Funktionssystemen und andererseits eine funktionalistische Kritik an der Selbst- und Fremdsimplifizierung sozialer Systeme. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem Vorschlag zur Entwicklung eines kritischen Funktionalismus, der Techniken der Regeleinhaltung in sozialen Systemen ins Visier der Kritik nimmt.
Interaktion, Organisation, Gesellschaft– Niklas Luhmann und die Soziologie der Nachkriegszeit
Authors: Tyrell Hartmann 
Published: July 2017

ZusammenfassungNiklas Luhmanns Typologie oder Ebenenunterscheidung der Sozialsysteme von Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft entstammt der Zeit um 1970. Für die Denkgewohnheiten der seinerzeitigen Soziologie war die Zusammenfügung gerade dieser drei Begriffe ungewohnt; sie hatte etwas geradezu Deviantes. Nicht nur waren ‚Interaktion‘, ‚Organisation‘ und ‚Gesellschaft‘ im Begriffshaushalt der Soziologie der 1950er/60er Jahre miteinander weder verwandt noch verschwägert; sie gehörten darüber hinaus jeweils ganz anderen begrifflichen Verbindungen bzw. Oppositionen an. So war etwa der Gesellschaftsbegriff auf den Gegensatz zum ‚Individuum‘ festgelegt und ‚die Interaktion‘ aber aufs Engste mit dem Kleingruppenbegriff liiert. Der Beitrag will die Eingriffe ins soziologische Vokabular verdeutlichen und zugleich die Schnitte ins Begriffsnetz aufzeigen, derer es bedurfte, um die sozialsystemische Reihe von Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft zu bilden und für das Verhältnis der drei EbenenDifferenzierunggeltend zu machen. Der Aufsatz geht davon aus, dass Luhmann die stärkste sachliche Rückversicherung für seine Trias daraus bezog, dass er sie als Evolutionsprodukt darstellen konnte: als Ergebnis sehr spezifischer, zumal neuzeitlicher Differenzierungsprozesse.
Textual trajectories: Theoretical roots and institutional consequences
Authors: Maybin Janet 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article maps out and reviews work on textual trajectories and related concepts from sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, discourse and literacy studies. The first part of the article argues that work on entextualization and recontextualization, and their incorporation in recent research on textual chains or trajectories, contributes to a new language of description which conceptualizes texts in dynamic terms while still maintaining a sense of their coherence and durability. The article traces how conceptions of dialogicality and recontextualization have been used to develop transcontextual approaches to analysis which have highlighted the ideological work of textual movement and resemiotization. It argues that envisaging linked series of entextualizations and recontextualizations as institutionally consequential trajectories not only illuminates micro-level practices, but also indicates their dynamic interconnection with macro-level institutional processes and ideologies. In this sense, the concept of textual trajectories contributes to meso-level theorizing of the interrelationship of language with social life. Examples of research from institutional contexts are reviewed to examine how textual trajectories are used to produce specialized knowledge, the instantiation of institutional procedures and the articulation of participant positionings and identities.
Trapped in the Land of Liberty: Monika Maron’s Animal Triste (1996)
Authors: Rinner Susanne 
Published: July 2017

Monika Maron’s Animal Triste (1996) was widely understood as a response to German unification. This reading of Maron’s critically acclaimed novel places the text in the context of the literary discourse of the so-called New World. The United States have long enticed the German literary imagination and have served as a screen for projections of (utopian) promises of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The narrator’s exploration of her freedom, symbolized in a trip to New York City, are juxtaposed with feelings of imprisonment, expressed through seemingly endless remembering. Maron’s novel connects with the tradition of German writing about love, another powerful trope of freedom and captivity, and resonates with other women’s writing about the U.S. after 1989.
Prilog poznavanju kasnoantičkih vila s područja provincije Dalmacije - slučaj vile u Strupniću kraj Livna
Authors: Turković Tin , Zeman Maja 
Published: July 2017

Cilj je ovoga rada usmjeriti pozornost na mogućnosti koje se otvaraju u interpretaciji i dataciji kasnoantičkih ladanjskih zdanja kada se podvrgnu metodama što su zaživjele u proučavanju kasnoantičkih vila tijekom posljednjih desetljeća širom Europe. Za primjer je odabrano kasnoantičko zdanje kod sela Strupnić u Livanjskom polju, koje nije bilo podrobnije razmatrano otkad je početkom 20. stoljeća zabilježeno i djelomično istraženo. Kako analiza pokazuje, radi se o vrlo karakterističnom arhitektonskom rješenju koje ukazuje na svezu s podunavskim ladanjskim gradnjama s kraja 3. i početka 4. stoljeća. Iako je formalna analiza zdanja u Strupniću iznjedrila nove zaključke o dataciji i namjeni građevine i njezinih dijelova, primjer je prvenstveno poslužio za iznošenje novih prijedloga za tipološku obradu kasnoantičkih ladanjskih zdanja s područja Dalmacije, za koja se čini da su ostala nedovoljno problematizirana.
Mletački kaštel u Zadru
Authors: Hilje Emil 
Published: July 2017

“Mletački kaštel” u Zadru predstavlja sasvim specifičnu fortifikacijsku strukturu. Iako uklopljen u sustav gradskih zidina, već prvobitnom nakanom pri njegovoj gradnji bio je manje namijenjen obrani samoga grada, a više obrani od grada. Relativno brojni podaci o preuređivanju te utvrde nakon zadarske pobune, sredinom 14. st, a zatim i nakon ponovnog pada Zadra pod vlast Mletačke Republike početkom 15. stoljeća, svjedoče da je cjelokupan sustav utvrđivanja tog dijela gradskih fortifikacija prvenstveno služio u svrhu obrane mletačke vojne posade od eventualnih napada Zadrana, to jest kao sredstvo učvrščivanja i održavanja mletačke vlasti u buntovnom gradu. Posebnu pažnju privlači reljef krilatog lava, simbola Mletačke Republike, ugrađen u pročelje “Malog arsenala”, koji predstavlja jedan od najkvalitetnijih reljefa te vrste u Zadru, a moguće ga je datirati oko sredine 15. stoljeća.
Novi podaci o zlataru Stefanu Piazzi
Authors: Goja Bojan 
Published: July 2017

U radu se na temelju novih arhivskih istraživanja iznose do sada nepoznati podaci o djelatnosti zlatara Stefana Piazze u Zadru. Od njega je bratovština Bl. Dj. Marije od Snijega iz crkve Sv. Donata, 1691. godine naručila izradu srebrnog pokrova za stariju sliku Bogorodice s Djetetom. Osim srebrnog svijećnjaka iz 1691. godine, Piazza je za bratovštinu Sv. Jeronima iz crkve Sv. Šime tijekom 1692. i 1693. godine izradio i veći broj drugih zlatarskih predmeta, uglavnom liturgijske namjene [srebrni lik Krista, korice za matrikulu, kalež i pliticu od pozlaćenog srebra, srebrno škropilo, četiri srebrna svijećnjaka i predočnicu (pax)]. Stefano Piazza bio je član bratovštine Sv. Silvestra koja je imala sjedište u istoimenoj zadarskoj crkvi, a umro je u Veneciji dana 28. rujna 1703. godine. Njegov sin Francesco (Zadar, 21. prosinca 1684. - 17. rujna 1721.) također se u izvorima spominje kao zlatar. Donose se i drugi arhivski podaci iz njegovog života i djelovanja, također i podaci o drugim članovima obitelji Piazza, te još nekim zlatarima koji su djelovali u Zadru krajem 16. i tijekom 17. i 18. stoljeća.
Kaštel Sv. Mihovila na otoku Ugljanu
Authors: Sorić Sofija 
Published: July 2017

The fort of St Michael is situated on the prominent hill of the island of Ugljan off the coast of Zadar. This position is strategically important because it enables control of navigation in the entire Zadar archipelago, and this was the fort’s main role throughout history, especially during the period of conflict between Zadar and Venice. The fort owes its name to the Benedictine monastery which stood within the fort until the fifteenth century. The exact time of the founding of the monastery, or the construction of the fort, are not known. The fort is first mentioned in the Venetian chronicles of 1345 and 1346, when it was conquered during the siege of Zadar. After partial destruction, the fort underwent an intense renovation campaign in the second half of the fourteenth century. Late fourteenthcentury documents provide evidence about the building works on the main tower and houses for the crew which were carried out by the local builders: the Bilšić brothers and Nikola Arbusjanić. Fortification walls with five regularly-spaced towers form an irregular polygonal ground plan which was adapted to the terrain of the hill. The fort walls have been preserved to the height of the walkway with partially preserved castellations. The best-preserved parts are two south-western square towers with Gothic vaults composed of pointed arches, and the south-eastern portion of the walls with a walled-up entrance, defended by a massive main tower. The church of St Michael which stood at the centre of the fort was completely destroyed in bombing raids during the Second World War. Its modest remains, together with extant drawings and descriptions, show a small single-cell structure with a semicircular apse and indications of Gothic style evident in the pointed arches of the portal and windows. Its construction has been dated to the mid-fourteenth century. The fort has been well-preserved to date and represents the largest medieval fort on the Zadar islands.
Slikar Filippo Naldi (II)
Authors: Tomić Radoslav 
Published: July 2017

According to his own testimony, the painter Filippo Naldi was of Florentine origin. He lived and worked in Dalmatia in the mid-eighteenth century while serving in the Venetian army. He was mentioned in records as a port manager at Opuzen. In the wider Dalmatian area, Naldi painted a large number of religious works and several portraits. This paper attributes to him seven paintings in churches situated in the Dalmatian hinterland and the region of Poljica (at Zavojane near Vrgorac, Dobranje near Imotski, Kostanje at Poljica, Čaporice near Trilj and in the Franciscan monastery at Sinj). The author analyzes the characteristics of Naldi’s painting and his significance in eighteenth-century Dalmatian art and society.
Prilog poznavanju rane faze u kiparstvu Stipe Sikirice
Authors: Modrić Dragana 
Published: July 2017

The early phase in the sculpture of Stipe Sikirica took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Due to a large number of sculptures on the topic of the Croatian Alka knights’ game, he is frequently associated exclusively with the so-called ‘Alka cycle.’ Precisely for this reason, it is important to point out a group of works, omitted from the scholarly overviews, which represent a stylistic and thematic departure in the oeuvre of this artist. In this period, the meditation and formation of his visual language was strongly influenced by European sculpture (Giacometti, Moore, Marini) which he saw when travelling. At time he took part in exhibitions with young ‘rebels’ (the 15 young ones), he worked as part of Vanja Radauš’ workshop and was open to influence and experimentation. All of the above resulted in successful sculptural solutions which have their place in the context of Croatian contemporary sculpture. In this period, Stipe Sikirica also defined his relationship with public sculpture which would prove to be a significant part of his later career. This early phase marks a fertile period of creation when Stipe Sikirica made his best works which place his oeuvre in a wider context of European sculpture.
Genome-Wide Transcriptional Dynamics in the Companion Bacterial Symbionts of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Cicadellidae: Homalodisca vitripennis) Reveal Differential Gene Expression in Bacteria Occupying Multiple Host Organs
Authors: Bennett Gordon M , Chong Rebecca A 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The agricultural pest known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) or Homalodisca vitripennis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) harbors two bacterial symbionts, “Candidatus Sulcia muelleri” and “Ca. Baumannia cicadellinicola,” which provide the 10 essential amino acids (EAAs) that are limited in the host plant-sap diet. Although they differ in origin and symbiotic age, both bacteria have experienced extensive genome degradation resulting from their ancient restriction to specialized host organs (bacteriomes) that provide cellular support and ensure vertical transmission. GWSS bacteriomes are of different origins and distinctly colored red and yellow. While Sulcia occupies the yellow bacteriome, Baumannia inhabits both. Aside from genomic predictions, little is currently known about the cellular functions of these bacterial symbionts, particularly whether Baumannia in different bacteriomes perform different roles in the symbiosis. To address these questions, we conducted a replicated, strand-specific RNA-seq experiment to assay global gene expression patterns in Sulcia and Baumannia. Despite differences in genomic capabilities, the symbionts exhibit similar profiles of their most highly expressed genes, including those involved in nutrition synthesis and protein stability (chaperonins dnaK and groESL) that likely aid impaired proteins. Baumannia populations in separate bacteriomes differentially express genes enriched in essential nutrient synthesis, including EAAs (histidine and methionine) and B vitamins (biotin and thiamine). Patterns of differential gene expression further reveal complexity in methionine synthesis. Baumannia’s capability to differentially express genes is unusual, as ancient symbionts lose the capability to independently regulate transcription. Combined with previous microscopy, our results suggest that the GWSS may rely on distinct Baumannia populations for essential nutrition and vertical transmission.
Trajectories of Motor Recovery in the First Year After Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke
Authors: Cooper Anna N. , Anderson Vicki , Hearps Stephen , Greenham Mardee , Ditchfield Michael , Coleman Lee , Hunt Rod W. , Mackay Mark T. , Monagle Paul , Gordon Anne L. 
Published: July 2017

BACKGROUND:
Neuromotor impairments are common after pediatric stroke, but little is known about functional motor outcomes. We evaluated motor function and how it changed over the first 12 months after diagnosis. We also examined differences in outcome according to age at diagnosis and whether fine motor (FM) or gross motor (GM) function at 12 months was associated with adaptive behavior.

METHODS:
This prospective, longitudinal study recruited children (N = 64) from The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne who were diagnosed with acute arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) between December 2007 and November 2013. Motor assessments were completed at 3 time points after the diagnosis of AIS (1, 6, and 12 months). Children were grouped as follows: neonates (n = 27), preschool-aged (n = 19), and school-aged (n = 18).

RESULTS:
A larger lesion size was associated with poorer GM outcomes at 12 months (P = .016). Neonatal AIS was associated with better FM and GM function initially but with a reduction in z scores over time. For the preschool- and school-aged groups, FM remained relatively stable over time. For GM outcomes, the preschool- and the school-aged age groups displayed similar profiles, with gradual recovery over time. Overall, poor FM and GM outcomes at 12 months were associated with poorer adaptive behavior scores.

CONCLUSIONS:
Motor outcomes and the trajectory of recovery post-AIS differed according to a child’s age at stroke onset. These findings indicate that an individualized approach to surveillance and intervention may be needed that is informed in part by age at diagnosis.
Strengthening of axially loaded circular columns
Authors: Várdai Attila 
Published: July 2017

The application of a deformation-based analytical approach is presented in this paper to calculate the strength-increase of axially loaded circular columns, strengthened with fiber reinforced polymer and reinforced concrete jackets.
A short introduction of the calculation methodology is presented and the adopted basic assumptions are briefly explained. Through a trial-and-error type iterative procedure the magnitude of confining stresses and the confined strength of core material are determined, based on the compatibility of lateral deformations of the core column and the jacket-wall.
The accuracy of the proposed model for circular sections is demonstrated with a comparison with 149 test results.
Karakterisasi Permen Jeli yang Dibuat dari Hasil Formulasi Jelly Powder
Authors: Sinurat Ellya , Murdinah Murdinah , Fransiska Dina 
Published: July 2017

Penelitian karakterisasi permen jeli dengan bahan baku formula jelly powder telah dilakukan. Formula jelly powder terdiri dari campuran karaginan murni, konjak, dekstrosa, dan KCl. Jelly powder ini digunakan untuk pembuatan permen jeli dengan variasi 3,5; 4,0; 4,5; dan 5,0%. Sebagai pembanding digunakan produk permen jeli impor berbahan dasar karaginan yang sudah ada di pasaran. Untuk mengetahui kualitas permen jeli, parameter yang diamati meliputi aktivitas air, sifat fisik (kekerasan, kelengketan, dan elastisitas) serta nilai organoleptik (kenampakan, bau, rasa, tekstur, elastisitas, transparansi, dan penerimaan). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semakin tinggi konsentrasi jelly powder menyebabkan meningkatnya kekerasan, kelengketan, dan elastisitas permen jeli. Nilai organoleptik untuk rasa, tekstur, elastisitas, transparansi, dan penerimaan yang paling baik menurut panelis adalah pada konsentrasi jelly powder 4,5%
Efeito microbicida do leite humano para Escherichia coli
Authors: Fernandes Adriana De Melo , França-Botelho Aline Do Carmo 
Published: July 2017

O leite materno é o melhor alimento para os bebês, provendo nutrição, proteção imunológica e aumentando o laço afetivo entre a mãe e o bebê. O trabalho propôs avaliar a capacidade bactericida do leite materno para Escherichia coli. Poucos estudos avaliaram aspectos relativos ao armazenamento do leite em refrigerador e congelador, considerando a possível interferência na capacidade microbicida, por isso este estudo tornou-se relevante. O leite materno foi coletado de doadoras com idade entre 18 e 35, foram coletadas amostras de cerca de 12 mL de lactantes em amamentação exclusiva. As amostras foram centrifugadas por 10 minutos para separação da camada lipídica. Constatou-se que as médias de morte de bactérias foram de 80,3% para leite refrigerado sem gordura, 70% para leite congelado sem gordura e 67,3% tanto para leite refrigerado e congelado com gordura. Os resultados indicaram que, mesmo armazenado na geladeira, o leite é capaz de matar bactérias, reforçando a importância da prática do aleitamento materno como meio de redução de infecções em lactentes.
A construção do ethos feminino no programa televisivo The Love School
Authors: Costa Patrícia Garcia 
Published: July 2017

O propósito deste artigo é levantar reflexões e apontamentos, com base na análise de discurso, sobre a constituição do ethos discursivo construído pela apresentadora Cristiane Cardoso do programa televisivo The Love School, da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Busca-se analisar como a apresentadora constrói o ethos nesse contexto de discurso televisivo - em que ela se apresenta -, seu modo de dizer, a partir dos valores religiosos não-ditos, e a técnica utilizada para a construção dessa imagem feminina criada para ser referência no imaginário coletivo de “mulher ideal”. Como base teórica, o referencial é a análise do discurso, por meio dos estudos de Ruth Amossy e Dominique Maingueneau, e as abordagens sobre a construção do imaginário feminino.