bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of diet quality and ambient temperature on the use of torpor by two species of neotropical nectar-feeding bats
Authors: Ayala-Berdon Jorge , Vázquez-Fuerte Rommy , Beamonte-Barrientos René , Schondube Jorge E. 
Published: May 2017

ABSTRACTNeotropical bats use torpor as a strategy to save energy when they experience a low energy intake and/or low ambient temperature (Ta). Digestive physiology limits the energy intake of several glossophaginid bats, and could play an important role in the onset of torpor in these tropical animals. We measured the effect that diet quality and Ta had on the use of torpor by the nectar-feeding bats Glossophaga soricina and Leptonycteris yerbabuenae. Captive bats were fed with 5% (low) or 35% (high) sucrose solutions while exposed to two different Ta (17.7 and 23.2°C; low Ta and high Ta) in four different treatments: (1) high sucrose:high Ta, (2) high sucrose:low Ta, (3) low sucrose:high Ta and (4) low sucrose:low Ta. We measured their energy intake, changes in body mass (ΔMb) and skin temperature (Tskin) as response variables. Energy intake (in 10 h) was limited when both species fed on 5% sucrose, but body mass gain was only affected in G. soricina. Energy intake and Ta had a negative effect on the minimum Tskin of both species, and ΔMb affected the time that G. soricina used torpor. Both species remained normothermic on the high sucrose:high Ta treatment, but used torpor on the other three treatments. Bats used torpor during their resting and activity periods. Leptonycteris yerbabuenae spent more time in torpor in the low sucrose:high Ta treatment, while G. soricina used this strategy for longer periods of time in the high sucrose:low Ta treatment. We found that diet quality and Ta played an important role in the use of torpor by nectar-feeding bats.
Heme Iron Coordination Structure of Heme Transport Protein HutB from Vibrio Cholerae
Authors: Uchida Takeshi , Funamizu Takumi , Ogura Mariko , Ishimori Koichiro 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
HutB is a putative heme transport protein located in the periplasmic space in Vibrio cholerae. Here, we purified HutB and characterized its heme binding properties. An analysis of the Soret band showed that there are two types of heme binding geometries depending on the heme concentration: 404-nm species are dominant at lower concentrations of heme, and 394-nm species dominate at higher concentrations. Moreover, a mutational study revealed that either Tyr65 or Tyr198 binds heme with the help of histidine, a property shared with another V. cholerae heme transport protein, HutX, despite the absence of sequence similarity, indicating that HutB acts as a heme transport protein in the periplasm.
Behavior-Based Advertising
Authors: Shen Qiaowei , Miguel Villas-Boas J. 
Published: May 2017

This paper considers the effect of firms sending advertising messages to consumers based on their past purchase behavior. If past purchase behavior on a product category is positively correlated with a consumer having high preferences in another category, a firm may want to advertise more intensively to those consumers that purchased the former category, if possible. This paper finds that this can lead to lower prices in the initial category if the annoyance of receiving advertising is large, and to higher prices if the annoyance of receiving advertising is not too large, as consumers expect a possible additional surplus from the category affected by behavior-based advertising. If receiving advertising does not yield too much annoyance to consumers, firms end up better off due to both higher prices and the increased demand of better matching of advertising. Behavior-based advertising may also lead firms to sell less in the initial category than without behavior-based advertising, as a way to be able to better target the most valuable consumers. If the consumer annoyance of receiving advertising is large, firms may end up serving only a few consumers initially, as attracting more consumers requires prices that are too low, and the initial consumers are attracted because of the possibility of lower prices in the following period. The paper also investigates the effects of joint behavior-based pricing and advertising, and of different firms benefiting from the purchase information. This paper was accepted by Matthew Shum, marketing.
EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEMS FOR SMALL SERVICE BUSINESSES
Authors: Agredo Shannon , Mu Enrique , Vella Catherine 
Published: May 2017

Although several Customer Relationship Management (CRM) evaluation frameworks have been developed in the past years, they are usually complex, oriented toward large organizations and from the firm’s perspective only. This study proposes a CRM evaluation model which is simple for a small business to use and takes into account three different perspectives: the business, the staff and the customer. The need for this model arose when one of the co-authors had to evaluate and select a CRM system suitable for a small business. Also, although the evaluation will be done within the context of a specific business, this model and the multiple perspective approach can be used with minimum modifications as an evaluation and reference tool for other CRM decision-makers in small service businesses. https://doi.org/10.13022/ijahp2017.v9.is1.473
Deleuzions of ecohorror: Weighing Al Gore’s ecostrategy against The Day of the Triffids
Authors: Morgart James 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Despite the intriguing insights of ecocriticism and rising academic interest in ecocriticism over the past two decades, many ecostrategies have remained on the outskirts of mainstream culture. One of the most successful attempts at broaching mainstream discourse has been the liberal ecology of Al Gore, most notably through his film An Inconvenient Truth by Guggenheim (2006). Gore’s warnings of an impending apocalypse were shortly followed by a spike in the production of ecohorror films such as The Ruins by Smith (2008), The Happening by Shyamalan (2008), and a remake of The Day of the Triffids (2009). By examining Gore’s ecostrategy in contrast to The Day of the Triffids in the framework of Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic concepts of the refrain and reterritorialization, this article asserts that the film’s theme offers a superior strategy to Gore’s liberal ecology. Finally, the article encourages ecocriticism to take further steps in engaging with horror and tangentially asserts that an ecophilosophy built on Deleuze and Guattari’s theoretical work ought to be actively considered in ecocriticism at large.
Biochemical responses to horror, or, ‘why do we like this stuff?’
Authors: Pendery David R. 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
‘Biochemical responses to horror, or, “Why do we like this stuff?”’ analyses human’s enigmatic interest in horror narrative. Analyses to date have been oversimplified, and overlook essential conditions and responses that take place during the consumption of horror narrative. A key misunderstanding is that the central question of the interest in horror is understood to be ‘Why do we find gratification in what by nature is so disturbing and disagreeable?’ This approach overweighs the enjoyment that horror consumers feel, and ignores the fear response. The fear response is the starting point of any analysis of human interest in horror. This key emotional reaction is tightly linked to goal-directed, advanced cognition in humans, with these conditions functioning in feedback looping mechanisms in human psychology and physiology. This interplay is further conditioned within a framework of socio-biological conditions and adaptive pressures. The socio-biological framework and adaptive pressures yield other effects in human personality and society that also condition and add elements to the human interest in horror narrative. I argue that the most precise and comprehensive explanation of human interest in horror narrative is a sundry synthesis of scientific and sociological fundamentals.
Reviews
Authors: Fhlainn Sorcha Ní , Bessette Eliot 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Danel Olson (ed.) (2015) Colorado: Centipede Press, 752 pp., ISBN: 9781613470695, p/bk, £30.00 / $45.00
Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership, Xavier Aldana Reyes (2016) 1st ed., New York: Routledge, 206 pp., ISBN: 9780415749824, h/bk, £85.00
Cutting through the fourth wall: The violence of home invasion in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games
Authors: Fiddler Michael 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The home is central to the western imaginary. It is of foundational importance to the shaping of identity. It is where we begin to construct the story of ourselves and where we first learn to navigate space. Yet, it is also a site of shadows and fear, of hidden desires and ambivalence. Within the cinematic home invasion genre, this is heightened by the presence of an antagonistic Other. They render all categorically interstitial. As with the Lacanian notion of extimité, the invading Other confuses interior and exterior boundaries. In Michael Haneke’s (1997 original and 2007 remake) Funny Games, this is further problematized by the lead antagonist’s movement between the diegetic world and that of the viewer. This article examines this fourth wall breaking and unpacks how the audience’s consumption of violent media is critiqued as the lines between the home of the film and that of the viewing audience become blurred.
‘House of mirrors’: The sentient house as homosocial space in Andrew Pyper’s The Guardians
Authors: Mayr Suzette 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In The Poetics of Space ([1958] 1969), Gaston Bachelard proposes that ‘The house is a “psychic state”’, and focuses on the childhood house – specifically ‘the house we were born in’ – because he believes that with this ‘first’ house one establishes a ‘passionate liaison’. Andrew Pyper’s novel The Guardians (2011) is ostensibly a haunted house novel about four men battling a malevolent house, but the novel is also about the unique love the men express for and with each other – what masculinity scholars Hammarén and Johansson would label ‘horizontal homosociality’ or ‘a more sensitive and intimate masculinity’. Ultimately, the malevolent house provides the only venue in which the men can express this intimate love for each other. I argue that the house’s relationship with the men is, fundamentally, a ‘passionate liaison’; for while the men were not born in the house and so it is not literally their ‘first’ house, the house forces key rites of passage that bind the men and the house together forever. With the house’s destruction at the novel’s conclusion the male relationships are constrained and hollowed out by hegemonic masculine expectations and stereotypes.
Prevalence of dispareunia in women within postpartum one-year period and related factors
Authors: Altuntuğ Kamile , Ege Emel , Kocoğlu Deniz , Akın Rabiye , Demirören Nesime 
Published: May 2017

This study aimed to determine prevalence of postpartum dyspareunia and related factors.In cross-sectional and descriptive study, a questionnaire was used to collect data. Universe of the study was composed of all women in the first postpartum one year, Sampling consisted of 246 women in postpartum one-year period admitted to public healtcare centers in Konya, Turkey.While the rates of experiencing dispareunia were 20.8% in prenatal period, 22.9% during pregnancy and 36.6% in the first intercourse after delivery, the rate was found as 41.5% in postpartum period. According to the results of logistic regression analysis; decision given by partners to start intercourse, worrying about intercourse, having challenges with the partner and experiencing dispareunia during pregnancy were found to be important risk factors. Dyspareunia seems to be a major challenge affecting the sexual life of women in postpartum period. During postpartum follow-ups, and training and counseling may be suggested.
Existence of a bound state solution for quasilinear Schrödinger equations
Authors: Xue Yan-Fang , Tang Chun-Lei 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In this article, we establish the existence of bound state solutions for a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations whose nonlinear term is asymptotically linear in

ℝ
N

{\mathbb{R}^{N}}

. After changing the variables, the quasilinear equation becomes a semilinear equation, whose respective associated functional is well defined in

H
1

⁢

(

ℝ
N

)

{H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})}

. The proofs are based on the Pohozaev manifold and a linking theorem.
Global solutions for Volterra ordinary and retarded integral equations
Authors: Satco Bianca 
Published: May 2017

AbstractUsing a generalization of Darbo’s fixed point theorem, we obtain the existence of global solutions for nonlinear Volterra-type integral equations in Banach spaces. The involved functions are supposed to be continuous only with respect to some variables, integrability or essential boundedness conditions being also imposed. Our result improves the similar result given in [
Ascoli’s theorems
Authors: Pasicki Lech 
Published: May 2017

AbstractWe present some elegant and pretty general versions of Ascoli theorem for non-Hausdorff spaces. The proofs are simple and elementary (e.g. we do not use the notion of joint continuity) while the results seem to be a very good starting point for more sophisticated theorems. Due to Lemma 10 (it extends [
On classes of meromorphic or complex harmonic functions with a pole at the infinity
Authors: Jakubowski Zbigniew J. , Sibelska Agnieszka 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn this article we investigate some classes of meromorphic or complex harmonic functions with a pole, which are generated either by analytic conditions or by “coefficient inequalities”. There are given theorems, which combine the geometrical properties of functions of the introduced classes. Some results broaden knowledge about the classes of functions, which were investigated in [
Existence and uniqueness of mild and strong solutions of nonlinear volterra integrodifferential equations in Banach spaces
Authors: Tidke H. L. , Dhakne M. B. 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn this paper we prove the existence and uniqueness of mild and strong solutions of a nonlinear Volterra integrodifferential equation with nonlocal condition. Our analysis is based on semigroup theory and Banach fixed point theorem and inequalities are established by Gronwall and B. G. Pachpatte.
Dynamic equations x
(Δm)(t) = f(t, x(t)) on time scales
Authors: Sikorska-Nowak Aneta 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In this paper we prove the existence of solutions and Carathéodory’s type solutions of the dynamic Cauchy problem

x

(
Δ
m
)

(
t
)

=
f
(
t
,
x
(
t
)
)
,

t
∈
T
,

x
(
0
)

=
0
,

x

Δ

(
0
)

=

η

1

,
…
,

x

(
Δ
(
m
-
1
)
)

(
0
)
=

η

m
-
1

,

η

1

,
…

η

m
-
1

∈
E
,

$$\matrix{\hfill {x^{(\Delta m)} (t)} & { = f(t,x(t)),\;\;\;\;\;t \in T,} \hfill \cr \hfill {x(0)} & { = 0,} \hfill \cr \hfill {x^\Delta (0)} & { = \eta _1 , \ldots ,x^{(\Delta (m - 1))} (0) = \eta _{m - 1} ,\;\;\;\;\eta _1 , \ldots \eta _{m - 1} \in E,} \hfill \cr } $$

where x
(Δ

m

) denotes a mth order Δ - derivative, T denotes an unbounded time scale (nonempty closed subset of R such that there exists a sequence (an
) in T and an
→ ∞), E — a Banach space and f is a continuous function or satisfies Carathéodory’s conditions and some conditions expressed in terms of measures of noncompactness.
The Sadovskii fixed point theorem and Ambrosetti’s lemma are used to prove the main result.
As dynamic equations are an unification of differential and difference equations our result is also valid for differential and difference equations. The results presented in this paper are new not only for Banach valued functions but also for real valued functions.
q-analogues of general reduction formulas by Buschman and Srivastava and an important q-operator reminding of MacRobert
Authors: Ernst Thomas 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
We find four q-analogues of general reduction formulas from Buschman and Srivastava together with some special cases, e.g. q-analogues of reduction formulas for Appell- and Kampé de Fériet functions. A proper q-analogue of the notation △(l; λ) by MacRobert, Meijer and Srivastava is given, and the definition of q-hypergeometric series is generalized accordingly.
Embedding sums of cancellative modes into functorial sums
Authors: Romanowska Anna B. , Stronkowski Michał , Zamojska-Dzienio Anna 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The paper discusses a representation of modes (idempotent and entropic algebras) as subalgebras of so-called functorial sums of cancellative algebras. We show that each mode that has a homomorphism onto an algebra satisfying a certain additional condition, with corresponding cancellative congruence classes, embeds into a functorial sum of cancellative algebras. We also discuss typical applications of this result.
Embedding modes into semimodules, Part III
Authors: Pilitowska Agata , Romanowska Anna B. 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn the first part of this paper, we considered the problem of constructing a (commutative unital) semiring defining the variety of semimodules whose idempotent subreducts lie in a given variety of modes. We provided a general construction of such semirings, along with basic examples and some general properties. In the second part of the paper we discussed some selected varieties of modes, in particular, varieties of affine spaces, varieties of barycentric algebras and varieties of semilattice modes, and described the semirings determining their semi-linearizations, the varieties of semimodules having these algebras as idempotent subreducts. The third part is devoted to varieties of differential groupoids and more general differential modes, and provides the semirings of the semi-linearizations of these varieties.
Fuzzy ideals of pseudo-BCK Algebras
Authors: Dymek Grzegorz , Walendziak Andrzej 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Characterizations of fuzzy ideals of a pseudo-BCK algebra are established. Conditions for a fuzzy set to be a fuzzy ideal are given. Given a fuzzy set μ, the least fuzzy ideal containing μ is constructed. The homomorphic properties of fuzzy ideals of a pseudo-BCK algebra are provided. Finally, characterizations of Noetherian pseudo-BCK algebras and Artinian pseudo-BCK algebras in terms of fuzzy ideals are given.
Common fixed point theorems for variants of R-weakly commuting mappings in topologically complete Tychonoff (uniform) spaces
Authors: Kohli J. K. , Kumar Durgesh 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Three variants of R-weakly commuting mappings in the realm of uniform spaces are defined. Examples are included to reflect upon the distinctiveness of the notions so defined. Common fixed point theorems concerning these variants of R-weakly commuting mappings in the framework of uniform spaces are obtained. This generalizes several known results in the literature including those of Granas and Dugundji [3], Tarafdar [12] and others. Moreover, as a bi-product we obtain several common fixed point theorems which are well in contrast with a common fixed point theorem of Jungck [4] who proved the same for commuting mappings.
A lower bound on the double outer-independent domination number of a tree
Authors: Krzywkowski Marcin 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
A vertex of a graph is said to dominate itself and all of its neighbors. A double outer-independent dominating set of a graph G is a set D of vertices of G such that every vertex of G is dominated by at least two vertices of D, and the set V (G) \ D is independent. The double outer-independent domination number of a graph G, denoted by

γ
d
oi

(
G
)

$\gamma _d^{oi} (G)$

, is the minimum cardinality of a double outer-independent dominating set of G. We prove that for every nontrivial tree T of order n, with l leaves and s support vertices we have

γ
d
oi

(
T
)
≥
(
2
n
+
l
-
s
+
2
)
/
3

$\gamma _d^{oi} (T) \ge (2n + l - s + 2)/3$

, and we characterize the trees attaining this lower bound. We also give a constructive characterization of trees T such that

γ
d
oi

(
T
)
=
(
2
n
+
2
)
/
3

$\gamma _d^{oi} (T) = (2n + 2)/3$

.
Global solution of reaction diffusion system with non diagonal matrix
Authors: Moumeni Abdelkader , Salah Derradji Lylia 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to prove the global existence in time of solutions for the coupled reaction-diffusion system:

{

∂
u

∂
t

−
a
Δ
u
−
b
Δ
v
=
f

(
u
,

v
)

in

]
0
,

+
∞
[
×
Ω

∂
u

∂
t

−
c
Δ
v
=
g
(
u
,
v
)

in

]
0
,

+
∞
[
×
Ω

*
*
487
*
*

$$\left\{ {\matrix{{{{\partial u} \over {\partial t}} - a\Delta u - b\Delta v = f\,(u,\,v)} \hfill & {{\rm in}\,]0,\, + \infty [ \times \Omega } \hfill \cr {{{\partial u} \over {\partial t}} - c\Delta v = g(u,v)} \hfill & {{\rm in}\,]0,\, + \infty [ \times \Omega } \hfill } } \right.$$

with triangular matrix of diffusion coefficients.
By combining the Lyapunov functional method with the regularizing effect, we show that global solutions exist. Our investigation applied for a wide class of the nonlinear terms f and g.
Weighted averages of random variables and exact weights
Authors: Matuła Przemysław , Seweryn Michał 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In the present note we discuss the conditions under which for a sequence of nonnegative i.i.d. random variables (Xn
)
n

∈ℕ with infinite mean, there exist sequences of nonnegative real numbers (g(n))
n

∈ℕ and (h(n))
n

∈ℕ such that

lim
⁡

n
→
∞

1

g
(
n
)

∑

k
=
1

n

X
k

h
(
k
)

=
1

a
.
s
.

$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } {1 \over {g(n)}}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^n {{{X_k } \over {h(k)}} = 1\;a.s.} $$
A zero-sum competitive multi-player game
Authors: Guo Ivan , Rutkowski Marek 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
A single period, zero-sum, multi-player game is constructed. Each player can either exit the game for a fixed payoff or stay and split the remaining payoff with the other non-exiting players. The emphasis is put on the rivalrous nature of the payoffs, meaning that the sum of all payoffs is fixed, but the exact allocation is based on the players’ decisions. The value at which Nash and optimal equilibria are attained is shown to be unique and it is constructed explicitly.
On general optimal stopping problems using penalty method
Authors: Stettner Ł. 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In the paper we use penalty method to approximate a number of general stopping problems over finite horizon. We consider optimal stopping of discrete time or right continuous stochastic processes, and show that suitable version of Snell’s envelope can by approximated by solutions to penalty equations. Then we study optimal stopping problem for Markov processes on a general Polish space, and again show that the optimal stopping value function can be approximated by a solution to a Markov version of the penalty equation.
Quasi cl-supercontinuous functions and their function spaces
Authors: Kohli J. K. , Aggarwal Jeetendra 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
A new class of functions called ‘quasi cl-supercontinuous functions’ is introduced. Basic properties of quasi cl-supercontinuous functions are studied and their place in the hierarchy of variants of continuity that already exist in the mathematical literature is elaborated. The notion of quasi cl-supercontinuity, in general, is independent of continuity but coincides with cl-supercontinuity (≡ clopen continuity) (Applied General Topology 8(2) (2007), 293–300; Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 14(6) (1983), 767–772), a significantly strong form of continuity, if range is a regular space. The class of quasi cl-supercontinuous functions properly contains each of the classes of (i) quasi perfectly continuous functions and (ii) almost cl-supercontinuous functions; and is strictly contained in the class of quasi z-supercontinuous functions. Moreover, it is shown that if X is sum connected (e.g. connected or locally connected) and Y is Hausdorff, then the function space Lq
(X, Y) of all quasi cl-supercontinuous functions as well as the function space Lδ
(X, Y) of all almost cl-supercontinuous functions from X to Y is closed in YX
in the topology of pointwise convergence.