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Contactless respiratory monitoring system for magnetic resonance imaging applications using a laser range sensor
Authors: Krug Johannes W. , Odenbach Robert , Boese Axel , Friebe Michael 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
During a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam, a respiratory signal can be required for different purposes, e.g. for patient monitoring, motion compensation or for research studies such as in functional MRI. In addition, respiratory information can be used as a biofeedback for the patient in order to control breath holds or shallow breathing. To reduce patient preparation time or distortions of the MR imaging system, we propose the use of a contactless approach for gathering information about the respiratory activity. An experimental setup based on a commercially available laser range sensor was used to detect respiratory induced motion of the chest or abdomen. This setup was tested using a motion phantom and different human subjects in an MRI scanner. A nasal airflow sensor served as a reference. For both, the phantom as well as the different human subjects, the motion frequency was precisely measured. These results show that a low cost, contactless, laser-based approach can be used to obtain information about the respiratory motion during an MRI exam.
Development of a low-cost senor based aid for visually impaired people
Authors: Loepthien Nora , Jehnichen Tanja , Hauser Josephine , Schullcke Benjamin , Möller Knut 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The aim of the project is the development of an aid for blind or visually impaired people, considering economic aspects as well as easy adaptability to various daily situations. Distance sensors were attached to a walking frame (rollator) to detect the distance to obstacles. The information from the sensors is transmitted to the user via tactile feedback. This is realized with a number of vibration motors which were located at the upper belly area of the subject. To test the functionality of the aid to the blind, a testing track with obstacles has been passed through by a number of volunteers. While passing the track five times the needed time to pass through, as well as the number of collisions, were noticed. The results showed a decline in the average time needed to pass though the testing track. This indicates a learning process of the operator to interpret the signals given by the tactile feedback.
Patient assistive system for the shoulder joint
Authors: Scheuner Erika , Fabech Jonas , Textor Dominik , Kuster Roman , Heinlein Bernd 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The mobility of the upper extremity is essential for everyday activities and for independent living. Shoulder disorders affect the range of motion, therefore a patient assistive system (PAS) for the shoulder joint can be used to compensate the restrictions. The developed PAS supports up to 120° of flexion and abduction. The portable dynamic orthotic consists of two levers and is attached to a hip belt. The upper arm of the patient is connected to the device using a brace. The prototype is driven by one motor and controlled by surface electromyography (EMG). The functionality of the system was successfully verified by tests with healthy subjects. For further development, a study with shoulder patients will be performed and health professionals will evaluate the PAS.
Automatic depth scanning system for 3D infrared thermography
Authors: Unger Michael , Franke Adrian , Chalopin Claire 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Infrared thermography can be used as a pre-, intra- and post-operative imaging technique during medical treatment of patients. Modern infrared thermal cameras are capable of acquiring images with a high sensitivity of 10 mK and beyond. They provide a planar image of an examined 3D object in which this high sensitivity is only reached within a plane perpendicular to the camera axis and defined by the focus of the lens. Out of focus planes are blurred and temperature values are inaccurate. A new 3D infrared thermography system is built by combining a thermal camera with a depth camera. Multiple images at varying focal planes are acquired with the infrared camera using a motorized system. The sharp regions of individual images are projected onto the 3D object’s surface obtained by the depth camera. The system evaluation showed that deviation between measured temperature values and a ground truth is reduced with our system.
Patient-specific hip prostheses designed by surgeons
Authors: Coigny Florian , Todor Adi , Rotaru Horatiu , Schumacher Ralf , Schkommodau Erik 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Patient-specific bone and joint replacement implants lead to better functional and aesthetic results than conventional methods [1], [2], [3]. But extracting 3D shape information from CT Data and designing individual implants is demanding and requires multiple surgeon-to-engineer interactions. For manufacturing purposes, Additive Manufacturing offers various advantages, especially for low volume manufacturing parts, such as patient specific implants. To ease these new approaches and to avoid surgeon-to-engineer interactions a new design software approach is needed which offers highly automated and user friendly planning steps.
How to identify moral language in presidential speeches: A comparison between a social-psychological and a cognitive-linguistic approach to corpus analysis
Authors: Renardel de Lavalette Kiki Y. , Steen Gerard , Burgers Christian 
Published: December 2016

AbstractLakoff (2002 [1996],Moral politics. How liberals and conservative think. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) presents the Theory of Moral Politics (TMR), as based in the roles of metaphor in moral thinking in American Politics. Two distinct methods of data analysis, one social-psychological and one cognitive-linguistic, have been employed to empirically test Lakoff’s assertions on moral reasoning, but have yielded different results. We applied both methods to the same corpus of speeches to determine whether they would yield similar results and could thus be considered to be equally appropriate ways of testing the presence of moral language. We show that the method affects what sort of conclusion can be drawn from research. Consequently, when testing TMR, we recommend that the corpus-linguistic method used is critically evaluated.
Limeating Inc
Authors: Rossolatos George 
Published: December 2016

AbstractCompetitive and speed eating by now constitute a mainstay in contemporary food culture. This paper outlines an emergent consumptive trend that radiates through Furious Pete’s, a popular professional speed eater, postcolonial omnivorous ethos that is tagged ‘limeating’, denoting eating to the limit or eating the limit. By drawing on the key distinction between drives and desire, I argue that the cultural phenomenon of limeating eludes and at the same time buttresses consumptive desire, while inviting the limeater’s audience to a regressive path to unbound orality, coupled with an indiscriminate will-to-introjection. Furious Pete is shown to be instituting a new hamburger standard that, contrary to the established Big Mac Index, does not concern the relative pricing of Big Macs across cultures, but the annihilation of differentially valorized gastronomic offerings in the face of cannibalistic drives.
The Anthropo-Semiotics of the Chinese Funeral Striptease
Authors: Mosquera Alexander 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Although ritual funeral dances have been present throughout the history of some human societies, it is noteworthy that in some rural areas of countries such as China the funeral striptease as a cultural tradition has been established. The general goal of this work is to understand the presence of the striptease as a component part of funeral rituals in Chinese rural culture. To this end, the works of Finol on anthropo-semiotics (2011), of Lotman on the semiotics of culture (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000), of Peirce on triadic semiotics (1987), of Van Gennep on rites of passage (1984, 2008), and Del Fresno’s concept of Netnography (2011) were used to analyze this phenomenon from an epistemological introspective-experiential approach (Padrón Guillén 2001, 2003). The study concludes with three main findings: the funeral striptease serves as a mask used by humans to hide the fear of death, to give an aesthetic role to death, and to express the underlying nakedness of a person faced with the binomial life/death.
Discursive Heterogeneity in Chinese Literature
Authors: Gándara Lelia , Sartori María Florencia 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
In this paper we explore the marks of discursive heterogeneity in literary works produced in situations of language and culture contact. We analyze novels written by contemporary Chinese authors who live outside the People’s Republic of China and produce their work in English and French: Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙) and Dai Sijie (戴思杰), respectively. We address marks of heteroglossia and discursive heterogeneity and explore the construction of the narrator and the narratee in their novels. In order to validate our analysis, we compare these authors with a Chinese writer who lives and produces his work in China: Mo Yan’s on his French and Spanish translated novels. Taking into account the discursive strategies deployed and the polyphonic marks, we demonstrate that Qiu and Dai construct Chinese narrators and Western narratees, while Mo Yan constructs Chinese narrators and narratees. In our analysis we apply notions of polyphony from Bakhtin and Ducrot, rhetoric concepts from Olbrecht-Tyteca and Per elman, the notion of discursive heterogeneity by Authier, and the discursive ethos analysis proposed by Maingueneau.
Painlevé Equation PII and Strongly Normal Extensions
Authors: Miri Sofiane El-Hadi 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show that if F is a differential field and y is a PII transcendent such that tr.deg.F 〈y〉 = 2, then every constant in F〈y〉 is in F. We also show that in this case, F〈y〉 is not contained in any strongly normal extension.
Probabilistic Generalized Metric Spaces and Nonlinear Contractions
Authors: Mbarki Abderrahim , Naciri Rachid 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
We give a probabilistic generalization of the theory of generalized metric spaces [2]. Then, we prove a fixed point theorem for a self-mapping of a probabilistic generalized metric space, satisfying the very general nonlinear contraction condition without the assumption that the space is Hausdorff.
A Perspective Approach for Characterization of Lieb Concavity Theorem
Authors: Nikoufar Ismail 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Lieb’s extension theorem holds for generalized p + q ∈ [0; 1] and Ando convexity theorem holds for q - r > 1. In this paper, we give a complete characterization for concavity or convexity of Lieb well known theorem in the case where p + q ≥ 1 or p+q ≤ 0. We also characterize some auxiliary results including Ando theorem for q-r ≤ 1.
Coupling Supercapacitors and Aeroacoustic Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Wireless Sensing in Aeronautics Applications
Authors: Monthéard Romain , Bafleur Marise , Boitier Vincent , Dollat Xavier , Nolhier Nicolas , Piot Estelle , Airiau Christophe , Dilhac Jean-Marie 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
This paper reports for the first time the experimental demonstration of a wireless sensor node only powered by an aeroacoustic energy-harvesting device, meant to be installed on an aircraft outside skin. Aeroacoustic noise is generated on purpose to serve as a means of converting mechanical energy from high velocity airflow into electrical energy. Results related to the physical characterization of the energy conversion process are presented. The proposed aeroacoustic transducer prototype, consisting in a rectangular cavity fitted with a piezoelectric membrane, is shown to deliver up to 2 mW AC power under Mach 0.5 airflow. Optimized power management electronics has been designed to interface with the transducer, including a self-powered Synchronized Switch Harvesting on Inductor (SSHI) interface circuit and an efficient buck-boost DC/DC converter. The design of micropower auxiliary circuits adds functionality while preserving high efficiency. This circuit stores energy in supercapacitors and is able to deliver a net output DC power close to 1 mW. A fully autonomous system has been implemented and tested, successfully demonstrating aeroacoustic power generation by supplying a battery-free wireless datalogger in conditions representative of an actual flight.
High Efficiency Vibration Energy Harvesting Through Combined Isolator and Absorber Approach
Authors: Marin Anthony , Garcia Anthony , Cruz Ricardo , Priya Shashank 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Relative motion is required for vibration energy harvesting, such as magnet moving past the coil in inductive approach and tip-mass motion in piezoelectric approach. Typically, relative motion is created by amplifying the source displacement and storage of mechanical energy in an auxiliary vibrating mass. In this study, we propose a novel technique to create the relative motion without amplification of the original source displacement. The technique relies on cancelling the vibration at one location and transferring the source vibration directly to another location through combination of a vibration isolator with a vibration absorber. In this multi-degree of freedom configuration, the power is harvested from the displacement of the vibrating source rather than the displacement of an auxiliary mass. This configuration eliminates the need to capture relative motion with respect to an externally fixed component. A prototype was designed and fabricated based on this concept which was found to harvest 45 mW at 0.9 G base acceleration and weighed 462 g. Through analytical modeling it was determined that the prototype could generate 87 mW @ 1 G base acceleration, while weighing only 243 g. Also, an optimal balance between the bandwidth and the maximum power harvested was identified through parametric analysis.
Crede’s method in eye water finds a nanomedicine base: a potential candidate to control ophthalmia neonatorum
Authors: Roy Anupam , Shrivastava Shanker L. , Saha Suman , Khamrai Subhasish , Jana Malabendu , Mandal Santi M. 
Published: December 2016

AbstractLethal eye infections of newborns occur mostly due to their passage through the contaminated birth canal. In the pre-antibiotic era blindness from such infections was most challenging. This scenario changed after the 1880s with the use of Crede’s method (a drop of 2.0% silver nitrate solution into newborn’s eyes which was later reduced to 1.0%). This research is focused on finding the structure-function relationship between silver nitrate and tears which offer antimicrobial action. A reinvestigation of Crede’s method revealed a light-dependent instant formation of silver oxide nanoparticles (sizes 20–70 nm) with strong antimicrobial action against ocular pathogens. Nano-therapy would be the key reason behind the widely accepted use of silver nitrate eye drop as a prophylactic agent prior to the discovery of antibiotics. A scientific view on the age-old Crede’s method explores the use of nano-therapy as a prophylactic agent. When routine prophylaxis with topical antibiotics brings the risk of resistance, Crede’s method may, in the near future, offer a way to fight against ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
Synthesis and surface characterization of nanosized Y2O3:Eu and YAG:Eu luminescent phosphors which are useful in photodynamic therapy of cancer
Authors: Bakhmetyev Vadim V. , Minakova Tamara S. , Mjakin Sergey V. , Lebedev Lev A. , Vlasenko Anna B. , Nikandrova Anna A. , Ekimova Irina A. , Eremina Nina S. , Sychov Maxim M. , Ringuede Armelle 
Published: December 2016

AbstractA series of finely dispersed Y
Geographical conceptualization of quality of life
Authors: Murgaš František 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The conceptualization of quality of life in terms of geography is based on two assumptions. The first assumption is that the quality of life consists of two dimensions: subjective and objective. The subjective is known as ‘well-being’, while the objective is the proposed term ‘quality of place’. The second assumption is based on the recognition that quality of life is always a spatial dimension. The concept of quality of life is closely linked with the concept of a good life; geographers enriched this concept by using the term ‘good place’ as a place in which the conditions are created for a good life. The quality of life for individuals in terms of a good place overlaps with the quality of life in society, namely the societal quality of life. The geographical conceptualisation of quality of life is applied to settlements within the city of Liberec.
Formation of groupings of mayfly larvae (Ephemeroptera) in the area of small hydrological structures, in the streams of the Kamienica Nawojowska river basin (the Sądeckie Beskids, Poland)
Authors: Niechwiej Artur 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Anthropogenic modification of abiotic factor in turn influencez biotic communities. The aim of this study was to characterise clusters of mayflies in selected streams of Kamienica Nawojowska river basin in conjunction with small, lateral hydrological structures that have been built in this area. There was an attempt to determine whether and to what extent small lateral hydrological structures affect larvae of mayflies in the examined mountain streams. An analysis of the taxonomic composition of mayfly clusters in the examined stream sections was carried out. For this purpose, the author described the taxonomic wealth, variation in the density of organisms, the domination structure within taxonomic groups and trophic functional groups, taxonomic variation (based on the Shannon-Winner factor), constancy of occurrence (according to the Szujecki formula) as well as faunistic similarity (according to the Jaccard formula). An emphasis was also placed on the species included in the Red List of Vulnerable and Endangered Species in Poland (2002). The obtained results indicate a high taxonomic richness and a large diversity of mayfly fauna on the examined stream sections. There were no significant differences, however, in this aspect between posts situated upstream and downstream from the hydrological structures. The formation of clusters was influenced not so much by small hydrological structures as by other abiotic factors such as the nature of the bottom substrate, the way in which the basin is used, the location of a particular post on a particular watercourse section as well as other anthropogenic activities (e.g. those related to forest management). A comparison of the obtained data with the results of the research conducted before the completion of major regulatory works in Kamienica Nawojowska river basin showed that the mayfly fauna had preserved a large taxonomic richness, although some changes had occurred in the structure of the clusters. However, further research related to this issue is needed, especially in other river basins of the Beskids.
Long-term decline in breeding abundance of Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in the Czech Republic: a case study of a population trend at the Chomoutov lake
Authors: Poprach Karel , Machar Ivo , Maton Karel 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the long-term trend in breeding abundance of Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) at the Chomoutov lake, Czech Republic. In the period 1978-2014 (always between April 22 and May 10), we conducted 14 nest counts in the bird colony using the direct nest search method. In total, we counted 57,860 nests, from which 2,174 nests were found in the initial year 1978, the maximum number of nests (8,371) in 1993 and 3,304 nests in the last counting year 2014. The nests were located on the ground on an island elevated 2-3 m above the water level. In 1997, we found an unusually located nest on a nesting pad in a poplar tree (Populus sp.), 821 cm above the water level. In this paper, we point out the long-term decline in breeding abundance of Black-headed Gull in major breeding colonies in the Czech Republic, where the abundance declined by up to 95%, while numerous colonies have vanished completely. We discuss factors influencing the negative population trend of Black-headed Gull on the monitored site and in the entire Czech Republic.
Floristic diversity of midforest lakes (Sobibór Landscape Park, Poland)
Authors: Sender Joanna , Maślanko Weronika , Różańska-Boczula Monika , Garbowski Magda 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Aquatic vegetation greatly impacts lake functions. Forest ecosystems surrounding lakes are effective protection zone of lakes and their associated flora and fauna. The presence of aquatic plants depends on many factors, including the chemical composition and acidity of water, the shape of the lake catchment, the angle of slope along shorelines and the management of surrounding lands. Natural ecosystems throughout Eastern Europe are threatened by anthropogenic activities. Aquatic systems and bogs are particularly sensitive to disturbances. The aim of the study was to determine the influence of land management, forest type and stand age on aquatic plant colonisation within lakes as well as to quantify and qualify the structure of macrophyte communities within two lakes, Płotycze Sobiborskie and Orchowe, located in the Sobibór Landscape Park in western Poland. Even though there were few bogs within the catchment areas and lake buffer zones, where they did occur they had the greatest effect on macrophyte presence. The results of this research indicate that in the absence of anthropogenic disturbances midforest water-bog complexes are relatively stable systems and preserve their natural character. The applied multi-criteria evaluation of macrophytes in the studied lakes and their surrounding buffer zones and catchment areas allowed the lakes to be characterised as lakes with a good ecological status.
Historical changes in dispersed kopanitse land type and changes in use of agricultural land on Kysuce region example
Authors: Barančok Peter , Barančoková Mária 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Territory of Kysuce is characterised by a high proportion of the traditional agricultural landscape (TAL), which occupy almost 12% of the area. Two types of TAL were allocated here. The first type is represented by TAL with dispersed settlement. The second type is represented by TAL of arable land and grassland landscape. The largest representation has typical forms of anthropogenic relief (FAR). TALs represent the most diverse mosaic of man-made habitats and natural habitats too. In the past, there were the largest representations of arable land and regularly mown meadows. Currently, these areas are dominated by abandoned meadows (fallow meadows), occasionally grazed pastures and meadows. Arable land is represented only minimally. The large part of areas is overgrown by non-forest woody vegetation or passes to the forest vegetation. In this process of landscape changes, significant changes in biodiversity of the areas are realised. Successively, the species of segetal and ruderal vegetation are less represented and species of forest vegetation obtained greater representation. In the process of mapping and evaluation, FAR - shape and orientation of plots, types of balks and some of their basic characteristics - were monitored.
Attitudes of the involved subjects to the issue of biodiversity conservation in the Protected Area of the Malé Karpaty Mts (Results of personal interviews)
Authors: Moyzeová Milena , Izakovičová Zita 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the biodiversity from the stakeholders’ point of view as well as to identify the conflicts of interests and the ensuing problems between hunting and the development of other socio-economic activities in the central part of Protected Area of the Little Carpathians. The specified conflicts of interests between hunters, conservationists and farmers are followed by measures that may contribute to increase the biodiversity in this model territory.