bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A comparison of two prospective risk analysis methods: Traditional FMEA and a modified healthcare FMEA
Authors: Rah Jeong‐Eun , Manger Ryan P. , Yock Adam D. , Kim Gwe‐Ya 
Published: November 2016

Purpose:To examine the abilities of a traditional failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and modified healthcare FMEA (m‐HFMEA) scoring methods by comparing the degree of congruence in identifying high risk failures.Methods:The authors applied two prospective methods of the quality management to surface image guided, linac‐based radiosurgery (SIG‐RS). For the traditional FMEA, decisions on how to improve an operation were based on the risk priority number (RPN). The RPN is a product of three indices: occurrence, severity, and detectability. The m‐HFMEA approach utilized two indices, severity and frequency. A risk inventory matrix was divided into four categories: very low, low, high, and very high. For high risk events, an additional evaluation was performed. Based upon the criticality of the process, it was decided if additional safety measures were needed and what they comprise.Results:The two methods were independently compared to determine if the results and rated risks matched. The authors’ results showed an agreement of 85% between FMEA and m‐HFMEA approaches for top 20 risks of SIG‐RS‐specific failure modes. The main differences between the two approaches were the distribution of the values and the observation that failure modes (52, 54, 154) with high m‐HFMEA scores do not necessarily have high FMEA‐RPN scores. In the m‐HFMEA analysis, when the risk score is determined, the basis of the established HFMEA Decision Tree™ or the failure mode should be more thoroughly investigated.Conclusions:m‐HFMEA is inductive because it requires the identification of the consequences from causes, and semi‐quantitative since it allows the prioritization of high risks and mitigation measures. It is therefore a useful tool for the prospective risk analysis method to radiotherapy.
A novel approach to evaluate spatial resolution of MRI clinical images for optimization and standardization of breast screening protocols
Authors: Borri Marco , Scurr Erica D. , Richardson Cheryl , Usher Marianne , Leach Martin O. , Schmidt Maria A. 
Published: November 2016

Purpose:Stringent quality assurance is required in MRI breast screening to ensure that different scanners and imaging protocols reach similar diagnostic performance. The authors propose a methodology, based on power spectrum analysis (PSA), to evaluate spatial resolution in clinical images. To demonstrate this approach, the authors have retrospectively compared two MRI sequences commonly employed in breast screening.Methods:In a novel approach to PSA, spatial frequency response curves (SFRCs) were extracted from the images. The SFRC characterizes spatial resolution describing the spatial frequency content of an image over a range of frequencies. Verification of the SFRCs was performed on MRI images of Eurospin agarose gel tubes acquired with different resolution settings. SFRCs of volunteer and patient images obtained with two clinical MRI sequences were then compared. The two sequences differed primarily in k‐space coverage pattern, which was either radial (RAD) or linear (LIN).Results:The computed SFRCs were able to demonstrate the differences between RAD and LIN sequences in relatively small groups of subjects. The curves showed a similar pattern of decay in both volunteer and patient images, indicating that the spatial frequency response is mainly determined by the imaging protocol and not by intersubject anatomical differences. The LIN protocol produced images with increased sharpness; this was reflected in the corresponding SFRCs, which showed a higher content of spatial frequencies associated with image details.Conclusions:The SFRC can provide an objective assessment of the presence of spatial details in the image and represent a useful quality assurance tool in the evaluation of different breast screening protocols. With a reference image, a comparative analysis of the SFRCs could ensure that equivalent image quality is achieved across different scanners and sites.
FPGA Implementation of a Nakagami-m fading channel Simulator using Random Number Generator
Authors: Kumar B Santhosh , Ayyappa Swamy K. 
Published: November 2016

<p class="abstract">By realizing the concept of implementation of the radio propagation channels on simulators is the eminent intention of this work. Even though prototyping software simulators are effortless to design we prefer hardware simulators as they endeavors distinguishable quickness, compared to earlier. Prior to this work fading channels like Gaussian, Rayleigh and Rician fading channel simulators were executed on hard ware.(i.e. FPGA) The significant target of this attempt is to implement Nakagami-m fading channel on hardware as they preserved for unsubstantial consideration. While differentiating with other fading channels Nakagami-m fading channel acquires wide spread applications, as its capability of providing appropriate fit for practical fading data, as this is flexible through its size parameter ‘m’, over which representation of signal fading conditions that vary from serious to modest, to normal fading or no fading is accomplished . The proposed hardware simulator can hatches complex Nakagami variates after it was implemented on XilinxSpartan-xc3s500e-4fg320 FPGA. This is operated at 50MHz.</p>
A Study on MapReduce: Challenges and Trends
Authors: Arun Thanekar Sachin , Subrahmanyam K. , B. Bagwan A. 
Published: November 2016

<p>Nowadays we all are surrounded by Big data. The term ‘Big Data’ itself indicates huge volume, high velocity, variety and veracity i.e. uncertainty of data which gave rise to new difficulties and challenges. Big data generated may be structured data, Semi Structured data or unstructured data. For existing database and systems lot of difficulties are there to process, analyze, store and manage such a Big Data. The Big Data challenges are Protection, Curation, Capture, Analysis, Searching, Visualization, Storage, Transfer and sharing. Map Reduce is a framework using which we can write applications to process huge amount of data, in parallel, on large clusters of commodity hardware in a reliable manner. Lot of efforts have been put by different researchers to make it simple, easy, effective and efficient. In our survey paper we emphasized on the working of Map Reduce, challenges, opportunities and recent trends so that researchers can think on further improvement. </p>
Insulating Material Erosion in Atmospheric Non-Thermal Plasma Jet Device
Authors: M. Ahmed K. , M. Allam T. , A. Abouelatta M. , A. Ward S. , A. Lashin A. , M. Soliman H. 
Published: November 2016

<p>This paper reports on the selection of insulating material types in a developed atmospheric-pressure non-thermal plasma jet (ANPJ-II) device which was operated previously in our laboratory based on the minimum erosion area of the insulator’s nozzle. Three identical insulator groups used in our experiment include; Teflon insulator material with different thicknesses of 1.5 mm and 2 mm respectively, and Ceramic insulating material with thickness of 2 mm. ANPJ-II device is operated with each of the three insulator groups. These insulators are operated and analyzed with different operation times for compressed Air or Nitrogen gas with a flow rate of 12 L/min and input voltage of 6 kV. The erosion area of these insulator materials is measured as a function of the operation time. The Ceramic insulator was found to have the minimum erosion area. Also, the temperature of both the cathode and the insulating material (Teflon or Ceramic) are measured to study the effect of operation time and the gas type on the device components.</p>
An Enhanced Memetic Algorithm for Single-Objective Bilevel Optimization Problems
Authors: Islam Md Monjurul , Singh Hemant Kumar , Ray Tapabrata , Sinha Ankur 
Published: November 2016

Bilevel optimization, as the name reflects, deals with optimization at two interconnected hierarchical levels. The aim is to identify the optimum of an upper-level leader problem, subject to the optimality of a lower-level follower problem. Several problems from the domain of engineering, logistics, economics, and transportation have an inherent nested structure which requires them to be modeled as bilevel optimization problems. Increasing size and complexity of such problems has prompted active theoretical and practical interest in the design of efficient algorithms for bilevel optimization. Given the nested nature of bilevel problems, the computational effort (number of function evaluations) required to solve them is often quite high. In this article, we explore the use of a Memetic Algorithm (MA) to solve bilevel optimization problems. While MAs have been quite successful in solving single-level optimization problems, there have been relatively few studies exploring their potential for solving bilevel optimization problems. MAs essentially attempt to combine advantages of global and local search strategies to identify optimum solutions with low computational cost (function evaluations). The approach introduced in this article is a nested Bilevel Memetic Algorithm (BLMA). At both upper and lower levels, either a global or a local search method is used during different phases of the search. The performance of BLMA is presented on twenty-five standard test problems and two real-life applications. The results are compared with other established algorithms to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
Spatial Correlation: An Interactive Display of
Virtual Gesture Sculpture
Authors: Nam Jung , Keefe Daniel F. 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Spatial Correlation is an interactive digital artwork that provides a new window into the process of creating freeform handcrafted virtual sculptures while standing in an immersive Cave virtual reality (VR) environment. The piece originates in the lab, where the artist’s full-body, dance-like sculpting process is recorded using a combination of spatial tracking devices and an array of nine synchronized video cameras. Later, in the gallery, these raw data are reinterpreted as part of an interactive visualization that relates the three spaces in which the sculpture exists: 1) the physical lab/studio space in which the sculpture was created, 2) the digital virtual space in which the sculpture is mathematically defined and stored, and 3) the physical gallery space in which viewers now interact with the sculpture.
Effect of Yunnan–Guizhou Topography at the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau on the Indian Monsoon
Authors: Shi Zhengguo , Sha Yingying , Liu Xiaodong 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Topographic insulation is one of the primary origins for the influence of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) on Asian climate. The Yunnan–Guizhou (YG) Plateau, at the southeastern margin of the TP, is known to block the northern branch of the Indian monsoon circulation in summer. However, it is an open question whether this blocking feeds back to the monsoon. In this study, the effect of the YG topography on the Indian monsoon and its comparison with that of the TP were evaluated using general circulation model experiments. The results showed that the TP strengthens the monsoon precipitation, especially during the onset. However, the YG topography significantly weakens the monsoon. With the YG topography, strengthened low-level airflow around the YG Plateau induces anomalous anticyclonic winds to the southwest, and the changes remodulate the whole circulation structure over Asia. As a result, the Indian monsoon becomes weakened from the Bay of Bengal to the Indian subcontinent and Arabian Sea, as does the associated precipitation. In addition, the YG topography affects the anomalous warming center over the TP and the precipitation during the monsoon onset. The YG-reduced summer precipitation occupied approximately one-third of the total increment compared to the entire TP. The Indian monsoon weakened by YG topography distinctly opposes the traditional paleoclimatic viewpoint that all of the TP topography contributes to the monsoon strengthening. In fact, the climatic effect of the TP depends closely upon both its central and marginal topography, and the topography of its subterrains does not necessarily play a similar role.
Mechanistic approaches for the prevention and treatment of chronic GVHD
Authors: Cutler Corey S. , Koreth John , Ritz Jerome 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Clinical outcomes for patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation continue to improve, but chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a common toxicity and major cause of nonrelapse morbidity and mortality. Treatment of chronic GVHD has previously relied primarily on corticosteroids and other broadly immune suppressive agents. However, conventional immune suppressive agents have limited clinical efficacy in chronic GVHD, and prolonged immune suppressive treatments result in additional toxicities that further limit clinical recovery from transplant and return to normal daily function. Recent advances in our understanding of the immune pathology of chronic GVHD offer the possibility that new therapeutic approaches can be directed in more precise ways to target specific immunologic mechanisms and pathways. In this review, we briefly summarize current standard treatment options and present new therapeutic approaches that are supported by preclinical studies and early-phase clinical trials suggesting that these approaches may have clinical utility for treatment or prevention of chronic GVHD. Further evaluation of these new therapeutic options in well-designed prospective multicenter trials are needed to identify the most effective new agents and improve outcomes for patients with chronic GVHD.
Mothers of Soldiers in Israeli Literature
Authors: Olmert Dana 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article addresses the national-political functions of mainstream Hebrew literature, focusing on three questions: What are soldiers’ mothers in the canonical literature “allowed” to think, feel, and do, and what is considered transgressive? How has the presence of soldiers’ mothers in Israeli public life changed since the 1982 Lebanon War? At the center of the discussion is David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land (2008). I argue that the author posits “the flight from bad tidings” as both a maternal strategy and the author’s psychopoetic strategy. This article examines the cultural and gendered significance of the analogy between the act of flight and the act of writing that Grossman advances in his epilogue.
Αντιλήψεις παιδιών προσχολικής και πρωτοσχολικής ηλικίας για την ανακύκλωση: έρευνα σε παιδιά του Βόλου
Authors: Ηλιοπούλου Ιφιγένεια 
Published: November 2016

<p>Η παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζει μια έρευνα η οποία είχε ως στόχο να αναδείξει τη σκέψη 30 μαθητών Nηπιαγωγείου και 30 μαθητών Γ΄ τάξης Δημοτικού σχολείου, που φοιτούσαν σε δημόσια σχολεία του Βόλου για ένα περιβαλλοντικό ζήτημα, την ανακύκλωση. Ειδικότερα, διερευνήθηκε α) ο τρόπος με τον οποίο οι μαθητές ορίζουν την ανακύκλωση, β) οι αντιλήψεις τους τόσο για τη διαδικασία της ανακύκλωσης όσο και για τα είδη των υλικών που μπορούν να ανακυκλωθούν, γ) τι σκέφτονται για το όφελος της ανακύκλωσης καθώς και δ) ο βαθμός πρακτικής της ανακύκλωσης στο σχολείο και το σπίτι. Επίσης, η έρευνα επικεντρώθηκε στον εντοπισμό πιθανών διαφορών στη σκέψη των μαθητών των δύο ηλικιακών ομάδων αναφορικά με τα θέματα αυτά. Η ανάλυση περιεχομένου των δεδομένων, που έγινε με το σχέδιο και την ημιδομημένη συνέντευξη με τη βοήθεια φωτογραφιών και άλλου εποπτικού υλικού, έδειξε ότι οι περισσότεροι μαθητές χρησιμοποιούν ένα έως τρία κυρίως κριτήρια για να ορίσουν την ανακύκλωση. Ακόμη, έχουν μια ελλιπή αντίληψη αναφορικά με το όφελος, τα ανακυκλώσιμα υλικά και την ακριβή διαδικασία της ανακύκλωσης. Επιπλέον, η πρακτική ανακύκλωσης φάνηκε να είναι πολύ φτωχή στο σχολείο, και σχεδόν ανύπαρκτη στο σπίτι. Σαφώς, όπως αναμενόταν, διαπιστώθηκαν διαφορές ανάμεσα στις δύο ηλικιακές ομάδες λόγω της διαφορετικής τους γνωστικής ανάπτυξης και των τριών περισσότερων χρόνων σχολικής εκπαίδευσης, μεταξύ άλλων παραμέτρων. Τέλος, συζητιούνται οι προτάσεις για την διδακτική πρακτική που βασίζονται στα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας. </p>
Travelling for love: Long distance relationships in Australia
Authors: Wishart Alison 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article draws on four true stories of long distance relationships to discuss how the tangible evidence of long distance love has changed over the past 130 years. The medium for expressing love has passed from hand-written letters and carte de viste portraits to the digital era, which has had a profound effect on the nature and style of communication. The way these respective couples ‘beat the distance’ and the significance of the different modes of contact is examined. Today, romantic communications take on added significance if they are needed as proof of a committed relationship for partner visa applications. After World War II, travelling for love became an international phenomenon, when an estimated 15,000 Australian war brides crossed the seas to join the men they had met during the war. The ideal of romantic love and the feminist response to it is briefly examined. While the material culture of long distance love has evolved to be more immediate, it is not necessarily more intimate nor satisfying.
Writing melancholia: Light and dark in the sartorial aesthetics of antipodean literature
Authors: Richards Harriette 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Clothes have a significant presence in literature, in terms of both the construction and the reconstruction of a historical moment and its literary representations. Of particular interest in this article is the role of clothes and sartorial fashion in the aesthetics of such historical moments, and how the literary representation of dress contributes to the production of distinctive national aesthetics in the antipodes – New Zealand and Australia. In particular, this article considers the use of light and dark in the dress represented in two contrasting texts, in order to explore the ways in which fashion functions in the writing of melancholia. The aesthetics of melancholia are determined by both light and dark, not simply by darkness. It is the contrast between the two that produces the sense of unease and loss that engenders the melancholy aesthetic. In considering the use of light and dark in the sartorial aesthetics of two antipodean literary texts it is possible to reflect upon the particularities of sartorial aesthetic modes in order to open up questions concerning the role of literary fashion in the construction of national aesthetic identity.
Female corporeality in the Thirdspace music videos of FKA twigs
Authors: Derbas Alexia 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
As a technology of gender, the music video genre has consistently acted to represent women as sexually available. Patriarchal discourses have been inscribed onto the bodies of women, in an industry predominantly controlled by white, male record executives. Gendered representations are constructed by the music video technology, but are also absorbed by viewers. British singer, songwriter and dancer FKA twigs’ self-directed music videos challenge the sexualization of women. The artist offers viewers an intense bodily experience of femininity, devoid of Mulvey’s ‘male gaze’. This article argues the complex representation of the artist’s body using corporeal feminist theory and posthuman notions of the cyborg. FKA twigs’ representations of female sexuality and the cyborg are considered in three music videos. The article explores the texts as a Thirdspace, resisting and encompassing dichotomized discourses such as masculine–feminine, inside–outside, intellect–emotion, organic– artificial. The strong, permeable, cyborg body of FKA twigs occupies a Thirdspace of corporeal subjectivity resisting patriarchal discourses that suggest the female body exists to be looked at.
Reviews DVD/Blu-ray
Authors: Brewer Reed , Estes Leila , Scaparo Chic , Anundson Abigail , Blankenship Paige , Gentry Jackson R. , Merchant Travis Richard , Okamoto Brianna , Plantamura Lydia , Saller Chance , Wassil Rachel 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The Vanishing (Spoorloos, 1988) Netherlands/France Director George Sluizer Runtime 106 minutes
Blu-ray/DVD USA, 2014 Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region 1)
Behind the Mirror: Stephen Frears’s My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) United Kingdom Director Stephen Frears Runtime 98 minutes
Blu-ray United Kingdom, 2015 Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region A/1)
Blue Ruin (2013) USA Director Jeremy Saulnier Runtime 90 minutes
DVD USA, 2013 Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment (region 1)
Magnificent Obsession in 13 Frames
Magnificent Obsession (1954) USA Director Douglas Sirk Runtime 108 minutes
DVD USA, 2009 Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region 1)
The Darjeeling Limited in 16 Frames
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) USA Director Wes Anderson Runtime 91 minutes
DVD USA, 2010 Produced and Distributed by The Criterion Collection (region 1)
Projective art and the ‘staging’ of empathic projection
Authors: Wilder Ken 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Michael Fried’s unexpected contribution to defining the ontological status of video art includes an intriguing claim that projective art is particularly suited to the ‘staging’ of empathic projection. Fried applies Stanley Cavell’s notion of empathic projection, developed in relation to skepticism of ‘other minds’, to moving image installations that not only exploit the beholder’s capacity for empathically projecting, but do so in such a way as to reveal the mechanism at play. In developing this claim, I compare Fried’s key example of Douglas Gordon’s Play Dead; Real Time (2003) with Bill Viola and Kira Perov’s Martyrs (2014), a work that likewise elicits an emotional response but without a compensatory (and hence critical) foregrounding of the underlying structuring mechanism. However, the comparison suggests that the staging of empathic projection should not be interpreted as an anti-theatrical strategy (as Fried contends), but rather as an exemplary manifestation of what I am calling the configurational encounter – a revealing of the artwork’s conditions of existence. I reference Paul Sharits’s Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976), an important (and unacknowledged) precursor to Gordon’s staging of empathic projection. Finally, I consider Chris Welsby’s landscape films in the light of the capacity of technology to reveal psychological mechanisms of projection, tracing such processes of projection to early childhood experiences of differentiating the human from the non-human.