bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Reguladores de la brotación, alternativos a la cianamida hidrogenada, para suplir la falta de horas de frío en viñedos tropicales del litoral ecuatoriano
Authors: Herranz Raquel 
Published: July 2017

La cianamida hidrogenada (CH) es un eficaz estimulante de la brotación de las yemas habitualmente utilizado en viticultura tropical, pero manipular esta materia activa conlleva un alto riesgo por su elevada toxicidad. Según algunos estudios tratamientos alternativos podrían llegar a producir sobre las yemas efectos similar a la CH, compensado la falta de horas de frío en viñedos situados en zonas tropicales, como los ubicados en la costa sur ecuatoriana. De entre todos los tratamientos evaluados destacan los efectos producidos por la aplicación directa sobre las yemas de peróxido de hidrógeno al 5%. Este tratamiento consigue estimular la brotación de la práctica totalidad de las yemas, adelantando e incrementando el desarrollo vegetativo y duplicando el rendimiento de las cepas, sin mermar la calidad de los racimos producidos. Por tanto podemos afirmar que los tratamientos con peróxido de hidrógeno son una alternativa viable, más económica y sostenible, a las aplicaciones de CH en estas condiciones de cultivo AbstractHydrogen cyanamide (CH) is an effective stimulant bud breaking usually used in tropical viticulture, but handling this active substance carries a high risk because of their high toxicity. According to some studies alternative treatments could potentially produce a similar effect on the buds to CH, offset the lack of chilling hours in vineyards located in areas without a sufficient period of chilling hours, such as those located on the southern coast of Ecuador. Among all treatments evaluated the effects include direct application to the buds of hydrogen peroxide 5%. This treatment gets stimulate bud breaking of almost all of the buds, advancing and increasing vegetative growth and doubling the performance of the strains, without compromising the quality of the grapes produced. Therefore we can say that the hydrogen peroxide treatments are a viable, economical and sustainable, alternative to CH applications in these culture conditions.
The Microstructure and Properties of Sr-Modified Al-3Si-0.45Mg-0.45Cu-0.2Sc-0.2Zr Cast Alloy
Authors: Sheng Z. , Du X. , Li Y. , Zhang Y. , Zhang Z. , Wu Y. , Su H. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In the present work, six specimens of hypo-eutectic Al-3Si-0.45Mg-0.45Cu-0.2Sc-0.2Zr cast alloys were made by a traditional casting process. The changes in microstructure and mechanical properties of the alloys at different Sr concentrations were studied using metallographic observation, tensile strength testing, and SEM analysis. The results show that, when the Sr content increased, the grain morphology underwent significant changes, from dendrites to isometric grains, and the Si phase in the eutectic region was greatly transformed and its grain sizes became smaller. However, over-modification, in excessive Sr content samples affected the mechanical performance overall. The best morphology with regards grain size and the silicon phase appeared in 0.06 % and 0.08 % Sr concentration specimens. The mechanical properties of the alloy were maximised and then decreased with increasing Sr concentration. The tensile test results indicated that the alloy with the best mechanical properties was that at 0.08 % Sr addition as evinced by its optimal morphological parameters.
OGLE-2016-BLG-1469L: Microlensing Binary Composed of Brown Dwarfs
Authors: Han C. , Udalski A. , Sumi T. , Gould A. , Albrow M. D. , Chung S.-J. , Jung Y. K. , Ryu Y.-H. , Shin I.-G. , Yee J. C. , Zhu W. , Cha S.-M. , Kim S.-L. , Kim D.-J. , Lee C.-U. , Lee Y. , Park B.-G. ,   (The KMTNet Collaboration), Soszyński I. , Mróz P. , Pietrukowicz P. , Szymański M. K. , Skowron J. , Poleski R. , Kozłowski S. , Ulaczyk K. , Pawlak M. ,   (The OGLE Collaboration), Abe F. , Asakura Y. , Bennett D. P. , Bond I. A. , Bhattacharya A. , Donachie M. , Freeman M. , Fukui A. , Hirao Y. , Itow Y. , Koshimoto N. , Li M. C. A. , Ling C. H. , Masuda K. , Matsubara Y. , Muraki Y. , Nagakane M. , Ohnishi K. , Oyokawa H. , Rattenbury N. J. , Saito To. , Sharan A. , Sullivan D. J. , Suzuki D. , Tristram P. J. , Yamada T. , Yamada T. , Yonehara A. , Barry R. ,   (The MOA Collaboration)
Published: July 2017

Abstract
We report the discovery of a binary composed of two brown dwarfs, based on the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1469. Thanks to the detection of both finite-source and microlens-parallax effects, we are able to measure both the masses

and

, and the distance

, as well as the projected separation

au. This is the third brown-dwarf binary detected using the microlensing method, demonstrating the usefulness of microlensing in detecting field brown-dwarf binaries with separations of less than 1 au.
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Hanle and Zeeman Synthetic Polarization in a Chromospheric Spectral Line
Authors: Carlin E. S. , Bianda M. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Due to the quick evolution of the solar chromosphere, its magnetic field cannot be inferred reliably without accounting for the temporal variations of its polarized light. This has been broadly overlooked in the modeling and interpretation of the polarization, due to technical problems (e.g., lack of temporal resolution or of time-dependent MHD solar models) and/or because many polarization measurements can apparently be explained without dynamics. Here, we show that the temporal evolution is critical for explaining the spectral-line scattering polarization because of its sensitivity to rapidly varying physical quantities and the possibility of signal cancellations and attenuation during extended time integration. For studying the combined effect of time-varying magnetic fields and kinematics, we solved the 1.5D non-LTE problem of the second kind in time-dependent 3D R-MHD solar models and synthesized the Hanle and Zeeman polarization in forward scattering for the chromospheric λ4227 line. We find that the quiet-Sun polarization amplitudes depend on the periodicity and spectral coherence of the signal enhancements produced by kinematics, but that substantially larger linear polarization signals should exist all over the solar disk for short integration times. The spectral morphology of the polarization is discussed as a combination of Hanle, Zeeman, partial redistribution and dynamic effects. We give physical references for observations by degrading and characterizing our slit time series in different spatiotemporal resolutions. The implications of our results for the interpretation of the second solar spectrum and for the investigation of the solar atmospheric heatings are discussed.
A Grid of Synthetic Spectra for Hot DA White Dwarfs and Its Application in Stellar Population Synthesis
Authors: Levenhagen Ronaldo S. , Diaz Marcos P. , Coelho Paula R. T. , Hubeny Ivan 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In this work we present a grid of LTE and non-LTE synthetic spectra of hot DA white dwarfs (WDs). In addition to its usefulness for the determination of fundamental stellar parameters of isolated WDs and in binaries, this grid will be of interest for the construction of theoretical libraries for stellar studies from integrated light. The spectral grid covers both a wide temperature and gravity range, with 17,000 K ≤ T
eff ≤ 100,000 K and 7.0 ≤

≤ 9.5. The stellar models are built for pure hydrogen and the spectra cover a wavelength range from 900 Å to 2.5 μm. Additionally, we derive synthetic HST/ACS, HST/WFC3, Bessel UBVRI, and SDSS magnitudes. The grid was also used to model integrated spectral energy distributions of simple stellar populations and our modeling suggests that DAs might be detectable in ultraviolet bands for populations older than ∼8 Gyr.
La gestion des frontières dans le projet d’élargissement oriental de l’Union européenne
Authors: Lepesant Gilles 
Published: July 2017

This article tries to answer the following question : how can “legitimate” oriental borders be drawn, while respecting and recognising the degrees of differences compatible with belonging to the new European Union community ? The study of Max Weber’s criteria fails to bring an answer, insofar as this question refers above all to the realm of political decision.Dealing with the relations with neighbours in this limit zone is another aspect. Given the complex imbrications of minorities and old linguistic, religious and identity issues, the geo-economic constraint becomes more important and could lead to a hard and fist division between the different countries according to the rhythm and the sense of their reforms.In the complex case of Poland, with its continuously changing borders, the borderland logic is read as a systemic logic taking the dynamics of the European Union as its source.
Is simultaneous surgery for nodes and primary in carcinoma penis safe?
Authors: Chandrasekhar Senthil , Narayanswamy Kathiresan 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Introduction: Historically, the combination of primary and nodal surgeries for carcinoma penis is thought to increase the morbidity and hospital stay. Despite the modifications in surgery including modified inguinal lymphadenectomies, morbidity of the procedure is high.
Methods: A prospective, nonrandomized study to analyze a total of 56 consecutive patients from 2006 to 2009, who were evaluated and underwent surgery for primary and nodes for carcinoma penis at our center, was done. The median follow-up was 34 months (range from 12 to 48 months). The procedures included both prophylactic and therapeutic groin dissections. Various parameters were tested using SPSS version 17 statistics software.
Results: Duration of drains, hospital stay, wound morbidity, and long-term complications were found to be similar in the simultaneous and staged surgery groups. The mean duration of drains for the simultaneous group of 18 patients was 12.56 days and the corresponding duration of drains for the staged surgery group of 36 patients was 12.83 days. The minor morbidity and major morbidity for the simultaneous group were 27.8% and 38.9% and the corresponding figures for the staged group were 22.2% and 44.4%, respectively. The mean and median hospital stay for the simultaneous surgery group were 21.5 and 27.5 days, respectively. The mean and median hospital stay for the staged surgery group were 17.5 and 21.36 days, respectively. The study revealed no statistically significant difference between the two groups with regard to all the above parameters.
Conclusions: Simultaneous surgery for the primary and nodes in carcinoma penis is very much feasible. Simultaneous and early-staged lymphadenectomy have no difference in results with respect to drain duration, hospital stay, wound morbidity, and long-term complications. Simultaneous lymphadenectomy can be combined with penectomy both in the prophylactic and therapeutic settings.
Clinicoepidemiological profile of hematological malignancies in pediatric age group in Ahmedabad
Authors: Prajapati Zankhana , Kokani Mayur , Gonsai R. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Background: This hematological malignancy comprises a major health problem in the society due to its high mortality and morbidity. There is a need for the accurate estimation of incidence and prevalence of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), and other hematological malignancies in India to estimate the true disease burden and its impact on the population which may help in formulating the guideline which helps in better risk stratification and treatment. Unfortunately, there is a real paucity if epidemiologic data on pediatric cancers in India and particularly in several parts of Gujarat.
Objectives: To find out the prevalence and other epidemiological distribution of hematological malignancy in pediatric age group patients. Furthermore, it was objected to study hematological profile and bone marrow typing in pediatric patients with hematological malignancies.
Methodology: A prospective observational study carried out over 2½ years. Confirm cases of hematological malignancies were recruited from the pediatric outpatient and inpatient department. Data recorded in the preformed case record form include demographic data, data of clinical history and clinical examination, laboratory findings such as complete blood count, peripheral smear examinations, bone marrow examination for cellularity and differential count, and immunophenotyping. Fine needle aspiration cytology or biopsy of lymph node was done in suspected lymphoma patients.
Observations: ALL is the most common hematological malignancy among pediatric patients in the present study with 122 out of 158 patients (77.21%). Other malignancies are acute myeloid leukemia (AML) (13.29%) and chronic myeloid leukemia (2.59%) and lymphoma (5.69%). Nearly half of the patients were below 5 years of age (51.26%) and males were predominantly affected with frequency of 77.6%. Common clinical features were fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, bone pain, petechies, hepatic and splenomegaly, pallor, and lymphadenopathy. In ALL, most common blast type in bone marrow was L1 type (86.44%), whereas in AML, it is M2 type (80%).
Conclusion: The most common type of malignancies in pediatric age group is hematological malignancies with predominant variant is ALL. It is commonly affecting age below 5 years with male predominance.
Molecular epidemiological study of microtubule-associated protein-like 4-anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusion gene using immunohistochemistry as a cost effective alternative to fluorescence in situ hybridization for Indian patients with adenocarcinoma lung
Authors: Mehta Anurag , Batra Ullas 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Background: With fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) as the main-stay for the detection of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements, the ALK Break Apart FISH Probe Kit has become a Food and Drug Association-approved companion diagnostic for targeted therapy with the ALK inhibitor crizotinib in lung cancers. The objective of this molecular epidemiological study was to estimate the prevalence of microtubule-associated protein-like 4-ALK (EML4-ALK) fusion gene using immunohistochemistry (IHC) as a cost effective alternative to FISH for Indian patients with nonsmall-cell cancer (NSCC)-adenocarcinoma, favor adenocarcinoma lung and NSCC- Not otherwise specified (NOS).
Materials and Methods: Patients with NSCC-adenocarcinoma, favor adenocarcinoma lung, and nonsmall cell lung cancer-NOS histology were considered for this study. Permission was obtained from the Ethics Committee before the start of the study. Clinical characteristics and treatment details were collected from the patient's medical records. IHC analysis was performed using a Ventana automated immunostainer (Benchmark XT). Detection was performed using OptiView DAB Detection and Amplification Kit.
Results: A total of 200 NSCC-adenocarcinoma, favour adenocarcinoma and NSCC-NOS patients were included in the study. There were 122 (61%) men and 78 (39%) women with a median age of 57 years. Of the 200 patients, 43 (21.5%) were nonsmokers and 175 (87.5%) had Stage-IV disease at the time of initial diagnosis. 48 (24%) cases were positive for epidermal growth factor receptor mutations, whereas EML4-ALK fusion gene was present in 27 (13.5%) patients. 25 of the 27 patients with ALK positivity received crizotinib therapy.
Conclusions: The incidence of EML4-ALK gene fusions (13.5%) in this Indian population is four-fold high than the previous reported incidences and supports the claim of several recent studies that a relatively new ALK clone, 5A4, and D5F3 from Leica/Novocastra and cell signaling technology/Ventana, respectively can accurately identify ALK rearranged lung adenocarcinoma. The inclusion of IHC for the detection of EML4-ALK gene fusions as a low cost alternative seems justified in low resource setting.
Omental gastrointestinal stromal tumor: Arriving at a diagnosis with therapeutic options in the molecular era
Authors: Greenwood Michael P. , Hairston F. Jariel , Schwartz Mary R. , Pepper Kristi , Hendrickson Heather , Suri Anuj , Coffey Donna , Deavers Michael , Olsen Randall J. , Thomas Jessica S. 
Published: July 2017

Omental extragastrointestinal stromal tumors are rare neoplasms. We present a case of an elderly woman who was found to have a large solid and cystic pelvic mass of presumed ovarian origin with associated omental neovascularity. Histopathologic examination showed a mixed spindled and epithelioid tumor which was essentially negative for c-KIT and positive for smooth muscle markers by immunohistochemistry. A next generation sequencing panel was performed, analyzing the patient’s tumor for actionable mutations in 50 genes commonly associated with human cancers. Identification of a point mutation in PDGFRA enabled accurate diagnosis and provided an option for targeted therapy for this rare tumor.
Public health nursing interventions to promote quality of life in older adult populations:	A systematic review
Authors: Schaffer Marjorie A. , Kalfoss Mary , Glavin Kari 
Published: July 2017

This review analyzes how nurse-led public health interventions promote quality of life (QoL) among older populations. Using Medline and Cinahl databases, authors completed a systematic review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies published between January 2010 and March 2016 that described interventions used by public health nurses to address health needs of older adult populations. Lawton’s theoretical QoL concepts and the Public Health Intervention Wheel model, which names interventions at the individual, community and systems levels, were used to interpret results. The 23 studies were widely distributed geographically. Four of Lawton’s theoretical QoL domains (Health, Functional Health, Personal Competency, Psychological Well-Being) were addressed in the majority of studies. Although public health nurses used Wheel interventions at all levels of practice, individual level interventions were featured in studies to a greater extent in comparison to community and systems level interventions. Few studies used QoL measures to determine intervention effectiveness. Nurses should consider QoL domains, as they design individual, community, and systems level interventions to improve the health of older adult populations.
Calculation of the Maximum Number of Cutting Finite Fields in the Multi-dimensions
Authors: Huang Erick C. , Huang Sharon S. , Tsai Cheng-Hua 
Published: July 2017

The original problem that serves as a basis for this project comes from an American contest (PUMaC, 2014) regarding the maximum amount of enclosed spaces given a limited number of cuts on an infinite plane. In this study, we explore the same problem and extend it in the context of m dimensions given n (m-1) dimensional cuts using the recursive relationship of finite cuts and enclosed spaces in lower dimensions. Once the general formula of f(m,n) was proven for dimensions, an Euler’s inspired formula was used to check the accuracy of the formula in two and three dimensions. The Euler’s formula also allowed us to derive the formula for the maximum number of unenclosed spaces in three-dimensional F(3, n). The results are as follows:
The Role of Leadership in the Creation and Planning of Pacification Police Units (UPPs) in Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Moraes Joysi , Mariano Sandra R.H. , Franco Andréa Marinho de Souza 
Published: July 2017

The Pacification Police Units (UPPs), created to recover territories (favelas) dominated by drug traffickers in the city of Rio de Janeiro, came about as a result of the courage and leadership of the head of Public Security Bureau in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The UPPs were created at the initiative of a public administrator and, initially, without the support of the State, and have since become one of the most respected and widely recognized organizations in Brazilian society. Due to the success at dismantling the gangs that controlled the favelas and constituted a parallel state within them, UPPs have become the center of a public policy that has allowed their deployment in other underserved communities. In turn, this has enabled the installation of other public services and facilities such as schools and health centers in the favelas, as well as creating the conditions for the local population to freely come and go. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the role of leadership in the creation and planning of the UPPs distributed among the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. In preparing this article, emphasis has been given to the use of oral history, a methodology that focuses on the history of the present through the narrative of the subjects who participated in the events. The Situational Strategic Planning and the Freirean perspective were used for analysis. The story of the UPPs was found to revolve around the existence or not of leaders inside and outside the favelas. Even with 37 UPPs already installed in the city of Rio de Janeiro, each one being the result of a different experience with the communities, the role of the leaders in the favelas is still emphasized.
Lean Built-Up Panel Assembly in a Newbuilding Shipyard
Authors: Kolich Damir , Storch Richard L. , Fafandjel Niksa 
Published: July 2017

The main shipbuilding assembly processes greatly influence the flow of interim products in a newbuilding shipyard. The panel assembly line is a major process located upstream of all the other shipyard assembly processes. In a previous paper, the application of lean principles enabled a balanced and smaller takt time along the workstations and yielded significant savings in man-hours. Although a panel consists of butt-welded steel plates with multiple fillet-welded longitudinal stiffeners, a built-up panel is this same panel fitted with longitudinal and transverse steel elements. Since there are many internal structural elements, the man-hours along a traditional built-up panel assembly line are multiple times greater than that of panel assembly. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and map built-up panel assembly in an actual newbuilding shipyard. Using value stream mapping along with kaizen principles of continual improvement to determine the transformative steps to make the traditional built-up panel assembly line leaner. This enables significant man-hour reductions of about 60%, which yields remarkable cost savings to the shipyard.

1. Introduction
The built-up panel assembly line process is located downstream to the panel assembly process, and in most shipyards, half of all steel panels become built-up panels. It is very labor intensive since there are many steel elements that need to be joined in both longitudinal and transverse directions and there are both fillet and vertical welding jobs to be done. The joining of built-up panels to panels yields large three-dimensional blocks. Although in past papers (Kolich et al. 2017, 2015a) a lean value stream mapping methodology to transform panel assembly was developed, it makes sense to develop a methodology for the more complex and man-hour intensive built-up panel assembly process as well. The transformed built-up panel assembly process will further reduce bottlenecks in the shipyard and improve flow bringing down man-hours, which translates to critical savings for the shipyard.