bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
TRPA1 activation in a human sensory neuronal model: relevance to cough hypersensitivity?
Authors: Clarke Rebecca , Monaghan Kevin , About Imad , Griffin Caoimhin S. , Sergeant Gerard P. , El Karim Ikhlas , McGeown J. Graham , Cosby S. Louise , Curtis Timothy M. , McGarvey Lorcan P. , Lundy Fionnuala T. 
Published: September 2017

The cough reflex becomes hyperresponsive in acute and chronic respiratory diseases, but understanding the underlying mechanism is hampered by difficulty accessing human tissue containing both nerve endings and neuronal cell bodies. We refined an adult stem cell sensory neuronal model to overcome the limited availability of human neurones and applied the model to study transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) channel expression and activation.Human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) were differentiated towards a neuronal phenotype, termed peripheral neuronal equivalents (PNEs). Using molecular and immunohistochemical techniques, together with Ca2+microfluorimetry and whole cell patch clamping, we investigated roles for nerve growth factor (NGF) and the viral mimic poly I:C in TRPA1 activation.PNEs exhibited morphological, molecular and functional characteristics of sensory neurons and expressed functional TRPA1 channels. PNE treatment with NGF for 20 min generated significantly larger inward and outward currents compared to untreated PNEs in response to the TRPA1 agonist cinnamaldehyde (p<0.05). PNE treatment with poly I:C caused similar transient heightened responses to TRPA1 activation compared to untreated cells.Using the PNE neuronal model we observed both NGF and poly I:C mediated sensory neuronal hyperresponsiveness, representing potential neuro-inflammatory mechanisms associated with heightened nociceptive responses recognised in cough hypersensitivity syndrome.
Adult disinhibited social engagement in adoptees exposed to extreme institutional deprivation: examination of its clinical status and functional impact
Authors: Kennedy Mark , Kreppner Jana , Knights Nicky , Kumsta Robert , Maughan Barbara , Golm Dennis , Hill Jonathan , Rutter Michael , Schlotz Wolff , Sonuga-Barke Edmund 
Published: September 2017

BackgroundEarly-life institutional deprivation produces disinhibited social engagement (DSE). Portrayed as a childhood condition, little is known about the persistence of DSE-type behaviours into, presentation during, and their impact on, functioning in adulthood.AimsWe examine these issues in the young adult follow-up of the English and Romanian Adoptees study.MethodA total of 122 of the original 165 Romanian adoptees who had spent up to 43 months as children in Ceauşescu's Romanian orphanages and 42 UK adoptees were assessed for DSE behaviours, neurodevelopmental and mental health problems, and impairment between ages 2 and 25 years.ResultsYoung adult DSE behaviour was strongly associated with early childhood deprivation, with a sixfold increase for those who spent more than 6 months in institutions. However, although DSE overlapped with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms it was not, in itself, related to broader patterns of mental health problems or impairments in daily functioning in young adulthood.ConclusionsDSE behaviour remained a prominent, but largely clinically benign, young adult feature of some adoptees who experienced early deprivation.
The Comfort app prototype: introducing a web-based application for monitoring comfort in palliative care
Authors: Pinto Sara , Almeida Filipe , Caldeira Sílvia , Martins José Carlos 
Published: September 2017

Aim: To introduce a web-based application for monitoring comfort in patients receiving palliative care. Methods: Multi-phase electronic application development process that concluded with a pilot design to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the developed app (n=7 patients). Results: The app is compatible with Android, iOS and Windows. The results from phases I and II provided the knowledge about monitoring comfort. In phase III, five experts analysed the content of the app. The assessment of comfort comprises 11 self-reported items (pain, tiredness, drowsiness, nausea, lack of appetite, shortness of breath, depression, anxiety, fear of the future, peace and the will to live). In phase IV, a total of 117 messages were retrieved. Participants considered the app simple, easy to use and useful. Conclusions: This prototype is feasible and user-friendly. Further research is needed to continue the app development, particularly in terms of data protection.
Image-making – image management: White House photos and the political iconography of the Obama presidency
Authors: Bernhardt Petra 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This article explores the role of Official White House Photos for political image-making and image management during the Obama presidency. Official White House photographers have privileged access to the president in domestic and public situations. They provide high-quality handout photos reflecting the intentions of the Obama administration and are responsible for some of the best-known photos of the President with strategic and historical value. Distributed via the social networking services of the White House, these photos can bypass mainstream journalistic outlets and limit what the public gets to see of certain situations or events. Taking the ‘Years in Photos’ galleries on the official White House Flickr account as a case study, the article qualitatively examines visual choices by the Obama presidency. The dataset consists of 639 photos posted between 2009 and 2015. The author draws on the method of political iconography to reconstruct core motifs of political self-representation. The analysis gives insight into visual strategies central to the President’s image management by focusing on visual portrayals in different roles, settings and relation to others.
The politics of the heart: The history, evolution and success of a post-ideological political symbol
Authors: Novelli Edoardo 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
After a brief historical overview on the diffusion of the heart symbol and its meanings over the centuries in different cultures and civilizations, this article focuses on the last century, emphasizing that, in the early twentieth century in Western culture, the symbol of the heart retained a religious connotation and was totally alien to the iconographic lexicon of politics. The review of the political posters produced in the main Western and European countries reveals very few exceptions. The extensive iconographic output of the three main twentieth-century ideologies – fascism, nazism and communism – did not use the heart symbol, although they extensively employed visual communication and symbolic language. Its powerful religious meaning and appeal to sentiments like love and mutual support were irreconciliable with those of the three ideologies. The heart’s absence from the political–symbolic repertoire continued even in the post-World War II era. The article points out that this symbol began to make its way into political iconography in the last twenty years of the previous century after the creation of the symbol ‘I ♥ N.Y’ in 1977. The great popularity of Milton Glaser’s invention started a new life for the heart symbol. It acquired new values and meanings and became a symbol of pleasure, friendliness and empathy, in tune with the language and culture of advertising and consumer goods. From this point on, this symbol entered the visual vocabulary of a politics that was facing phenomena such as secularization and de-ideologization. Focusing then on recent Italian history, the article shows that the heart is widely present in the political posters of the so-called Second Republic, which officially started in 1994. The key Italian players of the new political season began to deploy the heart symbol in their visual vocabulary, not with traditional meanings but with new ones, trascending historical political groupings and the traditional left/right ideological axis. Through an extensive visual documentation of some of the most striking cases, the article shows how the use of the symbol of the heart in Italian political iconography continued in the years that followed, always characterized by little or no political meaning. In its final part, the article claims that the emotional trend in the candidates’ and parties’ communication, which found its highest expression in the use of the heart symbol, free of any political or manifesto-related content, is not confined to Italy. The analysis of posters produced in different countries documents how the political use of the heart symbol is now international, from north to south, from east to west, and common to different political alignments, from left to right. In conclusion, the article links the prevalence and great success of a post-ideological and emotive symbol such as the heart with some of the ongoing processes in modern mediatized public life and political communication.
Sovereign Tropes: A Rhetorical Critique of Contested Claims in the South China Sea
Authors: Hartnett Stephen J. , Reckard Bryan R. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The South China Sea is the world’s busiest and most important waterway, serving as the crossroads of global capitalism and the connective tissue of Southeast Asia. With shipping routes, underwater resources, and hundreds of small islands claimed by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and others, the area stands among the world’s most contested regions. Since 1945, the United States Navy has dominated the area, but that hegemony is now in question as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) becomes more assertive as a rising power. In efforts to justify their clashing claims over the region, the United States and the PRC have launched campaigns against each other, producing a rhetorical crisis that may foreshadow war. To try to make sense of the rhetoric driving this crisis, the first part of this essay unpacks some of the colorful history of the South China Sea—its legacy of rogues, pirates, opium wars, and so on—to argue that it has always been less of a governed and ordered place and more of a transitory and heterodox space crisscrossed by overlapping intentions, designs, and dreams. From this perspective, any nation’s claims to sovereignty are fictions that aspire to be constitutive, albeit by erasing the constitutive claims of others. The second section of the essay then addresses the PRC’s use of “traumatized nationalism” to advocate for its rights in the South China Sea, while the third section tackles the United States’ use of “belligerent humanitarianism” to justify its actions. The essay concludes with an appeal for a postnational version of shared governance, called for in the name of defending the global commons from the militarized encroachments of nation-states.
Salinity Has no Effect on Polysomatic Pattern in Seedlings of Trifolium pratense and T. repens
Authors: Kocová Valéria , Bubanová Dominika , Rákai Albert , Kolarčik Vladislav , Mártonfi Pavol 
Published: September 2017

AbstractEndopolyploidy is a condition of a cell containing reduplicated genetic material in its nucleus. Cells with the nuclei of different ploidy levels are often present within a single polysomatic organism. Endoreduplication is thus a modified cell cycle that omits cytokinesis and leads to chromatin replication in the endopolyploid cells. This study aimed to research the effect of salinity on endopolyploidy ofTrifolium pratenseandT. repens. Both species are important pasture legumes and belong to the genusFabaceaewith the well documented endopolyploidy occurence. Endopolyploidy levels in the seedlings treated with 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 mM NaCl were investigated by flow cytometry. The seedling organs were evaluated during three ontogeny stages. The cytometric data plotted on a histogram showed the presence of 2C-16C nuclei inT. pratenseand 2C-8C inT. repens. The hypothesis that salinity induces additional endocycles was not confirmed. Our results show that the distribution of nuclei among ploidy levels does not differ markedly between the treatment groups and the control ones. Additionally, only minor changes were observed among the endoreduplication indexes (EI) of plant organs after exposure to various salt concentrations. Endopolyploidy patterns within the salt-treated seedlings during ontogeny are similar to the controls. We suggest that endopolyploidy inTrifoliumspecies is a conserved genetic trait, rather than an adaptation to salinity stress. The analyses of the roots ofT. pratenseat stage III show that with the increased concentrations of NaCl the length of roots decreased, but no evident changes in endopolyploidy occured.
Life assessment of marine ethylene propylene rubber power cables based on hardness retention rate
Authors: Meng Xiaokai , Wang Zhiqiang , Li Guofeng 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe lifetime of ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) insulated cables will decrease because of complex aging processes. From the safety perspective, insulation condition assessment of the cable is essential to maintain an efficient and reliable operation. As a nondestructive and online evaluation method, a hardness retention rate was used to estimate the lifetime of cable. First, accelerated thermal aging tests in the laboratory were performed to measure the elongation at break retention rate (EAB%) and a hardness retention rate at different temperatures. Second, the aging values were processed by the Arrhenius equation and time temperature superposition to assess aging lifetime of insulation at different temperatures and end levels. As the insulation condition assessment of the cable by hardness retention test has no approved standard, the EAB% data were correlated with hardness retention to provide an evaluation basis. The results show that when EAB% picks out the time corresponding to a certain amount of 50% degradation, 10% of hardness retention was chosen as the termination index.
Multi-layer observer as new structure for state estimation in linear systems
Authors: Bernat Jakub , Kołota Jakub , Superczyńska Paulina , Stępień Sławomir 
Published: September 2017

AbstractA new structure to design observers for linear systems is presented in this work. The key step is the construction of two layers where the first consists of multiple observers and the second connects them providing the weighted estimation state. The main difficulty is to find a new feedback which is responsible for control weights. To define observation law, we rely on multi observers from the first layer. The proposed structure significantly improves the transient characteristics of the observation process, which is shown in illustrative examples.
Looped-chain-based active current sharing strategy in DC microgrids
Authors: Li Dexiong , Liu Yiqi , Gu Yong , Qi Huijuan 
Published: September 2017

AbstractThe integration of renewable energy sources in modern electric grids have drawn increasing attention nowadays. In order to effectively manage large-scale renewable energy sources and achieve flexible and efficient operation, the concept of microgrids have been proposed. Considering the nature of DC outputs in many distributed energy resources (DERs), DC microgrids have been extensively studied in the past years. Among the operational issues in DC microgrids, current sharing issues have become an important topic since it is highly relevant to the operation of DC microgrids. By adopting a proper design of current sharing strategy in DC microgrids, the current rating violations in each interface converter can be successfully avoided. In this paper, a looped-chain-based active current sharing strategy is proposed to realize high accuracy current sharing in DC microgrids. In particular, the output current is shared between the neighboring interface converters. Hence, following a clockwise or counter-clockwise order, a looped-chain-based control diagram can be established to share the reference value of the output current. A final status in the whole DC microgrid is that the output current of every interface converter is equalized. Hence, the desired current sharing objective can be satisfied. A MATLAB simulation model is established to verify the proposed looped-chain-based active current sharing strategy in DC microgrids.
A Classiffier for Unimodular Isolated Complete Intersection Space Curve Singularities
Authors: Afzal Deeba , Pfister Gerhard 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
C.T.C. Wall classified the unimodular complete intersection singularities. He indicated in the list only the μ-constant strata and not the complete classification in each case. In this article we give a complete list of space curve unimodular singularities and also the description of a classifier. Instead of computing the normal forms, the singularity is identified by certain invariants.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions for certain functional equations and system of functional equations arising in dynamic programming
Authors: Deepmala  , Agarwal Ravi P. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This paper deals with the existence, uniqueness and iterative approximations of solutions for the functional equations and system of functional equations arising in dynamic programming of multistage decision making processes in Banach spaces and complete metric space, respectively. The results presented in this paper unify and generalize many known results in the literature. Some examples which dwell upon the importance of our results are also illustrated.
Construction of composition (m, n, k)-hyperrings
Authors: Davvaz B. , Rakhsh-Khorshid N. , Shum K. P. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In this paper, our aim is to introduce the notion of a composition (m, n, k)-hyperring and to analyze its properties. We also consider the algebraic structure of (m, n, k) hyperrings which is a generalization of composition rings and composition hyperrings. Also, the isomorphism theorems of ring theory are derived in the context of composition (m, n, k)-hyperrings.
Drift perturbation’s influence on traveling wave speed in KPP-Fisher system
Authors: Dkhil Fathi , Mannoubi Bechir 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This paper dressed the drift perturbation effects on the traveling wave speed in a reaction-diffusion system. We prove the existence of a traveling front solution of a KPP-Fisher equation and we show an asymptotic expansion of her speed. Finally, we discuss according all parameters of our system regions of the plane in which the traveling wave speed increases or decreases as a function of a small parameter ε.
Graded near-rings
Authors: Dumitru Mariana , Năstăsescu Laura , Toader Bogdan 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In this paper, we consider graded near-rings over a monoid G as generalizations of graded rings over groups, and study some of their basic properties. We give some examples of graded near-rings having various interesting properties, and we define and study the Gop-graded ring associated to a G-graded abelian near-ring, where G is a left cancellative monoid and Gop is its opposite monoid. We also compute the graded ring associated to the graded near-ring of polynomials (over a commutative ring R) whose constant term is zero.
On Modules over Local Rings
Authors: Erdoğan Fatma Özen , Çiftçi Süleyman , Akpιnar Atilla 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
This paper is dealed with a special local ring A and modules over A. Some properties of modules, that are constructed over the real plural algebra, are investigated. Moreover a module is constructed over the linear algebra of matrix Mmm(ℝ) and one of its basis is found.
Eigenvalues for Finsler p-Laplacian with zero Dirichlet boundary condition
Authors: Fărcăşeanu Maria 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In this paper we analyze the problem - Qpu(x) = λu(x) when x∈Ω with u(x) = 0 when x∈Ω , where Ω⊂ℝN is a bounded domain, Qp stands for Finsler p-Laplacian and \ {2} is a given real
number. Using adequate variational methods we show that the set of
eigenvalues of this problem is the interval (0, ∞).
Inversion of Weinstein intertwining operator and its dual using Weinstein wavelets
Authors: Gasmi Abdessalem , Ben Mohamed Hassen , Bettaibi Néji 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In this paper, we consider the Weinstein intertwining operator ℜa, d
W and its dual tR a,d
W. Using these operators, we give relations between the Weinstein and the classical continuous wavelet transforms. Finally, using the Weinstein continuous wavelet transform, we deduce the formulas which give the inverse operators of R a,d
W and tR a,d
W.
Evolution of solutions for dipolar bodies in Thermoelasticity without energy dissipation
Authors: Marin Marin , Abbas Ibrahim 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The aim of our paper is the study of the spatial evolution of vibrations in the context of Thermoelasticity without energy dissipation for dipolar bodies. Once we get an a priori estimate for the amplitude of the vibration, which are assumed being harmonic in time, it is possible to predict some spatial decay or growth properties for the amplitude, provided the frequency of vibration is greater than a certain critical value.
Some characteristic properties of analytic functions
Authors: Raina R. K. , Sharma Poonam , Sălăgean G. S. 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In this paper, we consider a class L(λ, μ; ϕ) of analytic functions f defined in the open unit disk U satisfying the subordination condition that

,
where is the Sălăgean operator and ϕ(z) is a convex function with positive real part in U. We obtain some characteristic properties giving the coefficient inequality, radius and subordination results, and an inclusion result for the above class when the function ϕ(z) is a bilinear mapping in the open unit disk. For these functions f (z) ; sharp bounds for the initial coefficient and for the Fekete-Szegö functional are determined, and also some integral representations are given.
Relation Between Groups with Basis Property and Groups with Exchange Property
Authors: Khalaf Al Khalaf , Alkadhi Mohammed 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
A group G is called a group with basis property if there exists a basis (minimal generating set) for every subgroup H of G and every two bases are equivalent. A group G is called a group with exchange property, if x∉〈X〉 ⋀ x∈〈X∪{y}〉, then y∈〈X∪{x}〉, for all x, y ∈ G and for every subset X⊆G. In this research, we proved the following: Every polycyclic group satisfies the basis property. Every element in a group with the exchange property has a prime order. Every p-group satisfies the exchange property if and only if it is an elementary abelian p-group. Finally, we found necessary and sufficient condition for every group to satisfy the exchange property, based on a group with the basis property.
Prime filters of hyperlattices
Authors: Ameri Reza , Amiri-Bideshki M. , Saeid Arsham Borumand , Hoskova-Mayerova Sarka 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is the study of prime ideals and prime filters in hyperlattices. I-filter and the filter generated by a ∈ L are introduced. Moreover, we introduce dual distributive hyperlattices, and I-filter in dual distributive hyperlattices. Some properties of hyperlat- tices are studied and the relationship between prime ideals and prime filters in hyperlattices is discussed.
On sortable intervals of monomials
Authors: Bonanzinga Vittoria , Eliahou Shalom 
Published: September 2017

Abstract
In 1996, in his study of Gröbner bases of toric ideals, Sturmfels introduced a sorting operator on pairs of monomials of degree d in n variables. This gave rise to the notion of sortable sets, namely sets B of monomials of degree d such that B×B is preserved by that operator. In this paper, we determine all lex-intervals or revlex-intervals of monomials which are sortable. The solution involves the notion of greatest common prefix.