bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
AGNfitter: A BAYESIAN MCMC APPROACH TO FITTING SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF AGNs
Authors: Calistro Rivera Gabriela , Lusso Elisabeta , Hennawi Joseph F. , Hogg David W. 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
We present AGNfitter, a publicly available open-source algorithm implementing a fully Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to fit the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the sub-millimeter to the UV, allowing one to robustly disentangle the physical processes responsible for their emission. AGNfitter makes use of a large library of theoretical, empirical, and semi-empirical models to characterize both the nuclear and host galaxy emission simultaneously. The model consists of four physical emission components: an accretion disk, a torus of AGN heated dust, stellar populations, and cold dust in star-forming regions. AGNfitter determines the posterior distributions of numerous parameters that govern the physics of AGNs with a fully Bayesian treatment of errors and parameter degeneracies, allowing one to infer integrated luminosities, dust attenuation parameters, stellar masses, and star-formation rates. We tested AGNfitter’s performance on real data by fitting the SEDs of a sample of 714 X-ray selected AGNs from the XMM-COSMOS survey, spectroscopically classified as Type1 (unobscured) and Type2 (obscured) AGNs by their optical–UV emission lines. We find that two independent model parameters, namely the reddening of the accretion disk and the column density of the dusty torus, are good proxies for AGN obscuration, allowing us to develop a strategy for classifying AGNs as Type1 or Type2, based solely on an SED-fitting analysis. Our classification scheme is in excellent agreement with the spectroscopic classification, giving a completeness fraction of

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THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE: THE POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE ACTPol INSTRUMENT
Authors: Thornton R. J. , Ade P. A. R. , Aiola S. , Angilè F. E. , Amiri M. , Beall J. A. , Becker D. T. , Cho H-M. , Choi S. K. , Corlies P. , Coughlin K. P. , Datta R. , Devlin M. J. , Dicker S. R. , Dünner R. , Fowler J. W. , Fox A. E. , Gallardo P. A. , Gao J. , Grace E. , Halpern M. , Hasselfield M. , Henderson S. W. , Hilton G. C. , Hincks A. D. , Ho S. P. , Hubmayr J. , Irwin K. D. , Klein J. , Koopman B. , Li Dale , Louis T. , Lungu M. , Maurin L. , McMahon J. , Munson C. D. , Naess S. , Nati F. , Newburgh L. , Nibarger J. , Niemack M. D. , Niraula P. , Nolta M. R. , Page L. A. , Pappas C. G. , Schillaci A. , Schmitt B. L. , Sehgal N. , Sievers J. L. , Simon S. M. , Staggs S. T. , Tucker C. , Uehara M. , Lanen J. van , Ward J. T. , Wollack E. J. 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) makes high angular resolution measurements of anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at millimeter wavelengths. We describe ACTPol, an upgraded receiver for ACT, which uses feedhorn-coupled, polarization-sensitive detector arrays, a 3° field of view, 100 mK cryogenics with continuous cooling, and meta material antireflection coatings. ACTPol comprises three arrays with separate cryogenic optics: two arrays at a central frequency of 148 GHz and one array operating simultaneously at both 97 GHz and 148 GHz. The combined instrument sensitivity, angular resolution, and sky coverage are optimized for measuring angular power spectra, clusters via the thermal Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) and kinetic SZ signals, and CMB lensing due to large-scale structure. The receiver was commissioned with its first 148 GHz array in 2013, observed with both 148 GHz arrays in 2014, and has recently completed its first full season of operations with the full suite of three arrays. This paper provides an overview of the design and initial performance of the receiver and related systems.
Real-World Effectiveness and Predictors of Sustained Virological Response with All-Oral Therapy in 21,242 Hepatitis C Genotype-1 Patients
Authors: Backus Lisa I , Belperio Pamela S , Shahoumian Troy A , Loomis Timothy P , Mole Larry A 
Published: December 2016

Background Predictors of sustained virological response (SVR) to all-oral HCV regimens can inform nuanced treatment decisions. We evaluated effectiveness and identified predictors of SVR for ledipasvir/sofosbuvir ± ribavirin (LDV/SOF ±RBV) and ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ ritonavir + dasabuvir (OPrD) ±RBV in patients treated in routine practice. Methods Observational, intent-to-treat cohort of 21,142 genotype-1 patients initiating 8 or 12 weeks of LDV/SOF ±RBV or 12 weeks of OPrD ±RBV at any Veterans Affairs facility. Multivariate logistic regression models were constructed to model SVR and identify predictors. Results SVR was 91.2% (9,781/10,720) for LDV/ SOF, 89.6% (3,266/3,646) for LDV/SOF+RBV, 91.7% (1,197/1,306) for OPrD and 87.8% (3,365/3,832) for OPrD+RBV. For LDV/SOF ±RBV, reduced odds of SVR occurred in African-Americans (0.80, 95% CI 0.70, 0.92, P<0.001), body mass index (BMI)<25 (0.77, 95% CI 0.66, 0.90, P <0.001), BMI≥30 (0.77, 95% CI 0.67, 0.89, P<0.001), proton pump inhibitors (PPIs; 0.81, 95% CI 0.71, 0.92, P<0. 001), decompensated liver disease (0.58, 95% CI 0.45, 0.74, P <0.001) and FIB4>3.25 (0.60, 95% CI 0.53, 0.69, P <0.001). For OPrD ±RBV, FIB-4>3.25 negatively predicted SVR (0.72, 95% CI 0.59, 0.88, P<0. 001). Detectable 4-week on-treatment HCV RNA≥15 IU/ml reduced SVR odds for both regimens (LDV/SOF ±RBV OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.41, 0.58, P<0.001; OPrD ±RBV OR 0.38, 95% CI 0.29, 0.50, P <0.001). Receipt of OPrD+RBV compared to LDV/SOF reduced odds of SVR (OR 0.70, 95% CI 0.62, 0.80, P <0.001). Mental health diagnosis did not impact likelihood of SVR. Conclusions The diversity and size of this cohort allowed for extensive examination of regimen-specific predictors of SVR. FIB-4>3.25 and detectable 4-week on-treatment HCV RNA had the greatest negative impact. African-American race, low or high BMI, and PPIs negatively impacted odds of SVR for LDV/SOF ±RBV Mental health diagnoses did not.
La place des femmes en littérature
Authors: Détrez Christine 
Published: December 2016

Comment comprendre que la littérature se conjugue (trop) souvent au masculin : entre naturalisation de leur incompétence, dévalorisation de leurs productions et fabrication d’une élite masculine, les femmes ont eu bien du mal à se faire reconnaître en littérature, et peinent encore à atteindre le même prestige que les hommes. Cet article analyse la place laissée aux femmes par l’institution littéraire.
L’économie à l’épreuve de la littérature
Authors: Pignol Claire 
Published: December 2016

Dans la littérature qui précède l’invention de la pensée économique comme dans celle qui l’accompagne et témoigne des changements du monde social, nous prenons conscience de la permanence des questions économiques – la subsistance, le travail, l’intérêt personnel et le rapport à autrui – en même temps que de la modernité politique qui caractérise à la fois l’agent économique et le personnage romanesque.
Le social et le politique : un bilan de l' Essai sur la Révolution d'Hannah Arendt
Authors: Roza Stéphanie 
Published: December 2016

L’article se donne pour objectif de faire le point, un demi-siècle après sa parution, sur lapostérité théorique de l’Essai sur la Révolution de Hannah Arendt. Il s’attache à chercher les raisons du caractère contradictoire de sa réception dans les tensions internes à l’oeuvre, le caractère problématique de son statut et l’aporie fondamentale qui la travaille. L’impossibilité de séparer radicalement la question sociale et la question politique est au fondement de l’incapacité d’Arendt à indiquer les moyens de faire revivre « le trésor perdu des révolutions » ; mais cet échec même met en lumière les véritables questions qui travaillent toute pensée révolutionnaire.
Comment améliorer la pertinence de la recherche en gestion?
Authors: Saint-Onge Sylvie , Alis David , Wolf Joachim , Rosenberg Timo 
Published: December 2016

L’écart entre la rigueur et la pertinence des recherches en gestion fait l’objet de nombreux débats. Initialement lancés en Amérique du Nord dans les années 80, ces débats apparaissent en France depuis une décennie. Afin de mieux relever les défis du transfert des connaissances, nous proposons d’abord aux chercheurs des moyens de favoriser davantage la pertinence à toutes les étapes de leurs recherches. Ensuite, nous traitons des changements contextuels nécessaires pour concilier davantage les critères de pertinence et de rigueur ainsi que le transfert des connaissances au sein des organisations et de la société. Enfin, nous montrons comment les nombreux changements économiques, concurrentiels, sociologiques et technologiques favorisent la recherche de pertinence et la synergie « recherche/enseignement/transfert ».
Le subjonctif comme marqueur procédural
Authors: Rihs Alain 
Published: December 2016

Résumé	L’hypothèse défendue dans cet article est que le subjonctif est porteur d’un sens instructionnel invariant, qui guide le destinataire dans son travail interprétatif. Je suggère ainsi que le subjonctif communique la non-pertinence du fait qu’il rapporte (voir également Jary 2004), en même temps qu’il indique que l’effet contextuel prégnant associé à l’énoncé complet est localisé du côté de la proposition principale (à l’indicatif). Plusieurs configurations sémantico-syntaxiques appelant le subjonctif ou l’indicatif sont examinées à l’appui de cette hypothèse. C’est en effet au travers d’une mise en regard systématique des emplois contrastés des deux modes que le marquage procédural singulier du subjonctif se dessine clairement.
Knowledge of HIV and benefits of male medical circumcision amongst clients in an urban area
Authors: Faleye Abidemi 
Published: December 2016

Background: Male medical circumcision (MMC) has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in circumcised men by up to 60%. Following recommendations from the World Health Organization, South Africa adopted MMC as a preventative strategy against HIV in 2010 and set up circumcision camps across the country. Concerns have been raised about condom avoidance following MMC because of a mistaken belief about the benefits of MMC.Aim and setting: The aim of this study was to describe the profile and knowledge about HIV and circumcision amongst men presenting for MMC in an urban area in KwaZulu-Natal.Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study of 394 clients over the age of 18 years who presented to two MMC sites in Durban between November 2012 and March 2013. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data.Results: The mean age of clients presenting for MMC was 28 years. Most clients were black, single, unemployed and sexually active. The majority presented for MMC because they believed that MMC would reduce their risk of acquiring HIV infection. Knowledge about HIV transmission was very good and 86.3% of clients were aware that risky sexual behaviour suchas condom avoidance could reverse the benefits of MMC.Conclusion: The knowledge of HIV and benefits of MMC was very good amongst those presenting for MMC. However as MMC is primarily a preventative strategy, innovative methods to promote MMC prior to first sexual encounter need to be explored. Further research is needed to determine whether the benefits of MMC on the reduction of HIV transmission aresustained in routine practice. [Full text article to follow]
Information needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kano State, Northern Nigeria
Authors: Stores F.S. , Gama U.G. , Tukur J 
Published: December 2016

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a disease that has social, economic, and political implications in Nigeria. It affects young people who are at their most productive age, thereby affecting the economic productivity of the nation. In order to achieve the objective of reducing the epidemic, the information vacuum about the disease that exists among PLWHA needs to be investigated and subsequently bridged. Survey research method was used to undertake this study and a self-administered questionnaire was used for collecting data. The study showed that the PLWHA share different type of information which include health information and social information using various methods such as journals, magazines, AIDS newsletters and the internet, Physicians, friends, various agencies and groups helped to facilitate information sharing among the respondents. Lack of computer literacy and internet access were among the factors that militated against information sharing among the respondents. The PLWHA in Kano State should be encouraged to make a maximum utilization of pamphlets, AIDS newsletters, and the internet because these items contain vital information including recent and up to date knowledge on HIV/AIDS, and modalities for its treatment and control.
Commercial fish price shock behaviour in Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria
Authors: Sunday Brownson Akpan , Edet Joshua Udoh , Inimfon Vincent Patrick 
Published: December 2016

Producer – consumer price behaviour in the long run depends on several factors. This study tested for the long run price adjustment behaviour between the producer price of captured fish and its urban or retailed price in the Southern region of Nigeria. Monthly price of low quality fresh fish; high quality fresh fish; low quality dry fish; high quality dry fish; imported fish; cocokle, periwinkle, dry Bonga fish; and dried cray fish were used in the study. The study covers the period from January 2004 to December 2014. The study used the Engle –Granger (1987) and Enders - Siklos (2001) methodologies to verify the symmetric and asymmetric price relationship between the source (fisherman price) and its corresponding urban price alone the food chain. The result confirmed significant short and long run market integration between the source and its corresponding urban price. However, the source price equilibrium in the long run followed asymmetric adjustment with respect to urban prices in cockle and periwinkle; whereas symmetric adjustments were obtained from prices of low quality fresh fish; high quality fresh fish; low quality dry fish; high quality dry fish; imported fish; dry Bonga fish; and dried cray fish. The symmetric price adjustment was not instantaneous, while the asymmetric price relationship showed persistent positive shock in the long run. It is suggested that, fish market/industry in the study area has problems that need intervention in order to remove price distortion in the long run. Issues such contract fishing, large intermediaries in the marketing chain, unnecessary market power and poor processing among others were mentioned. Hence, these issues need to be addressed adequately in order to achieve high efficiency in the local fishing industry in the region.Keywords: Market integration, asymmetric price transmission, symmetric transmission, fishery, Nigeria
Cita con... Ilustrafic 2015: Crónica
Authors: Teimoy Xiana 
Published: December 2016

<p>La crónica de ILUSTRAFIC 2015 lleva el barniz ineludible de las sensaciones y el poso dulce que nos dejó la primera edición. Contemplamos esta edición con un filtro rosa y azul, dos de los colores presentes en el cartel que Ben Newman, ilustrador británico y ponente del congreso, diseñó para el congreso de este año.</p>
Nietzschean Self-Overcoming
Authors: Mitchell Jonathan 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to provide a novel reading of Nietzsche's concept of self-overcoming and in doing so draw out some distinctive features of his thinking about ethics and ethical ideals. However this reading will be different from the work of those interpreters who read self-overcoming in terms of Nietzsche's will to power psychology. Rather it attempts to frame self-overcoming as a distinctive kind of re-evaluative, ethical activity. Section 1 explains what this reading of self-overcoming involves in terms of the idea of overcoming self-evaluative frameworks. Section 2 argues that Nietzsche's idea of achieving a standpoint “Beyond Good and Evil” serves as a central example of self-overcoming read in this way. Finally section 3 explores Nietzsche's remarks on continual self-overcoming and argues that this idea points towards what I will call the horizonal nature of “future moralities.”
Ethics as Social Philosophy: Nietzsche on Mutuality
Authors: Guay Robert 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
Nietzsche, I argue, did not have an ethical theory traditionally structured around impersonal (or self-interested) considerations with a strangely hierarchical content; his ethical thought, rather, is untraditionally structured around very conventional content—e.g., enmity, love, responsibility—considered relationally. Nietzsche, that is, takes the considerations that emerge out of the ways in which persons relate to each other as the primary subject matter of ethics. The main focus of reflection is accordingly what sorts of relationships we can have and how they might be sustained. Ethical reflection extends, furthermore, to the social world as a whole, as both interpersonal relationships writ large and the context in which more particular relationships are tenable.
Nietzsche's Orientation toward the Future
Authors: Stegmaier Werner 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
Nietzsche assumed that the time to understand him was yet to come, perhaps after one or two centuries. We cannot say whether this time has come yet because nobody can say that he or she understands Nietzsche as he wanted to be understood. But we can track what he wrote about his future and then draw our own conclusions. Although he often spoke about it, Nietzsche's future has rarely become a topic in Nietzsche research. It might however be especially important for younger generations. After a short review of Nietzsche's future in the twentieth century, which is already behind us, I thus unfold his semantics of the future and orientation toward the future. Then, I outline the future of thinking as announced by him in the fifth book of the Gay Science. Here, he speaks of the “music of life,” which philosophers and especially those philosophers committed to or fully lost in idealism are no longer able to hear. In a subsequent note, he expands the horizon of this music of life to a “music of the future” in “labyrinths of the future,” in which we have to learn to orient ourselves. The future of Nietzsche's thinking in the twenty-first century might be decided depending on Nietzsche's utmost enhancement of value orientation, with which he eventually breaks in his amor fati sign that no longer needs or wants a future.
“Why?” Gets No Answer: Paul Katsafanas's Agency and the Foundations of Ethics
Authors: Dannenberg Jorah 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
In this review, I consider Paul Katsafanas's attempt to provide a constitutivist defense of ethics, informed by his rich and original reconstruction of Nietzsche's theory of agency. In particular, I focus on the ambition to combat nihilism (conceived as a special brand of ethical skepticism), by offering a vindication of the authority of ethical values. I offer some reasons to question the viability of this strategy in general, as well as some considerations concerning the dispute between Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, which lead me to wonder about attributing such a strategy to Nietzsche in particular. Rather than reading Nietzsche as sharing the constitutivist's defining ambition, I suggest that contemporary ethical theory may have more to learn from Nietzsche's diagnosis of what the constitutivist is trying to do. Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism suggests that seeking irrefutable foundations for our values may itself be a symptom of, rather than the cure for, the kind of ethical skepticism that plagues us.
Normativity and the Will to Power: Challenges for a Nietzschean Constitutivism
Authors: Huddleston Andrew 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACT
In this article, I critically consider the Nietzschean version of constitutivism that Paul Katsafanas has recently developed. My focus, following Katsafanas's, is not on the exegetical issue of whether this constitutivism was indeed Nietzsche's own view. It is rather on the philosophical question of whether the view itself is tenable. Do actions have a constitutive aim, in the way that Katsafanas supposes? If so, what is that aim? From the putative fact that actions have a constitutive aim, what would follow about the grounding of normativity in general? Will this approach yield up a tenable metaethical theory? While Nietzschean constitutivism is an ingenious and original position, it faces some serious challenges that it will have difficulty answering in a satisfactory way.
The Relation of Serum Adipocytokines Levels and Haematological Malignancy
Authors: Noor Fadzilah Zulkifli  , Asral Wirda Ahmad Asnawi  , Nur Syahrina Rahim  , Ainul Nadhirah Abdul Razak  , Chang Kian Meng  
Published: December 2016

Obesity is a global health problem. Adipocytes produce adipocytokines, which participate in carcinogenesis of many solid tumours. However, reports on the effects in haematological malignancies are limited. We studied this feature in haematological malignancies. The body mass index (BMI), waist:hip ratio and serum adipocytokines levels (leptin and adiponectin) were measured in subjects (n=29) and healthy control (n=18). There was no significant difference in the mean BMI of control and subjects. However, the mean waist:hip ratio in subjects were significantly higher (0.91) compared to control (0.82); p=0.04. The mean level of leptin was raised in subjects compared to control (1.80 vs 17.41); p=0.00. The mean adiponectin level was suppressed in subjects (6.54 vs 0.15); p=0.00. The leptin:adiponectin ratio was also suppressed (0.01 vs 3.93); p=0.000. Subjects with good and poor initial clinical outcome did not show any significant difference in the adiposity index and the serum adipocytokines levels. This study supports the evidence that adiposity and adipocytokines are related to haematological malignancy similar to that reported in solid tumours. Leptin:adiponectin ratio may have the potential as a biomarker of obesity related malignancy. We also concluded that waist:hip ratio is a better index of adiposity compared to BMI. However, there is no significant relation of these parameters with the prognosis.
Thin-film preparation by back-surface irradiation pulsed laser deposition using metal powder targets
Authors: Kawasaki Hiroharu , Ohshima Tamiko , Yagyu Yoshihito , Ihara Takeshi , Yamauchi Makiko , Suda Yoshiaki 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Several kinds of functional thin films were deposited using a new thin-film preparation method named the back-surface irradiation pulsed laser deposition (BIPLD) method. In this BIPLD method, powder targets were used as the film source placed on a transparent target holder, and then a visible-wavelength pulsed laser was irradiated from the holder side to the substrate. Using this new method, titanium oxide and boron nitride thin films were deposited on the silicon substrate. Surface scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images suggest that all of the thin films were deposited on the substrate with some large droplets irrespective of the kind of target used. The deposition rate of the films prepared by using this method was calculated from film thickness and deposition time to be much lower than that of the films prepared by conventional PLD. X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement results suggest that rutile and anatase TiO2 crystal peaks were formed for the films prepared using the TiO2 rutile powder target. Crystal peaks of hexagonal boron nitride were observed for the films prepared using the boron nitride powder target. The crystallinity of the prepared films was changed by annealing after deposition.