bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Promoting Change from the Outside: Directing Managerial Attention in the Implementation of Environmental Improvements
Authors: Dhanorkar Suvrat S. , Siemsen Enno , Linderman Kevin W. 
Published: April 2017

Regulatory agencies, auditing firms, and supply chain partners externally promote change in firms. To this end, they commonly employ two different and somewhat contradictory intervention approaches. One approach uses punitive tactics to coerce firms to change, while the other approach uses supportive tactics to encourage change. Using the context of government agencies promoting environmental improvements in firms, we examine whether such punitive (e.g., regulatory inspections with possible sanctions) and supportive (e.g., environmental assistance, improvement recommendations) tactics can be administered in a complementary manner. Using a unique and novel longitudinal data set collected from two state-level environmental agencies in Minnesota, we analyze over 1,000 supportive environmental improvement (EI) projects in combination with intermittent (but currently uncoordinated) punitive tactics. One key finding from our research is that the timing, severity, and relatedness of punitive tactics is critical for directing managerial attention and thus improving the efficacy of supportive tactics (i.e., EI implementation). Contingent on their timing, inspections can increase EI implementation rates by up to 60% but can also reduce implementation rates by up to 50% compared with EIs in facilities that do not experience inspections. Classifying regulatory inspections as (1) either clean or adverse and (2) either related or unrelated allows us to further explain the influence of such punitive tactics on EI implementation. Finally, we provide evidence for a positive effect of successful EI implementation on long-term environmental compliance.The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2748 .This paper was accepted by Serguei Netessine, operations management.
Review. Development, Applications, Benefits, Challenges and Limitations of the New Genome Engineering Technique. An Update Study
Authors: Crauciuc Andrei , Tripon Florin , Gheorghiu Andreea , Nemes Georgiana , Boglis Alina , Banescu Claudia 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
We assume that the CRISPR Cas9 theory must be delimited by applicability, because the consequences of long term DNA manipulation remain unknown. Moreover, the irreversibility of this procedure should instigate researchers to reserved opinions.
Usefulness as well as benefits of CRISPR Cas9 made it one of the most popular and used genome editing technique. But with its huge potential, ethical and safety concerns emerge. Therefore, before continuing research in this direction we should have a well organized system that is able to make that differentiation between research and reproduction. However we truly believe in the future of genetic engineering and with the CRISPR-Cas9 system we expect that the opportunity of treating now so called incurable diseases arises. Time is all we need.
Pseudopecoelus mccauleyi n. sp. and Podocotyle sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the deep waters off Oregon and British Columbia with an updated key to the species of Pseudopecoelus von Wicklen, 1946 and checklist of parasites from Lycodes cortezianus (Perciformes: Zoarcidae)
Authors: Blend Charles K. , Dronen Norman O. , Racz Gabor R. , Gardner Scott L. 
Published: April 2017

Abstractn. sp. (Opecoelidae: Opecoelinae) is described from the intestine of the bigfin eelpout,
Helminth (Cestoda, Nematoda) and coccidian (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) parasites of the eastern small-footed myotis, Myotis leibii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Arkansas, with a description of a new species of Eimeria
Authors: McAllister Chris T. , Seville R. Scott , Bursey Charles R. 
Published: April 2017

AbstractDuring May and July 2016, 32 eastern small-footed myotis (
Chemical Composition of the RS CVN-Type Star 29 Draconis
Authors: Barisevičius G. , Tautvaišienė G. , Berdyugina S. , Chorniy Y. , Ilyin I. 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
Photospheric parameters and chemical composition are determined for the single-lined chromospherically active RS CVn-type star 29 Draconis (HD 160538). From the high resolution spectra obtained on the Nordic Optical Telescope, abundances of 22 chemical elements, including the key elements such as 12C, 13C, N and O, were investigated. The differential line analysis with the MARCS model atmospheres gives Teff = 4720 K, log g = 2:5, [Fe/H] = -0:20, [C/Fe] = -0:14, [N/Fe] = 0:08, [O/Fe] = -0:04, C/N = 2:40, 12C/13C = 16. The low value of the 12C/13C ratio gives a hint that extra mixing processes in low-mass chromospherically active stars may start earlier than the theory of stellar evolution predicts.
Wide Field Multicolor CCD Photometry in the Vicinity of the Open Cluster King 7
Authors: Zdanavičius J. , Čepas V. , Zdanavičius K. , Straižys V. 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
We present the results of CCD photometry in the seven-color Vilnius system for 1549 stars down to V ∼16 mag in a 1.5 square degree field around the cluster King 7, at the Perseus and Camelopardalis border. Using photometric parameters, two-dimensional spectral types, interstellar extinctions and distances for most of the stars are determined.
High Velocity Spectroscopic Binary Orbits from Photoelectric Radial Velocities: BD+20 5152, a Possible Triple System
Authors: Sperauskas J. , Bartkevičius A. , Boyle R. P. , Deveikis V. 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
The spectroscopic orbit of a high proper motion star, BD+20 5152, is calculated from 34 CORAVEL-type radial velocity measurements. The star has a slightly eccentric orbit with a period of 5.70613 d, half-amplitude of 47.7 km/s and eccentricity of 0.049. The center-of-mass velocity of the system is -24.3 km/s. BD+20 5152 seems to be a triple system consisting of a G8 dwarf as a primary component and of two K6-M0 dwarfs as secondary and tertiary components. This model is based on the analysis of its UBVRI and JHK magnitudes. According to the SuperWASP photometry, spots on the surface of the primary are suspected. The excessive brightness in the Galex FUV and NUV magnitudes and a non-zero eccentricity suggest the age of this system to be less than 1 Gyr.
Normal subgroups of invertibles and of unitaries in a C*-algebra
Authors: Robert Leonel 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
We investigate the normal subgroups of the groups of invertibles and unitaries in the connected component of the identity of a

C
*

{\mathrm{C}^{*}}

-algebra.
By relating normal subgroups to closed two-sided ideals we obtain a “sandwich condition” describing all the closed normal subgroups both
in the invertible and in the unitary case. We use this to prove a conjecture by Elliott and
Rørdam: in a simple

C
*

\mathrm{C}^{*}

-algebra, the group of approximately inner automorphisms induced by unitaries in the connected component of the identity is topologically simple. Turning to non-closed subgroups, we show, among other things, that in a simple unital

C
*

\mathrm{C}^{*}

-algebra the commutator subgroup of the group of invertibles in the connected component of the identity
is a simple group modulo its center. A similar result holds for unitaries under a mild extra assumption.
Sin as an Ailment of Soul and Repentance as the Process of Its Healing. The Pastoral Concept of Penitentials as a Way of Dealing with Sin, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the Insular Church of the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries
Authors: Kursawa Wilhelm 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
Although the advent of the Kingdom of God in Jesus contains as an intrinsic quality the opportunity for repentance (metanoia) as often as required, the Church of the first five-hundred years shows serious difficulties with the opportunity of conversion after a relapse in sinning after baptism. The Church allowed only one chance of repentance. Requirement for the reconciliation were a public confession and the acceptance of severe penances, especially after committing the mortal sin of apostasy, fornication or murder. As severe as this paenitentia canonica appears, its entire conception especially in the eastern part of the Church, the Oriental Church, is a remedial one: sin represents an ailment of the soul, the one, who received the confession, is called upon to meet the confessing person as a spiritual physician or soul-friend. Penance does not mean punishment, but healing like a salutary remedy. Nevertheless, the lack of privacy led to the unwanted practice of postponing repentance and even baptism on the deathbed. An alternative procedure of repentance arose from the sixth century onwards in the Irish Church as well as the Continental Church under the influence of Irish missionaries and the South-West-British and later the English Church (Insular Church). In treatises about repentance, called penitentials, ecclesiastical authorities of the sixth to the eight centuries wrote down regulations, how to deal with the different capital sins and minor trespasses committed by monks, clerics and laypeople. Church-representatives like Finnian, Columbanus, the anonymous author of the Ambrosianum, Cummean and Theodore developed a new conception of repentance that protected privacy and guaranteed a discrete, an affordable as well as a predictable penance, the paenitentia privata. They not only connected to the therapeutic aspect of repentance in the Oriental Church by adopting basic ideas of Basil of Caesarea and John Cassian, they also established an astonishing network in using their mutual interrelations. Here the earlier penitentials served as source for the later ones. But it is remarkable that the authors in no way appeared as simple copyists, but also as creative revisers, who took regard of the pastoral necessities of the entrusted flock. They appeared as engaged in the goal to improve their ecclesiastical as well as their civil life-circumstances to make it possible that the penitents of the different ecclesiastical estates could perform their conversion and become reconciled in a dignified way. The aim of the authors was to enable the confessors to do the healing dialogue qualitatively in a high standard; quantity was not their goal. The penitents should feel themselves healed, not punished.
Finding metastabilities in reversible Markov chains based on incomplete sampling
Authors: Fackeldey Konstantin , Niknejad Amir , Weber Marcus 
Published: April 2017

Abstract
In order to fully characterize the state-transition behaviour of finite Markov chains one needs to provide the corresponding transition matrix P. In many applications such as molecular simulation and drug design, the entries of the transition matrix P are estimated by generating realizations of the Markov chain and determining the one-step conditional probability Pij for a transition from one state i to state j. This sampling can be computational very demanding. Therefore, it is a good idea to reduce the sampling effort. The main purpose of this paper is to design a sampling strategy, which provides a partial sampling of only a subset of the rows of such a matrix P. Our proposed approach fits very well to stochastic processes stemming from simulation of molecular systems or random walks on graphs and it is different from the matrix completion approaches which try to approximate the transition matrix by using a low-rank-assumption. It will be shown how Markov chains can be analyzed on the basis of a partial sampling. More precisely. First, we will estimate the stationary distribution from a partially given matrix P. Second, we will estimate the infinitesimal generator Q of P on the basis of this stationary distribution. Third, from the generator we will compute the leading invariant subspace, which should be identical to the leading invariant subspace of P. Forth, we will apply Robust Perron Cluster Analysis (PCCA+) in order to identify metastabilities using this subspace.
A Cre Mouse Line for Probing Irradiance- and Direction-Encoding Retinal Networks
Authors: Sabbah Shai , Berg Daniel , Papendorp Carin , Briggman Kevin L. , Berson David M. 
Published: April 2017

AbstractCell type-specific Cre driver lines have revolutionized the analysis of retinal cell types and circuits. We show that the transgenic mouse Rbp4-Cre selectively labels several retinal neuronal types relevant to the encoding of absolute light intensity (irradiance) and visual motion. In the ganglion cell layer (GCL), most marked cells are wide-field spiking polyaxonal amacrine cells (ACs) with sustained irradiance-encoding ON responses that persist during chemical synaptic blockade. Their arbors spread about 1 mm across the retina and are restricted to the inner half of the ON sublamina of the inner plexiform layer (IPL). There, they costratify with dendrites of M2 intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), to which they are tracer coupled. We propose that synaptically driven and intrinsic photocurrents of M2 cells pass through gap junctions to drive AC light responses. Also marked in this mouse are two types of RGCs. R-cells have a bistratified dendritic arbor, weak directional tuning, and irradiance-encoding ON responses. However, they also receive excitatory OFF input, revealed during ON-channel blockade. Serial blockface electron microscopic (SBEM) reconstruction confirms OFF bipolar input, and reveals that some OFF input derives from a novel type of OFF bipolar cell (BC). R-cells innervate specific layers of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) and superior colliculus (SC). The other marked RGC type (RDS) is bistratified, transient, and ON-OFF direction selective (DS). It apparently innervates the nucleus of the optic tract (NOT). The Rbp4-Cre mouse will be valuable for targeting these cell types for further study and for selectively manipulating them for circuit analysis.
Inpatient Hospital Factors and Resident Time With Patients and Families
Authors: Destino Lauren Ann , Valentine Melissa , Sheikhi Farnoosh H. , Starmer Amy J. , Landrigan Christopher P. , Sanders Lee 
Published: April 2017

OBJECTIVES:
To define hospital factors associated with proportion of time spent by pediatric residents in direct patient care.

METHODS:
We assessed 6222 hours of time-motion observations from a representative sample of 483 pediatric-resident physicians delivering inpatient care across 9 pediatric institutions. The primary outcome was percentage of direct patient care time (DPCT) during a single observation session (710 sessions). We used one-way analysis of variance to assess a significant difference in the mean percentage of DPCT between hospitals. We used the intraclass correlation coefficient analysis to determine within- versus between-hospital variations. We compared hospital characteristics of observation sessions with ≥12% DPCT to characteristics of sessions with &lt;12% DPCT (12% is the DPCT in recent resident trainee time-motion studies). We conducted mixed-effects regression analysis to allow for clustering of sessions within hospitals and accounted for correlation of responses across hospital.

RESULTS:
Mean proportion of physician DPCT was 13.2% (SD = 8.6; range, 0.2%–49.5%). DPCT was significantly different between hospitals (P &lt; .001). The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.25, indicating more within-hospital than between-hospital variation. Observation sessions with ≥12% DPCT were more likely to occur at hospitals with Magnet designation (odds ratio [OR] = 3.45, P = .006), lower medical complexity (OR = 2.57, P = .04), and higher patient-to-trainee ratios (OR = 2.48, P = .05).

CONCLUSIONS:
On average, trainees spend &lt;8 minutes per hour in DPCT. Variation exists in DPCT between hospitals. A less complex case mix, increased patient volume, and Magnet designation were independently associated with increased DPCT.
The Interface Among Poverty, Air Mattress Industry Trends, Policy, and Infant Safety
Authors: Doering Jennifer J. , Salm Ward Trina C. 
Published: April 2017

Infants can suffocate on air mattresses, even when the mattress is fully inflated. The interfacing issues of poverty, the bedbug epidemic, and changes in the design and marketing of air mattresses may be increasing consumer use of air mattresses as primary sleep environments and thus increasing the potential for infant death. Despite recent changes to improve air mattress safety labeling, the National Child Death Review Case Reporting System found that between 2004 and 2015 across 24 states, an air mattress was the incident sleep place for 108 infants whose deaths were either during sleep or in a sleep environment. At the same time, design components such as inflatable headboards and memory foam pillow tops potentially increase the hazard to infants, and marketing changes represent air mattresses as a preferred low-cost primary sleep environment. Analysis of current data surveillance systems, published position statements, and consumer materials from national organizations and federal agencies reveal opportunities for changing policy to better protect infants from this hazard.
Overview of Asian American Data Collection, Release, and Analysis: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–2018
Authors: Paulose-Ram Ryne , Burt Vicki , Broitman Lisa , Ahluwalia Namanjeet 
Published: April 2017

Data System. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, is a cross-sectional survey on the health and nutritional status of US adults and children. Data Collection/Processing. A complex, multistage probability design is used to select a sample representative of the US civilian, noninstitutionalized population. NHANES includes in-home interviews, physical examinations, and biospecimen collection. About 5000 persons are examined annually. Since 2011, NHANES has been oversampling Asian Americans in addition to traditionally oversampled groups, including Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks. Data Analysis/Dissemination. Data are publicly released online in 2-year cycles. Some data, because of disclosure risk, are only available through the Research Data Center. Data users should read documentation, examine sample sizes and response rates, and account for the complex survey design. With publicly released data, analyses of Asians as a single group is only possible; some Asian subgroup analyses may be conducted through the Research Data Center. Public Health Implications. Oversampling Asians in NHANES 2011–2018 allows national estimates to be computed on health conditions, nutrition, and risk factors of public health importance on this growing subpopulation of Asian Americans.
Characterizing Cereal Rye Biomass and Allometric Relationships across a Range of Fall Available Nitrogen Rates in the Eastern United States
Authors: Mirsky Steven B. , Spargo John T. , Curran William S. , Reberg‐Horton S. Chris , Ryan Matthew R. , Schomberg Harry H. , Ackroyd Victoria J. 
Published: April 2017

Core Ideas
Cereal rye has the capacity for substantial biomass and N accumulation.
Cereal rye shoots accumulated roughly 50% of the fertilizer N applied in our study.
Cereal rye required 72.4 kg added N ha−1 to reach maximum biomass production.
The average maximum biomass was 2853 kg ha−1 at GS25 and 9739 kg ha−1 at GS60.
Cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) is widely grown due to its winter hardiness and adaptability to varied soil and environmental conditions. Fall and spring climate and available soil N drive biomass production. However, there is limited empirical information on the effects of these factors on cover crop performance. Farmers need early spring indicators of cereal rye performance to guide management. A 3‐yr experiment was initiated to test and model the effects of climate and soil N fertility on cereal rye growth and allometric relationships in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina under five‐six fall fertilizer rates. We hypothesized that allometric relationships between early spring growth indicators can guide management decisions. Measurements included tillering, biomass, tissue N, and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at Zadoks growth stages (GS) 25, 30, and 60. Nitrogen application increased biomass: maximum average biomass was 2853, 4844, and 9739 kg ha−1, respectively, at GS25, GS30, and GS60. At GS25, biomass accounted for the greatest amount of model variation and better predicted GS60 biomass than shoot density and NDVI. Variance attributed solely to GS25 and GS30 biomass constituted 38.5 to 65.2% of total model variance. Models accurately predicted biomass and N accumulation 34 to 60% of the time. This study illustrates the difficulty in predicting late season biomass and N content based on early measurements. One extension of this research would be the development of a simple protocol to accurately sample cereal rye biomass at GS25 to estimate potential N accumulation and biomass at GS60.
Synthesis, Characterization, and Inducing Tumor Cell Apoptosis of Two Ru(II) Complexes Containing Guanidinium as Ligands
Authors: Sun Jing , Chen Wen-Xiu , Song Xing-Dong , He Shu-Fen , Chen Jia-Xi , Mei Jun , Zhu Xiao-Xian , Wu Tie 
Published: April 2017

Description:
Two new ruthenium(II) complexes containing guanidinium as ligands, [Ru(dip)2
(L1)]3+ (Ru1) and [Ru(dip)2(L2)]3+ (Ru2) (dip=4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline; L1=1-(4-(1H-imidazo[4,5-
f][1,10]phenanthrolin-2-yl)phenyl)guanidine cation; L2 = 1-(3-(1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthrolin-2-yl)
phenyl)guanidine cation) have been synthesized and characterized. Both complexes display higher cytotoxicity
against several cancer cell lines compared to cisplatin and are less cytotoxic on the nontumorigenic cell
line LO2. Intracellular distribution studies show that these complexes are selectively localized in the
cytoplasm.

Findings:

Further analysis revealed that Ru1 and Ru2 had no obvious effects on the cell cycle and induced
apoptosis in HeLa cells via the mitochondrial pathway, which involved reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation,
mitochondrial dysfunction, and Bcl-2 family member activation. Taken together, the two complexes have
the potential to be utilized as anticancer agents.