bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Physical Attributes of Computer Interface Design on Novice and Experienced Performance of Users with Physical Disabilities
Authors: Casali Sherry Perdue , Chase Joseph D. 
Published: July 2017

It is well accepted that with even very simple tasks, a user's performance with a cursor control device improves substantially over some period of time before stabilizing. Although no systematic studies are available concerning how particular attributes of screen or device design affect the rate at which users learn to interact with a system, past studies with input devices have shown that the overall period of time required to learn to physically interact with a system is generally quite short. Hence the lack of attention paid to the “learning” phase with respect to physical interaction is probably justified. For users with mobility impairments, however, not only may the overall physical learning phase be significantly longer than for nondisabled users, but certain features of the interface design may require a longer learning period than others. Depending on how different “initial” performance is from “practiced” performance, systems meant for “walk up and use” or casual use may need to be designed differently to allow easy access for persons with mobility impairments. In addition, adaptive interfaces which change the physical design of features over time as a user becomes more proficient may facilitate access for individuals with impaired motor control. Twenty persons with impaired hand and arm function (as a result of spinal cord injury) performed a target acquisition task with five cursor control devices. The task required that the user select targets of different sizes and distances using both “point and click” and “drag” modes of interaction. Time and errors were recorded. The results indicate not only that some physical design attributes negatively effect performance, but that the magnitude of the effects differ for “initial” performance and “practiced” performance. In fact, in some cases attributes which had no effect once performance had asymptoted were shown to have a significant effect on novice performance. Also, some features required significantly longer periods of time for the users to become proficient at using than others. The implications for interface design are discussed.
Making Human Factors Usable
Authors: Dray Susan , Dayton Tom , Mrazek Deb , Muckler Frederick A. , Rafeld Mike 
Published: July 2017

Over the years, Human Factors as a discipline has matured, and evolved. This panel brings together a variety of participants who represent various aspects of the Human Factors community. It is the position of the participants that boundaries still exist between Human Factors professionals and the “users” they profess to assist. These boundaries take a variety of forms, including organizational, philosophical, and linguistic (i.e., the jargon of the Human Factors profession, and the jargon of their “users”). We believe that bridges must be built to span these boundaries, bringing together the Human Factors community and their customers-in effect, making Human Factors usable.
Assessing the Impact of Automated Coding & Grouping Technology at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
Authors: Howes Melita Helen 
Published: July 2017

In 1992 the Hospital recognised that the existing casemix data reporting systems were too removed from individual patients to have any meaning for clinicians, analysis of the data was difficult and the processes involved in the DRG assignment were subject to considerable error. Consequently, the Hospital approved the purchase of technology that would facilitate the coding and grouping process. The impact of automated coding and grouping technology is assessed by three methods. Firstly, by looking at by-product information systems, secondly, through subjective responses by coders to a satisfaction questionnaire and, thirdly, by objectively measuring hospital activity and identified coding elements before and after implementation of the 3M technology. It was concluded that while the 3M Coding and Grouping software should not be viewed as a panacea to all coding and documentation ills, objective evidence and subjective comment from the coders indicated an improvement in data quality and more accurate DRG assignment. Development of an in-house casemix information system and a feedback mechanism between coder and clinician had been effected. The product had been used as a training tool for coders and had also proven to be a useful auditing tool. Finally, linkage with other systems and the generation of timely reports had been realised.
Nonverbal Communication: An Essential Skill in the Workplace
Authors: Phillips Jennifer 
Published: July 2017

Communication is carried on at many levels and through many channels simultaneously, and interpretation of a verbal message is dependent upon the manner in which it is conveyed and the gestures and expressions which accompany it. Nonverbal communication has been claimed to account for up to 93% of the impact of any verbal message. There are many types of nonverbal communication, most of which are usually used unconsciously and may be interpreted in many ways, often being regarded as a more reliable source of information than the spoken word, particularly regarding emotion. The following paper will examine the major types of nonverbal communication and their role in day to day human interaction in the workplace. It will examine the ways that understanding of the meanings of nonverbal cues can assist in both interpretation and conveyance of unspoken messages, and the role that space, the environment and other physical factors play in successful communication.
Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Expression in a Large Cohort of Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumor and Association With Clinicopathologic Features in Neuroblastoma
Authors: Saletta Federica , Vilain Ricardo E. , Gupta Aditya Kumar , Nagabushan Sumanth , Yuksel Aysen , Catchpoole Daniel , Scolyer Richard A. , Byrne Jennifer A. , McCowage Geoffrey 
Published: July 2017

Purpose Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression represents a potential predictive biomarker of immune checkpoint blockade response. However, literature about the prevalence of PD-L1 expression in the pediatric cancer setting is discordant. Methods PD-L1 expression was analyzed using immunohistochemistry in 500 pediatric tumors (including neuroblastoma, sarcomas, and brain cancers). Tumors with ≥ 1% cells showing PD-L1 membrane staining of any intensity were scored as positive. Positive cases were further characterized, with cases with weak intensity PD-L1 staining reported as having low PD-L1 expression and cases with a moderate or strong intensity of staining considered to have high PD-L1 expression. Results PD-L1–positive staining was identified in 13% of cases, whereas high PD-L1 expression was found in 3% of cases. Neuroblastoma (n = 254) showed PD-L1 expression of any intensity in 18.9% of cases and was associated with longer overall survival ( P = .045). However, high PD-L1 expression in neuroblastoma (3.1%) was significantly associated with an increased risk of relapse ( P = .002). Positive PD-L1 staining was observed more frequently in low- and intermediate-risk patients ( P = .037) and in cases lacking MYCN amplification ( P = .002). Conclusion In summary, high PD-L1 expression in patients with neuroblastoma may represent an unfavorable prognostic factor associated with a higher risk of cancer relapse. This work proposes PD-L1 immunohistochemical assessment as a novel parameter for identifying patients with an increased likelihood of cancer recurrence.
Performers or Prostitutes?
Authors: Pastor de Maria Campos Camila 
Published: July 2017

AbstractAnalyzing memoirs from the Arab diaspora and Mashriq, colonial archives, interviews, League of Nations reports, and mandate legal literature, this article tracks the circulation and regulation of mobile women engaging in performance and sex work in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon (1921–46). The French metropolitan system of regulated prostitution was imported yet transformed in the mandate region as women performers were sorted into legitimate, if morally suspect, foreign artistes and autochthonous performers defined as prostitutes by decrees and codes. Regional and transnational mobility and the institutionalization of borders by colonial administrations destabilized their own distinctions between foreign and autochthonous, however. Women used these contradictions, overlapping legal frameworks, and artistry to continue to work and limit the extraction of their resources by a variety of institutional actors who nevertheless expected sexual and entertainment services to be afforded to foreign and local men.
Capturing the systemic immune signature of a norovirus infection: an n-of-1 case study within a clinical trial
Authors: Cutler Antony J. , Oliveira Joao , Ferreira Ricardo C. , Challis Ben , Walker Neil M. , Caddy Sarah , Lu Jia , Stevens Helen E. , Smyth Deborah J. , Pekalski Marcin L. , Kennet Jane , Hunter Kara M.D. , Goodfellow Ian , Wicker Linda S. , Todd John A. , Waldron-Lynch Frank 
Published: July 2017

Background: The infection of a participant with norovirus during the adaptive study of interleukin-2 dose on regulatory T cells in type 1 diabetes (DILT1D) allowed a detailed insight into the cellular and cytokine immune responses to this prevalent gastrointestinal pathogen.Methods: Serial blood, serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples were collected pre-, and post-development of the infection. To differentiate between the immune response to norovirus and to control for the administration of a single dose of aldesleukin (recombinant interleukin-2, rIL-2) alone, samples from five non-infected participants administered similar doses were analysed in parallel.Results: Norovirus infection was self-limited and resolved within 24 hours, with the subsequent development of anti-norovirus antibodies. Serum pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels, including IL-10, peaked during the symptomatic period of infection, coincident with increased frequencies of monocytes and neutrophils. At the same time, the frequency of regulatory CD4+T cell (Treg), effector T cell (Teff) CD4+and CD8+subsets were dynamically reduced, rebounding to baseline levels or above at the next sampling point 24 hours later. NK cells and NKT cells transiently increased CD69 expression and classical monocytes expressed increased levels of CD40, HLA-DR and SIGLEC-1, biomarkers of an interferon response. We also observed activation and mobilisation of Teffs, where increased frequencies of CD69+and Ki-67+effector memory Teffs were followed by the emergence of memory CD8+Teff expressing the mucosal tissue homing markers CD103 and β7 integrin. Treg responses were coincident with the innate cell, Teff and cytokine response. Key Treg molecules FOXP3, CTLA-4, and CD25 were upregulated following infection, alongside an increase in frequency of Tregs with the capacity to home to tissues.Conclusions: The results illustrate the innate, adaptive and counter-regulatory immune responses to norovirus infection. Low-dose IL-2 administration induces many of the Treg responses observed during infection.
From performing resistance to performing autonomy and back again: Alex Bag meets Ann Hirsch
Authors: Walsh Maria 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In this article, I explore the historical continuities and discontinuities between Alex Bag’s performances of femininity in her seminal video series Untitled Fall ’95 (1995) and Ann Hirsch’s Scandalishious (2008–2010), a series of webcam videos on YouTube in which she appears as a character called Caroline Benton. Rather than a simply using these works to compare and contrast decades of feminist-inspired art, my exploration is informed by my re-encountering of Bag’s work through the lens of Hirsch’s in the context of the ubiquity of self-confessional and performative video online. In bringing these artists’ works together, I consider the possibilities of resistance to dominant forms of mediatized femininity in neo-liberalism, especially in relation to these artists’ interventions in television. From 1994 to 1997 Bag, in collaboration with artist Patterson Beckwith, produced a cult series for cable TV called Cash from Chaos and later Unicorns and Rainbows, in which they enacted countercultural scenarios that ‘détourned’ mainstream culture. In Hirsch’s foray into reality TV in 2010, she inserted herself into a pre-existing production Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair. Using these two examples as exemplifying a shift in art critique from a strategy of seizing the means of production to a strategy of immersive mimicry, I ask whether femininity can be posed as a site of resistance or whether it is fully enmeshed within the neo-liberal production of subjectivity as aspirational and entrepreneurial?
The (im)mobilities of assembly-line work: Choreographing the movements of corporate globalization in Ursula Biemann’s Performing the Border
Authors: Brailovsky Paula 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article discusses Swiss artist Ursula Biemann’s video-essay Performing the Border (1999), a work that critically examines the feminization of low-skilled factory labour in the city of Ciudad Juárez in northern Mexico. Home to large assembly lines, known as maquiladoras, Juárez is often the place where large corporations send their electronic equipment and machinery to be produced and assembled. Whilst these technologies help speed up the processes of contemporary capitalism, the city’s infrastructure is so poor that it consumes most of the factory workers’ free time. These women have to spend long hours commuting to work and often live in homes with no electricity or running water. Locating Biemann’s work within other representations of factory labour, this article examines the aesthetic and critical strategies that she employs to highlight the economic and social imbalances created by the forces of neo-liberalism as they impact the lives of maquiladora workers.
A collective response: Feminism, film, performance and Greenham Common
Authors: Reynolds Lucy 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article examines the part played by four film and video artists as chroniclers as well as participants in the civic struggle against nuclear weapons, providing alternative documents of the women’s camp at Greenham Common to those of the official media record. For, as the article will discuss, the model of protest at Greenham was uniquely indebted to, and characterised by, the models of non-violent resistance developed through post-war feminism. As part of this, a strategy of creative resistance had an important role to play: through song and poems, through banners, paintings and drawings; by amateur and professional artists. However, the film and video documents of Greenham Common by Tina Keane, Joanna Davis and Lis Rhodes, and Annabel Nicolson, on which this article will focus, are not concerned solely with advocacy for anti-nuclear and political protest, but rather, Greenham proved inspirational for them on an individual basis, enabling them to meaningfully explore how feminist principles might be folded into their experimental practices.
Media repertoires and discursive communities: Studying audiences in the multimedia age
Authors: Oblak Črnič Tanja , Luthar Breda 
Published: July 2017

AbstractDue to radical changes in media consumption, manifested in the widespread mediatization and proliferation of the uses of personal media in everyday life, research about media audiences can no longer focus on a single medium. In order to identify ideal-typical combinations of media platforms and aesthetic cultures in the population of the two largest Slovenian cities, the concept of media repertoires was used. The study shows that our respondents’s media consumption is structured into four typical media repertoires: integrators, digital natives, television viewers and newspaper readers. These four repertoires also represent distinct socio-cultural formations. In social terms, (digital) audiences therefore do not constitute a homogenous social community, but should be understood as class-differentiated discursive cultures or ‘meaning systems’.
Minimization Number of Network-Coded Links Based on Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Multi-source Optical Networks
Authors: Guo Xiaojin , Sang Liying , Liu Huanlin 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
With the rapid development of multi-source optical multicast application, the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) with limited number of wavelength channels is facing with the new challenge of bandwidth shortage. Optical multicast adopting network coding can improve the bandwidth utilization, but optical network coding needs to increase optical storage and computation overhead in WDM optical network. For reducing the number of optical network-coded links, an improved adaptive genetic algorithm (IAGA) is proposed to minimize the number of network-coded links for multicast. By designing the maximization difference crossover operation, IAGA can guarantee the diversity of population and avoid individuals from falling into a local optimal. By adaptively adjusting the crossover probability, IAGA makes the population diverse at the beginning stages and makes the excellent individuals remain in a stable condition. Compared with other algorithms, the simulation result shows that the proposed algorithm has fastest convergence speed, which means that it takes the shortest time to find the minimum numbers of coded link solutions.
Flattened gain S + C + L Band RAMAN–Thulium-Doped Tellurite Fiber Amplifier Hybrid Optical Amplifier for Super Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing System
Authors: Kumar Chakresh , Goyal Rakesh 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In this paper we have examined the performances of 180×10 Gbps super dense wavelength division multiplexing (SD-WDM) system using the RAMAN–thulium-doped tellurite fiber amplifier (TDTFA) hybrid optical amplifier (HOA) with the channel spacing of 50 GHz in S+C+L band. Accepted rating flattened gain of 39.21 dB with the noise figure less than 5 dB is archived with the dual-pumping ( power level of 500 mW at 980 nm and at 1100 nm for RAMAN optical amplifier and similar, power level of TDTF amplifier is set to 500 mW and 350 mW at 1150 nm) technique. The effect of the proposed hybrid amplifier is evaluated in terms of gain and noise figure without using any coast effective technique. The outcome from the proposed model is also compared here with the existing optical amplifier.
Validation of the 3-Minute All-Out Exercise Test for Shuttle Running Prescription
Authors: Saari Anssi , Dicks Nathan D. , Hartman Mark E. , Pettitt Robert W. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Saari, A, Dicks, ND, Hartman, ME, and Pettitt, RW. Validation of the 3-minute all-out exercise test for shuttle running prescription. J Strength Cond Res 33(6): 1679–1685, 2019—A 3-minute all-out exercise test (3 MT) for running has been developed to determine critical speed (CS) and finite capacity for running speeds > CS (D′) which allow for the prediction of time limits (TLIMs) associated with running different distances. Most team sports require shuttle running; however, the 3 MT was validated for uninterrupted, track running and not shuttle running. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of shuttle running 3 MT to determine CS and D′. A total of 12 subjects were tested using a baseline 3 MT along with 3 separate distance time trials of all-out shuttle running to determine true CS and D′. The 3 MT (2.94 ± 0.39 m·s−1) and the true CS (3.00 ± 0.36 m·s−1) for shuttle running did not differ (p = 0.71) and had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 7.7%. Conversely, D′ from the 3 MT exceeded true D′ by 42 m (p = 0.04, CV = 36%). The TLIMs estimated for the 3 different distances were within ∼2–6% (p = 0.60). Based on these outcomes, the shuttle run 3 MT may offer a suitable method for prescribing shuttle running interval training.
Seedling Production of Pak Choy (Brassica rapa L. var chinensis) using Organic and Inorganic Nutrients
Authors: Priadi Dody , Nuro Fiqolbi 
Published: July 2017

<p>Pak Choy or Bok Choy (<em>Brassica rapa </em>L. var. chinensis) is one of favorite Chinese leafy vegetable for various dishes in Indonesia. In this study, it was used as a plant model to identify the appropriate organic hydroponic nutrient solution for leafy vegetable seedling production. The seed was sown on rock wool slabs submerged with 200 ml of a nutrient solution containing biofertilizer of <em>Beyonic StarTmik@Lob</em> (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%). commercial hydroponic solution (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100%) and its combination (25, 50, and 75%). The experiments were arranged in a CRD. Meanwhile, the obtained data was analyzed using ANOVA followed by DMRT. The relationship among growth parameters was observed using Pearson correlation analysis. The result of the study showed that the combination of organic and inorganic nutrient (25% <em>Beyonic StarTmik@Lob</em> and 75% commercial hydroponic solution) resulted in the highest seedling growth parameters and leaf indices as well as the perfectly positive correlations among growth parameters. This result indicated that the use of organic nutrient alone was not appropriate for hydroponic seedling production of Pak Choy. Therefore, further study needs to be done to identify the hydroponic solution without inorganic nutrients towards the organic vegetable production.</p>
Chromium Phytoremediation of Tannery Wastewater Using Ceratophyllum demersum L. (Coontail)
Authors: Suryani Yani , Cahyanto Tri , Sudjarwo Toni , Panjaitan Diana Vici , Paujiah Epa , Jaenudin Mohamad 
Published: July 2017

<p>Tanning industry produces liquid waste containing heavy metals, especially chromium – harmful for ecosystems and human health. Phytoremediation is a technique that utilizes the physiologicalpotential of plants to transform contaminants to be less or non-hazardous. The aim of the research is to determine the efficiency of <em>Ceratophyllum</em><em> </em><em>demersum</em><em> </em>L. to remediate chrome in tannery wastewater. The research uses 84 strands of <em>C. demersum</em><em> </em>compound leaves of 30 g wet weight. The treatments consist of the use of 7.74 mg/L, 11.30 mg/L, 17.00 mg/L and 23.73 mg/L concentrations of chromium and a control. The research is conducted using a static method. The design of the experimentis complete random design with 3 times of treatment in 14 days. The parameters observed are the efficiency of chromium phytoremediation, water turbidity, BOD, and total chlorophyll level of the leaves. The results show that the highest efficiency is gained at the concentration of 7.74 mg/L with 1.7% chromium, 17.3% water turbidity, and 46%BOD. Meanwhile, the highest efficiency of total chlorophyll level is 3.88 mg/L, gained at the concentration of 17.00 mg/L. In conclusion, <em>C. demersum </em>is good to use as a <em>phytoremediator</em> of tannery wastewater at the concentration of 7.74 mg/L<a href="file:///D:/My%20Word/Jurnal/Dokumen%20Jurnal/Biosaintifika%202%20Akreditasi/12%20Agustus%202017/epa,%209%20mei,%20fiks.docx#_msocom_1">[V(F1]</a> , subsequently, these results can be used as a basis for the consideration of the application implementation in the process of liquid waste reduction. </p>