bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Forecasting house prices in OECD economies
Authors: Kishor N. Kundan , Marfatia Hardik A. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we forecast real house price growth of 16 OECD countries using information from domestic macroeconomic indicators and global measures of the housing market. Consistent with the findings for the US housing market, we find that the forecasts from an autoregressive model dominate the forecasts from the random walk model for most of the countries in our sample. More importantly, we find that the forecasts from a bivariate model that includes economically important domestic macroeconomic variables and two global indicators of the housing market significantly improve upon the univariate autoregressive model forecasts. Among all the variables, the mean square forecast error from the model with the country's domestic interest rates has the best performance for most of the countries. The country's income, industrial production, and stock markets are also found to have valuable information about the future movements in real house price growth. There is also some evidence supporting the influence of the global housing price growth in out‐of‐sample forecasting of real house price growth in these OECD countries.
Evidence for capitation reform in a New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in Pudong New Area, Shanghai: A longitudinal study
Authors: Wang Yanmei , Shu Zhiqun , Gu Jianjun , Sun Xiaoming , Jing Limei , Bai Jie , Huang Xuan , Lou Jiquan , Zhang Qunfang , Li Ming 
Published: July 2017

AbstractCurrently, China has been experiencing rapid growth of medical costs, serious waste of medical resources, increasing disease burden for residents, and a medical insurance fund deficit. Therefore, an urgent problem that needs to be solved is to choose a rational payment for the insurance system. To empirically evaluate the long‐term effects of capitation reform in a New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in Pudong New Area, we collected and analysed data regarding financing, fund operation, medical service cost, and medical care–seeking behaviour from 2011 to 2015, a duration that includes data before and after reform. The data for financing and behaviours were compared year by year, and the monthly data for inpatient and outpatient costs were evaluated in a retrospective time series study. The capitation reform in Pudong New Area showed strong evidence of the power of medical cost control in the long run, while it was weak in reversing the number of patients flowing into secondary and tertiary hospitals. To make the payment of capitation play a bigger role in cost control in China, a tighter alignment of capitation with the general practitioner system and achieving dual referral is critical for future studies.
Regulation of cell arrangement using a novel composite micropattern
Authors: Liu Xiaoyi , Liu Yaoping , Zhao Feng , Hun Tingting , Li Shan , Wang Yuguang , Sun Weijie , Wang Wei , Sun Yan , Fan Yubo 
Published: July 2017

AbstractMicropatterning technique has been used to control single cell geometry in many researches, however, this is no report that it is used to control multicelluar geometry, which not only control single cell geometry but also organize those cells by a certain pattern. In this work, a composite protein micropattern is developed to control both cell shape and cell location simultaneously. The composite micropattern consists of a central circle 15 μm in diameter for single‐cell capture, surrounded by small, square arrays (3 μm × 3 μm) for cell spreading. This is surrounded by a border 2 μm wide for restricting cell edges. The composite pattern results in two‐cell and three‐cell capture efficiencies of 32.1% ± 1.94% and 24.2% ± 2.89%, respectively, representing an 8.52% and 9.58% increase, respectively, over rates of original patterns. Fluorescent imaging of cytoskeleton alignment demonstrates that actin is gradually aligned parallel to the direction of the entire pattern arrangement, rather than to that of a single pattern. This indicates that cell arrangement is also an important factor in determining cell physiology. This composite micropattern could be a potential method to precisely control multi‐cells for cell junctions, cell interactions, cell signal transduction, and eventually for tissue rebuilding study. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 105A: 3093–3101, 2017.
Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure of Some 1,4‐Disubstituted Cyclopenta[d][1,2]oxazines
Authors: Tice Nathan C. , Collins Eric M. , Smith Darrin L. , Snyder Chad A. , Yan Bangbo , Stevens Edwin D. 
Published: July 2017

Oxazine‐based chemistry offers an alternative to thiophene and pyrrole semiconductors and has been largely unexplored for electronics applications. Discrete monomers or oxazine polymers could serve as an efficient hole carrier for novel devices. A series of 1,4‐disubstituted cyclopenta[d][1,2]oxazines (R = tolyl, p‐nitrophenyl, t‐buytl, furyl, and 5‐methylthienyl) were isolated via ring closure with hydroxylamine from a 1,2‐acylcyclopentadiene precursor. The target oxazines were characterized by NMR and IR spectroscopy and direct analysis in real time (DART) MS. Single‐crystal x‐ray structure determination confirmed the identity of the tolyl oxazine, which shows a face‐to‐face stacking pattern of the heterocyclic rings.
Experimental tests on members made from rolled angle sections
Authors: Spiliopoulos Andreas , Dasiou Maria‐Eleni , Thanopoulos Pavlos , Vayas Ioannis 
Published: July 2017

AbstractAngle sections are widely used in civil engineering applications and especially in lattice towers for telecommunication purposes. The principal and geometrical axes of angle sections do not coincide and exhibit very low rigidity when it comes to uniform and non‐uniform torsion. Thus, design expressions, e.g. those included in EN1993‐1‐1 or EN 1993‐3‐1, do not apply for cross‐sections or members composed of angle sections. In addition, limited experimental investigations of members made from angle sections can be found in the literature, and those are mostly for cold‐formed ones. This paper presents a test campaign involving members made from equal‐leg hot‐rolled angle sections which was carried out at the Institute of Steel Structures of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Tests included eight three‐point bending tests and 31 buckling tests on columns subjected to concentric and eccentric compression. The aims of the research are to use the experimental data for the calibration of numerical models, to investigate possible inelastic reserves in angles which have been detected in analytical models and to serve as a reference for the development of new design expressions oriented towards angle sections only.
The Biopolitics of Manning the Royal Navy in Late Stuart England
Authors: Neufeld Matthew 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThis article examines the Royal Navy's implementation between 1690 and 1710 of new and publicly controversial policies, grounded in quantitative technologies, to manage the multitude of English seamen. These policies and their promotion can be profitably interpreted using the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics. Naval biopolitics meant mobilizing and promoting political arithmetic in the service of the fiscal-naval state. Thus, naval biopolitics was both a new model of statecraft and a form of state publicity, that is, a genre of works that strove to influence government policy and public opinion by promoting projects that a polemicist argued the state could and should undertake to better govern its subjects. The directives, legislation, and pamphlet literature of naval biopolitics projected a fiscal-naval state capable of counting, tracking, and mobilizing the national stock of seamen onto its ships in a predictable, salubrious, and, most crucially, orderly fashion. However, English naval biopolitics endured much longer as a genre of state propaganda than as a method of mobilizing the population of seamen onto ships.
David Hume Is Pontiff of the World: Thomas Carlyle on Epicureanism, Laissez-Faire, and Public Opinion
Authors: Jordan Alexander 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThomas Carlyle (1795–1881) is well known as one of the earliest and most vociferous critics of Benthamite utilitarianism. However, Carlyle understood Benthamism as the culmination of a much longer eighteenth-century tradition of Epicurean thought. Having been an enthusiastic reader of David Hume during his youth, Carlyle later turned against him, waging an increasingly violent polemic against all forms of Epicureanism. In these later works, Carlyle not only rejected the pursuit of “pleasure” as an appropriate end for the life of the individual, but also took umbrage with Epicurean accounts of sociability as the philosophical underpinnings of laissez-faire, representative democracy, and “public opinion.” For Carlyle, self-interest, no matter how “enlightened,” balanced, or channeled by institutions, could never provide a stable foundation for a political community. Carlyle's contemporaries were aware that his work was intended as an attack on the Epicurean tradition. When John Stuart Mill attempted to defend Epicureanism against Carlyle, several of the latter's disciples and sympathizers responded by extending Carlyle's earlier censures on Epicureanism.
What will Happen to Race Equality Policy on the Brexit Archipelago? Multi-Level Governance, ‘Sunk Costs’ and the ‘Mischief of Faction’
Authors: MEER NASAR 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThis article considers how one of the ‘archipelago of contradictions’ raised by Brexit is the prospect of unconventional policy change, in so far as it includes – amongst other options – ‘returning’ to prior conventions that were scaled up from the UK to the EU, and then returned to the UK through EU directives. To explore this, the paper divides UK equality legislation into three types: (a) that which was created in the UK (b) that which flows from membership of the European Union and (c) that which reflects an outgrowth of the two. The translation of this into social policy has typically taken a patchwork approach, including a discursive public function which addresses the rights of distinct groups as well as their modes of interaction. The scope and scale of existing equality approaches have therefore become central to the kinds of social and political citizenship achieved by Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Britons. While the dangers of Brexit rhetoric are apparent to see, we do not yet know how withdrawal from the EU revises (a), (b) or (c). The article makes a tentative attempt to shed light on these entanglements by focusing on public policies enacted to pursue race equality in particular.
Synthetic-lattice enabled all-optical devices based on orbital angular momentum of light
Authors: Luo Xi-Wang , Zhou Xingxiang , Xu Jin-Shi , Li Chuan-Feng , Guo Guang-Can , Zhang Chuanwei , Zhou Zheng-Wei 
Published: July 2017

AbstractAll-optical photonic devices are crucial for many important photonic technologies and applications, ranging from optical communication to quantum information processing. Conventional design of all-optical devices is based on photon propagation and interference in real space, which may rely on large numbers of optical elements, and the requirement of precise control makes this approach challenging. Here we propose an unconventional route for engineering all-optical devices using the photon’s internal degrees of freedom, which form photonic crystals in such synthetic dimensions for photon propagation and interference. We demonstrate this design concept by showing how important optical devices such as quantum memory and optical filters can be realized using synthetic orbital angular momentum (OAM) lattices in degenerate cavities. The design route utilizing synthetic photonic lattices may significantly reduce the requirement for numerous optical elements and their fine tuning in conventional design, paving the way for realistic all-optical photonic devices with novel functionalities.
Singlet oxygen-based electrosensing by molecular photosensitizers
Authors: Trashin Stanislav , Rahemi Vanoushe , Ramji Karpagavalli , Neven Liselotte , Gorun Sergiu M. , De Wael Karolien 
Published: July 2017

AbstractEnzyme-based electrochemical biosensors are an inspiration for the development of (bio)analytical techniques. However, the instability and reproducibility of the reactivity of enzymes, combined with the need for chemical reagents for sensing remain challenges for the construction of useful devices. Here we present a sensing strategy inspired by the advantages of enzymes and photoelectrochemical sensing, namely the integration of aerobic photocatalysis and electrochemical analysis. The photosensitizer, a bioinspired perfluorinated Zn phthalocyanine, generates singlet-oxygen from air under visible light illumination and oxidizes analytes, yielding electrochemically-detectable products while resisting the oxidizing species it produces. Compared with enzymatic detection methods, the proposed strategy uses air instead of internally added reactive reagents, features intrinsic baseline correction via on/off light switching and shows C-F bonds-type enhanced stability. It also affords selectivity imparted by the catalytic process and nano-level detection, such as 20 nM amoxicillin in μl sample volumes.
Sediment transport drives tidewater glacier periodicity
Authors: Brinkerhoff Douglas , Truffer Martin , Aschwanden Andy 
Published: July 2017

AbstractMost of Earth’s glaciers are retreating, but some tidewater glaciers are advancing despite increasing temperatures and contrary to their neighbors. This can be explained by the coupling of ice and sediment dynamics: a shoal forms at the glacier terminus, reducing ice discharge and causing advance towards an unstable configuration followed by abrupt retreat, in a process known as the tidewater glacier cycle. Here we use a numerical model calibrated with observations to show that interactions between ice flow, glacial erosion, and sediment transport drive these cycles, which occur independent of climate variations. Water availability controls cycle period and amplitude, and enhanced melt from future warming could trigger advance even in glaciers that are steady or retreating, complicating interpretations of glacier response to climate change. The resulting shifts in sediment and meltwater delivery from changes in glacier configuration may impact interpretations of marine sediments, fjord geochemistry, and marine ecosystems.
Direct observation of topological surface-state arcs in photonic metamaterials
Authors: Yang Biao , Guo Qinghua , Tremain Ben , Barr Lauren E. , Gao Wenlong , Liu Hongchao , Béri Benjamin , Xiang Yuanjiang , Fan Dianyuan , Hibbins Alastair P. , Zhang Shuang 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe discovery of topological phases has introduced new perspectives and platforms for various interesting physics originally investigated in quantum contexts and then, on an equal footing, in classic wave systems. As a characteristic feature, nontrivial Fermi arcs, connecting between topologically distinct Fermi surfaces, play vital roles in the classification of Dirac and Weyl semimetals, and have been observed in quantum materials very recently. However, in classical systems, no direct experimental observation of Fermi arcs in momentum space has been reported so far. Here, using near-field scanning measurements, we show the observation of photonic topological surface-state arcs connecting topologically distinct bulk states in a chiral hyperbolic metamaterial. To verify the topological nature of this system, we further observe backscattering-immune propagation of a nontrivial surface wave across a three-dimension physical step. Our results demonstrate a metamaterial approach towards topological photonics and offer a deeper understanding of topological phases in three-dimensional classical systems.
Metallicity without quasi-particles in room-temperature strontium titanate
Authors: Lin Xiao , Rischau Carl Willem , Buchauer Lisa , Jaoui Alexandre , Fauqué Benoît , Behnia Kamran 
Published: July 2017

AbstractCooling oxygen-deficient strontium titanate to liquid-helium temperature leads to a decrease in its electrical resistivity by several orders of magnitude. The temperature dependence of resistivity follows a rough T3 behavior before becoming T2 in the low-temperature limit, as expected in a Fermi liquid. Here, we show that the roughly cubic resistivity above 100 K corresponds to a regime where the quasi-particle mean-free-path is shorter than the electron wave-length and the interatomic distance. These criteria define the Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit. Exceeding this limit is the hallmark of strange metallicity, which occurs in strontium titanate well below room temperature, in contrast to other perovskytes. We argue that the T3-resistivity cannot be accounted for by electron-phonon scattering à la Bloch–Gruneisen and consider an alternative scheme based on Landauer transmission between individual dopants hosting large polarons. We find a scaling relationship between carrier mobility, the electric permittivity and the frequency of transverse optical soft mode in this temperature range. Providing an account of this observation emerges as a challenge to theory.
Maternally-transmitted microbiota affects odor emission and preference in Drosophila larva
Authors: Farine Jean-Pierre , Habbachi Wafa , Cortot Jérôme , Roche Suzy , Ferveur Jean-François 
Published: July 2017

AbstractExperimental studies show that early sensory experience often affects subsequent sensory preference, suggesting that the heterogeneity of sensory cues in nature could induce significant inter-individual behavioral variation, potentially contributing to maintain intraspecific diversity. To test this hypothesis, we explored the behavioral effect induced by variation in the levels of a self-produced chemical, acetoin, and its link with intraspecific diversity. Acetoin is a pheromone-like substance produced by gut-associated microorganisms in Drosophila. Using wild-type Drosophila melanogaster populations producing variable acetoin levels, we (i) characterized factors involved in this variation and (ii) manipulated some of these factors to affect acetoin responses in larvae. We found that increased and decreased variations in acetoin levels were caused by microorganisms associated with the outside and inside of the egg, respectively. Wild-type larvae preferred acetoin-rich food only when they both produced and were exposed to substantial amounts of acetoin. The removal of the outside of the egg or the genetic alteration of olfaction abolished this preference. In contrast, larvae exposed to high doses of synthetic acetoin were repulsed by acetoin. The similar effects obtained with freshly caught wild-type lines suggest that this acetoin “production-preference” link underlies the diversity of acetoin-producing microorganisms among natural D. melanogaster populations.
High performance surface-modified TiO2/silicone nanocomposite
Authors: Huang Pei , Shi Han-Qiao , Xiao Hong-Mei , Li Yuan-Qing , Hu Ning , Fu Shao-Yun 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe mismatch of refractive index (RI) between light emitting diode (LED) chips and packaging resins severely lowers the lighting emitting efficacy of LED. The RI can be enhanced by the introduction of high RI nanoparticles but meanwhile it is a great challenge to maintain the high transparency for resins due to the agglomeration of nanoparticles. In this work, a facile strategy is proposed to fabricate silicone nanocomposites with a high transparency (>88%, less than 2% decrease relative to pure silicone resin), largely enhanced RI (an increase from 1.42 to 1.60) and improved thermal stability (73 °C increase in weight loss of 50%). Specifically, the ultra-fine monodispersed TiO2/silicone composites are prepared by direct solvent mixing of 1 wt% surface modified TiO2 nanoparticles (S-TiO2) into the silicone resin, in which S-TiO2 are prepared by direct introduction of titanate coupling agent in the process of TiO2 growth to induce the formation of protective layer on the surfaces of TiO2 nanoparticles. This methodology demonstrated is simple, cost-effective and versatile for the massive fabrication of highly transparent LED packaging materials with greatly enhanced refractive index and meanwhile enhanced thermal stability.
Mean Bias in Seasonal Forecast Model and ENSO Prediction Error
Authors: Kim Seon Tae , Jeong Hye-In , Jin Fei-Fei 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThis study uses retrospective forecasts made using an APEC Climate Center seasonal forecast model to investigate the cause of errors in predicting the amplitude of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven sea surface temperature variability. When utilizing Bjerknes coupled stability (BJ) index analysis, enhanced errors in ENSO amplitude with forecast lead times are found to be well represented by those in the growth rate estimated by the BJ index. ENSO amplitude forecast errors are most strongly associated with the errors in both the thermocline slope response and surface wind response to forcing over the tropical Pacific, leading to errors in thermocline feedback. This study concludes that upper ocean temperature bias in the equatorial Pacific, which becomes more intense with increasing lead times, is a possible cause of forecast errors in the thermocline feedback and thus in ENSO amplitude.
Ta2O5-TiO2 Composite Charge-trapping Dielectric for the Application of the Nonvolatile Memory
Authors: Wei C. Y. , Shen B. , Ding P. , Han P. , Li A. D. , Xia Y. D. , Xu B. , Yin J. , Liu Z. G. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe charge-trapping memory devices with a structure Pt/Al2O3/(Ta2O5)
x
(TiO2)
1−x
/Al2O3/p-Si (x = 0.9, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25) were fabricated by using rf-sputtering and atomic layer deposition techniques. A special band alignment between (Ta2O5)
x
(TiO2)
1−x
and Si substrate was designed to enhance the memory performance by controlling the composition and dielectric constant of the charge-trapping layer and reducing the difference of the potentials at the bottom of the conduction band between (Ta2O5)
x
(TiO2)
1−x
and Si substrate. The memory device with a composite charge storage layer (Ta2O5)
0.5
(TiO2)
0.5
shows a density of trapped charges 3.84 × 1013/cm2 at ± 12 V, a programming/erasing speed of 1 µs at ± 10 V, a 8% degradation of the memory window at ± 10 V after 104 programming/erasing cycles and a 32% losing of trapped charges after ten years. The difference among the activation energies of the trapped electrons in (Ta2O5)
x
(TiO2)
1−x
CTM devices indicates that the retention characteristics are dominated by the difference of energy level for the trap sites in each TTO CTM device.
DES-TOMATO: A Knowledge Exploration System Focused On Tomato Species
Authors: Salhi Adil , Negrão Sónia , Essack Magbubah , Morton Mitchell J. L. , Bougouffa Salim , Razali Rozaimi , Radovanovic Aleksandar , Marchand Benoit , Kulmanov Maxat , Hoehndorf Robert , Tester Mark , Bajic Vladimir B. 
Published: July 2017

AbstractTomato is the most economically important horticultural crop used as a model to study plant biology and particularly fruit development. Knowledge obtained from tomato research initiated improvements in tomato and, being transferrable to other such economically important crops, has led to a surge of tomato-related research and published literature. We developed DES-TOMATO knowledgebase (KB) for exploration of information related to tomato. Information exploration is enabled through terms from 26 dictionaries and combination of these terms. To illustrate the utility of DES-TOMATO, we provide several examples how one can efficiently use this KB to retrieve known or potentially novel information. DES-TOMATO is free for academic and nonprofit users and can be accessed at http://cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/des_tomato/, using any of the mainstream web browsers, including Firefox, Safari and Chrome.