bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Longitudinal Changes in Vascular Risk Markers and Mortality Rates among a Latino Population with Hypertension
Authors: Pflederer Matthew C. , Long Carlin S. , Beaty Brenda , Havranek Edward P. , Mehler Philip S. , Keniston Angela , Krantz Mori J. 
Published: April 2016

Vascular markers such as pulse-wave velocity and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) might improve the prediction of incident cardiovascular disease beyond traditional risk factors. These vascular markers have not been well characterized in minority populations and might be more useful than inflammatory biomarkers. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal cohort study among hypertensive patients in an urban safety-net hospital. We evaluated inflammatory biomarkers, arterial pulse-wave velocity, and carotid intima-media thickness at baseline, 1 year, and 2 years. The primary outcome variable was CIMT. Generalized linear mixed-effects models were used to evaluate associations between CIMT and predictive variables accounting for the correlation of multiple measurements within subjects over time. For our secondary outcome, we used administrative and National Death Index data to determine all-cause death, and univariate relationships were evaluated.
Among 175 subjects, 117 were Latino (67%) and 117 were female (67%). Pulse-wave velocity and CIMT regressed over time (both P <0.001) and were highly correlated (P <0.001). Only pulse-wave velocity (P=0.002) and total cholesterol (P=0.03) were associated with CIMT in time-varying covariate analysis. At a median follow-up period of 80 months, 17 of 175 subjects had died (10%). Higher baseline CIMT and pulse-wave velocity were associated with increased mortality rates (both P <0.01). No serum inflammatory marker was significantly correlated with longitudinal changes in CIMT or death. In conclusion, both arterial stiffness and preclinical carotid atherosclerosis were associated with increased mortality rates and might be useful risk-stratification markers among this minority population.
Heavy Lifting Causing Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection with Anterior Myocardial Infarction in a 54-Year-Old Woman
Authors: Yiangou Kyriakos , Papadopoulos Kyriacos , Azina Chara 
Published: April 2016

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in association with strenuous exercise and weightlifting is rather sparsely described in the medical literature. Diagnosis and treatment of this rare condition is a challenge, but prompt recognition and appropriate early choice of angioplasty or surgery can lead to a good outcome.
We report the case of a postmenopausal 54-year-old woman who presented with anterior myocardial infarction caused by spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery after she had lifted a heavy weight while gardening. The patient was treated successfully by means of angioplasty and the implantation of 3 drug-eluting stents. In addition to presenting the patient's case, we review the topical medical literature.
Experience of Phototherapy in Dermatological Praxis in Complex Therapy of Psoriasis Patients
Authors: Hartmane Ilona , Mikažāns Ingmārs , Ivdra Iveta , Dērveniece Andra , Ančupāne Ināra 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Psoriasis is a chronic relapsing skin disease presenting with erythematous and papulous lesions with infiltration and extensive desquamation on the skin surface. It is a genetically determined, multifactorial dermatosis where genetic, immune, and environmental factors play significant roles in its development. In Latvia in treatment of different forms of extensively spreading psoriasis, PUVA (psoralen and ultraviolet A light therapy), a combined method, is administered, applying long-wave UVA radiation with wavelength 320–400 nm in combination with photosensibilisator 8-metoxypsoralen and medium wave length UVB radiation narrow-band phototherapy — 311 nm using specialised TL-01 lamps. The aim of our clinical investigation was to determine the efficacy of narrow-band phototherapy (UVB 311 nm) in the complex treatment of patients with different severity of extensive psoriatic lesions treated in the Clinical Centre of Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Cases of clinical data of 260 patients with widely spread psoriasis were analysed. In the Group 1 (n = 102) receiving narrow-band UVB therapy, the mean and cumulative UVB dosage was 1.8 ± 0.6 and 21.5 ± 3.8 J/cm2, respectively, whereas in Group 2 (n = 91) it was 2.2 ± 0.1 and 27.7 ± 8.0 J/cm2. To obtain clinical recovery, 18 to 30 procedures were necessary (average 22 ± 4.1) with total irradiation dose received 110 ± 4.6 J/cm2. In 67 patients of the control group, PUVA therapy was administered, and positive therapeutic efficacy was observed in all patients. Clinical recovery was obtained in 86.2% in patients of the Group 1, in 82.4% — of Group 2, and in 80% — in 67 patients of the control group. Narrow-band (311 nm) UVB phototherapy is currently one of the leading pathogenetical methods of treatment of patients with widespread psoriasis. It has high efficacy, good tolerability, does not have severe side effects and restrictions in use, in comparison with traditional PUVA therapy.
Preliminary Results on the Effect of 1-Methylcyclopropene on Quality of Plums Grown in Latvia
Authors: Radenkovs Vitālijs , Kaufmane Edīte , Rubauskis Edgars , Segliņa Dalija 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Plums are one of the most popular, perspective and frequently consumed fruits in Latvia. Plums are typical climacteric fruits, respiration occurs during ripening. Respiration rate is mainly associated with synthesis of autocatalytic ethylene and depends of the cultivar of fruits. Metabolic processes occurring during plum storage cause changes in fruit quality. The aim of this work was to determine the effect of treatment by 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) on physical and chemical characteristics and sensory qualities of five plum (Prunus domestica L.) cultivar fruits (‘Adele’, ‘Sonora’, ‘Victoria’, ‘Stanley’, ‘Minjona’) during four weeks of storage in a cool store-room at temperature 3±1 °C. The following analyses were performed to evaluate quality changes during storage: mass loss, concentration of total acids and soluble solids, firmness, and sensory qualities (colour, flavour, acidity, sweetness, firmness, and stone adherence). The study showed that treatment with 1-MCP had positive effect on fruit firmness during four weeks of plum storage, and there were significant differences in the content of total acids and soluble solids between 1-MCP-treated and control plum fruits. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in flavour (aroma) and colour between treated and untreated plum fruits, while 1-MCP-treated fruits were firmer and more sour.
Academic Social Networks: How the web is changing our way to make and communicate researches
Authors: Bonaiuti Giovanni 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Networking is not only essential for success in academia, but it should also be seen as a natural component of the scholarly profession. Research is typically not a purely individualistic enterprise. Academic social network sites give researchers the ability to publicise their research outputs and connect with each other. This work aims to investigate the use done by Italian scholars of 11/D2 scientific field. The picture presented shows a realistic insight into the Italian situation, although since the phenomenon is in rapid evolution results are not stable and generalizable.
A framework to evaluate the educational potential of a digital artefact for math learning
Authors: Chiappini Giampaolo 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This article provides a methodology with two potential applications: to prove useful to maths teachers for analysing and evaluating the educational potential of different digital artefacts and to help designers of maths learning artefacts to evaluate their design during the implementation phase. The educational potential of an artefact is considered as an entity determined by actions and representations structure available within the artefact, the interpretation and behaviour of who uses it and the features of the activity in which it is used. The proposed methodology is based on the notions of affordance, narrative and cycle of expansive learning. The methodology has been applied on AlNuSet, a system designed for supporting the teaching and learning of algebra by means of modalities of interaction that are of visual, spatial and motor nature.
The digital in the nursery and kindergarten: create immersive narratives through collaboration
Authors: Pennazioa Valentina , Traversob Andrea 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This paper presents a research experience (case study) on the use of digital technologies for the development of the ability to invent stories for images in a collaborative way, in some nurseries (0-3 years) and in some kindergartens in La Spezia. We have involved in the experience: the sections of the older children of the nursery (3 years); the heterogeneous sections of kindergarten, with the aim of presenting different educational activities and technologies (PC, tablet, projector ...) - prepared by educators-teachers and researchers - in an immersive environment to enable children to enter into the image and interact with it. The collaborative activities have also predicted the use of i- Theatre, an interactive integrated system for the narrative creation of multimedia stories. During the activities, educators and researchers conducted free observations that aim to bring out possible elements of transferability of the experience and set the second stage of work (model of research-training).
Cytology of Pericardial Effusion due to Malignancy
Authors: Kalogeraki Alexandra , Lazopoulos George , Papadakis Georgios Z. , Tamiolakis Dimitrios , Karvela-Kalogeraki Iliana , Karvelas-Kalogerakis Mihailos , Segredakis John , Papadakis Michael , Moustou Eleni , Datseri Galateia , Chalkiadakis George E. , Tzardi Maria 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Background. Malignant pericardial effusion occurs in one tenth of all cancers. It is a very serious disorder that is mainly a secondary process due to metastasis because primary neoplasms of the pericardium such as mesotheliomas, sarcomas being exceedingly rare.
Pericardial effusions with a cardiac tamponade constitute a surgical emergency and the pericardiocentesis represents the first class therapeutic recommendation. Pericardial effusion specimens are uncommon and to the best of our knowledge the current study is the largest systematic evaluation of pericardial fluid cytology performed to date.
Material and Methods. Pericardial effusion specimens from 145 patients collected over a 10 year period were studied by cytology and results were compared with pericardial histology results. The minimum pericardial fluid volume used for adequate cytologic diagnosis in these patients was more than 60 mL.
Results. Cytological diagnosis revealed malignant pericardial exudates in 100% of the studied patients. There was no any false negative result in comparison with histology.
Conclusions. Cytology provides an immediate and accurate means of diagnosis. Immunocytology is very important in the diagnostic evaluation.
Kooperativer Gesetzesvollzug in ostdeutschen Kommunen
Authors: Kuhlmann Sabine 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
Im folgenden Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit und durch welche Faktoren bedingt sich nunmehr über zehn Jahre nach dem Systemwechsel der Gesetzesvollzug in den ostdeutschen Kommunen dem Typus einer „verhandelnden Verwaltung“ angenähert hat. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen einer Rechtstatsachenstudie im Bereich der lokalen Bauverwaltung1, wird die Entwicklung von einer rechtsrelativistischen „vormodernen“, Verwaltung zur informal-kooperativen „postmodernen“ Verwaltung oder „postklassischen Bürokratie“, in der das Legalitätsprinzip zur strategischen Ressource wird, nachgezeichnet und ursächlich erklärt. Anknüpfend an die aktuelle Diskussion um (Good) Public Governance, wonach nicht-hierarchische, kooperative Handlungsformen von Staat und Verwaltung als „modernitätsfördernd“ anzusehen seien, wird gefragt, ob dieser Übergang in Ostdeutschland tatsächlich eine Modernisierung der Verwaltung darstellt.
Korruption und Netzwerke
Authors: Hiller Petra 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
Der Text diskutiert Korruption und Netzwerke in gesellschaftstheoretischer Perspektive. Dabei wird sichtbar, dass Korruption als ein Fall des Scheiterns funktionaler Differenzierung beschrieben werden kann, und zwar auf der Ebene von Organisation und Netzwerk. Was als Korruption beobachtet wird, ist die Verknüpfung von Sinnhorizonten der Kommunikation. Auch Netzwerke, die durch die reflexive Kombination von Adressen entstehen, verknüpfen unterschiedliche Sinnkontexte. Mit der Aufdeckung dieser strukturellen Affinität von Korruption und Netzwerk erarbeitet der Text einen Vorschlag, an dem eine soziologische Beschreibung von Korruption als Netzwerkphänomen ansetzen kann.
Elektronische Agenten und große Menschenaffen
Authors: Teubner Gunther 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
Zur Zeit wird in den Debatten über Eigenrechte der Natur und über das Potential von elektronischen Agenten verstärkt die Ausweitung des Akteursstatus in Politik und Recht gefordert. Der Beitrag vertritt dazu folgende Thesen: (1) Die Personifizierung von nicht-menschlichen Entitäten dürfte am besten zu verstehen sein als eine Strategie des Umgangs mit Ungewissheit über die Identität eines Anderen. Sie verlagert das Zuschreibungsschema von Kausalität auf doppelte Kontingenz und eröffnet die Möglichkeit der Interaktion, indem sie die Selbstreferenzialität des Anderen unterstellt. (2) Allerdings gibt es keinen zwingenden Grund, den Akteursstatus ausschließlich auf Menschen und soziale Systeme zu beschränken, wie es in Niklas Luhmanns Konzept des Kollektivakteurs angelegt ist. Die Personifizierung anderer nicht-menschlicher Prozessoren ist gegenwärtig bereits soziale Realität und dürfte zukünftig eine politische Notwendigkeit sein. (3) Dabei erweist es sich als notwendig, über Bruno Latours Einheitskonzept des neuen Akteurs hinauszugehen. Die Anerkennung als neuer gesellschaftlicher Akteur erfolgt nicht, wie Latour nahelegt, lediglich in einem einzigen Kollektiv. Vielmehr produziert die gesellschaftliche Fragmentierung in verschiedene Sinnwelten eine Vielzahl von neuen Akteuren, die je unterschiedliche Handlungskapazitäten aufweisen.
Juristische Praxis im Rechtspluralismus – Die Rechtsprechung zum Khasigewohnheitsrecht als Teil der indischen „personal laws“ zwischen Rechtspluralismus und juristischer Dogmatik
Authors: Dick Judith 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
Dieser Beitrag überbrückt die disziplinären Grenzen zwischen Rechtswissenschaft und Ethnologie mit einer Untersuchung des Umgangs der Rechtsprechung mit der juristischen Theorie und Methodik im Rechtspluralismus. Dazu werden zwei Urteile zum Gewohnheitsrecht der indischen Ethnie Khasi aus rechtspluralistischer Perspektive analysiert. Einmal wird Gewohnheitsrecht zur Auslegung eines unbestimmten Rechtsbegriffes des staatlichen Gesetzes herangezogen, das andere Mal wird das Mehrheitsrecht zum Vergleich herangezogen, um das Minderheitsrecht zu interpretieren. In dieser Perspektive geht es nicht um eine kollisionsrechtliche Anwendungsmathematik, sondern um eine vorurteilsfreie Beschreibung, die die gegenseitigen Beeinflussungen, Vermischungen und Abgrenzungen der Rechtssysteme sichtbar macht. Das Ergebnis rückt einerseits Fragen nach den Rechtsprechenden, ihrer Geschlechtersicht, ihren Begriffsystemen und ihrer juristischen Ausbildung in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Andererseits stellt sich die Frage, wie Rechtspluralismus adäquat in der juristischen Dogmatik verankert werden kann.
Mit Geschichten argumentieren – Argumentation und Narration im Strafverfahren
Authors: Hannken-Illjes Kati 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
In der klassischen Gerichtsrede sind für die Überzeugung des Gegenübers zwei Teile zentral: die narratio und die argumentatio. Auch in der zeitgenössischen juristischen Rhetorik spielt beides, das Erzählen und das Gründe Geben und Nehmen als zentrale Methoden der Wissensproduktion im juristischen Verfahren eine große Rolle. Zwar werden Narration und Argumentation in der Linguistik häufig als grundsätzlich differente Textsorten betrachtet, in der klassischen Rhetorik hingegen war dieser Unterschied in den Anfängen quasi nicht existent und wurde auch später nicht immer so klar gezogen. Dieser Aufsatz fragt nun am Beispiel der Entwicklung eines Straffalls nach dem Verhältnis von Argumentation und Narration in Strafverfahren. Eingangs werde ich kurz die verschiedenen Perspektiven auf Strafverfahren aus narrations- und argumentationstheoretischer Sicht erläutern, um dann die Entwicklung eines Themas in einem konkreten Strafverfahren in Hinblick auf seine narrative und argumentative Gestaltung analysieren. Meine These ist, dass im Strafverfahren durch die Transformation von Geschichten zu Argumente erstere als Produkte des Prozesses der Wahrheitskonstitution etabliert werden.
Rechtssoziologie und Law and Society – Die deutsche Rechtssoziologie zwischen Krise und Neuaufbruch
Authors: Wrase Michael 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
Die Rechtssoziologie hatte es von Anfang an schwer, sich als Wissenschaft „auf der Grenze“ zwischen den Disziplinen zu behaupten. Dennoch hat sie in den 1970er und 80er Jahren beachtliche Erfolge errungen, ist aber spätestens Ende der 90er Jahre in eine Krise geraten. Dabei ist ihr wissenschaftlicher Stellenwert eigentlich kaum (mehr) umstritten. Der Beitrag versucht, die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Rechtssoziologie in Deutschland - aus einer spezifisch institutionellen Sicht - nachzuzeichnen, und, insbesondere im Vergleich mit der Entwicklung des Law and Society movement in den USA, Möglichkeiten und Chancen aufzeigen, wie sich die Rechtssoziologie als ein wichtiges Forschungsfeld in Zukunft besser positionieren kann. Die formulierten Thesen verstehen sich als Beitrag zu einer breiteren Diskussion, die von den Herausgeber/innen der Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie im Jahr 2000 angestoßen wurde.
Social Regulation in the Air Transport Industry – An Examination of Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when travelling by Air
Authors: Varney Eliza 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
The regulation of the air transport industry has implications for individuals not just in their capacity as consumers, but also as citizens. Transport goes beyond the mere provision of an economic service and enables us to be actively involved in economic and social life. It is, therefore, surprising that in the current framework for regulating the air transport industry, economic regulation seems to have the predominant voice, while social regulation is not given significant emphasis. Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility (PRM) when travelling by air appears to redress the balance in favour of social regulation. In Recital 1, the measure emphasises the citizenship rights of disabled persons and PRM. Yet, the provisions of the Regulation fail to reflect the tone of the preamble. The provisions make no reference to the need to respect the dignity of disabled persons and PRM. Instead, the measures concentrate on the provision of services to disabled persons and PRM, and on ensuring that airline operators do not discriminate against these passengers. This paper suggests that by failing to make any specific reference to “dignity” in the body of the Regulation, the measure does not protect effectively the values inherent in the notion of citizenship, such as equality of citizenship. By providing a framework in which airlines are required to refrain from discriminating on the basis of disability and age, the EU does not necessarily succeed in promoting equality.
(Post)Colonial Culture and the South African Legal System: Understanding the Relationship between Living Customary Law and State Law
Authors: Mnisi Sindiso 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
This paper traces the relationship between state law and indigenous systems in South Africa from its incipience, and argues that living customary law has been systematically ignored or inaccurately applied. In it, I advocate a paradigm shift as being fundamental to developing the theories, methods and standards adopted in consideration of customary law. I use the law of succession as a vehicle for displaying the clash of state and customary law and, herewith, expound the process by which this tension came about. In conclusion, I argue that a paradigm shift allowing for customary law to be understood within its own functioning and value system, rather than in a manner imposing western notions of society, culture and progress is necessary. This will enable the reunion of the South African legal order and reincorporation of customary communities into the national project.
Good Faith in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Mapping a Shift from Enforcement to Voluntary Compliance
Authors: Thomas Dania , García-Fronti Javier 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Our examination of changes in the period leading up to the Argentine debt exchange and after, reveals that with Collective Action Clauses (CACs), the sovereign debt market is increasingly reliant on good faith as a standard of fair dealing to ensure fair and orderly debt restructurings in the future. Unlike the entrenched, enforceable, doctrinal good faith in domestic jurisdictions such as the U.S., the norm relied on in the sovereign debt market is a contextual open norm similar to the notion of Treu und Glauben, section 242 BGB of the German civil code. It is not a legal rule with specific requirements that need to be fulfilled. This paper reveals that reliance on a contextual, open norm is evidence of a shift in the framework that regulates sovereign debt restructurings: a shift from enforcement to voluntary compliance. Further, we argue that in the absence of a multilateral, regulatory, framework that embeds good faith as a specific standard of fair dealing, this reliance will exacerbate not solve the problem of sovereign debt restructurings.
Risk, Human Rights and the Management of a Serious Sex Offender
Authors: Whitty Noel 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Risk and human rights discourses have become dominant features of the UK criminal justice arena. However, there has been little critical scrutiny of the ways in which these discourses relate to each other. In this article, I focus on different accounts of the case of Anthony Rice, a 48-year old ex-offender who committed a murder in August 2005 whilst under the joint supervision of English probation and police services. Drawing upon official reviews by the Inspectorate of Probation and the UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, as well as media coverage, I use the Rice case to problematise some common assumptions about the relationship between risk and human rights.
Selbstsubversive Gerechtigkeit: Kontingenz- oder Transzendenzformel des Rechts? / Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendency Formula of Law?
Authors: Teubner Gunther 
Published: April 2016

Zusammenfassung
In Auseinandersetzung mit Niklas Luhmann und Jacques Derrida verfolgt der Beitrag die Frage, ob die Rechtssoziologie zur Formulierung eines heute plausiblen und sozialadäquaten Gerechtigkeitskonzeptes beizutragen vermag. Unter Bedingungen der Polykontexturalität, so lautet die These, ist Gerechtigkeit nicht nur als Kontingenzformel, sondern als Transzendenzformel des Rechtes zu verstehen. Gerechtigkeit kann nicht mehr als rechtliches Entscheidungskriterium oder als oberstes Rechtsprinzip dienen, sondern ist selbst der Prozess juridischer Selbstbeschreibung, der das Rechtssystem zu seiner Selbsttranszendierung zwingt, der es aber sogleich wieder unter den Fortsetzungszwang setzt, weitere rechtsimmanente Operationen zu produzieren. Doch erzeugen die restriktiven Bedingungen des Rechtssystems - Entscheidungszwang, Normierungszwang, Begründungszwang - zwangsläufig neue Ungerechtigkeit, gegen welche die Gerechtigkeit dann erneut protestieren muss, um sich dann wieder den Zwängen des Rechtssystems aussetzen zu müssen.