bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Suggestive symptoms and signs of pulmonary thromboembolism in cardiac failure
Authors: Niculescu Zizi , Ghinea Mihaela Maria , Niculescu C. , Grigorian M. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Pulmonary thrombembolism can be a complication or it can lead to the onset of heart failure. The early diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism may make the difference between life and death. The aim of the study was to determine pulmonary thromboembolism incidence in patients with cardiac failure and to attempt diagnosis optimization.
Study group included 150 patients admitted at Medical Clinic II, Emergency Clinical County Hospital Constanta with preexistent known or unknown heart disease, which led to cardiac failure. Patients were suspected with incipient pulmonary thromboembolism. Dyspnea was the most frequently manifested symptom leading to pulmonary thromboembolism suspicion (99%). Pulmonary thromboembolism suggestive dyspnea displayed two forms: sudden onset of dyspnea and increased dyspnea in patients suffering from dyspnea at rest. Thoracic pain was present in approximately 90% of the patients and was manifested in two forms: retrosternal pain, not increasing with respiratory movement, and acute localized thoracic pain, accompanied by hemoptysis and dyspnea; these symptoms suggest pulmonary infarction.
Pulmonary thromboembolism complicates clinically manifested heart failure or precipitates heart failure onset in patients with latent myocardial dysfunction.
Essential thrombocythemia – Incidence of thrombotic complications
Authors: Ghinea Mihaela Maria , Niculescu Zizi , Niculescu C. , Grigorian M. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Essential thrombocytemia is a classic negative chronic myeloproliferative disease BCR-ABL characterized by global myeloid proliferation but mainly on the megacariocitary series. Most symptomatic patients show manifestations due to the vascular thromboses or haemorrhages. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the incidence of thrombotic complications.
The study was carried out in the Haematology Compartment of Constanta County Clinical Hospital on a lot of 60 cases with essential thrombocytemia.
The diagnosis criteria were OMS 2008 criteria.
On the studied lot, on the diagnosis, 45 patients (75%) were symptomatic. Among the symptomatic ones 27 patients (60%) showed thromboembolic manifestations in the moment of the diagnosis or after diagnosis.
The thrombotic manifestations present at the patients with essential thrombocytemia taken for the study were: cerebral micro thromboses - 10 cases; peripheral micro thromboses - 3 cases; erythromelalgia - 6 cases; acrocyanosis - 2 cases; coronary thrombosis - 1 case; portal vein thrombosis - 2 cases; pulmonary thromboembolism - 1 case; thrombosis of placenta vessels- 2 cases.
The thrombocytosis degree is not the only important risk factor for thrombosis. The age over 60 years, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, atherosclerosis, are associated risk factors (independent from thrombocytosis) for the frequency and severity of the thromboses. In this framework, on the one hand the increase of accessibility to the background therapy proven efficient (interferon, anagrelide) and on the other hand the mentioning in the cardiovascular pathology guides of primary and secondary thromboses as risk factors along with hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemias, etc is required.
Some Aspects of Burnout in Nursing Homes
Authors: Leskovic Ljiljana , Vukovič Goran , Leskovar Robert , Goriup Jana 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Nursing personnel in nursing homes for elderly citizens are exposed to a number of factors that contribute to possible burnout syndrome. For this reason, the set objective of the research was to measure the degree of burnout, check the correlation between the burnout syndrome and satisfaction at work, and psychosomatic symptoms, as well as to figure out the main characteristics of burnout syndrome among the nursing personnel in nursing homes for the elderly in Slovenia.
Intercultural Primary Education in the Second Half of the Decade
Authors: Osaďan Róbert , Reid Elizabeth , Belešová Mária 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Intercultural education advances the comprehension of different people and cultures. It emphasizes teaching that accepts and respects that diversity is normal in all areas of life. It attempts to sensitize the pupil to the concept that we all have developed in varied ways and that different does not mean “wrong”. In the presented article, we deal with a term defined in the context of intercultural education. We think about the way of its implementation in primary education, while respecting all the attributes of cultural differentiation. Intercultural education examines forms of xenophobia, trying to diminish them, and advocates equal opportunities for all. Intercultural education works to modify individuals and institutions and so transform the society (What is intercultural education? Do we in the West have the materials to accomplish this in our classrooms?).
Adaptation in Affective Video Games: A Literature Review
Authors: Bontchev Boyan 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Playing computer games is a predominantly emotional than rational process. Video games with affect-based adaptation measure player’s behavior signals and recognize player’s emotional states in order to adapt specific game features in a dynamic manner and to improve player’s engagement, immersion, excitement, and challenge. The present review deals with models for the presentation of emotions, techniques for measuring behavioral signals, emotion recognition and adaptation mechanisms applied in video games with affective feedback including methods for their assessment and validation. Studies using self-reports, observational methods and psychophysiological measurements of both autonomic and central nervous systems including processing and interpretation of signals are systematically reviewed with regard to their results concerning emotional adaptation in games. Next, the article provides a comparative analysis of affect-based adaptation methods and techniques applied in 14 adaptive video games developed in last ten years. Based on this comparison, we summarized future directions in research, design and evaluation of video games with affective adaption.
E-CDGM: An Evolutionary Call-Dependency Graph Modularization Approach for Software Systems
Authors: Izadkhah Habib , Elgedawy Islam , Isazadeh Ayaz 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Lack of up-to-date software documentation hinders the software evolution and maintenance processes, as simply the outdated software structure and code could be easily misunderstood. One approach to overcoming such problems is using software modularization, in which the software architecture is extracted from the available source code; such that developers can assess the reconstructed architecture against the required changes. Unfortunately, existing software modularization approaches are not accurate, as they ignore polymorphic calls among system modules. Furthermore, they are tightly coupled to the used programming language. To overcome such problems, this paper proposes the E-CDGM approach. E-CDGM decouples the extracted call dependency graph from the programming language by using the proposed intermediate code language (known as mCode). It also takes into consideration the polymorphic calls during the call dependency graph generation. It uses a new evolutionary optimization approach to find the best modularization option; adopting reward and penalty functions. Finally, it uses statistical analysis to build a final consolidated modularization model using different generated modularization solutions. Experimental results show that the proposed E-CDGM approach provides more accurate results when compared against existing well-known modularization approaches.
A Generalized Erlang-C Model for the Enhanced Living Environment as a Service (ELEaaS)
Authors: Mirtchev Seferin T. , Goleva Rossitza I. , Atamian Dimitar K. , Mirtchev Mirtcho J. , Ganchev Ivan , Stainov Rumen 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
In this article, a full-access waiting multi-server queue with a statedependent arrival and departure processes is investigated and suggested for use as a generic traffic model of the novel concept of the Enhanced Living Environment as a Service (ELEaaS). The generalized arrival and service flows with nonlinear state dependence intensities are used. The idea is based on the analytical continuation of the Poisson arrival process and Bernoulli service process, and the classic M/M/n queuing system. Birth and death processes and state-dependent rates are applied. The suggested new queuing system is of a M(g)/M(g)/n/k type (in Kendal notation) with a generalized arrival and departure processes M(g). The input and output intensities depend nonlinearly on the system state with defined parameters - the socalled “peaked factors”. The state probabilities of the system are obtained using the general solution of the birth and death processes. The influence of the peaked factors on the queuing behavior is evaluated showing that state-dependent arrival and service rates may change significantly the characteristics of the queuing system. The simplicity and uniformity in representing both peaked and smooth behavior make this queuing model also attractive for future networks’ analysis and synthesis.
Business Intelligence System via Group Decision Making
Authors: Borissova Daniela , Mustakerov Ivan , Korsemov Dilian 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
In the paper a business intelligence tool based on group decision making is proposed. The group decision making uses a combinatorial optimization modeling technique. It takes into account weighted coefficients for evaluation criteria assigned by decision makers together with their scores for the alternatives in respect of these criteria. The proposed optimization model for group decision making considers also the knowledge level of the group members involved as decision makers. This optimization model is implemented in three-layer architecture of Web application for business intelligence by group decision making. Developed Web application is numerically tested for a representative problem for software choice considering six decision makers, three alternatives and 19 evaluation criteria. The obtained results show the practical applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Convergent normal form for real hypersurfaces at a generic Levi-degeneracy
Authors: Kossovskiy Ilya , Zaitsev Dmitri 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
We construct a complete convergent normal form for a real hypersurface in

ℂ
N

{\mathbb{C}^{N}}

,

N
≥
2

{N\geq 2}

, at a generic Levi-degeneracy.
This seems to be the first convergent normal form for a Levi-degenerate hypersurface. As an application of the convergence result, we obtain an explicit description of the moduli space of germs of real-analytic hypersurfaces with a generic Levi-degeneracy. As another application, we obtain, in the spirit
of the work of Chern and Moser [6], distinguished curves
inside the Levi-degeneracy set that we call degenerate chains.
On the ramification of étale cohomology groups
Authors: Leal Isabel 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Let K be a complete discrete valuation field whose residue field is perfect and of positive characteristic, let X be a connected, proper scheme over

𝒪
K

\mathcal{O}_{K}

, and let U be the complement in X of a divisor with simple normal crossings.
Assume that the pair

(
X
,
U
)

(X,U)

is strictly semi-stable over

𝒪
K

\mathcal{O}_{K}

of relative dimension one and K is of equal characteristic. We prove that, for any smooth

ℓ

\ell

-adic sheaf

𝒢

\mathcal{G}

on U of rank one, at most tamely ramified on the generic fiber, if the ramification of

𝒢

\mathcal{G}

is bounded by

t
+

t+

for the logarithmic upper ramification groups of Abbes–Saito at points of codimension one of X, then the ramification of the étale cohomology groups with compact support of

𝒢

\mathcal{G}

is bounded by

t
+

t+

in the same sense.
Limit lamination theorems for H-surfaces
Authors: Meeks III William H. , Tinaglia Giuseppe 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
In this paper we prove some general results for constant
mean curvature lamination limits of
certain sequences of compact surfaces

M
n

M_{n}

embedded in

ℝ
3

\mathbb{R}^{3}

with constant mean curvature

H
n

H_{n}

and fixed finite genus,
when the boundaries of these surfaces tend to infinity.
Two of these theorems generalize to the non-zero constant mean curvature case,
similar structure theorems by Colding and Minicozzi
in [6, 8] for limits of
sequences of minimal surfaces of fixed finite genus.
The Sacred, Secular, Scholarly, and Scientific
Authors: Gorlée Dinda L. , Anderson Myrdene 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Following the 1967 untimely death of co-editor Raymond Nogar, in 1973 young John Deely bravely proceeded to publish The Problem of Evolution: A Study of the Philosophical Repercussions of Evolutionary Science. In the utopian vision of philosophy and theology, drawing on Teilhard de Chardin together with Dewey’s psychological theory, and buttressed by Darwin’s theory of evolution, the co-editors and authors would argue against the popular paradigms of Existentialism, Marxism, and Communism thriving in that era. Deely focused on the spiritual condition of humankind, but with a cross-sectional perspective acting as a web-like fabric of evolutionary man (and woman). Man is subject to free choice in cultural traditions, but does not conform himself to a religious program or ethical policy. According to the further contributors to Deely’s volume (Adler, Dobzhansky, White, Steward, Bidney, Ayala, Waddington, Huxley, Eiseley, and other thinkers), man can grow from “primitive”, less sentient animals into the rational mind of humanity. Man has moral and theological principles proclaiming, in the face of evolution, revolutionary terms for the semiotic doctrine that comes to dominate Deely’s life.
Sign, Object, Thing
Authors: Cobley Paul , Stjernfelt Frederik 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This review argues that The Human Use of Signs (Deely, 1994) is both pivotal and exceptional in the oeuvre of John Deely. It argues that the volume is exceptional because of its unusual explicatory structure and that it is pivotal because of its extended focus on issues arising from the distinction of ‘sign’, ‘object’, and ‘thing’. Among these issues are the idea of the postmodern, objectivity, relation, and the semiotic animal.
A New Path to Postmodernity
Authors: Santaella Lucia 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This article discusses John Deely’s original proposal for a reconsideration of the history of modern and postmodern philosophy when semiotic thought enters the scene of the historical narrative of philosophy. This semiotic emergency had its origins in the Middle Ages, a thought that was overlooked by Descartes, which determined its forgetfulness until the rebirth of a powerful semiotic thought in the nineteenth century marking the advent of a postmodern philosophy.
Back on the Right Track
Authors: Baenziger Ted 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
This article reviews the ‘second’ (although first prepared) volume of Deely’s Poinsot trilogy. It argues that postmodern thinking is, according to Deely, back on the right track; whichever guiding light has been used in the past, it is semiotics that gives light to both cenoscopy and ideoscopy. Science in the modern sense must be able to not only measure and record natural events, but also see the action of signs in all these processes: that is, that there is no understanding of the interrelation of the web of life without cenoscopy and the doctrine of signs
Semiotic Reconstructions of Reality
Authors: Nöth Winfried 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
The paper gives a critical appraisal of John Deely’s book Purely Objective Reality. It examines the concepts Deely adopts from the Scholastics, ens reale, ens rationis, subjectivity, objectivity, and the division of the universe into signifying objects and things that do not signify in its own as well as from the perspective of Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics.
An unusual case in endocrinology practice: Suture granuloma
Authors: Cansu Guven Baris , Taskiran B. , Bakar T. , Cengiz B.P. 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Objective. Suture granuloma, the rare complication of thyroidectomy, results from the use of nonabsorbable suture materials. Despite its typical ultrasound images and benign course, it carries utmost importance in the diff erential diagnosis of lymph nodes, recurrent nodules, and recurrence in the case of thyroid cancers.
Subject and Results. Fifty four years old female patient, who underwent bilateral thyroidectomy in July 2010, was diagnosed with multinodular goiter and incidentally discovered micropapillary carcinoma (2 mm). Four years later, she was readmitted to hospital due to painless swelling in the right and left anterior neck region. Ultrasonography revealed nodules with irregular boundaries, containing micro- and macro-calcifications and hyperechoic lines in both sides of the thyroid bed and isthmus. Fine needle aspiration biopsy was performed in the right and left sided mass and the cytological examination was compatible with the diagnosis of the suture granuloma.
Conclusions. Suture granuloma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of the local recurrence
Lattice of ℤ-module
Authors: Futa Yuichi , Shidama Yasunari 
Published: August 2016

Summary
In this article, we formalize the definition of lattice of ℤ-module and its properties in the Mizar system [5].We formally prove that scalar products in lattices are bilinear forms over the field of real numbers ℝ. We also formalize the definitions of positive definite and integral lattices and their properties. Lattice of ℤ-module is necessary for lattice problems, LLL (Lenstra, Lenstra and Lovász) base reduction algorithm [14], and cryptographic systems with lattices [15] and coding theory [9].
Conservation Rules of Direct Sum Decomposition of Groups
Authors: Nakasho Kazuhisa , Yamazaki Hiroshi , Okazaki Hiroyuki , Shidama Yasunari 
Published: August 2016

Summary
In this article, conservation rules of the direct sum decomposition of groups are mainly discussed. In the first section, we prepare miscellaneous definitions and theorems for further formalization in Mizar [5]. In the next three sections, we formalized the fact that the property of direct sum decomposition is preserved against the substitutions of the subscript set, flattening of direct sum, and layering of direct sum, respectively. We referred to [14], [13] [6] and [11] in the formalization.
Diffusion semigroup on manifolds with time-dependent metrics
Authors: Cheng Li-Juan 
Published: August 2016

Abstract
Let

L
t

:=

Δ
t

+

Z
t

{L_{t}:=\Delta_{t}+Z_{t}}

,

t
∈

[
0
,

T
c

)

{t\in[0,T_{c})}

on a differential manifold equipped with a complete geometric flow

(

g
t

)

t
∈

[
0
,

T
c

)

{(g_{t})_{t\in[0,T_{c})}}

, where

Δ
t

{\Delta_{t}}

is the Laplacian operator induced by the metric

g
t

{g_{t}}

and

(

Z
t

)

t
∈

[
0
,

T
c

)

{(Z_{t})_{t\in[0,T_{c})}}

is a family of

C

1
,
∞

{C^{1,\infty}}

-vector fields. In this article, we present a number of equivalent inequalities for the lower bound curvature condition, which include
gradient inequalities, transportation-cost inequalities, Harnack inequalities and other functional inequalities for the semigroup associated with diffusion processes generated by

L
t

{L_{t}}

. To this end, we establish derivative formulae for the associated semigroup and construct coupling processes for these diffusion
processes by parallel displacement and reflection.
Orofacial pain and quality of life in early adolescents in India
Authors: Kumar Sandeep , Badiyani Bhumika K. , Kumar Amit , Dixit Garima , Sharma Prachi , Agrawal Sugandha 
Published: August 2016

Abstract

Background:
Orofacial pain may have an impact on quality of life. It may affect the overall well-being of an individual.

Objective:
To assess the prevalence of orofacial pain and its impact on quality of life in early adolescents in Indore city, India.

Methods:
This was a cross-sectional study which included a total of 800 children selected from various public and private schools located in Indore city, India. A questionnaire was developed which collected information on sociodemographic characteristics and previous dental visits. The severity of pain was assessed using Von Korff pain scale and quality of life using the General Health Questionnaire 12 (GHQ-12). The chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were performed.

Results:
The overall prevalence of orofacial pain was found to be 17.9%. Toothache (10.1%) was found to be the most prevalent orofacial pain followed by temporomandibular joint pain (4.3%). The highest severity of pain (Grades 3 and 4) was reported for toothache followed by temporomandibular joint pain. The results of the logistic regression model showed that the prevalence of orofacial pain (odds ratio=7.18, p-value<0.0001a) was strongly associated with poor quality of life.

Conclusion:
The orofacial pain has a negative influence on the quality of life of adolescents. Effective policies should be created to improve the quality of life of adolescents focusing on oral health education and prevention of oral diseases.