bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
POPULATION STRUCTURE AND MORPHOMETRY OF HORSESHOE CRAB Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, Latreille 1802 IN KAMPUNG GISI COASTAL AREA OF BINTAN BAY OF RIAU ISLANDS PROVINCE
Authors: Anggraini Rika , Bengen Dietriech G. , Natih Nyoman Metta N. 
Published: October 2017

<p><em>Horseshoe crab, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Carcinoscorpius</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">rotundicauda</span> is frequently found in the coastal zone of Bintan Bay of Riau Islands Province. The study was conducted from August to September 2016 in coastal area of Kampung Gisi, Bintan bay. The aims of the study were to analyse the population structure and morphometric characters of horseshoe crab and its relation to the coastal environmental characteristics. Sampling of horseshoe crab was taken using belt transect method, and coastal environmental parameters were measured in-situ. The results show that b values of length-weight relationship were found to be 3.3 (male) and 2.6 (female) respectively. Furthermore, the growth pattern of males were positive allometric, and females were negative allometric. Horseshoe crab are closely related to sandy mudflats sediment, brackish water salinity and mangrove habitat distribution. </em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>horseshoe crab, population structure, morphometry, environmental</em> <em>characteristics, Bintan </em><em>B</em><em>ay</em></p>
EVALUATION OF THE USE OF FAAS FOR SR/CA CONCENTRATION ANALYSIS OF PORITES FROM AMBON BAY AND JUKUNG ISLAND CORAL
Authors: Ikhsani Idha Yulia , Dida Eki Naidania , Cahyarini Sri Yudawati 
Published: October 2017

<p><em>The ratio of Sr/Ca concentration in coral is usually used as paleothermometer. Inductively Coupled Plasma </em>(ICP)<em> is an instrument, which is often used to analyze Sr/Ca concentration in Porites sp. The method is very sensitive and requires small amount of sample. However, the availability of this instrument is very limited. To deal with it, Flame Atomic Adsorption Spectrophotometer </em>(FAAS)<em> is an alternative in order to analyze the concentration of various elements include Sr and Ca. The aim of this study was to evaluate the result of the analysis methods of strontium and calcium concentration in coral using </em>FAAS<em> and compared to </em>ICP<em> results. Sample of Porites coral was taken from Ambon Bay and Jukung Island. The strontium and calcium concentration were analyzed using Flame Atomic Adsorption Spectrophotometer (FAAS). The results showed that the average of ratio Sr/Ca in coral from Ambon Bay and Jukung Island were 8.71 and 7.708 mmol/mol. The monthly variation of ratio Sr/Ca in coral from Ambon Bay were 6.28 - 10.24 mmol/mol, while in coral from Jukung Island were 1.005 - 10.914 mmol/mol. Result of </em>FAAS<em> analysis was too broad in range compared to </em>ICP<em>, ie 8.462 - 8.807 dan 8.45 – 8.7 mmol/mol. The range was estimated due to the occurrence of strontium and calcium ionization reaction in flame of </em>FAAS<em>.</em></p><p align="center"><em> </em></p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong>: <em>FAAS, coral, ratio Sr/Ca</em>
Structured postoperative physiotherapy in patients with cervical radiculopathy: 6-month outcomes of a randomized clinical trial
Authors: Wibault Johanna , Öberg Birgitta , Dedering Åsa , Löfgren Håkan , Zsigmond Peter , Peolsson Anneli 
Published: October 2017

OBJECTIVEStructured physiotherapy has been suggested as treatment before as well as after surgery to improve clinical outcomes in patients with cervical radiculopathy (CR), but randomized clinical trials to inform evidence-based clinical guidelines for the treatment of patients with CR after surgery are lacking. The aim of this study was to compare the results of structured postoperative physiotherapy combining neck-specific exercises with a behavioral approach to a standard postoperative approach in patients who had undergone surgery for cervical disc disease with CR at 6 months after surgery.METHODSPatients with cervical disc disease and persistent CR who were scheduled for surgery were randomized preoperatively to structured postoperative physiotherapy (n = 101) or a standard postoperative approach (n = 100). The latter included pragmatic physiotherapy in accordance with the usual Swedish postoperative care. Outcome measures included patient-reported neck disability as measured with the Neck Disability Index (NDI), intensity and frequency of neck and arm pain, global outcome of treatment, and expectation fulfillment, as well as enablement.RESULTSPatients who received structured postoperative physiotherapy reported greater expectation fulfillment (p = 0.01), and those who attended at least 50% of the treatment sessions reported less neck pain frequency (p = 0.05), greater expectation fulfillment (p = 0.001), and greater enablement (p = 0.04) compared with patients who received the standard postoperative approach. No other difference between treatment groups was found (p > 0.15). The NDI and neck and arm pain intensity were improved in both groups at 6 months after surgery (p < 0.001). Additional use of postoperative physiotherapy was reported by 61% of the patients who received the standard postoperative approach.CONCLUSIONSThe results from this first randomized clinical trial of postoperative physiotherapy showed only minor additional benefit of structured postoperative physiotherapy compared with standard postoperative approach 6 months postoperatively in patients who underwent surgery for cervical disc disease with CR. Patients who received structured postoperative physiotherapy reported higher expectation fulfillment, and many patients in the standard postoperative approach group perceived a need for additional treatments after surgery, suggesting that patients with CR are in need of further postoperative support. The results confirm that neck-specific exercises are tolerated postoperatively by patients with CR, but more studies of postoperative physiotherapy are needed to inform clinical guidelines for this patient group.Clinical trial registration no.: NCT01547611 (clinicaltrials.gov)
On the Calculation of the Fe K-alpha Line Emissivity of Black Hole Accretion Disks
Authors: Krawczynski H. , Beheshtipour B. 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
Observations of the fluorescent Fe Kα emission line from the inner accretion flows of stellar mass black holes in X-ray binaries and supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have become an important tool to study the magnitude and inclination of the black hole spin, and the structure of the accretion flow close to the event horizon of the black hole. Modeling spectral, timing, and soon also X-ray polarimetric observations of the Fe Kα emission requires the calculation of the specific intensity in the rest frame of the emitting plasma. We revisit the derivation of the equation used for calculating the illumination of the accretion disk by the corona. We present an alternative derivation leading to a simpler equation, and discuss the relation to previously published results.
Faut-il croire aux dieux de la pluie ?
Authors: Granger Christophe 
Published: October 2017

Résumé Durant des siècles en Occident, et plus spécialement ici en France, les hommes et les femmes ont eu coutume de prier, de processionner ou d’en appeler à Dieu pour faire venir la pluie ou le beau temps. Puis, à la fin du xix e siècle, ces pratiques, si elles n’ont pas disparu, ont cessé d’apparaître légitimes. Pour expliquer cette religiosité météorologique, on a pour habitude de considérer qu’elle est l’expression d’une croyance ou d’une superstition que l’essor d’un rapport rationalisé aux choses du ciel serait venu dissiper. Cet article voudrait montrer que ces pratiques rituelles d’intercession ou de conjuration, parce qu’elles étaient des gestes socialement institués, ne réclamaient justement pas de ceux qui s’y livraient qu’ils y croient, et que leur disparition tient par conséquent à une métamorphose historique qui a transformé le rapport institué au temps qu’il fait en une affaire de sensibilité personnelle.
La météorologie populaire, Metz et le Pays messin ( xiv e - xvi e siècle)
Authors: Litzenburger Laurent 
Published: October 2017

Résumé Les sources narratives qui se multiplient dans les deux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge et au début des Temps modernes permettent de saisir, à travers l’exemple de la cité de Metz et de son plat pays, ce qui échappait jusqu’alors à l’analyse : la météorologie populaire, c’est‑à-dire les connaissances (non livresques) et les croyances de la majeure partie de la société sur les phénomènes atmosphériques.
Derivation of a Multilayer Approach to Model Suspended Sediment Transport: Application to Hyperpycnal and Hypopycnal Plumes
Authors: de Luna T. Morales , Fernández Nieto E.D. , Castro Díaz M. J. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractWe propose a multi-layer approach to simulate hyperpycnal and hypopycnal plumes in flows with free surface. The model allows to compute the vertical profile of the horizontal and the vertical components of the velocity of the fluid flow. The model can describe as well the vertical profile of the sediment concentration and the velocity components of each one of the sediment species that form the turbidity current. To do so, it takes into account the settling velocity of the particles and their interaction with the fluid. This allows to better describe the phenomena than a single layer approach. It is in better agreement with the physics of the problem and gives promising results. The numerical simulation is carried out by rewriting the multilayer approach in a compact formulation, which corresponds to a system with nonconservative products, and using path-conservative numerical scheme. Numerical results are presented in order to show the potential of the model.
A Cartesian Scheme for Compressible Multimaterial Hyperelastic Models with Plasticity
Authors: de Brauer Alexia , Iollo Angelo , Milcent Thomas 
Published: October 2017

AbstractWe describe a numerical model to simulate the non-linear elasto-plastic dynamics of compressible materials. The model is fully Eulerian and it is discretized on a fixed Cartesian mesh. The hyperelastic constitutive law considered is neohookean and the plasticity model is based on a multiplicative decomposition of the inverse deformation tensor. The model is thermodynamically consistent and it is shown to be stable in the sense that the norm of the deviatoric stress tensor beyond yield is non increasing. The multimaterial integration scheme is based on a simple numerical flux function that keeps the interfaces sharp. Numerical illustrations in one to three space dimensions of high-speed multimaterial impacts in air are presented.
An Adaptive Finite Element PML Method for the Acoustic-Elastic Interaction in Three Dimensions
Authors: Jiang Xue , Li Peijun 
Published: October 2017

AbstractConsider the scattering of a time-harmonic acoustic incident wave by a bounded, penetrable, and isotropic elastic solid, which is immersed in a homogeneous compressible air or fluid. The paper concerns the numerical solution for such an acoustic-elastic interaction problem in three dimensions. An exact transparent boundary condition (TBC) is developed to reduce the problem equivalently into a boundary value problem in a bounded domain. The perfectly matched layer (PML) technique is adopted to truncate the unbounded physical domain into a bounded computational domain. The well-posedness and exponential convergence of the solution are established for the truncated PML problem by using a PML equivalent TBC. An a posteriori error estimate based adaptive finite element method is developed to solve the scattering problem. Numerical experiments are included to demonstrate the competitive behavior of the proposed method.
What Effects Repurchase Intention of Online Shopping
Authors: Suhaily Lily , Soelasih Yasintha 
Published: October 2017

The development of the internet raises opportunities for the marketing of a product and bring new forms for retail transactions, one of which is online shopping. Furthermore with the Internet, online consumers more easily gain access to information and they offered a wide variety of products and services that can be selected at competitive prices. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is influence of E-Service Quality, Price Perception and Experiential Marketing to Repurchase Intention which mediated by Customer Satisfaction in On-line Shopping. The amount of samples is 180 respondents. Questionnaires were distributed to respondents who have shopped using online shopping with random sampling method. This study uses data analysis of Structural Equation Modeling by using Lisrel software. The result showed that there is the influence of e-service quality to customer satisfaction and to repurchase intention, while repurchase intention has negative influence occurs. Furthermore, price has no influence to customer satisfaction but has an influence to repurchase intention. Experiential marketing has no influence to customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. Customer satifaction has positive effect on repurchase intention. The effect of e-service quality and experiential marketing through customer satisfaction as mediation variable has no influence to repurchase intention, while price perception influence to repurchase intention.
Veilig uitgaan: tegenstrijdige gevoelens over inzet politie en andere maatregelen
Authors: Brands Jelle , van Aalst Irina 
Published: October 2017

Fear of crime and the night-time economy: ambiguity in feelings about police and other safe nightlife measures
Urban nightlife areas are widely renowned for their emotionally charged nature, affording greater opportunities for transgressions of social norms compared to daytime contexts. Yet, the ways nightlife consumers experience safety in the public spaces of nightlife areas has received limited attention in the academic literatures. This article approaches experienced safety in the public spaces of nightlife areas as emerging from encounters between human and non-human (material, social, cultural) elements grounded in time and space. Such elements include the characteristics of the built environment, the design of public space, police presence, lighting and also first and secondhand experiences and popular media discourses more generally. We hypothesized that encounters between such elements necessarily renders some ambiguity in experienced safety, in the sense that the effect of a particular element on experienced safety is always coproduced in the unfolding encounter. By drawing on a series of interviews with Dutch students in Utrecht, various types of ambiguity are shown to exist depending on both the particularities of the situation at hand and based on differences between individual circumstance and life course. Ambiguity is also shown to exist in the sense that mentioned elements may both comfort and alarm participants at the same time. Our findings infer that we should implement ‘safer nightlife’ initiatives that are tailored to particular contexts, situations and publics. The results also suggest that current interventions seeking to stimulate safety in urban nightlife settings might not be as successful in reducing/enhancing (un)safety as (popular) policy and media discourses have suggested.
Investigation of Changes in Extreme Temperature and Humidity Over China Through a Dynamical Downscaling Approach
Authors: Zhu Jinxin , Huang Gordon , Wang Xiuquan , Cheng Guanhui 
Published: November 2017

AbstractImpacts of climate change relating to public health are often determined by multiple climate variables. The health‐related metrics combining high‐temperature and relative humidity are most concerned. Temperatures, relative humidity and relationship among them are investigated here for a comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts over China. A projection of combined temperatures and humidity through the PRECIS model is addressed. The PRECIS model's skill in reproducing the historical climate over China was first gauged through validating its historical simulation with the observation data set in terms of the two contributing variables. With good results of validation, a plausible range of combined temperatures and relative humidity were generated under RCPs. The results suggested that the annual mean temperature of China will increase up to 6°C at the end of 21st century. Opposite to the significantly change in the temperature, the maximum magnitude of changes in relative humidity is only 8% from the value in the baseline period. The dew point temperature is projected to be 14.9°C (within the comfortable interval) over the whole nation under high radiative forcing scenario at the end of this century. Therefore, the combination effects of high temperatures and relative humidity are substantially smaller than generally anticipated for China. Even though the impact‐relevant metric like the dew point temperature is not projected as bad as the generally anticipated, we found that the frequency of high‐temperature extremes increases up to 40% and the duration increases up to 150% in China. China is still expected to have more number of extremely hot days, more frequent high‐temperature extremes, and longer duration of warm spell than before. Regionally, South China has the smallest changes in the mean, maximum and minimum temperatures while the largest increases in all five high‐temperature indices. Consequently, the climate over South China for two future periods will be changing more drastically than the baseline period. Extra cautions need to be given to South China in the future.
Oxygen Ions O+ Energized by Kinetic Alfvén Eigenmode During Dipolarizations of Intense Substorms
Authors: Duan Suping , Dai Lei , Wang Chi , He Zhaohai , Cai Chunlin , Zhang Y. C. , Dandouras I. , Reme H. , André M. , Khotyaintsev Y. V. 
Published: October 2017

AbstractSingly charged oxygen ions, O+, energized by kinetic Alfvén wave eigenmode (KAWE) in the plasma sheet boundary layer during dipolarizations of two intense substorms, 10:07 UT on 31 August 2004 and 18:24 UT on 14 September 2004, are investigated by Cluster spacecraft in the magnetotail. It is found that after the beginning of the expansion phase of substorms, O+ ions are clearly energized in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field with energy larger than 1 keV in the near‐Earth plasma sheet during magnetic dipolarizations. The pitch angle distribution of these energetic O+ ions is significantly different from that of O+ ions with energy less than 1 keV before substorm onset that is in the quasi‐parallel direction along the magnetic field. The KAWE with the large perpendicular unipolar electric field, Ez ~ −20 mV/m, significantly accelerates O+ ions in the direction perpendicular to the background magnetic field. We present good evidences that O+ ion origin from the ionosphere along the magnetic field line in the northward lobe can be accelerated in the perpendicular direction during substorm dipolarizations. The change of the move direction of O+ ions is useful for O+ transferring from the lobe into the central plasma sheet in the magnetotail. Thus, KAWE can play an important role in O+ ion transfer process from the lobe into the plasma sheet during intense substorms.
Carbon fibers derived from wet‐spinning of equi‐component lignin/polyacrylonitrile blends
Authors: Jin Jing , Ogale Amod A. 
Published: October 2017

ABSTRACTEqui‐component blends of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and lignin, i.e., with a lignin content as large as 50 wt %, were successfully used as precursors to produce carbon fibers. Rheological measurements demonstrated that increasing lignin content in spinning solution reduced shear viscosity and normal stress, indicating a decrease of viscoelastic behavior. This was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared results that show no discernable chemical reaction or crosslinking between PAN and lignin in the solution. However, the resulting carbon fibers display a large ID/IG ratio (by Raman spectroscopy) indicating a larger disordered as compared to that from pure PAN. The macro‐voids in the lignin/PAN blend fibers typically generated during wet‐spinning were eliminated by adding lignin in the coagulant bath to counter‐balance the out‐diffusion of lignin. Carbon fibers resulting from lignin/PAN blends with 50 wt % lignin content displayed a tensile strength and modulus of 1.2 ± 0.1 and 130 ± 3 GPa, respectively, establishing that the equi‐component wet‐spun L/P‐based carbon fibers possessed tensile strength and modulus higher than 1 and 100 GPa. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2018, 135, 45903.
Association of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Treatment With Reduced Indices of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Patients With Psoriatic Disease
Authors: Eder Lihi , Joshi Aditya A. , Dey Amit K. , Cook Richard , Siegel Evan L. , Gladman Dafna D. , Mehta Nehal N. 
Published: October 2017

ObjectiveTo assess the effect of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) on subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with psoriatic disease.MethodsWe performed a 2‐stage study. In stage 1, carotid total plaque area was assessed in patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis (PsA) (n = 319) by ultrasound at baseline and after 2–3 years. The annual progression rate of atherosclerosis was the outcome of interest. In stage 2, PsA patients receiving TNFi (n = 21) and age‐ and sex‐matched PsA patients not receiving any biologic agent (n = 13) underwent 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography/computed tomography at baseline and 1 year to assess vascular inflammation, measured as target‐to‐background ratio (TBR). In both stages, multivariable regression analyses adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors and use of statins were performed.ResultsIn stage 1, men had significantly higher atherosclerosis progression than women (P < 0.001). TNFi was associated with reduced atherosclerosis progression in men after controlling for cardiovascular risk and use of statins (adjusted β = −2.20 [95% confidence interval −3.41, −1.00], P < 0.001). There was no association between TNFi and atherosclerosis progression in women (P = 0.74). In stage 2, patients receiving TNFi had reduced TBR at 1 year (P = 0.03). Those not receiving TNFi had no significant change in TBR (P = 0.32). The improvement in aortic vascular inflammation in the TNFi group was independent of cardiovascular risk factors (adjusted β = −0.41 [95% confidence interval −0.74, −0.08], P = 0.02).ConclusionOur findings indicate that TNFi treatment is associated with reduced progression of carotid plaques in men and improvement in vascular inflammation in both men and women with psoriatic disease.