bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Are some areas more equal than others? Socioeconomic inequality in potentially avoidable emergency hospital admissions within English local authority areas
Authors: Sheringham Jessica , Asaria Miqdad , Barratt Helen , Raine Rosalind , Cookson Richard 
Published: November 2016

Objectives Reducing health inequalities is an explicit goal of England’s health system. Our aim was to compare the performance of English local administrative areas in reducing socioeconomic inequality in emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive chronic conditions. Methods We used local authority area as a stable proxy for health and long-term care administrative geography between 2004/5 and 2011/12. We linked inpatient hospital activity, deprivation, primary care, and population data to small area neighbourhoods (typical population 1500) within administrative areas (typical population 250,000). We measured absolute inequality gradients nationally and within each administrative area using neighbourhood-level linear models of the relationship between national deprivation and age–sex-adjusted emergency admission rates. We assessed local equity performance by comparing local inequality against national inequality to identify areas significantly more or less equal than expected; evaluated stability over time; and identified where equity performance was steadily improving or worsening. We then examined associations between change in socioeconomic inequalities and change in within-area deprivation (gentrification). Finally, we used administrative area-level random and fixed effects models to examine the contribution of primary care to inequalities in admissions. Results Data on 316 administrative areas were included in the analysis. Local inequalities were fairly stable between consecutive years, but 32 areas (10%) showed steadily improving or worsening equity. In the 21 improving areas, the gap between most and least deprived fell by 3.9 admissions per 1000 (six times the fall nationally) between 2004/5 and 2011/12, while in the 11 areas worsening, the gap widened by 2.4. There was no indication that measured improvements in local equity were an artefact of gentrification or that changes in primary care supply or quality contributed to changes in inequality. Conclusions Local equity performance in reducing inequality in emergency admissions varies both geographically and over time. Identifying this variation could provide insights into which local delivery strategies are most effective in reducing such inequalities.
Care practices of older people with dementia in the surgical ward: A questionnaire survey
Authors: Hynninen Nina , Saarnio Reetta , Elo Satu 
Published: November 2016

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe the care practices of nursing staff caring older people with dementia in a surgical ward. Methods: The data were collected from nursing staff (n = 191) working in surgical wards in one district area in Finland during October to November 2015. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed statistically. The instrument consists of a total number of 141 items and four dimensions. The dimensions were as follows: background information (12 of items), specific characteristics of older people with dementia in a surgical ward (24 of items), specific characteristics of their care in a surgical ward (66 of items) and use of physical restraints and alternative models for use of restraints for people with dementia (39 of items). Results: The questions which measure the nursing staff’s own assessment of care practices when caring for people with dementia in surgical wards were selected: counseling people with dementia, reaction when a surgical patient with dementia displays challenging behavior and use of alternative approach instead of physical restraints. Most commonly the nursing staff pay attention to patient’s state of alertness before counseling older people with dementia. Instead of using restraints, nursing staff gave painkillers for the patient and tried to draw patients’ attention elsewhere. The nursing staff with longer work experience estimate that they can handle the patients’ challenging behavior. They react by doing nothing more often than others. They pretend not to hear, see or notice anything. Conclusion: The findings of this study can be applied in nursing practice and in future studies focusing on the care practices among older people with dementia in acute care environment. The results can be used while developing patient treatments process in surgical ward to meet future needs.
CT findings in two cats with broncholithiasis
Authors: Byrne Patrick , Berman James S , Allan Graeme Sutcliffe , Chau Jennifer , Barrs Vanessa R 
Published: November 2016

Case series summary Chronic inflammatory airway disease with secondary broncholithiasis was diagnosed in two cats from CT and bronchoalveolar lavage cytological findings. In one cat with progressively worsening lower respiratory tract signs, more than 80 discrete, highly attenuating endobronchial opacities were detected on thoracic CT. The broncholiths were distributed throughout the right middle, and left and right caudal lung lobes, and the caudal part of the left cranial and accessory lobes. In the other cat broncholithiasis was an incidental finding on thoracic radiographs taken during diagnostic investigation of inappetence. On thoracic CT, 25 calcified endobronchial opacities were detected in the left caudal lung lobe in secondary and tertiary bronchi. CT features of chronic inflammatory airway disease were present in both cases, including bronchiectasis, atelectasis, flattening of the diaphragm and bronchial wall thickening. Relevance and novel information This is the first report to document CT features of broncholithiasis in cats. Feline broncholithiasis should be considered as a differential diagnosis in any case where calcified endobronchial material is evident on thoracic radiographs or CT.
Predicting discontinuation of docetaxel treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with random forest
Authors: Kristiyanto Daniel , Anderson Kevin E. , Hung Ling-Hong , Yeung Ka Yee 
Published: November 2016

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in developed countries. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the standard treatment for prostate cancer. However, approximately one third of all patients with metastatic disease treated with ADT develop resistance to ADT. This condition is called metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Patients who do not respond to hormone therapy are often treated with a chemotherapy drug called docetaxel. Sub-challenge 2 of the Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge aims to improve the prediction of whether a patient with mCRPC would discontinue docetaxel treatment due to adverse effects. Specifically, a dataset containing three distinct clinical studies of patients with mCRPC treated with docetaxel was provided. We applied the k-nearest neighbor method for missing data imputation, the hill climbing algorithm and random forest importance for feature selection, and the random forest algorithm for classification. We also empirically studied the performance of many classification algorithms, including support vector machines and neural networks. Additionally, we found using random forest importance for feature selection provided slightly better results than the more computationally expensive method of hill climbing.
The Basis for Organization of Universal Learning Activities Forming Process by Younger Schoolchildren
Authors: Виноградова  , Vinogradova Natalya 
Published: November 2016

The article discusses the actual problem - the successful achievement by younger schoolchildren of metasubject results that meet the requirements
of the Federal state educational standard of primary education. Operational characteristics of universal learning activities are given, the
knowledge of which could be of great help to the teacher in the selection of the content of various kinds of universal learning activities.
Children’s Entertainment: Problem of Pedagogical Support in the Metropolis
Authors: Крулехт  , Krulekht Mariya 
Published: November 2016

The article considers peculiarities of the organization of children’s family entertainment in a metropolis. The author shows the importance of
pedagogical support of children’s leisure, allowing minimizing the potential risks of loss of opportunities metropolitan educational space to enrich
the children’s socio-cultural experience.
“Follow the Dream!” or Not Fabulous Story about Boy Fedya
Authors: Романова  , Romanova M. 
Published: November 2016

The article describes how you can use the story composed by the teacher about the life of a peer with the purpose of formation by younger
schoolchildren understanding of the need of learning for successful future life. A brief scenario of the lesson or class hour is given, in which the
basis for discussions with children on the theme of adult about the choice of target life priorities laid teacher’s told history.
Collaborative Consumption: Strategic and Economic Implications of Product Sharing
Authors: Jiang Baojun , Tian Lin 
Published: November 2016

Recent technological advances in online and mobile communications have enabled collaborative consumption or product sharing among consumers on a massive scale. Collaborative consumption has emerged as a major trend as the global economic recession and social concerns about consumption sustainability lead consumers and society as a whole to explore more efficient use of resources and products. We develop an analytical framework to examine the strategic and economic impact of product sharing among consumers. A consumer who purchased a firm’s product can derive different usage values across different usage periods. In a period with low self-use value, the consumer may generate some income by renting out her purchased product through a third-party sharing platform as long as the rental fee net of transaction costs exceeds her own self-use value. Our analysis shows that transaction costs in the sharing market have a nonmonotonic effect on the firm’s profits, consumer surplus, and social welfare. We find that when the firm strategically chooses its retail price, consumers’ sharing of products with high marginal costs is a win-win situation for the firm and the consumers, whereas their sharing of products with low marginal costs can be a lose-lose situation. Furthermore, in the presence of the sharing market, the firm will find it optimal to strategically increase its quality, leading to higher profits but lower consumer surplus. This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.
Pre-hospital risk stratification using a modified thrombolysis in myocardial infarction score: a retrospective medical record review
Authors: Reed Ashley , Rice Alan , Ooms Ann 
Published: November 2016

Introduction: Paramedics commonly convey patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTEACS) to emergency departments (EDs) where a risk stratification model (RSM) determines the risk of death or adverse cardiovascular events, and thus whether the patient should be transferred to a specialist heart attack centre (HAC) for an invasive procedure. If paramedics were to risk-stratify the patients in the pre-hospital environment using a modified thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (MTIMI) RSM, this could result in primary triage to an appropriate hospital. Methods: A retrospective medical record review was completed using patients from a metropolitan ambulance service, one ED and one HAC comparing the current method of identifying high risk NSTEACS with a new method; the MTIMI RSM. Positive predictive value, negative predictive value, logistic regression and receiver operating statistic area under the curve (c-statistic) were used to compare methods. Results: Notes of 108 patients were used in this study. Current practice produced a c-statistic (c) of 0.73 (95% CI 0.62 to 0.85) and the MTIMI RSM (c=0.72, CI 0.61 to 0.83). The best RSM overall was the abbreviated MTIMI RSM with only three variables identified through logistic regression (c=0.79, 0.68 to 0.89). Conclusions: Both methods of identifying high-risk NSTEACS were similar as they both used the ECG variable, which was approximately twelve times more prognostic than any other variable. The need to identify a pre-hospital RSM with a good prognostic power still exists; therefore, other RSMs should be explored in a prospective study.
The historical panorama in post-1974 Greek cinema: The Travelling Players, Stone Years, Crystal Nights, The Weeping Meadow
Authors: Mini Panayiota 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Unlike the majority of Greek historical films made before 1974, which dramatized specific events, after 1974 some leading Greek film-makers shot historical panoramas, whose plots spanned many periods. This article analyses four such historical panoramas that cover roughly similar periods, Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and To Livadi pou Dakrizei/The Weeping Meadow (2004), Voulgaris’s Petrina Hronia/Stone Years (1985) and Marketaki’s Kristallines Nihtes/Crystal Nights (1992). The article situates each film within its broader cultural context and identifies the forces that motivate the history’s development, the plot’s logic and its formal substantiation. Each film, the article shows, suggests a different ‘historical cause’ for the events it depicts, ranging from imperialist processes and immanent human traits to psychoanalytic and mythological drives, and uses distinct formal means to convey the events. The examination of these four historical panoramas also attests to the gradual ‘de-politicization’ of auteur Greek cinema, in addition to prompting us to reflect on the various cinematic forms through which history can be represented and the different ways in which historical events can be linked and interpreted.
Sex, violence, dogs and the impossibility of escape: Why contemporary Greek film is so focused on family
Authors: Aleksić Tatjana 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The article reads two recent Greek films, Kinodontas/Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009) and Miss Violence (Avranas, 2013), as offering a critique of the model of family repression. It argues that the films in their seemingly different aesthetic choices make similar points about the familial necropolitics that does not merely reflect social pathologies but likely also produces them. The families in both films are exposed to forms of control by a fatherly figure who dominates and almost entirely determines the content of the families’ daily lives. They inhabit lives and living spaces that visually, as well as narratively, offer no space for dissent or escape. However, the family members themselves, and especially their mother figures, are likewise perceived as semi-willing accomplices in the repressive scheme, as afraid of the male tyrants, as of the idea of their own liberation. Overall, the article argues that while the family control mechanisms presented in these and other recent Greek films can be read in response to the contemporary Greek crisis, this need not be the case, as the reach and implications of their critique are far wider.
The mother accomplice: Questions of representation in Dogtooth and Miss Violence
Authors: Kazakopoulou Tonia 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article seeks to raise some questions and open a conversation on issues relating to the representation of the mother-figure, of motherhood, and by extension of women in contemporary Greek cinema. Focusing on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kynodontas/Dogtooth (2009) and Alexandros Avranas’s Miss Violence (2013), the article argues that, despite their overall unconventional approach in terms of content and form, both films remain rather conventional in their regressive representations of the character of the mother, who is characterized by her paradoxical conceptualization as an active accomplice without agency within the patriarchal universe of both films. In a broader sense, the article (re)turns to established feminist scholarship in insisting on the ‘woman question’ so often neglected in Greek film criticism more generally, and in relation to the selected films more specifically.
Aesthetics of recession: Urban space and identity in Attenberg and Beautiful Youth
Authors: Karkani Ina 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The contemporary cinemas of the European countries directly involved with the current socio-economic crisis, such as Greece and Spain, have become key cultural areas in which urban space and social identity is imagined. Films such as Attenberg (Tsangari, 2010) and Hermosa Juventud/Beautiful Youth (Rosales, 2014) come from different cultural backgrounds and are examples of films that establish a powerful semiotic relationship between aesthetics and politics to give cinematic space a new meaning by tapping into a nexus of ideas about time and subjectivity. The films bear striking similarities in their articulation of the latest economic crisis through images of urban recession and their manifestation of social identity. Commonalities can be detected in stylistic and narrational strategies, thematic motifs, characterization and plot construction, and the use of film technology. This article explores the ways in which these images are related and articulate the current social reality in South European cities narratively, stylistically and formally. Bringing Walter Benjamin’s ‘aestheticizing politics’ of urban space in dialogue with Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘desubjectification’, this article is interested in investigating the links between subjective experience and urban space in South European cities hit by the recession.
Contemporary Greek horror cinema: Yes! It is a ‘Thing’!
Authors: Fotiou Mikela 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Although horror films are quite prevalent in Hollywood as well as in various national cinemas, they are not so in the tradition of Greek cinema. However, there are several Greek horror films as well as film-makers – both amateur and professional – working on the genre. This article provides an overview of contemporary horror cinema in Greece, briefly discussing its background and highlighting a change both in the quantity and quality of Greek horror films after 2010. The article also presents key themes found in Greek horror films and traces threads that connect the films while also noting the ways recent horror films have been influenced by and commented upon the Greek economic and sociopolitical crisis. It situates these films in an emerging culture that surrounds, sustains, and seeks to develop this phenomenon in Greece. Finally, the article is followed by an appendix that offers a chronologically organized indicative list of Greek horror films encountered online during this research from early precursors in the mid-1970s to the more recent production discussed in the article, from 2004 down to the present.
Integration oder Interkultur?
Authors: Teissl Verena , Allmanritter Vera , Türk Jasmin , Bubik Theresa , Schairer Lea , Breindl Jasmin 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Im Rahmen eines studentischen Praxisprojektes und unterstützt vom Kulturamt der Stadt Innsbruck wurde von März 2014 bis Februar 2015 eine dreistufige Studie zum Thema Kulturnutzung von MigrantInnen in Innsbruck (Arbeitstitel) unternommen. Die Ergebnisse wurden schließlich unter den Titel Interkulturalität in und von Innsbrucker Kultureinrichtungen gestellt. Sowohl der Entwicklungsprozess als auch die Umsetzung in Form qualitativer Sozialforschung und deren Interpretation brachten vielschichtige, z. T. verallgemeinerbare Ergebnisse für kulturmanageriale Theorienbildung und Handlungsempfehlungen zu Tage, welche im Folgenden vorgestellt und kontextualisiert werden. Der dritte Teil der Studie, die Kernergebnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen gestützt auf Interviews mit Experten und Expertinnen und Erfahrungen von „MigrantInnen“, ist auf der Plattform Kulturvermittlung Online der Universität Hildesheim einsehbar (TEISSL u. a. 2015).
Haploinsufficiency of the folliculin gene leads to impaired functions of lung fibroblasts in patients with Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome
Authors: Hoshika Yoshito , Takahashi Fumiyuki , Togo Shinsaku , Hashimoto Muneaki , Nara Takeshi , Kobayashi Toshiyuki , Nurwidya Fariz , Kataoka Hideyuki , Kurihara Masatoshi , Kobayashi Etsuko , Ebana Hiroki , Kikkawa Mika , Ando Katsutoshi , Nishino Koichi , Hino Okio , Takahashi Kazuhisa , Seyama Kuniaki 
Published: November 2016

AbstractBirt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder caused by germline mutations in the FLCN gene, and characterized by skin fibrofolliculomas, multiple lung cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax, and renal neoplasms. Pulmonary manifestations frequently develop earlier than other organ involvements, prompting a diagnosis of BHDS. However, the mechanism of lung cyst formation and pathogenesis of pneumothorax have not yet been clarified. Fibroblasts were isolated from lung tissues obtained from patients with BHDS (n = 12) and lung cancer (n = 10) as controls. The functional abilities of these lung fibroblasts were evaluated by the tests for chemotaxis to fibronectin and three‐dimensional (3‐D) gel contraction. Fibroblasts from BHDS patients showed diminished chemotaxis as compared with fibroblasts from controls. Expression of fibronectin and TGF‐β1 was significantly reduced in BHDS fibroblasts when assessed by qPCR. Addition of TGF‐β1 in culture medium of BHDS lung fibroblasts significantly restored these cells' abilities of chemotaxis and gel contraction. Human fetal lung fibroblasts (HFL‐1) exhibited reduced chemotaxis and 3‐D gel contraction when FLCN expression was knocked down. To the contrary, a significant increase in chemotactic activity toward to fibronectin was demonstrated when wild‐type FLCN was overexpressed, whereas transduction of mutant FLCN showed no effect on chemotaxis. Our results suggest that FLCN is associated with chemotaxis in lung fibroblasts. Together with reduced TGF‐β1 expression by BHDS lung fibroblasts, a state of FLCN haploinsufficiency may cause lung fibroblast dysfunction, thereby impairing tissue repair. These may reveal one mechanism of lung cyst formation and pneumothorax in BHDS patients.
Simulation of In-Flight Reduction of the Fine Iron Ore Concentrate by Hydrogen
Authors: Abolpour Bahador , Afsahi M. Mehdi , Goharrizi Ataallah Soltani , Azizkarimi Mehdi 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
A mathematical model has been proposed to simulate a novel method for direct reduction of iron concentrate by hydrogen. Flight of fine particles in a vertical reactor containing a gaseous mixture of H2-N2-H2O has been studied. Effect of generating gaseous jet on the residence time of the particles has been also investigated. Coupled turbulent Navier-Stokes equations with eddy kinetic energy equation have been solved using a developed homemade code. Kinetics of this reaction has been studied using the unreacted core model. Accuracy of the model predictions has been approved by the experimental data. Finally, effects of vital variables (i. e. temperature, particle size, hydrogen concentration and particle feed rate) on the particle residence time and also fractional conversion have been studied.