bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Laser Diode to Single-Mode Circular Core Parabolic Index Fiber Coupling via Upside-Down Tapered Hyperbolic Microlens on the Tip of the Fiber: Prediction of Coupling Optics by ABCD Matrix Formalism
Authors: Majumdar Angshuman , Mandal Chintan Kumar , Gangopadhyay Sankar 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
We employ ABCD matrix formalism in order to investigate the coupling optics involving laser diode to single-mode circular core parabolic index fiber excitation via upside-down tapered hyperbolic microlens on the fiber tip. Analytic expressions for coupling efficiencies both in absence and in presence of transverse and angular mismatches are formulated. The concerned investigations are made for two practical wavelengths namely 1.3 µm and 1.5 µm. The execution of the prescribed formulations involves little computation. It has been found that the wavelength 1.5 µm is more efficient in respect of coupling. It is also seen that the present coupling device at both the wavelengths shows more tolerance with respect to angular mismatch. As regards tolerance with respect to transverse mismatch, the result is poor at both the wavelengths used. Consequently, it is desirable that designers should not to exceed transverse mismatch beyond 1 μm.
Construction and Analysis of a Novel SAC-OCDMA System with EDW Coding using Direct Detection Technique
Authors: Sarangal Himali , Singh Amarpal , Malhotra Jyoteesh 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Spectral amplitude coding optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) is a promising innovation for burst and asynchronous environment. This paper endeavors to analyze the efficacy of the proposed optimum SAC-OCDMA system by utilizing enhanced double-weight (EDW) code for six users operating at a bit rate of 60 Gb/s (10×6 Gb/s). Also, an algorithm is designed for EDW code with mapping technique for any weight that can be greater than two. The EDW code is analyzed for bit error rate (BER) and Q-factor using direct detection technique. Further, the system is compared with three dispersion compensating techniques (pre, post and symmetrical). The results indicate that by using symmetrical compensation the maximum usable distance increases to more than twice as compared to without compensation for the targeted BER (10−9), whereas by using p- and post-compensation the BER value increases to 10−13 as compared to without compensation whose BER value is 10−5. The comparison results show acceptable performance improvement.
Bit Error Rate Performance Analysis of Hybrid Subcarrier Intensity Modulation-Based FSO with Spatial Diversity in Various Weather Conditions
Authors: Kumar Giri Rajat , Patnaik Bijayananda 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
In this paper, we study the performance improvement of free space optical (FSO) communication system with spatial diversity techniques employing hybrid pulse position modulation-binary phase shift keying-subcarrier intensity modulation (PPM-BPSK-SIM). The involvement of multiple photo-detectors in diversity based FSO systems offers an effective way to overcome scntillation. In this paper, we have simulated the bit error rate (BER) with respect to different parameters like average SNR, link distance at various weather conditions. The simulation results are verified in Matlab environment with the mathematical analysis. The simulation results show that higher order single input multiple output (SIMO) system achieves better BER performance and hybrid PPM-BPSK-SIM has significant improved performance than the common modulation schemes like PPM, BPSK-SIM.
Analysis of Atmospheric Turbulence on Free Space Optical System using Homotopy Perturbation Method
Authors: Rani Monika , Bhatti Harbax Singh , Singh Vikramjeet 
Published: August 2017

AbstractFree Space Optics (FSO) is a wireless optical communication technology which depends on propagation of optical beam through air. FSO communication system provides secure communication link, cost-effective solution and license-free operation. In this paper, the FSO communication link has been analysed in turbulent atmosphere using homotopy perturbation method (HPM). We have designed a FSO system operating at an optical wavelength of 850 nm with a signal power of 4 dBm having a link range of 2 km between transmitter and receiver unit. It has been observed that in atmospheric turbulence high performance FSO link is achieved by increasing the aperture diameter of receiver telescope.
Managing Pricing of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Under Patent Protection
Authors: Cao Xiaogang , Hua Leqi , Wen Hui , Wu Yan 
Published: August 2017

AbstractThis paper studies the closed-loop supply chain decision problem in which the original manufacturer allows the third-party remanufacturer to remanufacture under patent protection. In the two cycle mode, the authors discuss the pricing decision problem of the original manufacturer, the retailer, and the third-party remanufacturer in centralized and decentralized decision-making cases. The authors obtain the optimal sale price and wholesale price of new products and remanufactured products in two cases, and the optimal recycling rate of used products in centralized decision-making case. Finally, the authors carry out the corresponding numerical simulation of the pricing decision.
Some applications of the Archimedean copulas in the proof of the almost sure central limit theorem for ordinary maxima
Authors: Dudziński Marcin , Furmańczyk Konrad 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Our goal is to state and prove the almost sure central limit theorem for maxima (Mn) of X1, X2, ..., Xn, n ∈ ℕ, where (Xi) forms a stochastic process of identically distributed r.v.’s of the continuous type, such that, for any fixed n, the family of r.v.’s (X1, ...,Xn) has the Archimedean copula CΨ.
Agency and Co-production: A Multimodal Perspective
Authors: Pirini Jesse 
Published: August 2017

AbstractBuilding on multimodal (inter)action analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, this article introduces and develops the theoretical/methodological tool called primary agency. Taking the mediated action as a unit of analysis, agency can be analysed as a feature of action. However, there is a lack of empirical approaches for the study of agency, and an overemphasis on language as the most important site for identifying agentive action. I develop primary agency through an analysis of three co-produced higher-level actions from a research project into high school tutoring. These are the higher-level actions of conducting research, tutoring and reading a text. Applying co-production and the modal density foreground/background continuum I explore how the researcher, the tutor and the student co-produce these higher-level actions. Through this analysis, I identify the most significant mediational means for each higher-level action, and the social actor with ownership or agency over these mediational means. I define this social actor as the one with primary agency over the co-produced higher-level action. Finally, my analysis outlines the implications of primary agency for co-produced higher-level actions, including the role of the researcher, the attention/awareness participants pay to overarching research projects, and links between primary agency and successful learning.
Magnetically recoverable nano-catalysts in sulfoxidation reactions
Authors: Kazemi Mosstafa , Ghobadi Massoud 
Published: August 2017

AbstractThe sulfoxidation of sulfides have received special attention in organic synthesis especially in medical chemistry because compounds containing S=O bonds (sulfoxides) are privileged structural scaffolds for building pharmacologically and biologically active molecules. Magnetic separation is an efficient strategy for the rapid separation of catalysts from reaction medium and an alternative to time-, solvent-, and energy-consuming separation techniques. In recent times, many protocols based on using magnetically recoverable nano-catalysts have been reported for the oxidation of sulfides to the sulfoxides. This review is focused on metal complexes, acid, and bromine reagents supported on magnetic nanoparticles and their applications as magnetically recoverable nano-catalysts in the sulfoxidation reactions.
Statistical inferences with jointly type-II censored samples from two Pareto distributions
Authors: Abu-Zinadah Hanaa H. 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
In the several fields of industries the product comes from more than one production line, which is required to work the comparative life tests. This problem requires sampling of the different production lines, then the joint censoring scheme is appeared. In this article we consider the life time Pareto distribution with jointly type-II censoring scheme. The maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) and the corresponding approximate confidence intervals as well as the bootstrap confidence intervals of the model parameters are obtained. Also Bayesian point and credible intervals of the model parameters are presented. The life time data set is analyzed for illustrative purposes. Monte Carlo results from simulation studies are presented to assess the performance of our proposed method.
Neutropenia and thrombocytopenia after cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy
Authors: Finlay Ben , Price Timothy , Hewett Peter 
Published: August 2017

AbstractBackgroundNeutropenia and thrombocytopenia are well-recognised complications of systemic chemotherapy. In cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), the interplay between surgical factors and systemic toxicity of chemotherapeutics must be considered when considering post-operative haematological outcomes. We sought to quantify the incidence of these events in cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC at our institution.MethodsWe conducted a single centre, a retrospective cohort study of 50 consecutive patients who underwent cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC from 2002 to 2015. Routine haematological data were analysed and complications classified according to CTCAE 4.0. Subgroup analysis was undertaken to compare those who received or not perioperative systemic chemotherapy.ResultsThe rate of all-grade post-procedure neutropenia was 4 % (n=2/50); one grade 1, and one grade 4 neutropenia. The patient with grade 4 neutropenia died day 57 post-operatively, despite subsequent growth factor support. Eight percent (n=4/50) of patients had thrombocytopenia preoperatively. The overall rate of post-procedure thrombocytopenia was 46 % with grade 3–4 thrombocytopenia of 4 %. If not present preoperatively, thrombocytopenia onset was on day 1 or 2 post-operatively, with a median duration of 3 days.ConclusionsIntraperitoneal delivery of chemotherapy as HIPEC can cause haematological toxicity with potentially fatal outcomes. However, the incidence of neutropenia and thrombocytopenia after CRS and HIPEC is low.
Occupational safety of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC)
Authors: Willaert Wouter , Sessink Paul , Ceelen Wim 
Published: August 2017

AbstractBackgroundPressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) has emerged as a novel method to treat extensive, small volume peritoneal metastases. The clinical use of chemotherapy containing aerosols represents a potential occupational health hazard. We report the results of toxicological analysis during the first two clinical PIPAC procedures performed at Ghent University Hospital.MethodsAfter extensive preparation and in vitro testing, two patients were treated with PIPAC: the first using doxorubicin (2.86 mg in 51.43 mL) and cisplatin (14.28 mg in 164.3 mL), the second using oxaliplatin (182.10 mg in 186.42 mL). A standardized safety checklist was developed and used. Aerosol delivery was combined with electrostatic precipitation (ePIPAC). The following samples were obtained at several time points and locations: environmental air, floor surface wipes, surgeon’s gloves, surgeon’s hand wipes, circuit filters, and fluid from the water seal collection chamber container placed along the closed aerosol waste evacuating line. Platinum concentration was measured in these samples using voltammetry. Sample collection and analysis were performed by an independent external laboratory.ResultsPlatinum was not detected on the four floor locations after both procedures (detection limit 0.02 ng/cm2). Similarly, no platinum was detected in environmental air during both PIPACs at the surgeon’s or anesthesiologist’s position (detection limit 4.0–27 ng/m3). No platinum contamination was detected on the hands, outer pair of gloves, or inner pair of gloves of the surgeon (detection limit 70 and 50 ng respectively). Platinum was not detected on the filters and in the air-seal container liquid.ConclusionsWith adequate preparation and precautions, a clinical PIPAC program can be established without measurable chemotherapy exposure to the operating room environment or healthcare workers.
Correlation of salivary neopterin and plasma fibrinogen levels in patients with chronic periodontitis and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus
Authors: Fenol Angel , Swetha V.R. , Krishnan Sajitha , Perayil Jayachandran , Vyloppillil Rajesh , Bhaskar Anuradha , Shereef Mohammed , Balakrishnan Biju , Puzhankara Lakshmi 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Neopterin is a novel predictor for coronary events especially in diabetic patients and also an indicator for the effectiveness of the periodontal treatment. In this study, we assessed whether salivary neopterin can be used as a potential biomarker in evaluating the risk of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with chronic periodontitis. Forty subjects between 25 and 75 years of age and who matched the criteria were selected and divided into four groups. Their periodontal status was evaluated. Stimulated whole saliva and blood were collected for analysis of salivary neopterin and fibrinogen and HbA1c levels, respectively. Nonsurgical periodontal therapy was carried out. Patients were recalled after 3 months, and the same procedure was repeated. A reduction in all the parameters was seen after treatment in all the four groups. Salivary neopterin levels showed significant difference (p<0.001) in the values between the study groups and the control group before treatment. After 3 months of treatment, salivary neopterin levels showed a statistical significant reduction (p<0.001) in all the study groups. Neopterin could serve as an effective tool to assess the inflammatory process related to periodontitis and diabetes mellitus and also predict future cardiovascular events in diabetic patients.
The role of séméiotique in François Delsarte’s aesthetics
Authors: Fischer Iris Smith 
Published: August 2017

AbstractThis article introduces the aesthetic theory of François Delsarte (1811–1870) and his conception of semiotics. Delsarte created his “applied aesthetics” as a modern scientific method for artists, particularly performers, to investigate the nature of human being. Delsarte’s approach to performance involved the actor in observing human behavior, interpreting it through categories of voice, gesture, and language, and rendering it in an expansive display of types. Delsarte’s applied aesthetics involves the performer’s attention to signs and sign action, a study he called séméiotique. We see Delsarte’s program for inquiry into truth in what I call the actor’s task, which develops his or her human being through observation, analysis, and creation. This was Delsarte’s “orthopedic machine for correcting crippled intellects” – the crippled intellects being those intellectuals and conservatory teachers whose ideas on aesthetics he found to be neither systematic nor attuned to God’s reason. While it is well known in theatre and dance scholarship that Delsarte’s ideas and methods advanced the training of actors, dancers, and orators, particularly in the United States, my paper instead introduces him as a voice in nineteenth-century thinking on signs and semiosis. Delsarte’s aesthetics are firmly based in Thomist assumptions about a triune god whose nature is reflected imperfectly in man. Yet it is striking that Delsarte characterizes the sign relation as mediated in a modern sense, prior to Charles Peirce’s development of his own triadic sign relation, and semiotics as a modern method of scientific inquiry.
The gap between instruction (plan) and situated action: A challenge to semiotics?
Authors: Roth Wolff-Michael 
Published: August 2017

AbstractIn this study, I describe a potential challenge to semiotics, which exists in the fact that no interpretation of an instruction (text) can get us closer to doing what the instructional text describes. I provide a praxeological description of a situation in a software development firm where the instructions (rules) for a particular type of meeting are inscribed on the whiteboard in front of which the meetings were held. I discuss the gap between instructions and the behavior they describe and the moral order of praxis that is not inscribed in instructions.
“What makes a reasoning sound” is the proof of its truth: A reconstruction of Peirce’s semiotics as epistemic logic, and why he did not complete his realistic revolution
Authors: Nesher Dan 
Published: August 2017

AbstractCharles S. Peirce attempted to develop his semiotic theory of cognitive signs interpretation, which are originated in our basic perceptual operations that quasi-prove the truth of perceptual judgment representing reality. The essential problem was to explain how, by a cognitive interpretation of the sequence of perceptual signs, we can represent external physical reality and reflectively represent our cognitive mind’s operations of signs. With his phaneroscopy introspection, Peirce shows how, without going outside our cognitions, we can represent external reality. Hence Peirce can avoid the Berkeleyian, Humean, and Kantian phenomenologies, as well as the modern analytic philosophy and hermeneutic phenomenology. Peirce showed that with the trio of semiotic interpretation – abductive logic of discovery of hypotheses, deductive logic of necessary inference, and inductive logic of evaluation – we can reach a complete proof of the true representation of reality. This semiotic logic of reasoning is the epistemic logic representing human confrontation in reality, with which we can achieve knowledge and conduct our behavior. However, Peirce did not complete his realistic revolution to eliminate previously accepted nominalistic and idealistic epistemologies of formal logic and pure mathematics. Here, I inquire why Peirce did not complete his historical realist epistemological revolution and following that inquiry I attempt to reconstruct it.
Iconic silence: A semiotic paradox or a semiotic paragon?
Authors: Ephratt Michal 
Published: August 2017

AbstractFor a sign to be a sign it must bond an object (quality), a signifier, and the idea to which it gives rise (CP 1.339). The paper focuses on the iconicity of silence as a hypoiconic signifier, exploring the semiotics of silence in light of the notions and studies of iconicity. Fascinating parallelisms hold between iconicity and silence. These raise many challenges to the study of each separately, let alone dealing with them jointly. Some icons and some silences are qualities in the real world, others are semiotic forms (signifiers) standing for or denoting objects. Simple, intuitive qualities of iconicity and of silence are naturally grasped and shared from antiquity to the present by cultures and peoples. The paper employs Peirce’s initial basic trichotomy of iconic classes as well as his later hierarchies for studying the iconic stance of silence as a hypoiconic signifier (Secondness). Analyzing and illustrating the possible complexities between forms (a silent signifier), contents, their relations and their interpretations, group hypoiconic silences into silence as an image, silence as a diagram, and silence as a metaphor.
The lens of firstness: Shamanic/Aboriginal culture as cosmos-sign
Authors: Bonta Steven 
Published: August 2017

AbstractHaving identified previously (Bonta 2015) the Peircean Category Firstness as the semiotic basis (or cultural Prime Symbol) for Australian Aboriginal culture, this paper examines the “lens” of Firstness as it is manifest in a variety of aboriginal (or “Shamanic”) cultures worldwide. By studying the semiotic contours of religion, language, social organization, and art, we find systemic prioritization of Firstness in its various manifestations, across a wide range of aboriginal cultures from Australia to the Indian Subcontinent to aboriginal Siberia and the New World. Shamanic culture, despite its ethnic and geographic variety, may therefore be represented as a semiotic type – and, in addition, one that, in its pristine form, is nearly extinct.
Stylistique et sémiotique tensive : Convergences et divergences
Authors: Dorra Raul , Rodriguez Blanca Alberta 
Published: August 2017

Résumé
À partir de De l’imperfection et de
Sémiotique des passions (1991), la sémiotique a opéré un tournant vers la reconnaissance du sensible comme fondement de la signification. Suivant cette voie, la sémiotique tensive s’est développée en enrichissant la théorie générale. De leur côté, en étudiant il y a plus d’un siècle la qualité expressive de l’œuvre littéraire, les philologues Amado Alonso et Dámaso Alonso – représentants de la stylistique espagnole – ont posé tôt pour la tradition hispanique le problème de l’affectivité dans le langage. Leurs travaux reprennent l’interprétation par l’école allemande de la stylistique de Bally. Notre article propose de faire un contrepoint entre la perspective de la sémiotique tensive et celle de la stylistique espagnole. Cette entreprise exige de reconnaître les divergences épistémologiques, mais surtout – suivant notre propos – de suggérer des points de rencontre et des visions complémentaires. Tandis que pour la sémiotique tensive l’affectivité est prise en charge par le plan du contenu, pour la stylistique elle se manifeste dans ce qui pour Dámaso Alonso serait – en élargissant la définition de Saussure – le signifiant à proprement parler: l’image acoustique réalisée dans sa matérialité sonore. De sorte que, dans l’échange entre ces deux perspectives disciplinaires, les trouvailles méthodologiques de l’une pourraient être utiles à l’autre, dans la mesure où toutes deux ont en partage l’intérêt pour la manière dont l’affectivité s’exprime.
Determining knowledge of the nursing students about biochemistry laboratory samples
Authors: Yılmaz Tamer , Yılmaz Ümran Dal 
Published: August 2017

Abstract

Objective
The aim of the study is to determine knowledge of nursing students about taking and transferring of bio-chemical laboratory samples.

Methods
The study is descriptive and was conducted during the spring semester of the 2016–2017 academic year and 118 volunteer final year nursing department students were included in the study. As a data collection tool, a questionnaire which was prepared by the researcher.

Results
Eleven percentage of the final year students of the nursing department answered the information that should be in the laboratory sample request document and 83.9% responded correctly to the optimal blood-letting time for the biochemical analysis. It was determined that 52.5% of the students correctly know whether the sitting, lying or on-foot blood-letting positions affect the blood values or not, and 45.8% know the reason why blood-letting is performed in sitting or lying positions. 57.1% of the students correctly identified the medium urine sample and 14.3% correctly understood the 24-h urine collection practices.

Conclusion
It was determined that the students lacked information on the taking, storage and transfer of the biochemical laboratory samples and it was detected that the missing information was provided in the curriculum.