bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Avascular necrosis in children with cerebral palsy after reconstructive hip surgery
Authors: Phillips L. , Hesketh K. , Schaeffer E. K. , Andrade J. , Farr J. , Mulpuri K. 
Published: August 2017

Purpose Progressive hip displacement is one of the most common orthopaedic pathologies in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Reconstructive hip surgery has become the standard treatment of care. Reported avascular necrosis (AVN) rates for hip reconstructive surgery in these patients vary widely in the literature. The purpose of this study is to identify the frequency and associated risk factors of AVN for reconstructive hip procedures. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed of 70 cases of reconstructive hip surgery in 47 children with CP, between 2009 and 2013. All 70 cases involved varus derotation osteotomy (VDRO), with 60% having combined VDRO and pelvic osteotomies (PO), and 21% requiring open reductions. Mean age at time of surgery was 8.82 years and 90% of patients were Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) 4 and 5. Radiographic dysplasia parameters were analysed at selected intervals, to a minimum of one year post-operatively. Severity of AVN was classified by Kruczynski's method. Bivar- iate statistical analysis was conducted using Chi-square test and Student's t-test. Results There were 19 (27%) noted cases of AVN, all radio- graphically identifiable within the first post-operative year. The majority of AVN cases (63%) were mild to moderate in severity. Pre-operative migration percentage (MP) (p = 0.0009) and post-operative change in MP (p = 0.002) were the most significant predictors of AVN. Other risk factors were: GMFCS level (p = 0.031), post-operative change in NSA (p = 0.02) and concomitant adductor tenotomy (0.028). Conclusion AVN was observed in 27% of patients. Severity of displacement correlates directly with AVN risk and we suggest that hip reconstruction, specifically VDRO, be performed early in the 'hip at risk' group to avoid this complication.
Silent landscapes, textured memory: Keith Morris Washington’s lynching paintings
Authors: Lloyd Christopher 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Keith Morris Washington’s landscape paintings have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, and thus the present article aims to address that lack. Primarily, this article argues that in representing landscapes associated with lynchings, Washington’s paintings are a form of cultural memory that helps us apprehend the traumas of the southern past. Rather than presenting us with dead bodies of lynching victims, Washington paints the ‘texture’ of violence and memory in seemingly innocuous rural landscapes. Through his brushwork, framing and visual motifs, Washington reveals what I am calling the ‘after-burn’ of lynching: the way in which it circulates as a kind of haunting and memory that disturbs our gaze. While lynching scholarship has expanded in recent years, there is often a focus – as with other contemporary visual theories – on looking at lynching photographs; we are encouraged by a number of critics to apprehend death directly. This article suggests that Washington’s artwork provides us with another visual mode of apprehending lynching. In registering the texture of violence and memory, and through intimating the presence of corporeality, Washington enables a form of looking that does not re-victimize the victimized. Rather, his visual ethics allows us to both see and not see the deaths of (primarily) African Americans across the nation and region.
Sweet sick teens: Gothic narratives of American adolescent sexuality
Authors: Koehler Cara 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Pivotal to the transition into adulthood is sexual maturation, an inescapable rite of passage which this article investigates across a range of contemporary American media. Beginning in the 1980s through the turn of the twenty-first century, the works in this archive tend to represent the increasingly politicized, stigmatized adolescent body as a conflict zone, a liminal precinct in which sex, illness and death often intersect to traumatic and Gothic effect. They consist of culturally influential ‘indie’ narratives that bridge the gap or, at times, blur the line between the mainstream and cult subculture. Starting from Victor Turner’s seminal work on the adolescent’s passage into adulthood, I place the concept of liminality side by side with the cultural imagination of the frontier. The sex and death dichotomy that characterizes adolescent sexuality shares with the fundamental trope of the frontier a wide array of Gothic connotations. Pre-existing scholarship on Gothic teen studies has yet to extrapolate on the portrayals of sickly teen bodies that run rampant in Gothic works. To append this missing link, I discuss Freudian drives, Susan Sontag’s illness metaphors, and Priscilla Wald’s readings of contagion narratives to lay the groundwork for the connection between sex, illness and cultural anxieties that these late-century narratives communicate. Indeed, I understand contemporary Gothic along the lines of Catherine Spooner, who quipped in her 2006 monograph that ‘[l]ike a malevolent virus, Gothic narratives have [...] spread across disciplinary boundaries to infect all kinds of media…’ (2006: 8). I consider sick teen bodies across a variety of works under two main headings: first, those that rely heavily on anaesthetized imagery to evoke the Gothic. Beginning with 2015’s genre-bending It Follows (Mitchell), I work backwards to trace its clear-cut intertext – The Virgin Suicides (Coppola, 1993), a teen dream-turned-nightmare likewise set in suburban Detroit. The second heading explores decidedly more violent works, among them the graphic novel Black Hole and the horror film Ginger Snaps (Fawcett, 2000), which juxtapose adolescence and supernatural monstrosities that act as carriers of disease. The female is often at the centre of the narratives at hand, and though these works explore the world of minors, rarely, problematically are ‘minority’ bodies represented. Common to these works are stigmatized figures who fight for individual expression yet often fail to emerge from the adolescent stage as autonomous adults, due either to their unwillingness to conform to mainstream culture or the failure of this culture to integrate them.
Reviews
Authors: Popescu Maria-Irina , Posocco Silvia , Kane Annemarie , Tate Shirley Anne , Bellomy Steve , Doyle Gavin , Witcombe Mike , Malewitz Raymond , Tsitsovits Ioannis 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
The ‘War on Terror’ and American Fiction: 9/11 Frames Per Second, Terence McSweeney (2014) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 256 pp., ISBN: 9780748693092, h/bk, £70, 9781474413060, p/bk, £24.99
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11, Terence McSweeney (ed.) (2017) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781474413817, h/bk, £75
Notes towards a Performative Theory of Assembly, Judith Butler (2015) Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 256 pp., ISBN: 9780674967755, cloth: alk. paper, $27.95, £21.95, 25.00; ISBN: 9780674495562, epub; ISBN: 9780674495555, mobi
11.22.63, J. J. Abrams, Stephen King, Bridget Carpenter, Bryan Burk and James Franco (2016) USA: Hulu
Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective, Nadia Elia, David M. Hernández, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez and Sarita Echavez See (2016) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, pp. 556, ISBN: 9780822361084, h/bk, $109.95; ISBN: 9780822361275, p/bk, $31.95; ISBN: 9780822374367, e-bk, $31.90
Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America, Stacey Margolis (2015) 1st ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 211 pp., ISBN-13: 9781107107809, h/bk, $103.00
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, 1975−2014, Eileen Myles (2016) London: Tuskar Rock Press, 356 pp., ISBN: 9781781257364, h/bk, £14.99
Chelsea Girls, Eileen Myles (2016) London: Serpent’s Tail, 274 pp., ISBN: 9781781257807, p/bk, £8.99
Home fires burning
Fallout 4, Bethesda Game Studios, 2015 Rockville, MD: Bethesda Softworks
Tom Clancy’s The Division, Ubisoft Massive, 2016 San Francisco, CA: Ubisoft
Homefront: The Revolution, Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, 2016 Planegg: Deep Silver
Other Things, Bill Brown (2015) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 485 pp., ISBN: 9780226076652, h/bk, $40.00
Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction, Lee Konstantinou (2016) Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 384 pp., ISBN: 9780674967885, h/bk, £31.95
One-Pot Condensation Approach for the Synthesis of Some 1,8-Dioxo-octahydroxanthenes and 14-Aryl-14H-dibenzo[a,j]Xanthenes Using Lactic Acid as an Efficient and Eco-Friendly Catalyst
Authors: Sadeh Fatemeh Noori , Fatahpour Maryam , Hazeri Nourallah , Maghsoodlou Malek Taher , Lashkari Mojtaba 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
The synthesis of some biologically important xanthenes, by efficient and convenient approach for one-pot condensation reaction of aldehydes and dimedone or β-naphthol in the presence of lactic acid as an efficient, inexpensive and environmental friendliness catalyst under solvent-free conditions, is presented. The merits of this reaction are higher product yields in shorter reaction time and environmentally benign reaction conditions.
Three-Component Synthesis of Mono and Bis 4,5-Dihydropyrano[3,2-C]Chromenes and 4,5- Dihydropyran[4,3-B]Pyrans Catalyzed by Sodium Benzenesulfinates as a Green Organocatalyst
Authors: Abaszadeh Mehdi , Seifi Mohammad 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Mono and bis 4,5-dihydropyrano[3,2-c]chromene and 4,5- dihydropyrano[4,3-b]pyran derivatives were synthesized by three-component reaction of aromatic aldehydes, malononitrile and 4-hydroxycoumarin or 4- hydroxy-6-methylpyrone, in the presence of catalytic amounts of sodium benzenesulfinates, as a organocatalyst, in H2O/EtOH, at reflux. High conversions, short reaction times, cleaner reaction profiles and usage of a stable and also inexpensive catalyst are some of the advantages of this method.
SEM and EDS Characterization of Porous Coatings Obtained On Titaniumby Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation in Electrolyte Containing Concentrated Phosphoric Acid with Zinc Nitrate
Authors: Rokosz K. , Hryniewicz T. , Pietrzak K. , Malorny W. 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
The SEM and EDS results of porous coatings formed on pure titanium by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (Micro Arc Oxidation) under DC regime of voltage in the electrolytes containing of 500 g zinc nitrate Zn(NO3)2·6H2O in 1000 mL of concentrated phosphoric acid H3PO4 at three voltages, i.e. 450 V, 550 V, 650 V for 3 minutes, are presented. The PEO coatings with pores, which have different shapes and the diameters, consist mainly of phosphorus, titanium and zinc. The maximum of zinc-to-phosphorus (Zn/P) ratio was found for treatment at 650 V and it equals 0.43 (wt%) | 0.20 (at%), while the minimum of that coefficient was recorded for the voltage of 450 V and equaling 0.26 (wt%) | 0.12 (at%). Performed studies have shown a possible way to form the porous coatings enriched with zinc by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation in electrolyte containing concentrated phosphoric acid H3PO4 with zinc nitrate Zn(NO3)2·6H2O.
On paranorm BVσ I-convergent double sequence spaces defined by an Orlicz function
Authors: Khan Vakeel A. , Fatima Hira , Abdullah Sameera A. A. , Alshlool Kamal M. A. S. 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
The space

BV
σ

{\mathrm{BV}_{\sigma}}

was introduced and studied by Mursaleen [21].
In the present article we study the double sequence spaces

(
0

BV

(
M
,
p
)

σ
I

)

2

{{}_{2}(_{0}\mathrm{BV}{{}^{I}_{\sigma}}(M,p))}

,

BV

2

(
M
,
p
)

σ
I

{{}_{2}\mathrm{BV}{{}^{I}_{\sigma}}(M,p)}

and

(
∞

BV

(
M
,
p
)

σ
I

)

2

{{}_{2}(_{\infty}\mathrm{BV}{{}^{I}_{\sigma}}(M,p))}

with the help of the space

BV
σ

{\mathrm{BV}_{\sigma}}

and an Orlicz function M, where

p
=

(

p

i
⁢
j

)

{p=(p_{ij})}

is the double sequence of strictly positive real numbers.
We study some of its properties and prove some inclusion relations related to these new spaces.
Condition of sows during reproductive activity depending on lipid metabolism gene (DGAT1) polymorphism
Authors: Szyndler-Nędza Magdalena , Piórkowska Katarzyna , Ropka-Molik Katarzyna 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Mutations at gene loci associated with body lipid metabolism may affect not only carcass and meat quality traits in young animals but also the production results of mother sows. The objective of the study was to determine the effect of mutations in the DGAT1 gene, found in Polish populations of maternal breeds, on condition of gilts and later on condition and reproductive performance of sows during three reproductive cycles. The study involved 118 gilts of maternal breeds (Polish Large White (PLW ) and Polish Landrace (PL)). Gilts and subsequently sows were monitored for body weight (BW) and P2 backfat thickness over three reproductive cycles and their litters were analysed for the number and body weight of the piglets. A total of 354 litters of pigs were evaluated. In the analysed pig populations, a single mutation (A/G) in the DGAT1 gene (rs45434075) had a significant effect on deposition of subcutaneous fat only in the PLW gilts (P2G, AA,AG<GG P≤0.05 and P2F r=214 P≤0.01). As regards the G/A 3’UTR polymorphism of the DGAT1 gene (rs342152658), this mutation is negatively correlated only in the PL sows with fatness during their reproductive life and with BW of the piglets reared to 21 d of age. Sows of the DGAT1GG 3’UTR genotype had significantly lower P2F backfat thickness (P≤0.05) and, during a 21-d lactation, reared lighter piglets (P≤0.01) compared to sows of the same breed with the DGAT1AG 3’UTR genotype. The analysed traits were also affected by the interaction between mutations in the DGAT1 gene of the sows of maternal breeds (DGAT1/DGAT1 3’UTR). Sows of the DGAT1GG/GG genotype were characterised by the highest backfat thickness on selection day, and during three reproductive cycles they reared significantly more piglets compared to sows of the DGAT1AA/AG genotype. Heterozygous sows (AG/AG) reared significantly heavier piglets than sows of the AA/GG and AG/GG genotypes (P≤0.05).
Non-linear unsteady inverse boundary problem for heat conduction equation
Authors: Joachimiak Magda , Ciałkowski Michał 
Published: August 2017

AbstractDirect and inverse problems for unsteady heat conduction equation for a cylinder were solved in this paper. Changes of heat conduction coefficient and specific heat depending on the temperature were taken into consideration. To solve the non-linear problem, the Kirchhoff’s substitution was applied. Solution was written as a linear combination of Chebyshev polynomials. Sensitivity of the solution to the inverse problem with respect to the error in temperature measurement and thermocouple installation error was analysed. Temperature distribution on the boundary of the cylinder, being the numerical example presented in the paper, is similar to that obtained during heating in the nitrification process.
Effect of rotation on a semiconducting medium with two-temperatures under L-S theory
Authors: Othman Mohamed I.A. , Tantawi Ramadan S. , Eraki Ebtesam E.M. 
Published: August 2017

AbstractThe model of the equations of generalized thermoelasticity in a semi-conducting medium with two-temperature is established. The entire elastic medium is rotated with a uniform angular velocity. The formulation is applied under Lord-Schulman theory with one relaxation time. The normal mode analysis is used to obtain the expressions for the considered variables. Also some particular cases are discussed in the context of the problem. Numerical results for the considered variables are obtained and illustrated graphically. Comparisons are also made with the results predicted in the absence and presence of rotation as well as two-temperature parameter.
Discrete-time market models from the small investor point of view and the first fundamental-type theorem
Authors: Karaś Marek , Serwatka Anna 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the no-arbitrage condition in a discrete financial market model which does not hold the same interest rate assumptions. Our research was based on, essentially, one of the most important results in mathematical finance, called the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing. For the standard approach a risk-free bank account process is used as numeraire. In those models it is assumed that the interest rates for borrowing and saving money are the same. In our paper we consider the model of a market (with d risky assets), which does not hold the same interest rate assumptions. We introduce two predictable processes for modelling deposits and loans. We propose a new concept of a martingale pair for the market and prove that if there exists a martingale pair for the considered market, then there is no arbitrage opportunity. We also consider special cases in which the existence of a martingale pair is necessary and the sufficient conditions for these markets to be arbitrage free.
On multigraphic and potentially multigraphic sequences
Authors: Pirzada Shariefuddin , Chat Bilal Ahmad , Samee Uma Tul 
Published: August 2017

AbstractAn r-graph(or a multigraph) is a loopless graph in which no two vertices are joined by more than r edges. An r-complete graph on n vertices, denoted by Kn(r), is an r-graph on n vertices in which each pair of vertices is joined by exactly r edges. A non-increasing sequence π = (d1,d2,..., dn) of non-negative integers is said to be r-graphic if it is realizable by an r-graph on n vertices. An r-graphic sequence π is said to be potentially SL;M(r)-graphic if it has a realization containing SL;M(r)as a subgraph. We obtain conditions for an r-graphic sequence to be potentially S(r) L;M-graphic. These are generalizations from split graphs to p-tuple r-split graph.
Croatian Recommendations for Dialysis of HIV-Positive Patients
Authors: Gulin Marijana , Puretic Zvonimir , Begovac Josip , Civljak Rok , Jankovic Nikola , Basic-Jukic Nikolina , Racki Sanjin 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection may be associated with renal impairment since about 0.4% of all HIV-positive patients develop end-stage renal disease. The share of patients with HIV infection in hemodialysis centers throughout the world ranges from 0.3% to as high as 38%. In Croatia, renal replacement therapy was needed by 1% of all the HIV-positive patients from 1985 until the end of 2014. Healthcare professionals (HP) should be aware of the risks of occupational exposure to blood-borne infections in their daily work. Performing dialysis in HIV-positive patients increases the risk of exposure to HIV during the extracorporeal circulation of the infected blood. However, post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with effective antiretroviral drugs significantly reduces the risk of infection after occupational exposure. On behalf of the Croatian Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, the authors of this paper have proposed recommendations for the management of HIVpositive patients on dialysis, which aim to prevent the transmission of HIV among patients and HPs. The important recommendations include the following: 1. when the need arises, it is necessary to provide HIV-positive patients with dialysis in the vicinity of their place of residence. 2. HIV-positive patients should be dialyzed with a separate hemodialysis machine in an isolated area. Alternatively, they can be dialyzed in an area for the hemodialysis of HCV-positive and/or HBVpositive patients. 3. Specialized and trained personnel should be provided during the hemodialysis procedure, together with strict compliance with the standard precautions for the prevention of blood-borne infections. 4. There should be a good and prompt cooperation with the National Referral Center for HIV infection.
MicroRNA in kidney disease
Authors: Prkacin Ingrid , Cavric Gordana , Basic-Jukic Nikolina 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Clinical and laboratory findings of kidney disease in an adult may find an explanation in kidney functional and/or structural abnormalities that already existed during infancy and childhood, but that may have been missed or underdiagnosed. All the cardiovascular abnormalities that occur in adults with chronic kidney disease are also present in children with chronic kidney disease. Complications in childhood chronic kidney disease will have consequences well beyond pediatric age and influence outcomes of affected young adults with disease. Kidney dysfunction appears early in the course of kidney disease and has been observed in children and adults with chronic kidney disease, condition characterised with kidney fibrosis. Transforming growth factor beta is recognized as a major mediator of kidney fibrosis. New evidence illustrates the relationship between transforming growth factor beta signaling and microRNAs expression during kidney diseases development. MicroRNAs play important roles in kidney development and kidney diseases; they are naturally occurring, 22-nucleotide, noncoding RNAs that mediate posttranscriptional gene regulation. Dysregulation of miRNA expression is an indicator of several diseases including chronic kidney disease. Targeting microRNAs should be a therapeutic potential to ameliorate the disease related to fibrosis. The discovery that circulating miRNAs are detectable in serum and plasma, and that their expression varies as a result of disease, presents great potential to be used as biomarkers in kidney disease prevention and diagnosis.
Nephrin and Podocalyxin - New Podocyte Proteins for Early Detection of Secondary Nephropathies
Authors: Kostovska Irena , Trajkovska Katerina Tosheska , Cekovska Svetlana , Spasovski Goce , Labudovic Danica 
Published: August 2017

AbstractIn the last two decades a great progress was observed in understanding of podocytes, their specific structure and function identifying many specific podocyte proteins, such as nephrin and podocalyxin. Podocytes form the final barrier to plasma proteins leakage. Nephrin as a main component of the filtration diaphragm forms a physical barrier while podocalyxin as sialoglycoprotein forms an electrostatic barrier. Podocyte damage, i.e. podocytopathies and their loss through urine-podocyturia, are crucial in pathogenesis and progression of nephropathies with proteinuria as main clinical manifestation. In podocytopathies, nephrin and podocalyxin appear in the urine before proteinuria and microalbuminuria which were previously considered as earliest markers of nephropathies. Nephrinuria and podocalyxuria indicate damage of the podocytes on glomerular level and/or presence of apoptotic and necrotic podocytes in urine. These urinary markers are also important in early diagnosis of secondary nephropathies such as diabetic, lupus and hypertensive nephropathy as the most common causes of end-stage renal failure (ESRF). These markers are also important in the prediction of preeclampsia, which is the most common complication in pregnancy. In this review we elaborate in dept the main structural and functional features of podocytes and their specific proteins, nephrin and podocalyxin, summarizing the recent literature data on their importance in the early diagnosis of the most common secondary nephropathies.
Dialysis and Depression in the Light of Suicide Attempt with Fruits
Authors: Akbas Feray , Atmaca Hanife Usta , Kose Sennur , Bag Sevda 
Published: August 2017

Abstract
Depression is a common morbidity seen in chronic renal failure patients but it is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Here we present a 36-year-old male dialysis patient who had undiagnosed severe depression and attempted to commit suicide with overconsumption of fruits. Fortunately, he was saved with emergent dialysis treatment and was referred to a psychiatry clinic for treatment and observation. In the light of this case we want to point out that diagnosing and treating psychiatric problems of dialysis patients is of vital importance to prevent suicides and also to improve quality of life.