bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Gender Differences in Social Cognition: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study of Recently Diagnosed Patients with Schizophrenia and Healthy Subjects
Authors: Navarra-Ventura Guillem , Fernandez-Gonzalo Sol , Turon Marc , Pousa Esther , Palao Diego , Cardoner Narcis , Jodar Merce 
Published: December 2017

Objectives: This study had 2 objectives: First, to explore the gender-related differences in emotional processing (EP) and theory of mind—both cognitive (CToM) and affective (AToM)—in patients with schizophrenia and in a control group of healthy subjects; and, second, to examine, from a gender perspective, the possible association between EP and CToM in the AToM performance. Methods: Forty patients with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder were recruited and matched by gender, age and years of education with 40 healthy subjects. EP was measured by the pictures of facial affect (POFA) test. CToM was measured using first- and second-order false-belief (FB) stories. AToM was measured by the reading the mind in the eyes test (RMET). Group and gender differences in CToM were analysed using the X2 test, whereas EP and AToM were analysed using the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U Test and a general linear model. Results were adjusted by intelligence quotient and negative symptomatology. Results: Patients with schizophrenia underperformed against healthy subjects in the POFA test, second-order FB, and RMET, but not in first-order FB. No significant gender differences were found. However, there was a trend showing that females outperformed males in the POFA ( P = 0.056). Group ( P < 0.001), POFA ( P < 0.001) and second-order FB ( P = 0.022) were the best factors predicting RMET performance (adjusted R2 = 0.584). Conclusions: Our results suggest that the illness is the main factor related to the deficit in social cognition, except for the basic aspects of the CToM that were unimpaired in most patients. Nevertheless, the influence of female gender in EP should not be neglected in any group. Finally, the hierarchal interaction between these domains is discussed.
Quality of Care for Patients With Diabetes and Mulitmorbidity Registered at Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics
Authors: Heale Roberta , Wenghofer Elizabeth , James Susan , Garceau Marie-Luce 
Published: December 2017

Background Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics are a new model of primary healthcare in Ontario. Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics are distinctive in that nurse practitioners are the primary care providers working with an interprofessional team. There have been no evaluations of the quality of care within the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic model. Purpose Evaluation of the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic model, specifically for complex clinical presentations, will provide insights that may be used to inform improvements to the delivery of care in the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which diabetes care was complete and to determine the impact of organizational tools, including electronic medical record tracking, diabetes care template, and referral to community programs, on the completeness of care for patients with diabetes and multimorbidity at Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics. Methods An audit of 30 charts was conducted at five different Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics (n = 150) for patients with diabetes and at least one other chronic condition. Indicators included patient and organizational characteristics as well as diabetes care items taken from diabetes clinical guidelines. Results Overall, care for patients with diabetes and multimorbidity in Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics was complete. However, there were no significant associations between patient or organizational characteristics and the extent to which diabetes care was complete.
Full-waveform inversion using a nonlinearly smoothed wavefield
Authors: Li Yuanyuan , Choi Yunseok , Alkhalifah Tariq , Li Zhenchun , Zhang Kai 
Published: December 2017

Conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) based on the least-squares misfit function faces problems in converging to the global minimum when using gradient methods because of the cycle-skipping phenomena. An initial model producing data that are at most a half-cycle away from the observed data is needed for convergence to the global minimum. Low frequencies are helpful in updating low-wavenumber components of the velocity model to avoid cycle skipping. However, low enough frequencies are usually unavailable in field cases. The multiplication of wavefields of slightly different frequencies adds artificial low-frequency components in the data, which can be used for FWI to generate a convergent result and avoid cycle skipping. We generalize this process by multiplying the wavefield with itself and then applying a smoothing operator to the multiplied wavefield or its square to derive the nonlinearly smoothed wavefield, which is rich in low frequencies. The global correlation-norm-based objective function can mitigate the dependence on the amplitude information of the nonlinearly smoothed wavefield. Therefore, we have evaluated the use of this objective function when using the nonlinearly smoothed wavefield. The proposed objective function has much larger convexity than the conventional objective functions. We calculate the gradient of the objective function using the adjoint-state technique, which is similar to that of the conventional FWI except for the adjoint source. We progressively reduce the smoothing width applied to the nonlinear wavefield to naturally adopt the multiscale strategy. Using examples on the Marmousi 2 model, we determine that the proposed FWI helps to generate convergent results without the need for low-frequency information.
(Re) Moving borders: North African clandestine emigrant in the age of terror
Authors: Hamil Mustapha 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
In the face of Europe’s stringent measures to regulate and monitor the flux of emigrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East, a new type of emigrant has emerged: the harrag or clandestine immigrant who is, on his or her part, determined to push the idea of the political border to its limits. The clandestine immigrant in Spain today is not only regarded as an unwanted guest, a reminder of a past history of violence, but also as a potential terrorist bent on destroying western civilization and its values. This article examines the phenomenon of hrig or clandestine immigration in four Moroccan texts and focusses on three key themes: the persistence of the myth of Europe as an Eldorado, the symbolic disintegration of the harrag’s body, and Spain’s ambivalent vision of its Arab and Muslim Others. The purpose is to demonstrate, through a comparative study, how the harrag exposes the limits of Europe’s discourse on cultural hybridity and national belonging.
Songs of Our Fathers: Gender and Nationhood at the Liberation of France
Authors: Jakes Kelly 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The experiences of defeat and occupation by Germany and liberation by the Allies wrought considerable gender damage upon France during the Second World War. In this essay, I examine appropriations of “Quand Madelon,” a popular World War I song that reemerged during the early weeks of France’s liberation, arguing that these appropriations offered one discursive resource by which patriots reasserted the manly strength of their nation. By reviving old archetypal notions of eroticized, subservient femininity and tough, virile masculinity, the tunes exerted discipline over “wayward” French women and eased gendered anxieties about the nation’s ability to reclaim its status as a sovereign nation. Courting widespread favor, even among French women, the songs made this gender discipline more palatable by pairing it with visions of a sexualized, civically engaged womanhood.
Prisoner of Context: The Truman Doctrine Speech and J. Edgar Hoover’s Rhetorical Realism
Authors: Underhill Stephen M. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
In this project, I argue that J. Edgar Hoover’s style of political realism should be studied by critics because it long preceded that of President Harry S. Truman. The style belonged to a stockpile of anti-Communist imagery that helped to shape how the Truman Doctrine speech was drafted and how audiences interpreted its meanings in more local domestic politics. When Truman finally announced that the Soviet Union had challenged international protocol, I argue that he confirmed the vision that his Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director and other detractors had developed throughout the New Deal to discredit reformers who challenged issues of race, labor, and police technique. In this way, anti-Communist containment rhetoric limited the president’s ability to control the domestic security and economic agendas. The stockpile of anti-Communist discourse belonged to, I also argue, a relative of political realism—literary realism and its spinoff, literary naturalism. My final argument is that the FBI director refurbished key tropes in the stockpile, which helped Truman’s congressional opponents invoke Hoover’s authority within the executive branch and thereby displace the president’s credibility as commander in chief. Combined, Hoover and his allies in Congress and elsewhere used rhetorical realism to communicate a deterministic philosophy about human nature through a diffuse mythic narrative, coordinated between Congress, Hollywood, the press, and official FBI discourse.
SAMU ambulance positioning using MALP model
Authors: Coelho Ormeu , Alexandrino Fernando , Barreto Bruno 
Published: December 2017

One of the constitutional principles of the public health care system in Brazil is universality, which turns health into a fundamental right and ensures that all citizens shall have access to health service whenever required. The purpose of this study is to assess the positioning of ambulances in Duque de Caxias-RJ, and find new arrangements to maximize the covered population. The configuration of a network that provides such service is indeed significant since small deviations may lead to users’ death. Therefore, four scenarios were built in order to represent different network arrangements, according to the manager’s strategy or the budget limitations of the city. An Integer Programming model for servers’ positioning was used in each scenario. Indicators such as percentage of coverage population and total cost were then used to compare and choose the best solution. Results have shown that the current coverage could be doubled by just relocating facilities that already exist, without adding any costs. It is important to notice that this solution is rather different from the current positioning.
Sharp weighted isoperimetric and Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities
Authors: Lam Nguyen 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Using the optimal mass transport method and a suitable quasi-conformal mapping, we
study the sharp weighted isoperimetric, Sobolev, Gagliardo–Nirenberg and
Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities. The class of weight functions under
consideration includes all nonnegative homogeneous weights satisfying a
concavity condition that is equivalent to a usual curvature-dimension bound
and the nonnegativity of a Bakry–Émery Ricci tensor. Though our densities
are not radial in general, the optimizers are radially symmetric.
Estimating the level of affinity of a quadratic form
Authors: Cheremushkin Aleksandr V. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The level of affinity of a Boolean function is defined as the minimum number of variables such that assigning any particular values to these variables makes the function affine. The generalized level of affinity is defined as the minimum number of linear combinations of variables the values of which may be specified in such a way that the function becomes affine. For a quadratic form of rank 2r the generalized level of affinity is equal to r. We present some properties of the distribution of the rank of the random quadratic form and, as a corollary, derive an asymptotic estimate for the generalized level of affinity of quadratic forms.
Cyclic decomposition of sets, set-splitting digraphs and cyclic classes of risk-free games
Authors: Chudnov Alexander M. 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
We study conditions for the existence of coalition games with the result invariant under cyclic shifts of players sequence numbers. Given a total number n of players, we estimate the number k of players of one coalition under which there exists a game in which this coalition wins under all cyclic shifts of players. We give procedures for construction of the so-called set-splitting digraphs on which risk-free nim-type games of a given coalition are defined.
Pratiques linguistiques et représentations identitaires autour de l’intercompréhension
Authors: Dunoyer Christiane 
Published: December 2017

Résumé
Le domaine francoprovençal a été défini comme un espace linguistique présentant un haut niveau de fragmentation. Cet article vise les effets de contact au niveau micro-linguistique des variétés francoprovençales avec lesquelles le locuteur francoprovençal, qu’il soit natif ou non natif, se confronte dans ses pratiques communicatives quotidiennes. Au regard de l’anthropologue, la fragmentation du domaine n'est pas envisagée d'une manière statique. Au contraire, elle constitue un point de départ possible pour une exploration des dynamiques langagières internes à la communauté des locuteurs, à travers l'analyse de la structuration des échanges linguistiques, notamment par le biais des nombreuses stratégies d'intercompréhension mises en place par les locuteurs, mais aussi à travers l’expression des sentiments identitaires du locuteur et de ses représentations de la langue. La conclusion place l’accent sur l’importance de ces dynamiques internes dans l'organisation du système linguistique et de leur implication dans les démarches visant la revitalisation, la transmission et la normalisation du francoprovençal, afin d’attirer l’attention sur des ressources dont les locuteurs disposent naturellement et qu’il est pertinent de prendre en compte dans toute réflexion relative à l’aménagement linguistique.
Du patois à l’« harpetan », entre (petite) patrie et nation imaginée: le discours sur le francoprovençal dans le Journal de Genève (1826–1998)
Authors: Meune Manuel 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
In Switzerland, Francoprovençal is still spoken in parts of the cantons of Fribourg and Valais, but has (almost) disappeared from other cantons. The archives of the Journal de Genève (JdG) illustrate the evolution of glottonyms and linguistic representations, ranging from acceptance of the extinction of patois to conservation efforts, and, more recently, to hopes of revitalization. This analysis is based on two corpora organized around 1909, composed of texts containing respectively at least one occurrence of the keywords “patois” (1826–1909) and “franco-provençal” (1909–1998). These corpora also reflect identity construction based on language at a regional, national or transnational level. In the 19th century, the imagined language community applied to “little fatherlands” (cantons), to Romandie or to a cross-border space limited to Geneva and Savoy. In the 20th century, the appearance of the word “Franco-Provençal” led some people to extend the symbolic space to the whole FP area, especially to the Aosta Valley. Even though the “FP cause” remains secondary in the JdG and the discourse on “Harpetan” seems anecdotal, we observe some signs of “proto-national” construction.
Contact-induced change in Francoprovençal phonological systems caused by standard French
Authors: Hinzelin Marc-Olivier 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe phoneme or sound inventories of different Francoprovençal varieties are presented and compared. Typical Francoprovençal sounds are identified. This serves as a basis to study contact-induced sound change. Language contact and the influence of French on the phonological systems are examined in more detail. Changes are illustrated by corpus data from theMonts du Lyonnaisarea and compared with other sources, focusing on consonants. Dialectometric analysis ofALF-data confirms heavy French influence on Francoprovençal phonology, which cannot be recent. In the last hundred years, probably only minor changes in unstressed vowels occurred in the area studied.
Determinantal Generalizations of Instrumental Variables
Authors: Weihs Luca , Robinson Bill , Dufresne Emilie , Kenkel Jennifer , Kubjas Reginald McGee II Kaie , Reginald McGee II , Nguyen Nhan , Robeva Elina , Drton Mathias 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
Linear structural equation models relate the components of a random vector using linear interdependencies and Gaussian noise. Each such model can be naturally associated with a mixed graph whose vertices correspond to the components of the random vector. The graph contains directed edges that represent the linear relationships between components, and bidirected edges that encode unobserved confounding. We study the problem of generic identifiability, that is, whether a generic choice of linear and confounding effects can be uniquely recovered from the joint covariance matrix of the observed random vector. An existing combinatorial criterion for establishing generic identifiability is the half-trek criterion (HTC), which uses the existence of trek systems in the mixed graph to iteratively discover generically invertible linear equation systems in polynomial time. By focusing on edges one at a time, we establish new sufficient and new necessary conditions for generic identifiability of edge effects extending those of the HTC. In particular, we show how edge coefficients can be recovered as quotients of subdeterminants of the covariance matrix, which constitutes a determinantal generalization of formulas obtained when using instrumental variables for identification. While our results do not completely close the gap between existing sufficient and necessary conditions we find, empirically, that our results allow us to prove the generic identifiability of many more mixed graphs than the prior state-of-the-art.
Jedek: A newly discovered Aslian variety of Malaysia
Authors: Yager Joanne , Burenhult Niclas 
Published: December 2017

AbstractJedek is a previously unrecognized variety of the Northern Aslian subgroup of the Aslian branch of the Austroasiatic language family. It is spoken by about 280 individuals in the resettlement area of Sungai Rual, near Jeli in Kelantan state, Peninsular Malaysia. The community originally consisted of several bands of foragers along the middle reaches of the Pergau river. Jedek’s distinct status first became known during a linguistic survey carried out in the DOBES project
Covariate-based stochastic parameterization of baroclinic ocean eddies
Authors: Verheul Nick , Viebahn Jan , Crommelin Daan 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn this study we investigate a covariate-based stochastic approach to parameterize unresolved turbulent processes within a standard model of the idealised, wind-driven ocean circulation. We focus on vertical instead of horizontal coarse-graining, such that we avoid the subtle difficulties of horizontal coarsegraining. The corresponding eddy forcing is uniquely defined and has a clear physical interpretation related to baroclinic instability.We propose to emulate the baroclinic eddy forcing by sampling from the conditional probability distribution functions of the eddy forcing obtained from the baroclinic reference model data. These conditional probability distribution functions are approximated here by sampling uniformly from discrete reference values. We analyze in detail the different performances of the stochastic parameterization dependent on whether the eddy forcing is conditioned on a suitable flow-dependent covariate or on a timelagged covariate or on both. The results demonstrate that our non-Gaussian, non-linear methodology is able to accurately reproduce the first four statistical moments and spatial/temporal correlations of the stream function, energetics, and enstrophy of the reference baroclinic model.
The impact of outpatient clinical care on the survival and hospitalisation rate in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis
Authors: Majc Dejan , Tepes Bojan 
Published: December 2017

AbstractBackgroundIn the study, we aimed to determine whether regular outpatient controls in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis have an impact on their survival and hospitalisation rates.Patients and methodsWe included patients with liver cirrhosis and regular outpatient controls as a prospective study group and patients with liver cirrhosis who were admitted to hospital only in cases of complications as a retrospective control group. The study was conducted between 2006 and 2011.ResultsWe included 98 patients in the study group and 101 patients in the control group. There were more outpatient controls in the study group than in the control group (5.54 examinations vs. 2.27 examinations, p = 0.000). Patients in the study group had 25 fewer hospitalisations (10.2%; p = 0.612). The median survival rate was 4.6 years in the study group and 2.9 years in the control group (p = 0.021). Patients with Child A classification had an average survival of one year longer in the study group (p = 0.035). No significant difference was found for Child B patients. Patients with Child C classification had longer survival by 1.6 years in the study group (p = 0.006). Alcohol consumption was lower in the study group than in the control group (p = 0.018).ConclusionsWe confirmed that patients with regular outpatient controls had lower alcohol consumption, a lower hospitalisation rate and significantly prolonged survival time. We confirmed the necessity for the establishment of regular outpatient controls in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
Investigations of Trenched Film Hole Orientation Angle on Film Cooling Effectiveness
Authors: Krishna Anand V.G , Parammasivam K.M 
Published: December 2017

Abstract
The effect of altering the orientation angle of trenched film hole on film cooling effectiveness (ƞ) is analyzed through numerical investigation. The film holes were oriented at 6 different angles viz., 0°, 30°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180° with a fixed inclination angle 30° and with a pitch to diameter (P/D) ratio 5.The length and depth of the trench embedding the film hole are fixed at 3D and 0.75D respectively. Three different blowing ratios M=0.5, 1 and 1.5 were studied. Results from the study reveal that changing the orientation angle of film hole with in trench offered a considerable improvement on ƞ from near film hole region to far downstream location on test surface. For a low blowing ratio of 0.5, the film cooling effectiveness distribution changes with respect to film hole orientation angle and higher ƞ zones are distributed along the corresponding film hole orientation angle. The film hole oriented at 90° with respect to stream wise direction delivered highest ƞ at all three different blowing ratios due to better lateral spreading and uniform coverage of injected coolant. Except near film hole region, 30° and 45° hole orientation produced uniform lateral effectiveness compared to 0° hole orientation.