bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Comparison of oropharyngeal leak pressure and clinical performance of LMA ProSeal™ and i-gel® in adults: Meta-analysis and systematic review
Authors: Shin Hye Won , Yoo Hae Na , Bae Go Eun , Chang Jun Chul , Park Min Kyung , You Hae Seun , Kim Hyun Jung , Ahn Hyung Sik 
Published: March 2016

Background A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials to compare the oropharyngeal leak pressure (OLP) and clinical performance of LMA ProSeal™ (Teleflex® Inc., Wayne, PA, USA) and i-gel® (Intersurgical Ltd, Wokingham, UK) in adults undergoing general anesthesia. Methods Searches of MEDLINE®, EMBASE®, CENTRAL, KoreaMed and Google Scholar® were performed. The primary objective was to compare OLP; secondary objectives included comparison of clinical performance and complications. Results Fourteen RCTs were included. OLP was significantly higher with LMA ProSeal™ than with i-gel® (mean difference [MD] −2.95 cmH2O; 95% confidence interval [CI] −4.30, −1.60). The i-gel® had shorter device insertion time (MD −3.01 s; 95% CI −5.80, −0.21), and lower incidences of blood on device after removal (risk ratio [RR] 0.32; 95% CI 0.18, 0.56) and sore throat (RR 0.56; 95% CI 0.35, 0.89) than LMA ProSeal™. Conclusion LMA ProSeal™ provides superior airway sealing compared to i-gel®.
Testing the Phonological Permeability Hypothesis: L3 phonological effects on L1 versus L2 systems
Authors: Amaro Jennifer Cabrelli 
Published: March 2016

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: We investigate the extent to which L1 versus adult L2 phonological systems resist influence from an L3. We test the Phonological Permeability Hypothesis (Cabrelli Amaro & Rothman, 2010), which states that adult L2 phonological systems are different from L1 systems with regards to instability. Design/Methodology/Approach: To isolate the variable of age of acquisition, we examined the acquisition of L3 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by two types of sequential bilinguals: L1 English/L2 Spanish, L1 Spanish/L2 English. We tested perception via a forced-choice goodness task and production via a delayed repetition task. First, we assessed acquisition of the phonological property in BP (in this case, word-final vowel reduction, and excluded learners’ data that was not target-like in BP. We then tested the learners’ Spanish to determine the level of BP influence. Data and analysis: Perception data were analyzed for accuracy and reaction time. Production data were analyzed acoustically for formant structure, duration, and intensity. We compared L1 English/L2 Spanish data ( n=15) with L1 Spanish/L2 English data ( n=8), and with Spanish ( n=11) and BP controls ( n=14). Findings/Conclusions: While data from the preference task do not signal instability of perception for early or late acquirers of Spanish, L2 Spanish production data for vowel height measured differs from the L1 Spanish and Spanish control data. We take this as preliminary support for our hypothesis. Originality: By comparing L1 and L2 vulnerability to L3 influence, this study takes a novel approach to the debate over the constitution of phonological systems acquired in childhood versus in adulthood. Significance/Implications: The novel methodology implemented, together with these empirical findings, will afford further development of a research program dedicated to L3 bidirectional influence and the study of what L3 acquisition can tell us about language acquisition more generally.
Phase 1 study of marizomib in relapsed or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma: NPI-0052-101 Part 1
Authors: Richardson Paul G. , Zimmerman Todd M. , Hofmeister Craig C. , Talpaz Moshe , Chanan-Khan Asher A. , Kaufman Jonathan L. , Laubach Jacob P. , Chauhan Dharminder , Jakubowiak Andrzej J. , Reich Steven , Trikha Mohit , Anderson Kenneth C. 
Published: March 2016

Key Points
MRZ is an irreversible pan-proteasome inhibitor that has antitumor activity. Two treatment regimens were explored in a phase 1 trial in patients with RRMM.
Utah's 72‐Hour Waiting Period for Abortion: Experiences Among a Clinic‐Based Sample of Women
Authors: Roberts Sarah C.M. , Turok David K. , Belusa Elise , Combellick Sarah , Upadhyay Ushma D. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractContextIn 2012, Utah became the first state to enact a 72‐hour waiting period for abortion. Despite debate about the law's potential effects, research has not examined women's experiences with it.MethodsA cohort of 500 women recruited at four family planning facilities in Utah in 2013–2014 completed baseline surveys at the time of an abortion information visit and follow‐up telephone interviews three weeks later. Logistic regression and coding of open‐ended responses were used to examine which women had abortions and, for those who did not, their reasons.ResultsAmong the 309 women completing follow‐up, 86% had had an abortion, 8% were no longer seeking abortion, 3% had miscarried or discovered they had not been pregnant, and 2% were still seeking abortion; one woman was still deciding, and the waiting period had pushed one woman beyond her facility's gestational limit for abortion. At the information visit, women reported little conflict about the abortion decision (mean score on a scale of 0–100 was 13.9 for those who eventually had an abortion and 28.5 for others). Low decisional conflict, but not socioeconomic status, was associated with having an abortion (odds ratio, 1.1). On average, eight days elapsed between the information visit and the abortion.ConclusionAs most women in this cohort were not conflicted about their decision when they sought care, the 72‐hour waiting requirement seems to have been unnecessary. Individualized patient counseling for the small minority who were conflicted when they presented for care may have been more appropriate.
Feeling lonely, feeling connected: Amateur knit and crochet makers online
Authors: Mayne Alison 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
This article investigates the feelings of both social isolation and connection in female amateur crafters in knit and crochet who post images of their work and comments on their making to a Facebook group and ask whether this impacts on their sense of wellbeing. The project-in-progress involves thematic analysis of data purposively collected from women invited through Twitter and other online textile crafting pages to join a closed Facebook group set-up exclusively for a Ph.D. study. In research operating online and with the researcher employed as a participant-observer, the accepted ethnographic parameters of time, location and fixed cultural group are challenged. Initial findings suggest that crafters seek belonging, positive strokes of accomplishment, and celebrate the soothing qualities of the tactile to assuage loneliness; others feel that their creativity is devalued through depictions of isolation. Additional themes emerge, including the ways that sharing tangible making in knit and crochet online can support an improved sense of agency and self-esteem. The study highlights how both the acts of making and of sharing making online contribute to participants’ sense of positive wellbeing. Further research appears necessary into the role of tactile making shared in a virtual environment and reframing solitary creative activities as meaningful – including how these may contribute to feelings of personal and social wellbeing.
Redesigning the Energy Sector: Co-Creating New Business Models
Authors: Degnegaard Stine , Degnegaard Rex 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
This study examines the role of design in creating multi-stakeholder business models.
An essential goal for the energy sector is a complete conversion to sustainable energy; however, this sector is characterized by fragmented clusters competing for subsidies who sub-optimize their individual business models.
The case study used is based on a concern for the energy sector with the following research question: How can we design a business model that will enable actors across industries to exploit shared synergies for a greater good?
The article discusses findings from an action research initiative in the energy sector aimed at designing and developing co-created cross-sector business models using a strategic visualization design vehicle.
The findings highlight how designing shared business models can play an active role in building the foundation for transforming traditional business models into co-created multi-stakeholder business models. The case study shows how strategic visualization can become a design vehicle by creating clarity for those involved, as well as initiating communication across the actor landscape and building shared engagement platforms.
Lessons from China: Paradise or Graveyard for Strategic Designers
Authors: De Bont Cees 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
This study examines the extent to which design is adopted by organizations in China to support their strategic development. China is in transition from being a country known for cheap manufacturing to a country that offers value-added products and services. Given the role of strategic design in supporting organizational change and innovation in other countries, it could be expected that design strategists soon will be in high demand in China. From educational, cultural and historical perspectives, however, it can be explained that for many years in China imitation strategies have been more popular than innovation strategies. This study shows that there is evidence to suggest that utilization of design in China will become more strategic in the near future. This is supported by recent government policies and by the current success of companies innovating in the ICT sector. However, a lot of effort from experienced strategic designers will still be needed for the transformation of the existing traditional manufacturing sector.
The architectural cinematicity of Wang Shu and the architectonic cinema of Jia Zhangke: Diagrammatically decomposing the ‘main melody’ in monu-mental assemblage art
Authors: Fleming David H. 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Although truly singular artworks emerging from distinct creative universes, Wang Shu’s Ningbo Historic Museum (2008) and Jia Zhangke’s Shanghai World Expo film Hai shang chuan qi/I Wish I Knew (2010) disclose common ethico-aesthetic features and artistic principles. Adopting Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the assemblage allows us to perceive how these outstanding farrago projects, with their rough and broken edges, share homologous ‘abstract diagrams’; which become responsible for introducing discordant mental relations into China’s processual cityscapes. Viewing both works as state-sanctioned vehicles of Chinese ‘modernity’, I explore how Wang and Jia’s affective repurposing of urban detritus or salvaged cinematic material allows their sensational artworks to emit signals that subtly decompose the ‘main melodies’ associated with China’s embrace of modernization. Drawing on a hybrid model of Deleuze’s image regimes from Cinema 1 (2005a) and Cinema 2 (2005b) further permits us to perceive how these macropolitical ‘monuments’ critique the very narratives of progress that their commissioners charge them with celebrating.
Cinematicity: City and cinema after Deleuze
Authors: Clarke David B. , Doel Marcus A. 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
In light of Deleuze’s conception of cinema as an autonomous thinking machine – a ‘spiritual automaton’ in which moving images are substituted for human thought – the article presents the cinema as a pre-eminent thinker of the city. It contextualizes a range of scholarship committed to exploring the potential of Deleuze’s thought in relation to the ‘cinematic city’ – precipitating a Deleuzian encounter with a process that we have chosen to call cinematicity: the automatic thinking of the city by the cinema. In the course of their remarkable co-evolution, cinema’s unhinging of space– time has projected the unhinging of the space–time of the city, forcing its inhabitants to think otherwise about space, time and the human condition in the machine age. Taking these notions as a point of departure, the contributions to this issue, which variously serve to explicate the connections between city and cinema, are introduced, framed by this sense of cinematicity.
Held captive in frames: Reconstructing 1970s New York through Chantal Akerman’s Hotel Monterey and News from Home
Authors: Fink Marlon T. L. 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
In 2011, Chantal Akerman and Nicole Brenez engaged in a series of conversations, published as an extensive transcript entitled ‘Chantal Akerman: The pajama interview’. Essentially this transcript is a uniquely personal and in-depth enquiry into the film-maker’s life, thus marking a possible starting point from which to analyse Akerman’s Hotel Monterey (1972) and News from Home (1976). Both films were shot in 1970s New York, almost entirely by cinematographer Babette Mangolte, and are ideal for contrasting such Deleuzian concepts as the ‘any-space-whatever’, space(s) of transience/transition and milieux (the hotel: its lobby, floors, corridors, etc.; public transportation: subways, overground lines, cabs, the ferry; etc.). In both films, Akerman’s timing and framing of shots – above all the reduction to an extended opsign (Hotel Monterey) – creates autonomous, material realities and spaces for the spectator to contemplate in a cinema of the seer par excellence.
Competition in a Posted-Salary Matching Market under Private Information
Authors: Boosey Luke A. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractWe study a posted-salary labor market in which firms engage in salary competition. Firms’ preferences over workers are private information, creating uncertainty about competitive pressure for different workers. We consider a baseline 2-firm, 2-worker model, then extend the analysis to larger markets by replicating the baseline. We characterize the unique Bayesian- Nash equilibrium, in which each firm type chooses a distributional strategy with interval support in the salary space. The main result shows that competition is localized, in the sense that firm types with a common most preferred worker choose non-overlapping, adjacent supports. We also provide numerical results to show that the equilibrium strategies in finite replicated markets converge to the corresponding equilibrium strategies in a market with a continuum of firms and workers.
Measurement of free light chains with assays based on monoclonal antibodies
Authors: te Velthuis Henk , Drayson Mark , Campbell John P. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractRecently, serum free light chain (FLC) assays incorporating anti-kappa (κ) and anti-lambda (λ) FLC monoclonal antibodies have become available: N Latex FLC assay (Siemens) and Seralite
Clinical and laboratory findings in the diagnosis of right lower quadrant abdominal pain: outcome analysis of the APPAC trial
Authors: Lietzén Elina , Ilves Imre , Salminen Paulina , Paajanen Hannu , Rautio Tero , Nordström Pia , Aarnio Markku , Rantanen Tuomo , Kauko Tommi , Jartti Airi , Sand Juhani , Mecklin Jukka-Pekka , Grönroos Juha M. 
Published: March 2016

Abstract

Background:
The current research on acute appendicitis aims to improve the diagnostics and to clarify to whom antibiotic treatment might be the treatment of choice.

Methods:
The present study is a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected data in our randomized multicenter trial comparing surgery and antibiotic treatment for acute uncomplicated appendicitis (APPAC trial, NCTO1022567). We evaluated 1321 patients with a clinical suspicion of acute appendicitis, who underwent computed tomography (CT). Age, gender, body temperature, pain scores, the duration of symptoms, white blood cell count (WBC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were recorded on admission.

Results:
CT confirmed the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in 73% (n=970) and in 27% (n=351) it revealed no or other diagnosis. Acute appendicitis patients had significantly higher WBC levels than patients without appendicitis (median 12.2 and 10.0, respectively, p<0.0001), whereas CRP levels did not differ between the two groups. Ideal cut-off points were assessed with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, but neither these markers or neither their combination nor any clinical characteristic could accurately differentiate between patients with acute appendicitis and those without. The proportion of patients with normal WBC count and CRP was significantly (p=0.0007) lower in patients with acute appendicitis than in patients without appendicitis.

Conclusions:
Both clinical findings and laboratory tests are unable to reliably distinguish between patients with acute appendicitis and those without. If both WBC count and CRP are normal, acute appendicitis is very unlikely. The current results emphasize the role of CT imaging in patients with suspected acute appendicitis.
The influence of maximal quotient groups on the normalizer conjecture of integral group rings
Authors: Li Zhengxing , Li Yuanlin , Gao Hongwei 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Let N be a minimal normal subgroup of a finite group G. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the influence of the quotient group

G
/
N

${G/N}$

on the normalizer conjecture of the integral group ring

ℤ

$\mathbb{Z}$

G. Some conditions on G/N are obtained under which the normalizer conjecture holds for

ℤ

$\mathbb{Z}$

G.
Determination of the initial condition in parabolic equations from boundary observations
Authors: Hào Dinh Nho , Oanh Nguyen Thi Ngoc 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
The problem of determining the initial condition in parabolic equations from boundary observations is studied. It is reformulated as a variational problem and then a formula for the gradient of the functional to be minimized is derived via an adjoint problem. The variational problem is discretized by finite difference splitting methods and solved by the conjugate gradient method. Some numerical examples are presented to show the efficiency of the method. Also as a by-product of the variational method, we propose a numerical scheme for numerically estimating singular values of the solution operator in the inverse problem.
Crystal structure of tetrabutylammonium 4-aminobenzenesulfonate 2/3 hydrate, C22H42N2O3S · 2/3 H2O
Authors: Cai Yuanyuan , Sun Ning 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
C22H43.33N2O3.67S, monoclinic, P21/c, a = 9.5273(1) Å, b = 14.8850(2) Å, c = 17.5820(2) Å, V = 2492.84(5) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt(F) = 0.0526, wR
ref(F2
) = 0.1459, T = 296.
Comparing five statistical methods of differential methylation identification using bisulfite sequencing data
Authors: Yu Xiaoqing , Sun Shuying 
Published: March 2016

AbstractWe are presenting a comprehensive comparative analysis of five differential methylation (DM) identification methods: methylKit, BSmooth, BiSeq, HMM-DM, and HMM-Fisher, which are developed for bisulfite sequencing (BS) data. We summarize the features of these methods from several analytical aspects and compare their performances using both simulated and real BS datasets. Our comparison results are summarized below. First, parameter settings may largely affect the accuracy of DM identification. Different from default settings, modified parameter settings yield higher sensitivity and/or lower false positive rates. Second, all five methods show more accurate results when identifying simulated DM regions that are long and have small within-group variation, but they have low concordance, probably due to the different approaches they have used for DM identification. Third, HMM-DM and HMM-Fisher yield relatively higher sensitivity and lower false positive rates than others, especially in DM regions with large variation. Finally, we have found that among the three methods that involve methylation estimation (methylKit, BSmooth, and BiSeq), BiSeq can best present raw methylation signals. Therefore, based on these results, we suggest that users select DM identification methods based on the characteristics of their data and the advantages of each method.
Crystal structures and hydrogenation properties of palladium-rich compounds with elements from groups 12–16
Authors: Götze André , Sander Jonas Michael , Kohlmann Holger 
Published: March 2016

AbstractWe report on crystal structure data and hydrogenation properties of 24 palladium-rich intermetallic compounds with elements from groups 12–16 of the Periodic Table. Refined crystal structures based on X-ray powder diffraction data are presented for Pd3As (Fe3P type structure) and several members of the Pd5TlAs type structure family. Hydrogenation was studiedin situby differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) under 5.0 MPa hydrogen pressure up to 430 °C. Pd0.75Zn0.25, PdCd, PdHg, Pd2Sn, Pd5Pb3, Pd13Pb9, Pd3As, Pd20Sb7, Pd8Sb3, Pd5Sb2, PdSb, Pd5Bi2, Pd17Se15, Pd4Se, Pd5TlAs, Pd5CdSe, Pd5CdAs, Pd5HgSe, Pd5InAs, Pd8In2Se and Pd3Bi2Se2do not show any sign of hydrogen uptake according to DSC and X-ray diffraction. For Pd3Sn and Pd3Pb a significant hydrogen uptake with unit cell volume increases of 0.4 and 0.6 %, respectively, with a retained structure type of the parent intermetallic was observed. Hydrogenation of Pd5InSe yields Pd3InH≈0.9and a mixture of palladium selenides. Thermal analysis experiments in helium and in hydrogen atmosphere show that this is a multistep reaction with a decomposition of Pd5InSe to Pd3In and a liquid phase and subsequent hydrogenation of Pd3In.
Complex Multiplexing of Reward-Cue- and Licking-Movement-Related Activity in Single Midline Thalamus Neurons
Authors: Li Yuhong , Lindemann Christoph , Goddard Matthew J. , Hyland Brian I. 
Published: March 2016

Midline thalamus is implicated in linking visceral and exteroceptive sensory information with behavior. However, whether neuronal activity is modulated with temporal precision by cues and actions in real time is unknown. Using single-neuron recording and a Pavlovian visual-cue/liquid-reward association task in rats, we discovered phasic responses to sensory cues, appropriately timed to modify information processing in output targets, as well as tonic modulations within and between trials that were differentially reward modulated, which may have distinct arousal functions. Many of the cue-responsive neurons also responded to repetitive licks, consistent with sensorimotor integration. Further, some lick-related neurons were activated only by the first rewarded lick and only if that lick were also part of a conditioned response sequence initiated earlier, consistent with binding action decisions to their ensuing outcome. This rich repertoire of responses provides electrophysiological evidence for midline thalamus as a site of complex information integration for reward-mediated behavior.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTDisparate brain circuits are involved in sensation, movement, and reward information. These must interact in order for the relationships between cues, actions, and outcomes to be learned. We found that responses of single neurons in midline thalamus to sensory cues are increased when associated with reward. This output may amplify similar signals generated in parallel by the dopamine system. In addition, some neurons coded a three-factor decision in which the neuron fired only if there was a movement, if it was the first one after the reward becoming available, and if it was part of a sequence triggered in response to a preceding cue. These data highlight midline thalamus as an important node integrating multiple types of information for linking sensation, actions, and rewards.