bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Depression as a predictor of worse quality of life outcomes following nonoperative treatment for lumbar stenosis
Authors: Lubelski Daniel , Thompson Nicolas R. , Bansal Sachin , Mroz Thomas E. , Mazanec Daniel J. , Benzel Edward C. , Khalaf Tagreed 
Published: December 2014

OBJECT
The goal of this study was to determine whether pretreatment depression is predictive of quality of life (QOL) improvement for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) who are treated conservatively.

METHODS
This retrospective cohort study included patients with LSS and concordant neurogenic claudication who were treated nonoperatively at a single institution between September 2010 and March 2013. Patient QOL measures were recorded pretreatment and then 4 months after treatment. Pretreatment depression was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire–9 (PHQ-9). Successful outcome was defined as posttreatment improvement in EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) index or in Pain and Disability Questionnaire (PDQ) scores. Regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of outcome while controlling for confounding variables.

RESULTS
A total of 502 patients were included in the study. The average age for these patients was 66.1 years, with 51% female and 90.6% white. After adjusting for baseline demographic and clinical variables, there was a statistically significant association between baseline PHQ-9 score and posttreatment change in EQ-5D index (β = −0.007, p = 0.0002). All other things being equal, a patient with a baseline PHQ-9 score of 0 (no depression) would be expected to improve in the EQ-5D index by 0.14 points (greater than the minimum clinically important difference) more than would a patient with a baseline PHQ-9 score of 20 (major depression). There was no significant association between baseline PHQ-9 score and change in Pain and Disability Questionnaire scores.

CONCLUSIONS
When controlling for other baseline characteristics, severely depressed patients with LSS who are treated nonoperatively have significantly less improvement in their QOL compared with those with little or no depression. These data are similar to the negative predictive effects of depression on posttreatment QOL following lumbar fusion surgery.
Mettre en pratique une autre idée de la démocratisation de la culture : le cas du panier culture
Authors: Kogan Anne-France , Anberré Alice 
Published: December 2014

De nouvelles structurations sociales émergent pour répondre aux enjeux de démocratisation qui traversent le secteur culturel. Elles visent à réactiver les valeurs démocratiques via l’usage d’internet. Le cas d’un circuit-court de la culture créé en 2011, permet d’interroger la place d’internet dans la mise en œuvre d’activités co-créées entre des artistes et un public. Internet est un media qui opère tout au long d’un continuum d’espaces : public, ouvert, fermé, interpersonnel. La description du fonctionnement de ce « panier culture » permet de situer les difficultés liées à l’enjeu de la démocratisation aux interfaces de ces différents espaces.
Représentation du sens linguistique II
Authors: Person Cédric 
Published: December 2014

Nous étudions dans cet article un des problèmes liés à l’implémentation informatique d’un modèle linguistique de la temporalité et de la modalité, celui de L. Gosselin (1996 ; 1999 ; 2000). Celui-ci se fonde sur une représentation avec intervalles. Nous étudions plus spécifiquement le rapport entre le procès et l’intervalle qui lui est associé. Le problème rejoint alors celui de la structure temporelle utilisée et débouche sur les conséquences pour la compréhension automatique d’un texte, et plus particulièrement l’extraction de la chronologie.
La formation professionnelle continue
Authors: Sellin Burkart 
Published: December 2014

Résumé Ce chapitre 2 résume un projet mené conjointement par le Centre européen pour le développement de la formation professionnelle (CEDEFOP) et la Fondation européenne pour la formation (ETF) 2 entre 1998 et 2002. Dans le cadre de ce projet, des experts ont élaboré des scénarios et des stratégies pour adapter les systèmes et sous-systèmes de formation et d’enseignement professionnels aux défis actuels et futurs pour une période d’une dizaine d’années. La méthode des scénarios permet de mettre en évidence quelques-unes des tendances les plus importantes et les plus probables, en particulier ici dans le contexte européen. L’objectif de cette méthode consiste notamment à inciter les décideurs et les acteurs à prendre en compte, dans leurs décisions de tous les jours, non seulement les exigences de court terme mais également les conséquences prévisibles à long et à moyen terme. Cette méthodologie, appliquée largement aux différents niveaux décisionnels, peut aider à la mise en place d’une approche dont les caractéristiques souhaitées sont la durabilité et la « proactivité ». Une synthèse des rapports nationaux sur le Luxembourg et la Région wallonne de Belgique rédigés par Marc Ant (2000) et Jimmy Bedin (2001) est proposée en annexe.
Famille, culture et handicap
Authors: Latrouite-Ma Monia 
Published: December 2014

Nous abordons ici le handicap dans la famille et la culture chinoises par le biais de la notion de « handicap » et de la façon dont elle est pensée dans la culture chinoise. Ce qui nous fait passer par une introduction aux deux dimensions fondamentales de la culture chinoise : la pensée déployée autour de la notion de tao et la démarche dite « confucianiste » établissant les règles de comportements sociaux. Nous pouvons alors suivre la question centrale qui oriente ce texte : que devient la notion de « handicap » une fois passée dans « la culture chinoise » ? Interrogation qui conduit à analyser comment la notion de « handicap » est représentée dans la pensée chinoise et donc dans sa langue. Pour ce faire, nous voyons quels idéogrammes sont utilisés pour indiquer cette notion dans la langue actuelle puis, pour en approfondir le sens, nous sommes amenés à en faire une approche étymologique en nous référant aux textes fondateurs de la pensée chinoise. Nous découvrons ainsi la notion chinoise de défaut s ous-jacente à celle de « handicap ». C’est alors cette notion de défaut que nous suivons à travers son utilisation subjective et les transformations qu’elle permet. Des références rapides au cas d’une patiente chinoise donnent corps aux processus présentés.
Les véritables causes de l'état d'ignorance ..., Jean-François Boëly, 1806
Authors: Meeùs Nicolas 
Published: December 2014

L’ouvrage publié par Jean-François Boëly en 1806, suite à l’adoption du Traité d’harmonie de Catel par le Conservatoire de Paris, a retenu l’attention surtout par son ton polémique. Pourtant, les points de théorie malheureusement à peine esquissés par Boëly ne manquent pas d’intérêt. En particulier, Boëly lie très fortement la fonction des accords à leur forme : accord parfait pour la tonique, « accord sensible » (c’est-à-dire de septième de dominante) pour la dominante-tonique, de « sixte dissonante » pour la sous-dominante et de « simple septième » pour le deuxième degré. On aimerait en savoir plus sur ce théoricien.
La « fugue phrasée » dans les écrits et les œuvres d'Antoine Reicha
Authors: Bernard de Raymond Louise 
Published: December 2014

Si les fugues de Reicha et leurs originalités ont fait l’objet de nombreux articles musicologiques, le principe de « fugue phrasée » exposé dans le Traité de haute composition a peu été étudié. La récente publication des écrits inédits du compositeur permet de jeter un regard nouveau sur ses écrits théoriques bien connus : cet article commence ainsi par examiner la genèse théorique du principe de « fugue phrasée », depuis les Philosophish-practische Anmerkungen du début du siècle, jusqu’au grand traité français de 1824. Différentes pièces de Reicha sont ensuite analysées à l’aune de ce principe, fortement lié à la rhétorique verbale et à la question de l’intelligibilité du discours, qui semble unifier son corpus de fugues. Enfin, la question de l’interprétation des fugues de Reicha, pensée en lien avec leur analyse, est soulevée à travers un exemple pris dans le Quatuor scientifique .
Dilemma as a Tragic Figure of Thought in Lucan’sBellum Ciuile
Authors: Pandey Nandini B. 
Published: December 2014

AbstractThis paper explores the role of dilemma in the rhetoric, plot, and metaphysics of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile. In passages including Nigidius Figulus’ speech in book 1, the narrator’s outcry at the beginning of book 2, and some descriptions of battle, dilemma resonates with Senecan tragedy to create generic dissonances within the epic and polarize readers’ responses to Roman history. It also provides a model for decision-making that favors Caesar’s headlong embrace of the inevitable civil war over other characters’ equivocation.
De nieuwe Algemene Groepsvrijstellingsverordening
Authors: Saanen Nienke 
Published: December 2014

De nieuwe Algemene Groepsvrijstellingsverordening
De nieuwe Algemene Groepsvrijstellingsverordening, die op 1 juli 2014 in werking is getreden, bevat een forse uitbreiding van de categorieën steunmaatregelen die niet door de Europese Commissie hoeven te worden goedgekeurd voordat ze ten uitvoer mogen worden gelegd. In dit artikel worden de nieuwe categorieën kort besproken en wordt stilgestaan bij de betekenis van deze nieuwe verordening voor de Europese Commissie, de lidstaten en de nationale rechters.Algemene Groepsvrijstellingsverordening (Verordening (EU) 651/2014, Pb. EU 2014, L 187/1)
FMIRS: A Fuzzy indexing and retrieval system of mosaic-image database
Authors: Maghrebi Wafa Abbassi 
Published: December 2014

This work is dedicated to present a fuzzy-set based system useful for image indexing and retrieval pertaining to historical Roman-mosaics. This exceptional collection of mosaics dates back from the first to fourth centuries AD. Considering the state of these images (i.e. noise, color degradation, etc.) a fuzzy features definition is necessary. Thereby, we use a robust to rotation, scale and translation fuzzy extended curvature scale space (CSS) as shape descriptor. Furthermore, we propose a fuzzy color-quantization approach, applied on mosaics, using HSV color space. The system allows for two user-friendly querying modes: a drawing based mode and the mode that fusion both shape and color features using a unified fuzzy similarity measure. Based on queries of variable complexity, the advanced fuzzy system has managed to achieve interesting recall, precision and F-measure rates.
Book Review: The Design Way. Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (second edition)
Authors: Cucchiara Salvatore 
Published: December 2014

The premise of The Design Way is that in today’s rapidly changing world, current intellectual traditions are becoming increasingly inadequate – if still important – approaches to managing human affairs. For example, hard and soft sciences can help us understand how the world works, but generally offer little guidance on intentionally changing it. To address this shortcoming, the authors advance design as a distinct tradition that finds its key feature in making a novel idea concrete.
The art of/in educational research: assemblages at work
Authors: Sandvik Ninni 
Published: December 2014

The purpose of this article is to challenge the present western policy to control and tame educational research practices. It suggests a research methodology approach inspired by Deleuzian immanent ontology and the concept of ́assemblage ́. Based on my PhD-project ́Assemblages of desire in pedagogical practices: Inspirations from Deleuze and Guattari ‘ the article draws on the overlaps between research, philosophy and art. After a brief introduction to Deleuzian ontology of immanence, arguments for a decentring of the researcher as a subject, and the idea of a research assemblage are suggested. To accelerate the production of thoughts in the research analysis a piece of artwork is included in the assemblage, to make possible an investigation at the sensations produced when paintings, field notes and the researcher work together as a ‘thinking-machine’. The assemblage is here put to work by investigating different circular and horizontal movements in the process of analysis.
Charting a politics of hope through representation
Authors: Wadick Phillip 
Published: December 2014

Editor’s summary: Phillip Wadick comments ‘I have been forced to insert my body into the frame as I contemplate what facilitates safe bodies’. His various representational forms support a position towards workplace health and safety research that offers alternatives to dominant structuralist and positivist paradigms that tend to objectify and commodify the body. His ‘wanderings and wonderings’ occur in a field where workers’ are so sceptical of the about ‘visibility politics’ around safety they expose themselves to bodily risks. The disjunction between the ‘theoretical and impersonal bodies’ of dominant technical and medical discourses of workplace safety and the human encounters and social interactions affecting ’individual and personal bodies’ led him to disrupt ‘old certainties’ and fixed oppositions in favour of poststructuralist thinking and alternative forms of representing knowledge. Hope emerged where workers ‘found energy for change in the space between the arbitrary and unhelpful oppositions’.
Future increase of supertyphoon intensity associated with climate change
Authors: Tsuboki Kazuhisa , Yoshioka Mayumi K. , Shinoda Taro , Kato Masaya , Kanada Sachie , Kitoh Akio 
Published: December 2014

AbstractIncreases of tropical cyclone intensity with global warming have been demonstrated by historical data studies and theory. This raises great concern regarding future changes in typhoon intensity. The present study addressed the problem to what extent supertyphoons will become intense in the global warming climate of the late 21st century. Very high resolution downscale experiments using a cloud‐resolving model without convective parameterizations were performed for the 30 most intense typhoons obtained from the 20 km mesh global simulation of a warmer climate. Twelve supertyphoons occurred in the downscale experiments, and the most intense supertyphoon attained a central pressure of 857 hPa and a wind speed of 88 m s−1. The maximum intensity of the supertyphoon was little affected by uncertainties that arise from experimental settings. This study indicates that the most intense future supertyphoon could attain wind speeds of 85–90 m s−1 and minimum central pressures of 860 hPa.
Small lakes show muted climate change signal in deepwater temperatures
Authors: Winslow Luke A. , Read Jordan S. , Hansen Gretchen J. A. , Hanson Paul C. 
Published: December 2014

AbstractWater temperature observations were collected from 142 lakes across Wisconsin, USA, to examine variation in temperature of lakes exposed to similar regional climate. Whole lake water temperatures increased across the state from 1990 to 2012, with an average trend of 0.042°C yr−1 ± 0.01°C yr−1. In large (>0.5 km2) lakes, the positive temperature trend was similar across all depths. In small lakes (<0.5 km2), the warming trend was restricted to shallow waters, with no significant temperature trend observed in water >0.5 times the maximum lake depth. The differing response of small versus large lakes is potentially a result of wind‐sheltering reducing turbulent mixing magnitude in small lakes. These results demonstrate that small lakes respond differently to climate change than large lakes, suggesting that current predictions of impacts to lakes from climate change may require modification.
Rupture of the Pitáycachi Fault in the 1887Mw7.5 Sonora, Mexico earthquake (southern Basin‐and‐Range Province): Rupture kinematics and epicenter inferred from rupture branching patterns
Authors: Suter Max 
Published: December 2014

AbstractDuring the 3 May 1887Mw7.5 Sonora earthquake (surface rupture end‐to‐end length: 101.8 km), an array of three north‐south striking Basin‐and‐Range Province faults (from north to south Pitáycachi, Teras, and Otates) slipped sequentially along the western margin of the Sierra Madre Occidental Plateau. This detailed field survey of the 1887 earthquake rupture zone along the Pitáycachi fault includes mapping the rupture scarp and measurements of surface deformation. The surface rupture has an endpoint‐to‐endpoint length of ≥41.0 km, dips ~70°W, and is characterized by normal left‐lateral extension. The maximum surface offset is 487 cm and the mean offset 260 cm. The rupture trace shows a complex pattern of second‐order segmentation. However, this segmentation is not expressed in the 1887 along‐rupture surface offset profile, which indicates that the secondary segments are linked at depth into a single coherent fault surface. The Pitáycachi surface rupture shows a well‐developed bipolar branching pattern suggesting that the rupture originated in its central part, where the polarity of the rupture bifurcations changes. Most likely the rupture first propagated bilaterally along the Pitáycachi fault. The southern rupture front likely jumped across a step over to the Teras fault and from there across a major relay zone to the Otates fault. Branching probably resulted from the lateral propagation of the rupture after breaching the seismogenic part of the crust, given that the much shorter ruptures of the Otates and Teras segments did not develop branches.
Nature of influence of out‐of‐vehicle time‐related attributes on transit attractiveness: a random parameters logit model analysis
Authors: Hossain Mohammad Shafayat , Hunt John Douglas , Wirasinghe S. C. 
Published: December 2014

SummaryThis paper describes the nature of the impacts of walking distances and waiting time on transit use. The relative trade‐offs of walking and transfer components with other transit service attributes are also discussed. A total of 449 completed stated‐preference interviews were collected; with six observations from each respondent, the total number of observations was 2694. This data set was used to estimate the coefficients in different utility functions using a random parameters logit model. The results demonstrated that walking distances to and from transit stops have important and significant nonlinear negative influences on the attractiveness of transit. Transfer waiting time was also shown to have a significant nonlinear negative impact on transit attractiveness. The random parameters logit model had a better model fit than the standard logit model. Some of the findings obtained here are novel, while others are consistent with previous works. These findings have implications for both theory and practice. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Improved waveform‐feature‐based vehicle classification using a single‐point magnetic sensor
Authors: He Yao , Du Yuchuan , Sun Lijun , Wang Yibing 
Published: December 2014

SummaryVehicle classification systems have important roles in applications related to real‐time traffic management. They also provide essential data and necessary information for traffic planning, pavement design, and maintenance. Among various classification techniques, the length‐based classification technique is widely used at present. However, the undesirable speed estimates provided by conventional data aggregation make it impossible to collect reliable length data from a single‐point sensor during real‐time operations. In this paper, an innovative approach of vehicle classification will be proposed, which achieved very satisfactory results on a single‐point sensor. This method has two essential parts. The first concerns with the procedure of smart feature extraction and selection according to the proposed filter–filter–wrapper model. The model of filter–filter–wrapper is adopted to make an evaluation on the extracted feature subsets. Meanwhile, the model will determine a nonredundant feature subset, which can make a complete reflection on the differences of various types of vehicles. In the second part, an algorithm for vehicle classification according to the theoretical basis of clustering support vector machines (C‐SVMs) was established with the selected optimal feature subset. The paper also uses particle swarm optimization (PSO), with the purpose of searching for an optimal kernel parameter and the slack penalty parameter in C‐SVMs. A total of 460 samples were tested through cross validation, and the result turned out that the classification accuracy was over 99%. In summary, the test results demonstrated that our vehicle classification method could enhance the efficiency of machine‐learning‐based data mining and the accuracy of vehicle classification. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sinistral portal hypertension after pancreaticoduodenectomy with splenic vein ligation
Authors: Ono Y , Matsueda K , Koga R , Takahashi Y , Arita J , Takahashi M , Inoue Y , Unno T , Saiura A 
Published: December 2014

Abstract

Background
Splenic vein ligation may result in sinistral (left-sided) portal hypertension and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The aim of this study was to analyse the pathogenesis of sinistral portal hypertension following splenic vein ligation in pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Methods
Patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer between January 2005 and December 2012 were included in this retrospective study. The venous flow pattern from the spleen and splenic hypertrophy were examined after surgery.

Results
Of 103 patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy with portal vein resection, 43 had splenic vein ligation. There were two predominant venous flow patterns from the spleen. In the varicose route (27 patients), flow from the spleen passed to colonic varices and/or other varicose veins. In the non-varicose route, flow from the spleen passed through a splenocolonic collateral (14 patients) or a spontaneous splenorenal shunt (2 patients). The varicose route was associated with significantly greater splenic hypertrophy than the non-varicose route (median splenic hypertrophy ratio 1·52 versus 0·94; P &lt; 0·001). All patients with the varicose route had colonic varices, and none had a right colic marginal vein at the hepatic flexure.

Conclusion
Pancreaticoduodenectomy with splenic vein ligation may lead to sinistral portal hypertension. To avoid the development of varices, it is important to preserve the right colic marginal vein. Reconstruction of the splenic vein should be considered if the right colic marginal vein is divided.
Clinorotation impacts root apex respiration and the ultrostructure of mitochondria
Authors: Brykov Vasyl , Kordyum Elizabeth 
Published: December 2014

AbstractMitochondrial respiration in plants provides energy for biosynthesis, and its balance with photosynthesis determines the rate of plant biomass accumulation. However, there are very limited data on the influence of altered gravity on the functional status of plant mitochondria. In the given paper, we presented the results of our investigations of root respiration, the mitochondrion ultrastructure, and AOX expression of pea 1‐, 3‐ and 5‐day old seedlings grown under slow horizontal clinorotation by using an inhibitor analysis, electron microscopy, and quantitative real‐time RT‐PCR. It was in the first time shown that enhancement of the respiration rate in root apices of pea etiolated seedlings at the 5th day of clinorotation does not connected with increasing of both alternative oxidize capacity and AOX expression. We assumed this phenomenon is provided by more intensive oxidation of respiratory substrates. At the structural level, mitochondria in cells of the distal elongation zone were the most sensitive to clinorotation that confirms the special physiological status of this zone. The performed investigation revealed an enough resistance of plant mitochondria to the influence of altered gravity that, on our opinion, is one of components providing plant adaptation to microgravity in space flight.