bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Lexical decision task for taxonomic and thematic categorization in typically developing Kannada-English-speaking bilingual children
Authors: Nanjappa Shilpa , Sebastian Sandra , Deepa M.S. 
Published: August 2015

AbstractThe present study investigated the association between the taxonomic, thematic and combined (taxonomic-thematic) conditions during the lexical decision task in Kannada-English speaking bilingual children. Further, the study explored the nature of categorization skills in typically developing Kannada-English speaking bilingual children with respect to the taxonomy and thematic aspects across gender.Considered for the study were 20 preschool children including ten boys and ten girls in the age range of 4–5 years. A total of 50 pictures, including ten target, ten taxonomically related, ten thematically related and 20 distracters were taken from an internet source. Three tasks were introduced to examine the association of the pictures based on taxonomic, thematic and combined conditions. For the first and second task (considered as Experiment I), the children were expected to relate pictures based on taxonomic relationship followed by thematic relationship in the second task. For the final task (Experiment II), both relationships (taxonomic and thematic) were given for each target picture, and the children were expected to relate it with either one of them. Responses were scored and statistically analyzed.There was a significant difference in the performances between male and female children for the taxonomic condition but not for the other two tasks (i.e. thematic and combined conditions). The comparison across three conditions revealed that the performance of those children varied between the conditions. Further, on pair-wise comparison, there was a significant difference for both combined-thematic and combined-taxonomic conditions but not for taxonomic and thematic conditions.The study supports the phenomenon of “thematic to taxonomic shift”, which is found to be emerging in pre-school children. This occurs differently among male and female children. The preferences of thematic relation as opposed to taxonomic relation is highlighted in the present study.
Using curriculum-based measurement data to monitor the effectiveness of the Wilson Reading System for students with disabilities: an exploratory study
Authors: Duff David , Stebbins Molly Susanne , Stormont Melissa , Lembke Erica Susanne , Wilson David J. 
Published: August 2015

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to contribute to the literature on the promise of the Wilson Reading System (WRS) for students with disabilities. School professionals monitored the growth of students over time using curriculum-based measurements. Participants included 51 students (53% male, 47% female) from six schools (five elementary, one middle school); the vast majority (80%) qualified for free or reduced lunches. All students were receiving special education and related services, and most had either a learning disability or a language impairment (62%). Certified teachers implemented the WRS. Results demonstrated students had significant growth in their reading over time. Directions for future research and practical implications are discussed.
Stability Analysis of an SEIR Epidemic Model with Stochastic Perturbation and Numerical Simulation
Authors: Fan Xiaoming , Wang Zhigang 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
An SEIR epidemic model with constant immigration and random fluctuation around the endemic equilibrium is considered. As a special case, a deterministic system discussed by Li et al. will be incorporated into the stochastic version given by us. We carry out a detailed analysis on the asymptotic behavior of the stochastic model, also regarding of the basic reproduction number ℛ0. By means of Lyapunov functions we give sufficient conditions for globally stochastically asymptotic stability of the unique positive endemic equilibrium. When ℛ0 > 1, under the sufficient conditions, we deduce the globally asymptotic stability of the endemic equilibrium by measuring the difference between the solution and the endemic equilibrium of the deterministic model in time average, the disease will prevail and the infected fraction persists. Numerical simulations support our analytical conclusions and show the effect of intensity of white noise on stability of the system.
Equilibrium-Eulerian LES Model for Turbulent Poly-dispersed Particle-laden Flow
Authors: Icardi Matteo , Marchisio Daniele L. , Chidambaram Narayanan , Fox Rodney O. 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
An efficient Eulerian method for poly-dispersed particles in turbulent flows is implemented, verified and validated for a channel flow. The approach couples a mixture model with a quadrature-based moment method for the particle size distribution in a LES framework, augmented by an approximate deconvolution method to reconstructs the unfiltered velocity. The particle velocity conditioned on particle size is calculated with an equilibrium model, valid for low Stokes numbers. A population balance equation is solved with the direct quadrature method of moments, that efficiently represents the continuous particle size distribution. In this first study particulate processes are not considered and the capability of the model to properly describe particle transport is investigated for a turbulent channel flow. First, single-phase LES are validated through comparison with DNS. Then predictions for the two-phase system, with particles characterised by Stokes numbers ranging from 0.2 to 5, are compared with Lagrangian DNS in terms of particle velocity and accumulation at the walls. Since this phenomenon (turbophoresis) is driven by turbulent fluctuations and depends strongly on the particle Stokes number, the approximation of the particle size distribution, the choice of the sub-grid scale model and the use of an approximate deconvolution method are important to obtain good results. Our method can be considered as a fast and efficient alternative to classical Lagrangian methods or Eulerian multi-fluid models in which poly-dispersity is usually neglected.
Estimating the variance in coordinate measuring for binary orbit
Authors: Perović G. , Cvetković Z. 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
The variance of a purely random error - “pure error”
- in measuring the relative coordinates during the calculation
of the orbits of binary stars, (its "unbiased estimate"),
is necessary for each test used in the orbit calculation
for double stars, such as the adequacy test for the orbit
model, gross-error tests and the like. Since this variance is
unknown, in this paper we present the robust PEROBEPE1
method which provides an unbiased variance estimate for
the pure error in the coordinate measurements concerning
the orbits of double stars. This estimate is independent of
the model adequacy for a double-star orbit and thus can
be used in any test concerning double stars.
Voices of Spectators and Audience Power
Authors: Biet Christian 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
Theatre and law are not so different. Generally, researchers work on the art of theatre, the rhetoric of the actors, or the dramaturgy built from law cases or from the questions that the law does not completely resolve. Trials, tragedies, even comedies are close: everybody can see the interpenetration of them on stage and in the courts. We know that, and we know that the dramas are made with/from/of law, we know that the art the actors are developing is not so far from the art of the lawyers, and conversely. In this paper, I would like to have a look at the action of the audience, at the session itself and at the way the spectators are here to evaluate and judge not only the dramatic action, not only the art of the actors, not only the text of the author, but also the other spectators, and themselves too. In particular, I will focus on the “common judgment” of the audience and on its judicial, aesthetic and social relationship. The spectators have been undisciplined, noisy, unruled, during such a long period that theatre still retains some prints of this behaviour, even if nowadays, the social and aesthetic rule is to be silent. But uncertainty, inattention, distraction, contradiction, heterogeneity are the notions which characterise the session, and the judgments of the spectators still depend on them. So, what was and what is the voice of the audience? And with what sort of voice do spectators give their judgments?
Caesar’s Body in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: Sacralization and De-sacralization of Power
Authors: Carpi Daniela 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
In Julius Caesar the wounds on the body of the “king” are like mouths that cry out the condemnation of the violation of power and of a cosmic order. The divine body of the king has a sacred hue as he represents God on earth, thus the killing of Caesar can be connected to the killing of Christ. Caesar in the text has many Christological connotations. The killing of Caesar has the emblematic character of a cry against the violation of legitimate power: the body is at first concealed (Caesar’s mantel hides his corpse) then exhibited (when Antony uncovers it) and sacralized so as to make this catastrophe symbolic of an adhesion to legitimate power. Antony makes Caesar’s body the voice of power: on one hand it has the function of stressing the persuasive power of Antony’s words, on the other hand Antony transforms the body into a spiritual icon in order to reach his aim of denouncing the illegitimate subversion of the conspirators.
Legal Oracularism and Theological Prophetism. Fleshly Silences Across Memories and Traditions
Authors: Costantini Cristina 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
This essay aims at providing a critical glance on the legal “fault lines” between voice and silence; utterance and dumbness; disclosure and mystery; discernability and ambiguity. At a theoretical level, the arguments suggested intend to innovate the conventional discourse on legal traditions, focusing on their proper and complex morphosyntax. Specifically, the main purpose is to call forth the haunted ventriloquism which animates and informs legal traditions in order to disfigure the ideological image portrayed for a legitimating project. On this ground what is proposed is an original understanding of the politics of memories, conceived as the inner force, which codifies heterogeneous canons of commemoration. The poles of usual contrapositions (memory/forgetting; remembrance/silencing) are questioned and scrutinized; the multiple facets of the voices of memory and the silence of oblivion are taxonomically typified. The proposed paradigm is consequently applied to the particularities of the English Legal Tradition, emphasizing how the culture of legal revelling dramatized the ambiguities concealed in the speakable word of Law: on the one hand, the internal articulation of these sumptuous festivities, which structurally reflected the osmotic threshold between speech and faintness, utterance and dumbness; on the other, it has been noted that Revels made patent the meaningful silence implied in the proper other face of the conventional appearance of Law, that is in its suspension or in its exception. Conclusive remarks are devoted to analyse the nexus among word, interpretation, and violence in Robert Cover’s thought. In this perspective the essay debates on the silent sacrifice behind the supposed creative act of judicial interpretation and intellectually claims for a counter-resistant act of unveiling heterodoxy.
Is There Voice Without Law? On The Road
Authors: Macmillan Fiona 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
Using Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road (2006) and its cinematographic transformation of the same name by John Hillcoat (2009), this essay explores the relationship between expressive autonomy and law as a form of political and social organization. The essay attempts to understand what it means to be “without law” and whether such an absence implicates some other organizing principle or concept. For this purpose, comparisons are drawn between Hillcoat’s version of The Road and his subsequent film Lawless (2012). In order to consider the relationship between lawlessness and expressive autonomy, the essay focuses on the significance of the balance between love, hope and fear, which it argues characterises the dystopic world of The Road.
Speech and Graphomena: The Power of Apuleius’ Words in Court and in Translation
Authors: Baldissone Riccardo 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
Apuleius’ De Magia, or about magic, is the only extant court defence of his times, the second century CE. Whilst Apuleius most probably provided us with an expanded version of his actual speech, we can still enjoy the flavour of his witty and convincing plea. I will here consider the power of Apuleius’ voice in both his court speech and his other surviving works. Apuleius followed the attempts of Cicero and Seneca to recast Greek concepts and theories in Latin language and culture. These creative translations had a tremendous influence, for better or worse, on subsequent Western thought. However, Apuleius not only produced a compendium of Platonic doctrine, but he also renewed the tradition of Greek tales with his famous novel The Golden Ass. I will examine both texts, and I will underline the role of the neologism curiositas, that is curiosity, in the economy of the novel and in the more general Apuleian recasting of Platonism.
Legal Systemology and the Geopolitics of Roman Law: A Response to Stuart Elden’s Critique of Carl Schmitt’s Spatial Ontology
Authors: Siliquini-Cinelli Luca 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
This paper explores the production, destruction, and reproduction of the geopolitical spaces of Roman law in order to offer an analysis of Schmitt’s (selective) notion of Jus Publicum Europaeum and its relevance to the current “depoliticization” and “dejuridification” of the world. By adopting a historical and geopolitical approach that reaches the boundaries of legal systemology and political theology, the present contribution investigates the manipulative and instrumentalist use of the material object of Rome’s (universalist) competence, namely the “territory” as dominium of its political intervention, which was ultimately (and idealistically) aimed at avoiding the natural destiny of any living being: birth, maturity, and death. Attention is therefore paid to the Roman strategy of (ontological?) contamination of its mythical identity through the legal and sociopolitical administration and regulation of its geographical spaces in terms of (non-)cultural signification. Through the analysis of such concepts as “nomos,” “Großraum,” “Ortung,” and “Ordnung,” it is claimed that Schmitt voluntarily chose to identify the Jus Publicum Europaeum with the geopolitical order produced during the Age of Discovery and not with the “comprehensive” Roman spatial order. The reason for this choice may be identified in the distortive use of Rome’s social relations and political allegiances that lay at the core of its genealogical expansionism (and subsequent inevitable dissolution) since the conquest of Veius in 396 BC and the historical compromise between patrician nobility and plebeians in 367 BC.
Neuropsychiatric symptoms
in patients with vascular
dementia in mainland China
Authors: Jin Yan-ling , Zhang Hong , Gao Yong-zhe , Shu Min , Xu Yan , Liu Xi , Zhang Sheng-ming , Zou Chao-yu , Cao Jing , Xiong Rong-hong 
Published: August 2015

Abstract
Background: Neuropsychiatric deficits can induce marked disability in patients with dementia and increase
caregiver distress. Several studies have found that neuropsychiatric symptoms are common both in patients
with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and patients with vascular dementia (VaD). However, there are few studies of the
neuropsychiatric disturbances in large clinical samples of patients with mixed (cortical - subcortical) VaD from
mainland China. This study aimed to investigate the neuropsychiatric symptoms in VaD patients in mainland
China. Methods: Eighty patients with mixed VaD for over 6 months duration, and their caregivers (VaD group),
were recruited for interview in Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, from June 2010 to June 2012. Eighty
age- and sex-matched normal volunteers (control group) were interviewed at the same time. The Mini Mental
State Examination (MMSE) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) were administered to the VaD patients, their
caregivers, and normal volunteers. Group differences were analyzed using the unpaired t-test. Results: The total
mean scores of the NPI in the VaD group were higher than in the control group (P < 0.01). The subscale scores of
NPI, including delusions, hallucinations, depression, apathy, irritability, agitation, aberrant motor behavior, and
change in appetite were significantly higher in the VaD group than in the control group (P < 0.05-0.01). Compared
with the mild VaD subgroup, the NPI subscale scores of apathy, irritability and total scores were significantly
higher in the moderate VaD subgroup (P < 0.05-0.01); the NPI subscale scores of anxiety, apathy, irritability, and
total scores were significantly higher in the severe VaD subgroup (P < 0.01). Compared with the moderate VaD
subgroup, the NPI subscale scores of anxiety and apathy were significantly higher in the severe VaD subgroup
(P < 0.05-0.01). Conclusions: Neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as hallucination, anxiety, apathy, irritability and
aberrant action behavior, are common in patients with mixed VaD from mainland China; anxiety and apathy were
more pronounced in the subgroup of severe VaD patients.
Clase pública de un estudio de clases de estadística: Una instancia de cambio de creencias en los profesores
Authors: Olfos Raimundo , Estrella Soledad , Morales Sergio 
Published: August 2015

Recibido 11 de octubre de 2014 • Corregido 30 de julio de 2015 • Aceptado 14 de agosto de 2015Se investiga el impacto de la implementación de una lección de estadística en las creencias del profesorado que observa la lección. Bajo un diseño cuasi-experimental participan del estudio 18 docentes y 7 estudiantes de docencia, quienes responden un cuestionario validado, con 6 proposiciones bajo una escala Likert. El cuestionario de creencias sobre cómo enseñar estadística se aplicó individualmente a cada docente cuando llega al salón donde se realiza la clase pública, y al terminar la misma, es respondido como postest. La clase observada tuvo una duración de alrededor de 90 minutos. Se usó la prueba no paramétrica de Wilcoxon para comparar las medianas entre ambas aplicaciones. Los resultados dan cuenta de leves diferencias en “cómo enseñar estadística”, sin llegar a ser significativa. Esta investigación invita a continuar la exploración y comprensión del cambio de creencias a partir de una clase pública de Estudio de Clases como método de formación continua.
EDITORIAL
Authors: Massal Julie 
Published: August 2015

El presente dossier es el resultado de una convocatoria lanzada a inicios de 2014, por el grupo de Relaciones internacionales del IEPRI y el equipo de la Revista. El dossier que se presenta en esta edición propone una reflexión sobre la situación actual en la que se encuentran las relaciones internacionales de y en América Latina, particularmente en el área andina. Los artículos recibidos se inscriben en su gran mayoría en tres ejes de reflexión propuestos en la convocatoria: 1) el reto energético; 2) los procesos de integración regional e internacional; 3) los cambios políticos internos.
¿PRESIDENTES DESATADOS?: REELECCIÓN PRESIDENCIAL Y CAMBIO INSTITUCIONAL EN EL ÁREA ANDINA
Authors: Acuña Villarraga Fabián Alejandro 
Published: August 2015

El presente artículo analiza la reelección presidencial en los países andinos. El debate se aborda desde la perspectiva de Jon Elster quien interpreta el constitucionalismo como un mecanismo de compromisos previos, en el que se establecen amarres o limitaciones institucionales para evitar que en tiempo futuro el gobernante se extra-limite por el exceso de poder –“cantos de sirena”–. En este sentido se establecen trayectorias que permitieron-restringieron la reelección presidencial en los países del área andina, en las que la influencia del gobernante en ejercicio fue determinante para sus diferentes desenlaces: auto-marre, des-amarre institucional, o amarrar a “otros”.
Structural and Chemical Analysis of Nanoscale Resistive Switching Devices: Assessment on Nonlinear Properties
Authors: Norris Kate J. , Yang J. Joshua , Kobayashi Nobuhiko P. 
Published: August 2015

ABSTRACTInvestigation into the phenomenon of resistive switching, a reversible change in electrical resistance by the application of a voltage bias, has given rise to the device fabrication, DC electrical testing, and cross sectional TEM/EELS characterization of nanoscale resistive switching devices. Typically, resistive switching devices are composed of a thin oxide layer between two conductive electrodes where applied bias can alter the resistance states. In a cross-bar array, nonlinearity of device I-V relation is a highly desirable characteristic that helps to mitigate the sneak path current leakage issue. Negative differential resistance (NDR) switching behavior offers such nonlinearity and has been observed in TaOx nanoscale devices utilizing certain electrode materials. To investigate this phenomenon, nanodevices were fabricated by sputtering TaOx onto TiN nanovias capped Nb electrodes. Cross sectional TEM/EELS were performed to reveal the physical and chemical changes in these devices to explore possible origins of nonlinear behavior when these top electrode materials are utilized with TaOx films.
Higher Education Changes in Great Britain in XX–XXI centuries
Authors: Karužaitė Daiva 
Published: August 2015

The article reveals development and essential changes of higher education in Great Britain in XX–XXI centuries.
During last century Great Britain higher education system has changed dramatically – from elite higher education in the beginning of XX century, which was available for very small part of society, to mass higher education with variety of institutions and education programs. Nowadays there is almost half of Great Britain population (of certain age group) obtaining higher education certificate or diploma.
The junction of XX and XXI centuries was signed with significant shift in the gender structure of higher education students: more women obtained fist university degree than men. Ten years later the same was recorded in higher degrees.
The intense change of Great Britain higher education from elite to mass inevitably influenced the higher education finance sector. Great Britain used to cover all expenses of higher education from the budget. However, the financial crises occurred in the last decade of XX century, and the government was forced to seek for new financing models of higher education. First time in Great Britain higher education history the tuition fee was introduced. Striving to ensure the higher education accessibility for all social groups in Great Britain, the tuition fees were complemented with the grants and loans with special repayment (or without) conditions. Nevertheless, the financial reform, started in 1998, already was changed several times and has raised lots of critics.
Along with the financial reform Great Britain deals with the higher education quality issues. There was no essential discussions about higher education quality in the beginning of the XX century as it was elite higher education. Moving to the mass higher education with variety of institutions and dramatically growing student number, the quality question becomes relevant. Despite the owning the largest number of worldwide level elite universities in Europe, Great Britain seeks to ensure the quality in all higher education institutions in the country. Therefore the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education was established. The Agency puts students and the public interest at the center of everything they do. Great Britain higher education quality policy is implemented basing on the Quality Code for Higher Education.