bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Price-Cost Competitiveness Factors on Economic Growth
Authors: Baranová Veronika 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The aim of this study is to verify the assumption that price-cost competitiveness factors affect long-term economic growth in the sample countries. This analysis is based on the neoclassical growth model extended by human capital. Furthermore, variables reflecting the cost-competitiveness and cost-effective real exchange rate and unit labor costs were added to the model. The default is a panel regression methodology and related methods of data analysis. The sample consists of EU member states that meet the requirement of a small open economy and membership in the OECD. On the basis of this criterion, the following countries were selected: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Hungary, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. Annual frequency in the time frame 1999-2010 is the reference period. This is shown by the analysis results in the case that the selected sample of countries with affordable cost factors appears to be significant. The selected indicators of competitiveness can be one of the prominent factors that influence economic growth in developed countries, yet they are not a fully sufficient and comprehensive source of growth factors in terms of competitiveness.
Analysis of football player’s motion in view of fractional calculus
Authors: Couceiro Micael , Clemente Filipe , Martins Fernando 
Published: July 2013

AbstractAccurately retrieving the position of football players over time may lay the foundations for a whole series of possible new performance metrics for coaches and assistants. Despite the recent developments of automatic tracking systems, the misclassification problem (i.e., misleading a given player by another) still exists and requires human operators as final evaluators. This paper proposes an adaptive fractional calculus (FC) approach to improve the accuracy of tracking methods by estimating the position of players based on their trajectory so far. One half-time of an official football match was used to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed approach under different sampling periods of 250, 500 and 1000 ms. Moreover, the performance of the FC approach was compared with position-based and velocity-based methods. The experimental evaluation shows that the FC method presents a high classification accuracy for small sampling periods. Such results suggest that fractional dynamics may fit the trajectory of football players, thus being useful to increase the autonomy of tracking systems.
The Role of Marketing in Corporations within the Post Communist Context: Perceptions of Marketing Managers in Czech Corporations
Authors: Karlíček Miroslav , Chytková Zuzana , Fischer Jakub 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
The influence of marketing department in corporations tends to be limited, as it usually plays a rather tactical and narrow role. It is often primarily concerned with marketing communications whereas it lacks involvement with other crucial marketing activities such as brand strategy and positioning, new product development or pricing. This state is relatively well documented in the US literature. However, not much is known about the role of marketing departments in corporations within the post communist context. This study proves that situation in Czech corporations is consistent with the US reality. With the exception of companies operating in the FMCG sector, marketing department is typically not the most powerful force in the Czech corporations and its involvement with strategic and non-communication marketing activities is typically relatively low.
Determinants of Customer Satisfaction in Fast Food Industry A Study of Fast Food Restaurants Peshawar Pakistan
Authors: Khan Shahzad , Hussain Syed Majid , Yaqoob Fahad 
Published: July 2013

AbstractThis research is focused to find what are the key success factors for fast food industry in region of Peshawar Pakistan. Fast food concepts developed very rapidly in last few years in Peshawar region. The failure or success of a fast food industry based on some factors like Promotion, Service quality, Customer expectations, Brand, Physical Environment, Price, and Taste of the product. To find which of these factors has greater influence on consumer satisfaction, four fast food restaurants customers were targeted randomly. These four restaurants were KFC, CHIEF, ARBAIN CHICK, and PIZZA HUT. The data collected from the customers of these restaurants. The data collected from customers of these restaurants when the customers were in restaurants for refreshment. Total number of customers who were targeted was 120. From each restaurant 30 customers were targeted on availability basis. On the basis of their responses multiple regression and correlation test was applied. Findings of the study shows that service quality and brand are the key factors for satisfaction in fast food industry in Peshawar Pakistan.
Poeci polscy doby humanizmu wobec Rzymu / Polish Poets of the Age of Humanism and Rome
Authors: Nowicka-Jeżowa Alina 
Published: July 2013

Summary
Based on earlier research, and especially Tadeusz Ulewicz’s landmark study Iter Romano- -Italicum Polonorum, or the Intellectual and Cultural Links between Poland and Italy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1999) this article examines the influence of Rome - in its role as the Holy See and a centre of learning and the arts - on Poland’s culture in the 15th and 16th century as well as on the activities of Polish churchmen, scholars and writers who came to the Eternal City. The aim of the article is to trace the role of the emerging Humanist themes and attitudes on the shape of the cultural exchange in question. It appears that the Roman connection was a major factor in the history of Polish Humanism - its inner development, its transformations, and the ideological and artistic choices made by the successive generations of the Polish elite. In the 15th century the Roman inspirations helped to initiate the Humanist impulse in Poland, while in the 16th century they stimulated greater diversity and a search for one’s own way of development. In the post-Tridentine epoch they became a potent element of the Poland’s new cultural formation. Against the background of these generalizations, the article presents the cultural profiles of four poets, Mikołaj of Hussów, Klemens Janicjusz, Jan Kochanowski, and Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński. They symbolize the four phases of the Polish Humanist tradition, which draw their distinctive identities from looking up to the Roman model
Panów na chłopy uskarżanie się / „The Landlords’ Complaints Against Peasants ”: A Text Found in the MS Collection of the Diocesan Library at Sandomierz Attests The Enduring Popularity of the Medieval Satire Against Cunning Peasants
Authors: Trościński Grzegorz 
Published: July 2013

Summary
This article deals with a hitherto unknown text from the late 16th or early 17th century titled „The Landlords’ complaints against peasants”, found by the writer in a volume which belonged to the Franciscan (Bernardine) convent at Radom and is now kept at the Diocesan Library at Sandomierz (MS L 1684). That the poem, reprinted in the article, is a literary offspring of the medieval anti-peasant verse „A Satire on Lazy Peasants” is indicated by the a number of semantic and lexical traits as well its rhyme scheme. However, its line of descent is not direct. It is indebted to (or, represents a textual variant of) another contemporary poem called „A Description of the knavish and artful character of the peasant hard set against his lord”, found in St Petersburg by Aleksander Brückner. „The Landlords’ complaints against peasants” is the only poem physically available in a MS from the legacy of the medieval „Satire on Lazy Peasants”. In the Franciscan MS it faces „A Peasant Lament against the Landlords”, a poem which can also be found in a Czartoryski Library manuscript. Finally, a text quoted in one of the footnotes contains another, hitherto unknown variant of the „Peasant Lament” from 1629.
Kilka szczegółów do biografii Władysława wężyka i życia na Śląsku (nieznany list Władysława wężyka z roku 1847) / An Annex to the Biography of Władysław Wężyk and a Materiały i Notatki. Glimpse into Polish Cultural Life in Silesia (Wężyk’s Newly Found Letter from the Year 1847)
Authors: Dambek Zofia 
Published: July 2013

Summary
Władysłsw Wężyk was a noted 19th-century Polish writer, best known for his travelogue Travels to the Ancient World (1842). This article presents a newly found letter from his correspondence with Father Hieronim Kajsiewicz, CR. Dated 1847, the letter reveals a handful of hitherto unknown facts from Wężyk’s life, eg. his contacts with the Resurrectionist community, his reasons for disengaging himself from underground national-liberation activities, and the name he chose for his Confirmation ceremony. The letter also contains his observations and comments on Polish literary and cultural life in Silesia.
Devenir victime de la traite
Authors: Jakšić Milena 
Published: July 2013

Comment les victimes de la traite, appréhendées comme coupables d’infractions de racolage ou de séjour irrégulier, parviennent-elles à accéder au statut d’ayant droit et à faire reconnaître la réalité des violences qu’elles ont subies ? L’objet de cet article est de saisir ce passage en resituant la « carrière » des victimes de la traite dans leur rapport aux instances chargées de leur protection et/ou contrôle : services de police, chargés de leur identification ; associations d’aide et de soutien aux prostituées responsables de leur prise en charge sociale ; tribunaux où sont jugées les affaires de proxénétisme aggravé. En restituant les différentes étapes d’un parcours de victime dans son rapport aux institutions, cet article entend apporter sa contribution à la sociologie du travail juridico-bureaucratique de catégorisation des personnes dépourvues des ressources nécessaires pour défendre leurs droits.
Le pouvoir de dire « je »
Authors: Marty Éric , Béja Alice , Fœssel Michaël , Mongin Olivier 
Published: July 2013

La littérature permet d’aborder les questions philosophiques et politiques sans renoncer à l’affirmation de la subjectivité, qui se manifeste dans l’écriture. C’est ce qui a poussé Éric Marty à s’intéresser à Gide, Char ou Barthes, et à analyser, dans son dernier livre, la manière dont les intellectuels des années 1970 (Klossowski, Bataille, Blanchot, Lacan, Deleuze, Barthes) ont abordé les œuvres de Sade, et ce que leurs relectures du « divin marquis » révèlent de leur vision du xx e siècle.
Tours et détours d'Édouard Glissant
Authors: Lauro Raphaël 
Published: July 2013

Poète du Tout-monde, Édouard Glissant, Antillais ayant fait ses études de philosophie à Paris, a voulu très tôt se défaire du regard de l’Autre, de ce regard de l’Occident qui figeait les choses en essences éternelles, sans pour autant renoncer au dialogue. Penseur de l’archipel et de la créolisation, il décale le regard et le verbe, s’érigeant contre le fantasme de l’Un pour donner à voir un monde mouvant, en perpétuel « tremblement ».
La mise en ordre de l'économie domestique
Authors: Perrin-Heredia Ana 
Published: July 2013

À partir d’une enquête ethnographique menée au sein d’une « zone urbaine sensible », cet article analyse la manière dont se fabrique, au concret, l’ordre économique domestique. Il questionne plus particulièrement la façon dont des conditions institutionnelles ambivalentes (cognitives, normatives et instrumentales) se répercutent dans les pratiques professionnelles des street level bureaucrats chargés de mettre en œuvre, au niveau local, l’action publique de lutte contre le surendettement. Il apparaît alors, paradoxalement, qu’en dépit d’un cadre institutionnel lâche, l’étiquetage de la déviance économique se réalise de façon relativement homogène et univoque.
Olga Stanisławska’s Charles de Gaulle Roundabout: Raw Facts and the Danger of Finalizing Narratives
Authors: Kosmala Kinga 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
Olga Stanisławska’s reportage book Rondo de Gaulle’a [Charles de Gaulle Roundabout] was published in 2001 by Wydawnictwo Twój Styl in Warsaw. The book describes one woman’s yearlong journey across Africa, from Casablanca, to Morocco, through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Zaire, and Uganda to Nairobi, Kenya. Stanisławska writes about the political, economic, and social issues of numerous African countries. She describes the painful issue of modern-day slavery in Mauritania, the dramatic fate of the Tuareg nation, and recent conflicts in Chad. The book’s narrative sometimes merges with objectified, newspaper-style news, but more often ventures into a solipsistic memoir and a warm and sensual portrayal of the various communities the author visits. Stanisławska’s actual journey across Africa is complemented by her emotional and literary voyage from the paradise-like plains of the Saharan desert countries to the hellish depths of the jungle in the Congo. She frames her journey, or rather "travels," from Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (a self-created paradise) to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (a self-imposed hell). Both of Stanisławska’s journeys–physical and literary–provide a captivating platform for studying her narrative as an unending and deeply empathic encounter with another human being. In Charles de Gaulle Roundabout there is a visible tension between the author’s need to tell a story and her anxiety that in doing so she may (mis)treat people and turn them into fictional characters, that is, make their stories finite.
Heart Grafts Tolerized Through Third-Party Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells Can Be Retransplanted to Secondary Hosts With No Immunosuppression
Authors: Eggenhofer Elke , Popp Felix C. , Mendicino Michael , Silber Paula , van't Hof Wouter , Renner Philipp , Hoogduijn Martin J. , Pinxteren Jef , van Rooijen Nico , Geissler Edward K. , Deans Robert , Schlitt Hans J. , Dahlke Marc H. 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
Multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) are an adherent stem cell population that belongs to the mesenchymal-type progenitor cell family. Although MAPCs are emerging as candidate agents for immunomodulation after solid organ transplantation, their value requires further validation in a clinically relevant cell therapy model using an organ donor- and organ recipient-independent, third-party cell product. We report that stable allograft survival can be achieved following third-party MAPC infusion in a rat model of fully allogeneic, heterotopic heart transplantation. Furthermore, long-term accepted heart grafts recovered from MAPC-treated animals can be successfully retransplanted to naïve animals without additional immunosuppression. This prolongation of MAPC-mediated allograft acceptance depends upon a myeloid cell population since depletion of macrophages by clodronate abrogates the tolerogenic MAPC effect. We also show that MAPC-mediated allograft acceptance differs mechanistically from drug-induced tolerance regarding marker gene expression, T regulatory cell induction, retransplantability, and macrophage dependence. MAPC-based immunomodulation represents a promising pathway for clinical immunotherapy that has led us to initiate a phase I clinical trial for testing safety and feasibility of third-party MAPC therapy after liver transplantation.
The Adoption of the Bow and Arrow: A Model Based on Experimental Performance Characteristics
Authors: Tomka Steve A. 
Published: July 2013

AbstractThe timing of the arrival of the bow and arrow in the New World and reasons for its adoption have long been discussed by archaeologists. It typically has been assumed that the bow and arrow provided mechanical and physical advantages over the atlatl and dart, particularly in long-range killing power. This experimental study examines the effectiveness of traditional bows and arrows to deliver lethal wounds to prey species of different sizes. The results suggest that the bow and arrow was effective in hunting prey species such as antelope and deer but ineffective in bringing down larger animals unless changes in hunting strategies were adopted. In contrast, the atlatl and dart would have excelled in large game hunting. It is proposed that the adoption of the bow and arrow and the abandonment of the atlatl and dart were conditioned by their distinct performance advantages and changes in the game species targeted over time.
Mutations in gamma adducin are associated with inherited cerebral palsy
Authors: Kruer Michael C. , Jepperson Tyler , Dutta Sudeshna , Steiner Robert D. , Cottenie Ellen , Sanford Lynn , Merkens Mark , Russman Barry S. , Blasco Peter A. , Fan Guang , Pollock Jeffrey , Green Sarah , Woltjer Randall L. , Mooney Catherine , Kretzschmar Doris , Paisán‐Ruiz Coro , Houlden Henry 
Published: July 2013

ObjectiveCerebral palsy is estimated to affect nearly 1 in 500 children, and although prenatal and perinatal contributors have been well characterized, at least 20% of cases are believed to be inherited. Previous studies have identified mutations in the actin‐capping protein KANK1 and the adaptor protein‐4 complex in forms of inherited cerebral palsy, suggesting a role for components of the dynamic cytoskeleton in the genesis of the disease.MethodsWe studied a multiplex consanguineous Jordanian family by homozygosity mapping and exome sequencing, then used patient‐derived fibroblasts to examine functional consequences of the mutation we identified in vitro. We subsequently studied the effects of adducin loss of function in Drosophila.ResultsWe identified a homozygous c.1100G>A (p.G367D) mutation in ADD3, encoding gamma adducin in all affected members of the index family. Follow‐up experiments in patient fibroblasts found that the p.G367D mutation, which occurs within the putative oligomerization critical region, impairs the ability of gamma adducin to associate with the alpha subunit. This mutation impairs the normal actin‐capping function of adducin, leading to both abnormal proliferation and migration in cultured patient fibroblasts. Loss of function studies of the Drosophila adducin ortholog hts confirmed a critical role for adducin in locomotion.InterpretationAlthough likely a rare cause of cerebral palsy, our findings indicate a critical role for adducins in regulating the activity of the actin cytoskeleton, suggesting that impaired adducin function may lead to neuromotor impairment and further implicating abnormalities of the dynamic cytoskeleton as a pathogenic mechanism contributing to cerebral palsy. Ann Neurol 2013;74:805–814
RBP‐Jκ–Dependent Notch Signaling Is Required for Murine Articular Cartilage and Joint Maintenance
Authors: Mirando Anthony J. , Liu Zhaoyang , Moore Tyler , Lang Alexandra , Kohn Anat , Osinski Alana M. , O'Keefe Regis J. , Mooney Robert A. , Zuscik Michael J. , Hilton Matthew J. 
Published: July 2013

ObjectiveOsteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease resulting in severe joint cartilage destruction and disability. While the mechanisms underlying the development and progression of OA are poorly understood, gene mutations have been identified within cartilage‐related signaling molecules, implicating impaired cell signaling in OA and joint disease. The Notch pathway has recently been identified as a crucial regulator of growth plate cartilage development, and components are expressed in joint tissue. This study was undertaken to investigate a novel role for Notch signaling in joint cartilage development, maintenance, and the pathogenesis of joint disease in a mouse model.MethodsWe performed the first mouse gene study in which the core Notch signaling component, RBP‐Jκ, was tissue specifically deleted within joints. The Prx1Cre transgene removed Rbpjk loxP‐flanked alleles in mesenchymal joint precursor cells, while the Col2CreERT2 transgene specifically deleted Rbpjk in postnatal chondrocytes. Murine articular chondrocyte cultures were also used to examine Notch regulation of gene expression.ResultsLoss of Notch signaling in mesenchymal joint precursor cells did not affect embryonic joint development in mice, but rather, resulted in an early, progressive OA‐like pathology. Additionally, partial loss of Notch signaling in murine postnatal cartilage resulted in progressive joint cartilage degeneration and an age‐related OA‐like pathology. Inhibition of Notch signaling altered the expression of the extracellular matrix (ECM)–related factors type II collagen (COL2A1), proteoglycan 4, COL10A1, matrix metalloproteinase 13, and ADAMTS.ConclusionOur findings indicate that the RBP‐Jκ–dependent Notch pathway is a novel pathway involved in joint maintenance and articular cartilage homeostasis, a critical regulator of articular cartilage ECM‐related molecules, and a potentially important therapeutic target for OA‐like joint disease.
Metabolic Profiling Reveals Differences in Concentrations of Oxylipins and Fatty Acids Secreted by the Infrapatellar Fat Pad of Donors With End‐Stage Osteoarthritis and Normal Donors
Authors: Gierman L. M. , Wopereis S. , van El B. , Verheij E. R. , Werff‐van der Vat B. J. C. , Bastiaansen‐Jenniskens Y. M. , van Osch G. J. V. M. , Kloppenburg M. , Stojanovic‐Susulic V. , Huizinga T. W. J. , Zuurmond A.‐M. 
Published: July 2013

ObjectiveThe infrapatellar fat pad (IPFP) in the knee joint is hypothesized to contribute to osteoarthritis (OA) development by the IFPF possibly by influencing inflammatory processes. Oxylipins are essential mediators in the inflammatory process. We undertook this study to investigate secretion by the IFPF of fatty acids and oxylipins derived from those fatty acids.MethodsIPFP explants from 13 OA donors undergoing joint replacement surgery and from 10 normal donors postmortem were cultured for 24 hours, and supernatants (fat‐conditioned medium [FCM]) were collected. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry detected fatty acids and oxylipins in FCM samples. Univariate and multivariate (partial least‐squares discriminant analysis [PLS‐DA]) analyses were performed, followed by pathway analysis. To validate these outcomes, a second set of OA FCM samples was measured (n = 23).ResultsTwenty‐nine oxylipins and fatty acids could be detected in FCM. Univariate analysis showed no differences between normal donor and OA donor FCM; however, PLS‐DA revealed an oxylipin/fatty acid profile consisting of 14 mediators associated with OA (accuracy rate 72%). The most important contributors to the model were lipoxin A4 (decreased), thromboxane B2 (increased), and arachidonic acid (increased). The statistical model predicted 64% of the second set of OA FCM samples correctly. Pathway analysis indicated differences in individual mediators rather than in complete pathways.ConclusionThe IPFP secretes multiple and different oxylipins, and a subset of these oxylipins provides a distinctive profile for OA donors. It is likely that the observed changes are regulated by the OA process rather than being a consequence of basal metabolism changes, as an increase in fatty acid levels was not necessarily associated with an increase in oxylipins derived from that fatty acid.