bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
First record of Pontian Monkey Goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814) in the Evros River (Greece); Is it an alien species?
Authors: ZOGARIS S. , APOSTOLOU A. 
Published: May 2013

The Pontian Monkey Goby,Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814), was recorded for the first time in Greece in August 2011. Eight specimens were collected in the Greek-Turkish section of the Evros River, 65 kilometers upstream of its river-mouth. Although the species has been recently discovered in the Tundza, a tributary of the Evros in Bulgaria, it has never before been found in the Evros’ main stem. Although the lower Evros has been poorly researched by ichthyologists, it is unlikely that a conspicuous medium-sized fish would go unnoticed in this river; and, it is therefore suggested to be a probable alien. However, since the Evros basin has had geological connections to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea in the past and it is immediately adjacent to native populations of N. fluviatilis, the species status is categorized as questionable until genetic and morphological studies are completed.
Synechococcus dynamics in the Levantine basin shelf waters (northeastern Mediterranean)
Authors: UYSAL Z. , KOKSALAN I. 
Published: May 2013

The abundance of picoplanktonic marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus was measured at weekly intervals over a period of one year in the northern Levantine basin shelf waters. Synechococcuswas found more abundant during summer and early autumn and least during winter. Significant increases in abundances mostly occurred during very low nutrient concentrations either a week or two weeks after the nutrient enrichments. Cells were distributed homogenously in the water column due to intense mixing observed during winter. Despite the homogenous cell distribution attained during late autumn and winter, the magnitude of variation in cell abundances among depths was found greatest during August and September. Cell concentrations ranged from a minimum of 6.4 x 103 to a maximum of 9.2 x 104 cells ml-1 with an annual mean level of 2.5 x 104cells ml-1 at surface. Below the surface, it ranged from a minimum of 5.6 x 103 to a maximum of 8.0 x 104cells ml-1 with an annual mean level of 2.1 x 104 cells ml-1 at 25 m depth. Compared to surface and 25 m depth, lowest levels were attained at 50 m. At this depth, cell counts ranged from a minimum of 5.4 x 103to a maximum of 3.2 x 104 cells ml-1 with an annual mean level of 1.4 x 104 cells ml-1. Based on Pearson-product moment correlation analysis, a highly significant correlation between Synechococcusabundance and ambient temperature was observed.
Delayed ejaculation and alexithymia: what is the relationship?
Authors: Michetti Paolo Maria , Eleuteri Stefano , Giuliani Marta , Rossi Roberta , Simonelli Chiara 
Published: May 2013

Delayed Ejaculation (DE) is probably the least studied and understood of the male sexual dysfunctions (MSD). There is still little unanimity concerning its psychological/interpersonal aetiology. Previous studies found that MSD are strongly related with alexithymia, a multifaceted personality construct that describes a disturbance in the regulation of emotions.The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of alexithymia in men with DE and correlate alexithymia levels with DE severity. According to specific features of the symptoms, we hypothesized that alexithymia would not be correlated with this specific sexual disorder.54 outpatients with a diagnosis of DE assessed at the Institute of Clinical Sexology and the Urology Department of Sapienza, University in Rome were enrolled in the study. DE was diagnosed after a specialist examination and according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -IV-TR criteria. Participants were provided with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (20 items; TAS-20), a self-measure of the Intravaginal Ejaculation Latency Time and an ad hoc questionnaire to collect anamnestic data.9.3% of patients could be categorized as alexithymics, 9.3% of them as borderline, while 81.4% of the sample was found to be non-alexithymic. The overall average TAS-20 score was 45.46. Results show that alexithymia is correlated neither with the presence of DE nor with its severity, in contrast to other MSDs, where this condition was found in about 30% of patients.The data presented suggest that DE, although not correlated to alexithymia, is probably related to other psychogenic features such as hypercontrol configuration. This paper can contribute to the understanding of DE, by excluding one of the possible etiological factors, previously found to be important in the onset and the maintenance of the other MSDs. More studies are needed in order to better understand DE and provide recommendations about treatment.
„Nie tak i tak dalej, ale tak i nie tak dalej…”, czyli o tym, czym jest nielogiczność
Authors: Wołk Mariola 
Published: May 2013

“Nie tak i tak dalej, ale tak i nie tak dalej…” ‘Not this way and so on, but this way and not so on…’ – the issue of illogicality
The article discusses the linguistic unit coś jest nielogiczne (‘something is illogical’), aiming to provide a description of its meaning, and an explicative formula which consists of indefinable expressions of the natural language. The semantic description of the unit is influenced by the issue of its reference, which is two-fold: the unit can refer to what someone said, as well as to what someone did. In order to pinpoint the distinctive features of the given expression, which is what determines its distinguishability, it is compared to a semantically close predicate, nonsens (‘nonsense’). Conclusions that flow from the analysis of nonsens had to be verified after a comparison with those obtained from the analysis of illogicality.
Ustalanie znaczeń symbolicznych w słowniku etnolingwistycznym
Authors: Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska Stanisława 
Published: May 2013

Determination of meanings in an ethnolinguistic dictionary
The notion of symbol, though popular and commonly used, has not so far received a satisfactory operational definition, i.e. a methodology of description that would allow to assign specific symbolic meanings to images in a foreseeable, “controllable” way. This is revealed by the different symbolic meanings which dictionaries assign to the same images. The paper uses examples from the Lublin Słownik stereotypów i symboli ludowych ‘Dictionary of stereotypes and folk symbols’ to question the rules for determining symbolic meanings and the “linguistic and cultural proofs” connected with the assignment of those senses – the rules that link the sun with life, truth and perfection, fire with love and passion, light with the God and heaven, dew with life-giving force and male sperm, wind with life-giving spirit, rainbow with the sign of peace, &c. The article reveals that the symbolic sense is sometimes prompted by the etymology, metaphorical meanings, parallel constructions, equivalence, or may also result from the genre convention of the text (an erotic, a dream book, a wishing carol), or finally from the beliefs and practices of bearers of folk culture. Regardless of all those attempts at determining symbolic meanings, the formulation of such meanings remains a hypothesis of a kind. Texts, especially artistic ones (where also folk texts belong), contain an unclosed semantic potential and remain unsaid, open and susceptible to new symbolic readings.
Z przeszłości gwar Wielkopolski wschodniej
Authors: Osowski Błażej 
Published: May 2013

From the past of the dialects of eastern Greater Poland. Based on the acts of civil status from Golina and Kawnice of 1821
During the period of partitions, eastern Greater Poland was in a special situation. It was doubly a linguistic periphery, both with regard to the rest of the region and to the major centres of cultural life (Cracow and Warsaw). In the 19th c., the principle “we speak as we write, and we write as we speak” was in wide use, meaning that the manuscripts from those times can be used to analyze the non-normalized language. Based on this assumption, the article discusses acts of civil status from the year 1821 from Golina and Kawnice (Konin municipality).
Mowa Ślązaków – gwara, dialekt czy język regionalny (w związku z próbą zmiany statusu prawnego)
Authors: Wronicz Jadwiga 
Published: May 2013

The speech of the Silesians: subdialect, dialect or a regional language (with reference to the attempted change of the legal status)
The paper discusses a bill submitted to the Polish Parliament on recognition of the speech of the inhabitants of Upper Silesia as a regional language, and demonstrates that the said speech is a subdialect of the Silesian dialect of Polish.
Listy Izydora Kopernickiego do Seweryna Udzieli z lat 1887–1891
Authors: Rak Maciej 
Published: May 2013

Izydor Kopernicki’s 1887–1891 letters to Seweryn Udziela
The paper is an edition of 11 letters and 6 postcards sent by Izydor Kopernicki to Seweryn Udziela in years 1887–1891, stored in S. Udziela Etnographic Museum in Cracow.
Hiponimy miejsca w polskiej Słowosieci i amerykańskiej bazie WordNet
Authors: Dobrowolska Marta 
Published: May 2013

Hyponyms of place in Polish and American wordnets
The aim of the paper is to compare the sets of hyponyms of place in Polish and American wordnets. Polish “Słowosieć” and American WordNet are thesauri which define the meaning of an individual lexeme by the lexical-semantic relations existing between this and other lexemes. The researched material consists of several thousand of synsets (sets of lexemes referring to a common concept) which have been linked by interlingual, lexical-semantic relations to the synsets of English lexemes in a process of mapping of a fragment of the Polish wordnet to the American database. An analysis of particular cases illustrates the basic issues concerning the procedure of mapping, first of all the problem of choosing a foreign synonym for the original word. It also shows the incompatibility of the corresponding fragments of the Polish and English lexical systems, which is usually not reflected in dictionaries and other glottodidactical publications. Differences between the structures of semantic trees of the two languages result partly from different assumptions made by the authors of both wordnets, and partly from language-specific factors, such as different word-formation systems or different ways in which some objects from the real world are conceptualized.
Comparison of CEDIA FK506 Assay With HPLC/MS/MS in a Large Cohort of Pediatric Patients
Authors: Lower Darla R. , Cropcho Lorna , Rosendorff Adam 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
FK506 (tacrolimus), a macrolide immunosuppressant, is widely used in pediatric transplant patients, but a relatively narrow therapeutic window in children vs adults requires close and accurate monitoring of whole blood FK506 levels. High-pressure liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS)–based assays have been viewed as the gold standard but are more time and labor intensive than cloned enzyme donor immunoassay (CEDIA). To analyze differences between the 2 assays, we assayed FK506 in 348 split samples simultaneously by both methods. A further 70 samples were stratified by organ transplantation type: cardiac (13%), renal (23%), small bowel (22%), or liver transplantation (42%). Results were analyzed using standard statistical techniques for method comparison. CEDIA overestimated the FK506 value relative to HPLC/MS/MS by more than 20% in 40% of cases (139/348), whereas CEDIA underestimated the FK506 value relative to HPLC/MS/MS by more than 20% in 13.5% of cases, for a total inaccuracy of 53% using a ±20% cutoff. Only 28% of samples (99/348) measured by CEDIA were within 10% of the value obtained by HPLC/MS/MS. Bland-Altman analysis showed a mean bias of 9.5% in favor of CEDIA over HPLC/MS/MS (95% confidence interval, 6.1%–12.9%). Positive bias was greatest for liver transplant and R2 values were lowest for intestinal transplant patients, indicating that HPLC/MS/MS may be a better option for this pediatric transplant subgroup.
Copland in Argentina
Authors: Hess Carol A. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
Perhaps more than any other US composer, Aaron Copland is associated with Pan Americanism, a contradictory and often unbalanced set of practices promoting North-South economic and affective ties since the nineteenth century. Copland visited Latin America on behalf of the US government four times over the course of his career. He also befriended and taught Latin American composers, wrote about Latin American music, and composed several Latin-American—themed works, including the well-known El salón México. Focusing on one such encounter—Copland's three visits to Argentina (1941, 1947, 1963)—this article examines in detail Latin American opinion on Copland's cultural diplomacy, thus challenging the prevalent one-sided and largely US perspective. My analysis of these Spanish-language sources yields new biographical data on Copland while questioning recent assessments of his Latin American experience. I also illuminate the composer's conflicted approach to modernism, intimately connected to his desire to communicate with a broad public and to assert national identity. The crisis of modernism not only played itself out in some surprising ways in Argentina but also informed Copland's profoundly antimodernist vision of Latin American music, one rooted in essentialism and folkloric nationalism and which ultimately prevailed in the United States throughout the late twentieth century.
Haydn's Solar Poetics
Authors: Sisman Elaine 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
The sun has long been a potent symbol of worldly power, mythological cosmology, Christian revelation, and philosophical enlightenment. To conjure with it musically is to open a vast field of the associative possibilities of illumination and its others: figures of emergence, ascension, power, fatal strength, attenuation, obscurity. In his symphonic trilogy on the times of the day—nos. 6 (Le matin), 7 (Le midi), and 8 (Le soir)—Haydn traces the diurnal movement of the sun across all three works in ways that reveal a sophisticated understanding of the sun's many cultural resonances. This opus constitutes, in effect, Haydn's debut at the Esterházy court in 1761, a year in which the Transit of Venus across the sun attracted local and global fascination and intense astronomic study. Beyond demonstrating his cultural range to the court, Haydn's focus on the sun's trajectory also helps to explain many of the puzzling musical features of the trilogy, especially the unusual slow movements. These works cast new light on Haydn's return to musical settings of the diurnal cycle at the dusk of his career, in The Creation (1798) and The Seasons (1801), and reflect the Enlightenment composer's engagement with multiple fields of knowledge and experience.
MOFIA: a chemoinformatic webserver for the prediction of CO2 adsorption in metal organic frameworks (MOF)
Authors: Fernandez Michael , Daff Tom D , Trefiak Nicholas R. , Woo Tom K. 
Published: May 2013

ABSTRACTNanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are strong candidates for energy efficient carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. A total of ∼20,000 hypothetical MOFs were ab initio screened for CO2 adsorption using grand canonical Monte-Carlo (GCMC) simulations. Novel radial distribution function (RDF) scores were modified for periodic systems to predict the CO2 adsorption of MOFs using chemoinformatic models. The test set predictions yielded accuracies of 0.76 and 0.85 at 0.1 bar and 1 bar, respectively. The models were used to screen a large database for high performing MOFs and the top 100 structures were successfully validated by GCMC simulations. The chemoinformatic predictors of the CO2 adsorption of MOFs are available online at http://titan.chem.uottawa.ca/woolab/MOFIA/#carbondioxide.
Sporopollenin microcapsules for microencapsulation of living cells
Authors: Hamad Shwan A. , Dyab Amro K.F. , Stoyanov Simeon D. , Paunov Vesselin N. 
Published: May 2013

ABSTRACTWe used sporopollenin prepared from Lycopodium Clavatum to encapsulate living yeast cells as a model for probiotics. The microencapsulation of cells was achieved by using the trilite scars of the sporopollenin microcapsules which can open up by compressing the sporopollenin into a pellet. Such compressed pellets were exposed to an aqueous suspension of yeast cells in the presence of a biocompatible surface active agent which allowed living cells to be loaded inside the sporopollenin particles by the influx of liquid to the sporopollenin interior as the deformed microcapsules re-inflated to their original state. We demonstrated that the cells viability and biological activity is preserved after the microencapsulation in the sporopollenin. Such microencapsulation technology could find application in preserving cells from mechanical stress and aggressive environments which can be used in protection of probiotics in food formulations.
Resource limitation in a competitive context determines complex plant responses to experimental resource additions
Authors: Farrior Caroline E. , Tilman David , Dybzinski Ray , Reich Peter B. , Levin Simon A. , Pacala Stephen W. 
Published: May 2013

Almost all models of plant resource limitation are grounded in either one or both of two simple conceptual models: Liebig's Minimum Hypothesis (LMH), the idea that plants are limited by the resource in shortest supply, and the Multiple Limitation Hypothesis (MLH), the idea that plants should adjust to their environment so that all essential resources are equally limiting. Despite the differences in their predictions, experiments have so far failed to discriminate between them. In a simple factorial nitrogen and water addition experiment in a Minnesota grassland, we observed shifts in allocation that, as in previous studies, are not all explained by a single theory. We found that leaf biomass responded positively to nitrogen additions but did not respond to water additions. We found that fine‐root biomass increased in response to water additions, but only at low nitrogen levels, and that fine‐root biomass decreased in response to nitrogen additions, but only at high water levels.To understand these responses we built a physiologically based model of plant competition for water, nitrogen, and space to predict plant allocation to fine roots and leaves. Critically, we include in our model the inherent variability of soil moisture and treat light, water, and nitrogen as resources with distinct mechanistic roles. Experimental results showed that plants were nitrogen and water limited. The model explains the experimental results, under conditions of co‐limitation, as follows. Foliage increases with nitrogen additions but not water additions because leaf construction is constrained by nitrogen uptake. When water is added, plants spend a larger fraction of the growing season limited by light (and effectively nitrogen) than by water. Thus, water additions cause fine‐root biomass to increase because of the increased importance of nitrogen limitation. The response of fine‐root biomass to water additions decreases with nitrogen additions because these additions reduce nitrogen limitation. In general, our results are explained by sequential resource limitation. The rate of carbon assimilation may be limited by a single resource at any one moment, but the identity of the limiting resource(s) changes throughout the growing season.
Bone Formation Under the Elevated Sinus Membrane Using Venous Coagulum
Authors: Beaudry Kathleen A. , Geurs Nicolaas C. , Lemons Jack E. , Reddy Michael S. 
Published: May 2013

Introduction: Insufficient bone height is a common obstacle to placing dental implants in the posterior maxilla. Sinus grafts have been shown to be a highly predictable way to increase bone height in the posterior maxilla. This case series illustrates a technique using venous coagulum and simultaneous implant placement under the elevated sinus. Bone formation is demonstrated clinically, radiographically, and histologically. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of histomorphometric results and microcomputed tomography (micro‐CT) using this technique.Case Series: A total of five sinus elevations with simultaneous placement of two dental implants were performed with venous blood coagulum as the sole filling biomaterial. At the time of uncovering, after 8 to 9 months of healing, biopsies were harvested from the lateral wall of the maxilla. This study illustrates bone formation under five elevated sinuses, with simultaneous placement of dental implants, using venous coagulum as the sole filling material. Results showed significant gains in bone height adjacent to the implant. Micro‐CT showed well‐structured trabecular bone. Histomorphometry of biopsies showed 38% to 74% vital bone.Conclusions: This case series illustrates that bone‐grafting materials in the subsinus cavity are not required for successful placement of implants. Use of one's own blood as filling material removes any objections to grafting, including religious, ethical, or fear of disease transmission. Venous coagulum is a simple, inexpensive biomaterial, and its systematic use during a sinus lift may be a relevant option, ultimately leading to increased access to implant treatment options for patients.
Influence of Tapered and External Hexagon Connections on Bone Stresses Around Tilted Dental Implants: Three‐Dimensional Finite Element Method With Statistical Analysis
Authors: de Faria Almeida Daniel Augusto , Pellizzer Eduardo Piza , Verri Fellippo Ramos , Santiago Joel Ferreira , de Carvalho Paulo Ségio Perri 
Published: May 2013

Background: The purpose of this study is to analyze the tension distribution on bone tissue around implants with different angulations (0°, 17°, and 30°) and connections (external hexagon and tapered) through the use of three‐dimensional finite element and statistical analyses.Methods: Twelve different configurations of three‐dimensional finite element models, including three inclinations of the implants (0°, 17°, and 30°), two connections (an external hexagon and a tapered), and two load applications (axial and oblique), were simulated. The maximum principal stress values for cortical bone were measured at the mesial, distal, buccal, and lingual regions around the implant for each analyzed situation, totaling 48 groups. Loads of 200 and 100 N were applied at the occlusal surface in the axial and oblique directions, respectively. Maximum principal stress values were measured at the bone crest and statistically analyzed using analysis of variance. Stress patterns in the bone tissue around the implant were analyzed qualitatively.Results: The results demonstrated that under the oblique loading process, the external hexagon connection showed significantly higher stress concentrations in the bone tissue (P <0.05) compared with the tapered connection. Moreover, the buccal and mesial regions of the cortical bone concentrated significantly higher stress (P <0.005) to the external hexagon implant type. Under the oblique loading direction, the increased external hexagon implant angulation induced a significantly higher stress concentration (P = 0.045).Conclusions: The study results show that: 1) the oblique load was more damaging to bone tissue, mainly when associated with external hexagon implants; and 2) there was a higher stress concentration on the buccal region in comparison to all other regions under oblique load.