bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Experience of 100 solid organ transplants over a five‐yr period from the first successful pediatric multi‐organ transplant program in India
Authors: Sibal Anupam , Malhotra Smita , Guru Faisal R. , Bhatia Vidyut , Kapoor Akshay , Seth Swati , Jerath Nameet , Jasuja Sanjeev , Rajkumari Vijaya , Wadhawan Manav , Aggarwal D. K. , Guleria Sandeep , Shrivastava R. N. , Gupta Subash 
Published: August 2014

AbstractTo analyze the clinical profile and outcome of pediatric patients who had undergone a liver and/or RT at our center over a five yr period, case records of all the patients who had undergone a liver or RT were analyzed retrospectively. One hundred solid organ transplants were performed at our center between January 2007 and January 2012. These included 50 liver, 44 renal, one sequential liver and renal, and two CLKT. BA was the most common indication for an LT (38%). At a median follow‐up of two yr three months, the patient survival was 88%. The most common indication for an RT was chronic glomerulonephritis (54.5%). At a median follow‐up of three yr, the survival was 91%. The CLKT were performed for hyperoxaluria. Two yr post LT, a sequential RT was performed for ESRD resulting from transplant associated microangiopathy. All patients received a living related graft. The common post‐operative complications were infections, vascular complications, and graft dysfunction. Survival rates for liver and RT at our center are comparable to those in the established centers in the West.
A lock‐in thermal imaging setup for dermatological applications
Authors: Bonmarin M. , Le Gal F.‐A. 
Published: August 2014

BackgroundLock‐in thermal imaging is a thermographic method that is widely used in the nondestructive testing of materials. The technique allows detecting under the sample surface, small variations of the thermophysical properties in a noninvasive and noncontact manner. Surprisingly, this method has, to our knowledge, never been used in dermatology although it is particularly suited.MethodsWe present in this article the first lock‐in thermal imaging setup dedicated to dermatological applications. The apparatus uses a temperature‐modulated airflow to periodically stimulate the skin surface. The infrared images recorded by a high sensitive camera are demodulated according to the digital lock‐in principle to compute a phase and amplitude image.ResultsFirst results obtained on benign skin lesions are presented. The images allow to detect small variations of the tissue thermophysical properties like for example, perfusion variations. Lock‐in thermal imaging has the ability to reject disturbing thermal signals coming from subcutaneous tissues. The localization of the lesions is more accurate due the suppression of the lateral heat spreading.ConclusionLock‐in thermal imaging is a promising method for the detection of lesions exhibiting modified thermophysical properties compared to the surrounding healthy skin.
A revised spreading model of the West Philippine Basin
Authors: Sasaki Tomohiro , Yamazaki Toshitsugu , Ishizuka Osamu 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
The West Philippine Basin (WPB) occupies the western part of the Philippine Sea (PHS) plate. The WPB is generally considered to have opened from approximately 50 to 30 Ma at the CBF rift; however, the detailed spreading history of the WPB is not yet clear. In particular, the origin and age of the southern subbasin, the Palau Basin, are unknown. To better understand the initiation and early evolution of the Izu-Bonin (Ogasawara)-Mariana arc, knowing the configuration of the PHS plate at that time is necessary. In this study, we examine the spreading history of the WPB using newly acquired three-component magnetic anomaly and swath bathymetry data, as well as existing datasets. In the WPB south of the CBF rift, the observed magnetic anomalies correspond to Chron C16r to C21n (approximately 36 to 46 Ma). Prevailing models of the WPB reconstruction show a decrease in the spreading rate from 4.4 to 1.8 cm/year since C18n.2n (approximately 39.5 Ma). Our research, however, indicates that the change in the spreading rate is not required to correlate the observed magnetic anomalies to the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale. The age of the spreading cessation in our interpretation, approximately 36 Ma, is several million years older than in previous estimates, and the spreading ceased progressively from southeast to northwest along the CBF rift. In the Palau Basin, seafloor fabrics and magnetic lineations trend N-S, which indicates E-W seafloor-spreading. Based on 40Ar/39Ar age, we suggest that the magnetic lineations correspond to polarity reversals from C18n.1n to C15r (approximately 38.5 to 35 Ma). The spreading of the Palau Basin may have been coeval with that of the WPB near the CBF rift, although their spreading directions are different.
Diabetic foot risk factors in type 2 diabetes patients: a cross-sectional case control study
Authors: Nehring Piotr , Mrozikiewicz-Rakowska Beata , Krzyżewska Monika , Sobczyk-Kopcioł Agnieszka , Płoski Rafał , Broda Grażyna , Karnafel Waldemar 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
Background
Diabetic foot is a serious condition in patients with a long lasting diabetes mellitus. Diabetic foot treated improperly may lead not only to delayed ulceration healing, generalized inflammation, unnecessary surgical intervention, but also to the lower limb amputation. The aim of this study was to compare diabetic foot risk factors in population with type 2 diabetes and risk factors for diabetes in healthy subjects.

Methods
The study included 900 subjects: 145 with diabetic foot, 293 with type 2 diabetes without diabetic foot and 462 healthy controls matched in terms of mean age, gender structure and cardiovascular diseases absence. Study was conducted in Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. In statistical analysis a logistic regression model, U Mann-Whitney’s and t-Student test were used.

Results
The binomial logit models analysis showed that the risk of diabetic foot in patients with type 2 diabetes was decreased by patient’s age (odds ratio [OR] = 0.94; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.92-0.96; p = 0.00001) and hyperlipidaemia (OR = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.36-0.81; p = 0.01). In contrast, male gender (OR = 2.83; 95% CI: 1.86-4.28; p = 0.00001) diabetes duration (OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 1.03-1.06; p = 0.0003), weight (OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 1.03-1.06; p = 0.00001), height (OR = 1.08; 95% CI: 1.05-1.11; p = 0.00001) and waist circumference (OR = 1.028; 95% CI: 1.007-1.050; p = 0.006) increase the risk of diabetic foot. The onset of type 2 diabetes in healthy subjects was increased by weight (OR = 1.035; 95% CI: 1.024-1.046; p = 0.00001), WC (OR = 1.075; 95% CI: 1.055-1.096; p = 00001), hip circumference (OR = 1.03; 95% CI: 1.01-1.05; p = 0.005), overweight defined with body mass index (BMI) above 24,9 kg/m2 (OR = 2.49; 95% CI: 1.77-3.51; p = 0.00001) and hyperlipidaemia (OR = 3.53; 95% CI: 2.57-4.84; p = 0.00001).

Conclusions
Risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and diabetic foot are only partially common. Study proved that patients who are prone to developing diabetic foot experience different risk factors than patients who are at risk of diabetes. Identification of relationship between diabetic foot and diabetes risk factors in appropriate groups may help clinicians to focus on certain factors in diabetic foot prevention.
Physiological conditioning by electric field stimulation promotes cardiomyogenic gene expression in human cardiomyocyte progenitor cells
Authors: Llucià-Valldeperas Aida , Sanchez Benjamin , Soler-Botija Carolina , Gálvez-Montón Carolina , Roura Santiago , Prat-Vidal Cristina , Perea-Gil Isaac , Rosell-Ferrer Javier , Bragos Ramon , Bayes-Genis Antoni 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe optimal cell lineage for cardiac-regeneration approaches remains mysterious. Additionally, electrical stimulation promotes cardiomyogenic differentiation of stimulated cells. Therefore, we hypothesized that electrical conditioning of cardiomyocyte progenitor cells (CMPCs) might enrich their cardiovascular potential. CMPCs were isolated from human adult atrial appendages, characterized, and electrically stimulated for 7 and 14 days. Electrical stimulation modulated CMPCs gene and protein expression, increasing all cardiac markers. GATA-binding protein 4 (GATA4) early transcription factor was significantly overexpressed (P = 0.008), but also its coactivator myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF2A) was upregulated (P = 0.073) under electrical stimulation. Moreover, important structural proteins and calcium handling-related genes were enhanced. The cardioregeneration capability of CMPCs is improved by electrical field stimulation. Consequently, short-term electrical stimulation should be a valid biophysical approach to modify cardiac progenitor cells toward a cardiogenic phenotype, and can be incorporated into transdifferentiation protocols. Electrostimulated CMPCs may be best-equipped cells for myocardial integration after implantation.
An integrated approach to evaluating the suitability of the Potosi Dolomite as a carbon sequestration target
Authors: Leetaru Hannes E. , Smith Valeri , Adushita Yasmin , Freiburg Jared T. 
Published: August 2014

The Cambrian-age Potosi Dolomite of the Knox Group in Illinois is a significant reservoir target for the sequestration of carbon dioxide ([Formula: see text]). The Potosi was originally deposited in a shallow intertidal to subtidal environment and has a major diagenetic overprint of karst processes. There were vuggy intervals (up to 2.1-m [7-ft] thick) present that have caused lost circulation of drilling fluid to occur when penetrating through these intervals. This article used data from Decatur, Illinois, to illustrate a case study of integrating well data, core, and 3D seismic reflection data inversion to create a reservoir model, extrapolating the 3D seismic porosity cube to a larger area beyond the 3D seismic volume and then performing reservoir simulation of [Formula: see text] injection into the Potosi. A waste injection project approximately 64 km (40 mi) to the east suggested that high volumes of [Formula: see text] injection are possible. Project results illustrated that seismic inversion might reduce the uncertainty of the distribution of the lost circulation intervals. The reservoir flow simulation suggested that the Potosi is a viable target for [Formula: see text] sequestration.
Climate, duration, and mineralogy controls on meteoric diagenesis, La Molata, southeast Spain
Authors: Li Zhaoqi , Goldstein Robert H. , Franseen Evan K. 
Published: August 2014

We isolated the impact of climate, duration, and mineralogy on porosity enhancement and cementation associated with seven surfaces of subaerial exposure in Miocene carbonate strata of southeast Spain. We integrated new and published petrographic and geochemical studies on the same strata to quantify the approximate impact of each event of subaerial exposure. The results quantified that only minor dissolution and/or cementation occurred when subaerial exposure was short-lived ([Formula: see text] thousand years) and in an arid climate, or when carbonate sediments were composed primarily of calcite. For such exposure surfaces, alteration was confined to the uppermost 0.5–2 m with 2%–5% porosity from dissolution and 3% cementation. After deposition of the last Miocene carbonate sequence, dolomitization and dissolution occurred during the initial stages of sea-level fall, associated with mixing during influx of meteoric water. This resulted in dissolution to create 10%–20% porosity over 83% of the platform system, and this indicated that even incipient subaerial exposure can lead to major porosity enhancement during times of high freshwater recharge and hydrogeology that promotes mixing. During a long-lived period of subaerial exposure (greater than 5.3 million years) associated with wet climate, major amounts of cementation reduced porosity in the phreatic zone and some porosity was enhanced in the vadose zone. This included 25% freshwater calcite cement affecting 53% of the platform. Dissolution during and after calcite cementation was approximately 8% throughout the platform. These observations predict that duration and climate combine to have the most significant impacts on porosity associated with subaerial exposure.
The Steiner tree problem revisited through rectifiable G-currents
Authors: Marchese Andrea , Massaccesi Annalisa 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
The Steiner tree problem can be stated in terms of finding a connected set of minimal length containing a given set of finitely many points. We show how to formulate it as a mass-minimization problem for 1-dimensional currents with coefficients in a suitable normed group. The representation used for these currents allows to state a calibration principle for this problem. We also exhibit calibrations in some examples.
An analogue of Leindler's theorem for hexagonal Fourier series
Authors: Guven Ali 
Published: August 2014

Abstract.
Let

ℳ
α

$\mathcal {M}_{\alpha }$

be the class of moduli of
continuity defined by Leindler in
[Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 14 (1979), 431–439],
and

H

ω
α

(

Ω
¯

)

$H^{\omega _{\alpha }}(\overline{\Omega }) $

be the generalized Hölder
class of functions on the closure of the regular hexagon Ω, where

0
<
α
≤
1

$0&lt;\alpha \le 1$

and

ω
α

∈

ℳ
α

$\omega _{\alpha }\in \mathcal {M}_{\alpha }$

. The
difference

f
-

𝒱
n
λ

(
f
)

$f-\mathcal {V}_n^{\lambda }(f) $

is estimated in
the uniform norm

∥
·
∥

C
(

Ω
¯

)

$\Vert \cdot \Vert _{C(\overline{\Omega })}$

and in the generalized Hölder norm

∥
·
∥

ω
β

$\Vert \cdot \Vert _{\omega _\beta }$

, where

𝒱
n
λ

(
f
)

$\mathcal {V}_n^{\lambda }(f) $

is the nth generalized de la Vallée-Poussin mean of
hexagonal Fourier series of

f
∈

H

ω
α

(

Ω
¯

)

$f\in H^{\omega _{\alpha }}(\overline{\Omega }) $

and

0
≤
β
<
α
≤
1

$0\le \beta &lt;\alpha \le 1$

.
From cognitive-functional linguistics to dialogic syntax
Authors: Du Bois John W. , Giora Rachel 
Published: August 2014

AbstractDialogic syntax investigates the linguistic, cognitive, and interactional processes involved when language users reproduce selected aspects of a prior utterance, and when recipients respond to the parallelisms and resonances that result, drawing inferences for situated meaning. The phenomenon typically arises when a language user constructs an utterance modeled in part on the utterance of a prior speaker or author. The result is resonance, defined as the catalytic activation of affinities across utterances. This paper presents the concept of dialogic syntax and outlines some directions of current research on dialogic resonance, as represented in this Special Issue.
Towards a dialogic construction grammar: Ad hoc routines and resonance activation
Authors: Brône Geert , Zima Elisabeth 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIn this paper, we take a Construction Grammar approach to Du Bois' concept of resonance activation. We suggest that the structural mapping relations between juxtaposed utterances in discourse, described in terms of diagraphs in dialogic syntax, can acquire the status of ad hoc constructions or locally entrenched form-meaning pairings within the boundaries of an ongoing conversation. We argue that the local emergence of these ad hoc constructions involves the same cognitive mechanism described for the abstraction of conventional grammatical constructions from usage patterns. Accordingly, we propose to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar to include not only symbolic units that are conventionalized in a larger speech community, but also a dimension of online syntax, i.e. the emergence of grammatical patterns at the micro-level of a single conversation. Drawing on dialogic data from political talk shows and parliamentary debates, we illustrate the spectrum of these ad hoc constructional routines and show their local productivity, which we take as an indication of their (micro-)entrenchment within a given conversation.
Some prime factorization results for free quantum group factors
Authors: Isono Yusuke 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
We prove some unique factorization results for tensor products of free quantum group factors.
They are type III analogues of factorization results for direct products of bi-exact groups established by Ozawa and Popa.
In the proof, we first take continuous cores of the tensor products, which satisfy a condition similar to condition (AO), and discuss some factorization properties for the continuous cores.
We then deduce factorization properties for the original type III factors.
We also prove some unique factorization results for crossed product von Neumann algebras by direct products of bi-exact groups.
Carrousel in family and\break non-isolated hypersurface singularities in ℂ3
Authors: Michel Françoise , Pichon Anne 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
We study the boundary

L
t

${L_{t}}$

of the Milnor fiber for the
reduced holomorphic germs

f
:

(

ℂ
3

,
0
)

→

(
ℂ
,
0
)

${f:(\mathbb{C}^{3},0)\rightarrow(\mathbb{C},0)}$

having a non-isolated singularity at 0. We prove that

L
t

${L_{t}}$

is a graph manifold by using a new technique of carrousels depending on one parameter. Our results enable us to compare the topology of

L
t

${L_{t}}$

and of the link of the normalization of

f

-
1

⁢

(
0
)

${f^{-1}(0)}$

.
Polycomb and Trithorax group protein-mediated control of stress responses in plants
Authors: Kleinmanns Julia Anna , Schubert Daniel 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
A plant’s experience of abiotic or biotic stress can lead to stress memory in order to react faster and more efficiently to subsequent stresses. Molecularly, the memory of a stress can rely on stable inheritance through mitotic and meiotic cell divisions, thus epigenetic inheritance. The key epigenetic regulators are DNA cytosine methyltransferases and the Polycomb group (PcG) and Trithorax group (TrxG) proteins, which control numerous developmental processes. PcG and TrxG proteins act antagonistically on stable gene repression through mediating trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) and H3K4me3, respectively, and target thousands of genes in plants, including many genes responsive to stress. The role of PcG/TrxG proteins in regulating stress responses and memory, however, is just emerging. While it is well investigated that stress can induce changes of histone modifications at genes regulated by stress, it is largely unclear whether these changes are mitotically and/or meiotically heritable, hence confer somatic and/or transgenerational stress memory. As the literature on the role of DNA methylation in regulating stress responses has recently been extensively summarized, we focus this review on the current knowledge on the role of PcG and TrxG in stress responses and memory.
Analyzing structure and function in humor: Preliminary sketch of a message-centered model
Authors: Miczo Nathan 
Published: August 2014

AbstractUtilizing Attardo's general theory of verbal humor and Meyer's rhetorical functions of humor, as well as insights from conversation analysis, this paper presents a model linking form and function in conversational humor. In the model, an initial pair of incongruous scripts (i.e., a script opposition) is activated as membership categories are referenced in the set-up. The punch- or jab-line introduces a second script opposition that “resolves” or makes sense out of the first opposition in terms of preference organization (presenting either a preferred or dispreferred response). When examining conversational humor, those preferences have implications in terms of uniting or dividing interlocutors. If the resolution aligns with the preferred entity/activity of the set-up, then the effect should be unifying. If the resolution does not align (i.e., is dispreferred), then the effect should be divisive. The model is used to analyze two jokes and two conversational sequences.
An Optimal Path in an AGV-based Manufacturing System with Intelligent Agents
Authors: Fazlollahtabar Hamed , Shafieian S. Hosna 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThis paper concerns with the design of a computer integrated manufacturing system to identify an optimal path in a vehicle routing problem (VRP) network regarding to triple criteria. In most VRPs just one criterion, either time or cost was considered in decision making. But in this paper all time, cost, and AGV capability are noticed in decision making, simultaneously. Recently automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are being applied in material handling process that travels on a network of guide paths. To satisfy a material requirement planning (MRP) by providing the bill of material (BOM), AGVs are suitable devices. In this paper an AGV is employed to carry the parts based on the BOM, therefore the AGV is confronted with various paths in the shop network in a job shop layout. For controlling the time, cost, and AGV capability, intelligent agents are proposed. To decide about selection of the optimal path which is confined in time, cost, and AGV capability, mathematical programming approach is applied. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated using two illustrative examples.
Die Unbegrifflichkeit von „Leben“ in der Begrifflichkeit der Ethik
Authors: Toepfer Georg 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
„Leben“ ist - als Gegensatz zu „Tod“ - ein im Alltagsdenken evaluativ positiv aufgeladenes Wort, von ihm ist in vielen ethischen Debatten die Rede und es bildet eine zentrale Kategorie zur Abgrenzung eines Bereichs der Ethik, der Bioethik - und dennoch ist „Leben“ für die Begründung von ethischen Systemen meist kein zentraler Begriff. In dem Beitrag wird dafür argumentiert, dass „Leben“ überhaupt am besten nicht als Begriff, sondern als absolute Metapher im Sinne Hans Blumenbergs zu verstehen ist: Es bezeichnet etwas Vieldimensionales und Selbstreferenzielles, von dem nie in bloß terminologischer Bedeutung gesprochen und das damit nicht vollständig diskursiv eingeholt werden kann. In ethischen Debatten fungiert die Lebendigkeit meist nicht als unbedingter Wert, sondern als Bedingungsgut zur Realisierung von Werten, das selbst immer zur Disposition steht. Auch in Bezug auf die menschliche Existenz stellt „Leben“ eine nicht ethisch, sondern ontologisch fundamentale Kategorie dar, nämlich ein Kontinuitätsprinzip, das für die Identität und Individualität von Menschen konstitutive Sortal.