bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of Large Apertures on the Optical Quality of Three Multifocal Lenses
Authors: Esteve-Taboada Jose Juan , Domínguez-Vicent Alberto , Del Águila-Carrasco Antonio J. , Ferrer-Blasco Teresa , Montés-Micó Robert 
Published: October 2015

PURPOSE:
To compare the optical quality under large apertures among three multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs): the TECNIS Symfony ZXR00 (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL), the AT LISA tri 839MP (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany), and the Finevision (PhysIOL, Liège, Belgium).

METHODS:
The in vitro optical quality of each lens was assessed with an instrument that measured the modulation transfer function (MTF). The optical quality of each lens was described in terms of MTF and through focus average MTF. The Strehl ratio, cut-off frequency, area of visibility, and percentage energy were calculated to objectively describe the optical quality of each lens. These metrics were assessed for the best lens distance focus and at four vergences (from −1.50 to −3.00 D in 0.50-D steps) at a 4.5-mm aperture.

RESULTS:
The through focus average MTF of the AT LISA and Finevision IOLs showed three mean areas corresponding to distance, intermediate, and near vision. The TECNIS Symfony IOL showed two main areas corresponding to distance and intermediate vision. All metrics revealed that the Finevision IOL showed the best optical quality at distance vision, the TECNIS Symfony IOL at intermediate vision, and the AT LISA IOL at near vision. The TECNIS Symfony IOL showed the most homogeneous light distribution between its best vision foci.

CONCLUSIONS:
The TECNIS Symfony IOL is less vergence dependent than the AT LISA and Finevision IOLs under dim conditions. These results may help clinicians to choose the proper lens depending on the patient’s visual requirements.

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J Refract Surg.
2015;31(10):666–672.]
Comparison of Methods to Predict Residual Astigmatism After Intraocular Lens Implantation
Authors: Abulafia Adi , Hill Warren E. , Franchina Maria , Barrett Graham D. 
Published: October 2015

PURPOSE:
To evaluate and compare the accuracy of three toric intraocular lens (IOL) calculators using keratometry measurements derived from the anterior corneal curvature and direct measurements of the posterior corneal curvature.

METHODS:
Postoperative corneal astigmatism was measured by the IOLMaster (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany) and Pentacam (Oculus Optikgeräte, Wetzlar, Germany). The data were processed by the Alcon, Holladay, and Barrett toric IOL calculators. The error in predicted residual astigmatism (PredRA) was calculated by subtracting the PredRA from the postoperative subjective refraction by vector analysis.

RESULTS:

The centroid errors in PredRA were against-the-rule (ATR) with the Alcon (0.56 diopters [D]) and Holladay (0.55 D) toric calculators using the IOLMaster (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Jena, Germany) measurements. The centroid errors in PredRA were lower when Pentacam (Oculus Optikgeräte, Wetzlar, Germany) measurements were used (0.38 D, ATR). The Barrett toric calculator using the IOLMaster measurements had the lowest centroid errors in PredRA (0.02 D,
P
< .001) and achieved the most accurate results: 75.8% and 92.9% of eyes were within 0.50 and 0.75 D of the PredRA, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS:
The prediction of the postoperative astigmatic outcome can be improved by using appropriate methods of adjustment for posterior corneal astigmatism.

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J Refract Surg.
2015;31(10):699–706.]
Three-Year Follow-up of Hyperopic LASIK Using a 500-Hz Excimer Laser System
Authors: Plaza-Puche Ana B. , Yebana Pilar , Arba-Mosquera Samuel , Alió Jorge L. 
Published: October 2015

PURPOSE:
To evaluate the long-term visual, refractive, and corneal aberrometric outcomes and regression of the achieved correction of hyperopia with a sixth-generation excimer laser.

METHODS:
This retrospective, consecutive, observational case series study comprised 86 eyes of 44 patients who underwent LASIK to correct hyperopia with a postoperative follow-up of 3 years. LASIK procedures were performed using the sixth-generation Amaris excimer laser (Schwind eye-tech-solutions GmbH and Co., Kleinostheim, Germany). Visual acuity, manifest refraction, corneal topography, and aberrometry were evaluated in the follow-up.

RESULTS:

Three years postoperatively, 65 eyes (76%) had an uncorrected distance visual acuity of 20/20 or better. Five eyes (6.2%) lost one or more lines of corrected distance visual acuity. Sixty eyes (70%) had a spherical equivalent within ±0.50 diopters (D). There was regression of 0.47 D between 3 and 36 months postoperatively. Statistically significant differences were found in spherical equivalent between 3 and 36 months (
P
< .01), but no differences were observed between 12 and 36 months (
P
= .08). A flattening of 0.16 D was observed between 3 and 36 months after surgery in the mean simulated keratometry. A significant increase of root mean square spherical-like, coma-like, and higher-order aberrations (
P
< .01) were observed postoperatively. Twenty-five eyes (29%) required re-treatment.

CONCLUSIONS:
Treatment of hyperopia using the sixth-generation Amaris excimer laser provides good results in terms of efficacy, safety, predictability, and visual outcomes after 3 years. The refractive stability shows a significant regression in the first 12 months after surgery with more stable results from 12 months postoperatively.

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J Refract Surg.
2015;31(10):674–681.]
Predictive Risk Factors in the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Aktun Lebriz Hale , Yorgunlar Betul , Karaca Nilay , Akpak Yaşam Kemal 
Published: October 2015

Objective This study aims to investigate predictive risk factors in the treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Patients and Methods A total of 256 pregnant women who underwent 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) during 24–28 weeks of pregnancy were included according to the World Health Organization criteria. Demographic characteristics of the patients, including age, parity, family history of diabetes, body weight before pregnancy, and body weight at the diagnosis of GDM, were recorded. Fasting insulin and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) values at the time of diagnosis were evaluated. The patients were divided into two groups: those requiring insulin treatment (insulin group, n = 89) and those receiving diet therapy (diet group, n = 167) during pregnancy according to the American Diabetes Association recommendations. Results A total of 34.76% of the pregnant women with GDM required insulin treatment. The mean age of these patients was significantly higher compared to the diet group (34.9 ± 0.6 years vs. 31.9 ± 0.6 years; P = 0.004). Body mass index before pregnancy was also significantly higher in the insulin group than that in the diet group (32 ± 0.9 kg/m2 vs. 29 ± 0.7 kg/m2; P = 0.004). Fasting blood glucose (FBG) during OGTT was 105.6 ± 2.1 mg/dL and 96.7 ± 1.1 mg/dL in the insulin group and diet group, respectively ( P < 0.001). There was no significant difference in fasting plasma glucose during OGTT between the groups ( P = 0.069), while plasma glucose at two hours was 161.1 ± 6.8 mg/dL in the insulin group and 145.1 ± 3.7 mg/dL in the diet group ( P = 0.027). At the time of diagnosis, HbA1c values were significantly higher in the insulin group compared to the diet group (5.3 ± 0.1 vs. 4.9 ± 0.1; P = 0.001). There was no significant difference in FBG and homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance values between the groups ( P = 0.908, P = 0.073). Conclusion Our study results suggest that age, family history of diabetes, body weight before pregnancy, FBG, and HbA1c values are predictors for the necessity of insulin treatment.
Bayesian Averaging vs. Dynamic Factor Models for Forecasting Economic Aggregates with Tendency Survey Data
Authors: Bialowolski Piotr , Kuszewski Tomasz , Witkowski Bartosz 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
The article compares forecast quality from two atheoretical models. Neither method assumed a priori causality and forecasts were generated without additional assumptions about regressors. Tendency survey data was used within the Bayesian averaging of classical estimates (BACE) framework and dynamic factor models (DFM). Two methods for regressor selection were applied within the BACE framework: frequentist averaging (BA) and frequentist (BF) with a collinearity-corrected version of the latter (BFC). Since models yielded multiple forecasts for each period, an approach to combine them was implemented. Results were assessed using in- and out-of-sample prediction errors. Although results did not vary significantly, best performance was observed from Bayesian models adopting the frequentist approach. Forecast of the unemployment rate were generated with the highest precision, followed by rate of GDP growth and CPI. It can be concluded that although these methods are atheoretical, they provide reasonable forecast accuracy, no worse to that expected from structural models. A further advantage to this approach is that much of the forecast procedure can be automated and much influence from subjective decisions avoided.
Synchronized Music: The Influence of Pantomime on Moving Pictures
Authors: Anderson Gillian B. 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
Abstract. By focusing on pantomime and cinema music and on synchronization and timing practices, this article aims to change the idea that synchronized sound only arrived with the talking film. It compares the musical synchronization in D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation with that in the filmed pantomime Histoire d’un Pierrot, and in an effort to identify other possible models for Griffith’s synchronization practices, traces the history of pantomime and pantomime ballet music in America from 1891 to 1916. Pavlova’s pantomime ballets and Max Reinhardt’s pantomime Sumurun emerge as potential models for Griffith and composer Joseph Carl Breil. Cabiria and Rothapfel’s presentation practices are also considered. To establish why Griffith may have emphasized pantomime in his publicity for The Birth of a Nation, the similarities in the developmental trajectory for cinema and pantomime are described, establishing for America what had been established for Europe by Carlo Picardi in “Pierrot at the Cinema.” A number of examples of stop watches being used to synchronize the music with the picture are documented, and the synchronization practices of Camille Saint- Saëns, Pietro Mascagni, Henry Gilbert, Louis Silvers, Joseph Carl Breil, and Mortimer Wilson are described. Finally, it is suggested that nondiegetic music is an archeological relic of cinema music’s origins in pantomime, where it did and still does have a hailing function, calling attention to the gestures, actions, facial expressions, and body language of the players and as such plays a much more important role in a moving picture’s plot development than has heretofore been acknowledged.
“Autobiografías en miniatura”. Apuntes y reflexiones sobre la correspondencia infantil
Authors: Blass Verónica Sierra 
Published: October 2015

No es que las cartas fueran ni hayan sido el único medio de expresión del “yo” de la infancia, pero sí que han constituido durante siglos el género de escritura más empleado por parte de los niños para dejar rastro de sí. Este artículo pretende ser una reflexión general sobre la correspondencia infantil, centrándose especialmente en el papel de la carta como configuradora de la identidad y en su uso pedagógico, institucionalizado en las escuelas entre mediados del siglo XIX y mediados del siglo XX. Por otro lado, se repasan los usos que los niños han hecho de la escritura epistolar a lo largo de la historia, así como las funciones principales que las cartas vinieron a cumplir en sus vidas, según sus tipologías y fines. Finalmente, se señalan las principales características de la correspondencia infantil, que es esencial tener en cuenta cuando se convierte a las cartas escritas por niños en objeto de estudio. Palabras clave: Historia de la Cultura Escrita; Época Contemporánea; Correspondencia; Infancia.
Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life
Authors: Korn Matthias , Voida Amy 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper introduces the theoretical lens of the everyday to intersect and extend the emerging bodies of research on contestational design and infrastructures of civic engagement. Our analysis of social theories of everyday life suggests a design space that distinguishes ‘privileged moments’ of civic engagement from a more holistic understanding of the everyday as ‘product-residue.’ We analyze various efforts that researchers have undertaken to design infrastructures of civic engagement along two axes: the everyday-ness of the engagement fostered (from ‘privileged moments’ to ‘product-residue’) and the underlying paradigm of political participation (from consensus to contestation). Our analysis reveals the dearth and promise of infrastructures that create </span><span>friction</span><span>— provoking contestation through use that is embedded in the everyday life of citizens. Ultimately, this paper is a call to action for designers to create friction. </span></p></div></div></div>
Not The Internet, but This Internet: How Othernets Illuminate Our Feudal Internet
Authors: Dourish Paul 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>What is the Internet like, and how do we know? Less tendentiously, how can we make general statements about the Internet without reference to alternatives that help us to understand what the space of network design possibilities might be? This paper presents a series of cases of network alternatives which provide a vantage point from which to reflect upon the ways that the Internet does or does not uphold both its own design goals and our collective imaginings of what it does and how. The goal is to provide a framework for understanding how technologies embody promises, and how these both come to evolve. </span></p></div></div></div>
Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturing and Maker Entrepreneurs
Authors: Lindtner Silvia , Greenspan Anna , Li David 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>We draw from long-term research in Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub in the South of China, to critically examine the role of participation in the contemporary discourse around maker culture. In lowering the barriers of technological production, “making” is being envisioned as a new site of entrepreneurship, economic growth and innovation. Our research shows how the city of Shenzhen is figuring as a key site in implementing this vision. In this paper, we explore the “making of Shenzhen” as the “Silicon Valley for hardware.” We examine, in particular, how maker-entrepreneurs are drawn to processes of design and open sharing central to the manufacturing culture of Shenzhen, challenging conceptual binaries of design as a creative process versus manufacturing as its numb execution. Drawing from the legacy of participatory design and critical computing, the paper examines the social, material, and economic conditions that underlie the growing relationship between contemporary maker culture and the concomitant remake of Shenzhen. </span></p></div></div></div>
Computing and the Common. Hints of a new utopia in Participatory Design
Authors: Teli Maurizio 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>In this statement, I draw upon the need of Participatory Design to engage with new utopias. I point to contemporary critical theories and to concurrent social conditions that make possible to identify the construction of the common as a possible utopia. In conclusion, I suggest that forms of community-based participatory design could be actual practices supporting such utopia. </span></p></div></div></div>
Making “World Machines”: Discourse, Design and Global Technologies for Greater-than-self Issues
Authors: Light Ann , Bardzell Jeff , Bardzell Shaowen , Cox Geoff , Fritsch Jonas , Hansen Lone Koefoed 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The </span><span>world machine </span><span>is a new archetype for a socio-technical system drawing together a group of tools that combine computational powers with a social agenda of cross-world collaboration in resistance to dominant market rhetoric. Specifically, we look at how powers to connect, sense and infer can be combined and turned to crowd-sourcing public engagement with shared world issues - as an alternative to business-as-usual in the context of developing and deploying networked technology. We combine theoretical aspects of </span><span>world machines</span><span>, such as what a political entity of this kind might seek to do, and practical exercises that focus on design, with a view to exploring viability and examining what a related research agenda might involve. </span></p></div></div></div>
Charting the Next Decade for Value Sensitive Design
Authors: Friedman Batya , Hendry David G. , Huldtgren Alina , Jonker Catholijn , Van den Hoven Jeroen , Van Wynsberghe Aimee 
Published: October 2015

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>In the 2010’s it is widely recognized by computer and information scientists, social scientists, designers, and philosophers of technology that the design of information systems is not value neutral [5-8,11]. Rather, such systems are value laden in part because societal values are major factors in shaping systems, and at the same time the design of the technology reinforces, restructures or uproots societal value structures. Of the many theories and methods to design for this phenomenon one continues to gain traction for its systematic and overarching consideration of values in the design process: Value Sensitive Design (VSD) [5-7]. The aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in ways values can be made to bear upon design and to help continue to build a community by sharing experiences, insights, and criticism. </span></p></div></div></div>
La signification de la mission et des pensionnats indiens dans la revue Kerygma (1967-2004)
Authors: Capitaine Brieg 
Published: October 2015

Fondée quelques années après le concile Vatican II, Kerygma aborde les problèmes concrets des missions indiennes et esquimaudes, de l’apostolat et des méthodes missionnaires. L’analyse du contenu de la revue entre 1967 et 2004 montre que la missiologie évolue à mesure que le mouvement d’affirmation politique autochtone se développe dans les années 1970 et que les pensionnats indiens se hissent au rang de trauma culturel. L’analyse du corpus nous permet d’introduire une plus grande nuance dans les relations entre les missionnaires et les Autochtones ; ceux-ci étant souvent perçus de manière monochrome comme des agents d’assimilation alors que leurs pratiques et leurs discours sont mouvants, sujets à controverses et beaucoup moins consensuels qu’il n’y paraît.
Paleomagnetism of Miocene volcanics on Sao Tome: Paleosecular variation at the Equator and a comparison to its latitudinal dependence over the last 5 Myr
Authors: Opdyke N. D. , Kent D. V. , Foster D. A. , Huang K. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractA collection was made in January 2009 of 10 oriented samples from each of 54 sites in lavas on Sao Tome Island (nominal location 0.3ºN, 6.5ºE). Some sites were affected by lightning leaving a total of 42 sites for analysis of paleosecular variation. Overall magnetic properties were excellent (highly stable magnetizations carried by pseudosingle domain magnetite). After principal component analysis of progressive alternating field demagnetization data for the samples, 22 sites had normal polarity magnetizations (D = 0. 6º, I = −8.3º, α95 = 4.3º, κ = 53.1) and 20 had reverse magnetizations (D = 176.0º, I = 4.2º, α95 = 7.3º, κ = 20.8); the directions are within 5° of antiparallel, yielding a positive reversal test. The combined data set of 42 site mean virtual geomagnetic poles converted to common (normal) polarity yields a pole position at 86.0°N, 211.5ºE, A95=3.1º. Ar/Ar and K/Ar dating reveals that these rocks are Miocene in age (∼5–11 Ma), old enough to allow northerly plate motion to help explain the slightly far‐sided pole position. The between‐site dispersion in virtual geomagnetic poles was estimated as the angular standard deviation, Sb, and equaled 11.4° with 95% confidence interval between 9.9° and 13.4°.
Planetary period oscillations in Saturn's magnetosphere: Examining the relationship between abrupt changes in behavior and solar wind‐induced magnetospheric compressions and expansions
Authors: Provan G. , Tao C. , Cowley S. W. H. , Dougherty M. K. , Coates A. J. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractWe examine planetary period oscillations (PPOs) observed in Saturn's magnetospheric magnetic field data from the time of Saturn's equinox in 2009. In particular, we focus on the time period commencing February 2011, when the oscillations started to display sudden and unexpected changes in behavior at ~100–200 day intervals. These were characterized by large simultaneous changes in the amplitude of the northern and southern PPO systems, together with small changes in period and jumps in phase. Nine significant abrupt changes have been observed in the postequinox interval to date, commencing as the Sun started to emerge from a long extended solar minimum. We perform a statistical study to determine whether these modulations in PPO behavior were associated with changes in the solar and/or upstream solar wind conditions. We report that the upstream solar wind conditions show elevated values of solar wind dynamic pressure and density around the time of PPO behavioral transitions, as opposed to before and after these times. We suggest that abrupt changes in PPO behavior may be related to significant changes in the size of the Saturnian magnetosphere in response to varying solar wind conditions.
Photoelektronenspektroskopie an der Graphen‐Flüssigelektrolyt‐Grenzfläche zur Bestimmung der elektronischen Struktur eines elektrochemisch abgeschiedenen Cobalt/Graphen‐Elektrokatalysators
Authors: Velasco‐Velez Juan J. , Pfeifer Verena , Hävecker Michael , Weatherup Robert S. , Arrigo Rosa , Chuang Cheng‐Hao , Stotz Eugen , Weinberg Gisela , Salmeron Miquel , Schlögl Robert , Knop‐Gericke Axel 
Published: October 2015

AbstractElektrochemisch gewachsenes Cobalt auf Graphen weist außergewöhnliche Katalysatoreigenschaften für die Sauerstoffentwicklungsreaktion (OER) auf und bietet die Möglichkeit, die Morphologie und die chemischen Eigenschaften während der Abscheidung zu kontrollieren. Es gibt allerdings noch kein ausreichendes Verständnis der atomaren Struktur dieses Hybridmaterials. Um die elektronische Struktur von Co/Graphen aufzuklären, haben wir eine Durchflusszelle entwickelt, die durch eine Graphenmembran abgeschlossen wird und elektronische und chemische Informationen über die aktiven Oberflächen unter atmosphärischem Druck und in der Gegenwart von flüssigen Elektrolyten unter Verwendung von Röntgenphotoelektronenspektroskopie (XPS) liefert. Wir konnten zeigen, dass Cobalt an Graphen über Carbonyl‐ähnliche Spezies bindet, d. h. Co(CO)x , und so die Reduktion von Co3+ zu Co2+ fördert, das als aktives Zentrum des Katalysators vermutet wird.