bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Seeking attention: an eye tracking study of in-store merchandise displays
Authors: Huddleston Patricia , Behe Bridget K. , Minahan Stella , Fernandez R. Thomas 
Published: June 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the role that visual measures of attention to product and information and price display signage have on purchase intention. The authors assessed the effect of visual attention to the product, information or price sign on purchase intention, as measured by likelihood to buy.Design/methodology/approach– The authors used eye-tracking technology to collect data from Australian and US garden centre customers, who viewed eight plant displays in which the signs had been altered to show either price or supplemental information (16 images total). The authors compared the role of visual attention to price and information sign, and the role of visual attention to the product when either sign was present on likelihood to buy.Findings– Overall, providing product information on a sign without price elicited higher likelihood to buy than providing a sign with price. The authors found a positive relationship between visual attention to price on the display sign and likelihood to buy, but an inverse relationship between visual attention to information and likelihood to buy.Research limitations/implications– An understanding of the attention-capturing power of merchandise display elements, especially signs, has practical significance. The findings will assist retailers in creating more effective and efficient display signage content, for example, featuring the product information more prominently than the price. The study was conducted on a minimally packaged product, live plants, which may reduce the ability to generalize findings to other product types.Practical implications– The findings will assist retailers in creating more effective and efficient display signage content. The study used only one product category (plants) which may reduce the ability to generalize findings to other product types.Originality/value– The study is one of the first to use eye-tracking in a macro-level, holistic investigation of the attention-capturing value of display signage information and its relationship to likelihood to buy. Researchers, for the first time, now have the ability to empirically test the degree to which attention and decision-making are linked.
Establishment and value assessment of efficacy prediction model about transurethral prostatectomy
Authors: Huang Tao , Yu Yong Jiang , Qi Jun , Xu Ding , Duan Liu Jian , Ding Jie , Zhu Yu Ping 
Published: June 2015

ObjectivesTo establish and to evaluate discriminant models to predict the outcomes of transurethral prostatectomy.MethodsClinical data of patients treated with transurethral prostatectomy between January and December 2013 were collected, including medical history, symptoms, biochemical tests, ultrasonography and urodynamics. Surgical efficacy was evaluated at 6‐month follow up. Predictive models were constructed by logistic regression. Receiver operating characteristic curve and diagnostic tests were used to test the accuracy of models before the predictive value between models was compared.ResultsA total of 182 patients were included, with 73.6% having an effective outcome. History of recurrent urinary tract infection (OR 1.33), score of storage phase (OR 2.58), maximum flow rate (OR 2.11) and detrusor overactivity (OR 3.13) were found to be risk factors. International Prostate Symptom Score (OR 0.13), transitional zone index (OR 0.58), resistive index of prostatic artery (OR 0.46), bladder wall thickness (OR 0.78), ultrasonic estimation of bladder weight (OR 0.28), bladder outlet obstruction index (OR 0.20) and bladder contractility index (OR 0.83) were found to be protective factors. The areas under the curve of models using factors from ultrasonography and urodynamics were 0.792 and 0.829 respectively, with no significant difference being found between them (P = 0.348).ConclusionsSurgical efficacy of transurethral prostatectomy is positively correlated to severe voiding phase symptoms, outlet obstruction and better detrusor contractility, and negative correlated with urinary infection, severe storage phase symptoms and excessive detrusor contractibility. Ultrasonography might replace urodynamics in selecting patients for whom transurethral prostatectomy is more likely to be beneficial.
Disimpaction of children with severe constipation in 3–4 days in a suburban clinic using polyethylene glycol with electrolytes and sodium picosulphate
Authors: Jordan‐Ely Julie , Hutson John M , Southwell Bridget R 
Published: June 2015

AimConstipation is a common cause of admission to hospital for disimpaction, as oral laxatives are often inadequate. High‐dose oral laxative protocols are used for complete bowel clearance prior to colonoscopy, but have not been reported for treating faecal impaction. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a high‐dose oral protocol using polyethylene glycol with electrolytes (PEG + E) (Movicol Rx) combined with sodium picosulphate (SP) (Dulcolax SP Rx) in faecal impaction in children presenting to a suburban clinic.MethodsForty‐four children presented with acute/chronic faecal impaction were given six to eight sachets of PEG + E were given on day 1, with decreasing doses on subsequent 3 days, while 15–20 SP drops were given on days 2 and 3. Compliance with medication was achieved using a simple method of motivation, with the child drinking the laxatives in a race. On day 4, PEG + E was reduced to one sachet and SP to 10 drops as an ongoing maintenance dose. Defecation, soiling, diet and water intake was monitored daily for 7 days in a diary.ResultsForty‐four children (aged 2–17 years) seen over 8 months were reviewed retrospectively. Children began defecating within 10–12 h reaching a maximum volume of stool/day (four cups) on day 2. All patients were disimpacted successfully and in the week following disimpaction there was no reported faecal soiling or complications.ConclusionsA high‐dose oral protocol combining PEG + E sachets and SP drops successfully and safely disimpacted a cohort of children with acute/chronic constipation presenting to a suburban continence clinic. This protocol appears to be useful to control faecal disimpaction in an outpatient setting, thereby avoiding hospital admission.
Late presentation of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis following renal transplantation and the potential under‐reporting of the incidence and prevalence of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis
Authors: Davenport Andrew 
Published: June 2015

AbstractEncapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is an infrequent but potentially devastating complication of peritoneal dialysis. The reported incidence and prevalence of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis vary markedly between countries. Currently, peritoneal dialysis vintage remains the major risk factor for encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis, and dialysis vintage differs between countries due to the relative competing risks of transplantation, availability of haemodialysis and peritonitis. However, the diagnosis of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis is often only established when patients have transferred modality to transplantation or haemodialysis. Switching treatment modality may potentially lead to an under‐reporting of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis, as many countries which collect data on dialysis patients in national registries often have separate registries for dialysis and transplant patients, and this may potentially lead to under‐reporting of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis in patients presenting after renal transplantation. Secondly, the question arises as to how long former peritoneal dialysis patients should be followed before a diagnosis of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis can be confidently excluded. To highlight this point, we present four cases that developed symptomatic encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis more than 5 years, and in once case more than 10 years after the discontinuation of peritoneal dialysis. Delayed or late presentation may not only delay the diagnosis, but also risk surgical interventions by non‐specialists.A more robust system is required to record cases of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis to determine the incidence and prevalence, and so provide accurate information to both patients and clinicians as to the risks of long‐term peritoneal dialysis therapy.
Fuel Assembly Design for Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor
Authors: Linna Feng , Fawen Zhu 
Published: June 2015

The supercritical water-cooled reactor (SWCR) has been selected as one of the most promising reactors for Generation IV nuclear reactors due to its higher thermal efficiency and more simplified structure compared to the state-of-the-art light water reactors (LWRs). However, there are a large number of potential problems that must be addressed, particularly the fuel assembly design of the SCWR. SCWRs are a kind of high-temperature, high-pressure, water-cooled reactor that operates above the thermodynamic critical point of water (374°C, 22.1 MPa). Corrosion and degradation of materials used in supercritical water environments are determined by several environment- and material-dependent factors. In particular, irradiation-induced changes in microstructure and microchemistry are major concerns in a nuclear reactor. Many structural materials including alloys and ceramics have been proposed for use as SCWR components or materials for applying protective coatings in SCWRs. In this paper, the present status of supercritical fuel assembly design at home and abroad is reported. According to the special requirements of supercritical core design, a kind of configuration design of fuel assembly with two-flow core and using SiC as cladding material are proposed. The analysis results have shown that the design basically meets the requirements of fuel assembly design, which has good feasibility and performance.
Thermal Hydraulics of Accelerator-Driven System Using RELAP5 Code
Authors: Kumari Indu , Khanna Ashok 
Published: June 2015

A lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE)-cooled accelerator-driven system (ADS) of 30 MeV and 0.5 mA proton beam has been simulated. The performance of this 15-kW ADS has been analyzed for three coolants (LBE, air, and water), all under variable and constant heat loads using the thermal hydraulic code RELAP5/Mod4.0. Steady-state simulation results for temperature of coolants match the reported design values within 3.2% of relative error. The effect of variation of mass flow rate on power extraction has also been evaluated for the three coolants, namely, LBE, air, and water.
МОРФОЛОГІЧНІ ПРОЯВИ АПОПТОТИЧНОЇ ЗАГИБЕЛІ КЛІТИН ЛІМФОВУЗЛІВ І ТИМУСА МИШЕЙ ПРИ ЗАСТОСУВАННІ КОНКАНАВАЛІНУ А
Authors: Бризгіна Т. М. , Сухіна В. С. , Грушка Н. Г. , Макогон Н. В. 
Published: June 2015

Досліджували рівень спонтанної й індукованої дексаметазоном і етопозидом апоптотичної загибелі, а також морфологічні прояви апоптозу в клітинах лімфовузлів і тимуса мишей в умовах ушкодження печінки введенням Т-клітинного мітогена конканаваліну А ( КонА, 15 і 30 мг/кг). Метод прижиттєвого подвійного забарвлення клітин тимуса і лімфовузлів (культивованих протягом 18 годин) флуоресцентними барвниками Хехст 33342 і пропідіум йодид дозволив диференціювати апоптоз на ранніх (конденсація хроматину) і пізніх (пікноз і фрагментація ядер) його стадіях, а також виявити клітини з ознаками вторинного (постапоптотичного) некрозу. Встановлено, що за умов введення КонА дозозалежно посилювався індукований апоптоз клітин лімфовузлів і збільшувався відсоток клітин на пізніх стадіях апоптозу з ушкодженням плазматичної мембрани. Спостерігалося підвищення відсотка клітин лімфовузлів і тимуса з морфологічними ознаками постапоптотичного некрозу, а також загальної кількості клітин з втратою цілості плазматичної мембрани. Значне посилення постапоптотичного некрозу може бути одним з механізмів виникнення і посилення запальних процесів в печінці
ВИВЧЕННЯ ВПЛИВУ а-ЛІПОЄВО КИСЛОТИ НА ПОВЕДІНКОВІ РЕАКЦІ У ЩУРІВ З ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНИМ ЕКВІВАЛЕНТОМ РОЗСІЯНОГО СКЛЕРОЗУ
Authors: Нефьодов О. О. , Кулик О. В. 
Published: June 2015

<p>Однією з актуальних патологій нейродегенеративного характеру є розсіяний склероз (РС) - хронічне аутоімунне захворювання, при якому<br />уражається мієлінова оболонка нервових волокон<br />головного і спинного мозку. Захворювання виникає<br />в молодому і середньому віці (15-40 років).<br />Особливістю хвороби є одночасне ураження кількох<br />різних відділів нервово системи, що призводить<br />до появи у хворих різноманітних неврологічних<br />симптомів.</p>
Out of Africa: did Emys orbicularis occidentalis cross the Strait of Gibraltar twice?
Authors: Velo-Antón Guillermo , Pereira Paulo , Fahd Soumia , Teixeira José , Fritz Uwe 
Published: June 2015

The narrow Strait of Gibraltar has separated the African and European continents since the Miocene (5.3 Mya), with a different degree of permeability for Mediterranean taxa. Southern and northern regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, respectively, are key areas to evaluate the colonization dynamics and biogeographic history of taxa occurring at both sides of this strait. The Ibero-Maghrebian subspecies of the European pond turtle,Emys orbicularis occidentalis, is patchily distributed and threatened throughout most of the Iberian Peninsula and northern Morocco and its origin is thought to be in North Africa. Here we expand the geographic sampling across the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco, with special emphasis in the southern tip of the peninsula and northern Morocco, and analyze mtDNA sequences of 183E. o. occidentalisto better understand the complex biogeographic history of this subspecies. We provide for the first time evidence for shared haplotypes of Iberian and North African pond turtles, with an additional haplotype in the southern Iberian Peninsula derived from Moroccan haplotypes. This supports the hypothesis that the Strait of Gibraltar constitutes no significant biogeographic barrier forE. orbicularis. However, the newly discovered shared, or extremely similar, haplotypes of European pond turtles from the southern Iberian Peninsula and Morocco suggest either that at least two independent natural colonization waves from Morocco have reached the Iberian Peninsula or that Moroccan turtles were accidentally or deliberately introduced there.
A study of kinetics and successive sorption/desorption of Zn and Cd uptake onto iron-modified zeolite
Authors: Ugrina Marin , Medvidović Nediljka Vukojević , Perić Jelena , Trgo Marina 
Published: June 2015

AbstractThe sorption properties of iron-modified zeolite (IMZ) and the kinetics of zinc and cadmium uptake by the IMZ were investigated by the batch method. Two kinetic stages were observed, fast uptake up to 240 min, followed by slow uptake up to equilibrium. Kinetic results were fitted to the reaction and diffusion kinetic models, which indicated that intra-particle diffusion was the rate-limiting step. The Vermeulen’s approximation model was used to predict the quantity of Zn and Cd ions removed per gram of IMZ. The results of the successive sorption and desorption of Zn and Cd ions, with different electrolyte solutions, showed the best desorption efficiency with sodium salt solutions. Four successive repetitions of the sorption/desorption cycles showed a small difference between the amount of sorbed and desorbed Zn and Cd ions from the second to the fourth cycle. This indicates excellent sorption/regeneration properties of the IMZ.
Durability Improvement of Pt/RGO Catalysts for PEMFC by Low-Temperature Self-Catalyzed Reduction
Authors: Sun Kang Gyu , Chung Jin Suk , Hur Seung Hyun 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
Pt/C catalyst used for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) displays excellent initial performance, but it does not last long because of the lack of durability. In this study, a Pt/reduced graphene oxide (RGO) catalyst was synthesized by the polyol method using ethylene glycol (EG) as the reducing agent, and then low-temperature hydrogen bubbling (LTHB) treatment was introduced to enhance the durability of the Pt/RGO catalyst. The cyclic voltammetry (CV), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) analysis, and transmittance electron microscopy (TEM) results suggested that the loss of the oxygen functional groups, because of the hydrogen spillover and self-catalyzed dehydration reaction during LTHB, reduced the carbon corrosion and Pt agglomeration and thus enhanced the durability of the electrocatalyst.
Alveolar instability (atelectrauma) is not identified by arterial oxygenation predisposing the development of an occult ventilator-induced lung injury
Authors: Andrews Penny L , Sadowitz Benjamin , Kollisch-Singule Michaela , Satalin Joshua , Roy Shreyas , Snyder Kathy , Gatto Louis A , Nieman Gary F , Habashi Nader M 
Published: June 2015

Abstract

Background
Improperly set mechanical ventilation (MV) with normal lungs can advance lung injury and increase the incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A key mechanism of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is an alteration in alveolar mechanics including alveolar instability or recruitment/derecruitment (R/D). We hypothesize that R/D cannot be identified by PaO2 (masking occult VILI), and if protective ventilation is not applied, ARDS incidence will increase.

Methods
Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 8) were anesthetized, surgically instrumented, and placed on MV. A thoracotomy was performed and an in vivo microscope attached to the pleural surface of the lung with baseline dynamic changes in alveolar size during MV recorded. Alveolar instability was induced by intra-tracheal instillation of Tween and alveolar R/D identified as a marked change in alveolar size from inspiration to expiration with increases in positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) levels.

Results
Despite maintaining a clinically acceptable PaO2 (55–80 mmHg), the alveoli remained unstable with significant R/D at low PEEP levels. Although PaO2 consistently increased with an increase in PEEP, R/D did not plateau until PEEP was >9 cmH2O.

Conclusions
PaO2 remained clinically acceptable while alveolar instability persisted at all levels of PEEP (especially PEEP <9 cmH2O). Therefore, PaO2 levels cannot be used reliably to guide protective MV strategies or infer that VILI is not occurring. Using PaO2 to set a PEEP level necessary to stabilize the alveoli could underestimate the potential for VILI. These findings highlight the need for more accurate marker(s) of alveolar stability to guide protective MV necessary to prevent VILI.
Entrepreneurial Risk Choice and Credit Market Equilibria
Authors: Schumacher Heiner , Gerling Kerstin , Kowalik Michal 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
We analyze under what conditions competitive credit markets are efficient in providing loans to entrepreneurs who can start a new project after failure. An entrepreneur of uncertain talent chooses the riskiness of her project. If banks privately observe the entrepreneur’s risk choices, two equilibria coexist: (1) an inefficient equilibrium in which the entrepreneur realizes a low-risk project and has no access to finance after failure and (2) a more efficient equilibrium in which the entrepreneur first realizes high-risk projects and then, after continuous failures, a low-risk project. There is a non-monotonic relationship between bank information and potential credit market inefficiency. We discuss the implications for credit registers and entrepreneurial education.
M. A. Krasnosel'skii Theorem and Iterative Methods for Solving Ill-Posed Linear Problems
with a Self-Adjoint Operator
Authors: Matysik Oleg , Zabreiko Petr 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
The paper deals with iterative methods for solving linear operator equations

x
=
B
x
+
f

${x = Bx + f}$

and

A
x
=
f

${Ax = f}$

with self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space X in the critical case when

ρ
(
B
)
=
1

${\rho (B) = 1}$

and

0
∈
Sp
A

${0 \in \operatorname{Sp} A}$

. The results obtained are based on a theorem by M. A. Krasnosel'skii
on the convergence of the successive approximations, their modifications and refinements.
Environment-induced fatigue cracking behavior of aluminum alloys and modification methods
Authors: Wang Xi-Shu , Li Xu-Dong , Yang Hui-Hui , Kawagoishi Norio , Pan Pan 
Published: June 2015

AbstractThis paper reviews the current corrosion fatigue strength issues of light metals, which include the corrosion fatigue cracking behaviors, such as the prior-corrosion pit deformation mechanism, the synergistic interaction between prior-corrosion pits and local stress/strain, the coupling damage behavior under mechanical fatigue loading, and the surrounding environmental factors such as a high humidity and a current 3.5 wt.% or 5.0 wt.% NaCl aqueous solution. The characterization of corrosion fatigue crack growth rate based on simple and measurable parameters (crack propagation length and applied stress amplitude or stress intensity factor) is also of great concern in engineering application. In addition, an empirical model to predict S-N curves of aluminum alloys at the environmental conditions was proposed in this paper. One of the main aims was to outline the corrosion fatigue cracking mechanism, which favors the corrosion fatigue residual life prediction of aluminum alloys subjected to the different environmental media that are often encountered in engineering services. Subsequently, this paper explores recently various surface modification technologies to enhance corrosion fatigue resistance and to improve fatigue strength. For example, the fatigue strength of 2024-T4 aluminum alloy has been modified using plasma electrolytic oxidation coating with the impregnation of epoxy resin modification method to compare with other oxide coating or uncoated substrate alloy.
The TMAI Model – Performance Of Portfolios Constructed On The Base Of Correlated And Uncorrelated Financial Ratios
Authors: Węgrzyn Tomasz 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
The author studies portfolio performance. Companies are chosen to portfolios due to their position in the ranking that is constructed on the base of the chosen financial ratios. There are three rankings constructed on different number of financial ratios. Each ranking is constructed on the base of synthetic measure of development. The TMAI ranking is constructed on the base of 48 financial ratios, the TMAI_gr1 ranking is constructed on the base of 14 financial ratios that can be correlated and the TMAI_gr2 ranking is constructed on the base of 8 uncorrelated financial ratios. The author uses data of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange between 2005 and 2011. The rankings and portfolios are built separately for each year. As a result, it can be stated that the Portfolio 3 in the TMAI_gr1 ranking is the best portfolio for investors who are maximizing the Sharpe ratio.
Media with photoinduced irreversible fluorescence
Authors: Traven Valerii F. , Cheptsov Dmitrii A. 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
The development of light-sensitive media based on organic, mostly heterocyclic compounds that have no fluorescence in their initial form but provide fluorescent photoproducts formation is considered in this review. Materials with photoinduced irreversible fluorescence appear to be the most promising in the design of recording media for 3D archive optical memory. Photoactivatable fluorophores are also of interest for use in cell biology.
Choosing Heating Units Using The Utility Function
Authors: Naghiu G. S. , Giurca I. 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
In this paper, we will discuss how to choose heating units using the utility function. This paper is conceived as a detailed continuation of the analysis made by the authors in their doctoral thesis. This paper is among the first tries of this type from Romania. A case study shows the practical application of this algorithm, and the results obtained were compared to the results obtained by other authors. The paper ends with the presentation of the numerical results and a few conclusions. We are also presenting several directions for future research in this field.