bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Topic of Alcohol within the Scottish Occupational Therapy Curricula
Authors: Maclean Fiona , O'May Fiona , Gill Jan 
Published: April 2014

Introduction: Scotland has witnessed a large rise in all types of alcohol-related illnesses, and in alcohol-related deaths. Despite this escalating problem, previous research in Scotland has demonstrated that gaps exist in the knowledge base of graduate occupational therapists. This study therefore aimed to document the content of alcohol in Scottish occupational therapy curricula. Method: This study was conducted during 2010–11. A questionnaire was sent to the programme leader of all the Scottish Higher Education Institutes offering a BSc (Hons) degree in occupational therapy, and to the only Further Education College in Scotland offering a Higher National Certificate in occupational therapy. The response rate was 100%. Findings: There is a lack of cohesive approach to alcohol misuse education within the occupational therapy curricula delivered in Scotland. Key proposals of the Scottish Government targeting alcohol misuse are inadequately addressed. Conclusion: The topic of alcohol and alcohol misuse is taught to varying degrees within the curricula offered in Scotland and further emphasis needs to be placed on understanding alcohol misuse and associated potential interventions, irrespective of practice context.
Timely Completion of Paperwork: Are Some Residents Consistently Late Responders?
Authors: Metheny William P. 
Published: April 2014

Abstract

Background
One element of competence in professionalism entails the timely completion of paperwork. Early identification of residents who are consistently late in completing their assignments might be the first step in helping them change this habit.

Objective
This study sought to determine if program coordinators' ratings of residents' response habits to completing assignments were associated with existing measures of resident response times tracked by the institution.

Methods
Program coordinators rated residents as early, mid, or late responders based on their experience with them. We compared coordinators' ratings with the response time of these same residents in returning orientation materials to the institution, completing a patient safety survey and duty hour logs, and providing their required countersignature on telephone and verbal orders. A total of 196 residents enrolled at this institution were eligible for this comparison in the 2012–2013 academic year.

Results
Program coordinators rated 23% (40 of 177) of the residents as late responders. These ratings were significantly associated with the response time of residents in returning orientation materials and the completed patient safety survey. Residents identified as late responders were 2.45 times (confidence interval, 1.09 ± 5.64) more likely to have delinquent medical records.

Conclusions
This exploratory study suggests that residents who are late responders can be identified as early as orientation and that they likely maintain this response habit in completing assignments throughout residency. To address this professionalism issue, programs should track and counsel residents on their timeliness in completing paperwork.
Dialectverlies en dialectnivellering in Nederlands-Duitse grensdialecten
Authors: Smits Tom 
Published: April 2014

Sociodialectological research on border dialects, viz. vernaculars spoken in localities near a political or national boundary, has some advantages over traditional dialect studies – especially when of a more rarely found cross-border design. Depending on the language situation on each side of the border, i.e. in two separate diasystems (cf. Goossens 2000a: 335), one observes constellations with different, similar or identical standard languages roofing equally different, similar or identical dialects, and this in a small-scale setting, i.e. in often comparable extralinguistic conditions. The reported study investigates functional and structural dialect change at the Dutch-German border (Low Saxon dialect area), using proficient but all the same “natural” dialect speakers (N= 40) aged under 45 or over 55. In this article the outcome of the main linguistic hypotheses is discussed, presenting comparatively less structural levelling (Røyneland 2010: 261) in the German dialect. Functional loss, however, is proven to be smaller in the Dutch dialect. These findings are assumed to be connected with the varying standard-substandard constellations in the Dutch and German diasystems and their differing interference potentials. It is shown that dialect loss and regiolectization, even when attested in nearly identical dialects, evolve dissimilarly on both sides of the border. Next to this the article also provides an overview of the amount and quality of levelling products found in the informants’ speech.
A Comic Poe in French
Authors: Absalyamova Elina 
Published: April 2014

Abstract
Edgar Poe's visions and images have been nourishing the European visual arts ever since the nineteenth century (e.g., Doré, Rossetti, Beardsley, Monet, Redon), and the creative impulse is still powerful in the ninth art of the last decades. From Lalio and Battaglia to recent adaptations in French and albums featuring Poe as a fictional character, the European comic is exploiting the mine of Poe's literary work, and although the macabre seems prevalent, it is not the only element that can be extracted. The light side of Poe is growing visible when studying these comics: first of all, from the point of view of the gallows humor and the grotesque (Battaglia: “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall”); second, in regard to comic situations and visual jokes (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Céka&Clod, “The Gold-Bug” by Corbeyran, and “The Oval Portrait” by Somon); and lastly with the games of intertextuality and the vision of Poe as a benefactor of humankind in Tarek&Morinière's Baudelaire ou le roman rêvé d'E. A. Poe (Baudelaire or a Novel Dreamt by E. A. Poe) and Vilà&Collignon's Edgar Poe: Le dernier cauchemar (Edgar Poe: The Last Nightmare). The visual interpretations magnify the comic, humorous, or life-affirming potential of Poe's texts. Playing with Poe's images is so powerful that even the openly macabre intention of such illustrators as Lacombre take on the turn of black humor or childish games. Thus comic images overshadow and ward off the tragedy of death.
Poe, Fashion, and Godey's Lady's Book
Authors: Urakova Alexandra 
Published: April 2014

Abstract
In my article I restore Poe's “Cask of Amontillado,” “Literati of New York City,” and “Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade” to their original publication in Godey's Lady's Book. My main thesis is that these pieces, apparently standing out of the usual literary matter published in Godey's, were at the same time attuned to the carnivalesque and interactive spirit of the magazine. The essay is an attempt to look at Poe's writings for Godey's as a complex and conscious collaboration with the magazine's spirit and style that eventually reveals both ironic and playful sides of his work.
Poetry as “An Inferior or Less Apable Music”
Authors: Studniarz Sławomir 
Published: April 2014

Abstract
The aim of this article is to tackle the controversial issue of sound dimension in Poe's poetry in the context of Poe's own aesthetic views and influential German Romantic theories of poetry and its relation to music. The main thrust of the argument is to question the opinion, still persisting in some critical quarters, about Poe as overly preoccupied with metrical and musical effects, which supposedly leads to the dissolution of meaning in his poems. The article aims to prove that his poems are unique phono-semantic structures, and their musicality, their meticulous metrical and phonetic orchestration, contributes to the creation of meaning. For the purpose of demonstrating the crucial relation between sonority and meaning in his poetry two texts have been chosen—“The Conqueror Worm” and “To One in Paradise”—but in fact many of Poe's poems could serve as excellent cases in point. By analogy to musical compositions, poems of Edgar Allan Poe develop their “suggestiveness,” their “under current, however indefinite of meaning,” also by their intricate sound design. Therefore, this aspect of his poetry certainly calls for reappraisal and invites further inquiry.
Impact of Shippers' Choice on Transportation System Congestion and Performance: Integrating Random Utility with Simulation
Authors: Sweeney Kevin D. , Campbell James F. , Sweeney II Donald C. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractIn this research, we show how modeling shippers' responses to congested freight transportation on an important segment of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) inland navigation system strongly influences the measurement of expected economic benefits attributed to a range of congestion mitigation measures. We present a model of the UMR that integrates a shippers' random utility model with a discrete event simulation model of the most congested 100-mile segment of the UMR system. The random utility model recognizes that waterway shippers may opt out of using the UMR in response to increased congestion and instead utilize alternative transport modes or destinations. Incorporating the dynamic response of shippers to changing operating conditions improves existing simulation models by explicitly accounting for the preferences and values of shippers, thereby providing a consistent estimate of the direct economic benefits associated with measures designed to reduce congestion and improve system performance. The major contributions of our research include demonstrating the importance of using models that capture shippers' responses to congestion in freight transportation systems and illustrating a novel methodology for quantifying the direct economic benefits to users of measures to improve transportation on the UMR.
The Role of Feeder Shipping in Chinese Container Port Development
Authors: Wang Yuhong , Cullinane Kevin , Hu Yanhai 
Published: April 2014

Abstract
The future development of China's container ports has become a critical issue, due to the sector's dependence on international trade and the excessive interport competition that exists both within China itself and with the ports of neighboring countries. This article investigates the potential for utilizing domestic feeder shipping services (i.e., coastal and river container shipping services that carry both international and domestic cargoes) as a new source of future long-term growth in China's container port sector. The Gini coefficient is utilized as an indicator for assessing the evolution of throughput over time for the 12 major container ports involved in feeder shipping operations in China. By applying decomposition analysis to a time series of throughput data, the key contributions of feeder shipping services to port development are identified. In addition, structural and spatial concentration effects on corresponding market segment components are computed. Finally, research findings provide evidence that there are potential opportunities for container ports to benefit from burgeoning feeder services carrying domestic trade and engaging in coastal transshipment activities.
Call and Response: Music, Power, and the Ethnomusicological Study of Politics and Culture "New Directions for Ethnomusicological Research into the Politics of Music and Culture: Issues, Projects, and Programs"
Authors: Berger Harris M. 
Published: April 2014

Abstract
Across the humanities and social sciences, a wide range of scholars seek to understand the role that expressive culture in general and music in particular play in the politics of social life. Though it may once have been controversial, the notion that music has meanings or social dynamics that we may call political would not, I think, be a provocative one for scholars in our field today. For example, we now agree that music is a key medium through which identities emerge. In musical practice, agents construct new identities, subjects are interpolated into pre-existing ones, interlocutors negotiate or battle over identities, and all this occurs in ways that can be oppressive or resistant, mundane or extraordinary, residual or emergent. Further, music may serve as one or more form of capital.
Music, Power, and Practice
Authors: Mahon Maureen 
Published: April 2014

AbstractI am aware that, on the eve of the 2012 United States presidential election, it may seem like sidestepping "real politics" and the "real issues" to talk about cultural politics. Still, I want to do so because thinking in terms of cultural politics enables us to examine the ways in which people debate, reproduce, and sometimes change power relations through their engagements with expressive culture. I’ll even go so far as to say that through engagement with expressive culture people respond to and deal with "real politics" and "real issues."
Genetic Variability for Zinc Use Efficiency in Chickpea as Influenced by Zinc Fertilization
Authors: Singh Shivay Yashbir , Prasad Rajendra , Pal Madan 
Published: April 2014

Zinc deficiency is the major problem in chickpea production when grown on highly permeable light textured soils, low in organic matter content and continuously cropped with rice. A field experiment was conducted for two crop years (2011-12 & 2012-13) at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi to study the effect of variety and zinc (Zn) application on the grain yield, Zn uptake and Zn use efficiency in chickpea. In general, Pusa 372 out-performed Pusa 2024 and Pusa 5028 in growth characters, grain yield, Zn uptake and physiological efficiency of Zn applied. Chickpea variety Pusa 372 recorded 2.13 t ha-1 grain yield which was 0.71 and 7.04% higher compared to Pusa 2024 and Pusa 5028 (based on mean of 2 years). Similar results were also observed with straw yield of chickpea. From the viewpoint of Zn concentration in grain and its biofortification, Pusa 5028 appears promising especially at the highest level of Zn (7.5 kg Zn ha-1); in the second year of study it recorded the highest Zn concentration of 50.1 mg Zn kg-1 grain. Each successive increase in the application of Zn from 2.5 to 7.5 kg ha-1 also increased the grain as well as straw yields of chickpea; however the significantly highest grain yield (2.24 t ha-1, mean of 2 years) was recorded with application of 7.5 kg Zn ha-1 which was 18.52, 10.89 and 4.19% higher compared to 0, 2.5 and 5.0 kg Zn ha-1 respectively.
Le vocabulaire économique et social : entre termes, formules discursives et noms propres
Authors: Dancette Jeanne 
Published: April 2014

Le présent article rend compte d’une réflexion sur les modes de terminologisation dans le domaine de la mondialisation économique et sociale. Le corpus sur lequel est basée cette analyse est la nomenclature duDictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du travail/Analytical Dictionary of Globalization and Labour / Diccionario analítico de la globalización y del trabajo. Les questions soulevées sont celles de la caractérisation du vocabulaire économique et social : Les expressions terminologisées répondent-elles aux critères classiques d’un terme ? Quelles sont leurs propriétés discursives ? Par extrapolation, le discours économique et social relève-t-il plus de la langue de spécialité ou de la langue générale ? Selon notre étude, la réponse se situe dans un continuum entre langue de spécialité et langue générale, selon la nature des textes et leur fonction. L’article est une invitation à s’interroger sur le rôle des formules discursives et des noms propres dans les terminologies des sciences sociales, particulièrement médiatisées à l’ère de la mondialisation. Il conclut sur l’importance pour le rédacteur ou le traducteur d’en saisir les marques idéologiques et de connaître l’instance, voire l’auteur, à l’origine d’un terme, d’un syntagme terminologique ou d’un nom propre terminologisé, car dans ces domaines le vocabulaire n’est jamais neutre. De plus, la problématique de leur fonction discursive est critique dans les sciences sociales, même si ces vocables ne présentent généralement pas de grosses difficultés d’équivalence linguistique.
Silicon‐On‐Insulator Devices
Authors: Balestra F. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractSilicon On Insulator‐based devices seem to be the best candidates for the ultimate integration of Integrated Circuits on silicon. An overview of the mainSOImaterials and advantages ofSOIfor the Nanoelectronics of the next decades is presented. NanoscaleCMOS, emerging and beyond‐CMOSnanodevices, based on innovative concepts, technologies and device architectures, are addressed. The flexibility of theSOIstructure and the possibility to realize new architectures allow to obtain optimum electrical properties for both low power and high performance circuits. These transistors are also very interesting for high frequency and memory applications. The performance and physical mechanisms are investigated in single‐ and multi‐gate/multi‐channel inversion‐ or accumulation‐mode thin filmMOSFETs, realized on various semiconductors (Si, Ge,III‐V,CNT), down to sub‐10 nm gate length. The impact of strains in the channel and of high k materials is discussed. The interest of advanced emerging and beyond‐CMOSnanodevices onSOIfor long term applications, based on nanowires or small slope switch structures is also highlighted. The influence of key device parameters on electrical and thermal floating body effects, short channel and quantum effects, noise, variability, as well as on hot carrier effects, versus temperature, is shown for various device architectures.
Data processing procedure using distribution of slopes of phase differences for broadband VHF interferometer
Authors: Akita Manabu , Stock Michael , Kawasaki Zen , Krehbiel Paul , Rison William , Stanley Mark 
Published: April 2014

AbstractThe upgraded VHF digital interferometer (VHF DITF) system is introduced which can continuously sample the radiation associated with lightning. A new processing technique was implemented which uses the distribution of slopes of the phase difference versus frequency to locate the radiation source. By using this technique, frequency components which are not due to lightning can be excluded and low as well as high amplitude sources are located. As a result, both positive breakdown and negative breakdown are located, and negative recoil leaders (recoil leaders) are visualized in great detail. The recoil leaders which continue into the positive charge region are seen to slow their propagation and dim their radiation as they cross the flash initiation region. Analysis of the relative received power of the different breakdown types, negative leaders, recoil leaders, and positive leaders, also can be made. In both the intracloud and cloud‐to‐ground flash, the modes of the distributions of received power for negative leaders, recoil leaders, and positive leaders were approximately the same. The brightest emissions seen from the positive leader were substantially lower than the brightest emission seen from the negative leader. The results also indicate that positive leaders as well as lower elevation negative leader emit more low frequency radiation than recoil leaders and high‐elevation negative leaders. By continuously sampling the VHF waveform, the upgraded VHF DITF locates many weak sources which the previous system was not capable of locating.
A study on the influence of corona on currents and electromagnetic fields predicted by a nonlinear lightning return‐stroke model
Authors: De Conti Alberto , Silveira Fernando H. , Visacro Silvério 
Published: April 2014

AbstractThis paper investigates the influence of corona on currents and electromagnetic fields predicted by a return‐stroke model that represents the lightning channel as a nonuniform transmission line with time‐varying (nonlinear) resistance. The corona model used in this paper allows the calculation of corona currents as a function of the radial electric field in the vicinity of the channel. A parametric study is presented to investigate the influence of corona parameters, such as the breakdown electric field and the critical electric field for the stable propagation of streamers, on predicted currents and electromagnetic fields. The results show that, regardless of the assumed corona parameters, the incorporation of corona into the nonuniform and nonlinear transmission line model under investigation modifies the model predictions so that they consistently reproduce most of the typical features of experimentally observed lightning electromagnetic fields and return‐stroke speed profiles. In particular, it is shown that the proposed model leads to close vertical electric fields presenting waveforms, amplitudes, and decay with distance in good agreement with dart leader electric field changes measured in triggered lightning experiments. A comparison with popular engineering return‐stroke models further confirms the model's ability to predict consistent electric field waveforms in the close vicinity of the channel. Some differences observed in the field amplitudes calculated with the different models can be related to the fact that current distortion, while present in the proposed model, is ultimately neglected in the considered engineering return‐stroke models.
Biochemical evidence for minimal vegetation change in peatlands of the West Siberian Lowland during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age
Authors: Philben Michael , Kaiser Karl , Benner Ronald 
Published: April 2014

AbstractPeatland vegetation is controlled primarily by the depth of the water table, making peat paleovegetation a useful climate archive. We applied a biochemical approach to quantitatively estimate the plant sources of peat carbon based on (1) neutral sugar compositions of Sphagnum, vascular plants, and lichens and (2) lignin phenol compositions of vascular plants. We used these biochemical indices to characterize vegetation change over the last 2000 years in four peat cores from the West Siberian Lowland (Russia) to investigate climate change during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age. The vegetation was dominated by Sphagnum in all four cores, but was punctuated by several rapid but transient transitions to vascular plant dominance in the two cores from the southern West Siberian Lowland (<60°N latitude). Lichen contributions were evident at the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and during the Little Ice Age in the two cores from northern West Siberian Lowland (>60°N), possibly indicating permafrost development. However, there was no evidence for sustained vegetation change in response to either climatic event in cores from southern West Siberian Lowland. This suggests that these climatic events were relatively mild in the southern West Siberian Lowland, although the sensitivity of bog plant communities to climate change remains poorly understood.
Paleomagnetic recording fidelity of nonideal magnetic systems
Authors: Muxworthy Adrian R. , Krása David , Williams Wyn , Almeida Trevor P. 
Published: April 2014

AbstractA suite of near‐identical magnetite nanodot samples produced by electron‐beam lithography have been used to test the thermomagnetic recording fidelity of particles in the 74–333 nm size range; the grain size range most commonly found in rocks. In addition to controlled grain size, the samples had identical particle spacings, meaning that intergrain magnetostatic interactions could be controlled. Their magnetic hysteresis parameters were indicative of particles thought not to be ideal magnetic recorders; however, the samples were found to be excellent thermomagnetic recorders of the magnetic field direction. They were also found to be relatively good recorders of the field intensity in a standard paleointensity experiment. The samples' intensities were all within ∼15% of the expected answer and the mean of the samples within 3% of the actual field. These nonideal magnetic systems have been shown to be reliable records of the geomagnetic field in terms of both direction and intensity even though their magnetic hysteresis characteristics indicate less than ideal magnetic grains.