bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Perceived Exercise Barriers Explain Exercise Participation in Australian Women Treated for Breast Cancer Better Than Perceived Exercise Benefits
Authors: Gho Sheridan A. , Munro Bridget J. , Jones Sandra C. , Steele Julie R. 
Published: July 2014

Objectives
This study aimed to determine the effect of perceived exercise benefits and barriers on exercise levels among women who have been treated for breast cancer and have not participated in a formal exercise intervention.

Design
This was an anonymous, national, online cross-sectional survey study.

Methods
Four hundred thirty-two women treated for breast cancer completed an online survey covering their treatment and demographic background, current exercise levels, and perceived exercise benefits and barriers. Each perceived benefit and barrier was considered in a binary logistic regression against reported exercise levels to ascertain significant relationships and associative values (odds ratio [OR]).

Results
Agreement with 16 out of 19 exercise barriers was significantly related to being more likely to report insufficient exercise levels, whereas agreement with 6 out of 15 exercise benefits was significantly related to being less likely to report insufficient levels of exercise. Feeling too weak, lacking self-discipline, and not making exercise a priority were the barriers with the largest association to insufficient exercise levels (OR=10.97, 95% confidence interval [CI]=3.90, 30.86; OR=8.12, 95% CI=4.73, 13.93; and OR=7.43, 95% CI=3.72, 14.83, respectively). Conversely, exercise enjoyment, improved feelings of well-being, and decreased feelings of stress and tension were the top 3 benefits associated with being less likely to have insufficient exercise levels (OR=0.21, 95% CI=0.11, 0.39; OR=0.21, 95% CI=0.07, 0.63; and OR=0.31, 95% CI=0.15, 0.63, respectively).

Limitations
Self-reported data measures were used to collect exercise data.

Conclusions
Targeting exercise barriers specific to women treated for breast cancer may improve exercise participation levels in this cohort. Awareness of the impact of exercise barriers identified in the present study will enable physical therapists to better plan exercise interventions that support all women treated for breast cancer.
The New Intimacy: rihannaboi95 and Web Theatre
Authors: Tannahill Jordan 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: “The New Intimacy: rihannaboi95 and Web Theatre” provides a summary of the creation and dissemination of Jordan Tannahill’s live-streamed Internet play rihannaboi95 and contextualizes it within the broader, emergent practice of web theatre. He speaks of the play’s origin within the “sissy boy dance/lip-synch” and “confessional” YouTube video genres, the rationale for choosing live-streamed video as a theatrical form, and the unique performance and directorial challenges that arose from the form. Tannahill goes on to discuss other artists creating performances that either exist entirely within Internet applications, such as Twitter, or substantially employ Internet applications within a theatrical production. Tannahill proposes that form profoundly informs content in web theatre and that as apps and devices are created, performance creators will generate content for and about them (the danger being performances that do not transcend technological gimmickry). Through the innovative use of free Internet applications, Tannahill suggests web theatre has the potential to be an affordable form of performance that transcends geographical barriers.
iTalk, YouListen, WePerform: Participatory Media on the Canadian Stage
Authors: McLeod Kimberley 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: This article investigates how Theatre Replacement’s WeeTube 5400 (2010) and Les Petites Cellules Chaudes’ The iShow (2012) re-frame social media in a performance context. Through re-mediation, these productions explore the kinds of social relations participatory media catalyze. WeeTube 5400 and The iShow—using YouTube and Chatroulette respectively—ask audiences to consider the productive and unproductive conversations taking place via social media. In doing so, these companies go beyond simply critiquing the social web and use performance to imagine new modes of connection possible in digital spaces. While the theatre space transforms the possibilities for social media use, in both productions the interactive potential of the social web is limited as the audience remains separated from direct digital engagement.
Inside Information: Ken Cameron’s How iRan
Authors: Finn Patrick 
Published: July 2014

Abstract: This article examines Ken Cameron’s multidisciplinary play How iRan: Three Plays for iPod. Author Patrick Finn argues that Cameron’s play uses digital technology to intimately engage with one of Canadian theatre’s most essential and intriguing themes: immigration. The play has three paths, each of which can be followed at any point. This creates a unique performance style that addresses how digital technology presents information to users. The play does not separate audience members with digital media; instead, Cameron’s audience moves in close physical proximity, and they walk through individual narrative experiences. Cameron uses interviews with Iranian-Canadians with direct immigration and cultural experiences to create personal connections with his material. Designer Anton DeGroot structured installation art pieces at narrative stations to further embed the play with new world information. Iranian-Canadians who decided to remain anonymous because of fear of reprisals against their families for their involvement in Cameron’s play have created several of the art stations in this play. This piece connects us with new and historical material through digital innovation.
Presenting Canada to the Scientific Gaze: TheHandbook for the Dominion of Canadaand the Eccentricity of Science Tourism
Authors: Hodgins Peter 
Published: July 2014

Abstract:In 1884, the Handbook for the Dominion of Canada was produced by the Montreal organizing committee for the first-ever meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to be held outside of the British Isles. At first glance, the Handbook resembles present-day tourist guides in that it separates the country into sections, provides historical and natural historical descriptions for each, and identifies major sights. Yet its style blends scientific and bureaucratic diction, it is almost completely shorn of affective qualities, it contains few illustrations but an excess of statistical and scientific information, and it proposes what would seem to us to be erratic itineraries through places such as mines, mental asylums, factories, or waterworks. This article uses the Handbook to think about tourist handbooks as forms of middlebrow mediation of touristic experience that draw heavily on the emergence of bureaucratic and scientific diction to establish their cultural authority. It questions conventional constructions of nineteenth-century Canadian tourism in terms of the Romantic desire for the untamed, the exotic, and the sublime. Furthermore, it suggests that the Handbook was written in hopes of enrolling the visiting British scientists into a larger project of encouraging British immigration to Canada.
Real-time ultrasound and freehand-SPECT
Authors: Winkens T. , Opfermann T. , Elsner P. , Runnebaum I. , Darr A. , Freesmeyer M. 
Published: July 2014

SummaryAim of this work is to report first experiences of the feasibility and applicability of a hybrid freehandSPECT/ultrasound (fh-SPECT/US) imaging concept, with regard to SLN imaging, in patients with breast cancer and malignant melanoma. Patients, methods: 18 patients with breast cancer or malignant melanoma received standard SLN scintigraphy. Following this, fh-SPECT using declipse®SPECT (SurgicEye, Munich, Germany) was performed, a handheld-gamma camera-based method to visualize activity distribution within a region of interest as a cross-sectional data set. These data were transferred to an ultrasound device and sensor-navigated ultrasound was performed combining fhSPECT data with ultrasound images, displaying superimposed images. Quality of fh- SPECT and co-registration accuracy was assigned to one of four categories and occurrence of artefacts was assessed. Results: In 4/18 examinations, there was a no deviation regarding co-registration of both data sets. For 9/18 patients, there was a deviation of <1 cm (mean 0.7±0.3 cm, range 0.3–1.0 cm). For 3/18 patients, a deviation >1 cm was present (mean 1.7±0.3 cm, range 1.5–2.0 cm). In 2/18 examinations no lymph node was found in the region of highest activity. Fh-SPECT reconstruction artifacts occurred in 6/18 examinations. Conclusion: The fusion imaging concept combining SLN information with ultrasound images presented here proves to be feasible and technically successful. However, significant technical limitations were shown in fh-SPECT quality and fusion precision. Subject to technical optimisation of SPECT quality and co-registration, a meaningful contribution to the preoperative planning of lymph node therapy is imaginable. Thus, fundamentally a preoperative histological examination by fh-SPECT/US-guided biopsy is possible.
Differential Requirement for the IKKβ/NF-κB Signaling Module in Regulating TLR- versus RLR-Induced Type 1 IFN Expression in Dendritic Cells
Authors: Wang Xingyu , Wang Junmei , Zheng Hong , Xie Mengyu , Hopewell Emily L. , Albrecht Randy A. , Nogusa Shoko , García-Sastre Adolfo , Balachandran Siddharth , Beg Amer A. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Host innate-immune responses are tailored by cell type to control and eradicate specific infectious agents. For example, an acute RNA virus infection can result in high-level expression of type 1 IFNs by both conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), but whereas cDCs preferentially use RIG-I–like receptor (RLR) signaling to produce type 1 IFNs, pDCs predominantly use TLRs to induce these cytokines. We previously found that the IκB kinase β (IKKβ)/NF-κB pathway regulates early IFN-β expression, but not the magnitude of type 1 IFN expression following RLR engagement. In this study, we use IKKβ inhibition and mice deficient in IKKβ or canonical NF-κB subunits (p50, RelA/p65, and cRel) to demonstrate that the IKKβ/NF-κB axis is critical for virus-induced type 1 IFN expression in pDCs, but not in cDCs. We also reveal a crucial and more general requirement for IKKβ/NF-κB in TLR- but not RLR-induced expression of type 1 IFNs and inflammatory cytokines. Together, these findings reveal a previously unappreciated specificity of the IKKβ/NF-κB signaling axis in regulation of antimicrobial responses by different classes of pattern recognition receptors, and therefore by individual cell types reliant on particular pattern recognition receptors for their innate-immune transcriptional responses.
Zfp318 Regulates IgD Expression by Abrogating Transcription Termination within the Ighm/Ighd Locus
Authors: Pioli Peter D. , Debnath Irina , Weis Janis J. , Weis John H. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
The protein Zfp318 is expressed during the transition of naive B cells from an immature to mature state. To evaluate its role in mature B cell functions, a conditional gene deficiency in Zfp318 was created and deleted in bone marrow lineages via Vav-Cre. B cell development was minimally altered in the absence of the protein, although transitional 2 (T2) B cell populations were depressed in the absence of Zfp318. Intriguingly, the analysis of IgM and IgD expression by maturing and mature naive B cells demonstrated an elevated level of IgM gene products and a virtual loss of IgD products. Transcriptome analysis of Zfp318-deficient B cells revealed that only two gene products showed altered expression in the absence of Zfp318 (Ighd and Sva), demonstrating a remarkable specificity of Zfp318 action. In the absence of Zfp318, Ighm/Ighd transcripts, which would normally encode IgM and IgD from heterogeneous nuclear RNA transcripts via alternative splicing, lack intron and exon sequences from the IgD (Ighd)–encoding region. This finding indicates that Zfp318, in a novel manner, functions by repressing recognition of the transcriptional termination site at the 3′ end of the terminal IgM-encoding exon, allowing for synthesis of the complete Ighm/Ighd heterogeneous nuclear RNA.
Lifting Representations of Finite Reductive Groups I: Semisimple Conjugacy Classes
Authors: Adler Jeffrey D. , Lansky Joshua M. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractSuppose that is a connected reductive group defined over a field k, and ┌ is a finite group acting via k-automorphisms of satisfying a certain quasi-semisimplicity condition. Then the identity component of the group of -fixed points in is reductive. We axiomatize the main features of the relationship between this fixed-point group and the pair (,┌) and consider any group G satisfying the axioms. If both and G are k-quasisplit, then we can consider their duals *and G*. We show the existence of and give an explicit formula for a natural map from the set of semisimple stable conjugacy classes in G*(k) to the analogous set for *(k). If k is finite, then our groups are automatically quasisplit, and our result specializes to give a map of semisimple conjugacy classes. Since such classes parametrize packets of irreducible representations of G(k) and (k), one obtains a mapping of such packets.
Changes in Severity Distribution after Subsequent Fires on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA
Authors: Hoff Valentijn , Teske Casey C. , Riddering James P. , Queen Lloyd P. , Gdula Eric G. , Bunn Windy A. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractUnderstanding the distribution of fire severity patches across a landscape is of critical importance to managers and researchers. Of particular interest are those areas that burn multiple times. Understanding the complexity of these “multiple entry, mixed severity” patches is an important component of managing the landscape. We investigated the role that initial fire severity might play on subsequent fire severity (for a given re-burned area) to assess whether high severity patch distribution was impacted by initial burn conditions. In our study area, the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, USA, the fire severity patch distribution of one fire had little influence on the fire severity distribution of a subsequent fire and second entry severity patches were distributed on top of the first entry severity patches in a close to random distribution. Of all areas that burned twice between 2000 and 2011 on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, 48 % burned with equal severity, 26 % burned with a lower severity, and 26 % burned with a higher severity in the second fire. The majority of the agreement can be attributed to a similarity in the proportions of each severity class and not to a match in the spatial allocation of the equal severity patches on first and second entry fires. The distribution of high severity patches showed little change when comparing post-first entry and post-second entry distributions. The mean and the standard deviation of the high severity patch size did not change after a second fire entry. The total area of high severity did increase; this was due to both the addition of new patches as well the growth of existing patches. These findings can help to inform land managers about the roles that fire-on-fire events play on the landscape and how those interactions may impact management goals and decisions.
Modeling Climate-Fire Connections within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States
Authors: Arnold James D. , Brewer Simon C. , Dennison Philip E. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractThe specific temporal patterns of antecedent conditions associated with fire occurrence in the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin are poorly understood. Using 25 years of combined fire and climate data, we identified unique antecedent patterns of climate conditions prior to fires in the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin. Five distinct antecedent patterns of climate related to fire were found within the region; with these antecedent patterns we were able to construct models of fire danger. The occurrence of these antecedent patterns varies both spatially and temporally, and appears to be driven by drought severity. We used a Maximum Entropy approach to model the spatial extent and strength of these fire-climate patterns, and the associated fire danger. This approach provides land managers with a practical way to assess fire danger at a relatively fine spatial scale and also gives researchers a tool for assessing future fire danger.
Student Wildland Fire Groups: Common Challenges and Shared Solutions
Authors: Godwin Daniel S. , Ferrarese Jena 
Published: July 2014

AbstractStudent fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-oriented experiential education but are often limited by access to training, legal hurdles, and equipment costs. We assess these barriers and suggest practical ways to overcome them.
Outcome of Intrauterine Injection of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin before Embryo Transfer in Patients with Previous Ivf/Icsi Failure: A Randomized Study
Authors: Dutta Dilip Kumar , Bhat Vidya V , Dutta Indranil , Gcitha MD 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACT

Aim
To evaluate the effect of intrauterine injection of 500 IU hCG before embryo transfer in patients with previous ICSI failure.

Background
The implantation process is the most important part of pregnancy, a lot of factors are responsible for implantation, it is well known that majority of pregnancies are lost during the implantation phase and often is undetected. It is known that hCG has an important function in angiogenesis and reduces the inflammatory response which in turn favor the implantation process. hCG is secreted early during the pregnancy, hence plays an important role.

Methods
A prospective randomized study was conducted in Radhakrishna Multispecialty Hospital and IVF Centre, Bengaluru, India. Total patients for ICSI cycle was 83(n). Out of which 32 patients were recruited in this study. The study group (n = 16) received intrauterine administration of 500 IU hCG before ET. The control group (n = 16) underwent ET without hCG.

Results
In both the groups, the mean age of the patients was around 29, the estradiol level mean was around 2569 ± 895 and in control group around 2467 ± 906. It was noted that fertilization rate in test group was around 88% and in control group around 75% hence showing that injection hCG proved its beneficial. It was noted that maximum embryos was from nondonor in test group, donor fresh embryos were around 3.

Conclusion
The intrauterine injection of 500 IU hCG before embryo transfer statistically improved the implantation rates and pregnancy rates with good outcome.

How to cite this article
Bhat VV, Dutta I, Dutta DK, Gcitha MD. Outcome of Intrauterine Injection of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin before Embryo Transfer in Patients with Previous Ivf /Icsi Failure: A Randomized Study. J South Asian Feder Obst Gynae 2014;6(1):15-17.
Methanol Extract of Barringtonia asiatica, Kurz. Quite Effective Induce Mortality Of Spodopthera litura, Fabr. Larvae on soybean plants
Authors: Tanor Meity N , Abadi Abdul Latief , Raharjo Bambang Tri , Pelealu Jantje 
Published: July 2014

This study aim was to examine the effectiveness of methanol extract derived from keben seed (B. asiatica) on mortality of Spodopthera litura larvae on soyben plant. The instar II larvae of S. litura were treated by the methanol extract with various concentrations i.e. 0.0 ppm (Control), 0.2 ppm, 0.4 ppm, 0.8 ppm and 1.0 ppm using pre-investment and post-investment. The mortality of larvae S. litura was counted after 24-hours of the treatment. The B. asiatica seed extract was quite effective in suppressing the intensity of damage in leaves caused by the attack of S. litura F. on soybean plants. The finding on pre-investment showed that after 24-hour treatment of methanol extract showed to have a significant impact on the mortality of S. litura instar II. The methanol extract dose 0.2 ppm, 0.4 ppm, 0.8 ppm, and 1.0 ppm had all been able to affect larvae mortality of S. litura there are 33.33%, 48.89%, 66.67%, and 88.89% respectively. Morover, post-investment experiment showed that the methanol extract also induced mortality of S. litura in all doses, i.e 0.2 ppm, 0.4 ppm, 0.8 ppm and 1.0 ppm caused 44.44% (53.33%) ( 55.56%), (71.11%) mortality, respectively.
The Ongoing Impact of the US-China Air Services Agreements (ASAs) on Air Passenger Markets
Authors: Ke Jian-yu “Fisher” , Windle Robert J. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractPrevious research has indicated that liberal air services agreements (ASAs) lead to more passengers. Using time-series regression models, this study extends those findings by looking more closely at the evolving ASAs between the United States and China during 1996–2009. Our results indicate that while liberal ASAs generally lead to increased passengers, the extent of this impact depends on the general state of liberalization when the agreement is signed. In addition, this study shows that the benefits of liberalization may not be evenly apportioned between the two countries of carriers.
Merger Activity and Short-Run Financial Performance in the US Airline Industry
Authors: Manuela Wilfred S. , Rhoades Dawna L. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article examines the announcement and post-merger effects of three US airline mergers—America West and US Airways, Delta and Northwest, and United and Continental. The time series data consist of daily and cumulative abnormal returns using the Standard and Poor's 500 as the benchmark index. The event study methodology uses ±60 trading days around the announcement and merger dates. The share prices of United and America West increased while Delta's decreased due to the slowing US economy at the time of its merger with Northwest. The impact of the merger announcement on target airlines is positive except for Northwest due to the weakening demand for air transport as the US economy faltered at the time of its merger with Delta. The share prices of acquiring and target airlines increased around the merger completion date, suggesting that new information is available as the merger nears completion.
Utility of FDG-PET/CT in the Evaluation of the Response of Locally Advanced Breast Cancer to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Authors: Ogino Kei , Nakajima Masanobu , Kakuta Miyako , Hayashi Mitsuhiro , Yamaguchi Satoru , Tsuchioka Takashi , Kubota Keiichi , Sakamoto Setsu , Kato Hiroyuki 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is effective in down-staging a primary tumor before surgery, and quick differentiation between responders to NAC and nonresponders is needed. We investigated the utility of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) and computed tomography (CT) in evaluating the therapeutic effectiveness of NAC. We investigated 25 patients who underwent NAC for stage II and III noninflammatory breast cancer. FDG-PET/CT was undertaken before and after NAC to determine the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) reduction rate. Findings were compared with postoperative histopathologic evaluation of therapeutic response. It was not possible to accurately assess tumor response to NAC using CT. However, using the SUVmax reduction rate, we noted a significant difference (P = 0.0420) between patients who were responsive and nonresponsive to NAC. The sensitivity and specificity were as high as 83.3% and 78.9%, respectively. This study demonstrated that FDG-PET/CT can differentiate responders from nonresponders. This improves patient management by avoiding unnecessary chemotherapy.