bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A sight on the current nanoparticle-based gene delivery vectors
Authors: Dizaj Solmaz Maleki , Jafari Samira , Khosroushahi Ahmad Yari 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Nowadays, gene delivery for therapeutic objects is considered one of the most promising strategies to cure both the genetic and acquired diseases of human. The design of efficient gene delivery vectors possessing the high transfection efficiencies and low cytotoxicity is considered the major challenge for delivering a target gene to specific tissues or cells. On this base, the investigations on non-viral gene vectors with the ability to overcome physiological barriers are increasing. Among the non-viral vectors, nanoparticles showed remarkable properties regarding gene delivery such as the ability to target the specific tissue or cells, protect target gene against nuclease degradation, improve DNA stability, and increase the transformation efficiency or safety. This review attempts to represent a current nanoparticle based on its lipid, polymer, hybrid, and inorganic properties. Among them, hybrids, as efficient vectors, are utilized in gene delivery in terms of materials (synthetic or natural), design, and in vitro/in vivo transformation efficiency.
Possible benefits of singing to the mental and physical condition of the elderly
Authors: Sakano Katsuhisa , Ryo Koufuchi , Tamaki Yoh , Nakayama Ryoko , Hasaka Ayaka , Takahashi Ayako , Ebihara Shukuko , Tozuka Keisuke , Saito Ichiro 
Published: May 2014

Abstract

Background
The evaluation and management of stress are important for the prevention of both depression and cardiovascular disease. In addition, the maintenance of the oral condition of the elderly is essential to enable them to stay healthy, especially to prevent aspiration pneumonia and improve mental health in an aging society. Therefore, we examined the efficacy of singing on the oral condition, mental health status, and immunity of the elderly to determine if singing could contribute to the improvement of their physical condition.

Methods
Forty-four subjects (10 men, 34 women), aged 60 years or older, participated in this study. The efficacy of singing on mental health status and immunocompetence was examined by swallowing function, oral condition, blood, and saliva tests, as well as through questionnaires taken before and after singing.

Results
The results showed that the amount of saliva increased and the level of cortisol, a salivary stress marker, decreased after singing. The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores for feeling refreshed, comfortable, pleasurable, light-hearted, relieved, and relaxed; the tension and confusion subscale score; and the total mood disturbance (TMD) score of the Profile of Mood States (POMS) all showed improvements. Furthermore, the same tendencies were shown regardless of whether or not the subjects liked singing.

Conclusions
Our results suggest that singing can be effective in improving the mental health and oral condition of the elderly.
Being there from afar: The media event relocated to the public viewing area
Authors: Becker Karin , Widholm Andreas 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article examines the media event as relocated to public viewing areas (PVAs) erected in cities across the globe, where people gather to watch the events together live on-screen. The study is based on ethnographic research carried out in PVAs located in selected cities during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics. We examine the relationships between these events, as reconstituted in these different locations through media networks, and the public’s participation via the event on-screen. The PVA emerges as a new location of experience and participation, with its own histories as a place of attraction for the local public and for visitors from afar, in what D. Massey would describe as an ‘intersection of local and global social relations’. The host city arena is no longer the self-evident ‘centre’ for this event, which has been pluralized through the complex web of media structures and the activities of participants who come to experience the event in these other, dispersed locations.
The discursive representation of host locations in a sports media event: Locating the ‘Real Site’ of Formula One
Authors: Evans Claire 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Locations are often chosen to host major sporting events because of their world and economic status, whilst the hosting of a major sporting event further enhances the standing of a host-location on a global scale. The media play a central role in depicting the image and values of the host-destinations on display, but unlike other major sporting events, such as the World Cup or the Olympic Games that travel to a different destination every four years, the FIA Formula One World Championship travels to multiple worldwide destinations in the course of a season. Live broadcasts routinely represent both traditional and modern Formula One venues to viewers; especially during programme openings, where they are aligned to: the local, unique characteristics of the destinations travelled to; the global ethos of the sport; and the media context itself. Using illustrative examples from British broadcasts of Formula One, I explain why delineating the ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ of a sports media event is questionable, but although it throws doubt on our ability to pinpoint the ‘real site’ of a global sports event, it nevertheless illustrates the position that sports, host-locations and the media have as part of a global network.
Mona Lisa speaks Persian: An Iranian artist’s visual response to an iconic painting
Authors: Keyghobadi Roshanak 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article focuses on the visual response of a contemporary Iranian artist (Farah Ossouli) to a painting by a Renaissance Italian artist (Leonardo da Vinci), and it discusses how and why Ossouli has re-presented an icon of the western art canon through her creative discourse. Also it investigates Ossouli’s use of visual re-narration as a pedagogical tool for offering alternative social, cultural and political perspectives.
Riffing while riffling: 25 poetic ruminations
Authors: Leggo Carl 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
jan jagodzinski and Jason Wallin’s Arts-Based Research: A Critique and a Proposal (2013) is a singular book that all arts-based researchers ought to attend to. jagodzinski and Wallin offer a gift that is sure to provoke and evoke a cacophony of responses. This book presents many challenges, but the challenges are exactly what arts-based researchers need in order to engage in the kind of creative and scholarly research that can transform how we understand and practice arts education in schools and communities. An arts-based researcher offers poetic ruminations on jagodzinski and Wallin’s book in order to invite further conversation.
The isomorphism problem for linear representations and their graphs The isomorphism problem for linear representations and their graphs
Authors: Cara P. , Rottey S. , Van de Voorde G. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
A linear representation T*n(K) of a point set K is a point-line geometry, embedded in a projective space PG(n+1; q), where K is contained in a hyperplane. We put constraints on K which ensure that every automorphism of T*n(K) is induced by a collineation of the ambient projective space. This allows us to show that, under certain conditions, two linear representations T*n(K) and T*n(K′) are isomorphic if and only if the point sets K and K′ are PΓL-equivalent. We also deal with the slightly more general problem of isomorphic incidence graphs of linear representations. In the last part of this paper, we give an explicit description of the group of automorphisms of T*n(K) that are induced by collineations of PG(n + 1; q).
Revolution Imagined: Cause Advocacy, Consumer Rights, and the Evolving Role of NGOs in Thailand
Authors: Munger Frank 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis article describes the founding and evolution of a “Thai-style” NGO dedicated to consumer protection. Through a description of the NGO and the career of its founder, the article brings to light features of the evolution of NGO-based advocacy in Thailand from the student uprising in 1973 to the present. The legacy of the 1973 October Generation of activists continues to influence development of NGOs but new emphasis on rights has emerged since the era of constitutional reform in the 1990s. Many NGOs now make use of litigation to attempt to achieve social change, but litigation, like other long-standing methods of advocacy involving reliance on networks that penetrate government itself, reflect the particular opportunities and pathways for change opened by Thailand’s politics.
INSPIRE – Co-Simulation von Energie- und IKT-Systemen zur Evaluation von Smart-Grid-Applikationen
Authors: Müller Sven Christian , Georg Hanno , Küch Markus , Wietfeld Christian 
Published: May 2014

Zusammenfassung
Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die Herausforderungen einer kombinierten Simulation von Energie- und IKT-Systemen für die Untersuchung von Smart-Grid-Applikationen und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Stabilität des elektrischen Energieübertragungssystems. Hierbei wird der Co-Simulator INSPIRE vorgestellt, der eine zeitsynchronisierte Simulation von Kommunikationsnetzwerk, Energiesystem, sowie Mess-, Schutz- und Regelungsapplikationen ermöglicht.
Die Onleihe in einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek am Beispiel Fulda
Authors: Weiß Berthold 
Published: May 2014

Zusammenfassung:
Die Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda (HLB Fulda) bietet als wissenschaftliche Bibliothek mit der Onleihe ein Angebot an elektronischen Medien an, welches eher als ein Serviceangebot für öffentliche Bibliotheken angesehen wird. Es wird aufgezeigt, warum sich die HLB Fulda auf diesem Gebiet engagiert und dabei kurz die besondere Situation in Fulda angerissen. Die Einführung der Onleihe und die Etablierung des Angebotes werden neben einem Ausblick auf die weitere Entwicklung dieser Dienstleistung in Fulda dargestellt.
After-School Center-Based Care and Children’s Development
Authors: Felfe Christina , Zierow Larissa 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
What is the impact of after-school center-based care on the development of primary school-aged children? Answering this question is challenging due to non-random selection of children into after-school center-based care. We tackle this challenge using detailed data of the German Child Panel and employing a value-added method. While we do not find significant effects on average, our analysis provides evidence for beneficial returns to after-school center-based care attendance for more disadvantaged children. To be more precise, children of less educated mothers and low-income families benefit from attending after-school care centers in terms of their socio-behavioral development.
Checklist of seaweeds of Cyprus (Mediterranean Sea)
Authors: Tsiamis Konstantinos , Taşkın Ergün , Orfanidis Sotiris , Stavrou Petros , Argyrou Marina , Panayotidis Panayotis , Tsioli Tania , Cicek Burak Ali , Marcou Melina , Küpper Frithjof C. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This paper provides the first comprehensive checklist of the seaweeds of Cyprus, based on both literature records and new collections. The total number of species and infraspecific taxa currently accepted is 313, including 53 green algae (Ulvophyceae), 90 brown algae (Phaeophyceae), and 170 red algae (Rhodophyta). Among them, 30 taxa are reported for the first time from Cyprus: 7 green algae, 9 brown algae, and 14 red algae, while 9 taxa are regarded as aliens. In addition, 10 taxa pending confirmation of their presence, 3 excludenda, and 3 inquirenda are briefly discussed.
The effects of single and dual coded multimedia instructional methods on Chinese character learning
Authors: Wang Ling 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study investigated the effects of single and dual coded instructional methods using computer-based multimedia on Chinese character learning. 42 college students with no prior knowledge of Chinese language were randomly assigned to a single coded group (text-only and animation-only) and a dual coded group (animation plus text and animation plus narration) to learn 12 concrete (pictograph) Chinese characters and 12 abstract (ideograph) Chinese characters. The results showed there was a significant difference between the single coded and the dual coded instructional methods and there was also a main effect in the character type. In addition, the findings indicated that within the single coded group, there was a significant difference between two character types and a significant difference between two single coded methods with the animation-only method leading to better achievement score than the text-only method. For the dual coded group, the results revealed a significant difference between two character types as well and a significant difference between two dual coded methods with the animation plus narration method outperforming the animation plus text method.
The interface of linguistic difficulty and task type on the use of the Chinese ba construction by L2 learners
Authors: Gao Xiaoping 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis study investigates the effects of linguistic difficulty and task type on the use of Chinese ba construction by second language learners. One hundred and ten adult learners completed four tasks orally (i.e., an oral production task prompted by video clips, an oral imitation task, a grammaticality judgement task and a correction task), as well as a background questionnaire and a one-on-one post-task interview. Twenty-two native speakers of Chinese served as baseline. Results demonstrate that the variable type of the Chinese ba construction which is subject to functional constraints is harder to learn than the obligatory type which is subject to obligatory syntactic constraints, and that the oral tasks were more challenging to perform than the metalinguistic tasks. The findings suggest that a series of factors including functional value and discourse context contribute to the linguistic difficulty of Chinese grammar features. The processing constraints of completing tasks and their interaction with linguistic characteristics explain the learning difficulty of the two types of the ba construction.
非目标语环境汉语学习动机的EQS建模与启示—基于印尼初中生汉语学习动机的调查
Authors: 王 小潞 , 郭 晓群 , 林 文莲 
Published: May 2014

提要本文通过对印尼八华学校477名初中生的问卷调查和访谈，在因子分析基础上利用结构方程模型 (EQS) 软件建构印尼初中生的汉语学习动机模型，探究非目标语环境下汉语学习动机的结构。模型显示，汉语二语学习动机同时受到学习者的内在因素和外在因素的影响，尽管两者高度相关，但是内在因素是影响动机行为的关键。本文在分析影响动机生成的内外在因素的主要构成因子的基础上试图揭示各动机变量对汉语二语学习动机影响的权重及其各因子之间的内在联系和相互关系，以期给予CFL教师对非目标语环境下激发和提高学习者汉语学习动机以一定的启示，最大限度地发挥动机在汉语二语学习中的功能。
On Convergence of Difference Schemes for IBVP
for Quasilinear Parabolic Equations with Generalized Solutions
Authors: Matus Piotr 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.
We construct an usual linearized difference scheme for initial boundary value problems (IBVP) for one-dimensional quasilinear parabolic equations with generalized solutions.
The uniform parabolicity condition

0
<

k
1

≤
k

(
u
)

≤

k
2

$0&lt;k_1\le k(u) \le k_2$

is assumed to be
fulfilled for the sign alternating solution

u

(
x
,
t
)

∈

D
¯

(
u
)

$u(x,t) \in \bar{D}(u)$

only in the domain of exact solution values (unbounded
non-linearity). On the basis of new corollaries of the
maximum principle, we establish not only two-sided estimates for the approximate
solution y but its belonging to the domain of exact solution
values. We assume that the solution is continuous
and its first derivative

∂
u

∂
x

$\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}$

has
discontinuity of the first kind in the neighborhood of the finite
number of discontinuity lines. An existence of time derivative in
any sense is not assumed. We prove convergence of the approximate solution to
the generalized solution of the differential problem in the grid norm L
2.
A Posteriori Error Bounds for Approximations of the Oseen Problem and Applications to
the Uzawa Iteration Algorithm
Authors: Nokka Marjaana , Repin Sergey 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.
We derive computable bounds of deviations from the exact solution of the stationary Oseen problem. They are applied to approximations generated by the Uzawa iteration method. Also, we derive an advanced form of the estimate, which takes into account approximation errors arising due to discretization of the boundary value problem, generated by the main step of the Uzawa method. Numerical tests confirm our theoretical results and show practical applicability of the estimates.
Method for the Calculation of all Zeros of an Analytic Function Based on
the Kantorovich Theorem
Authors: Semenov Vasyl 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.
We propose a method to calculate all zeros of an analytic function
in a given rectangle. The main idea of our method is to
construct a covering of the initial rectangle by subsets where either
there are no zeros or the zero uniqueness test based on the
Kantorovich theorem is satisfied. The algorithm for the construction
of such covering is presented. The implementation of the method is shown
on different examples.
Temperature Peak Analysis and Its Effect on Absorption Column for CO2 Capture Process at Different Operating Conditions
Authors: Rashid Harith , Hasan Nurul , Mohamad Nor M. Iskandar 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The role of temperature is important in CO2 capture processes. Unfortunately, detailed analysis on the temperature profile of the absorption column is scarce in the literature. Important factors like CO2 capture capacity and corrosion rate directly depend on temperature of the column. Many side reactions such as solvent degradation, formation of stable salts, corrosion and reduction in CO2 capture are prominent at a higher temperature. This study reports a broad study on the temperature profile for CO2 capture process based on a detailed mathematical model, Kent–Eisenberg vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) model. This model is quite accurate in calculating CO2 capture for any specific operating condition. Results produced from Kent–Eisenberg VLE model are consistent with experimental data. This study reports temperature profiles of an absorption column for different operating conditions. Moreover, it was found that CO2 absorption is more effective at low and ambient temperatures than at high temperature confirmed by a peak temperature in all cases and in the lower section of the column, which is attributed to exothermic CO2 absorption in monoethanolamine. This temperature variation of the column will be helpful in designing CO2 capture plants.
Ricci flow and the holonomy group
Authors: Kotschwar Brett 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.

We prove that the reduced holonomy group of a complete smooth
solution to the Ricci flow of uniformly bounded curvature cannot
spontaneously contract within the lifetime of the solution. It follows then, from an
earlier result of Hamilton, that the holonomy is exactly preserved by the equation.
In particular, a solution to the Ricci flow may be Kähler or
locally reducible at

t
=
T

$t= T$

if and only if the same is true of

g
(
t
)

$g(t)$

at times

t
≤
T

$t\le T$

.
Stable manifolds for holomorphic automorphisms
Authors: Abate Marco , Abbondandolo Alberto , Majer Pietro 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.

We give a sufficient condition for the abstract basin of attraction of a sequence of holomorphic
self-maps of balls in ℂ
d
to be biholomorphic to ℂ
d
. As a
consequence, we get a sufficient condition for the
stable manifold of a point in a compact hyperbolic invariant
subset of a complex manifold to be biholomorphic to a complex Euclidean space. Our result
immediately implies previous theorems obtained
by Jonsson–Varolin and by Peters; in particular,
we prove (without using Oseledec's theory) that the stable manifold of any point where the negative
Lyapunov exponents are well-defined is biholomorphic to a complex Euclidean space. Our approach is based on the solution of a linear control problem
in spaces of subexponential sequences, and on careful estimates of the norm of the conjugacy operator by a lower triangular matrix on the space of k-homogeneous polynomial endomorphisms of ℂ
d
.
Some remarks concerning the Grothendieck period conjecture
Authors: Bost Jean-Benoît , Charles François 
Published: May 2014

Abstract

We discuss various results and questions around the Grothendieck period conjecture, which is a counterpart, concerning the de Rham–Betti realization of algebraic varieties over number fields, of the classical conjectures of Hodge and Tate. These results give new evidence towards the conjectures of Grothendieck and Kontsevich–Zagier concerning transcendence properties of the torsors of periods of varieties over number fields.

Let

ℚ
¯

${\overline{\mathbb {Q}}}$

be the algebraic closure of ℚ in ℂ, let X be a smooth projective variety over

ℚ
¯

${\overline{\mathbb {Q}}}$

and let

X
ℂ
an

$X^{\rm an}_\mathbb {C}$

denote the compact complex analytic manifold that it defines. The Grothendieck period conjecture in codimension k on X, denoted

GPC
k

(
X
)

$\mathrm {GPC}^k(X)$

, asserts that any class α in the algebraic de Rham cohomology group

H
dR

2
k

(
X
/

ℚ
¯

)

$H^{2k}_{{\rm dR}}(X/{\overline{\mathbb {Q}}})$

of X over

ℚ
¯

${\overline{\mathbb {Q}}}$

such that

1

(
2
π
i
)

k

∫
γ

α
∈
ℚ

$ \frac{1}{(2\pi i)^k} \int _\gamma \alpha \in \mathbb {Q}$

for every rational homology class γ in

H

2
k

(

X
ℂ
an

,
ℚ
)

$H_{2k}(X^{\rm an}_\mathbb {C}, \mathbb {Q})$

is the class in algebraic de Rham cohomology of some algebraic cycle of codimension k in X, with rational coefficients.

We notably establish that

GPC
1

(
X
)

$\mathrm {GPC}^1(X)$

holds when X is a product of curves, of abelian varieties, and of K3 surfaces, and that

GPC
2

(
X
)

$\mathrm {GPC}^2(X)$

holds for a smooth cubic hypersurface X in

ℙ

ℚ
¯

5

$\mathbb {P}^5_{\overline{\mathbb {Q}}}$

. We also discuss the conjectural relationship of Grothendieck classes with the weight filtration on cohomology.
The Tartu Synthesis in Semiotics Today Viewed from America
Authors: Deely John 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
By the 20th century’s end, semiotics had definitively emerged as the most historically and theoretically proper name for the study of how signs work in human experience, both in its cultural dimensions and in its inevitable dependency upon the physical environment and universe, which extends far beyond cultural influence and which the very existence of culture presupposes. Probably the single most key figure, as it were, “presiding over” this emergence was the Hungarian-American Thomas A. Sebeok. But key to Sebeok’s weaving of the “semiotic web” of a global awareness of sign-action within the intellectual culture of the 21st century was his appreciation and integration within his vision and work of two key background figures, both associated with Tartu University, namely, Jakob von Uexküll and Juri Lotman. I would like to comment on how the heritage of these two figures have proved to be the foundation stones - in some ways more important even than the, so far, more widely recognized figures of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce - for the future of semiotics within university life and intellectual life generally.