bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Occupational Injury Proneness in Young Workers: A Survey in Stone Quarries
Authors: Saha Asim , Sadhu H.G 
Published: June 2013

Occupational Injury Proneness in Young Workers: A Survey in Stone Quarries: Asim SAHA, et al. Regional Occupational Health Centre (Eastern), India—ObjectivesWorkplace injuries are of concern in adolescent and child workers. The factors of such injuries are important for injury prevention. This study explored the predictors of injury in such workers.MethodsThis study was carried out in stone quarries and included 147 children and adolescent workers (81 males and 66 females). The mean age of the subjects was 11.3 years. An interviewer‐administered questionnaire survey was performed to collect personal, occupational, morbidity and injury details. Descriptive analysis followed by logistic regression was undertaken to obtain the contribution of different factors on workplace injury occurrence.ResultsAge (OR: 0.73 95% CI: 0.53−0.99), nature of work (OR: 29.4 95% CI: 2.5−340.7), work hours per day (OR: 1.77 95% CI: 1.3−2.3), musculoskeletal complaint (OR: 15.8 95% CI: 4.8−52.2) and education (OR: 0.24 95% CI: 0.08−0.7) showed significant effects on workplace injuries. However, duration of employment and body mass index had no significant contribution.ConclusionsThis study stresses the need to strictly stop employment of child labor in such occupations in accordance with the national law. It shows that apart from nature of job, age of worker, work hours/day, musculoskeletal morbidity and education are significant predictors of occupational injuries and that training of such workers with regard to safe practices, provision for education, alleviation of musculoskeletal morbidity, suitable restriction of work hours/day and awareness generation among parents regarding the imminent danger of such labor in their children will ensure a positive impact in protecting young and child workers from occupational injuries.
Hepatitis Screening in Japanese Individuals of Working Age and Prejudice against Infected Persons in the Workplace
Authors: Sasaki Nanae , Wada Koji , Smith Derek R. , Wang Guoqin , Ohta Hiroshi , Shibuya Akitaka 
Published: June 2013

Hepatitis Screening in Japanese Individuals of Working Age and Prejudice against Infected Persons in the Workplace: Nanae SASAKI, et al. Health Promotion Center Shonan Area, Komatsu Ltd.—BackgroundLaboratory confirmation of viral hepatitis infection represents an important issue for working age populations, as early detection and treatment can help ameliorate clinical progression of the disease. On the other hand, prejudice may occur in the workplace against those identified by a positive hepatitis test. This study investigated attitudes towards viral hepatitis testing in Japanese people of working age, including their desire to undergo such testing, and prejudice against persons infected with hepatitis virus.MethodsA total of 3,129 working age individuals were recruited from a company that conducts Internet surveys in Japan.ResultsOf the respondents, 21.3% had previously undergone viral hepatitis testing, most frequently when it was an additional option during a health checkup or health screening for local residents (36.2%) and when it was included in regular health checkups in their workplace (19.2%). Among the respondents with no history of testing, 68.7% expressed a desire to undergo testing, of whom 74.8% wanted to have the test as part of their regular health checkups in the workplace. According to the respondents, if a coworker tested positive for hepatitis, 36.0% reported that they would be anxious about it, 32.0% would try to avoid contact with the infected person as long as circumstances permitted, and 23.7% said they might harbor some kind of bias.ConclusionsAlthough further promotion of viral hepatitis testing is needed and this might be achieved during regular health checkups in Japanese workplaces, educational strategies will also be essential to help reduce bias against those who test positive.
Changes in Psychosocial Work Conditions in Taiwanese Employees by Gender and Age from 2001 to 2010
Authors: Cheng Yawen , Chen I‐Shin , Burr Hermann , Chen Chiou‐Jong , Chiang Tung‐liang 
Published: June 2013

Changes in Psychosocial Work Conditions in Taiwanese Employees by Gender and Age from 2001 to 2010: Yawen CHENG, et al. Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taiwan—ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine changes in working hours, shift work, psychological and physical job demands, job control and job insecurity in Taiwanese employees by gender and age during the period of 2001 to 2010.MethodsThe study subjects were 36,750 men and 27,549 women, aged 25−64, from 4 rounds of cross‐sectional surveys of representative employees. Psychosocial work conditions were assessed by a validated questionnaire.ResultsRegression analyses with adjustment of education and employment grade showed that from 2001 to 2010, the proportions of workers with long working hours (>48 hours/week) (OR=1.4 in men and 1.5 in women) and workers with short working hours (<40 hours/week) (OR=1.3 in both genders) both increased over time, indicating an increasing polarization in the distribution of working hours. Furthermore, the proportions of nonstandard work shifts (OR=1.7 in men and 2.1 in women) and work with high physical demands (OR=1.5 for both gender) increased. There were signs of decreasing levels of job control from 2001 to 2007, which seemed to be more apparent in younger workers than in older workers. However, a slight recovery in decision latitude and opportunity for learning was noticed in later years. The trend in job insecurity was not linear, with the highest prevalence found in 2004.ConclusionsOur findings suggested that certain aspects of psychosocial work environment had deteriorated in Taiwan. There is a need to raise public awareness about the changing patterns of psychosocial health risks at work as well as their causes and their potential impacts on worker well‐being.
Adipose‐Derived Stem Cells Combined With Inorganic Bovine Bone in Calvarial Bone Healing in Rats With Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: Liang Lihua , Song Yingliang , Li Long , Li Dehua , Qin Mingqun , Zhao Jianhui , Xie Chao , Sun Daocai , Liu Yan , Jiao Tiejun , Liu Naibin , Zou Guike 
Published: June 2013

Background: Clinical studies have revealed that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have higher implant and bone grafting failure rates than the general population, likely owing to inferior bone healing. The authors sought to investigate whether adipose‐derived stem cells (ASCs) combined with inorganic bovine bone improves bone repair in calvarial vertical critical‐sized defects (CSDs) in rats with type 2 DM.Methods: Bovine bone alone or seeded with 3 × 105, 3 × 106, or 3 × 107 ASCs/graft was randomly transplanted into calvarial CSDs in rats with DM induced by a high‐fat diet with low‐dose streptozotocin. Specimens were assayed using microcomputed tomography and histomorphometry at 4 and 8 weeks postimplantation.Results: The histologic results showed an increase in new bone formation in the experimental groups compared with the control group. Both bone volume/total volume and trabecular thickness of newly formed bone within CSDs were the highest, and trabecular spacing was the lowest, in the 3 × 106 group at 8 weeks for the most favorable outcome. The results showed that the amount of new bone was greatest in the 3 × 106 group by 8 weeks.Conclusions: ASCs enhanced vertical bone regeneration in calvarial defects in rats with type 2 DM, when used in association with bovine bone scaffolds. The findings suggest that a combination of ASCs and bovine bone scaffolds could improve bone quantity in vertical bone defects.
Are Relative Performance Measures in CEO Incentive Contracts Used for Risk Reduction and/or for Strategic Interaction?
Authors: Vrettos Dimitris 
Published: June 2013

ABSTRACT:
This study offers evidence that the use of RPE (Relative Performance Evaluation) in CEO incentive contracting depends on the type of strategic competition between a firm and its peers. Specifically, CEO pay is negatively (positively) associated with peer-group performance when firms compete as strategic substitutes (complements). This finding suggests that firms provide CEO incentives in order to influence strategic interaction with peer firms. Further, the directionally opposite pay-for-peer-group-performance sensitivities, i.e., negative (positive) for substitutes (complements), cancel each other in aggregate, which may explain the lack of consistent support found in prior research for the role of RPE in filtering out common noise from the CEO's performance. I also document that the weight on both substitute and complement peer performance increases, in absolute value, with the intensity of industry competition relative to the weight on own-firm performance. Finally, taking firms' explicit RPE disclosures into account does not affect the results.
Livestock Valuation in a Dairy Business
Authors: Ashraf Junaid , Ahmad Zeeshan , Chaudhry Imran 
Published: June 2013

ABSTRACT
This case study deals with assessing the value of livestock in the financial statements of a dairy farming business. With a global market predicted to reach US$494 billion by 2015 (GIA 2012), dairy farming is the largest sector of world agriculture production. It is an important industry in many countries. For example, in the USA, dairy farming contributes more than $160 billion in economic output and provides more than 90,000 jobs (DFT 2012).
The subject matter of the case study is a small dairy farming business in Pakistan, a country that is the fifth largest producer of milk in the world (FAO 2009). The case study describes a disagreement between the management and the auditors about the initial recognition and subsequent measurement of crossbred cattle in the financial statements of the business. The aim of this case study is to help students understand the issues involved in assessing the value of livestock in the light of the guidance provided by the International Accounting Standard on Agriculture (IAS 41). The case study can also be used to help students understand the differences between the requirements of U.S. GAAP and international accounting standards, as well as the possible reasons for these differences.
A note on “Some results on multi-valued weakly Jungck mappings in b-metric space”
Authors: Bota Monica-Felicia , Karapınar Erdal 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
The proofs of Theorems 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 from [Olatinwo M.O., Some results on multi-valued weakly jungck mappings in b-metric space, Cent. Eur. J. Math., 2008, 6(4), 610–621] base on faulty evaluations. We give here correct but weaker versions of these theorems.
Winter diet analysis in Rhinolophus euryale (Chiroptera)
Authors: Miková Edita , Varcholová Katarína , Boldogh Sándor , Uhrin Marcel 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
We investigated the winter food of Mediterranean horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus euryale) in four winter cave roosts in southern Slovakia and northern Hungary and investigated the relationship between food and ambient temperature. The bats were active during the whole winter period and they produced excrement throughout the entire hibernation period, even when outside temperatures dropped below zero. The guano was in two forms, containing (1) prey items and (2) non-prey items. The identifiable items belonged to lepidopteran species, but only one was identified, on the basis of the genital fragments, the moth Colotois pennaria, which was the main prey species in autumn and early winter. Our results shed light on the extraordinarily high level of activity in this bat species during winter hibernation, which in temperate regions is a strategy that enables bats to survive when prey is reduced or absent. In R. euryale, the torpor in the course of hibernation is not continuous and our results help to explain how energy losses caused by bat movements are covered.
BCC-algebras and residuated partially-ordered groupoid
Authors: Zhang Xiaohong 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between BCC-algebras and residuated partially-ordered groupoids. We prove that an integral residuated partially-ordered groupoid is an integral residuated pomonoid if and only if it is a double BCC-algebra. Moreover, we introduce the notion of weakly integral residuated pomonoid, and give a characterization by the notion of pseudo-BCI algebra. Finally, we give a method to construct a weakly integral residuated pomonoid (pseudo-BCI algebra) from any bounded pseudo-BCK algebra with pseudo product and any group.
Some properties of hyperideals in ternary semihypergroups
Authors: Naka Krisanthi , Hila Kostaq 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
Ternary semihypergroups are algebraic structures with one ternary associative hyperoperation. In this paper we give some properties of left (right) and lateral hyperideals in ternary semihypergroups. We introduce the notion of left simple, lateral simple, left (0-)simple and lateral 0-simple ternary semihypergroups and characterize the minimality and maximality of left (right) and lateral hyperideals in ternary semihypergroups. The relationship between them is investigated in ternary semihypergroups extending and generalizing the analogues results for ternary semigroups.
Booksellers’ networks between the German and Hungarian book markets in the late 18th century
Authors: Bulková Petronela 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
In the study the author focuses on various aspects of bookselling in the late 18th century. The author seeks to describe the book market environment and the booksellers’ community in Bratislava at that time. She therefore documents communication channels between booksellers in Bratislava and their colleagues in Germany (mainly in Leipzig, Halle, and Berlin).
Worlds of ordinariness: Oral histories of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia
Authors: Johnston Rosie 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
Just how ordinary was everyday life during normalization in Czechoslovakia? In their discussions of the lives of “ordinary people,” historians have underplayed the fear and secrecy present in the daily experiences of Czechs and Slovaks in the late communist period. In linking writings by dissidents to Czech and Slovak oral histories in the collections of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, I seek to problematize the dissident/ordinary person dichotomy used in recent historiography, and argue that the chasm between these two apparently opposite groups has been exaggerated. Through an analysis of the themes of family, education and mobility, I will show that domestic life was not an escape from politics, but was in itself politicized. From audiovisual interviews, I will glean normalization-era memories of the need for what Václav Havel called “silence” and “mystification”-in the classroom, in the pub and in the home.
Iterative minimization of partial finite state machines
Authors: Alberto Alex , Simao Adenilso 
Published: June 2013

Abstract
Finite state machines have been used in many contexts, e.g., test generation, system modeling, language processing. In these applications, the size of the machine has a great impact on the complexity and quality of the results. Thus, it is desirable to obtain a machine without redundant states, i.e., to minimize the machine. However, the minimization of partially specified finite state machines is a known NP-complete problem, and many heuristics to obtain feasible solutions have been proposed. In this paper, we propose an approach to minimize partial finite state machines based on the selection of compatible states using maximum cliques on the distinction graph. We experimented with our method comparing it with previous methods and the data suggest that our approach is more efficient, generating good results in less time.
Only Context: Canonising Humphrey Jennings/Conceptualising British Documentary Film History
Authors: Stollery Martin 
Published: June 2013

This article assesses the predominant ways in which critics and historians have traditionally understood the career of Humphrey Jennings, long considered the British documentary movement's leading film-maker. The terms in which we have previously understood Jennings’ career form part and parcel of how we have hitherto narrated British documentary film history, as a ‘rise and fall’ story that ends around the time of his death. The assumptions underlying this story are now up for debate. This article is therefore an exercise in positive historical revisionism. It is not an attempt to diminish Jennings’ reputation. The canonisation of film-makers and other cultural figures is a historical process as much as it is a recognition of inherent aesthetic value. This article makes visible some of the historical and institutional contexts framing the emergence of three different versions of ‘Jennings’. These can broadly be summarised as: the quality film-maker; the poet; the modernist. Underpinning the latter two versions, ever since the publication of Lindsay Anderson's classic article ‘Only Connect’ in 1954, are three assumptions: a relatively conventional Romantic conception of Jennings as an individual artist, the people's war as a central point of reference, and the ‘rise and fall’ story of British documentary history. This article concludes that dislodging these assumptions can fruitfully lead to valid new perspectives on both Jennings and the longer history of British documentary.
La chaire archiépiscopale de Saint-Seurin. Le débat médiéval sur le site de la première cathédrale de Bordeaux
Authors: Schlicht Markus 
Published: June 2013

La seule chaire épiscopale médiévale que conserve Bordeaux ne se trouve pas dans la cathédrale, mais dans la collégiale Saint-Seurin. Son analyse formelle, appuyée sur des modélisations informatiques en trois dimensions, révèle la complexité de la composition, l'originalité de ce type de micro- architecture et l'horizon artistique large de son concepteur, qui maniait parfaitement aussi bien les formes d'origine francilienne qu'anglaise.
Le second objectif de l'article est de retracer la manière dont ce siège a été utilisé, en tant qu'argument archéologico-juridique, dans le conflit pluriséculaire opposant les deux principaux chapitres de Bordeaux, celui de la cathédrale et celui de Saint-Seurin. Le siège, en effet, fut utilisé comme preuve principale de la revendication du chapitre de la collégiale selon laquelle son église aurait servi de première cathédrale de Bordeaux et lui permit ainsi de justifier les privilèges particuliers dont il jouissait.
La cheminée sculptée du manoir de Louis de Ronsard à la Possonnière
Authors: Contenson Marie-Laure de 
Published: June 2013

Der skulptierte Kamin des Landsitzes von Louis de Ronsard in La Possonnière, von Maire-Laure de Contenson
Der skulptierte Kamin in La Possonnière, dessen aktueller Zustand teibveise einer Beschreibung der Revolutionszeit entspricht, ist des Landhauses. Der heraldische Dekor zeigt die Bedeutting, die Louis de Ronsard der Familie seiner Muttcr, Jeanne d'Illiers des Radrets, das Fehlen des Wappens seiner Frau, Jeanne Chaudrier, blcibt ein Ràtscl. Die Uppigkeit der antikisicrenden Motive, von denen einige von Stichen von Zoan Andréa und Giovanni Pietro da Birago inspiriert sind, ist sehr charakteristisch fur den Beginn der Renaissance. Der Salamander, eine rcgelrcchte Huldigung an Konig Franz L, den Siéger der Schlacht von Marignano, und sein Vergleich mit clem Albrecht Durer erlaubcn es, das Datum eler Fertigstellung dièses Meisterwerkes nach dem 24. Januar 1516 anzusctzcn.
Fontainebleau 1538-1542. Nouvelles données sur la Grande basse-cour
Authors: Boudon Françoise , Blécon Jean 
Published: June 2013

Fontainebleau 1538-1542. Neue Daten zum Großen Eingangshof, von Françoise Boudon und Jean Blécon
Die Errichtung des großen Eingangshofes (Cour du Cheval Blanc, Hof des weißen Pferdes) des Schlosses von Fontainebleau ist bisher einer der dunkelsten und am meisten diskutierten Aspekte der Geschichte dieser Stätte geblieben. Eine bisher unedierte Archivalie - ein Vertrag über Zimmereiarbeiten vom 1. August 1538 für den im Bau befindlichen Flügel am Ende der Galerie Franz I. — und neue archäologische Fakten - das Fälldatum im Winter 1541-1542 des Dachstuhlholzes der Risalite im Cour du Cheval blanc - erlauben es, die Baugeschichte dieses Teiles des Schlosses zu präzisieren.
Die Chronologie der Arbeiten, die in Fontainebleau in der Zeit um 1540 durchgeführt wurden, konnte sich wie folgt darstellen lassen : die Bauarbeiten am „Neuen Schloss” wären Ende 1537 oder spätestens Anfang 1538 begonnen worden. Zwischen dem Winter 1537/38 und 1539 hutte man den Ofenpavillon (Pavillon des Poêles) errichtet und den Südtfägel des Großen Eingangshofes, der bald verlängert und erhöht wurde Zwischen 1539 und 1541 - je nachdem, ob die Abtei bereits zerstört war oder nicht - hatte man den Nord - und den Westflügel desselben Hofes aufgeführt. Ende 1541, als das Mauerwerk fertig war, wären dann die Dachdeckarbeiten in Angritt genommen worden, die Dachstühle waren im Frühling 1542 autgerichtet worden. Ende 1542 wäre der Croise Eingangshof im Rohbau fertig gewesen oder kurz vor der Fertigstellung. Diese neuen Daten ändern nichts an unserer Analyse der Art und Weise, wie dieser auf einem Teil der Abtei erbaute Große Eingangshof das Funktionieren der Gesamtheit des Schlosses veränderte ; aber sie stürzen unsere Hypothesen über das Fortschreiten des Projektes und die Bauorganisation dieses monumentalen Hofes, der zur Unrerbringung der Offiziere diente. Eine stärker gesicherte Chronologie der Bauarbeiten fur diesen Teil des Schlosses zwischen 1537 und 1542 erlaubt es, den Zustand des Schlosses um 1540 anders zu rekonstruieren, als wir das unlängst vorgeschlagen haben. Die wiedergefundenen Dokumente tragen schliefslich etwas Klarheit über die Abtei und ihre Kirche bei und werten ein helles Licht auf die Geschichte des „Neuen Schlosses”, das Franz I. im Sinn hatte.
La première restauration de la maison carrée de Nîmes (1670-1691). Documents inédits
Authors: Caillat Gérard 
Published: June 2013

Die erste Restaurierung der Maison Carrée zu Nîmes, von Gérard Caillat
Die erste Restaurierung der Maison Carrée zu Nîmes, zwischen 1684 und 1691, markiert einen Bruch in der Konzeption des Denkmalschutzes. Die Eigentümer, die Augustinermönche, wünschten das Denkmal ihren Bedürfnissen anzupassen und nur die am besten erhaltenen antiken Teile zu erhalten. Nachdem mit der Austührung der Arbeiten begonnen worden war, wurden sic durch die koniglichen Behörden unterbrochen, die einen neuen Architekten ernannten. Die Errichtung einer Treppe vor dem Portikus, die weniger monumental war, als die im 19. Jahrhundert neu erbaute, gab ihr das Aussehen eines Tempels zurück, hierin der von Andréa Palladio vorgegebenen Interpretation folgend. Bislang unveröffenrlichte Archivalien, darunter der der im Anhang publizierte, erste Vertrag mit dem Nîmeser Architekten Jacques Cubizol, erlauben es, in Zusammenschau mit literarischen und ikonografischen Quellen, den Vorzustand dieses wichtigen Eingriffs zu präzisieren.