bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Classification of Infant Cries Using Dynamics of Epoch Features
Authors: Singh Avinash Kumar , Mukhopadhyay Jayanta , Rao K. Sreenivasa , Viswanath Kapinaiah 
Published: July 2013

AbstractIn this article, epoch-based dynamic features such as sequence of epoch interval values and epoch strength values are explored to classify infant cries. Epoch is the instant of significant excitation of the vocal tract system during the production of speech. For voiced speech, the most significant excitation takes place around the instant of glottal closure. The different types of infant cries considered in this work are hunger, pain, and wet diaper. In this work, epoch strength and epoch interval features are used to represent infant cry-specific information from the acoustic signal. In this study, the proposed features such as epoch interval and epoch strength values are determined using zero-frequency filter-based method. Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are used to classify the above-mentioned cries from the features proposed in this work. GMMs are developed separately for each of the cries using the proposed features. The infant cry database collected under a telemedicine project at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has been used for this study. In the first step, infant cry recognition accuracy is investigated separately using epoch interval and epoch strength features. To enhance recognition performance, GMMs developed using various features are combined through score level fusion techniques. The recognition performance using a combination of evidence is found to be superior over individual systems.
Organophosphate Urinary Metabolite Levels during Pregnancy, Delivery and Postpartum in Women Living in Agricultural Areas in Thailand
Authors: Kongtip Pornpimol , Nankongnab Noppanun , Woskie Susan , Phamonphon Akkarat , Tharnpoophasiam Prapin , Wilaiwan Kitsiluck , Srasom Punnee 
Published: July 2013

Organophosphate Urinary Metabolite Levels during Pregnancy, Delivery and Postpartum in Women Living in Agricultural Areas in Thailand: Pornpimol KONGTIP, et al. Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Thailand—ObjectivePrenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides can lead to developmental neurotoxicity. A longitudinal birth cohort was established to investigate pesticide exposures from different agricultural activities. Maternal urinary organophosphate metabolites were measured at 28 weeks of pregnancy (n=86), delivery (n=67) and 2 months postpartum (n=51).MethodSubjects were interviewed with questionnaires about work, home and behavioral factors potentially associated with pesticide exposures, and spot urine samples were also collected. The urine samples were analyzed for dimethyl phosphate (DMP), diethyl phosphate (DEP), diethyl thiophosphate (DETP) and diethyl dithiophosphate (DEDTP), using gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry.ResultsThe urinary DMP and dialkyl phosphate (DAP) concentrations at 28 weeks of pregnancy and delivery were not significantly different, but the DMP and DAP concentrations at 28 weeks of pregnancy and DAP concentrations at delivery were significantly different (p<0.05) from those at 2 months postpartum. The factors influencing the urinary DAP concentrations at 28 weeks of pregnancy included insecticide used in the home, living close to agricultural farmland, frequency of agricultural field visits during the first and second trimesters of pregnancies, occupation of subjects, pesticide used and other agricultural activities.ConclusionsThe urinary organophosphate metabolites, DMP, DEP, DETP, DEDTP, total DEP and DAPs, at 28 weeks of pregnancy, delivery and 2 months postpartum fluctuated depending on their pesticide exposures both at home and in agricultural fields.
Living with Cleft Lip and Palate: The Treatment Journey
Authors: Alansari Reem , Bedos Christophe , Allison Paul 
Published: July 2013

Objective To better understand how individuals with cleft lip and palate (CLP) perceive and experience their treatment process and how these perceptions and experiences change over the life course. Design Qualitative in-depth semistructured interviews with 11 adults with nonsyndromal complete CLP. Participants/Setting Individuals from three Canadian cities were recruited by convenience and theoretical sampling through AboutFace International. The number of participants was determined by the principle of theoretical saturation. Results The experience of individuals with CLP through the treatment process changes over the life course. In childhood and early adolescence, most individuals experience stigma, negative self-perception, and as a result were more prone to perceiving the treatment process not only as unbearably burdensome but also as fueling their feeling of “defectiveness.” In adulthood, participants' self-perception improved, partly because of definitive surgical correction, leading them to realize treatment benefits and reappraise the treatment process as satisfactory rather than burdensome. Subsequently, some individuals pursued further surgeries hoping for additional psychological gains, in lieu of psychosocial interventions addressing the underpinnings of residual feelings of “defectiveness.” This led to dissatisfaction and frustration when the procedures did not lead to the hoped-for psychological gains. Conclusions The results emphasize the importance of self-perception in determining how participants perceive several important aspects of the treatment experience throughout the life course. Further studies should focus on how to incorporate self-perception as an important variable and outcome in the treatment process.
Hyperammonemia in a patient with obstructive urinary tract infection due to Corynebacterium urealyticum
Authors: Kenzaka Tsuneaki , Kumabe Ayako , Urushibara Yuka , Minami Kensuke , Ishida Takeshi 
Published: July 2013

Abstract
A 93-year-old woman with neurogenic bladder was admitted to our hospital because of impaired consciousness. Her urine culture revealed urease-test-positive Corynebacterium urealyticum. She was diagnosed with hyperammonemia due to an obstructive urinary tract infection that was caused by urease-producing bacteria. The patient showed rapid improvement of impaired consciousness and hyperammonemia after urine analysis. It is necessary to consider obstructive urinary tract infection as a differential diagnosis of hyperammonemia, which commonly occurs in urinary tract infections owing to the presence of urease-producing bacteria. Relief from obstruction is the most important treatment for hyperammonemia caused by this mechanism.
Combustion synthesis of Ti2SC
Authors: Li Xin , Liang Baoyan , Li Zhixin 
Published: July 2013

AbstractTi/S/C powders were used as raw material for the combustion synthesis of Ti2SC. The results showed that Ti2SC was the main phase of the product of the 2Ti/S/C powders used for the synthesis. Furthermore, certain amounts of TiC and Ti3S4were found in the product. Excess S addition improved the synthesis of Ti2SC. Scanning electron microscopy indicates that the lamellar Ti2SC grains had lengths ranging from 20 µm to 30 µm.
De la performance dans les arts
Authors: Péquignot Bruno 
Published: July 2013

Un bon demi-siècle après l’apparition du mot « performance » pour désigner une pratique artistique, plastique d’abord puis très rapidement interdisciplinaire, cet article cherche à en présenter les attendus (critique du système marchand capitaliste, sortie du système des galeries) et ses résultats aujourd’hui, avec par exemple son entrée au musée. Sont convoquées pour cela les principales catégories qui caractérisent ce mouvement : l’éphémère, le rapport au politique, la nécessité du nouveau, la relation au corps, au temps et à l’espace.
Le corps des savants
Authors: Mandressi Rafael 
Published: July 2013

L’histoire du théâtre fait partie de l’histoire des dispositifs de connaissance, et l’anatomie fait partie de l’histoire générale de la scène. Ces deux propositions sont liées par un des aspects les plus marquants de l’anatomie en tant que pratique de connaissance, à savoir qu’elle constitue sans doute le type même de l’organisation des modes de connaissance par la performance. C’est en effet au sein de l’anatomie, dans l’Europe de la première modernité, que se met en place un projet de savoir fondé sur la performativité. On y retrouve, étroitement articulés, un discours théorique sur la place de la sensorialité dans la saisie du réel, l’invention d’espaces spécifiques de démonstration publique – les théâtres d’anatomie –, des séquences d’actions précises à suivre dans ces circonstances et, plus largement, une organisation matérielle très détaillée de la « matière théâtrale » que constitue le dépècement méthodique d’un corps mort.
Écriture dramatique et performance
Authors: Danan Joseph 
Published: July 2013

La scène actuelle est traversée par la question de la performance. Rejet de la mimèsis , recherche du « vivant », de l’« effet réel », telles sont les caractéristiques majeures de cet état de fait. Ce qui est mis en question, ce n’est pas la légitimité du texte, comme cela a pu être dit parfois trop hâtivement, mais celle de la « pièce de théâtre », à être en phase avec ce nouvel ordre de la scène. À quelles conditions une écriture dramatique peut-elle encore se révéler opérante dans ce contexte ? Sans doute en sapant à la base sa dimension mimétique.
Les « conférences-performances »
Authors: Duyckaerts Éric 
Published: July 2013

Éric Duyckaerts élabore depuis le milieu des années 1980 une œuvre singulière où se mêlent arts plastiques et savoirs exogènes. Les formes qu’il nous livre sont multiples : on y croise des peintures murales, d’étranges sculptures composées d’objets suspendus ou encore des vidéos improvisées et pensées comme autant de performances. Éric Duyckaerts livre ici la genèse de sa pratique et les questionnements qui en émergent.
Parole performée
Authors: Barras Vincent 
Published: July 2013

Trois types de performances verbales sont ici proposés. Ils exemplifient une parole précédant la pensée, et l’entraînant. Ils soulignent aussi les dimensions résolument concrètes, matérielles, de l’activité humaine du parler : les syllabes décomposées aussi bien que les inflexions mélodiques du déroulement d’une phrase entière, les accents prosodiques aussi bien que les accents régionaux, les résidus physiques de la parole. Ces objets d’une parole d’« avant le langage » font ici l’objet d’un travail d’autant plus spécifique qu’ils concernent le langage lui-même.
Gravity anomaly modelling of multiple geological sources having differing strike lengths and arbitrary density contrast variations
Authors: Chakravarthi V. , Ramamma B. 
Published: July 2013

ABSTRACTA method to compute gravity anomalies of multiple geological sources having variable but finite strike lengths with arbitrary density contrast variations is presented. An ensemble of variable but finite strike limited vertical prisms among which density contrasts vary randomly both with depth and lateral position describes the anomalous source(s). The proposed method has the advantage that it can be applied to compute the gravity anomalies of a variety of geologic sources at both local and crustal scale levels. The applicability of the method is demonstrated with synthetic and real field examples. In the synthetic example, the geology resembles that of a typical rifted sedimentary basin, where thick sectioned sediments with arbitrarily varying density contrasts are concealed under a thick pile of flood basalt. For the real field example, the method is applied to calculate the gravity anomalies of a crustal scale structure across the suture zone between the Superior and Churchill structural provinces in the Canadian Shield. Modelling of real field anomalies reveals that i) the Churchill block is much thicker and ii) the western boundary of the base of the fold belt within the Superior block is shallower than reported in previous studies.
Real‐time imaging and data analysis for shallow seismic data using a cloud‐computing portal
Authors: Heilmann Z. , Deidda G.P. , Satta G. , Bonomi E. 
Published: July 2013

ABSTRACTIn‐field real‐time data processing is still today a crucial factor that could definitively boost the success and spread of shallow seismic reflection and multichannel ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) methods in the near‐surface geoscience community, as it allows efficient data acquisition and cost‐effective results, especially for modern surveys generating large volumes of data in a short time. To help fulfil this need, we present a cloud‐computing solution combining the powerful computational capabilities of a cloud infrastructure with a subsurface imaging workflow based on a parallelized grid version of the Common‐Reflection‐Surface (CRS) stack, a macro‐velocity model independent imaging method that is very suitable for real‐time imaging, as its data‐driven implementation avoids time‐consuming human interaction in prestack velocity analysis. Our portal is accessible from the field by any mobile computer having a wireless data connection. The user‐friendly web‐browser interface allows, already during acquisition, uploading of the recorded data to remote computing facilities, where a quality control (QC) data analysis report is automatically produced. When the number of uploaded shot records is large enough to produce a subsurface image, stacking, velocity model determination and prestack time migration can be performed fast and highly automated, optionally after applying some preprocessing (e.g., gain, trace balancing and filtering) using the preprocessing toolbox of the portal. To demonstrate the use of the presented system, we simulate in‐field data processing for an already published shallow seismic data set and compare our results with the original ones. The data set, consisting in seismic P‐wave data, was collected to image Palaeozoic bedrock at the Flumendosa River Delta, Sardinia (Italy), with a data acquisition set‐up driven by the expected bedrock depth, which, turning out wrong, prevented a detailed velocity analysis and a good time migration. Using the QC data analysis repotrs to run the imaging routines of our cloud portal we produced within less than an half an hour stacked and migrated sections very close to those published in the original work. These results, if obtained in the field, would have allowed an immediate update of the experimental set‐up. Therefore, we are optimistic that the proposed cloud‐computing solution (or similar systems) can boost the spread of shallow seismic reflection and multi‐offset GPR surveys in near‐surface investigations, similar to what happened in the field of electrical and electromagnetic surveying after suitable real‐time imaging and data analysis systems emerged.
From Contemplative Penitent to Annihilated Soul:
Authors: Danielle C. Dubois 
Published: July 2013

ABSTRACT
In her late thirteenth-century dialogue, the Mirror of Simple Souls, Marguerite Porete reframes the origin and the function of penitential practice by drawing on conceptions that associate Mary Magdalene with original sin and personal salvation. With the cult of the Magdalen flourishing in the Low Countries and across Europe, Porete adopted the saint to concretize her doctrine of the annihilated soul. This article argues that the saintly sinner's conversion is no longer defined through chastity, contrition, and the performance of works of goodness in the Mirror but, rather, through detachment, pure intention, and divine love. Furthermore, an analysis of “the consideration of the Magdalen” reveals that Porete's interpretation of the metaphor of tilling the earth presents a riposte to the exegetical tradition that considered Mary Magdalene a symbol of sin. As such, Porete recasts the contemplative and penitent Magdalen of popular culture into a model of the annihilated soul.
Precision Imaging of Focal Liver Lesions
Authors: Yazgan Cisel , Akata Deniz , Ozmen Mustafa , Karcaaltincaba Musturay 
Published: July 2013

ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to compare the Precision Imaging sonographic technique (Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) with conventional sonography of liver lesions in terms of lesion conspicuity, margin sharpness, overall image quality, and posterior enhancement.MethodsSixty‐nine focal liver lesions in 60 patients (age range, 14–76 years; mean age, 43 years) were prospectively evaluated. Each lesion was examined with Precision Imaging and conventional sonography. All images were reviewed and graded on a 3‐point scale by 2 readers for lesion conspicuity, margin sharpness, and overall image quality. Posterior acoustic enhancement was also analyzed in cystic lesions. A Wilcoxon signed rank test was used for statistical comparisons of the techniques for all parameters.ResultsStatistical analysis showed that for margin sharpness, lesion conspicuity, and overall image quality, Precision Imaging was superior to conventional sonography (P< .05). In addition, according to lesion types and dimensions, Precision Imaging was significantly superior to conventional sonography for all parameters. For posterior enhancement, there was no significant difference between Precision Imaging and conventional sonography (P ≥ .05).ConclusionsIn sonography of focal liver lesions, Precision Imaging provides better lesion conspicuity, better margin sharpness, and better overall image quality than conventional sonography. With respect to posterior enhancement of cystic lesions, Precision Imaging is not significantly different from conventional sonography. Precision Imaging may be used as a complementary method in the sonographic evaluation of focal liver lesions.
Accuracy of Sonographic Diagnosis of Superficial Masses
Authors: Wagner Jason M. , Lee Kenneth S. , Rosas Humberto , Kliewer Mark A. 
Published: July 2013

ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to retrospectively review the diagnostic accuracy of sonography in the evaluation of superficial masses with surgical and histologic findings as the reference standard.MethodsInstitutional Review Board approval was obtained, informed consent was waived, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance was maintained. Seventy‐two superficial masses in 62 patients were examined sonographically by a single radiologist (reader 1) and subsequently underwent surgical therapy. Three radiologists experienced in sonography, blinded to the original interpretation and surgical findings, retrospectively and independently reviewed the sonographic images and assigned the cases to 1 of 14 diagnostic categories. For all lesions, the rendered diagnosis was compared with the reference standard to determine concordance. For the specific diagnosis of lipoma, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were assessed for all readers individually and collectively.ResultsSurgery and histolopathologic analysis yielded 39 lipomas, 6 hernias, 4 foreign bodies, 4 hemangiomas, and 19 other nonlipomatous lesions, including 1 malignancy. The rendered diagnosis was concordant with the reference standard in 93% of cases for reader 1 and in 89% of cases for all readers. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for the diagnosis of lipoma were 92%, 100%, and 96% for reader 1 and 96%, 97%, and 96% for all readers.ConclusionsSonography has high accuracy in the evaluation of superficial masses, particularly lipomas.
Social and epidemiological research on alcohol: Research presented at meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society between between 1983 and 2010.
Authors: Garretsen Henk , Audenaerdt Miranda , Van de Goor Ien , Van de Mheen Dike , Roeg Diana , Van der Sar Rosalie , Schoenmakers Tim 
Published: July 2013

Garretsen, H., Audenaerdt, M., van de Goor, I., van de Mheen, D., Roeg, D., van der Sar, R. & Schoenmakers, T. (2012). Social and epidemiological research on alcohol: Research presented at meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society between 1983 and 2010. International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 1(1), 95-110. doi: 10.7895/ijadr.v1i1.44 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v1i1.44)Aims: To study developments in the research agenda on social and epidemiological research on alcohol between 1983 and 2010, as presented at meetings of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS).Design and Setting: All papers presented at all annual meetings of the KBS between 1983 and 1993 are reviewed with regard to the content of the papers, the research methods used, the country of origin and demographic characteristics of the presenters. KBS papers from the years 2002/2003 and 2009/2010 are compared with those from 1983 to 1993 to determine changes in research authorship, methodology and/or focus.Results and Conclusions: Both in the period 1983 to 1993 and in the years 2002/2003 and 2009/2010, many papers describe general drinking patterns and/or alcohol problems. In all three research periods approximately 40% of the papers are based on surveys. However, some clear changes can be distinguished with regard to the research fields addressed and the research methods used. There seems to be increasing attention to multi-method studies and the combination of quantitative and qualitative research. In addition, methodologies have become more advanced and more varied over the years. Results show a continuous increase in the number of researchers (particularly female) submitting papers. Between 1983 and 1993 almost all participants came from North America (the United States and Canada) and Europe, especially the Nordic countries. In 2009/2010 researchers from many more countries were involved.
Alcohol as a public health risk: New evidence demands a stronger global response
Authors: Room Robin 
Published: July 2013

Room. R. (2013). Alcohol as a public health risk: New evidence demands a stronger global response. International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 2(1), 7-9. doi: 10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.134 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i1.134)Alcohol ranks third as a risk factor for health in the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) in the Global Burden of Disease analyses for 2010. New analyses of alcohol’s role in tuberculosis and in the course of HIV/AIDS add diseases especially important in low- and middle-income countries to the picture. A meta-analysis of price elasticity of alcohol in such countries draws together evidence relevant to a policy response, while illuminating the thinness of coverage for much of the world. Alcohol is arguably the most complex risk factor, with links to more than 200 ICD codes. The abundance of alcohol references in the report of the CRA study reflects the strength and breadth of the findings on alcohol’s adverse effects on health. The CRA findings point to the need for a stronger global public health response on alcohol issues.