bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Association of Vitamin D Status of Septic Patients in Intensive Care Units With Altered Procalcitonin Levels and Mortality
Authors: Chen Zhaoyan , Luo Zuojie , Zhao Xiaoqin , Chen Qiang , Hu Jieyu , Qin Hua , Qin Yingfen , Liang Xinghuan , Suo Yingjun 
Published: November 2014

Abstract

Objective:
The purpose of this study was to determine whether vitamin D levels correlate with procalcitonin (PCT) levels and mortality in septic patients.

Methods:
The following data were collected from 236 patients upon admission to intensive care units (ICUs): demographics; Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score; 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), PCT, intact PTH, albumin, creatinine, and ionized calcium (iCa) levels; 25OHD sampling seasonality; fluid load (colloid and crystalloid before 25OHD sampling); mechanical ventilation duration; and length of stay (LOS) in the ICU. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality 28 days after ICU admission.

Results:
Patients with 25OHD deficiency had significantly higher APACHE II and SOFA scores, positive blood culture rates, PCT levels, intact PTH levels, and 28-day mortality rates. These patients also had lower iCa levels, longer LOS in the ICU, and longer ventilator durations than patients with 25OHD insufficiency or sufficiency. Age, sex, 25OHD sampling seasonality, serum albumin and creatinine levels, and fluid load did not vary among the 3 groups. Serum 25OHD levels at admission were significantly negatively correlated with PCT levels. PTH responders had significantly higher 28-day mortality rates than did PTH nonresponders. Cox regression showed that a 25OHD level of &lt;20 ng/mL was an independent risk factor for 28-day mortality.

Conclusions:
Lower serum 25OHD levels at ICU admission were associated with 28-day mortality in septic patients. Serum 25OHD levels were inversely correlated with PCT levels. Hypovitaminosis D was associated with higher mortality rates in PTH responders than in nonresponders.
Dancing in the streets of Dunblane: Contested identities in elite Scottish sport
Authors: Harris John 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
The year 2014 marks an important time for Scotland when a referendum takes place to decide on whether it should be an independent country. This is the year of Homecoming (a year-long series of events designed to attract international tourists), and the nation also hosts two of the biggest sporting events in the world (the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup). Two years ago a number of Scottish athletes formed a part of Team GB as something of a media vortex engulfed a ‘home’ Olympic Games and promoted a popular celebration of Britishness. The Scottish tennis player Andy Murray was a central figure in that summer of sport and became a contested site for the (re)claiming of a national hero. This then clearly offers a timely moment to reflect upon the complex interplay between Scottish and British identities. In this short article I attempt to unwrap some of the key issues around crisis and conflict within elite sport within a particular locale, and try to tease out some of the ways in which these mediated identities reshape our understanding of the nations.
Fashioning authentic selves: Second-hand clothing and the materialization of enduring values
Authors: Botticello Julie 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Fashion is often conflated with transience and novelty, demanding that individuals update themselves regularly in keeping with these changes. In this article, however, I argue that fashion is a way for individuals to articulate an enduring sense of self amid life’s changes. Based on material values evident in second-hand clothing, individuals draw parallels between themselves and the clothes, where old clothes objectify their personal values, of who they are, who they were or who they aspired to be, creating what I call, fashion-as-authenticity. Through old clothing, individuals access selective and imagined realities of different times to authenticate the self and its transformation throughout the course of their lives.
Fashion acoustics: Synthesizing wearable electronics and digital musical instruments for performance
Authors: Murray-Leslie Alexandra 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
This article investigates the blending of fashion objects and new musical interfaces in order to create acoustic fashion objects. We discuss employing performance research as the main artistic concept for developing new patterns of movement with technology. A series of three workshop processes (treated as case studies) resulted in both new performance works and new acoustic fashion objects designed as part of these works.
New York, Paris: Schiaparelli, Prada, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs
Authors: Raymundo J. Emanuel , Moon Christina H. 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Fashion is an individual undertaking and a collaborative effort woven together across distance and time. This article reviews two fashion exhibitions: ‘Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art from 10 May to 19 August 2012, and ‘Louis Vuitton–Marc Jacobs’ at Paris’ Les Arts Decoratifs from 9 March to 16 September 2012. Each exhibition threaded one contemporary designer with a designer and a fashion forebear. The reviews are, in the spirit of the fashion exhibitions they discuss, individual yet collaborative undertakings.
The paradox of ‘teaching’ transformation in fine art studio practice: Assessment in the South African context
Authors: Belluigi Dina Zoe 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Underpinned by an awareness that education systems inherently maintain the status quo, this article explores a paradox at the heart of fine art studio teaching, learning and assessment in the postcolonial context of South Africa. The content of most current curricula evidences a concern with power, and the politics and problematics of representation. As such, encouragement of student engagement around and negotiation of notions of transformation, critical dialogue and identity is espoused. However, in the article it is argued that current approaches to assessment often unquestioningly replicate inherited systems, and in so doing, unwittingly reproduce systems of cultural capital that may be non-transformatory and non-pluralistic. Thus, because of the way assessment is practiced, that which is taught may be radically different from that which is experienced and thereby learnt in the studio.
Children’s drawings from China and the United States and conceptions of female beauty
Authors: Wang Tingting Windy 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Children’s perceptions of female beauty, as evidenced by their drawings, are the focus of this study. The extent to which universal domains, culture and media-projected ideas of female beauty might impact children’s drawings is considered. Two groups of six- to nine-year-old children’s drawings and verbally expressed ideas of female beauty in two culturally different but comparatively similar rural settings in the United States and China participated in this study. Findings confirm that the art activities of children are affected by universal domains, but even more strongly by cultures. Children develop distinct imagery of elements and categories that represent female beauty based on their interactions with cultural values, observations of their environments and imaginations. Media is found to play a lesser role than culture in their depictions, although the more susceptible to cultural changes the local community is, the more likely media is to affect children’s notions of beauty.
Student visual identities: exactitudes and significant details
Authors: Molinet Xabier , Marín-Viadel Ricardo 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
The educational institutions – the university schools in this case – have been described as reproducers of the social order and professional values and practices, according to Giroux and Simon concept of educational context. In this visual essay we propose an enquiry on the relationships between the students’ professional identities and the educational contexts through a visual discourse. The aesthetic relations in the visual essay, due to both the photographic searching process and the layout design, are fundamental to establish interpretative and metaphorical comparisons that enrich the verbal descriptions and interpretations commonly used.
Las instituciones educativas –en este caso las facultades universitarias– ha sido descritras como agentes reproductores del orden social y de los valores y prácticas profesionales, de acuerdo al concepto de contexto educativo de Giroux y Simon. En este ensayo visual proponemos indagar la relación entre la identidad profesional de los estudiantes y sus contextos educativos por medio de un discurso visual. Las relaciones estéticas en el ensayo visual, debidas tanto al proceso de búsqueda fotográfica como al diseño de maquetación, son fundamentales para establecer comparaciones interpretativas y metafóricas que enriquecen las descripciones e interpretaciones verbales que se emplean habitualmente.
Book Reviews
Authors: Mason Rachel , Buckley Brad , Houghton Nicholas 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Design + Craft: The Brazilian Path, Jadélia Borges (2011) Sao Paulo: Editora Terceiro Nome, 240 pp. ISBN: 9788578160845, p/bk, R$80
On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, James Elizabeth Fisher and Rebecca Fortnum (eds) (2013) London: Black Dog Publishing, 160 pp. ISBN: 9781908966292, p/bk, £16.95
What do Artists Know?, James Elkins (ed.) (2012) University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 228 pp. ISBN: 9780271054247, h/bk, $74.95
American laconic: Nescience and realism in Richard Ford’s ‘Optimists’
Authors: Frank Joseph 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
The short stories of Richard Ford are examples of how the short form and minimalist prose mimic the unhealthy limitedness of human knowledge. Ford himself claims it is fiction’s duty to recreate the condition of not knowing and that people are the mysterious sum of their actions. Using Ford’s story ‘Optimists’, and considering the tension between empirical and Platonic epistemologies, minimalist short fiction is considered for its portrayal of human knowledge as limited and imperfect. As such, the short story form is uncannily apt at achieving narrative realism interested in the human condition of not knowing or nescience.
‘The world outside seemed mummified into a sheet of dead whiteness’: Epiphanic experience in the short stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Authors: Eilittä Leena Hannele 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
This article argues that the female characters in C. N. Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009) go through mental developments similar to epiphanic experience as recently defined by Matthew G. McDonald. The characters, who are often living in the diaspora, feel themselves trapped between their African background and influences from the West. While reflecting upon their situation, they gradually acquire a better view of their problems that allows them to distance themselves from their present circumstances and envision a future that would better satisfy their needs. Adichie depicts these mental developments through subtle literary devices that benefit from narrative experiments, words from Igbo vocabulary and devices known from African storytelling traditions.
Online versus Print: The reputation of literary fiction magazines
Authors: Dietz Laura 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
This article examines the role of literary magazines in the age of digital delivery, specifically the way in which their traditional functions as talent scouts and tastemakers are affected by the perceived second-class status of electronic publishing. What are the implications for a vital publishing outlet for short stories and what might editors and writers do to remain influential and relevant? Our findings suggest that post-print magazines can be taken seriously, and hence that the category will remain relevant, as some (but not all) titles employ use specific strategies to make the leap to online or other digital delivery with their status and influence intact. This article presents original survey data on the reputation and legitimacy of online versus print literary magazines, examines the potential impact of recent business model changes and makes predictions on how the genre will continue to evolve.
‘Practical Kabbala’: A translation into English of Leopoldo Lugones’s ‘Kábala práctica’ (1897)
Authors: Hambrook Glyn 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
This article presents a translation from the Spanish of ‘Kábala práctica’/‘Practical Kabbala’, a short story in the fantastic mode published in 1897, preceded by an essay that considers the place and function of translation in the British literary system based on a case study of this story and its Argentinian author, Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938). The introductory essay explores the possibility that the limited and only recent reception of Lugones’s work in the United Kingdom is related, albeit not exclusively, to a persistent British intercultural myopia as far as non-anglophone literatures are concerned that may be attributed to the anglophone linguistic exclusivism that is one consequence of the hegemonic status of English. This leads, it is argued, to a consecratory approach, based on iconic ‘snapshots’, to incorporation of translation into the British literary system, rather than an exploratory approach that seeks to uncover the hinterland; in other words, an approach that treats non-anglophone literatures as the cultural equivalents of holiday hotspots rather than fully stipulated cultural-discursive systems in their own right. The case of Lugones serves to demonstrate that an exploratory approach (by translators) to non-anglophone literatures reveals writers and literary traditions whose significance places ‘consecrated’ writers such as fellow Argentinian but now ‘World’ Borges in a context necessary to the elucidation of their own significance.
‘Don’t Play a Lone Hand’: A century of leadership in American art education, 1840–1940
Authors: Stankiewicz Mary Ann 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Knowledge of the field and visions for the future are vital for transformational leadership in art education, according to current scholars. With the development of common schools and hierarchical bureaucracies in Massachusetts, in a context of belief in artistic genius, early historians of art education told stories of heroes and experts. During the 1870s, Walter Smith (1836–1886) lectured students at Massachusetts Normal Art School that great men demonstrated commitment to work, indomitable courage and persistence in their heroic leadership. In the mid-1890s, Massachusetts’ agent for industrial drawing Henry Turner Bailey (1865–1931) categorized art supervisors as geometric solids: sphere, cube and cylinder. About a decade later, Bailey called for a servant model of leadership, with traits that can be interpreted as stereotypically feminine. Networked leadership emerged in the early twentieth century as administrative progressives worked together to construct a business of art education with engaged stakeholders, distributed leadership and a rationale emphasizing functions of visual arts in everyday life. Royal Bailey Farnum (1884–1967) served as central node for most of the overlapping leadership networks. As Executive Vice President of Rhode Island School of Design during the 1930s and 1940s, he introduced strategic planning that prepared the School for post-war success. Leadership in American art education has changed in response to cultural contexts, social factors, institutional demands, and male and female performances of power. How will art educators play the leadership game in the years to come?
The role of art education in cultivating community and leadership through creative collaboration
Authors: Lawton Pamela Harris 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
The arts have a long and rich history of connecting and transforming communities through creative collaboration. This article highlights the community-based art education curriculum and practices of a holistic pre-service/in-service art education programme as a possible best practices model for developing creative leaders for careers in and beyond the P-12 classroom. Community-based art education, service learning and transformative learning theory are discussed as effective frameworks for planning and implementing creative, transformative community collaborations and opportunities for leadership development with participants across the lifespan.
On the combined role of the astrophysical force limit and Avogadro number in final unification
Authors: UV Satya Seshavatharam , S Lakshminarayana 
Published: November 2014

Magnitude of the unified force can be assumed to be equal to the classical or astrophysical force limit . Strength of any interaction can be defined as the ratio of the operating force magnitude and the magnitude of . Let the gravitational interaction taking place at black holes be called as â€˜Schwarzschild interactionâ€™. If strength of Schwarzschild interaction is unity, then weak interaction strength seems to be times less than the Schwarzschild interaction and strong interaction strength seems to be Â times less than the Schwarzschild interaction. Based on these concepts and considering the Avogadro number as an absolute and discrete number, basics of final unification can be understood.
Existence of multiple solutions of p-fractional Laplace operator
with sign-changing weight function
Authors: Goyal Sarika , Sreenadh Konijeti 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
In this article, we study the following p-fractional
Laplacian equation:

(

P
λ

)

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2

∫

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(
y
)

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)

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)

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|

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+
p
α

d
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=
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u

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)

|

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b

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2

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in

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=
0

in

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n

∖
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,

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∈

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α
,
p

(

ℝ
n

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,

$
(P_{\lambda }) \quad -2\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}\frac{|u(y)-u(x)|^{p-2}(u(y)-u(x))}{|x-y|^{n+p\alpha }} dy
= \lambda |u(x)|^{p-2} u(x) + b(x)|u(x)|^{\beta -2}u(x) \quad \text{in } \Omega , \quad u = 0 \quad \text{in }\mathbb {R}^n \setminus \Omega ,\, u\in W^{\alpha ,p}(\mathbb {R}^n),
$

where Ω is a bounded domain in ℝ
n
with smooth boundary,
n > pα, p ≥ 2, α ∈ (0,1), λ > 0 and
b : Ω ⊂ ℝ
n
→ ℝ is a
sign-changing continuous function. We show the existence and multiplicity of
non-negative solutions of (P
λ) with respect to the parameter λ,
which changes according to whether 1 < β < p or
p < β < p*
with p*
= n
p(n-pα)-1
respectively. We discuss both cases separately.
Non-existence results are also obtained.
›Paulus und Thekla II‹ oder ›Die guldin regel‹ – (Pseudo-)Biographie eines Beichtigers
Authors: Abel Stefan 
Published: November 2014

AbstractThis article deals with a dialogue tract, surviving in one manuscript from 1469, that teaches a female penitent seven golden rules of exemplary piety; a contemporary short version of them is published here. The catechetic programme of the tract is embedded in the biography of a prototypical Dominican father confessor and makes use of the apocryphal legend of Saint Paul and Thecla as a biographical model. The anonymous author also bases his text on a certain type of mystical autobiography and, possibly, the Legend of Meister Eckhart’s Daughter. Much as the text appears to allude to real figures of the Dominican Order, its historical truth cannot be confirmed.
Batalin–Vilkovisky structures on Ext and Tor
Authors: Kowalzig Niels , Krähmer Ulrich 
Published: November 2014

Abstract

This article studies the algebraic structure of
homology theories defined by a left Hopf algebroid
U over a possibly
noncommutative base algebra A, such as for example
Hochschild, Lie algebroid (in particular Lie algebra and Poisson), or
group and étale groupoid (co)homology.
Explicit formulae for
the canonical Gerstenhaber algebra structure
on

E
x

t
U

(
A
,
A
)

$ \textup {Ext}_U(A,A)$

are given.
The main technical result constructs a
Lie derivative satisfying a generalised
Cartan–Rinehart homotopy formula
whose essence is that

T
o

r
U

(
M
,
A
)

$\textup {Tor}^U(M,A)$

becomes
for suitable right U-modules M
a Batalin–Vilkovisky module over

E
x

t
U

(
A
,
A
)

$ \textup {Ext}_U(A,A)$

, or in the words of
Nest, Tamarkin, Tsygan and others, that

E
x

t
U

(
A
,
A
)

$ \textup {Ext}_U(A,A)$

and

T
o

r
U

(
M
,
A
)

$\textup {Tor}^U(M,A)$

form a differential calculus.
As an illustration, we show how the well-known operators from differential geometry in the classical Cartan homotopy formula can be obtained.
Another application consists in generalising
Ginzburg's result that
the cohomology ring of a Calabi–Yau algebra is a Batalin–Vilkovisky
algebra to twisted Calabi–Yau algebras.
Former Soviet Cultural Semiotics in China
Authors: Zhang Jie , Yan Zhijun 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Since China adopted the reform and open-up policy in the late 1970s, cultural semiotics from the former Soviet Union has been introduced into China, and has exerted substantial influence on Chinese academia. This essay starts from the perspective of research discourse to review the influence of Soviet literary theories among Chinese scholars over the past half century, and to demonstrate the positive role played by Soviet cultural semiotics in the evolution process of the Chinese literary community from revolution through aesthetic discourse to dialogue and polyphony. The essay then proceeds to the discussion of the revolutionary shift in the critical mindset caused by the changes in research discourses, namely the shift from the scientific way of thinking, featuring scientific induction, to the artistic way of thinking, featuring pluralism and the co-existence of various elements. The last part of the essay provides an in-depth discussion of the Chinese adaptation of Soviet cultural semiotics, i.e. the rediscovery of the nature of cultural semiotics by Chinese semioticians.
Biosemiotics and Bioluminescence
Authors: Bennett Tyler James 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Biosemiotics holds that all forms of life are capable of interpretation. Regardless of the complexity of the inner world of the organism there is always found some rudimentary negotiation of code duality or the presence of incompatible codes, which necessitates a sort of ‘translation’ of those codes into meaningful action. The bioluminescent anti-predatory behavior known as counterillumination serves as an example of a relatively simple non-human behavior that nonetheless exhibits the traits of semiosis. These traits are described in detail using some semiotic terminology.
Kraft, Widerständigkeit, Historizität
Authors: Vogelmann Frieder 
Published: November 2014

Abstract
Does truth have a history? Whereas Bernard William denies it and only allows a history of truthfulness, I defend the possibility of a critical history or genealogy of truth. Because a trifling relativistic historicization of truth leads to a paradoxically a-historic and pacifistic conception of truth, one must first establish the methodological concepts with which a genealogy of truth can avoid both problems. Three first steps towards such concepts can be found in some of Michel Foucault’s lectures, which lead the genealogy of truth to focus on the origins of truth’s force.