bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Is Normocalcemic Primary Hyperparathyroidism Harmful or Harmless?
Authors: Chen Gang , Xue Ying , Zhang Qiongyao , Xue Ting , Yao Jin , Huang Huibin , Liang Jixing , Li Liantao , Lin Wei , Lin Lixiang , Shi Lidan , Cai Liangchun , Wen Junping 
Published: February 2015

Context:
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is reported to be associated with an increased frequency of hypertension, however, information in this regard is sparse in relation to normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism (NPHPT).

Objective:
The aim of this study was to determine the association between NPHPT and blood pressure.

Design, Setting, and Patients:
We retrospectively enrolled 940 patients who visited the Fujian Provincial Hospital between September 2010 and December 2013 with a measured serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcium level. Among them, 11 patients were diagnosed with NPHPT, while 296 cases with normal PTH and albumin-adjusted serum calcium.

Main Outcomes Measures:
Systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), intact serum PTH, and serum calcium were recorded.

Results:
There were no significant differences between subjects identified with NPHPT and those with normal PTH in terms of age, sex, body mass index, serum calcium, 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, serum creatinine, fasting plasma glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein, and low density lipoprotein. The subjects with a diagnosis of NPHPT had higher levels of SBP (141.9 ± 20.2 vs 131.2 ± 16.5, P = .041) and DBP (85.2 ± 12.4 vs 76.8 ± 10.3, P = .026) than the subjects in the cohort with normal PTH. After adjustment for all potential confounders, risks (odds ratios and 95% confidence interval) of SBP and DBP in NPHPT patients were 1.035 (1.000, 1.071) and 1.063 (1.004, 1.125), respectively (P &lt; .05).

Conclusions:
The NPHPT had higher risk of high blood pressure than subjects with normal PTH. It is worth considering the necessity of more aggressive therapeutic intervention aimed to normalize PTH even if patients with NPHPT continue to be normocalcemic.
‘Scenes of marvellous variety’: The work-in-progress screenplays of Maurice
Authors: Speidel Suzanne 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article examines the work-in-progress screenplays of Maurice by Ivory (1987), which was adapted from E. M. Forster’s novel, published posthumously in 1971. The article examines the creative processes revealed in the writers’ treatment, and three manuscripts of the screenplay, held at King’s College, Cambridge, all of which differ from the film as it has subsequently been released in cinemas and on DVD. Writers James Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey restructured the narrative order of the story in several different ways, before the film was eventually edited to follow (almost) the chronology of the novel. The screenplay was also significantly shaped through the collaborative assistance of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who is not credited as a writer for the film. This article charts these hitherto hidden creative and authorial processes, and argues that the narrative’s journey from page to screen was not a straight trajectory, but instead constituted a move away from mainstream narrative genres, such as the Bildungsroman and the love story, and then a recommitment to them in the film’s ‘final’ cut. The multiple versions of the screenplay add to the palimpsetuous inscriptions of this already multi-layered, in-flux narrative, which was revised repeatedly by E. M. Forster over a 45-year period, and has also been reworked through new book editions, a re-release of the DVD that includes deleted scenes as ‘extras’, and fan activity on the Internet.
Reviews
Authors: Raw Laurence , Collard Christophe , Raw Laurence 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Last Tape on Stage in Translation: Unwinding Beckett�s Spool in Turkey, Bur� Idem Din�el (2012) Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 131 pp., ISBN: 9781443835145, h/bk, �34.99
Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media, and the Contemporary Performing Arts, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Christel Stalpaert, David Depestel and Boris Debackere (eds) (2012) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 9789089642585, p/bk, �21.99
The Adaptations of the Mind: A Reply to Patrick Cattrysse
Remediations of Congolese urban dance music in Kinshasa
Authors: Pype Katrien 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Following the continuing popularity of Congolese rumba music in the 1950s–1970s, I explore the technological spaces in which old songs appear more than 50 years later, and study the agency of those who initiate and actively contribute to the reinsertions of the old music in and on new media formats. By redefining the ‘repurposing’ of the remediations as strategies steered by human intentionality and occurring within social spaces, I investigate the kind of knowledge that an anthropological focus on remediation, repetition and circulation through electronic and digital media can offer about Kinshasa’s society at large. I propose to analyse the various purposes that direct Kinois (the inhabitants of Kinshasa), individual persons, media professionals and international corporations, to copy and insert old (and new) Congolese dance music into a particular media format, such as TV shows, USB sticks or mobile phone ring tones.
Targeting Urbanites: Nairobi-bred audio-visual narratives in Sheng
Authors: Overbergh Ann 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
In this article I analyse three cases of media production in Nairobi that target teenage and young adult audiences in the Sheng language. Despite large differences in terms of scale, style, financial strength and audience reach, my cases have a number of common characteristics, traits which I theorize by using elements of subcultural theory. The cases also show how the role and position of Sheng, an urban vernacular closely associated with youth and city life, is changing.
Attenuation in Superconducting Rectangular Waveguides
Authors: Yeap Kim Ho , Mei Teh Joyce Shu , Nisar Humaira , Yeong Kee Choon , Hirasawa Kazuhiro 
Published: February 2015

AbstractWe present an accurate analysis on the attenuation of waves, propagating in rectangular waveguides with superconducting walls. The wavenumbers
Retroflex consonant harmony: An areal feature in South Asia
Authors: Arsenault Paul 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Retroflexion is a well-known areal feature of South Asia. Most South Asian languages, regardless of their genetic affiliation, contrast retroflex consonants with their non-retroflex dental counterparts. However, South Asian languages differ in the phonotactic restrictions that they place on retroflex consonants. This paper presents evidence that a large number of South Asian languages have developed a co-occurrence restriction on coronal obstruents that can be described as retroflex consonant harmony. In these languages, roots containing two non-adjacent coronal stops are primarily limited to those with two dentals (T…T) or two retroflexes (Ṭ…Ṭ), while those containing a combination of dental and retroflex stops are avoided (*T…Ṭ, *Ṭ…T). Historical-comparative evidence indicates that long-distance retroflex assimilation has contributed to the development of this phonotactic pattern (T…Ṭ → Ṭ…Ṭ). In addition, the paper demonstrates that the distribution of languages with and without retroflex consonant harmony is geographic in nature, not genetic. Retroflex consonant harmony is characteristic of most languages in the northern half of the South Asian subcontinent, regardless of whether they are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian or Munda (but not Tibeto-Burman). It is not characteristic of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages in the south. Thus, retroflex consonant harmony constitutes an areal feature within South Asia.
Two micro-areal developments in northwestern South Asia: Causative involuntatives and causee marking postpositions
Authors: Bashir Elena 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This paper focuses on two language clusters in the region comprising the Hindu Kush mountains; Swat, Dir and Indus Kohistan (Pakistan); and the Himalayan foothills (HKKH region). The languages considered are Kalasha, Khowar, Palula, Dameli, Torwali, Kohistani, Shina, Kashmiri, Pashai and some of the Nuristani languages. One cluster of languages shares the expression of non-volitional semantics by derived transitive/causative verb forms, previously discussed as “causative involuntatives” or “impersonal causative expressions”. Two apparent subtypes are identified and mapped. A second, partially overlapping, cluster shares the use of a grammaticized conjunctive participle of a causative form of a reflex of the OIA √sañj as a postposition marking the secondary agent in causative constructions. The paper presents data illustrating these features, delimits the regions in which they appear, and characterizes these two microareas. The data indicate a clear geographical split between those languages in which reflexes of √sañj express this cluster of meanings, which seem to share descent from Gāndhārī Prakrit and possibly other unrecorded MIA varieties, and those which have developed words with similar meanings from √lag.
First person objects, antipassives, and the political history of the Southern Kirant
Authors: Bickel Balthasar , Gaenszle Martin 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Several Kiranti languages (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) from different genealogical sub-groups show multiple parallel developments from antipassive constructions with generic, non-specific objects into agreement markers registering first person objects. The developments span a relatively contiguous geographical area in the southernmost part of the family. We explain the developments by contact with politeness strategies of speaker-effacement in Maithili (Indo-Aryan) formal style, with which southern Kiranti elites have been in intense contact in about the same time frame as can be assumed for the emergence of the antipassive-based agreement forms. These findings illustrate a particularly tight interaction between natural (functional) strategies of politeness with specific historical contingencies.
The Northwest of South Asia and beyond: The issue of Indo-Aryan retroflexion yet again
Authors: Hock Hans Henrich 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The Vedic Sanskrit contrast dental : retroflex is widely attributed to Dravidian substratum influence (starting with Pott 1833, 1836). An objection is that retroflexion is explainable by internal developments and that the phonological systems of Sanskrit and reconstructed Dravidian differ considerably (e.g. Bloch 1925; Hock 1975, 1982). Tikkanen (1987, 1988) raises the alternative possibility of a northwestern substrate.
I reexamine the evidence and arguments offered so far. The trigger for the internal development of Sanskrit retroflexion is the retroflex sibilant ṣ and its variant ẓ(h), segments absent in Proto-Dravidian. The Northwest, by contrast, has retroflex sibilants; in fact, a triple contrast s : ṣ : ś is widespread and occurs as early as the Prakrits, Eastern Middle Iranian Saka, and even Avestan (with s : š : ṣ̌ : š́). Significantly, it also occurs in Vedic. I argue that the retroflex sibilant, the trigger for Vedic retroflexion, arose in the Northwest, not by contact with Dravidian. The development of retroflex stops can be explained in terms of later convergent developments in peninsular South Asia, developments which in Dravidian also introduced alveolar stops.
In the concluding section I discuss the relevance of this account for convergence studies in general.
Transport Demand Forecast on Pan-European Road Corridor X. Methodology, Results and their Assessment Through Comparisons with Actual Demand
Authors: Miltiadou Marios D. 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Transport demand forecast is a crucial parameter for transport planning. It defines the infrastructure dimensioning for a required level of service in a planning period, but moreover, it is determinative in the socioeconomic and financial feasibility study of transport projects. This paper presents the methodology and the results of the traffic flows forecasting exercise for the Pan-European Corridor X, which was elaborated to serve as a sound basis for documentation of the transport investments priorities, and the assessment of the results of the forecasted demand through comparisons with actual demand.
Asphalt Mixtures with Limestone Aggregate for Base Layer
Authors: Răcănel Carmen , Dicu Mihai , Lazăr Ştefan Marian , Burlacu Adrian 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Asphalt mixtures are mixtures of mineral aggregates, filler, bitumen and eventually additives in proportions determined by recipe designed in the laboratory. Asphalt mixtures used as base course are bituminous concrete.
The natural aggregates are granular materials of mineral origin that come from natural or artificial crushing of the rocks. In our country there are the various rocks: eruptive or magmatic rocks, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks.
To the category of sedimentary rocks belong limestone. Sedimentary rocks are characterized by relatively high porosity and a pronounced stratification, which causes mechanical resistance to be low and vary by direction of load. Due to the structure less dense and weaker mechanical resistance, the limestone are used less in heavy traffic pavement structures.
This paper presents an asphalt mixture recipe for the base layer developed in the Laboratory of Roads from Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (TUCEB), using limestone aggregates extracted from Hoghiz Quarry. The paper contains laboratory test results to determine the recipe and laboratory findings leading to the schedule of product.
Application of GPR and FWD in Assessing Pavement Bearing Capacity
Authors: Domitrović Josipa , Rukavina Tatjana 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The process of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation starts by collecting the data which will form the base for evaluation of pavement functional and structural condition. Collection of data can be performed by destructive and non-destructive testing. Usually preferred are the non-destructive methods, that do not damage the pavement, and the process of pavement evaluation is objective and repeatable. Non-destructive testing methods are becoming more and more popular, especially for assessing the structural condition of the pavement. Non-destructive testing by a Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) and the analysis of so collected data by the process of backcalculations is today the usual tool for assessing pavement bearing capacity. One of the basic input parameters for analysis of the data collected by FWD is pavement layers thickness.
The practice in Croatia is to determine pavement layers thickness by coring. This destructive method affects pavement integrity, so the number of such tests should be kept to the minimum. By coring the accurate thickness of all pavement layers is obtained on specific point locations. Thus, numerous deviations in layer thickness remain unnoticed, and in the end, use of such data for the process of backcalculations does not provide ac urate values of layer moduli. Coring can be replaced with non-destructive method of testing by Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), which provides continuous information on thickness of all pavement layers.
The paper shows the method for assessing the bearing capacity of the pavement based on the data collected by FWD, GPR and coring. The calculation for layer moduli was performed by the ELMOD software, separately for the layers thickness data obtained by coring, and separately for the thickness obtained by GPR tests. Analysis and comparison of the results of calculated elasticity moduli obtained by using various methods for collecting layer thickness data were performed in the paper.
Balanced Cantilever Girder Bridge Over the Danube-Black Sea Channel
Authors: Giordano Aldo , Pedrazzi Giorgio , Voiro Giovanni 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This paper describes the design and construction of a “balanced cantilever girder” bridge over the Danube-Black Sea channel, characterized by a central span of 155m with two symmetrical side spans of 77.5m. The total length of the bridge, including portions of the abutments support, is 312.0m.
The bridge main features, from calculation as well as construction points of view, are in particular the post-tensioning tendons, distributed both a top and bottom sides of the section along the bridge. The former ones play a key role in the construction phase, for the need of counterbalancing selfweight while subsequent segments are realized.
Tendons are symmetrical about midspan, with anchors positioned at the end of each segment.
Bridge deck is supported by two piers outfitted with friction pendulum seismic bearings, which develop friction both in static conditions to withstand static forces and small displacements, and in dynamic conditions, causing dissipation. Under severe earthquake load all structures (deck and piers) develop only elastic behavior.
This papers presents a detailed review of the design process as well as a time journey during construction
Increase the Safety of Road Traffic Accidents by Applying Clustering
Authors: Kos Goran , Brlek Predrag , Meic Kristijan , Vidovic Kresimir 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
In terms of continual increase of number of traffic accidents and alarming trend of increasing number of traffic accidents with catastrophic consequences for human life and health, it is necessary to actively research and develop methods to combat these trends. One of the measures is the implementation of advanced information systems in existing traffic environment. Accidents clusters, as databases of traffic accidents, introduce a new dimension in traffic systems in the form of experience, providing information on current accidents and the ones that have previously occurred in a given period. This paper proposes a new approach to predictive management of traffic processes, based on the collection of data in real time and is based on accidents clusters. The modern traffic information services collects road traffic status data from a wide variety of traffic sensing systems using modern ICT technologies, creating the most accurate road traffic situation awareness achieved so far. Road traffic situation awareness enhanced by accident clusters' data can be visualized and distributed in various ways (including the forms of dynamic heat maps) and on various information platforms, suiting the requirements of the end-users. Accent is placed on their significant features that are based on additional knowledge about existing traffic processes and distribution of important traffic information in order to prevent and reduce traffic accidents.
Additive Percent Influence on “Warm Mix” Behavior
Authors: Răcănel Carmen , Burlacu Adrian 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The benefits of WMA technologies include reduced fuel usage and emissions in support of sustainable development, improved field compaction, which can facilitate longer haul distances and cool weather pavement, and better working conditions. Since this is a relatively new technology, it is necessary to determine the behavior and the performances of this type of asphalt mixture depending on additive percent.
These technologies tend to reduce the viscosity of the asphalt and provide for the complete coating of aggregates at lower temperatures. WMA is produced at temperatures 20 to 30°C lower than typical hot-mix asphalt (HMA).
The paper presents the results obtained in the Road Laboratory of Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest on an asphalt mixture with fibers (MASF16) prepared according to the “warm mix” technology with chemical additive. Different percent of additive are used in laboratory to draw up the “master curves” of asphalt mixture obtained by 4PB-PR stiffness modulus results.
One-dimensional cyanide- and fumarate-bridged heteronuclear complex, poly[μ-fumaratotetraaminedizinc(II)di-μ-cyanodicyanonickel(II) dihydrate]
Authors: Sayın Elvan , Kürkçüoğlu Güneş Süheyla , Yeşilel Okan Zafer , Hökelek Tuncer 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Cyanide- and fumarate-bridged bimetallic complex, poly[μ-fumaratotetraaminedizinc(II)di-μ-cyanodicyanonickel(II) dihydrate], {[Zn2(μ-fum)(NH3)4Ni(μ-CN)2(CN)2]·2H2O}n (1) (H2fum = Fumaric acid) was synthesized and structurally characterized by vibrational (FT-IR and Raman) spectroscopy, single crystal X-ray diffraction and elemental and thermal analyses techniques. The structure of the complex consists of a one-dimensional polymeric chain, in which the Zn(II) and Ni(II) ions are linked by CN groups. The Ni(II) ion is four coordinated with four cyanide-carbon atoms in a square planar arrangement and the Zn(II) ions are four coordinated with one cyanide nitrogen atom, two amine nitrogen atoms and one fumarate oxygen atom, in a distorted tetrahedral arrangement. In the complex, the adjacent chains are connected by strong O–H···O, O–H···N, N–H···O and N–H···N hydrogen bonding interactions to form a three dimensional network.
The equiatomic intermetallics REPtCd (RE
= La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu) and magnetic properties of CeAuCd
Authors: Johnscher Michael , Tappe Frank , Niehaus Oliver , Pöttgen Rainer 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
The cadmium intermetallics REPtCd (RE = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu) and CeAuCd were synthesized by induction-melting of the elements in sealed niobium ampoules followed by annealing in muffle furnaces. The samples were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction. The structures of CePtCd (ZrNiAl type,

P

6
¯

2
m
,

$P\bar 62m,$

a = 763.8(6), c = 409.1(4) pm, wR2 = 0.0195, 298 F
2 values, 14 variables) and EuPtCd (TiNiSi type, Pnma, a = 741.3(2), b = 436.4(1), c = 858.0(4) pm, wR2 = 0.0385, 440 F
2 values, 20 variables) were refined from single-crystal data. The REPtCd structures exhibit three-dimensional networks of corner- and edge-sharing Cd@Pt2/6Pt2/3 and Cd@Pt4/4 tetrahedra, which leave cages for the rare earth atoms. Temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility data of CeAuCd reveal a paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic phase transition at T
N = 3.7(5) K.
The High-Temperature Transformation from 1T- to 3R-Li
x
TiS2 (x = 0.7, 0.9) as Observed in situ with Neutron Powder Diffraction
Authors: Wiedemann Dennis , Nakhal Suliman , Senyshyn Anatoliy , Bredow Thomas , Lerch Martin 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Layered titanium disulfide is used as lithium-ion intercalating
electrode material in batteries. The room-temperature stable trigonal
1T polymorphs of the intercalates Li
x
TiS2(x ≤ 1) are widely-investigated. However, the rombohedral 3R polymorphs,
being stable at higher temperatures for large x, are less well
known. In this study, we report on the synthesis of phase-pure
1T-Li
x
TiS2(x = 0.7,   0.9) and its
transformation to the 3R phase between 673 and 873 K
as monitored using high-temperature neutron powder diffractometry. For
the 3R polymorph, full Rietveld refinements show lithium ions to
be statistically distributed over octahedral voids at the fractional
coordinates 0, 0, 1/2 ,
exclusively. The comparison of Madelung energies with results of
periodic quantum-chemical calculations reveals that the evolution of
lattice parameters and the room-temperature stability of the 1T phase
are not governed by electrostatics, but by correlation and
polarization. The insights gained do not only elucidate the structure
of 3R-Li
x
TiS2, but also help to understand and
control polymorphism in layered transition-metal sulfides.