bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Food allergy in the Netherlands: differences in clinical severity, causative foods, sensitization and DBPCFC between community and outpatients
Authors: Le Thuy‐My , van Hoffen Els , Kummeling Ischa , Potts James , Ballmer‐Weber Barbara K , Bruijnzeel‐Koomen Carla AFM , Lebens Ans FM , Lidholm Jonas , Lindner Titia M , Mackie Alan , Mills EN Clare , van Ree Ronald , Vieths Stefan , Fernández‐Rivas Montserrat , Burney Peter G , Knulst André C 
Published: February 2015

AbstractBackgroundIt is unknown whether food allergy (FA) in an unselected population is comparable to those from an outpatient clinic population.ObjectiveTo discover if FA in a random sample from the Dutch community is comparable to that of outpatients.MethodsThis study was part of the Europrevall‐project. A random sample of 6600 adults received a questionnaire. Those with symptoms to one of 24 defined priority foods were tested for sIgE. Participants with a positive case history and elevated sIgE were evaluated by double‐blind placebo‐controlled food challenge (DBPCFC). Outpatients with a suspicion of FA were evaluated by questionnaire, sIgE and DBPCFC.ResultsIn the community, severe symptoms were reported less often than in outpatients (39.3% vs. 54.3%). Participants in the community were less commonly sensitized to any of the foods. When selecting only those with a probable FA (i.e. symptoms of priority food and elevation of sIgE to the respective food), no major differences were observed with respect to severity, causative foods, sensitization and DBPCFC between the groups.ConclusionIn the Netherlands, there are large differences in self‐reported FA between community and outpatients. However, Dutch community and outpatients with a probable FA do not differ with respect to severity, causative foods, sensitization and DBPCFC‐outcome.
Identification of artificial orpiment in the interior decorations of the Japanese tower in Laeken, Brussels, Belgium
Authors: Vermeulen Marc , Sanyova Jana , Janssens Koen 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
In this paper, we used a multi-technique approach in order to identify the arsenic sulfide pigment used in the decorative panels of the Japanese tower in Laeken, Belgium. Our attention was drawn to this particular pigment because of its relatively good conservation state, despite its known tendency to fade over time when exposed to light. The pigment was used with different painting techniques, bound with oil and urushi in the lacquers and with an aqueous binder in the mat relief panels. In the latter case it is always applied as an underlayer mixed with ultramarine blue. This quite unusual pigment mixture also shows a good state of preservation.
In this study, the orpiment used for the Japanese tower has been identified as an amorphous arsenic sulfide glass (AsxSx) with the aid of light microscopy, PLM, SEM-EDX and Raman microscopy. The pigment features different degrees of As4S4 monomer units in its structure, also known as realgar-like nano-phases. This most likely indicates different synthesis processes as the formation of these As4S4 monomers is dependent of the quenching temperature (Tq) to which the artificial pigment is exposed during the preparation phase.
Influence of decomposition time and H2 pressure on properties of unsupported ammonium tetrathiomolybdate-derived MoS2 catalysts
Authors: Whelan Jamie , Banu Ionut , Luckachan Gisha E , Banu Nicoleta Doriana , Stephen Samuel , Tharalekshmy Anjana , Al Hashimi Saleh , Vladea Radu V , Katsiotis Marios S , Alhassan Saeed M 
Published: February 2015

Abstract

Background
Molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) catalysts to be used for hydrodesulfurization (HDS) processes were prepared via the reductive thermal decomposition of ammonium tetrathiomolybdate at fixed temperature (653 K) by varying decomposition times and H2 pressures. Both parameters were found to strongly influence textural and catalytic properties of the resulting MoS2 catalysts.

Methods
Nitrogen sorption, FT-IR, and XRD analyses revealed the effect of varying decomposition times (3 to 7 h) and H2 pressure (20 to 1,000 psig) on the morphology and structure of the catalysts. Dibenzothiophene (DBT) was used to assess catalytic efficiency for HDS reactions.

Results
The influence of time on specific surface was minimal at low pressures but increased at higher decomposition pressures. Vibrational energies of Mo-S bonds in FT-IR indicate that MoS2 catalysts prepared at higher pressures exhibit weaker Mo-S bonds. Analysis of XRD patterns point towards an increase in stacking and crystallite size with increasing pressure; interlayer rotation about both the a- and c-axes of the stacks was also observed. Catalytic testing results show that conversion increases at higher values of decomposition time and pressure. Partially hydrogenated products were also observed at higher pressures, and the ratio of partially to fully hydrogenated DBT was calculated as an additional measure of catalytic efficiency.

Conclusions
Decomposition time and H2 pressure during ammonium tetrathiomolybdate (ATM) thermal decomposition have a significant impact on the morphological and catalytic properties of the derived MoS2 catalysts. Samples prepared for 5 h at 1,000 psig exhibited the highest conversion of DBT and the lowest ratio of partially to fully hydrogenated products.
Effect of the ageing on the dissipative properties of getinacks subjected to repeated static loading
Authors: Shant Valesyan 
Published: February 2015

The effect of ageing on the dissipative properties of getinacks subjected to repeated static loading has been investigated. Specimens were tested at the age of 1, 4, and 8 years. The approximation of experimental data is done, and the energy of dissipation is calculated. Based on the investigation of getinacks manufactured by the technology of regulated thermo-pressing, this technology can be recommended for the manufacturing of appropriate products.The results of experimental investigation of the effect of temperature field on the dissipative properties of layered getinacks widely applicable in electrical manufacturing, electronics and microelectronics are considered in this paper. The approximation of the experimentally obtained dependences between σ and ε for the loading (→) and unloading (←) parts of the hysteresis loop are calculated and plotted. The factor of energy dissipation is defined. Estimated that the temperature field affects the dissipative properties of the layered getinacks and that effect is depending on the value of applied load cyclically acting on the material.
Emergency Oesophagectomy for Oesophageal Perforation after Chemoradiotherapy for Oesophageal Cancer
Authors: Schweigert M , Solymosi N , Dubecz A , Posada Gonzalez M , Stadlhuber RJ , Ofner D , Stein HJ 
Published: February 2015

Introduction Oesophageal perforation following chemoradiotherapy for oesophageal cancer is a devastating condition but there have been no studies investigating the role of emergency oesophagectomy for this life threatening situation. Methods This retrospective study comprised all cases of emergency oesophagectomy for oesophageal perforation after chemoradiotherapy for oesophageal carcinoma at a major centre for oesophageal surgery in Germany between 2004 and 2013. Results A total of 13 patients (mean age: 58.9 years) were identified. During the same time period, 356 elective oesophagectomies were performed. Tumour entities were squamous cell carcinoma (n=12) and adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus (n=1). Alcoholism (odds ratio [OR]: 25.79, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.70–121.70, p<0.0001) and chronic pulmonary disease (OR: 3.76, 95% CI: 1.06–14.96, p=0.027) were more common among the emergency cases. Oesophageal rupture was caused by perforation of an oesophageal stent (10 cases) or perforation during implantation of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube (3 cases). Emergency oesophagectomy was carried out either as discontinuity resection (10/13) or oesophagectomy with immediate reconstruction (3/13). Compared with the elective cases, patients undergoing emergency oesophagectomy had significantly higher odds for sustaining perioperative sepsis (OR: 4.42, 95% CI: 1.23–16.45, p=0.01), acute renal failure (OR: 6.49, 95% CI: 1.57–24.15, p=0.005) and pneumonia (OR: 24.33, 95% CI: 3.52–1,046.65, p<0.0001). Furthermore, slow respiratory weaning was more common and there was a significantly higher tracheostomy rate (OR: 4.64, 95% CI: 1.14–16.98, p=0.02). Oesophageal discontinuity was eventually reversed in eight patients. Emergency oesophagectomy patients had odds that were three times higher for fatal outcome (OR: 3.59, 95% CI: 0.77–13.64, p=0.05). The overall mortality was 4/13. The remaining nine patients had a mean survival of 25.1 months (range: 5–46 months). The two-year-survival-rate was 38.5% (5/13). Conclusions Despite the most unfavourable preconditions, the results of emergency oesophagectomy for oesophageal perforation after chemoradiotherapy are not desperate. The procedure is not only justified but life saving.
The Role of Mono- and Divalent Ions in the Stability of Kaolinite Suspensions and Fine Tailings
Authors: Ibanez Maria , Wijdeveld Arjan , Chassagne Claire 
Published: February 2015

AbstractA major issue for the oil sand industry is the settling of thin fine tailings (TFT) which are a byproduct of the oil sand extraction process. These tailings are deposited in large ponds and settling takes decades. The aim of the present study was to increase understanding of the role of specific ion types (monovalent/divalent) present in the water in flocculation behavior, and hence the settling of flotation fine tailings of the Athabasca oil sands (which consist predominantly of kaolinite). In this study, two series of measurements were conducted and compared: one with TFT and with varying pH and salinity, and another with kaolinite suspensions with varying pH, salinity, and volume fraction. The volume fraction of kaolinite and TFT used was in the range 0.01–1% volume fraction for any ionic strength or ion. In this range the electrophoretic mobility was constant indicating that there were no particle-particle interactions, a required condition for electrophoretic mobility measurements. Electrokinetic measurements were made as a function of concentration of salt added and pH. The flocculation behavior of both TFT and kaolinite can be linked to the electrokinetic mobility at high ionic strength. The electrophoretic mobility values and therefore the electrokinetic charge of the particles were smaller for divalent salt than for monovalent salt. As a consequence, both kaolinite and fine tailings should and do flocculate more quickly in the presence of a divalent electrolyte during settling-column experiments. The electrophoretic mobility of kaolinite and tailings in electrolytes containing a majority of monovalent ions (NaCl) decreased in absolute values with decreasing pH while their electrophoretic mobility in electrolytes containing a majority of divalent ions (MgCl2) did not depend on pH. The flocculation of the fine tailings in an electrolyte where divalent ions are predominant is therefore not expected to be influenced by pH.
Nitrate Reduction by Redox-Modified Smectites Exchanged with Chitosan
Authors: Pentráková Martin , PentráKová Linda , Radian Adi , Mishael Yael G. , Stucki Joseph W. 
Published: February 2015

AbstractThe presence of nitrate and other redox-active anionic contaminants in terrestrial ecosystems poses a significant risk to humans and other forms of life on Earth. The purpose of the present study was to test a potential in situ system, using poly-(D) glucosamine (chitosan) adsorbed to mineral surfaces under redox-active conditions in order to degrade nitrate to lower oxidation states. Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide derived from the chitin found in the shells of shrimp and other shellfish. Five different loadings of chitosan (0, 0.075, 0.25, 0.50, and 1.0 g/L; labeled C0, C1, C2, C3, and C4, respectively) were adsorbed to ferruginous smectite (SWa-1) to form chitosan-SWa-1 composites (CSC) in the pH range 5.8–4. The CSC was then reduced by Na2S2O4 in a citrate-bicarbonate buffered dispersion and washed free of excess salts under inert-atmosphere conditions. Upon addition of the nitrate, the solution pH remained slightly acidic, ranging from 5.5 to 4.7. Samples were analyzed for Fe(II) content, reacted with a NaNO3 solution, and then re-analyzed for structural Fe(II) content. Supernatant solutions were analyzed for nitrate, nitrite, and ammonium. In samples C1 to C4, extensive concentrations of nitrite were observed in the supernatants with a corresponding increase in the reoxidation of structural Fe(II), proving that a coupled redox reaction had occurred between the nitrate and the structural Fe in the clay mineral. The most efficient loading, defined as the largest percentage of adsorbed nitrate reduced to nitrite, occurred in sample C1. The total amount of nitrate reduced and Fe(II) reoxidized followed the trend 0 = C0 < C2 < C3 < C4 ≈ C1. Chitosan showed the potential to reverse the surface charge of constituent clay minerals, thereby enabling the CSC to remove nitrate anions from aqueous mineral systems via redox reactions with structural Fe(II) in clay minerals.
F.I.S.E Small Gallery, Community art project in Hungary
Authors: Wolstenholme Neil , Ráthonyi Kinga 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Over the past seventeen years the authors have been working together, creating and promoting community art projects. The main objective of these works has always been to shape the users visual environment, with maximum involvement of the local community. Participation in the projects has allowed people to share creative thoughts, production, ideas, and communicate. These have taken place on site in a communal environment which respects and appreciates the individual. People are free to work/talk/look or just be there. The following visual essay documents a recently completed project.
Personal images, collective journeys: Media and memory in I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Authors: de Luca Tiago 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article intends to explore the intersections of personal and cultural memory as expressed and mediated by the Brazilian film Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo/I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You by Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes (2009). Crossing the generic boundaries of the road movie, the essay film and observational documentary, I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You stitches together images shot on Super-8, 35mm, 16mm, mini-DVs and even still photographs, all of which testifies to the directors’ own personal memories. The film further appropriates literary and filmic references that together situate it within the vast terrain of cultural memory associated with the backlands (the sertão) in the Brazilian imaginary. This article aims to excavate this kaleidoscope of personal and collective memories, and argues that their reflection provokes meditations on history, culture and the passing of time.
The long smouldering night: Sex, songs and the desi feminist noir
Authors: Shandilya Krupa 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article argues that the films Ishqiya/Romance (Chaubey, 2010) and Dedh Ishqiya/Romance 1.5 (Chaubey, 2014) by Abhishek Chaubey, represent a new genre of films, namely the ‘desi feminist noir’, which is characterized by all the elements of film noir, such as the murky distinction between good and evil, the lawlessness of the streets and the femme fatale. However, in these films the figure of the femme fatale is used to forward explicitly feminist trajectories of love, romance and sex. I give a brief history of romantic coupling in Hindi cinema, and analyse the films’ departure from these articulations of romance. Next, I focus on a song sequence from each of the films to explicate the desi feminist femme fatale’s subversion of the romantic conventions of the Hindi film song and her inauguration of a new aesthetic of romance. In conclusion, I consider the implications of this new genre for Bollywood cinema.
Down the rabbit hole: Five theses on the subject of retreat in the time of global capital
Authors: Lawless Kate 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This article considers the role of retreat in the time of global capital through an exploration of some of the major themes arising during the Banff residency, The Retreat: A position of dOCUMENTA(13), held in August 2012. These themes include the retreats of mastery, subjectivity, the protagonist, historical time, and the return of totality in response to the so-called crisis of capitalism.
'The spectre of form: Letters from an absent sovereign'
Authors: Pendakis Andrew 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
This short essay will respond to a photographic series produced by artist Maria Whiteman during her Studio Time residency at Banff. These photos consist of two diptychs each of which contrasts an image of the gardens of Versailles with one taken of a desolately mined oil sand's landscape; a single fifth photograph reveals an unfinished road, a major future piece in the oil infrastructure of Alberta, stretching off into an empty horizon. In the proposed article I read these photos as provocative reflections on the historical fate of sovereign reason; the issues they raise pertain to that which remains vital or stillborn in the ability of the human mind to shape and alter its environment and future. The gardens of Versailles have historically functioned as emblems of a highly aestheticized sovereignty (both political and epistemological); they have more recently become a shorthand for the violence of 'Enlightenment' reason, for the brutal capture of nature by mathematics and logic. Whiteman's series complicates this contemporary reading: there is a verdure, stillness and elegance to these re-contextualized gardens, one which at the same time does not discount the possibility that the desertified zone of extraction is simply a direct extension of rationalist control gone awry. I will argue that there is a quiet call within these photos to a return to form, to a political humanism of the willed effect and to the strength and vigour of a now almost antiquated political act. A nostalgia, however, that at the same time utterly concedes the way in which contemporary politics and economics are both forms of the same tragic fantasy of centrality, the bad hubris of anthropocentrism.
Ownership and culture
Authors: Szeman Imre 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Even in an era when images have become omnipresent, art practices continue to carry out critique of a kind that is invaluable to our comprehension of our social and political condition. Amongst the most significant issues art and cultural production more generally draw attention to, are the operations of ownership and property, especially in connection to culture. Property continues to name a limit and blockage in our current social configuration. How, why and what are the consequences of property today? And how might we retreat from property through the articulation of a new social commons?
Afterword
Authors: Jim Alice Ming Wai 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Afterword for special issue of PUBLIC on The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13) reflects on author's participation in the Banff residency through personal vignettes and keywords that connect essays in the issue. The second half of the article examines Hong Kong-born Canadian artist Yam Lau's recent projection-based art installation. It considers contemporary implications for retreat as model in relation to the historic literati retreat of seventeenth century China and the Buddhist metaphor of Indra's Net, arguing the impossibility of both profound withdrawal and retreat into indifference.
..., ..., ..., ..., ..., ..., (Exile)
Authors: Boisjoly Raymond 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Exploring the politics of representation, … … … … … … (Exile) is comprised of abstracted film stills created through the productive misuse of technology. Sourced from Kent Mackenzie's film, The Exiles (1961), These images are made by scanning the film while it is being played on a portable digital video player: turning moving images into still ones. The documentary style film follows a small group of Indigenous people living in Los Angeles. Over a twelve-hour period, the film records their candid discussions of home, community and future.
The Conspiracy Called Movement
Authors: Berardi Franco 'Bifo' 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
In this essay Berardi proclaims that we need to llimit the possibilities for retreat, rather than expand them. Looking optimistically to social movement and a rising collective consciousness against exploitation and austerity, Bifo calls for the generation of "a common sphere of sensibility" that will inform a politics that serves the interests of all, rather than just a few. For Bifo, a technology-induced retreat is at least partially to blame: this is the techno-alienation experienced by today's cognitive labourers, who are also "the first generation of people who have learned more words from a machine than from their mother."
‘Take the toys from the boys’: Gender, generation and anarchist intent in the work of Poison Girls
Authors: Cross Rich 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Alongside Crass, Poison Girls were the central catalysts for the emergent anarcho-punk movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although the work of Crass has been subject to an increasing degree of retrospective scrutiny in recent years, the singular contribution of Poison Girls to the anarcho-punk rubric has remained largely unexplored. Poison Girls shared the anarchist impulses of Crass, but refracted their anti-capitalist perspectives through a distinctive anarcha-feminist prism. Reflected throughout the canon of the band’s work was a twin focus on the politics of gender and of generation which was arguably unique amongst their punk contemporaries. After a short and intensive period of close collaboration with Crass, Poison Girls opted for renewed independence and (as the wider anarchist punk movement expanded and diversified) began to explore a very different approach to the practice of being an anarchist band from the model established by Crass. Willing to break with the ‘shibboleths’ of anarchist punk, Poison Girls nevertheless retained a strong fidelity to its underlying principles even as they moved away from its more stringent, ‘outsider’ DIY assumptions. Poison Girls’ own punk practice provides an illuminating counter-point to the experience of Crass, and puts into sharp relief the tensions raised by the attempt to be anarchist interlopers in the musical mainstream.
Making sense of punk in Cuba/making sense of Cuba through punk
Authors: Astley Thomas 
Published: February 2015

Abstract
Rock music in its broadest definition, though still potentially problematic, has grown exponentially in contemporary Cuba, particularly since the economic and social crises of the 1990s. However, the subgenre distinctions that make sense of rock music in an Anglo-American context are not quite so apposite in defining a rock culture in Cuba that is happy to meld subgenres together with elements of Cuban traditional music, in a continuation of the process of ‘transculturaltion’, which many interpret as a founding element of Cuban cultural identity. This article, then, begins with a comment on the ways in which Cuba has made sense of a culturally loaded term such as punk. For the small but significant punk population on the island, many of the aesthetic elements of punk they utilize may serve to ostracize them from both the state and other subcultural groups. However, because of this process of ‘transculturation’, many of these punk traits are used to reflect a sense of contemporary Cuban cultural identity. This article examines the use of ‘classical’ punk cultural motifs of appropriation of cultural symbols, DIY aesthetic, destruction and bricolage in the work of Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo, to address the ways in which punk might be used to make sense of Cuba.