bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Understanding Comprehension Levels of Emergency Notifications by Limited English Proficient US Residents: Case Study of Korean-Americans in New York City
Authors: Jung Alice R. , Hristovski Kiril D. , Ulrich Jon W. , Brown Albert F. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractThe overall goal of this study was to examine any validity of emerging concerns about the effectiveness and usefulness of a single language public messaging system in a linguistically diverse environment by evaluating the level of understanding of Notify NYC messages among Korean LEP residents of New York City. Three task oriented objectives were completed to address the goal of this study: (1) using past Notify NYC messages, a survey to test comprehension levels among Korean LEP residents was created; (2) the survey was administered among two population samples, Korean LEP and native English speaking (NES); and (3) statistical analysis was employed to correlate the data, conduct testing of three hypotheses, and develop appropriate conclusions. The results demonstrate that primary challenges with effective use of a single-language system in providing emergency communication to LEP residents stem from the language barriers that exist for this population category in the US. The positive pattern correlation and high coefficient of determination imply that improving the clarity of the emergency messages could enhance the overall message comprehension among the LEP US residents.
Tailwater habitat stability after dam removal and return to a natural hydrological regime
Authors: Tszydel Mariusz , Kruk Andrzej 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
The study was conducted from 2000 to 2003 in the tailwater of the Drzewieckie Lake, an artificial reservoir in Central Poland. Short-term peaks in water flow were generated for the purpose of the operation of a whitewater slalom canoeing track built just downstream of the dam. In 2002, the reservoir was drawn down. The patterns in habitat samples were recognized with a Kohonen’s unsupervised artificial neural network (SOM). The SOM spatial gradient was stronger than the SOM temporal gradient, which shows that the removal of the studied dam did not have a destructive impact on habitats’ features, as shown in other studies, and that the patchy nature of the riverbed has been maintained. The complete emptying of the Drzewieckie Lake took place at the beginning of the vegetation season, which allowed plants to cover the exposed bottom of the reservoir and, consequently, reduce the downstream flow of organic matter accumulated there. Patterns in the displacement of aquatic macrophytes, inorganic substratum and different fractions of particulate organic matter are discussed. The amount of dissolved oxygen decreased because of the lack of intensive water discharge from the reservoir into the river, which would result in high water turbulence. Results of this study are important for planning the ecologically sound dam removals.
Testing cointegration in quantile regressions with an application to the term structure of interest rates
Authors: Kuriyama Nina 
Published: October 2015

Abstract
This paper proposes a cumulated sum (CUSUM) test for the null hypothesis of quantile cointegration. A fully modified quantile estimator is adopted for serial correlation and endogeneity corrections. The CUSUM statistic is composed of the partial sums of the residuals from the fully modified quantile regression. Under the null, the test statistic converges to a functional of Brownian motions. In the application to US interest rates of different maturities, evidence in favor of the expectations hypothesis for the term structure is found in the central part of the distributions of the Treasury bill rate and financial commercial paper rate, but in the tails of the constant maturity rate distribution.
Evolutionary rescue by compensatory mutations is constrained by genomic and environmental backgrounds
Authors: Filteau Marie , Hamel Véronique , Pouliot Marie‐Christine , Gagnon‐Arsenault Isabelle , Dubé Alexandre K , Landry Christian R 
Published: October 2015

AbstractSince deleterious mutations may be rescued by secondary mutations during evolution, compensatory evolution could identify genetic solutions leading to therapeutic targets. Here, we tested this hypothesis and examined whether these solutions would be universal or would need to be adapted to one's genetic and environmental makeups. We performed experimental evolutionary rescue in a yeast disease model for the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome in two genetic backgrounds and carbon sources. We found that multiple aspects of the evolutionary rescue outcome depend on the genotype, the environment, or a combination thereof. Specifically, the compensatory mutation rate and type, the molecular rescue mechanism, the genetic target, and the associated fitness cost varied across contexts. The course of compensatory evolution is therefore highly contingent on the initial conditions in which the deleterious mutation occurs. In addition, these results reveal biologically favored therapeutic targets for the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome, including the target of an unrelated clinically approved drug. Our results experimentally illustrate the importance of epistasis and environmental evolutionary constraints that shape the adaptive landscape and evolutionary rate of molecular networks.
Templated Assembly of Metal-Anion Arrays within Layered Hosts; Synthesis and Characterization of New Transition-Metal Oxyhalide Perovskites
Authors: Caruntu Gabriel , Viciu Liliana , Spinu Leonard , Zhou Weilie , Wiley John B. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractIon exchange of Dion-Jacobson-type double- and triple-layered perovskites with divalent transition-metal halides leads to the templated assembly of metal-anion layers. A whole series of compounds of the form (MCl)LaNb2O7 (M = V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu) and (CuCl)Ln2Ti2NbO10 (Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu) have been prepared. Additionally, a new series of host compounds is being developed to exploit this exchange chemistry; the new oxyfluorides, RbLnTiNbO6F (Ln = La, Pr, Nd) and RbLaM'NbO6F (M' = V4+, Mn4+, Nb4+, Mo4+), have been prepared by a direct route.
Enfermedades raras
Authors: Carbajal Rodríguez Luis , Navarrete Martínez Juana Inés 
Published: October 2015

<p>El concepto de enfermedades “raras” se acuñó por primera vez a mediados de la década de los<br />años 80 del siglo pasado, en Estados Unidos, relacionado con el concepto de medicamentos “huérfanos”.</p>
Translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos en muestras de tejido de aborto aneuploide
Authors: Ramos Sandra , Molina Bertha , Grether Patricia , Mayén Dora Gilda , Castro Oscar , Ángeles Marta , Rodríguez Rebeca , Frías Sara 
Published: October 2015

<p>Los heteromorfismos cromosómicos son variantes normales consideradas como sin impacto fenotípico. Algunos de los más frecuentes se encuentran en los brazos cortos de los cromosomas acrocéntricos (13, 14, 15, 21, 22). Recientemente se ha sugerido que un tipo de rearreglos cromosómicos, considerados heteromorfismos y conocidos como translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos, podrían ser un factor causal de las alteraciones cromosómicas numéricas o aneuploidías que se abortan en 90% de los casos.</p><p><br /><strong>Objetivo:</strong> determinar la frecuencia de las translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos en un grupo de 62 abortos espontáneos que presentaban una aneuploidía de los cromosomas acrocéntricos. </p><p><strong>Material y métodos:</strong> se incluyeron 50 individuos sanos y 62 abortos con aneuploidía de alguno de los cromosomas acrocéntricos: nueve trisomías 13, siete trisomías 14, once trisomías 15, diecinueve trisomías 21 y dieciséis trisomías 22. Se realizó cariotipo con bandas Giemsa para detectar las aneuploidías y para detectar las translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos. Se utilizó hibridación in situ con fluorescencia con sondas D13Z1/D21Z1, D14Z1/D22Z1 y D15Z1. Se revisaron 15-20 metafases en microscopio de epifluorescencia. </p><p><strong>Resultados:</strong> se observaron translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos en 14% de los individuos sanos y en 17.7% de los abortos, sin diferencia significativa; en prácticamente todos los casos se involucró en el rearreglo a la región D15Z1, que se translocó desde el brazo corto del cromosoma 15 sobre los brazos cortos de un cromosoma<br />13 o uno 14. </p><p><strong>Conclusiones:</strong> las translocaciones crípticas de cromosomas acrocéntricos que involucran a la región D15Z1 son una variante normal con alta frecuencia en la muestra de población mexicana; esta variante no parece estar implicada en la etiología de las aneuploidías de acrocéntricos. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que este heteromorfismo es un rearreglo de tipo translocación o una recombinación entre no homólogos y que el cromosoma receptor de la región D15Z1 varía entre etnias.</p><p> </p>
Mujer adolescente con acidemia metilmalónica y desenlace fatal
Authors: Carbajal-Rodríguez Luis , Rojas-Maruri César Mauricio 
Published: October 2015

<p>Mujer adolescente, producto de la primera gestación de una madre de 18 años de edad, misma que recibió atención prenatal adecuada y cursó con evolución normal. Se obtuvo a término (a las 38 semanas de gestación) con peso al nacer de 3 400 g. Al interrogatorio se recordó una somatometría neonatal como único dato. Su padecimiento inició al mes de vida con vómitos<br />que generaron deshidratación y hospitalización en unidad de segundo nivel; ésta se prolongó por 5 semanas debido a problemas renales, pulmonares y persistencia de alteraciones metabólicas que finalmente condujeron al diagnóstico de error innato del metabolismo: acidemia metilmalónica.</p>
Exantemas en pediatría
Authors: Palacios-López Carolina Guadalupe , Durán-Mckinster Carola , Orozco-Covarrubias Luz , Saéz-de-Ocariz Marimar , García-Romero María Teresa , Ruiz-Maldonado Ramón 
Published: October 2015

<p>Los exantemas de la infancia son erupciones cutáneas localizadas o generalizadas que pueden ser causados por virus, bacterias, medicamentos o estar asociados con enfermedades sistémicas. La mayoría de los exantemas en la infancia son diagnosticados y tratados por el médico de atención primaria y por el pediatra, por lo que es deseable que ambos estén familiarizados con los exantemas clásicos y los atípicos.</p>
A case of crush injury of the right foot in a 26-year-old man treated with platelet rich plasma and negative pressure.
Authors: Zalita Paweł 
Published: October 2015

Treatment of a crash injury is a largely complicated and time-consuming process. Multidirectional damages often result in skin necrosis, edema, blood circulation disorders and bone fractures. We present a case of a 26-year-old man with right foot crush injury. After trauma he underwent a complex therapy which embraced: anti-oedematous treatment, negative pressure wound therapy, reposition of the bones under X-ray control with the stabilization by means of Kirschner wires, immobilization and transdermal application of the platelet-rich plasma in the fracture fissure – as a nonunion treatment.
Endoluminal negative pressure wound treatment of anastomotic leakage in rectal surgery patients – critical review of the literature.
Authors: Huľo Edward 
Published: October 2015

During past 20 years the use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has shown it effectivity and efficiency in treatment of different indications. These indications include treatment of septic complications of open surgery (open abdomen, enteroatmospheric fistulas, wound dehiscence including sternotomy infections, staged abdominal wall repair, diabetic foot syndrome, and salvage of infected prosthetic material) or their prevention (prevention of complications in skin graft application and prevention of prosthetic graft infection). Such use consists of either external use directly in the wound, or intracorporal applications (intraabdominal NPWT, intrathoracal NPWT). New approaches and ways of application are evolving. One of new therapeutic methods are endoluminal use in both upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Authors performed and present thorough review of the literature on use of endoluminal NPWT in anastomotic leakage in rectal surgery patients. Authors conclude, that endo NPWT is becoming a new and effective therapeutic method in treatment of septic complications of patients after rectal surgery.
Gut Microbiota, Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction
Authors: Meiliana Anna , Wijaya Andi 
Published: October 2015

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of obesity and related disorders such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes has vastly increased throughout the world. Recent insights have generated an entirely new perspective suggesting that our microbiota might be involved in the development of these disorders. This represents an area of scientific need, opportunity and challenge. The insights gleaned should help to address several pressing global health problems.CONTENT: Our bowels have two major roles: the digestion and absorption of nutrients and the maintenance of a barrier against the external environment. They fulfill these functions in the context of, and with the help from, tens of trillions of resident microbes, known as the gut microbiota. Studies have demonstrated that obesity and metabolic syndrome may be associated with profound microbiotal changes, and the induction of a metabolic syndrome phenotype through fecal transplants corroborates the important role of the microbiota in this disease. Dietary composition and caloric intake appear to swiftly regulate intestinal microbial composition and function.SUMMARY: The interaction of the intestinal microbial world with its host, and its mutual regulation, will become one of the important topics of biomedical research and will provide us with further insights at the interface of microbiota, metabolism, metabolic syndrome, and obesity. A better understanding of the interaction between certain diets and the human gut microbiome should help to develop new guidelines for feeding humans at various time points in their life, help to improve global human health, and establish ways to prevent or treat various food-related diseases.KEYWORDS: gut microbiota, obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes
The Relationship of Fetuin-A, Adiponectin, Retinol Binding Protein-4 (RBP-4) and High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) with Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) in Obese Non Diabetic Men
Authors: Novianti Imelda , Wijaya Andi , Donosepoetro Marsetio 
Published: October 2015

BACKGROUND: Central obesity is the accumulation of visceral (intra-abdominal) fat and is strongly known to be associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Obesity can cause adipocyte hypertrophy that results in dysregulation of adipokine expression. The abnormal function of adipocytes may play an important role in the development of a chronic low-grade proinflammatory state associated with obesity. Adiponectin, retinol binding protein (RBP)-4 and fetuin-A play a role in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance. Expression of fetuin-A is increased due to fat accumulation in the liver. Elevated concentration of fetuin-A in the circulation can impair insulin signaling in muscle and liver as well as suppress adiponectin secretion, although its molecular mechanism is still unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship of fetuin-A, adiponectin, RBP-4 and hsCRP with insulin resistance in obese non diabetic men.METHODS: This was an observational study with a cross-sectional design. The study subjects were 64 men with non diabetic abdominal obesity, characterized by waist circumference of 98.47 ± 5.88 cm and fasting blood glucose of 85.75±8.36 mg/dL.RESULTS: This study showed that fetuin-A was positively correlated with HOMA-IR in obese non diabetic men with insulin resistance (r = 0.128; p = 0.570), although not significant. Fetuin-A was found to be correlated with adiponectin, RBP-4 and hsCRP (r=0.150; p=0.233; r=0.050; p=0.711; r=-0.04; p=0.445), although not significant.CONCLUSIONS: The concentration of fetuin-A showed a tendency to be positively correlated with HOMA-IR and with RBP-4 in obese non diabetic men, although statistically not significant. The concentration of fetuin-A showed a tendency to be negatively correlated with adiponectin and hsCRP although statistically not significant. There was no interrelationship between fetuin-A, adiponectin, RBP-4, hsCRP and HOMA-IR. Elevated concentrations of fetuin-A were noted in obese subjects, which in turn might impair insulin signaling. This finding might suggest that fetuin-A may represent a new target for the prevention of insulin resistance. Further studies might be needed on obese population with fatty liver.KEYWORDS: fetuin-A, adiponectin, RBP-4, hsCRP, insulin resistance
Un inventaire du patrimoine naturel : les Z.N.I.E.F.F.
Authors: Le Corre Laurent , Noury Arnaud 
Published: October 2015

Natural areas of interest for their ecology, flora or fauna
(« ZN.I.EF.F.s »), the main element of the national inventory of natural heritage, raise many questions about their legal character and scope. In response to these questions, the State has tried to make up for the lack of original formalization but has not managed to do so completely because their legal doctrine is itself somewhat ambiguous. Nevertheless, the fact that the pioneers of the inventory were not wholly clear about these questions does not prevent the Z.N.I.EF.F. from being considered as administrative documents comprising straightforward expert evaluations. However, their use by administrative courts has provoked strong reactions, although an analysis of the case-law clearly shows that Z.N.I.E.F.F.s have only been used by these courts as instruments demonstrating the ecological value of some habitats. It remains to be seen whether the second generation of ZN.I.EF.F.s, now in the course of preparation, will be able to be used in legal proceedings in this way.
« Habitat 2 » : du possible au probable
Authors: Drobenko Bernard 
Published: October 2015

A la lumière de la déclaration finale et du programme d'action adoptés
à Istanbul lors de la Conférence « Habitat 2 », il s'agit, dans la présente étude, de situer :
- D'une part, les apports de cette conférence au regard des deux thèmes fondamentaux retenus par les Etats, le droit au logement et le développement durable des établissements humains ;
- D'autre part, la place de cette conférence dans le développement et les pratiques du droit international.
Le rôle du Centre des Nations unies pour les établissements humains et les perspectives d'évolution des établissements humains apparaissent étroitement liés à la volonté et aux moyens développés par les Etats.
Signature of a tropical Pacific cyclone in the composition of the upper troposphere over Socorro, NM
Authors: Minschwaner K. , Manney G. L. , Petropavlovskikh I. , Torres L. A. , Lawrence Z. D. , Sutherland B. , Thompson A. M. , Johnson B. J. , Butterfield Z. , Dubey M. K. , Froidevaux L. , Lambert A. , Read W. G. , Schwartz M. J. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractWe present a case study based on balloon‐borne ozone measurements during the SouthEast American Consortium for Intensive Ozonesonde Network Study in August–September 2013. Data from Socorro, NM (34°N, 107°W) show a layer of anomalously low ozone in the upper troposphere (UT) during 8–14 August. Back trajectories, UT jet analyses, and data from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the Aura satellite indicate that this feature originated from the marine boundary layer in the eastern/central tropical Pacific, where several disturbances and one hurricane (Henriette) formed within an active region of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in early August 2013. The hurricane and nearby convection pumped boundary layer air with low ozone (20–30 ppbv) into the UT. This outflow was advected to North America 3–5 days later by a strong subtropical jet, forming a tongue of low ozone observed in MLS fields and a corresponding layer of low ozone in Socorro vertical profiles.
Weakening of the weekend ozone effect over California's South Coast Air Basin
Authors: Baidar S. , Hardesty R. M. , Kim S.‐W. , Langford A. O. , Oetjen H. , Senff C. J. , Trainer M. , Volkamer R. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractWe have observed lower nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) during a hot weekend (summer 2010) from aircraft over the entire South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB). Surface concentrations of NO2, O3, and temperature from 1996 to 2014 corroborate that this lower O3 on weekends is increasingly likely in recent years. While higher surface O3 on the weekends (weekend ozone effect, WO3E) remains widespread, the spatial extent and the trend in the probability of WO3E occurrences (PWO3E) have decreased significantly compared to a decade ago. This decrease is mostly the result of lower O3 on hot weekends in recent years. PWO3E is lowest in the eastern SoCAB. The major decrease happened during the 2008 economic recession, after which PWO3E has stabilized at a 15–25% lower level throughout most of the basin. Future NOx reductions are likely to be increasingly effective at reducing O3 pollution initially under hot conditions in the coming decade.
Monitoring and Control of Learning Own‐Race and Other‐Race Faces
Authors: Rhodes Matthew G. , Sitzman Danielle M. , Rowland Christopher A. 
Published: October 2015

SummaryThe own‐race bias refers to the finding that individuals are better able to recognize faces of the same race or ethnicity compared with faces of another race or ethnicity. The current study examined whether the own‐race bias was also evident in participants' predictions of memory performance and their self‐regulation of learning. In three experiments, participants studied own‐race and other‐race faces and predicted the likelihood of recognizing each face on a future test. Experiment 1 showed that participants provided similar predictions for own‐race and other‐race faces, despite superior recognition of own‐race faces. Experiments 2 and 3 permitted participants to control their study of faces and revealed better self‐regulation of learning for own‐race relative to other‐race faces. Collectively, these experiments suggest that the own‐race bias may partially reflect a metacognitive deficiency, as participants are less able to effectively self‐regulate learning for other‐race faces. The implications of these findings are discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
New Malacovia
Authors: Bronner Pascal 
Published: October 2015

AbstractIn his 2009 award‐winning design thesis project for the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Pascal Bronner evokes the imaginary land of New Malacovia. Using an existing text as a catalyst, and graphite as the sole medium, Bronner transforms the inventions and urban ideas of an original fictionalised city afresh into a speculative environmental programme: a potato‐fuelled miniature city is laid out on foundations of bottle corks.
A World Below
Authors: Kulper Perry 
Published: October 2015

AbstractThe shift from hand drawing to the digital has often centred on the subject of media. Here, however, Perry Kulper discusses how leaving behind conventional graphic formats, such as those of the plan, section and elevation, opens up the possibilities of fusing visualisation and thinking. Kulper is fluid in his uses of techniques and design methods, tailoring them to explore a fit between what is being worked on, when it is being worked on and how it is being worked on ‐ in the quest for a ‘relational synthesis’.
Leaching‐Free Supported Gold Nanoparticles Catalyzing Cycloisomerizations under Microflow Conditions
Authors: Schröder Felix , Erdmann Nico , Noël Timothy , Luque Rafael , Van der Eycken Erik V. 
Published: October 2015

AbstractA continuous‐flow protocol for the gold‐catalyzed cycloisomerization of sterically hindered Ugi‐adducts to spiroindolines in a packed‐bed reactor is presented. Spiroindolines with various substitution patterns are formed in good yields and with good selectivity. A detailed characterization of the catalyst deactivation process was conducted, whereas no metal leaching from the catalyst was detected.magnified image