bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effects of Ninetyeast Ridge Magmatism and Pre India-Eurasia Collision Dynamics on Basement and Crust-lithospheric Structures of the Northeastern Indian Ocean
Authors: Rajesh S. , Majumdar T. J. 
Published: November 2014

Abstract:
The coexistence of multifaceted geodynamical situation in the Northeastern Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal) lithosphere inspires to investigate the origin, present day orientation and gravitational stability of its basement, crust and lithospheric structures. The origin, evolution and the present day configuration of these structures such as the northward down dipping of the Bay of Bengal basement and its lithosphere, the Moho of the 85°E ridge, the formation of the Ninetyeast ridge median graben and ridge normal faults and their interaction with slow convergence and stress diffusion processes in the north Andaman trench, remain conspicuous. In this paper, we explain the above mentioned processes and the existence of the Bay of Bengal basement features through plausible tectonic scenarios that related with past time dynamics of the Indian Plate prior to the India-Eurasia collision and lithospheric thermal perturbation due to the Ninetyeast Ridge magmatism.
Our analysis on the basis of satellite altimeter-derived geoid, gravity, sediment thickness, basement undulation, isostatic and prospecting geoid anomaly; suggests apart from the enhanced Oligocene Himalayan erosion and subsequent increased sediment load, the gravitational stability of the basin load (like formation of ridge graben) was also affected by altering the basin rheology to inelastic, owing to the enhanced thermal perturbation by the ninetyeast ridge magma. This made the Bay of Bengal lithosphere rheologically weak. Pre India-Eurasia collision, fast movement and fast convergence of the Indian plate at erstwhile north Andaman subduction zone made the lithosphere relatively stretchable due to the prevalence of intra-plate extensional stresses. The NE-SW orientation of the Central basin depression and the northward (NE-SW) dipping of the Bay of Bengal (BOB) lithosphere are pointing to such a stretchable lithosphere and its remnants are present at the northeast of the northern Ninetyeast ridge, as observed from the low prospecting geoid anomaly. The presence of such a thermally altered, weak lithosphere as a subducting slab at the north Andaman trench caused the present day observed low convergence rate, lack of seismicity, as well as the cessation of fault rupture followed by the Great Sumatra Andaman earthquake of Mw (9.1) on 26 December 2004. The Ninetyeast ridge oblique collision with the north Andaman trench was presumed around Pleistocene based on the timing of abandonment of the Nicobar fan from the Bengal head fan. The discontinuity of the ridge along the oblique convergence zone of the north Andaman and its isostatic stability are mainly controlled by the subduction zone dynamics, unlike the 85°E ridge.
Structure, Stratigraphy and Magnetic Susceptibility of Bomdila Gneiss, Western Arunachal Himalaya, India
Authors: Sarma K.P. , Bhattacharjee S. , Nandy S. , Konwar P. , Mazumdar Nandita 
Published: November 2014

Abstract:
Bomdila Gneiss (BG) of Western Arunachal Himalaya (WAH), a suite of felsic magmatic rocks of different components of Palaeoproterozoic age is hosted within the Lesser Himalayan Sedimentary Sequence (LHSS) and placed between the two notable thrust systems-MCT at the top of the structural level to the north and MBT at the lower structural level to the south. Both MCT and MBT are highly sheared ductile zone of high strain and the felsic batholith around Bomdila signatures the protolithic history as porphyritic granite. The BG is highly sheared, strained and displays a number of shear sense indicators like σ, δ, mica fish, stretch ribbon, S-C fabric, dislocation fabric and effect of mylonitisation. Stratigraphic status, magnetic susceptibility and whole rock geochemistry of BG have been studied to evaluate the tectonostratigraphy and nature of granite as ilmanite series (reduced type) and the related data sets are correlated as supplements with the redox state (moderately reduced type).
Source Mineral for the Release of Arsenic in the Groundwater of Karanda Block, Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh
Authors: Saxena A. , Kumar S. , Goel P. 
Published: November 2014

Abstract:
The Karanda block of Ghazipur district has areas with high content of arsenic in the groundwater. The maximum arsenic content of about 250 ppb is noted at Karkatpur village. To identify the source mineral for the release of arsenic in the groundwater at Karkatpur village, sedimentological, mineralogical and chemical study has been undertaken for the sediments up to the depth of 36m as there is no industrial source nearby. The groundwater is also chemically analysed. It is concluded that the source mineral for the release of arsenic in the groundwater is arsenolite (As2O3) in the sediments.
Deciphering of Groundwater Potential Zones in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques
Authors: Selvam S. , Magesh N. S. , Sivasubramanian P. , Soundranayagam John Prince , Manimaran G. , Seshunarayana T. 
Published: November 2014

Abstract:
The present study was carried out to decipher the groundwater potential zones in the coastal terrain of Tuticorin using Indian remote sensing satellite IRS-1C, LlSS-III data on a 1:50,000 scale and Survey of India (SOI) toposheets. The thematic layers such as lithology, slope, land-use, lineament, drainage, soil and rainfall were generated and integrated to prepare the groundwater prospect and recharge map of the study area. These layers were transformed to raster data using feature to raster converter tool in Arc GIS 9.2 software. Subjective weights are assigned to the respective thematic layers and overlaid in GIS platform for the identification of potential groundwater zones within the area. These potential zones were categorized as ‘high’, ‘moderate’, and ‘low’ zones with respect to the assigned weightage of different thematic layers. The resultant map shows that 10% of the area has highest recharge potentials, this is due to the percolation of precipitated water into the sub-surface rocks, followed by 65% of the area with moderate groundwater recharge potentiality, and rest of the area has low recharge potential. The study highlights that the total average annual precipitated water (877 mm) is responsible for natural recharge of the aquifers in the Tuticorin area.
An exploratory study on the contribution of graduate entry students personality to the diversity of medical student populations
Authors: Marv˜ao Pedro , Neto Isabel , Castelo-Branco Miguel , Ponte Jos´e , Portela Miguel , Costa Patr´ıcio , Costa Manuel Jo˜ao 
Published: November 2014

Studies conducted in medical education show that personality influences undergraduate medical students academic and clinical performances and also their career interests. Our aims with this exploratory study were: to assess the contribution of graduate entry students to the diversity of personality in medical student populations; to assess whether eventual differences may be explained by programme structure or student age and sex. We performed a cross-sectional study underpinned by the five-factor model of personality, with students attending three medical schools in Portugal. The five personality dimensions were assessed with the Portuguese version of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory. MANOVA and MANCOVA analyses were performed to clarify the contributions of school, programme structure, age and sex. Student personality dimensions were significantly different between the three medical schools [F (10,1026) = 3.159, p < .001 n2p = 0.03, π = 0.987]. However, taking sex and age into account the differences became non-significant. There were institutional differences in personality dimensions. However, those were primarily accounted for by sex and age effects and not by the medical school attended. Diversifying age and sex of the admitted students will diversify the personality of the medical student population.
Stereotactic radiotherapy of orbital metastasis from malignant melanoma: a case study
Authors: Majewski Wojciech , Wydmanski Jerzy , Rokicki Wojciech 
Published: November 2014

AbstractObjective:Orbital metastases lead to many distressful symptoms.Methods:A case-report of a 44-year-old woman with a melanoma metastasis in the orbital cavity, is reported. A patient presented with headache, proptosis and diplopia. The stereotactic radiotherapy of 19.5 Gy in three fractions using CyberKnife was performed. Follow-up examination 7 months later revealed satisfactory local control of the tumour, alleviation of orbital symptoms with no negative impact on visual function.Conclusion:Stereotactic radiotherapy seems to be a safe and effective treatment of orbital metastases from melanoma.
Situating care in mainstream health economics: an ethical dilemma?
Authors: DAVIS JOHN B. , McMASTER ROBERT 
Published: November 2014

Abstract:Standard health economics concentrates on the provision of care by medical professionals. Yet ‘care’ receives scant analysis; it is portrayed as a spillover effect or externality in the form of interdependent utility functions. In this context care can only be conceived as either acts of altruism or as social capital. Both conceptions are subject to considerable problems stemming from mainstream health economics’ reliance on a reductionist social model built around instrumental rationality and consequentialism. Subsequently, this implies a disregard for moral rules and duties and the compassionate aspects of behaviour. Care as an externality is a second-order concern relative to self-interested utility maximization, and is therefore crowded out by the parameters of the standard model. We outline an alternative relational approach to conceptualising care based on the social embeddedness of the individual that emphasises the ethical properties of care. The deontological dimension of care suggests that standard health economics is likely to undervalue the importance of care and caring in medicine.
Die „figürlich-ungegenständliche” gestische Malerei als Therapeutikum
Authors: Wichelhaus Barbara 
Published: November 2014

Das breite Methodenspektrum für kunsttherapeutische Maßnahmen wird häufig nur ungenügend und nicht immer patientenbezogen genutzt. Die Gründe liegen u. a. in einseitigen Orientierungen mancher Ausbildungen, insbesondere in der geringen Berücksichtigung von künstlerisch-ästhetischen Potentialen kunsttherapeutischer Prozesse. Um diesen Aspekt verstärkt in den Fokus der Betrachtung zu rücken, auch in Kooperation mit anderen künstlerischen Therapien, wird die besonders vernachlässigte figürlich-ungegenständliche gestische Malerei als ästhetische Ausdrucksform in ihrer grundlegenden kunsttherapeutischen Bedeutung gewürdigt.
Computer Control of Drug Delivery by Continuous Intravenous Infusion
Authors: Parker Michael J. , Lovich Mark A. , Tsao Amy C. , Wei Abraham E. , Wakim Matthew G. , Maslov Mikhail Y. , Tsukada Hisashi , Peterfreund Robert A. 
Published: November 2014

AbstractAbstract
Computer-executed algorithms can coordinate the output of pumps infusing drug and carrier fluid to reduce delivery lag time in vitro and in vivo.

Background:
Intravenous drug infusion driven by syringe pumps may lead to substantial temporal lags in achieving steady-state delivery at target levels when using very low flow rates (“microinfusion”). This study evaluated computer algorithms for reducing temporal lags via coordinated control of drug and carrier flows.

Methods:
Novel computer control algorithms were developed based on mathematical models of fluid flow. Algorithm 1 controlled initiation of drug infusion and algorithm 2 controlled changes to ongoing steady-state infusions. These algorithms were tested in vitro and in vivo using typical high and low dead volume infusion system architectures. One syringe pump infused a carrier fluid and a second infused drug. Drug and carrier flowed together via a manifold through standard central venous catheters. Samples were collected in vitro for quantitative delivery analysis. Parameters including left ventricular max dP/dt were recorded in vivo.

Results:
Regulation by algorithm 1 reduced delivery delay in vitro during infusion initiation by 69% (low dead volume) and 78% (high dead volume). Algorithmic control in vivo measuring % change in max dP/dt showed similar results (55% for low dead volume and 64% for high dead volume). Algorithm 2 yielded greater precision in matching the magnitude and timing of intended changes in vivo and in vitro.

Conclusions:
Compared with conventional methods, algorithm-based computer control of carrier and drug flows can improve drug delivery by pump-driven intravenous infusion to better match intent. For norepinephrine infusions, the amount of drug reaching the bloodstream per time appears to be a dominant factor in the hemodynamic response to infusion.
CLASS: Accurate and Efficient Splice Variant Annotation from RNA-seq Reads
Authors: Song Li , Sabunciyan Sarven , Florea Liliana 
Published: November 2014

ABSTRACTNext generation sequencing of cellular RNA is making it possible to characterize genes and alternative splicing in unprecedented detail. However, designing bioinformatics tools to capture splicing variation accurately has proven difficult. Current programs find major isoforms of a gene but miss finer splicing variations, or are sensitive but highly imprecise. We present CLASS, a novel open source tool for accurate genome-guided transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq reads. CLASS employs a splice graph to represent a gene and its splice variants, combined with a linear program to determine an accurate set of exons and efficient splice graph-based transcript selection algorithms. When compared against reference programs, CLASS had the best overall accuracy and could detect up to twice as many splicing events with precision similar to the best reference program. Notably, it was the only tool that produced consistently reliable transcript models for a wide range of applications and sequencing strategies, including very large data sets and ribosomal RNA-depleted samples. Lightweight and multi-threaded, CLASS required <3GB RAM and less than one day to analyze a 350 million read set, and is an excellent choice for transcriptomics studies, from clinical RNA sequencing, to alternative splicing analyses, and to the annotation of new genomes.
Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for secondary recurrent miscarriage: a randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial
Authors: Christiansen OB , Larsen EC , Egerup P , Lunoee L , Egestad L , Nielsen HS 
Published: November 2014

ObjectiveTo determine whether infusions with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) during early pregnancy increase live birth rate in women with secondary recurrent miscarriage compared with placebo.DesignA single‐centre, randomised, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trial.SettingA tertiary centre for recurrent miscarriage in Copenhagen, Denmark.PopulationA group of 82 women with unexplained secondary recurrent miscarriage and at least four miscarriages.MethodsWomen were randomly assigned to repeated infusions with IVIg or placebo (albumin) from the time of positive pregnancy test to gestational week 15 or pregnancy loss.Main outcome measurePrimary outcome was birth with neonatal survival in all randomised women.ResultsIn the intention‐to‐treat analyses, live birth rates were 23/42 (54.8%) in the IVIg and 20/40 (50.0%) in the placebo group, relative risk 1.11 (95% CI 0.70–1.74). In a per protocol analysis, almost identical results were found. The median gestational length at delivery was higher in the IVIg than the placebo group (282 versus 272 days, P = 0.02) but the mean birthweight was not significantly increased.ConclusionsIn this trial, which is the largest so far, IVIg did not increase the live birth rate in patients with secondary recurrent miscarriage and the treatment cannot be recommended in clinical practice.
Numerical modelling of Quaternary terrace staircase formation in the Ebro foreland basin, southern Pyrenees, NE Iberia
Authors: Stange Kurt Martin , Van Balen Ronald T. , Garcia‐Castellanos Daniel , Cloetingh Sierd 
Published: November 2014

AbstractThe southern foreland basin of the Pyrenees (Ebro basin) is an exorheic drainage basin since Late Miocene times. Remnants of an early exorheic Ebro drainage system are not preserved, but morphology provides evidence for the Pliocene–Quaternary drainage development. The incision history of the Ebro system is denoted by (i) extensive, low gradient pedimentation surfaces which are associated with the denudation of the southern Pyrenean piedmont around the Pliocene–Quaternary transition and (ii) deeply entrenched Quaternary river valleys. Presumably since the Middle Pleistocene fluvial incision intensified involving the formation of extensive terrace staircase in the Ebro basin. Terrace exposure dating in major Ebro tributary rivers indicates climate‐triggered terrace formation in response to glacial–interglacial climate and glacier fluctuations in the Pyrenean headwaters. The overall (semi)parallel longitudinal terrace profiles argue for progressive base level lowering for the whole Ebro drainage network. The landscape evolution model, TISC, is used to evaluate climatic, tectonic and base level scenarios for terrace staircase formation in the Ebro drainage system. Model simulations are compared with morpho‐climatic, tectonic and chronologic data. Results show that climatic fluctuations cause terrace formation, but the incision magnitudes and convergent terrace profiles predicted by this climate model scenario are not consistent with the (semi)parallel terraces in the Ebro basin. A model including previous (late Pliocene) uplift of the lower Ebro basin results in rapid base‐level lowering and erosion along the drainage network, small late stage incision magnitudes and terrace convergence, which are not in agreement with observations. Instead, continuous Quaternary uplift of both the Pyrenees and the Ebro foreland basin triggers (semi)parallel terrace staircase formation in southern Pyrenean tributary rivers in consistency with the observed longitudinal terrace profiles and Middle–Late Pleistocene incision magnitudes. Forward model simulations indicate that the present Ebro drainage system is actively incising, providing further evidence for uplift.
Adverse childhood experiences and dental health in children and adolescents
Authors: Bright Melissa A. , Alford Shannon M. , Hinojosa Melanie S. , Knapp Caprice , Fernandez‐Baca Daniel E. 
Published: November 2014

AbstractObjectiveThis study seeks to explore the how specific toxic stressors, specifically adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and their frequencies may be associated with tooth condition and the presence of caries.MethodsData from the 2011–12 National Survey for Child Health (NSCH), a nationally representative survey of child health, were used in this study. Pediatric dental health was measured using parent report of two characteristics: condition of teeth and having a toothache, decayed teeth, and/or unfilled cavities in the past 12 months. ACEs were measured by asking about a child's exposure to the divorce of a parent, parental incarceration, domestic violence, neighborhood violence, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, and financial hardship. Analyses were adjusted by sociodemographic characteristics, healthcare access and utilization, and comorbid chronic conditions.ResultsThe presence of even one ACE in a child's life increased the likelihood of having poor dental health. Additionally, having multiple ACEs had a cumulative negative effect on the condition of their teeth and the presence of dental caries (Odds Ratios 1.61–2.55). Adjusted models show that racial and socioeconomic factors still play a significant role in dental health.ConclusionsIn addition to the known disparities in dental caries, this study demonstrates that there is significant association between childhood psychosocial issues and dental health. Preventive dental care should be considered incorporating the screening of multiple biological stressors, including ACEs, in routine dental visits as a means of identifying and reducing dental health inequities.
Social support and social network as intermediary social determinants of dental caries in adolescents
Authors: Fontanini Humberto , Marshman Zoe , Vettore Mario 
Published: November 2014

AbstractObjectiveThe aim of this study was to investigate the association between intermediary social determinants, namely social support and social network with dental caries in adolescents.MethodsAn adapted version of theWHOsocial determinants of health conceptual framework was used to organize structural and intermediary social determinants of dental caries into six blocks including perceived social support and number of social networks. A cross‐sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of 542 students between 12 and 14 years of age in public schools located in the city of Dourados, Brazil in 2012. The outcome variables were caries experience (DMFT ≥ 1) and current dental caries (component D ofDMFT ≥ 1) recorded by a calibrated dentist. Individual interviews were performed to collect data on perceived social support and numbers of social networks from family and friends and covariates. Multivariate Poisson regressions using hierarchical models were conducted.ResultsThe prevalence of adolescents with caries experience and current dental caries was 55.2% and 32.1%, respectively. Adolescents with low numbers of social networks and low levels of social support from family (PR1.47; 95%CI = 1.01–2.14) were more likely to haveDMFT ≥ 1. Current dental caries was associated with low numbers of social networks and low levels of social support from family (PR2.26; 95%CI = 1.15–4.44).ConclusionSocial support and social network were influential psychosocial factors to dental caries in adolescents. This finding requires confirmation in other countries but potentially has implications for programmes to promote oral health.
Law and the Periphery
Authors: Kukovec Damjan 
Published: November 2014

AbstractThe Euro crisis brought to the fore a larger and hitherto invisible structural problem as to the relationship between the European Union's centre and its periphery. I am arguing that the concerns of the peripheral EU countries, of their workers and companies are difficult to argue in the existing ideology and that this contributes to the reproduction of the existing hierarchies in the EU. The ideology of the EU legal profession is one of the centre of the EU, and this importantly determines how harm is understood in EU law and which doctrines are present in legal thinking. For example, there is a presence of social dumping, but an absence of goods dumping in the EU legal vernacular. I argue that the centre‐periphery relationship is structured by legal entitlements, that the overtly political discourse of left and right is analytically insufficient and explain the phenomenon of conceptualism of contemporary legal thought.
The EU ‘Stress Tests’: The Basis for a New Regulatory Framework for Nuclear Safety
Authors: Álvarez‐Verdugo Milagros 
Published: November 2014

AbstractAmong the constitutional tensions at the heart of the European integration process, the relationship between ‘mainstream’ EU Law (framed by the Treaty on European Union) and Euratom Law has often been overlooked. Nonetheless, the EU's response to the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima provides an opportunity to revisit this relationship. This article specifically aims to highlight the dysfunctions of the prevailing understanding of the Euratom's provisions on nuclear safety matters as well as to identify, under a joint interpretation of all EU Treaties, how to develop a European nuclear safety regime that reinforces the compensatory role of EU law and contributes to enhance the EU's legitimacy.