bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Rehabilitation interventions with deconditioned older adults following an acute hospital admission: a systematic review
Authors: Timmer Amanda J , Unsworth Carolyn A , Taylor Nicholas F 
Published: May 2014

Objective: To determine effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation interventions with older deconditioned adults following an acute hospital admission. Data sources: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) from 14 electronic databases from their inception to February 2014. Review methods: Studies selected concerned inpatient rehabilitation, single or multi-factorial interventions, conducted by any discipline, where participants were aged 55 years or older and 50% or more could be classed as deconditioned. Studies were excluded if they focused on acute onset of disability conditions. Data were extracted using the McMaster Quantitative Review Form and appraised using the PEDro Rating Scale. Results: No RCTs were found that specifically addressed the aim. Four studies were reviewed describing multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programs that aimed to reduce functional decline in older adults, with inconsistent findings. However, in two studies participants showed a positive improvement in completing basic activities of daily living (ADL) following multi-disciplinary rehabilitation, one at discharge (median change score Intervention (I)0.23:Control (C)0.15, P=<0.001) and one at 12-months post discharge (I-48.4%: C-25.4% ( P‹0.001) Relative Risk (RR)1.90 95%CI: 1.15-3.16 (reviewer calculated)). Discharge to home was also measured in two studies with participants in the intervention groups having a higher probability of going home (I-55.6%: C-36.7 %, RR 1.52 95%CI: 1.02-2.26 (reviewer calculated) and I-60%: C-20%, RR 3.00 95%CI: 1.16-7.73(reviewer calculated)). Conclusion: No RCTs have been conducted to examine the effectiveness of specific recondition-ing interventions in rehabilitation, and there is currently insufficient evidence to support the use of geriatric rehabilitation programs to reduce functional decline in older adults who are deconditioned.
Detection of In Vivo Foot and Ankle Implants by Walkthrough Metal Detectors
Authors: Chan Jeremy Y. , Mani Sriniwasan B. , Williams Phillip N. , O’Malley Martin J. , Levine David S. , Roberts Matthew M. , Ellis Scott J. 
Published: May 2014

Background: Heightened security concerns have made metal detectors a standard security measure in many locations. While prior studies have investigated the detection rates of various hip and knee implants, none have looked specifically at the detection of foot and ankle implants in an in vivo model. Our goals were to identify which commonly used foot and ankle implants would be detected by walkthrough metal detectors both in vivo and ex vivo. Methods: Over a 7-month period, 153 weightbearing patients with foot and ankle hardware were recruited to walk through a standard airport metal detector at 3 different program settings (buildings, airports, and airports enhanced) with a base sensitivity of 165 (arbitrary units), as currently used by the Transportation Security Administration. The number of implants, location and type, as well as the presence of concomitant hardware outside of the foot and ankle were recorded. To determine the detection rate of common foot and ankle implants ex vivo, different hardware sets were walked through the detector at all 3 program settings. Results: Seventeen patients were found to have detectable hardware at the buildings, airports, and airports enhanced settings. An additional 3 patients had hardware only detected at the airports enhanced setting. All 20 of these patients had concomitant metal implants outside of the foot and ankle from other orthopaedic procedures. All patients with foot and ankle implants alone passed through undetected. Seven hardware sets were detected ex vivo at the airports enhanced setting. Conclusion: Our results indicate that patients with foot and ankle implants alone are unlikely to be detected by walkthrough metal detectors at standard airport settings. When additional hardware is present from orthopaedic procedures outside of the foot and ankle, metal detection rates were higher. We believe that these results are important for surgeons in order to educate patients on how they might be affected when walking through a metal detector such as while traveling. Level of Evidence: Level II, prospective comparative study.
Genome features of Pseudomonas putida LS46, a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate producer and its comparison with other P. putida strains
Authors: Sharma Parveen K , Fu Jilagamazhi , Zhang Xiangli , Fristensky Brian , Sparling Richard , Levin David B 
Published: May 2014

AbstractA novel strain ofPseudomonas putidaLS46 was isolated from wastewater on the basis of its ability to synthesize medium chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs).P.putidaLS46 was differentiated from otherP.putidastrains on the basis of cpn60 (UT). The complete genome ofP.putidaLS46 was sequenced and annotated. Its chromosome is 5,86,2556 bp in size with GC ratio of 61.69. It is encoding 5316 genes, including 7 rRNA genes and 76 tRNA genes. Nucleotide sequence data of the completeP. putidaLS46 genome was compared with nine otherP. putidastrains (KT2440, F1, BIRD-1, S16, ND6, DOT-T1E, UW4, W619 and GB-1) identified either as biocontrol agents or as bioremediation agents and isolated from different geographical region and different environment. BLASTn analysis of whole genome sequences of the tenP. putidastrains revealed nucleotide sequence identities of 86.54 to 97.52%.P.putidagenome arrangement was LS46 highly similar toP.putidaBIRD1 andP.putidaND6 but was markedly different thanP.putidaDOT-T1E,P.putidaUW4 andP.putidaW619. Fatty acid biosynthesis (fab), fatty acid degradation (fad) and PHA synthesis genes were highly conserved among biocontrol and bioremediationP.putidastrains. Six genes inphaoperon ofP. putidaLS46 showed >98% homology at gene and proteins level. It appears that polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis is an intrinsic property ofP. putidaand was not affected by its geographic origin. However, all strains, includingP. putidaLS46, were different from one another on the basis of house keeping genes, and presence of plasmid, prophages, insertion sequence elements and genomic islands. WhileP. putidaLS46 was not selected for plant growth promotion or bioremediation capacity, its genome also encoded genes for root colonization, pyoverdine synthesis, oxidative stress (present in other soil isolates), degradation of aromatic compounds, heavy metal resistance and nicotinic acid degradation, manganese (Mn II) oxidation. Genes for toluene or naphthalene degradation found in the genomes ofP. putidaF1, DOT-T1E, and ND6 were absent in theP. putidaLS46 genome. Heavy metal resistant genes encoded by theP. putidaW619 genome were also not present in theP. putidaLS46 genome. Despite the overall similarity among genome ofP.putidastrains isolated for different applications and from different geographical location a number of differences were observed in genome arrangement, occurrence of transposon, genomic islands and prophage. It appears thatP.putidastrains had a common ancestor and by acquiring some specific genes by horizontal gene transfer it differed from other related strains.
Development of Direct Aromatic Coupling Reactions by Transition-Metal Catalysis
Authors: Miura Masahiro , Satoh Tetsuya , Hirano Koji 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Transition-metal-catalyzed aromatic cross-coupling reactions are highly useful for constructing various organic fine chemicals. The conventional methods, however, usually require the preactivation of aromatic substrates such as stoichiometric halogenation and metalation before the coupling event, which increases the steps leading to target molecules and yields inevitable salts as by-products. In order to cope with these problems, catalytic C–H transformation reactions on aromatic substrates have been one of the most intensive subjects in the area of catalytic organic synthesis. Summarized herein are our efforts for developing direct aromatic and heteroaromatic coupling reactions by using a number of transition metals as catalysts.
Educational advantages gained by delving into the visual brain
Authors: Alo Theresa 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The purpose of this article is to examine the benefit of the inclusion of the arts in all students’ education. Since all human activity is a product of the organization of our brains, it stands to reason that understanding how the visual brain works will solidify arts education in every student’s curriculum. Research shows that the visual sense engages more areas of the brain than any other of our five senses. Provided within this article is the workings of the visual brain that should be utilized to provide educational advantages to all students. Through the research cited within this paper, the reader will begin to understand the workings of the visual brain and the benefits of instruction in the arts.
Victor D’Amico’s art teaching philosophy from 1968 to 1979
Authors: Jalil Rabeya 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Victor D’Amico was a pioneer and milestone in art education and served as Director of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art for more than 30 years. This article is based on an analysis of primary and secondary documents by and related to Victor D’Amico to construct an account of his art teaching philosophy from 1968 to 1979. I discuss his ideology about the need for the staff of an art institute or art department to possess a profound and homogeneous philosophy based on specific curriculum recommendations that, he emphasized, should draw from contemporary trends in art and art education. I highlight his vision of an art department’s relation to other disciplines in the University, to the community and to the reality of living in the current world (of his time), particularly focusing on an art institution’s flexible or rigid practices to new thoughts and methods. I further discuss his opinions about the rapport between faculty and students and the presence of mutual respect and sensitivity. This article also involves D’Amico’s perspectives on the adequacy of infrastructure and physical facilities being an asset or a handicap to making changes and developing a strong art programme. He strongly believed in conducting comprehensive research in the field, seeking solutions to old problems and improving the status quo in an art education setting. Finally, I discuss how some of D’Amico’s philosophies and ideologies, which evolved almost 35 years ago, are still relevant and being practised in contemporary art pedagogy.
A/r/tography as indisciplinary turning
Authors: Kalin Nadine M. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article considers the disciplinary disturbances of recent turns in contemporary art in relation to processes of a/r/tographical enquiry. Specifically, it looks at the pedagogical and socially engaged turns in art practices that reverberate with the multiple disciplines that can exist within a/r/tography. These sites of disturbance are contrasted with the disciplinary debates that include traditional schools of art and design in order to delve further into notions of knowledge production and reproduction within disciplines yet to come aimed to inspire gatekeepers at universities towards reinvention. Moreover, the potentialities of Derrida’s iterability and Rancière’s indisciplinary knowledge are described as concepts significant to a rethinking of a/r/tography in ways that demonstrate Rogoff’s notions of the repractising and relocalization of disciplines through enquiry. Throughout, this article is structured as a series of interconnected turns that engage a/r/tography theoretically, artistically and disciplinarily in an expansive and speculative manner in order to animate methodological possibilities while stimulating disruptive movement generated within indisciplinary turning.
The courage to curate: Mapping communities of artistic practice within c/a/r/tography
Authors: McCartney Laura Lee 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article maps how an a/r/tographic enquiry designed to interrogate curator identity as a way of being in both public and private realms is unpacked through the practice of curating the exhibition ‘Dress Stories’ at the University of North Texas. Throughout the curatorial process, there were opportunities to unpack, unfold and undo clothing as a way into curator, artist, researcher and teacher self-study. Each of Parker Palmer’s community models is interrogated as a means to ask: who is the curator who curates in community?
A critique and a proposal: A/r/tography and arts-based research as a methodology of intuition
Authors: Boulton-Funke Adrienne 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article draws on Gilles Deleuze’s work with Bergson’s concepts to theorize a/r/tography as a methodology of intuition. Intuition in this work is understood as a particular form of knowing that is activated in a disruption to tacit perceptions in what Inna Semetsky refers to as ‘perception becoming’. To do so, this article explores a recent critique of the theoretical underpinnings of a/r/tography and the assertion that as a methodology, a/r/tography does not provoke an encounter with perception, with the virtual as ‘the unconscious Real’. This article develops this proposal through Deleuze’s work to examine this precise methodology of intuition as a way to examine the provocation of difference within the pragmatism of a/r/tography and arts-based research. It will also explore two a/r/tographical renderings: openings and reverberations to examine the actualization of creative thought in the real through intuition.
Effects of shrimp cage farming on sediment nutrients in a subtropical estuary
Authors: Pereira Leandro Angelo , Ventura Robson , Perbiche-Neves Gilmar , Silva Manuela Dreyer , Boeger Walter , Ostrensky Antonio 
Published: May 2014

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of shrimp (Litopennaeus vannamei) cage farming on sediment nutrients concentration. The farm were located in a subtropical estuary (Guaratuba Bay) in the south of Brazil andÂ held 300 cages (size: 3.6m x 3.6m x 2m) made of PVC distributed over an area of approximately 4200mÂ². Shrimps were fed with two types of commercial feeds, one developed specifically for shrimp and other for fish. Five sampling points were defined, one was located at the center of the farm area, one was set 1000m away from the farm, in an area with similar hydrodynamics conditions, and the others were located 200m away from the culture in west, northeast and southwest directions. During one year, monthly sediment sampling was performed at each station. Carbon (C), phosphorus (P), calcium (CaÂ²+), and potassium (K+) concentrations were determined. The results consistently indicate that in the studied shrimp farm the nutrients concentration increased significantly below the cultivation cages. We also obtained an indication that under the studied conditions the raise in the levels of nutrients can reach distances in the range of 200m.
Spurensuche?
Authors: Hölscher Lucian 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades: This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism’s aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a mere Protestant culture of remembrance.
Ein Gerechter unter den Völkern
Authors: Huber Wolfgang 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Stephan H. Pfürtner (1922-2012) was a Catholic theologian who in the last stage of his academic career taught Social Ethics in the Department of Protestant Theology at Philipps-University in Marburg. The text, originally a lecture in commemoration of Stephan Pfürtner and his work, shows the close connection between biography and theology, between ethical experience and ethical reflection in his case. Empathetic
Courage is shown by him in his successful effort to save three young Jewish women from death in the Concentration Camp of Stutthof near Danzig in 1944. Ecumenical Resistance is performed by a group of young Christians around four ministers who became sentenced to death in 1943. A Liberated
Conscience is decisive for Pfürtner’s position in a deep conflict with the Roman-Catholic Church on the ethics of human sexuality. Ethics of Reponsibility is the conception that he develops in his Marburg years. Evangelical Catholicity characterizes the spiritual dimension of Stephan Pfürtner’s legacy.
Evangelische Offenheit im Interesse des Kindeswohls
Authors: Theißen Henning 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This study explores the relevance which the adoption of children has gained in the German and in the English speaking theological ethical discourse (I) and proposes that a combination of normative and hermeneutical factors will contribute to an ethical assessment of adoption (II). A core objective of the study is to implement openness as a Protestant value into the practice of adoption placement. It is argued that theories of enablement serve as a theoretical framework for an ethics of adoption.
Translation ovoids of unitary polar spaces
Authors: King O. , Siciliano A. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
An ovoid of a finite classical polar space is a set of points having exactly one point in common with every generator. An ovoid is a translation ovoid with respect to one of its points if it admits a collineation group fixing all totally isotropic lines through the point and acting regularly on the remaining points of the ovoid. Lunardon and Polverino proved in [11] that Q+(3; q), Q(4; q) and Q+(5; q) are the only finite orthogonal polar spaces having translation ovoids. In this paper we prove that H(3; q2) is the only finite unitary polar space having translation ovoids. We also prove that translation groups of ovoids of H(3; q2) contain only linear collineations.
Mass transport problems obtained as limits of p-Laplacian type problems with
spatial dependence
Authors: Mazón José M. , Rossi Julio D. , Toledo Julian 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.
We consider the following problem: given a bounded convex domain

Ω
⊂

ℝ
N

${\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N}$

we consider the limit as p → ∞ of
solutions to

-
div
(

b

p

-
p

|
D
u
|

p
-
2

D
u
)
=

f
+

-

f
-

${- \operatorname{div} (b_{p}^{-p} |Du|^{p-2}
Du)=f_+ - f_-}$

in Ω and

b

p

-
p

|
D
u
|

p
-
2

∂
u

∂
η

=
0

${
b_{p}^{-p} |Du|^{p-2} \frac{\partial u}{\partial \eta }=0}$

on

∂
Ω

${\partial \Omega }$

.
Under appropriate assumptions on the coefficients bp
that in particular verify that

lim

p
→
∞

b
p

=
b

${ \lim _{p\rightarrow \infty } b_p
= b }$

uniformly in

Ω
¯

${\overline{\Omega }}$

, we prove that there is a
uniform limit of

u

p
j

${u_{p_j}}$

(along a sequence

p
j

→
∞

${p_j \rightarrow \infty }$

) and that this
limit is a Kantorovich potential for the optimal mass transport
problem of

f
+

${f_+}$

to

f
-

${f_-}$

with cost

c
(
x
,
y
)

${c(x,y)}$

given by the formula

c

(
x
,
y
)

=

inf

σ
(
0
)
=
x
,

σ
(
1
)
=
y

∫
σ

b

d
s

${c(x,y) = \inf _{\sigma (0)=x,\,\sigma (1)=y} \int _\sigma b\, ds}$

.
Producer Liability and Competition Policy When Firms Are Bound by a Common Industry Reputation
Authors: Baniak Andrzej , Grajzl Peter , Joseph Guse A. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
We contrast the laissez-faire regime with the regime of strict producer liability and draw the implications for competition policy in a setting where oligopolistic firms cannot differentiate themselves from rivals but rather are bound by a common industry reputation for product safety. We show that, first, unlike in the traditional products liability model, firms’ incentives to invest in precaution depend on market structure. Second, depending on the magnitude of expected damages awarded by the courts, laissez-faire can welfare dominate strict producer liability. Third, the relationship between social welfare and industry size, and hence the role for competition policy, depends on the institutional regime governing the industry. Under some circumstances, restricting industry size is unambiguously welfare-enhancing.
Prediction of Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis Kinetic Parameters Using Neural Networks
Authors: Fernandes Fabiano A. N. , Linhares-Junior Francisco E. , Cartaxo Samuel J. M. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The kinetic mechanism of the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is complex resembling a polymerization reaction. The kinetic rate constants for initiation, propagation and termination steps and the constants for the equilibrium reactions for methylene formation (in situ monomer) need to be estimated. A mathematical model for the FTS allows for simulating several operating conditions and determining the best operating conditions to produce a specific product distribution, so the kinetic parameters must be statistically valid. This work used neural networks (NNs) to estimate the FTS kinetic parameters, instead of using methods based on least squared error. The results show that NNs with three hidden layers were able to output good estimates of the kinetic parameters with less than 5% of deviation.
UC hierarchy and monodromy preserving deformation
Authors: Tsuda Teruhisa 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.

The UC hierarchy is an extension of the KP hierarchy,
which possesses not only an infinite set of positive time evolutions
but also that of negative ones.
Through a similarity reduction
we derive from the UC hierarchy
a class of the Schlesinger systems
including the Garnier system and
the sixth Painlevé equation,
which describes the monodromy preserving deformations of Fuchsian linear differential equations with certain spectral types.
We also present a unified formulation of
the above Schlesinger systems
as a canonical Hamiltonian system whose Hamiltonian functions are polynomials in the canonical variables.
Inverse tunneling
estimates and applications to the study of spectral statistics of
random operators on the real line
Authors: Klopp Frédéric 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.

We present a proof of a Minami type estimate for one-dimensional
random Schrödinger operators valid at all energies in the
localization regime provided a Wegner estimate is known to hold. The
Minami type estimate is then applied to two models to obtain
results on their spectral statistics.
The heuristics underlying our proof of Minami type estimates is that
close-by eigenvalues of a one-dimensional Schrödinger operator
correspond either to eigenfunctions that live far away from each
other in space or they come from some tunneling phenomena. In the
second case, one can undo the tunneling and thus construct
quasi-modes that live far away from each other in space.
Property A and the operator norm localization property for discrete metric spaces
Authors: Sako Hiroki 
Published: May 2014

Abstract.

We study
property A defined by G. Yu
and the operator norm localization property
defined by X. Chen, R. Tessera, X. Wang, and G. Yu. These are coarse geometric properties for metric spaces,
which have applications to operator K-theory.
It is proved that the two properties are equivalent
for discrete metric spaces with bounded geometry.