bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A Rigorous Algorithm To Detect And Clean Inaccurate Adult Height Records Within EHR Systems
Authors: Muthalagu A. , Aufox S. , Peissig P. L. , Fuehrer J. T. , Tromp G. , Kho A. N. , Rasmussen-Torvik L. J. , Pacheco J. A. 
Published: February 2014

Summary
Background: Height is a critical variable for many biomedical analyses because it is an important component of Body Mass Index (BMI). Transforming EHR height measures into meaningful research-ready values is challenging and there is limited information available on methods for “cleaning” these data.
Objectives: We sought to develop an algorithm to clean adult height data extracted from EHR using only height values and associated ages.
Results: The algorithm we developed is sensitive to normal decreases in adult height associated with aging, is implemented using an open-source software tool and is thus easily modifiable, and is freely available. We checked the performance of our algorithm using data from the Northwestern biobank and a replication sample from the Marshfield Clinic biobank obtained through our participation in the eMERGE consortium. The algorithm identified 1262 erroneous values from a total of 33937 records in the Northwestern sample. Replacing erroneous height values with those identified as correct by the algorithm resulted in meaningful changes in height and BMI records; median change in recorded height after cleaning was 7.6 cm and median change in BMI was 2.9 kg/m2. Comparison of cleaned EHR height values to observer measured values showed that 94.5% (95% C.I 93.8-% – 95.2%) of cleaned values were within 3.5 cm of observer measured values.
Conclusions: Our freely available height algorithm cleans EHR height data with only height and age inputs. Use of this algorithm will benefit groups trying to perform research with height and BMI data extracted from EHR.
Citation: Muthalagu A, Pacheco JA, Aufox S, Peissig PL, Fuehrer JT, Tromp G, Kho AN, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ. A rigorous algorithm to detect and clean inaccurate adult height records within EHR systems. Appl Clin Inf 2014; 5: 118–126 http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2013-09-RA-0074
Reason, Religion, and Postsecular Liberal-Democratic Epistemology
Authors: Gillespie Ryan 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACTReason, religion, and public culture have been of significant interest recently, with critics reevaluating modernity's conception of secularism and calling for a “postsecular” public discourse. Simultaneously, one sees rising religious fundamentalisms and a growing style of antirationalism in public debate. These conditions make a reconceptualization of public reason necessary. The main goals of this article are to establish agnostic public reason as the conceptual guide and normative ethic for public debate in liberal democracies by considering the secular/religious reason boundary explicitly and to argue that this ethic of public reason requires a commitment to reason giving and a particular epistemic attitude but that it does not, nor should it, take precedence over first-order judgments. An ethics of citizenship based on the process of reason giving with the appropriate epistemic stance might be one step toward rectifying the problem of an increasing separation between enclave publics, even if, by design, it cannot solve fundamental disagreement.
Levinas as a Media Theorist:
Authors: Pinchevski Amit 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACTThis article explores the way Levinas communicates his ethical message through the media at work in his work: speech, writing, and rare references to modern media. Levinas's ethical message concerns the import of the relation with the other, a relation that interrupts any attempt at its thematization, including Levinas's own philosophy. Levinas's text serves as an exemplary medium for this ethical message in conveying the teaching of ethics along with the interruption it advocates. The article then extends the logic of the ethical message beyond the two key media present in Levinas's work—speech and writing—to speculate on whether the interruption it effects can be carried over to audiovisual media. Running throughout is the question of mediation, which takes the discussion outside the context of the face to face, where Levinas's thought is typically situated, to the context of the third and of justice. Levinas's thought may thus lead toward a radical ethics of media—radical in the sense that it posits the act of mediation itself as the root of such ethics.
The Perennial Pleasures of the Hoax
Authors: Fredal James 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACTThough popular in the nineteenth century and widespread since, the elements of the hoax form can be traced to the origins of rhetorical theorizing, principally in the strategies of probability and counterprobability developed by the early orators and sophists. This article begins by defining features of the hoax as a textual event and then describes how hoaxes use traditional rhetorical techniques of both probability and improbability to transport viewers from credulity and acceptance to doubt and disbelief, demonstrating technical mastery over rhetorical conventions of the genre to mock their targets and to entertain and instruct their audience.
Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual
Authors: Jones Michael Owen 
Published: February 2014

Abstract
This essay examines last meal requests by those facing execution. After surveying food and beverage selections, I explore how culinary choices are marked by ethnicity, region, class, and gender, as well as inflected by memories, the longing for certain sensory experiences, and the intent to make a moral, political, or philosophical statement. I also consider which last suppers and comments have inspired movies, TV shows, musical compositions, and advertising; why the public desires information about the food requested by those facing death; how the condemned’s meals have become politicized, feeding arguments by both those for and those against the death penalty; what the origin of the last meal ritual is; and why the custom is perpetuated. Possessing varied meanings for different participants in the drama of execution, the ceremonial last meal is one of the most powerful symbolic elements within a larger phenomenon laden with rituals and symbols.
Le Chevalier délibéré de Olivier de la Marche traducido por Acuña: poesía y emblemática
Authors: Rubio Árquez Marcial 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACT: If in the French original of Le Chevalier délibéré one can appreciate the intimate relationship between the poetic text and the gorgeous engravings that accompany and illustrate it, in the tranlated version of Acuña this association is even stronger, to the point that one might say that the translator not only translates the French text linguistically, but also the book's images. This results then in a fusion between text and images that points clearly towards an emblematic vision in the book. KEYWORDS: Hernando de Acuña, Le Chevalier délibéré, Emblematics, Translation RESUMEN: Si en la edición original francesa de Le Chevalier délibéré se aprecia una íntima relación entre el texto poético y los bellísimos grabados que lo acompañan e ilustran, en la versión de Acuña esta asociación se hace todavía más fuerte, hasta el punto que bien pudiera decirse que el traductor no solo traslada lingüísticamente el texto francés, sino también las imágenes del mismo. Se produce así una fusión entre texto e imágenes que apunta claramente a una visión emblématica del libro. PALABRAS CLAVES: Hernando de Acuña, Le Chevalier délibéré, emblemática, traducción.
Imagen e iconografía en las exequias del príncipe Baltasar Carlos en Zaragoza en 1646.
Authors: Serrano Monferrer Alberto 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACT: This article studies the ceremonial funeral rites for Prince Baltasar Carlos of Austria, son of Philip IV and the hope for the healing of a monarchy in crisis, in the exequies celebrated in the city of Zaragoza, where the young heir to the throne died shortly before his seventeenth birthday, in 1646. The monumental catafalque erected in the plaza of the market place (a fantastic ephemeral tumulus characterized by a splendid Baroque architecture full of symbols), demonstrates the magnificence with which the death of such a beloved prince was presented to the public, in the second third of the seventeenth century. KEYWORDS: Prince Baltasar Carlos of Austria, Spanish Golden Age, royal funeral rites, ephemeral architecture, Baroque. RESUMEN: Esta comunicación aborda el ceremonial funerario en el príncipe Baltasar Carlos de Austria, hijo de Felipe IV y esperanza de saneamiento en una monarquía en crisis, en sus exequias en la ciudad de Zaragoza, donde murió el joven heredero poco antes de cumplir los diecisiete años, en 1646. El gran catafalco erigido en la Plaza del mercado –un fantástico túmulo de carácter efímero, espléndida arquitectura barroca llena de símbolos– da muestra de la magnificencia con que se presentó públicamente la muerte de tan querido príncipe, en el segundo tercio del siglo XVII. PALABRAS CLAVES: Príncipe Baltasar Carlos de Austria, Siglo de Oro español, exequias reales, arquitectura efímera, Barroco.
El ritual de la dedicación de la iglesia en los pontificales medievales y su ciclo iconográfico
Authors: Gallart Pineda Pascual Ángel 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACT: The 12th century saw the culmination of a massive reform movement within the Church, intended both to reinforce the figures of the Pope and bishops and to standardise the Western European liturgy, based on the one utilized at that time in the papal chapel. To this end, a number of books were published, among which was a new version of the pontifical, accompanied by an iconographic cycle in which the descriptive dimension of the portrayals stands out prominently to support the text in its task of ritual codification. The aim of this study is to analyse the iconographic cycle that depicts the ritual of church dedication and its relationship with the rubrics described in the rites. KEYWORDS: Church Dedications, Iconographic Cycle, Pontifical, Roman Ritual, Gallican Ritual, Liturgy, Moving of Relics, Altar Consecration, Aspersion, Unction. RESUMEN: En el siglo XIII culmina un gran movimiento de reforma en el seno de la Iglesia que pretendía, además de reforzar la figura del papa y de los obispos, unificar la liturgia de la Europa occidental a partir de la que estaba vigente en la capilla papal. Para este fin verán la luz una serie de libros, entre ellos, una nueva versión del pontifical, que ahora irá acompañado de un ciclo iconográfico en el que destacará la dimensión descriptiva de las imágenes, con el objetivo de ayudar al texto en esa tarea de codificación ritual. Este estudio pretende analizar el ciclo iconográfico que ilustra el ritual para la dedicación de la iglesia y la relación que se establece con las rúbricas que describen los ritos. PALABRAS CLAVES: dedicación de la iglesia, ciclo iconográfico, pontifical, ritual romano, ritual galicano, liturgia, traslado reliquias, consagración altar, aspersión, unciones.
Voglio tempo. Reflejos emblemáticos en Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno de Benedetto Pamphilij y Georg Friedrich Handel.
Authors: Díaz Marroquín Lucía 
Published: February 2014

ABSTRACT: Allegorical and emblematic images do not appear exclusively in visual literature: Genres such as the Italian or the Italian-inspired Counter-Reformation oratorios, cantatas and sacred or moral operas often contain images quite similar in form and function to those published in the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century European collections of emblems. This article analyses some of these parallelisms in the particular case of Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (c. 1707), by the librettist and patron of the arts Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj and the composer Georg Friedrich Handel. KEYWORDS: Emblem, Opera, Oratorio, Academy, Discourse, Allegory, Rhetoric, Aural, Visual, Pamphilj, Handel, Time, Affects, Passions. RESUMEN: Las imágenes alegóricas o emblemáticas no resultan exclusivas de la literatura visual: géneros como el oratorio, la cantata y la ópera moral o sacra contrarreformista italiana o de inspiración italiana contienen a menudo imágenes muy similares en su forma y función a las que aparecen publicadas en las colecciones europeas de emblemas en los siglos XVII y XVIII. Este artículo analiza algunos de estos paralelismos en el caso de la obra Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (c. 1707), compuesta por Georg Friedrich Handel a partir de un libretto del poeta y mecenas Cardenal Benedetto Pamphilj. PALABRAS CLAVES: Emblema, ópera, oratorio, accademia, discurso, alegoría, retórica, auditivo, visual, Pamphilj, Handel, tiempo, afectos, pasiones.
Adriano Junio. Emblemas. Estudio introductorio, traducción notas e índices. Beatriz Antón y Antonio Espigares
Authors: Rodríguez Martín Victoria , Senés Rodríguez Gema 
Published: February 2014

Edición crítica del libro: Adriano Junio. Emblemas. Beatriz Antón (Estudio introductorio). Beatriz Antón y Antonio Espigares (Traducción, notas e índices), Zaragoza, Libros Pórtico, 2013, pp. 396.Nos encontramos ante la primera edición moderna y ante la primera traducción al castellano de una significativa obra de emblemática de un autor alabado y considerado ya en su época por su exquisita erudición. Estimamos que esta edición de los Emblemata de Adriano Junio merece los más sinceros elogios por la gran claridad expositiva y el acertado enfoque con que nos ilustra la introducción; y especialmente, por la esmerada traducción revestida de elegancia, precisión y fidelidad al texto. En suma, una edición acorde con la extraordinaria industria ac diligentia celebrada en el humanista holandés, y con la que los estudiosos e investigadores del género emblemático, o simplemente los que disfrutan con tales libros, han de sentirse satisfechos al comprobar que a este trabajo le cuadra bien el lema que preside el emblema III de Adriano Junio: Gloria immortalis labore parta.
Los Habsburgo. Arte y propaganda en la colección de grabados de la Biblioteca Casanatense de Roma. Pablo González Tornel (dir.)
Authors: Martínez Bonanad David 
Published: February 2014

Recensión crítica del libro de Pablo González Tornel (dir.): Los Habsburgo. Arte y propaganda en la colección de grabados de la Biblioteca Casanatense de Roma, Castellón, Universitat Jaume I, 2013.
Sources of HIV incidence among stable couples in sub‐Saharan Africa
Authors: Chemaitelly Hiam , Awad Susanne F , Shelton James D , Abu‐Raddad Laith J 
Published: February 2014

IntroductionThe recent availability of efficacious prevention interventions among stable couples offers new opportunities for reducing HIV incidence in sub‐Saharan Africa. Understanding the dynamics of HIV incidence among stable couples is critical to inform HIV prevention strategy across sub‐Saharan Africa.MethodsWe quantified the sources of HIV incidence arising among stable couples in sub‐Saharan Africa using a cohort‐type mathematical model parameterized by nationally representative data. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses were incorporated.ResultsHIV incidence arising among stable concordant HIV‐negative couples contribute each year, on average, 29.4% of total HIV incidence; of those, 22.5% (range: 11.1%–39.8%) are infections acquired by one of the partners from sources external to the couple, less than 1% are infections acquired by both partners from external sources within a year and 6.8% (range: 3.6%–11.6%) are transmissions to the uninfected partner in the couple in less than a year after the other partner acquired the infection from an external source. The mean contribution of stable HIV sero‐discordant couples to total HIV incidence is 30.4%, with most of those, 29.7% (range: 9.1%–47.9%), being due to HIV transmissions from the infected to the uninfected partner within the couple. The remaining incidence, 40.2% (range: 23.7%–64.6%), occurs among persons not in stable couples.ConclusionsClose to two‐thirds of total HIV incidence in sub‐Saharan Africa occur among stable couples; however, only half of this incidence is attributed to HIV transmissions from the infected to the uninfected partner in the couple. The remaining incidence is acquired through extra‐partner sex. Substantial reductions in HIV incidence can be achieved only through a prevention approach that targets all modes of HIV exposure among stable couples and among individuals not in stable couples.
Association Between Handgrip Strength and Mortality of Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta‐Analysis
Authors: Xiao Meiling , Lu Yu , Li Hongqiu , Zhao Zhonghai 
Published: July 2024

ABSTRACTBackgroundMuscular strength has been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease in the community population. The aim of this systematic review and meta‐analysis is to evaluate the association between weak handgrip strength (HGS) and mortality risk in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).MethodsTo carry out the meta‐analysis, an extensive search was conducted on databases such as PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Wanfang, and CNKI to identify observational studies with longitudinal follow‐up. Random‐effects models were used to combine the findings, taking into account the potential influence of heterogeneity.ResultsEight observational studies involving 10 543 patients with CAD were included. During a mean follow‐up duration of 20.4 months, 1327 (12.6%) patients died. Pooled results showed that weak HGS at baseline was associated with an increased risk of all‐cause mortality during follow‐up (risk ratio [RR]: 1.95, 95% confidence interval: 1.50 to 2.55, p < 0.001; I2 = 62%). Subgroup analysis suggested a stronger association between weak HGS and increased mortality in older patients with CAD as compared to that of overall adult patients with CAD (RR: 3.01 vs. 1.60, p for subgroup difference = 0.004). Subgroup analyses according to study location, design, subtype of CAD, follow‐up duration, analytical model, and study quality scores showed similar results (p for subgroup difference all > 0.05).ConclusionsWeak HGS at baseline is associated with an increased risk of mortality in patients with CAD, particularly in older patients with CAD.
Mercaptans in malodorants break disulfide bridges in human serum albumin and form adducts suitable as biomarkers of exposure in vitro
Authors: Sieber Paula Helena , Steinritz Dirk , Worek Franz , John Harald 
Published: July 2024

AbstractMalodorants comprise notoriously smelling mercaptans and might be applied for crowd control. Because exposure to malodorants may lead to irritation of the respiratory system, choking, and coma, bioanalytical verification of poisoning might be required in a medical and forensic context. We herein present the detection and identification of novel biomarkers of exposure to ethyl mercaptan, n‐butyl mercaptan, tert‐butyl mercaptan, and iso‐amyl mercaptan. These alkyl thiol compounds were found to form disulfide adducts in human serum albumin (HSA) in plasma in vitro with the only non‐disulfide‐bridged Cys34 residue and with other residues being part of the disulfide‐bridged pattern in HSA. After proteinase K‐catalyzed proteolysis, adducts of all mercaptans were detected simultaneously as the tripeptide Cys34*ProPhe and the dipeptides Cys369*Tyr, ValCys316*, and Cysx*Ala (x denominates either Positions 91, 200, 253, 361, and/or 448) by a sensitive micro‐liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (μLC‐ESI MS/MS) method working in the scheduled multiple reaction monitoring (sMRM) mode. Time‐ and concentration‐dependent adduct formations while exposure and proteolysis were investigated and the suitability of adducts as biomarkers of exposure was elaborated. Adducts at Cys34 showed the lowest limits of identification (LOIs, 6 nM to 1.2 μM mercaptan in plasma) and superior stability in plasma at 37°C. Therefore, Cys34*ProPhe appears as the most promising target to prove exposure to mercaptans at least in vitro.
Dos nuevas especies de Paepalanthus Kunth (Eriocaulaceae) de Cuba oriental
Authors: Géigel Lutgarda González 
Published: July 2024

ResumenSe describen dos nuevas especies de Paepalanthus Kunth para la región oriental de Cuba: Paepalanthus moaensis González Géigel y P. nipensis González Géigel. Se discute la posición sistemática de las mismas.
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pilzflora kubas. IV.
Authors: Arnold Günter R. W. 
Published: July 2024

ZusammenfasungFolgende Neufunde für die Pilzflora Kubas werden vorgestellt: Leptosphaerulina australis Mc Alpine, Leucocoprinus birnbaumii (Corda) Sing., L. fragilissimus (Rav.) Pat., Sympodiophora mycophila (Tubaki) Deighton et Pirozynski, Cladobolryum odorum G. Arnold sp. nov., Ramichloridium cf. schulzeri (Sacc.) de Hoog.
“It's like a guessing game”: Implementation of multiple sign systems in EFL Reading curriculum for undergraduates in Taiwan
Authors: Ben‐Said Slim , Fu Jo Shan , Yeh Hui‐Chin 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThis study explores the integration of multiple sign systems within the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading curriculum for undergraduates in Taiwan, addressing varied learning styles that are often overlooked by conventional curricular methods. The purpose is to investigate how incorporating semiotics can enhance learning engagement and effectiveness by utilizing diverse sign systems such as art, music, and movement. Data were collected through student‐created artifacts, self‐reflection logs, and evaluations of learning processes from 57 freshmen participating in literature circles and sign‐system activities in a university course. Analysis was conducted using Glaser and Strauss's Constant Comparative Method, identifying themes such as interactive teaching methods and diverse engagement strategies. The findings demonstrate that utilizing multiple sign systems enriches students' engagement and comprehension, suggesting the need for broader application of semiotics in education to cater to diverse learning preferences and enhance overall educational effectiveness.
Feasibility of interleaved multislice averaged magnetization inversion‐recovery acquisitions of the spinal cord
Authors: Weigel Matthias , Celicanin Zarko , Haas Tanja , Bieri Oliver 
Published: July 2024

AbstractPurposeTo establish an interleaved multislice variant of the averaged magnetization inversion‐recovery acquisitions (AMIRA) approach for 2D spinal cord imaging with increased acquisition efficiency compared with the conventional 2D single‐slice approach(es), and to determine essential prerequisites for a working interleaved multislice AMIRA approach in practice.MethodsThe general AMIRA concept is based on an inversion recovery–prepared, segmented, and time‐limited cine balanced SSFP sequence, generating images of different contrast. For AMIRA imaging of multiple, independent slices in a 2D interleaved fashion, a slice loop within the acquisition loops was programmed. The former non‐selective inversions were replaced with slice‐selective inversions with user‐definable slice thickness.ResultsThe thickness of the slice‐selective inversion in 2D interleaved multislice AMIRA should be doubled compared with the manufacturer's standard setting to avoid an increased sensitivity to flow and pulsation effects particularly in the CSF. However, this solution also limits its practical applicability, as slices located at directly adjacent vertebrae cannot be imaged together. Successful interleaved two‐slice AMIRA imaging for a “reference” in vivo protocol with 0.50 × 0.50 mm2 in‐plane resolution and 8‐mm slice thickness is demonstrated, therefore halving its acquisition time per slice from 3 min down to 1.5 min.ConclusionThe investigated 2D interleaved two‐slice AMIRA variant facilitates spinal cord imaging that maintains similar contrast and the same resolution as the conventional 2D single‐slice AMIRA approach, but does so with a halved acquisition time.