bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Flow Cytometric Analysis of Lymphoid Enhancer-Binding Factor 1 in Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
Authors: Amador-Ortiz Catalina , Goolsby Charles L. , Peterson LoAnn C. , Wolniak Kristy L. , McLaughlin Janet L. , Gao Juehua , Chen Yi-Hua 
Published: January 2015

Abstract

Objectives:
Nuclear overexpression of lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF1) assessed by immunohistochemistry has been shown to be highly associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) among small B-cell lymphomas. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of flow cytometric analysis of LEF1 in the diagnosis of CLL/SLL.

Methods:
Normal peripheral blood was used to validate the test. Flow cytometric analysis of LEF1 was performed in 64 patient samples qualitatively and quantitatively by comparing the staining intensity and the ratios of the median fluorescence intensities (MFIs) of LEF1 in B cells of interest to the internal reference cell populations. The results were correlated with the pathologic diagnosis.

Results:
Proper sample processing ensured sufficient separation of positive LEF1 staining in T cells from negative staining in normal B and natural killer (NK) cells. Qualitative analysis of patient samples showed that all 25 cases of CLL/SLL but none of the other small B-cell lymphomas were positive for LEF1. Using a B/NK MFI ratio of 1.5 and B/T MFI ratio of 0.45 separated CLL/SLL cases from non-CLL lymphomas.

Conclusions:
Flow cytometric analysis of LEF1 is sufficient to differentiate CLL/SLL from other small B-cell lymphomas and may serve as a useful tool in the diagnosis of CLL/SLL.
Modernity, femininity and Hollywood fashions: Women’s cinephilia in 1930s French fan magazines
Authors: Wimmer Leila 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
My broad aim in this article is to explore the reception of Hollywood fashions in French mass circulation film magazines of the 1930s as it intersects with specific ideals of modernity, femininity and national identity. These magazines allow for a case study exploring the nexus between the global and the local in the construction of particular models of modern femininity in consumer culture. I want to suggest that these publications offered a key site for French women’s negotiation of modernity and were a key locus of a popular, feminine cinephilia neglected in existing accounts of cinephilia.
‘Ma Face Vanille’: White rappers, ‘Black Music’, and race in France
Authors: Bretillon Chong J. 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
If the meanings of ‘Frenchness’ are highly contested in French culture, then the meanings of whiteness are even more so: France’s ideology of inclusion explicitly rejects racial identifications in favour of the universal notion of ‘Frenchness’. However, whiteness tends to operate as a signifier of Frenchness, and both colonialism and immigration policies have played a crucial role in the consolidation of this identity. These debates are enriched by the consideration of French popular culture, especially hip hop, a black American cultural import. This article demonstrates how scholarship has largely glossed over the question of whiteness in hip hop, and has thus ignored how white rappers negotiate racial privilege while expressing solidarity with their black and Arabe counterparts. The first part of the article provides an overview of discourses surrounding racial authenticity in both American and global hip hop, to show how French rappers adapted the American racial binary to the multicultural French context. The article then draws upon scholarship in the emerging field of whiteness studies in France to locate white rappers’ anti-racist stances within the current structure of French racial politics, arguing that texts and images by some white rap groups give valence to their minority status in hip hop, as a technique to position themselves outside the privilege they are presumed to enjoy as white French people.
Dans la culture française, la signifiance des notions de ‘Francité’ et de ‘blanchité’ est souvent contestée. En France, l’idéologie de l’intégration rejette toute forme d’identification raciale en faveur de l’universalisme français. Pourtant, la blanchité a tendance à impliquer la Francité et le colonialisme ainsi que la politique de l’immigration qui ont joué des rôles importants dans la consolidation de cette identité. En outre, ce débat autour du concept de blanchité est enrichi par la culture populaire ; voire le hip hop, importé de la forme culturelle noire américaine, s’effectue à cause de l’influence de celui-ci. Cet article démontre que les recherches jusqu’à présent ont pour la plupart ignoré la question de la blanchité dans le hip hop. Également, ils n’ont pas tenu compte de comment les rappeurs blancs négocient leur privilège racial en même temps qu’ils expriment la solidarité avec leurs pairs des rappeurs Noirs et Maghrébins. La première partie de cet article résume les discours au sujet de l’authenticité raciale dans le hip hop américain et mondial pour éclairer comment les rappeurs français ont adapté la binarité raciale américaine au contexte multiculturel français. Ensuite, l’on situera les positions anti-racistes des rappeurs blancs dans la structure actuelle de la politique raciale en France, en affirmant que les textes et les images adoptés par certains rappeurs impliquent leur statut minoritaire dans le domaine du hip hop français--une technique utilisée pour se situer en dehors du statut privilégié--l’on présume qu’ils bénéficient en tant que Blancs.
Introducing social capital into the ‘polarized pluralist’ model: The different contexts of press politicization in Portugal and Spain
Authors: Álvares Cláudia , Damásio Manuel José 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
This article presents the concept of social capital as complementary to Hallin and Mancini’s ‘polarized pluralist’ model, which has been used in relation to both Spain and Portugal. In our view, while the current Spanish context may be characterized by ‘partisan’ journalism, this is less true of Portugal. We propose that Hallin and Mancini’s polarized pluralist model be complemented by the concept of social capital to comprehend the specific underpinnings of the power constellations surrounding the press in Portugal and Spain. We will start by comparing the current situation of the press in both countries, with analysis centred on the continuities and discontinuities between past and present in a context of transition to democracy. The evolution of the press under the right-wing dictatorships of Franco and Salazar will then be historically contextualized, with the aim of drawing attention to ideological differences that may currently account for the greater political fissures between the right and left wings in Spain compared to Portugal. Lastly, we will examine the threat that the Portuguese Colonial War and the Spanish separatist movements posed to national, hegemonically defined, ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson 1983) and their subsequent influence on the evolution of press freedom in both countries.
Transition to democracy and state television: Comparative analysis for Portugal and Spain
Authors: Jiménez Virginia Martín 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Media, and particularly state television, became a key element in the strategy for change during transition in the Iberian Peninsula in the mid-1970s. Television became a means for the new government to talk directly with society, to influence public opinion and to get citizens’ support. Within this context of political transition, this article aims to show a comparative view of the role played by state television in Portugal (RTP) and Spain (TVE) in order to draw similarities and differences between transition models from both a political point of view and the standpoint of television media. The sources used for this study are TVE and RTP programmes from the archives of the respective television headquarters, in-depth and face-to-face interviews with journalists who lived through the transition in the Iberian Peninsula, and an updated bibliography.
The melting pot: Parafiction Art in Israel and Palestine
Authors: Goldberg Keren 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty offers the term ‘Parafiction Art’ to describe an emergent genre of artwork in which the artist imitates, invents, fakes or makes up narratives, people or events that are perceived by the spectators, for different reasons and for different lengths of time, as true. These works play on the overlap between fact and fiction in a unique manner:
Like a paramedic as opposed to a medical doctor, a parafiction is related to but not quite a member of the category of fiction as established in literature and drama. It remains a bit outside. It does not perform its procedures in the hygienic clinics of literature, but has one foot in the field of the real. (Lambert-Beatty 2009: 54)
This is why Parafiction Art possesses the power to influence specific contexts, and to challenge their statuesque. Arguing for the special importance of Parafiction Art within political contexts that strongly adhere to specific truth-values, this article examines recent parafictional practices in Israel and Palestine, and how these works challenge the hegemonic regime in this problematic geopolitical context: the right-wing Israeli government on one hand and the terrorist attacks on the other. Hardly any English literature has been published on the subject to date.
Artist pages (as footnotes to a collaborative project with Michaela Zuge-Bruton)
Authors: Copley Martina 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Martina Copley’s practice is a vagabond investigation in the place where language recites.
There are some principles. Letting the work speak how it is made. Uncertainty in a dynamic puts everything at attention. Everything requires attention. Look at the change of things, what takes place, notated and not. Vantage includes the way in which objects come into question even as they come into view. Stutter and stumble are descriptions of flow that have their own flow. Beginning in the middle, what happens in the middle is itself, and new. All things are equal to world.
Carried by an interest in attention, annotation and the processes of abstraction, I approach my practice as a kind of transcription. I use temporal elements in a material proposition like the stutter, loop, iteration and fugue, to unstructure anticipation and complicate the ‘view’. Things that normally exist in different registers or levels of abstraction are apprehended at different degrees of nearness and distance. The work creates its own order of things as an accumulation of things, each thing its own way of holding something in attention. It is not the content of the object or the material I choose to work with that counts but everything that lies beyond it.
Pilates, mindfulness and somatic education
Authors: Caldwell Karen , Adams Marianne , Quin Rebecca , Harrison Mandy , Greeson Jeffrey 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The Pilates Method is a form of somatic education with the potential to cultivate mindfulness – a mental quality associated with overall well-being. However, controlled studies are needed to determine whether changes in mindfulness are specific to the Pilates Method or also result from other forms of exercise. This quasi-experimental study compared Pilates Method mat classes and recreational exercise classes on measures of mindfulness and well-being at the beginning, middle and end of a fifteen-week semester. Total mindfulness scores increased overall for the Pilates Method group but not for the exercise control group, and these increases were directly related to end of semester ratings of self-regulatory self-efficacy, perceived stress and mood. Findings suggest that the Pilates Method specifically enhances mindfulness, and these increases are associated with other measures of wellness. The changes in mindfulness identified in this study support the role of the Pilates Method in the mental well-being of its practitioners and its potential to support dancers’ overall well-being.
Capture, manipulate, project, preserve: A compositional journey
Authors: Stollery Pete 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Much of the text in this article first appeared as an invited keynote presentation given at the From Tape to Typedef; Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music symposium held at the University of Sheffield, UK, from 30 January to 2 February 2013 and charts a personal compositional journey from the early 1980s to the present day, referencing compositional methodologies and remarking on what has changed (if anything) over a 30-year career composing with technology on fixed media. The relationship between soundscape composition and acousmatic music is examined with reference to a number of projects and pieces of music including Peel, ABZ/A, Gordon Soundscape, scènes, rendez-vous and the Three Cities Project.
Teachers: Between trade union and professional class
Authors: Freire João 
Published: January 2015

This article develops along four sections. In the first section, after presenting some results of a sociological survey of teachers carried out by Manuel Braga da Cruz in 1989, I conclude that theirs is a growing social group, mostly female, that sees itself as underpaid and having
little social recognition, politicized, unionized and deeply involved with the Catholic community, and that, at the time of inaugurating a new legal statute for the profession, the group has divided and contrasting opinions on the existing career model, where progression is mainly based on
seniority, and a hypothetical selective and pyramidal model, based rather on an actual evaluation of the professional abilities of the teacher.
In the second section I endeavour to describe the professional regulations that were in place when the PS (Socialist Party) government took over,
in 2005, and the assessment I then made of the professional career of teaching. In the third, based on a book report recently published by the former education minister, I identify the measures that changed the professional situation of teachers, focusing particularly on the teaching career
statutes and performance evaluation. Finally, in the fourth, I follow and discuss the analyses made by the sociologist Alan Stoleroff on the developing conflict between government, unions and teachers that marked that incumbency.
I conclude that the professional power of teachers –
still noteworthy in spite of their attrition and loss of authority – combined with the resentment they feel due to their poor social recognition and the assets made possible by an above-average social capital (skills of erudition and communication, integration in the ‘real world’,
middle-class relational networks), determines, on the whole, that this professional group should resist, in this conjuncture, the ‘temptation’ to evolve into an occupational model that is internally more differentiated, more competing and more ‘professionalizing’, and
should instead hold to the egalitarian model of security and predictability proposed by the union.
Negotiating historical interpretation and White privilege in histories of art education
Authors: Stankiewicz Mary Ann 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Frances Euphemia Thompson (c. 1896–1992) taught art education at what is now Tennessee State University in Nashville, from summer 1922 until her retirement in 1969. She was appointed Professor in 1944 and Professor Emerita in 1974. The Tennessee Department of Education published Art in the Elementary Schools: A Manual for Teachers, based on her bachelor’s thesis from Massachusetts School of Art, to help classroom teachers, chiefly in rural African American communities, carry out a functional art programme. I am a White art educator, working in the twenty-first century, carrying the ‘invisible knapsack’ of White privilege. The contents of that knapsack shape my interpretation of Thompson’s art learning and teaching. As an art educator doing historical research, I carry other invisible knapsacks: assumptions about art education, what history is and can be. These values and beliefs contribute to the paradox of historical interpretation. How and under what circumstances did Thompson’s identity as an African American art educator matter in her professional contributions? In order to answer this question and interpret the life experience of African American art educator from the last century, I must unpack my invisible knapsacks. I will compare my White privilege with Thompson’s experiences in the segregated south, and discuss challenges of using culturally and historically appropriate language.
Black artists of the Harlem Renaissance in western survey textbooks: Narratives of omission and representation
Authors: Grant Alphonso Walter , Kee Jessica Baker 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
In this article we examine the inclusion of Black American artists in a selection of western survey art history textbooks using the Harlem Renaissance as an analytical exemplar. We first examine Black intellectual and artistic representations of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance arguing that this work provides a vital contribution to the Western Modernist art tradition. We argue that although there is a great deal of critical contemporary scholarship around the Harlem Renaissance period, three problematic narratives still persist in college-level textbooks: the omission of Black American artists from the larger narrative of Modernist art, the misrepresentation of major themes of Harlem Renaissance art, and a continued focus on Modernist tropes of primitivism. We analyse the content of three mainstream western art history textbooks using Kymberly Pinder’s (1999) theory of the ‘native informant’ as well as other major ideas surrounding Black visual omission and representation. Finally, we examine possible implications of these problematic narratives for art educators, students and historians.
Stories in stone: Investigating the stories behind the sculptural commemoration of the Confederacy
Authors: Buffington Melanie L. 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
This article explores the time in which the large Robert E. Lee monument was planned and built in Richmond, Virginia. Drawing on archives, the story of this monument relates to remembering this man in ways that build and perpetuate the stories of the Lost Cause movement. This article also explores how competing interests in the local community tried to sway the movement to commemorate him in ways that favoured their various interests. The issue of who owns the past and how it is represented in the present in artistic forms continues to be an issue in Richmond and throughout the world. Because people in communities learn from their environment, it is important for art educators to consider the history of their geographic locations and to think about how this history is a form of education.
Factors associated with in-hospital mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with CHD and type 2 diabetes
Authors: Sumin Aleksey Nikolaevich , Bezdenezhnykh Natalya Alexandrovna , Bezdenezhnykh Andrey Viktorovich , Ivanov Sergey Vasil'evich , Belik Ekaterina Vladimirovna , Barbarash Olga Leonidovna 
Published: January 2015

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the main method used for myocardial revascularisation in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), and determining the factors affecting the outcomes of CABG in these patients is important. Objective. To identify risk factors for in-hospital mortality after coronary artery surgery (CABG) for patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods. A retrospective analysis of the medical records of patients who underwent CABG from 2006 to 2009 was conducted. From these, 317 patients with T2DM were selected (median age: 59,0 years). As a control group, 350 patients (median age: 58,0 years) without diabetes or pre-diabetes, who were matched by sex, age and CABG characteristics, were selected. Logistic regression models were used to identify factors possibly associated with in-hospital mortality. Results. There were no group differences for the frequency of postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality (p >0,05). During the early postoperative period, 5 (1,6%) diabetic and 7 (2,0%) non-diabetic patients died (p=0,682). By the logistic regression analysis, T2DM did not predict patient mortality (p=0,458). Among the patients with T2DM, a risk of death was associated with a stroke history (OR 21,661; 95% CI 1,701-76,521; р=0,013), and a decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) as estimated by the CKD-EPI equation (OR 1,512 per 5 ml/min/1,73m2. decrease; 95% CI 1,017-2,257; р=0,048), independent of gender, age or triple-vessel and left-main disease. By multivariate analysis for the non-diabetic patients, the risk of death increased by more than 10 times because of reinfarction (OR=10,272; 95% CI: 1,258?56,163; p=0,029) and increased by 6,8 times with an increase in preoperative fibrinogen levels of 1 g/l (OR=6,802; 95% CI: 1,283?35,714; p=0,024), independent of gender, age, smoking or mitral valve regurgitation. Conclusions. T2DM was not a predictor of death during the early period after CABG. For the diabetic patients, independent predictors of in-hospital mortality after CABG were stroke history and reduced GFR. For the patients without T2DM, the independent predictors were reinfarction and preoperative fibrinogen levels.
Calorimetric study of activated carbons
impregnated with CaCl2
Authors: Vargas Diana Paola , Giraldo Liliana , Moreno-Piraján Juan Carlos 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Activated carbon monoliths with different
surface characteristics were prepared by impregnating
oil palm stone with diluted aqueous CaCl2 solutions (with
concentrations between 2 and 7% w/v) without binders.
The solids were characterized by determination of
nitrogen adsorption isotherms at 77 K and carbon dioxide
adsorption isotherms at 273 K using volumetric adsorption
equipment. Surface area and micropore volume values
were calculated from the nitrogen isotherms using the
BET and DR models, respectively, obtaining solids with
low percentages of mesoporosity. Immersion enthalpies
of the activated carbon monoliths were determined in
benzene, with values between -173 and -104 J g-1, and
water, with values between 61 and 30 J g-1, indicating that
the monoliths have a hydrophobic character.
Characterization and photocatalytic activity of
Ti/TinOm ∙ ZrxOy coatings for azo-dye degradation
Authors: Sakhnenko Nickolay , Ved Marina , Bykanova Victoria , Nikiforow Kostiantyn 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Anodic oxidation of VT1-0 titanium and E-125
zirconium alloy in aqueous electrolyte solutions based
on H2SO4 and K4P2O7 was used to obtain oxide coatings
composed of Zr/ZrO2, Ti/TiO2, and mixed oxide systems
Ti/TinOm ∙ ZrxOy. It was shown that, depending on the
electrolyte рН, the films contained from 0.17 to 2.1% wt.
of zirconium. The catalytic activity of the synthesized
coatings in the oxidation reaction of the methyl orange
azo dye under UV irradiation was established. The process
rate constants and synergy factors for the mixed systems
were calculated.