bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Quiz game teaching format versus didactic lectures
Authors: Aljezawi Ma'en , Albashtawy Mohammed 
Published: January 2015

Background: Lecturing has been traditionally used as the core teaching strategy in university education in all disciplines. However, new research in education suggests that other formats such as game teaching could be more effective. Aim: To compare students' performance, satisfaction and retention of knowledge between a Jeopardy!-style game format and a didactic lecture format in teaching the subject of models for organising patient care to fourth-year nursing students. Methods: A parallel-group randomised controlled trial was conducted. Participants were fourth-year nursing students who registered in the second semester of 2012–2013 and enrolled in the Nursing Management and Ethics in Nursing Course in the Community Health Department. Results: 66 students completed the study (34 in the quiz game group and 32 in the lecture group). Pre-test results showed no significant difference between the two groups in their achievement scores. However, in the immediate achievement post-test and the retention test the students in the quiz group scored significantly better than those in the lecture group. A satisfaction questionnaire showed that the game format was well liked and accepted by students as a more satisfying teaching method. Conclusion: This study is the first of its kind in Jordan to explore the effectiveness of this particular game format versus the lecture format. Results suggest that the game format was well liked and accepted by students as a more satisfying teaching method. Additionally, it appeared to be a better method of education as it promoted greater information retention.
Characteristics and views of family carers of older people with heart failure
Authors: Barnes Sarah , Gott Merryn , Payne Sheila , Parker Chris , Seamark David , Gariballa Salah , Small Neil 
Published: January 2015

Aims: To explore the characteristics and views of the family carers of older people with heart failure. Method: 213 family carers of heart failure patients >60 years were recruited from UK general practitioner (GP) practices. Carer strain, quality of life (QOL) and service satisfaction questionnaires were completed every 3 months for 2 years, as well as 16 interviews with patients and carers, and 9 focus groups with health care professionals. Results: 76% of carers were female, 70% were >60 years and 73% were spousal carers. Predictors of carer strain were symptoms of depression, age and patient NYHA. Predictors of lower QOL were: spousal carer; 2+ health conditions and symptoms of depression. Qualitative findings related to the change in circumstances, impact of responsibilities and health conditions of the family carers. Conclusion: Carers were mainly older women, often experiencing multiple health conditions. Addressing the practical and emotional support required presents a challenge for specialist palliative care in responding to calls for increased involvement in heart failure. A shared care model with liaison between specialist heart failure nurses, cardiologists, primary care teams and hospice services is advocated.
Nurses' attitudes towards euthanasia: a cross-sectional study in Iran
Authors: Naseh Ladan , Rafiei Hossein , Heidari Mohammad 
Published: January 2015

Aim: Nurses have an important role in caring for terminally ill patients. They are often confronted with euthanasia but little is known about their attitudes towards it. The present study aimed to examine Iranian Muslim nurses' attitudes towards euthanasia. Methods: In this exploratory cross-sectional study, all qualified registered nurses working in two teaching hospitals (Kashani and Hajar hospitals) in Iran were invited to participate. The Euthanasia Attitude Scale (EAS) was used to assess the nurses' attitude towards euthanasia. Of 266 nurses who fit the criteria, 190 participated in the study (response rate 72.9%); 91.1% (n=173) were female and 8.9% (n=17) were male. Results: In total, 57.4%, 3.2% and 39.5% of nurses reported a negative, neutral and positive attitude to euthanasia respectively. Nurses reported their most negative attitude to the domain ‘practical consideration’ with mean of 2.36±0.9 and most positive attitude to the domain ‘treasuring life’ with a mean EAS score of 2.85±0.4. Conclusion: The majority of Muslim nurses were found to have negative attitudes to euthanasia. We recommend that future studies should be conducted to examine Muslim nurses' attitudes to euthanasia in different cultures to determine the role of culture and religious beliefs in attitude to euthanasia.
The use of interferential therapy for pain management by physiotherapists
Authors: Tabasam Ghazala , Johnson Mark I 
Published: January 2015

The objective of this survey was to collect information about physiotherapists' self-report of their use of interferential therapy (IFT) to manage pain. Physiotherapists working in four city hospitals in the North of England completed a questionnaire designed by the authors to establish the use of IFT. Fifty two of the 57 respondents reported that they had previously used IFT in clinical practice. Thirty six respondents reported that they used IFT on a regular (weekly) basis and 35 of these used it for pain relief. However, 25 of the 35 respondents who regularly used IFT for pain relief reported that they used it on less than 25% of all of the pain patients that they managed in the clinic. The 35 respondents who regularly used IFT for pain relief reported that they administered one to five IFT treatments (n=26) to each patient with individual IFT treatments usually lasting 11–20 minutes (n=27). The respondents reported that they most commonly used amplitude modulated frequencies of 100Hz, together with 6^6 (delivery of a 6-second decrease between two predetermined amplitude modulated frequencies of IFT) swing patterns. Their knowledge about IFT practice was reported to be gathered from departmental colleagues (n=26). The survey concludes that there was similarity in the IFT parameters and regimens used for pain relief between respondents. Most respondents used a trial and error approach to establishing IFT parameters using feedback from the patient about the comfort of IFT. In addition, IFT devices are large and expensive and remain in physiotherapy clinics and this may be the reason why respondents tend to administer IFT for less than 30 minutes while the patient attends the clinic. Perhaps physiotherapists should consider recommending cheap portable transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) devices instead of IFT, as patients can self-administer TENS whenever they need
Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Leoni Francesca , Moser Sarah , Çelik Zeynep , Behiery Valerie 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
‘Qalam: The art of Beautiful Writing’, Birmingham Museums and art Galleries, Birmingham, UK, November 2, 2013–January 26, 2014
‘How Architects, Experts, Politicians, International Agencies and Citizens Negotiate Modern Planning: Casablanca Chandigarh’, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, November 26, 2013–April 20, 2014
‘Robertson: Photographer and Engraver in the Ottoman Capital’, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, November 27, 2013–February 20, 2014
‘“The Map is not the Territory”: Parallel Paths – Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish’, Levantine Center, Los Angeles, May 15–June 22, 2014
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul: The Emergent Unfolding of a Complex Adaptive System
Authors: Wohl Sharon 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul offers an example of a physical environment containing specific districts that have emerged over time. This paper theorizes that the Grand Bazaar exhibits the characteristics of a Complex Adaptive System. Next, it considers specific urban elements found in the Bazaar, in light of complexity theory, to see how these facilitate processes that lead to the emergence of contiguous districts. This study repurposes Kevin Lynch’s categorization of urban elements to provide a useful framework for discussing complexity theory. This research is further informed by economic analysis derived from Evolutionary Economic Geography, which examines the emergence of business clusters.
Built on Light: The ‘Crafty’ Art of Geometric Patterned Windows
Authors: Koliji Hooman 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The exquisite coloured glass windows that were widely popular in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Iran, known as orosi, suggest a multiplicity of readings at physical, perceptual and contemplative levels. Comprised of sophisticated geometric patterns known as girih, the window offers variegated light patterns to the interior while simultaneously connecting it to the outside garden. This paper investigates the layers of design thinking associated with orosi windows through a study of the following horizons: architecture, pattern, construction, spatial experience and interpretation. Thus, the orosi window as a construct will first be discussed in terms of layers, planes and overall structure. Subsequently, the paper examines the girih for its essential pattern design vocabulary, as well as with respect to the similarities and differences in stages of conceiving geometric patterns through drawing and production. This study of the spatial experience of orosi argues for the significant role played by the coloured geometric patterned window in negotiating its adjacent spaces. The simultaneous presence of abstract and naturalistic geometric patterns seen in both the window and the exterior garden expands the discussion of geometric patterns to the entirety of the edifice, landscape and beyond.
Reviews
Authors: Price Steven , Spicer Andrew , Ferrell Rose , Geerts Ronald 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald (2013) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 271 pp., ISBN: 9780230392281, h/bk, £55.00
Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark From The Kingdom to The Killing, Eva Novrup Redvall (2013) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 252 pp., ISBN: 9781137288400, h/bk, £50.00
Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema, Lucy Fischer (2013) New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 273 pp., ISBN: 9780813554498, p/bk, £22.50
Lire et écrire un scénario. Le scénario de film comme texte, Isabelle Raynauld (2012) Paris: Armand Colin, 224 pp., ISBN: 9782200355616, p/bk, €22.00
Shaping the documentary subject: Writing and visualizing the documentary and media art script
Authors: Merewether Janet 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
This article seeks to examine the varied modes of writing employed by documentary filmmakers and media artists, who may, as an alternative to a conventional ‘script’, devise a framework of intent, or a ‘working hypothesis’ in order to constitute or determine the underlying structure of the temporal work. Fiction and non-fiction screenwriter/directors regularly focus on the subjects of human mortality, yet the process of shaping a script differs for the documentary author in that they may choose, or seek to, film the actual lives of trauma victims or terminally ill subjects. This article will examine how a documentary writer/director undertakes the relatively analytical processes of screenwriting and film structuring, whilst simultaneously experiencing a premonition of loss and uncertainty as to future events. Is it possible that filmmaking and autobiographical writing, as documentarian Ross McElwee (Time Indefinite, 1993) suggests, in their attempts to confront death directly, are ‘just another denial of death-a way of distracting the filmmaker from dealing with death and then getting on with life’? Incorporating case studies of several of my own hybrid documentary films and digital artworks, I intend to examine some of the ethical, temporal, screenwriting and directorial issues that arise when selecting, filming and editing the lives of social actors or documentary participants. This article will discuss the key question: what can and do documentary and media art ‘scripts’ look like? How stylistically diverse can they be, in response to the director’s framework of intent, or the idiosyncratic qualities of the participant selected?
From ‘What Can be Seen and Heard’ to ‘What Can be Sensed and Thought’: Almodovar’s moving textuality in the screenplay of Todo sobre mi madre/All about my Mother (1999)
Authors: Abes Christian 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
A screenplay is a text in transit and in constant tension between the written and the audio-visual dimensions, resulting in a process of a great potentiality. Such a phenomenon can be perceived in Pedro Almodóvar’s screenwriting, in which a distinct idea of style and creative process emerges. The screenwriting of objectivity and exteriority gives way to a generous, dynamic and expressive text. This study highlights how the screenplay can be shaped within a peculiar and poetic textuality, mixing technical references with insight and more abstract comments, i.e. presenting itself simultaneously as a perceptual and as a conceptual text. What if the effects resulting from the audio-visual metaphors of Almodóvar’s screenplay for Todo sobre mi madre/All about my Mother (1999) were ‘present’ only in the screenplay? What if such deviation from classical rules engenders an experimental space within screenwriting that eventually expands the very idea of ‘screenplay’ itself?
Pain proxies, migraine and invisible disability in Renée French’s H Day
Authors: Honeyman Susan 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Renée French contributes to the growing subgenre of comics about medical issues and disability in her wordless text, H Day. Working with an invisible impairment, migraine, as her subject, French creates separate points of view, connecting them with overlapping imagery and externalizing focalization. Using a traditional iconography of dogs as pain proxies, the work also contributes significantly to larger discussions about agency in the identity politics of invisible disability.
The rhetorical work of remediation in The Photographer
Authors: Lawson Daniel 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
For scholars in visual rhetoric, the recent wave of visual narrative forms have posed a particular challenge in terms of analysis: how might one read the sort of text that refuses to conform to visual genres as we have come to know them and yet draws upon a number of conventions from these genres and the media they typically appear in? As visual narrative forms like comics and their remediations become more ubiquitous, how do we read them and explicate what these forms have to offer in terms of meaning-making? One particularly compelling example can be found in The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders. This work incorporates a blend of media – such as prose, comics, and most especially photography – while eluding any easy designation into any one of those categories. Part travelogue and part photojournalism, The Photographer tells the story of Didier Lefevre’s travels with Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan during the war between the Soviet Union and the Afghan Mujahideen. Drawing upon scholars such as Barthes, Mitchell, Bolter and Grusin, as well as assorted comics scholars and commentators, I contend in this article that by positioning text against drawing and each against photography, The Photographer calls attention to the potential hegemonic function of any one of these discursive modes. Using close reading and rhetorical analysis, I explicate how the notion of hybridity informs the rhetorical work of the book in terms of its authorial voice(s), its form, and its content. By destabilizing fixed categories of medial and cultural identity, The Photographer enables its subjects to take on a sort of humanity than might otherwise be available to them in more traditional modes of representation and enables different forms of immediacy for its readers.
The Intra-Cochlear Impedance-Matrix (IIM) test for the Nucleus® cochlear implant
Authors: Hey Matthias , Böhnke Britta , Dillier Norbert , Hoppe Ulrich , Eskilsson Gunnar , Löwgren Karolina , Cullington Helen , Mauch Herbert , Müller-Deile Joachim 
Published: January 2015

AbstractTo describe the principles and operation of a new telemetry-based function test for the NucleusThe IIM test measures bipolar impedances between all electrode pairs and employs a normalization procedure based on common ground impedances in order to identify abnormal current paths among electrodes. Six European clinics collected IIM data from a total of 192 devices.Reproducibility was high between initial and repeat measurements. The normative analysis demonstrated narrow ranges among devices after normalization of impedance data. The IIM is able to identify abnormal current paths that are not evident from standard impedance telemetry and may otherwise only be found utilising average electrode voltage measurements (AEV).The IIM test was found to be straightforward to perform clinically and demonstrated reproducible data with narrow ranges in normally-functioning devices. Because this test uses a very low stimulation level the IIM test is well suited for children or multiply handicapped CI users who cannot reliably report on their auditory percepts. The new algorithms show potential to improve implant integrity testing capabilities if implemented in future clinical software.
Relevance of EDTA carryover during blood collection
Authors: Cadamuro Janne , Felder Thomas Klaus , Oberkofler Hannes , Mrazek Cornelia , Wiedemann Helmut , Haschke-Becher Elisabeth 
Published: January 2015

AbstractThe order of draw is regarded as a preanalytical issue to prevent carryover of additives during blood collection. Our objective was to prove the theory of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) carryover for a closed vacuum system and the influence of EDTA on concentrations of selected biomarkers.To test the carryover of EDTA, a blood collection with tripotassium EDTA (KNo EDTA contamination was detected in samples collected subsequent to a KAn EDTA carryover during blood collection using a closed vacuum system is highly unlikely. Even if carryover of EDTA whole blood occurs, an absolute volume larger than 10 μL would be necessary to alter test results. However, contamination of samples with preloaded pure K
Synthesis and biological evaluation of new 3-(4-substituted phenyl)aminoquinoxaline derivatives as anticancer agents
Authors: Thabit Mohamed G. , El Bialy Serry A.A. , Nasr Magda N.A. 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Quinoxaline derivatives 4–11 were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro growth inhibitory activities against liver carcinoma cell line (HEPG2) using the sulforhodiamine B assay. The synthesis was achieved by reaction of 2,3-dichloroquinoxalines 2a,b with 4-aminoacetophenone to give the corresponding compounds 3a,b. Claisen-Schmidt condensation reaction of 3a,b with furfuraldehyde gave enones 4a,b, which were transformed into pyridines 6a,b, 8a,b, isoxazolines 9a,b, pyrazolines 10a–d, and pyrimidines 11a,b
via several synthetic routes. Virtual screening was carried out by molecular modeling evaluation of the designed compounds. Biological evaluation of the prepared compounds showed that most of the synthesized compounds exhibit more than 50% growth inhibitory.
Predictors of violence and depression: the case of adolescents in Turkey
Authors: Çiftçi Ali , Kasapoglu Aytul 
Published: January 2015

AbstractViolence is a leading problem that has a negative impact on daily living. Today, it continues to be an important topic owing to its widespread occurrence, especially among the youth. The main objective of this study is to specify the predictors that influence violence and depression observed among youth aged 15–18 years. While some of these factors are individual (age, gender, flirting, sports. etc.), the subjects’ background, such as the family’s education level, sibling number, etc., were investigated as social and environmental factors. In the survey, data were obtained from 109 high school students receiving education in a private teaching institution using a structured questionnaire technique. With regards the reliability of the survey, equal numbers of boys and girls were chosen from each year in high school lasting for 4 years. After asking questions that aim to obtain students’ sociodemographic features, their depression level was surveyed using the Beck Depression Scale; meanwhile, the Violence Tendency Scale was used to survey their tendency to be violent. Findings revealed that some individual and domestic features of adolescents have significant impacts on their tendencies towards violence and depression.
Locally Epistatic Genomic Relationship Matrices for Genomic Association and Prediction
Authors: Akdemir Deniz , Jannink Jean-Luc 
Published: January 2015

AbstractIn plant and animal breeding studies a distinction is made between the genetic value (additive plus epistatic genetic effects) and the breeding value (additive genetic effects) of an individual since it is expected that some of the epistatic genetic effects will be lost due to recombination. In this article, we argue that the breeder can take advantage of the epistatic marker effects in regions of low recombination. The models introduced here aim to estimate local epistatic line heritability by using genetic map information and combining local additive and epistatic effects. To this end, we have used semiparametric mixed models with multiple local genomic relationship matrices with hierarchical designs. Elastic-net postprocessing was used to introduce sparsity. Our models produce good predictive performance along with useful explanatory information.
COSTA RICA WITHOUT BORDERS #10
Authors: Aragón-Vargas Luis Fernando 
Published: January 2015

In this section we publish the Spanish version of abstracts from original articles in other languages, published by researchers from Costa Rican universities in different journals around the world. We include the citation to the original work, together with a brief description about where the study took place. The journals must be peer-reviewed and have a formal editorial board. These abstracts are from studies related to exercise and health sciences and follow the same general criteria applying to other articles in Pensar en Movimiento.