bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Utilization of Quantitative and Qualitative Information in Groups' Capital Investment Decisions
Authors: Ang Nicole P. , Trotman Ken T. 
Published: September 2014

ABSTRACT
Organizations frequently use interactive groups to make strategic decisions, aiming to capitalize on individual members' unique knowledge. However, research shows that groups focus on information that members have in common, not unique information, resulting in suboptimal outcomes. Given that accounting systems can present information in various forms, we experimentally examine whether quantitative information results in greater information sharing and use than qualitative information. We take advantage of a rich dataset created by videoing groups making a capital investment decision. Consistent with prior research, we find that groups prefer common to unique information, regardless of whether it is quantitative or qualitative. However, individuals use quantitative information more than qualitative information before group interaction, and make more references to it during discussion. Added insights from the videos include identifying what determines greater use of quantitative cues, the importance of the numbers attached to cues, and how successful groups use quantitative cues.
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Liraglutide and the Preservation of Pancreatic β-Cell Function in Early Type 2 Diabetes: The LIBRA Trial
Authors: Retnakaran Ravi , Kramer Caroline K. , Choi Haysook , Swaminathan Balakumar , Zinman Bernard 
Published: September 2014

OBJECTIVE
Clinical studies evaluating the effects of medications on β-cell function in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are compromised by an inability to determine the actual baseline degree of β-cell dysfunction independent of the reversible dysfunction induced by hyperglycemia (glucotoxicity). Short-term intensive insulin therapy (IIT) is a strategy for eliminating glucotoxicity before randomization. This study determined whether liraglutide can preserve β-cell function over 48 weeks in early T2DM following initial elimination of glucotoxicity with IIT.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 51 patients with T2DM of 2.6 ± 1.9 years' duration and an A1C of 6.8 ± 0.8% (51 ± 8.7 mmol/mol) completed 4 weeks of IIT before randomization to daily subcutaneous liraglutide or placebo injection, with serial assessment of β-cell function by Insulin Secretion-Sensitivity Index-2 (ISSI-2) on oral glucose tolerance test performed every 12 weeks.

RESULTS
The primary outcome of baseline-adjusted ISSI-2 at 48 weeks was higher in the liraglutide group than in the placebo group (339.8 ± 27.8 vs. 229.3 ± 28.4, P = 0.008). Baseline-adjusted HbA1c at 48 weeks was lower in the liraglutide group (6.2 ± 0.1% vs. 6.6 ± 0.1%, P = 0.055) (44 ± 1.1 vs. 49 ± 1.1 mmol/mol). At each quarterly assessment, &gt;50% of participants on liraglutide had an HbA1c ≤6.0% (42 mmol/mol) and glucose tolerance in the nondiabetic range. Despite this level of glycemic control, no difference was found in the incidence of hypoglycemia between the liraglutide and placebo groups (P = 0.61). Two weeks after stopping treatment, however, the beneficial effect on ISSI-2 of liraglutide versus placebo was entirely lost (191.9 ± 24.7 vs. 238.1 ± 25.2, P = 0.20).

CONCLUSIONS
Liraglutide provides robust enhancement of β-cell function that is sustained over 48 weeks in early T2DM but lost upon cessation of therapy.
Second-Language Learners’ Identification of Target-Language Phonemes: A Short-Term Phonetic Training Study
Authors: Cebrian Juli , Carlet Angelica 
Published: September 2014

Abstract: This study examined the effect of short-term high-variability phonetic training on the perception of English /b/, /v/, /d/, /ð/, /æ/, /#_x028C_#/, /i/, and /i/ by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals learning English as a foreign language. Sixteen English-major undergraduates were tested before and after undergoing a four-session perceptual training program involving a series of discrimination and identification tasks. Although some scores were already high at pre-test, there was improvement from pre-test to post-test, and this improvement generalized to novel words and a novel talker. An effect of word frequency was observed, but this effect was found to decrease after training. The results show that relatively advanced foreign-language learners in an instructional setting may improve in perception as a result of short-term high-variability phonetic training. The implications of these findings for the teaching of pronunciation are discussed.
Two Phonetic-Training Procedures for Young Learners: Investigating Instructional Effects on Perceptual Awareness
Authors: Lacabex Esther Gómez , Gallardo del Puerto Francisco 
Published: September 2014

Abstract: This study investigated the effect of two distinct computer-based phonetic training procedures administered in an English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom with young learners. Students’ perceptual awareness of the occurrence of an English schwa in an unstressed position in content words was tested in two experimental groups, which underwent differentiated training regimes (auditory discrimination/identification practice and listen-and-repeat practice), and a control group, which received no phonetic treatment. A training effect was shown by the significant improvement in the perception abilities of the two experimental groups only. In addition, both experimental groups exhibited comparable improvement in all the variables analyzed. Training effects were also found for the word-familiarity variable, which was mitigated after treatment. Results suggest a positive impact of both aural and imitation computer-based phonetic training on L2 sound perceptual awareness in classroom settings with young learners.
America on Parade: Thrill’s Affect-Zone and the 2012 NBC Super Bowl Broadcast
Authors: Pappas Peter 
Published: September 2014

Abstract:As a composite consumerism–entertainment phenomenon, the engaging atmosphere of NBC’s 2012 Super Bowl broadcast transcends pure athletic contexts. Thrilling affective intensity saturates the greater performance—integrating sports fandom, patriotism, brand loyalty, celebrity interest, and other compelling narratives—all framed by a pageant of global corporations pitching visions of universal consumerist prosperity. As a consequence, a variety of intra-appropriations between elements of spectacle and of the everyday serve to catalyse appealing instantiations of American socio-cultural identity. The present case study investigates the ways in which a multifaceted, permeating thrill enhances the broadcast event’s societal presence, while simultaneously reifying its cultural representations.
Transcending Distances: A Poetics of Acknowledgement in Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
Authors: Furui Yoshiaki 
Published: September 2014

Abstract:This article examines Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” as a transnational text by centring on two key words: the verb “transcend” and the noun “distance.” Through analysis of the trope of distance, this article aims to shed light on a way of imagining the alterity of the other that “Benito Cereno” presents to twenty-first century Americanists.
La borne milliaire de Desvres et le nom de Géta
Authors: Hoët-van Cauwenberghe Christine 
Published: September 2014

The milestone of Desvres (62), which was discovered recently (AE 2004, 937) bears an inscription to Septimus Severus and his two sons (dated between 202 and 204). The initial of Geta’s
praenomen had been damaged at the time of the discovery but it has been reconstituted thanks to the fragments collected on the spot. We are not to read an L. for Lucius but rather a P. for Publius. This makes it possible for us to confirm that this name had not been erased by beating. Our attention should be drawn to this point for, as Attilio Mastino had pointed out in an article published in 1978, Caracalla had relentlessly debunked the memory of his younger brother, Geta, who had become his rival and had been murdered on his orders. We have listed all the inscriptions found in this province as well as the nearby provinces and confirm this analysis by showing this document is one of the few that have escaped the avenging chisel of those who were in charge of the rasurae. At the same time, we show how difficult it is to reconstitute Geta’s praenomen and establish the chronology of the change from Lucius to Publius.
Une transition éclairée. De la mort des états de Bourgogne à la naissance des départements bourguignons (1789-1791)
Authors: Loiseau Jérôme 
Published: September 2014

En Bourgogne, la transition des états provinciaux aux départements, entre 1789 et 1791, s’est accomplie de façon paisible, même si les tensions entre administrateurs, anciens et nouveaux, furent réelles. Néanmoins, ces hommes partageaient le même idéal d’amélioration du bien commun. En outre, les débats aux états et les politiques suivies dans la province, lors de la dernière décennie de l’Ancien Régime, permirent d’anticiper favorablement les enjeux de l’année 1790, notamment la continuité de l’imposition et l’évaluation précise de la dette publique, celle de la province et celle détenue pour le compte du roi.
Une révolution dans la Révolution : mérite et naissance dans la pensée et le comportement politiques de la noblesse militaire de province en 1789-1790
Authors: Blaufarb Rafe 
Published: September 2014

Qu’à l’aube de la Révolution française, la noblesse et ses privilèges aient été l’objet d’une violente contestation est un fait bien connu. Qu’une importante fraction du second ordre, en l’occurrence la noblesse militaire de province, ait été à l’avant-garde de ce combat d’opinion l’est beaucoup moins. En centrant l’attention et l’analyse sur la rhétorique anti-nobiliaire de la noblesse militaire de province, cet article révèle que, dans la première année de la Révolution, la signification de mots aussi cruciaux qu’égalité ou mérite était rien moins qu’uniforme et consensuelle. En restituant l’histoire de ce programme révolutionnaire alternatif et oublié – un parmi tous ceux qui existèrent en 1789-1790 – , cette contribution suggère à quel point il peut être utile de penser des révolutions plutôt que la Révolution, lorsqu’il est question des bouleversements de cette année décisive.
Le mythe du « bon cacique » : Emilio Bessières y Ramírez de Arellano, grand d'Espagne accusé de faux-monnayage
Authors: Lastécouères Christophe 
Published: September 2014

Cet article met en lumière la trajectoire d’un aristocrate espagnol, Emilio Bessières y Ramírez de Arellano, qui a été accusé de faux-monnayage en 1910. En 1891, Bessières est élu député aux Cortes dans un district rural près de Grenade en Andalousie. Même s’il n’est pas réélu, il conserve toute son autorité grâce au système clientéliste. Son procès montre l’ambivalence des intérêts locaux dans la construction de l’État espagnol contemporain au XIX e siècle. D’un côté, l’État central partage avec les pouvoirs locaux la gestion du bien public. Mais, d’un autre côté, il cherche à assumer seul cette fonction. Dans le discours des élites libérales, le cacique devient une figure archaïque, même s’il est réellement un « bon » cacique.
Self-perception of personal dental appearance among students of King Khaled University Abha, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Shahrani Ibrahim Al 
Published: September 2014

Abstract
Objectives: The need for treatment as assessed by the patients themselves is of utmost importance. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of personal dental appearance among students of King Khaled University (KKU), Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A total of 391 students from KKU were recruited for the study. Information on awareness of malocclusion and satisfaction with personal dental appearance was obtained from a five-item closed ended questionnaire. Chi-square test was used to test the association of the study variables. Results: Statistically significant association of self-perceived dental appearance was found with respect to gender as well as the type of education (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Females were found to be more dissatisfied with their dental appearance. Dental education has significant influence on an individual′s self-perception of dental appearance.
An appraisal of congenital maxillary double lip with a case report
Authors: Bakshi Preeti Sethi , Jindal Naveen , Kaushik Alka , Leekha Swati 
Published: September 2014

AbstractDouble lip is a rare anomaly that may be congenital or acquired and affects upper lip more commonly than the lower lip. This deformity consists of an accessory fold of redundant mucous membrane inside the vermilion border. It affects esthetics and may also interfere with speech and mastication. Simple surgical excision produces good functional and cosmetic results. We describe a case of congenital maxillary double lip along with a brief review of the literature and discuss the differential diagnosis. This anomaly is of more relevance in dentistry as a general dental practitioner is usually the first professional to recognize and establish the diagnosis.
Age and regional significance of Brachiopods from the Temiscouata Formation of Madawaska County, New Brunswick
Authors: St. Peter C. , Boucot A.J. 
Published: September 2014

The Lower Devonian Temiscouata Formation of Madawaska County, northwestern New Brunswick forms part of a more extensive slate belt that extends from eastern Gaspé Peninsula to Long Island Sound. The age of the basal beds of slates correlated with the Temiscouata Formation has been previously dated as New Scotland (late Gedinnian). Until now, the youngest age assigned to the slates has been Oriskany (late Siegenian) based on the brachiopod Leptoooelia flabellites. The discovery of two previously unreported genera in New Brunswick — Eodevonaria and Plioanoplia and the taxonoraic reclassification of Leptoooelia flabellites indicates that the Temiscouata Formation extends upwards into the Esopus or Schoharie (early to middle Emsian). Regional correlation fixes the upper age of the Temiscouata as pre-Onondagan (pre-Eifelian). The new age assignment allows the lower age limit of the Acadian Orogeny in this part of the Appalachians to be raised to post-Esopus or Schoharie time.

RÉSUMÉ
D'âge dévonien inférieur, la formation de Temiscouata (nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick, comté de Madawaska) fait partie d'une vaste bande d'ardoises qui s'étend de l'est de la péninsule gaspésienne jusqu'au détroit de Long Island. Auparavant, on datait les couches d'ardoises basales, corrélatives avec la formation de Temiscouata, comme étant d'âge new Scotland (gédinnien tardif). Jusqu'à présent, base sur la présence du brachiopode Leptoooelia flabellites le plus jeune âge attribue aux ardoises était oriskany (siégénien tardif). La découverte de deux genres précedemment inconnus au Nouveau-Brunswick, Eodevonaria et Plioanoplia, ainsi que la reclassification taxonomique de Leptoooelia flabellites, prouvent que la formation de Temiscouata remonte jusqu'aux âges ésopus ou schoharie (bas à moxen emsien). Une corrélation régionale fixe l'âge supérieur de la formation de Temiscouata comme pré-onondagien (pré-eifelien). L'attribution de ce nouvel âge permet d'éléver la limite d'âge inférieure de l'orogenèse acadienne dans cette partie des Appalaches jusqu'aux temps post-ésopus ou schoharie.

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Petrology of the Mavillette Intrusion Digby County, Nova Scotia
Authors: Calder Lynn M. , Barr Sandra M. 
Published: September 2014

The Mavillette Intrusion is a small gabbroic body located in Digby County, southwestern Nova Scotia. It is dyke-like in form, trending about 150°, with a strike length of at least 1250 m and a width of about 100 m. The igneous mineralogy includes oligoclase-andesine and augite, with accessory magnetite, ilmenite, and apatite, but the intrusion has undergone variably intense alteration/low-grade metamorphism and shearing, and secondary minerals are abundant. In chemical composition the intrusion is highly evolved but probably of continental tholeiitic affinity. It differs from other mafic igneous rocks of southern Nova Scotia, but on the basis of geographic location, mineralogy, and chemistry is considered to be related to the volcanic rocks of the White Rock Formation in the Cape St. Mary's — Yarmouth area. This correlation implies a late Ordovician— early Silurian age for the intrusion.

RÉSUMÉ
L'intrusion Mavillette est une petite masse gabbrolque située dans le comte de Digby au sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Elle adopte la forme d'un dyke d'une largeur d'environ 100 m et suit une direction d'aziraut 150 sur, une longueur d'au molns 1250 m. La minéralogie ignée comprend des plagioclases (oligoclase-andesine) et de l’augite, avec comme minéraux accessoires de la magnétite, de l’ilménite et de l’apatite. Les minéraux secondaires sont très abondants car l’intrusion à subi les effets varies d'une altération intense et d'un métamorphisme léger, accompagnfis d'un cisalllement. La composition chimique de l’intrusion est très développée mais reflète probablement une affinite tholèiitique continentale. L'intrusion différe des autres roches ignées mafiques du sud de la Nouvelle-Écosse, mais de par sa situation géographique, sa minéralogie et sa chimie, on la considére reliée aux roches volcaniques de la formation White Rock qu'on retrouve dans la région de Cape St. Mary's - Yarmouth. Cette corrélation donne à l'intrusion un âge allant de l'Ordovicien tardif au début du Silurien.

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Paleozoic supracrustal rocks near Cheticamp, Nova Scotia
Authors: Currie K. L. 
Published: September 2014

Near Cheticamp, northwestern Cape Breton Island, a sequence of supracrustal rocks overlies and cuts granite previously dated at 530±44 million years, as veil as older, presumably Precambrian gneisses. Rhyolite dikes feeding the supracrustal sequence yielded zircons giving a U-Pb discordia age of 439±7 million years (late Ordovician or Silurian). The supracrustal rocks are overlain and cut by bimodal volcanies of the Fisset Brook Formation, previously dated by Rb-Sr isochron at 376±12 million years. Interpretation of the stratigraphic and geochronologlic data, together with petrochemical data on the volcanic rocks, shows that the rocks of the Cape Breton Highland underwent repeated cycles of deformation, uplift and granitic intrusion, rapidly followed by subsidence and emplacement of bimodal volcanic rocks. The repetitive and cyclic nature of the process suggests that throughout late Precambrian and early Paleozoic time these rocks remained in a single, cyclic, tectonic environment, rather than passing from one tectonic environment to another.

RÉSUMÉ
Près de Cheticamp, dans le nord-ouest de l'ile du Cap-Breton, une succession de roches supracrustales recouvre et coupe un granite daté antérieurement à 530±44 million d'années, ainsi que des gneiss plus vieux dont l'âge remonte vraisemblablement au Précambrien. Des dykes de rholite qui alimentent la succession supracrustale ont livre des zircons donnant un âge U-Pb "discordia" de 439±7 million d'années (Ordovicien tardif ou Silurlen). Les roches supracruatales sont recouvertes et coupées par des roches volcaniques bimodales de la formation Fisset Brook, datées anterieurement à 376±12 million d'années par isochrone Rb-Sr. L'interprètation des donnéea stratigraphiques et géochronologiques, alnsi que les données pétrochimiques des roches volcaniques, démontrent que les roches des hautes terres du Cap-Breton ont été soumises à des cycles repetés de déformation, de soulevement et d'intrusion granitique, rapidement suivis par un affaissement et la mise en place de roches volcaniques bimodales. La nature cyclique et repetitive du processus suggère que du Précambrlen tardif Jusqu'au début du Paléozoique ces roches, plutôt que de passer d'un environnement tectonlque à un autre, sont demeurées au seind'unseul environpement tectonlque cyclique.

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Marsh foraminifera in the Bay of Fundy: modern distribution and application to sea-level determinations
Authors: Smith D. A. , Scott D. B. , Medioli F. S. 
Published: September 2014

Although marsh foraminiferal zonations are comparatively well known for most of Atlantic Canada, data from the vertically expanded marsh zones in the Bay of Fundy are insufficient for marsh foraminiferal zonations that can be used to accurately determine former sea levels. In this paper we present data from two well-documented surface transects that illustrate vertical ranges of marsh foraminifera in the Bay of Fundy. Trochammina inflata characterizes the highest margin with a zone la of 20cm vertical range. Tiphotrocha comprimata together with T. inflata comprise zone lb (vertical range 75cm) while Miliammina fusca and other low marsh species characterize zone II faunas (vertical range 450cm). As in Atlantic marshes the fauna nearest the higher high water level produces the best accuracy for relocating former sea levels while low marsh (zone II) is not a good indicator.

Using marsh foraminiferal zonations and the tidal amplicication curve developed in earlier work, it is now possible to accurately determine former sea levels in the Bay of Fundy, at least for the last 4000 years.

RÉSUMÉ
Même si L’on connait assez bien la zonation des foraminifères de marais pour la plus grande partie de la côte atlantique du Canada, le manque de données sur le dévelopment vertical des zones de marais nous empèche d'établir avec exactitude les niveaux marins passés. Dans cet article, nous présentons des données provenant de deux traverses bien documentées, qui illustrent les étendues verticales des fora-miniféres de marais dans la Baie de Fundy. Trochammlna inflata charactérise la limite supérieure par une zone la d'une étendue verticale de 20cm. Tiphotrocha comprimata ainsi que T. inflata embrassent la zone lb (étendue verticale de 75cm) cependant que Miliammina fusca et d'autres espèces de basmarais charactérisent les faunes de la zone II (fitendue verticale de 450cm). Comme dans les marais at I antiques, la faune ia plus près du plus haut niveau de marée haute procure la meilleure exactitude pour situer les niveaux marins antérieurs alors que la zone de bas-marais (zone II) n'est pas un bon indice.

L'utilization des zonations de foraminifères de marais et de la courbe d'amplification de marée développée lors de travaux antérieurs permet done de déterminer avec exactitude, à tout le moins pour les derniers 4000 ans, les niveaux marins passés dans le Baie de Fundy.

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