bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Motion parameter estimation of multiple ground moving targets in multi-static passive radar systems
Authors: Subedi Saurav , Zhang Yimin D , Amin Moeness G , Himed Braham 
Published: October 2014

Abstract
Multi-static passive radar (MPR) systems typically use narrowband signals and operate under weak signal conditions, making them difficult to reliably estimate motion parameters of ground moving targets. On the other hand, the availability of multiple spatially separated illuminators of opportunity provides a means to achieve multi-static diversity and overall signal enhancement. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating motion parameters, including velocity and acceleration, of multiple closely located ground moving targets in a typical MPR platform with focus on weak signal conditions, where traditional time-frequency analysis-based methods become unreliable or infeasible. The underlying problem is reformulated as a sparse signal reconstruction problem in a discretized parameter search space. While the different bistatic links have distinct Doppler signatures, they share the same set of motion parameters of the ground moving targets. Therefore, such motion parameters act as a common sparse support to enable the exploitation of group sparsity-based methods for robust motion parameter estimation. This provides a means of combining signal energy from all available illuminators of opportunity and, thereby, obtaining a reliable estimation even when each individual signal is weak. Because the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of motion parameters involves a multi-dimensional search and its performance is sensitive to target position errors, we also propose a technique that decouples the target motion parameters, yielding a two-step process that sequentially estimates the acceleration and velocity vectors with a reduced dimensionality of the parameter search space. We compare the performance of the sequential method against the ML estimation with the consideration of imperfect knowledge of the initial target positions. The Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) of the underlying parameter estimation problem is derived for a general multiple-target scenario in an MPR system. Simulation results are provided to compare the performance of the sparse signal reconstruction-based methods against the traditional time-frequency-based methods as well as the CRB.
Central venous oxygenation: when physiology explains apparent discrepancies
Authors: Squara Pierre 
Published: October 2014

AbstractCentral venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) >70% or mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) >65% is recommended for both septic and non-septic patients. Although it is the task of experts to suggest clear and simple guidelines, there is a risk of reducing critical care to these simple recommendations. This article reviews the basic physiological and pathological features as well as the metrological issues that provide clear evidence that SvO2 and ScvO2 are adaptative variables with large inter-patient variability. This variability is exemplified in a modeled population of 1,000 standard ICU patients and in a real population of 100 patients including 15,860 measurements. In these populations, it can be seen how optimizing one to three of the four S(c)vO2 components homogenized the patients and yields a clear dependency with the fourth one. This explains the discordant results observed in large studies where cardiac output was increased up to predetermined S(c)vO2 thresholds following arterial oxygen hemoglobin saturation, total body oxygen consumption needs and hemoglobin optimization. Although a systematic S(c)vO2 goal-oriented protocol can be statistically profitable before ICU admission, appropriate intensive care mandates determination of the best compromise between S(c)vO2 and its four components, taking into account the specific constraints of each individual patient.
Viewing multiple sequence alignments with the JavaScript Sequence Alignment Viewer (JSAV)
Authors: Martin Andrew C. R. 
Published: October 2014

The JavaScript Sequence Alignment Viewer (JSAV) is designed as a simple-to-use JavaScript component for displaying sequence alignments on web pages. The display of sequences is highly configurable with options to allow alternative coloring schemes, sorting of sequences and ’dotifying’ repeated amino acids. An option is also available to submit selected sequences to another web site, or to other JavaScript code. JSAV is implemented purely in JavaScript making use of the JQuery and JQuery-UI libraries. It does not use any HTML5-specific options to help with browser compatibility. The code is documented using JSDOC and is available from http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/jsav/.
Paralingustic Means in German as a Guide to Cross-cultural Communication
Authors: Дубинский  , Dubinskiy Vladimir 
Published: October 2014

In this issue we are starting to publish the research paper presented by V.I.
Dubinskiy. The author aims at demonstrating non-verbal means of communi-
cation in the German language as well as showing the way they are used
in everyday life and the specifics of teaching them further cross-cultural
communication with Germans. Knowing non-verbal means of communication
typical of native speakers means broadening the general knowledge
of the student of the language and developing an active communicative
approach to speech interaction.
Managing Social Development of Organization: a Methodological Basis
Authors: Селивоненко  , Selivonenko O. 
Published: October 2014

The successful activity of a company depends on high eff ectiveness of joint eff orts of the staff , their qualifi cations, education level, on how much the conditions
of work and life are favorable for the satisfyingpeoples’ material and spiritual needs.
Changes in society caused by acceleration of advance in science and technology and social progress lead to the increase of the human resources role in labour
activity, the values of personal characteristics of employees, and the need for social partnership. All this places new requirements on the nature and content
of managing social development of organization.
Methodological aspects of social development managing will allow modern managers to solve social problems on the basis of a comprehensive scientifi c
approach, awareness of the regularities in the course of social processes, the exact analytical calculation and verifi ed social norms.
Development of Financial Markets Within the Single Economic Space Countries: Institutional Aspects
Authors: Алленых  , Allenykh Marina 
Published: October 2014

Based on the institutional theory the paper analyzes institutional aspects of
financial markets development in the countries of the Single Economic Space.
General theoretical principles of institutionalization of financial markets are
discussed, including the principle of functional diversity, the complementarity
principle, the dominance principle, the principle of congruency and historicism.
Outlined are financial and systems risks, inherent in the development of financial
markets.
Koncepcja „czwartego stanu” Edmunda Burke’a podana przez Thomasa Carlyle’a. Refleksje o polityce i komunikowaniu
Authors: Nieć Mateusz 
Published: October 2014

Concept of “fourth estate” of Edmund Burke by Thomas Carlyle. Afterthought about politics and communication
Since 19th century, we have been speaking about speeches of Edmund Burke, about his concept of “fourth estate”. Scientists and politics still are discussing about speeches of Burke, did he say, or didn’t say “fourth estate”. I looked differently, in article, I consider political thought of Thomas Carlyle. Political writer from Scotland quoted a speech of Burke in essay ‘On Heroes’. I present reception idea of “fourth estete” to political thought of Carlyle. I consider, why did Carlyle write, not why didn’t Burke say? Burke and Carlyle lived in different a historical time, but like a political time. Moreover, I analyze speech of Burke, his a langue and a matter; and in finally, I compare political thought of Burke and Carlyle.
Stolica Apostolska i główne problemy Narodów Zjednoczonych w okresie pontyfikatu Jana Pawła II
Authors: Migliore Celestino 
Published: October 2014

The Holy See and the main problems of the United Nations during the course of John Paul II’s pontificate
The subject of the Holy See and the problems of the United Nations during the course of John Paul II’s pontificate is quite broad. It involves the period of twenty years which were rich in many events and political and social changes around the whole world. In this period the Holy See maintained its presence in the international community with the status of an observer at the forum of the UN. The diplomatic representation of the Holy See in the UN is based on the social teaching of the Church. John Paul II conceived of this teaching as a great system of concentric circles: a system whose first element is the human person and the final one – the globalized world. Due to this fact, the Catholic social teaching elaborated the concept of the principle of auxiliarity as an antidote for the period of dictatorships and regimes. The other foundation of human safety is the principle of solidarity. This principle was a peculiar feature of John Paul II who lived thirty years of his life in a country ruled by a communist regime. He was chosen as the pope in an extraordinary moment of history when international security was a much-discussed subject. The UN and the international community saw the foundations of this security in the principle of collaboration and non-interference, and John Paul II contributed to the elaboration of this concept by emphasizing the security of the individual and of the society. In 1969 the Vatican accepted an invitation from the countries of the Warsaw Pact to take part in the Helsinki Conference. The main concept of this conference was straightforward – security consists in the balance of power. The Holy See had a different concept of security, one that emphasized instead the common good of the community, the community to which the usage of force always brings destruction. These activities later influenced humanitarian actions, vigorously supported by the Vatican. John Paul II’s contribution to the contemplation of human rights is immense. He was true to his belief about the existence of such values and rules that are not negotiable. Their range and applicability cannot depend upon the will of the majority or pressure groups. The Holy See maintains clear and precise concept of the human person who may never be divorced from transcendence – from God. According to John Paul II and the Vatican the human person was and continues to be the point of reference expressed in views and actions, visible in diplomacy. The clear concept of man is maintained in order to facilitate an answer to the question where we come from and where we are headed.
Leveraging Health Information Exchange to Improve Population Health Reporting
Processes: Lessons in Using a Collaborative-Participatory Design Process
Authors: Revere Debra , Dixon Brian E. , Hills Rebecca , Williams Jennifer L. , Grannis Shaun J. 
Published: October 2014

Introduction: Surveillance, or the systematic monitoring of disease within a
population, is a cornerstone function of public health. Despite significant investment
in information technologies (IT) to improve the public’s health, health care providers
continue to rely on manual, spontaneous reporting processes that can result in
incomplete and delayed surveillance activities.Background: Participatory design
principles advocate including real users and stakeholders when designing an information
system to ensure high ecological validity of the product, incorporate relevance and
context into the design, reduce misconceptions designers can make due to insufficient
domain expertise, and ultimately reduce barriers to adoption of the system. This paper
focuses on the collaborative and informal participatory design process used to develop
enhanced, IT-enabled reporting processes that leverage available electronic health
records in a health information exchange to prepopulate notifiable-conditions report
forms used by public health authorities.Methods: Over nine months, public health
stakeholders, technical staff, and informatics researchers were engaged in a multiphase
participatory design process that included public health stakeholder focus groups,
investigator-engineering team meetings, public health survey and census regarding
high-priority data elements, and codesign of exploratory prototypes and final form
mock-ups.Findings: A number of state-mandated report fields that are not highly used or
desirable for disease investigation were eliminated, which allowed engineers to
repurpose form space for desired and high-priority data elements and improve the
usability of the forms. Our participatory design process ensured that IT development was
driven by end user expertise and needs, resulting in significant improvements to the
layout and functionality of the reporting forms.Discussion: In addition to informing
report form development, engaging with public health end users and stakeholders through
the participatory design process provided new insights into public health workflow and
allowed the team to quickly triage user requests while managing user expectations within
the realm of engineering possibilities.Conclusion: Engaging public health, engineering
staff, and investigators in a shared codesigning process ensured that the new forms will
not only meet real-life needs but will also support development of a product that will
be adopted and, ultimately, improve communicable and infectious disease reporting by
clinicians to public health.
Postmemory and photography in the Catalan miniseries Tornarem (2011)
Authors: Gimeno Ugalde Esther 
Published: October 2014

Abstract
Taking into account that photography is a privileged tool of memory transmission, the aim of this essay is to analyse the role of photography in some Spanish contemporary audiovisual narratives. As a case study, the article deals with the Catalan miniseries Tornarem (Felip Solé, TV3, 2011), which fictionalizes the experience of the exile of Catalan republicans after the Spanish Civil War and, more specifically, the experience of those who enrolled in the Leclerc Division and led a central role in the liberation of Paris in 1944. As it will be argued, photographs help evoke historical events in the miniseries, thus recalling what Marianne Hirsch has called ‘postmemory.’ Along with photography, the (fictional) oral testimony of Garcia – the narrator and a character in Tornarem – fills in the blanks of memory of Maria, another fictional character who represents the point of view of the postgeneration. At the same time and appealing to emotions, the miniseries fills in the blanks of the collective memory of many Catalans who barely know the historical events lived through by republicans who fought for La Nueve against the Axis powers.
Television fiction and memory practices in Portugal and Spain (2000–2012): Some comparative reflections
Authors: Burnay Catarina Duff , Rueda Laffond José Carlos 
Published: October 2014

Abstract
This article presents an overview of historical fiction broadcast in Spanish and Portuguese television over the last decade and analyses its main characteristics (narrative modes, patterns of representation, evocations of times and spaces, relations with current events and agendas), regarding these productions as examples of twenty-first-century media memory.
Houston, We Have a Problem: Teachers Find No Value in the SAS Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS®)
Authors: Collins Clarin 
Published: October 2014

This study examined the SAS Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS®) in practice, as perceived and experienced by teachers in the Southwest School District (SSD). To evaluate teacher effectiveness, SSD is using SAS EVAAS® for high-stakes consequences more than any other district or state in the country. A mixed-method design including a large-scale electronic survey was used to investigate the model’s reliability and validity; to determine whether teachers used the SAS EVAAS® data in formative ways as intended; to gather teachers’ opinions on SAS EVAAS®’s claimed benefits and statements; and to understand the unintended consequences that occurred as a result of SAS EVAAS® use in SSD. Results revealed that the reliability of the SAS EVAAS® model produced split and inconsistent results among teacher participants, and teachers indicated that students biased the SAS EVAAS® results. The majority of teachers disagreed with the company’s marketing claims and did not report similar SAS EVAAS® and principal observation scores, reducing the criterion-related validity of both measures of teacher quality. Many unintended consequences associated with the high-stakes use of SAS EVAAS® emerged through teachers’ responses, which revealed among others that teachers felt heightened pressure and competition, which reduced morale and collaboration, and encouraged cheating or teaching to the test in attempt to raise SAS EVAAS® scores. The results of this study, one of the first to investigate how the SAS EVAAS® model works in practice, should be considered by policymakers, researchers, and districts when considering implementing the SAS EVAAS®, or any value-added model for teacher evaluation.
Ebola US Patient Zero: lessons on misdiagnosis and effective use of electronic health records
Authors: Upadhyay Divvy K. , Sittig Dean F. , Singh Hardeep 
Published: October 2014

Abstract
On September 30th, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first travel-associated case of US Ebola in Dallas, TX. This case exposed two of the greatest concerns in patient safety in the US outpatient health care system: misdiagnosis and ineffective use of electronic health records (EHRs). The case received widespread media attention highlighting failures in disaster management, infectious disease control, national security, and emergency department (ED) care. In addition, an error in making a correct and timely Ebola diagnosis on initial ED presentation brought diagnostic decision-making vulnerabilities in the EHR era into the public eye. In this paper, we use this defining “teachable moment” to highlight the public health challenge of diagnostic errors and discuss the effective use of EHRs in the diagnostic process. We analyze the case to discuss several missed opportunities and outline key challenges and opportunities facing diagnostic decision-making in EHR-enabled health care. It is important to recognize the reality that EHRs suffer from major usability and inter-operability issues, but also to acknowledge that they are only tools and not a replacement for basic history-taking, examination skills, and critical thinking. While physicians and health care organizations ultimately need to own the responsibility for addressing diagnostic errors, several national-level initiatives can help, including working with software developers to improve EHR usability. Multifaceted approaches that account for both technical and non-technical factors will be needed. Ebola US Patient Zero reminds us that in certain cases, a single misdiagnosis can have widespread and costly implications for public health.
Study on Indirect Measuring Technology of EAF Steelmaking Decarburization Rate by Off-gas Analysis Technique in Hot State Experiment
Authors: Dong Kai , Liu Wenjuan , Zhu Rong 
Published: October 2014

AbstractIn this paper, measurement method of EAF Steelmaking decarburization rate is studied. Because of the fuel gas blown and air mixed, the composition of hot temperature off-gas is measurand unreally, and the flow rate is unknown too, the direct measurement of EAF decarburization rate by furnace gas analysis is unrealized. Firstly, the off-gas generation process is discussed. After that, dynamic concentration of CO
Behaviour of fourteen exotic ornamental fishes of Bangladesh under starved condition in aquaria
Authors: Mohsin ABM , Mondal Roni Chandra 
Published: October 2014

The behaviour of fourteen exotic ornamental fishes of Bangladesh under starved condition in aquaria was experimented from January to December, 2011. Fishes were belonging to 13 genera, 09 families and 4 orders. Two treatments each with three replications were used. Four different behavioural phases of fish were monitored through constant observation. Almost all the behavioural phases were seen earlier in the fishes of treatment T1. Marble angel survived more (1022±4.02 hrs; T2) than others. The lowest survival period (116±2.44 hrs; T1) was seen for albino suckermouth. Fishes were died earlier in T1 than T2, due to presence or absence of aeration facilities. Water temperature, dissolved oxygen, free CO2, pH, total alkalinity, ammonia-nitrogen and chlorine level were found to be varied from 25.66±0.17 to 28.66±0.35°C, 3.80±0.06 to 4.73±0.07 mg/l, 9.21±0.05 to 11.75±0.03 mg/l, 7.13±0.05 to 7.47±0.07, 76.66±1.64 to 108.92±3.20 mg/l, 0.0010±0.0006 to 0.0133±0.002 mg/l and 0.0045±0.001 to 0.012±0.0014 mg/l, respectively. The research findings would be helpful in gathering basic knowledge on different behavioural phases through which aquarists can maintain primitive behavioural phase in their aquaria. Further research work is suggested in the aforesaid theme massively.
Characteristics of white spots in saturated wet snow
Authors: Kameda Takao , Harada Yasuhiro , Takahashi Shuhei 
Published: October 2014

AbstractMany curious white spots of 1–10 cm diameter were found on wet snow (~10 mm thick) on the morning of 1 November 2009 in Kitami and Oketo in Hokkaido, Japan. At first glance, the white spots appeared to be made of spherically gathered snow; however, they had actually been formed by the scattering of sunlight over wet snow. Thin air bubbles enclosed in the wet snow caused a diffuse reflection of sunlight and formed the white spots. We refer to this phenomenon as white spotted wet snow. Although this type of snow has been briefly described previously, the formation process, meteorological conditions that lead to its formation, its vertical structure and the horizontal distribution of the white spots are unknown. Our study addresses these issues. In addition, three independent methods (a nearest-neighbour method, Voronoi diagram and two-dimensional correlation function) demonstrate that the white spots are not randomly distributed but tend to be surrounded by six other spots.
Le logement dans les grands agrégats économiques
Authors: Baïetto-Beysson Sabine 
Published: October 2014

Le logement est le premier poste de dépenses des ménages et sa part a progressé de manière quasiment continue depuis 20 ans, en lien avec l’amélioration du confort. De son côté, l’investissement en logement représente 28,9 % de l’investissement national. La construction neuve focalise l’attention et elle est le poste le plus sensible à la conjoncture, mais elle ne représente que la moitié de ce pourcentage. Le logement, financé en majorité par le crédit banalisé, constitue également un levier essentiel d’accumulation du patrimoine des Français, dont il représente près des deux tiers, avec de fortes inégalités. Enfin, les aides au logement, dans un contexte de tension des finances publiques, ont fortement crû durant la dernière décennie pour atteindre en 2011 un pic de 44,9 Md€, soit 2,3 % du PIB, une décrue ayant été amorcée en 2012 et 2013. L’État apporte un peu plus de la moitié des aides : les aides à la personne sont les plus élevées mais relativement contenues, les aides à la pierre sont très minoritaires, et ce sont les multiples aides fiscales qui ont été les plus dynamiques lors de la dernière décennie, avec une forte inertie des aides à l’investissement locatif.	Espérons que ces chiffres permettront d’éclairer les débats – trop souvent teintés d’idéologie et de vécu personnel – sur l’efficacité des politiques du logement.	Classification JEL : R20, R30, R28, R38.