bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A Decomposition of Hospital Profitability
Authors: Turner Jason , Broom Kevin , Elliott Michael , Lee Jen-Fu 
Published: June 2015

Objectives: This paper evaluates the drivers of profitability for a large sample of U.S. hospitals. Following a methodology frequently used by financial analysts, we use a DuPont analysis as a framework to evaluate the quality of earnings. By decomposing returns on equity (ROE) into profit margin, total asset turnover, and capital structure, the DuPont analysis reveals what drives overall profitability. Methods: Profit margin, the efficiency with which services are rendered (total asset turnover), and capital structure is calculated for 3,255 U.S. hospitals between 2007 and 2012 using data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Healthcare Cost Report Information System (CMS Form 2552). The sample is then stratified by ownership, size, system affiliation, teaching status, critical access designation, and urban or non-urban location. Those hospital characteristics and interaction terms are then regressed (OLS) against the ROE and the respective DuPont components. Sensitivity to regression methodology is also investigated using a seemingly unrelated regression. Results: When the sample is stratified by hospital characteristics, the results indicate investor-owned hospitals have higher profit margins, higher efficiency, and are substantially more leveraged. Hospitals in systems are found to have higher ROE, margins, and efficiency but are associated with less leverage. In addition, a number of important and significant interactions between teaching status, ownership, location, critical access designation, and inclusion in a system are documented. Many of the significant relationships, most notably not-for-profit ownership, lose significance or are predominately associated with one interaction effect when interaction terms are introduced as explanatory variables. Results are not sensitive to the alternative methodology. Conclusion: The results of the DuPont analysis suggest that although there appears to be convergence in the behavior of NFP and IO hospitals, significant financial differences remain depending on their respective hospital characteristics. Those differences are tempered or exacerbated by location, size, teaching status, system affiliation, and critical access designation. With the exception of cost-based reimbursement for critical access hospitals, emerging payment systems are placing additional financial pressures on hospitals. The financial pressures being applied treat hospitals as a monolithic category and, given the delicate and often negative ROE for many hospitals, the long-term stability of the healthcare facility infrastructure may be negatively impacted.
Rare and low-frequency variants and their association with plasma levels of fibrinogen, FVII, FVIII, and vWF
Authors: Huffman Jennifer E. , de Vries Paul S. , Morrison Alanna C. , Sabater-Lleal Maria , Kacprowski Tim , Auer Paul L. , Brody Jennifer A. , Chasman Daniel I. , Chen Ming-Huei , Guo Xiuqing , Lin Li-An , Marioni Riccardo E. , Müller-Nurasyid Martina , Yanek Lisa R. , Pankratz Nathan , Grove Megan L. , de Maat Moniek P. M. , Cushman Mary , Wiggins Kerri L. , Qi Lihong , Sennblad Bengt , Harris Sarah E. , Polasek Ozren , Riess Helene , Rivadeneira Fernando , Rose Lynda M. , Goel Anuj , Taylor Kent D. , Teumer Alexander , Uitterlinden André G. , Vaidya Dhananjay , Yao Jie , Tang Weihong , Levy Daniel , Waldenberger Melanie , Becker Diane M. , Folsom Aaron R. , Giulianini Franco , Greinacher Andreas , Hofman Albert , Huang Chiang-Ching , Kooperberg Charles , Silveira Angela , Starr John M. , Strauch Konstantin , Strawbridge Rona J. , Wright Alan F. , McKnight Barbara , Franco Oscar H. , Zakai Neil , Mathias Rasika A. , Psaty Bruce M. , Ridker Paul M. , Tofler Geoffrey H. , Völker Uwe , Watkins Hugh , Fornage Myriam , Hamsten Anders , Deary Ian J. , Boerwinkle Eric , Koenig Wolfgang , Rotter Jerome I. , Hayward Caroline , Dehghan Abbas , Reiner Alex P. , O’Donnell Christopher J. , Smith Nicholas L. 
Published: June 2015

Key PointsTwelve independent, novel, low-frequency (n = 2) and rare (n = 10) genetic variants were associated with fibrinogen, FVII, FVIII, or vWF. Nine were within previously associated genes, and 3 novel candidate genes (KCNT1, HID1, and KATNB1) were confined to cohorts of African ancestry.
APLICAÇÕES CONTEMPORÂNEAS DA TEORIA DE INTELIGÊNCIAS MÚLTIPLAS: APRENDIZADO PARA O ENSINO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO
Authors: Bianchi Caio Giusti 
Published: June 2015

<p>Howard Gardner, principal nome envolvido na publicação do livro intitulado Inteligências Múltiplas ao Redor do Mundo publicado em 2010, é de origem alemã e se mudou com seus pais para os Estados Unidos da América do Norte em 1938 por conta da perseguição aos judeus na Alemanha nazista. Em 1961 ele ingressou na Universidade de Harvard com o objetivo de graduar em História, porém Erik Erikson, Jerome Bruner e Jean Piaget influenciaram a sua trajetória na universidade para realizar pesquisas voltadas para a psicologia clínica e o desenvolvimento humano (WINNER, s.d.).</p>
Economic Impacts of Productivity Improvements in US Forest Products Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Authors: Hussain Anwar , Munn Ian A. , Grala Robert 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
US forest products industries are faced with significant challenges from global competitors. To effectively address the competitiveness of forest products industries, it is important to understand where their trading advantage lies. Using a global general equilibrium model, this study simulated the implications of 1 percent productivity improvements or technical change in US forest products industries. Counterfactual simulation results associated with alternative scenarios suggested significant differences between the global competitiveness of the industries to exogenous technical change shocks. Systematic sensitivity analysis suggested that while the national welfare estimates as measured by equivalent variation were more sensitive to variations in the Armington import elasticity of substitution than the factor substitution elasticity, they still ranged only between 1.57 and 3.32 percent of the mean values. Regardless of the type of simulation scenario, the ratio of equivalent variation to sector output was largest in the wood products industry, followed by paper products and publishing. The findings should be helpful in analyzing economic return on public and private investment in research and innovation in the US forest industries.
Carbon Mitigation Impacts of Increased Softwood Lumber and Structural Panel Use for Nonresidential Construction in the United States
Authors: Nepal Prakash , Skog Kenneth E. , McKeever David B. , Bergman Richard D. , Abt Karen L. , Abt Robert C. 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
More wood use in the United States to construct low-rise nonresidential (NR) buildings would increase consumption and production of softwood (SW) lumber, engineered wood products, and structural and nonstructural wood panels. Using a consequential life-cycle analysis, we estimated the change in net CO2 emissions that would be caused by increased use of SW lumber and structural panels in NR construction. Carbon (C) storage and emissions were projected over 50 years for baseline and increased wood use scenarios using the US Forest Products Module operating within the Global Forest Products Model (USFPM/GFPM) and the Southern region timber supply model (SRTS). Increased wood use in NR construction (C content of 428 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent [tCO2e]) could provide an emissions reduction of 870 million tCO2e over 50 years or a net emissions reduction of 2.03 tCO2e/tCO2e of extra wood used in NR buildings over 50 years. The CO2 savings varied for products provided in the South, North, and West because of differences in biological timber regrowth; market-induced changes in land use; differences in timber harvests, lumber, and structural panel production; and associated differences in C stored in forests, harvested wood products, logging slash, and manufacturing emissions. The US South provided the largest net change, −2.83 tCO2e/tCO2e of extra wood products, followed by the North and West with −1.89 and −0.60 tCO2e/tCO2e of extra wood, respectively. These results suggest strategies that result in increased use of wood in place of nonwood products in NR buildings would be effective in mitigating CO2 emissions.
Happiness About Unintended Pregnancy And Its Relationship to Contraceptive Desires Among a Predominantly Latina Cohort
Authors: Aiken Abigail R.A. 
Published: June 2015

CONTEXTWomen frequently profess happiness about unintended pregnancies; such incongruence is associated with use of less effective contraceptive methods and inconsistent or incorrect method use. Yet, the methods women use may differ from those they desire.METHODSData on 578 women were drawn from a prospective survey of postpartum women aged 18–44 recruited from three hospitals in Texas between 2012 and 2014. Jonckheere‐Terpstra tests were used to compare women's feelings about a future pregnancy with their childbearing intentions. Fisher‐Freeman‐Halton tests compared distributions of contraceptive methods currently used and desired by women who professed happiness about a future unintended pregnancy, as well as distributions of desired methods by women's reported feelings.RESULTSThe proportion of women who reported happiness about a future pregnancy was 59% among those intending to wait two or three years for another child, 46% among those intending to wait four or more years, and 36% among those intending to have no more children. Among women who professed happiness, a greater proportion desired to use a highly effective contraceptive method than were currently using one (72% vs. 15% among those intending no more children; 55% vs. 23% among those intending to wait at least four years; and 36% vs. 10% among those intending to wait two or three years). Across intention categories, the types of methods desired did not differ by whether women professed happiness or unhappiness.CONCLUSIONSWomen who profess happiness about a future unintended pregnancy may nonetheless desire highly effective contraceptive methods.
An investigation of physical properties and user behaviours in children's parks/playgrounds<p>Çocuk oyun alanlarının/parklarının fiziksel özelliklerinin ve kullanıcılarının davranışlarının incelenmesi
Authors: Ramazan M. Oya , Adak Özdemir Atiye 
Published: June 2015

<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the physical properties and user (48-72 month children and adults accompanying them) behaviours in children's parks/playground. Participants of the study consist of 12 children (6 girls and 6 boys) selected on random basis from six different parks located in Kadıköy, Üsküdar, and Ataşehir districts in İstanbul. The qualitative research design was used in the study. Data were collected with structured interviews and naturalistic observations. During the observations in the parks, all activities and behaviors of children were recorded on an individual basis by using an observation form. Additionally, short interviews were conducted with children and their relatives (mother, father, grandmother, aunt) in the parks.</p><p>The results of the study revealed that all of the parks have traditional playground equipments. Observation results of the study indicated that children do not play with each other out of making contact only to state their wishes in limited verbal communication. Moreover, the results obtained by interviews showed that adults bring their children to the parks to prevent them to get bored at home while children stated that they came the park to play.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Bu araştırmanın amacı çocuk oyun alanlarının/parklarının fiziksel özelliklerinin ve kullanıcılarının (48-72 ay çocuklar ve onlara eşlik eden yetişkinler) davranışlarını incelemektir. Katılımcılar İstanbul ili Üsküdar, Kadıköy ve Ataşehir ilçelerindeki altı farklı parkta rastgele seçilen 12 çocuk (6 kız, 6 erkek)'tan oluşmaktadır. Nitel araştırma deseni kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen araştırmanın verilerinin toplanmasında ‘doğal ortamda gözlem’ ve ‘yapılandırılmış görüşme’ bir arada kullanılmıştır. Parklarda yapılan gözlemler sırasında çocukların tüm davranış ve eylemleri ayrı ayrı gözlem formuna kaydedilmiştir. Ayrıca çocuklar ve onlara eşlik eden yetişkinlerle kısa bir görüşme yapılmıştır.</p><p>Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular parkların tamamında geleneksel tipte oyun materyallerinin bulunduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Gözlem sonucunda elde edilen veriler çocukların parkta birbirleri ile oyun oynamadıklarını ancak isteklerini belirtmek için sınırlı düzeyde sözel iletişimde bulunduklarını ortaya koymuştur. Görüşmelerden elde edilen veriler, yetişkinlerin evde sıkılmalarını önlemek için çocuklarını parka getirdiklerini; çocuklar ise oynamak için oyun parkına geldiklerini göstermektedir.</p>
The validity and reliability of the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale <p>Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeği: Geçerlik güvenirlik çalışması
Authors: Yaman Erkan 
Published: June 2015

<p>The aim of this research is to develop the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale and examine its validity and reliability. The sample of the study consisted of 1145 students from Sakarya University. In this study, construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and item analysis of the scale were examined. As a result of factor analysis for construct validity, four factors have emerged which are named physical appearance, personal characteristics, the frequency of visual, and values. These subscales consist of 19 items and account for the 46% of the total variance. The internal consistency reliability coefficients were .77 for physical appearance, .74 for personal characteristics, .81 for the frequency of visual, and .74 for values. Findings also demonstrated that item-total correlations ranged from .40 to .72. Test-retest reliability coefficients were .38 and .60 for four subscales, respectively. The item-total correlations ranged from .40 to .72. According to these findings the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale can be regarded as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of psychology.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Bu araştırmanın amacı Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeğini geliştirmek ve geçerlik, güvenirlik analizlerini yapmaktır. Araştırmanın örneklemini, Sakarya Üniversitesinde öğrenim gören 1145 üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Yapılan faktör analizi sonucunda toplam varyansın % 46’sını açıklayan, on dokuz madde ve dört alt boyuttan oluşan bir ölçme aracı elde edilmiştir. Bu alt boyutlar sırasıyla fiziksel görünüm, kişisel özellikler, görme sıklığı ve değerlerdir. Ölçeğin faktör yükleri .59 ile .74 arasında değişmektedir. İç tutarlık güvenirlik katsayıları fiziksel görünüm için .77, kişisel özellikler için .74, görme sıklığı için .81 ve değerler için .74 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirlik kat sayıları ise fiziksel görünüm için .38, kişisel özellikler için .42, görme sıklığı için .60 ve değerler için .53 olarak bulunmuştur. Madde analizi sonucunda alt ölçeklerin madde toplam puan korelasyonlarının .40 ile .72 arasında değiştiği görülmüştür. Bu bulgulara dayanarak Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeği’nin psikolojik araştırmalarda kullanılabilecek, geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olduğu söylenebilir.</p>
Palynostratigraphy and vegetation changes during the early Middle Pleistocene, based on new studies of deposits from Ferdynandów (central eastern Poland)
Authors: Pidek Irena Agnieszka 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
New palynological data from the Ferdynandów site are presented and interpreted against the background of the earlier division of this stratotype pollen sequence by Janczyk-Kopikowa (1975), with special attention to a comparison with the nearest profile of a complete Ferdynandovian succession in Łuków (Łuków Plain). The proposed division of the new pollen diagram from Ferdynandów - into two warm periods of interglacial rank separated by a succession typical of glacial periods - is based on the new division of the Ferdynandovian pollen sequence s.l., applied for the first time by Mamakowa (1996) to the Podgórze B1 pollen profile close to Nowe Miasto on the Pilica river. The two warm units and the cold one between them in the new pollen diagram from the Ferdynandów site correspond to the climatostratigraphic units named Ferdynandovian 1 and 2. Together with the cooling/glaciation (Ferdynandovian 1/2) separating them, the whole Ferdynandovian sequence s.l. can be related to the early Middle Pleistocene Cromerian Complex (Cromerian II Westerhoven and Cromerian III Rosmalen) and Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13-15.
Multiplication of the Enterocyte Mass by Serosal Patch Technique / Umnožavanje Enterocitne Mase Tehnikom Seroznog Patch-A
Authors: Grebeldinger P. Slobodan , Radojčić S. Branka , Ćulafić N. Jelena , Andrejić Višnjić M. Bojana 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
Damage to the small intestine and impairment of the intestinal epithelium occur in various diseases, resulting in a need for new epithelium. Therefore, bioengineering of the small intestine is becoming an attractive field of research where all contributions are highly appreciated.
The purpose of this study was to determine the possibility of the multiplication of the enterocyte mass using the technique of serosal patch with the application of hematopoietic stem cells, as well as the assessment of the quality of newly formed mucosa.
Sixty Mill Hill hooded rats were divided in 4 groups, 15 animals each. In the control group animals, the patch was not created. In the other three groups, the animals were operated on and in each group 8 parietal and 7 visceral patches have been created. One of the groups with operated animals (Group NS) was not postoperatively treated. The second group of operated animals (Group G) was stimulated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The third group of operated animals (Group GM) was stimulated with recombined humane granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rHuGM-CSF).
In the group of animals that were not stimulated, epithelium proliferated slowly. In the group of animals stimulated with G-CSF stimulants, the epithelium initially proliferated rapidly, but appeared atrophic after eight weeks. Stimulation by rHuGM-CSF led to faster epithelization, and epithelium showed signs of advancing proliferation after eight weeks.
We confirmed the possibility of enterocyte mass multiplication by using the serosal patch technique, as well as that stimulation with rHuGM-CSF is more effective than stimulation with G-CSF.
Bronchial Colonization in Patients with Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer / Kolonizacija bronha kod bolesnika sa nesitnoćelijskim karcinomom pluća
Authors: Stojanović Ana 
Published: June 2015

SUMMARY
Lower airways are sterile, but many researchers have reported the existence of bronchial colonization with pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms in smokers and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the existence and type of bronchial colonization in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as well as to determine whether colonization depends on patient's age, smoking habit, pulmonary function and body mass index (BMI). Another aim was to estimate whether colonization causes early postoperative complications. Fifty-five subjects with pathohistologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer in the resectable stage and good performance status (ECOG 0 or 1) participated in this cross-sectional study. We assessed patient's degree of smoking, calculated their BMI and determined the existence and severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease if there was one. The patients underwent a flexible bronchoscopy when biopsy samples were taken with protected specimen brush (PSB) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL); the retrieved samples were inoculated. Colonization was marked by an increase in the number of bacteria, yielding >10³CFU⁄L. In our study, bronchial colonization was found in 21 patients (38%). Potentially pathogenic microorganisms were isolated in 13 patients (Streptococcus pneumonia was found in five patients, Streptococcus B haemoliticus and Pseudononans in three patients each, Haemophilus influencae and Enterobacter in one patient each). Potentially non-pathogenic microorganisms were isolated in 8 patients (Streptococcus viridans was found in 7 patients and Achromobacter xylosoxidans in 1 patient). Patients' sex, age, smoking habit, body mass index and severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were not statistically significant for developing bronchial colonization. Only one operated patient developed postoperative pneumonia, but he had not previously been diagnosed with bronchial colonization
Continuity Via ΛI-Open Sets
Authors: Sanabria J. , Acosta E. , Salas-Brown M. , Garcia O. 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
Noiri and Keskin [8] introduced the notions of ΛI -sets and ΛI-closed sets using ideals on topological spaces. In this work we use sets that are complements of ΛI-closed sets, which are called ΛI-open, to characterize new variants of continuity namely ΛI-continuous, quasi-ΛI-continuous and ΛI -irresolute functions
The Aesthetic Individual and the New South in the Age of Alienation in Walker Percy’S the Moviegoer
Authors: Popescu Dan Nicolae 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
This paper addresses Walker Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer, tracing the use of existentialist tropes in its narrative construction in order to delineate the problematic condition of the human individual in the postwar South. The protagonist’s search for an authentic self and his escape from the snares of everydayness are put into perspective in the context of Percy’s professed understanding of Kierkegaard and Sartre, against the background of a South increasingly alienated from her ancient traditions
Negotiation and Discursive Conflict in Within Opinion: Public Vs. Private in the Social Romanian Imaginary
Authors: Marian-Arnat Petru Ioan 
Published: June 2015

Abstract
The paper approaches contemporary Romanian media in order to outline negotiation and discursive conflict strategies in public storytelling about the country’s recent history. In the so-called Romanian social imaginary, notions of public versus private highlight the way public officials resort to the language of culture-specific communication-related concepts that are a starting point for much of the discourse on decision-making
Crystal structure of bis-(5-bromo-2-methyl-phenyl)-diazene, C14H12Br2N2
Authors: Li Shi-Hui , Zhang Tian , Feng Xun , Huoi Su-Zhen 
Published: June 2015

Abstract C14H12Br2N2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 7.07(1) Å, b = 4.079(7) Å, c = 23.86(4) Å, β = 90.13(2)°, V = 687.6 Å3, Z = 2, Rgt(F) = 0.0346, wRref(F2) = 0.1166, T = 296 K.