bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Assay for Androstenedione, Dehydroepiandrosterone, and Testosterone with Pediatric and Adult Reference Intervals
Authors: Kushnir Mark M , Blamires Takara , Rockwood Alan L , Roberts William L , Yue Bingfang , Erdogan Evrim , Bunker Ashley M , Meikle A Wayne 
Published: May 2010

Abstract
Background: Measurement of serum androgens is important in adult, geriatric, pediatric endocrinology, and oncology patients. We developed a liquid chromatography—tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay for simultaneous measurement of androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and testosterone in these patients.
Methods: We spiked 200 μL of serum or plasma with isotope-labeled internal standards and performed extraction with methyl t-butyl ether. We then derivatized the extracts with hydroxylamine and analyzed them by LC-MS/MS using a 2-dimensional chromatographic separation with a 3.5-min analysis time.
Results: Total imprecision for each analyte was &lt;11.2%. Limits of quantification were 10, 50, and 10 ng/L for androstenedione, DHEA, and testosterone, respectively. Reference intervals were established for children (age 6 months to 17 years), men, and women. Androstenedione and DHEA concentrations were lowest in 2- to 3-year-old children. Adult concentrations were achieved in girls at Tanner stage 3 and in boys at Tanner stage 4–5. In premenopausal and (postmenopausal) women the median concentrations of androstenedione, DHEA, and testosterone were 810 (360), 3000 (1670), 270 (180) ng/L, respectively. In postmenopausal women, concentrations of testosterone were age independent, whereas androstenedione and DHEA concentrations decreased with age. In men the median concentrations of androstenedione, DHEA, and testosterone were 440, 2000, and 3700 ng/L, respectively. In men older than 40 years, median concentrations decreased at rates of 5%, 10%, and 20% per decade for androstenedione, DHEA, and testosterone, respectively.
Conclusions: This LC-MS/MS method has the required lower limit of quantification and specificity for analysis of endogenous concentrations of androgens in all groups studied. Reference intervals were established for healthy children and adults.
Buchbesprechung
Authors: Bruns Thomas 
Published: May 2010

Zusammenfassung
Hansen-Kokoru, Renate ; Mateić, Josip; Pečur-Medinger, Zrinka; Znika, Marija, Deutschkroatisches Universalwörterbuch. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus, Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, 2005. 2089 S. + 10 S. Anhang.
Buchbesprechung
Authors: Ždanova Vladislava 
Published: May 2010

Zusammenfassung
Krysin, Leonid P. (ed.), Sovremennyj russkij jazyk: Aktivnye processy na rubee XX-XXI vekov, Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskich kul′tur, 2008. 712 S. ISBN 5-9551-0216-7
Group Decision-Making and Voting in Ultimatum Bargaining: An Experimental Study
Authors: Elbittar Alexander , Gomberg Andrei , Sour Laura 
Published: May 2010

Abstract
We conduct a laboratory study of the group-on group ultimatum bargaining with restricted within-group interaction. In this context, we concentrate on the effect of different within-group voting procedures on the bargaining outcomes. Our experimental observations can be summarized in two propositions. First, individual responder behavior across treatments does not show statistically significant variation across voting rules, implying that group decisions may be viewed as aggregations of independent individual decisions. Second, we observe that proposer behavior significantly depends (in the manner predicted by a simple model) on the within-group decision rule in force among the responders and is generally different from the proposer behavior in the one-on-one bargaining.
Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Low Back Pain in Physical Therapy: Do Patients Benefit?
Authors: Rutten Geert M. , Degen Saskia , Hendriks Erik J. , Braspenning Jozé C. , Harting Janneke , Oostendorp Rob A. 
Published: May 2010

BackgroundVarious guidelines for the management of low back pain have been developed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of care. Evidence that guideline-adherent care results in better health outcomes, however, is not conclusive.ObjectiveThe main objective of this study was to assess whether a higher percentage of adherence to the Dutch physical and manual therapy guidelines for low back pain is related to improved outcomes. The study further explored whether this relationship differs for the individual steps of the process of care and for distinct subgroups of patients.DesignThis was an observational prospective cohort study (2005–2006) in the Netherlands that included a sample of 61 private practice therapists and 145 patients.MethodsTherapists recorded the process of care and the number of treatment sessions in Web-based patient files. Guideline adherence was assessed using quality indicators. Physical functioning was measured by the Dutch version of the Quebec Back Pain and Disability Scale, and average pain was measured with a visual analog scale. Relationships between the percentage of guideline adherence and outcomes of care were evaluated with regression analyses.ResultsHigher percentages of adherence were associated with fewer functional limitations (β=−0.21, P=.023) and fewer treatment sessions (β=−0.27, P=.005).LimitationsThe relatively small self-selected sample might limit external validity, but it is not expected that the small sample greatly influenced the internal validity of the study. Larger samples are required to enable adequate subgroup analyses.ConclusionsThe results indicate that higher percentages of guideline adherence are related to better improvement of physical functioning and to a lower utilization of care. A proper assessment of the relationship between the process of physical therapy care and outcomes may require a comprehensive set of process indicators to measure guideline adherence.
Functions of an organization in an indigenous irrigation system: A case study from a hill village of Nepal
Authors: Uprety Laya Prasad 
Published: May 2010

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Extreme intraneural ganglion cysts
Authors: Spinner Robert J. , Hébert-Blouin Marie-Noëlle , Rock Michael G. , Amrami Kimberly K. 
Published: May 2010

Object
The mechanism responsible for exceptional examples of intraneural ganglia with extensive longitudinal involvement has not been understood. Such cases of intraneural cysts, seemingly remote from a joint, have been thought not to have articular connections. Decompression and attempted resection of the cyst has led to intraneural recurrence and poor neurological recovery. The purpose of this report is not only to clarify the pathogenesis of these cysts, but also to discuss their treatment based on modern concepts of intraneural ganglia.

Methods
Two examples of extreme longitudinal propagation of intraneural ganglia are presented.

Results
A patient with a moderate tibial neuropathy was found to have a tibial intraneural ganglion. Prospective interpretation of the MR imaging study demonstrated the cyst's origin from the posterior portion of the superior tibiofibular joint (STFJ), with proximal extension within the sciatic nerve to the lower buttock region. Communication between the STFJ and the cyst was confirmed with direct knee MR arthrography. The tibial intraneural cyst was treated successfully by a relatively limited exposure in the distal popliteal fossa: the cyst was decompressed, the articular branch disconnected, and the STFJ resected. Postoperatively, the patient improved neurologically and there was no evidence of recurrent cyst on postoperative MR imaging. A second patient, previously reported by another group, was reexamined 22 years after surgery. This patient had an extensive peroneal intraneural ganglion that extended into the sciatic nerve from the knee to the buttock; no joint connection or recurrent cyst had initially been described. In this patient, the authors hypothesized and established with MR imaging the presence of both: a joint connection to the anterior portion of the STFJ from the peroneal articular branch as well as recurrent cyst within the peroneal and tibial nerves.

Conclusions
This paper demonstrates that extreme intraneural cysts are not clinical outliers but represent extreme examples of other more typical intraneural cysts. They logically obey the same principles, previously described in the unified articular (synovial) theory. The degree of longitudinal extension is probably due to high intraarticular pressures within the degenerative joint of origin. The generalizability of the mechanistic principles is highlighted by the fact that these 2 cases, involving the tibial and the peroneal nerve respectively, both extended well distant (that is, to the buttock) from the STFJ via their respective articular branch of origin. These extensive intraneural cysts can be treated successfully by disconnecting the affected articular branch and by resection of the joint of origin, rather than by a more aggressive operation resecting the cyst and cyst wall.
Interhemispheric hygroma after decompressive craniectomy: does it predict posttraumatic hydrocephalus?
Authors: Kaen Ariel , Jimenez-Roldan Luis , Alday Rafael , Gomez Pedro A. , Lagares Alfonso , Alén José Fernández , Lobato Ramiro D. 
Published: May 2010

Object
The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of posttraumatic hydrocephalus in severely head-injured patients who required decompressive craniectomy (DC). Additional objectives were to determine the relationship between hydrocephalus and several clinical and radiological features, with special attention to subdural hygromas as a sign of distortion of the CSF circulation.

Methods
The authors conducted a retrospective study of 73 patients with severe head injury who required DC. The patients were admitted to the authors' department between January 2000 and January 2006. Posttraumatic hydrocephalus was defined as: 1) modified frontal horn index greater than 33%, and 2) the presence of Gudeman CT criteria. Hygromas were diagnosed based on subdural fluid collection and classified according to location of the craniectomy.

Results
Hydrocephalus was diagnosed in 20 patients (27.4%). After uni- and multivariate analysis, the presence of interhemispheric hygromas (IHHs) was the only independent prognostic factor for development of posttraumatic hydrocephalus (p < 0.0001). More than 80% of patients with IHHs developed hydrocephalus within the first 50 days of undergoing DC. In all cases the presence of hygromas preceded the diagnosis of hydrocephalus. The IHH predicts the development of hydrocephalus after DC with 94% sensitivity and 96% specificity. The presence of an IHH showed an area under the receiver-operator characteristic of 0.951 (95% CI 0.87–1.00; p < 0.0001).

Conclusions
Hydrocephalus was observed in 27.4% of the patients with severe traumatic brain injury who required DC. The presence of IHHs was a predictive radiological sign of hydrocephalus development within the first 6 months of DC in patients with severe head injury.
Un nouveau gisement du Paléolithique supérieur récent : le Petit Cloup Barrat (Cabrerets, Lot, France)
Authors: Castel Jean-Christophe , Chauvière François-Xavier , L'Homme Xavier , Camus Hubert 
Published: May 2010

Abstract
Located on the same hillside as Pech Merle, 800 metres from the entrance of that famous decorated cave, the site of Petit Cloup Barrat opens onto the edge of a small doline. Though partially excavated at the beginning of the 20th century, this site has never been published. A test pit in 2003 was followed by excavations at the entrance of the cave in 2004 and 2005. The stratigraphic sequence, whose base is still unknown, yielded abundant lithic and organic remains attributed to the Middle Magdalenian, Badegoulian and Solutrean. In the upper ensemble, attributed to the Middle Magdalenian, numerous flint blade tools (scrapers, burins, borers and retouched blades) coexist with backed bladelets. The Badegoulian is identified based on flake tools, including raclettes and transverse burins on notches. The Solutrean, still little excavated, is characterized by fragmented shouldered points and one fragment of a Willow Leaf Point. The bone industry includes eyed needles, matrices on fox tibias and retouchers on medium-sized ungulate diaphyses. The antler projectile points are highly variable (with or without groove, double or median bevel, round or oval section). A fragment of a barbed element and a fragment of a bâton percé complete the inventory. Sawed and/ or pierced shells, principally dentalia, and herbivore incisors (reindeer, ibex) were used to make personal ornaments. A few fossils, some with distant origins, were also discovered. Archaeozoological analysis shows the marked presence of reindeer, followed by horse. Red deer and fox are attested by a few remains. The osseous material preserved in the cave permits precise observation of hunting seasons, butchery traces and modes of combustion. The site of Petit Cloup Barrat is localized within an ensemble of Upper Palaeolithic sites around the confluence of the Lot and Célé Rivers, including Cuzoul de Vers and Les Peyrugues. The study of this plateau site is thus integrated in a context of palaeoethnographic hypotheses that have already been partially proposed. The analysis of the material and integration of the results will contribute to a characterization of the subsistence economy in a still little-known natural environment and clarify its relationship with the sites that constitute its environment on different scales. The proximity of Pech Merle Cave and the possibility of establishing links between a dwelling site and a decorated cave constitute an additional motivation for our research.
Pizzas, crêpes et autres galettes
Authors: Sanchez Sylvie 
Published: May 2010

In Brittany, the way in which pizza is adopted gives us an interesting context in which to observe and understand modes and mecanisms of borrowing.
In the land of the crepe, two kinds of pizza — one of Meridional and one of American ancestry — are mixed to make a new culinary dish which is in accordance with the practice of its local
Acquisition du langage et genres énonciatifs
Authors: Berthoud-Papandropoulou Ioanna , Kilcher-Hagedorn Helga 
Published: May 2010

Ioanna Berthoud-Papandropoulou, Helga Kilcher : Acquisition du langage et genres énoncíatifs.
The concept of genre is taken in a pragmatic and enunciative sense. Starting from basic mother-child interactions, children develop various enunciative genres, mastering other roles than speaker-hearer (e.g., overhearer, messenger, narrator). Two studies are reported, involving children aged 4 to 9, concerning (a) the capacity to transmit messages between two conversational partners, and (b) the capacity to detect and repair misunderstandings arising in a dialogue. Results show how children progressively coordinate communicative intentions and meanings, thus extending conversational skills towards complex enunciative genres.
Des genres à la généricité. L'exemple des contes (Perrault et les Grimm)
Authors: Adam Jean-Michel , Heidmann Ute 
Published: May 2010

Jean-Michel Adam, Ute Heidmann : Des genres à la généricité. L'exemple des contes (Perrault et les Grimm).
This article sets out to demonstrate that the determination of the genre to which an utterance belongs may have an impact at every level of organization of a text. In order to grasp the full complexity of this impact, we propose a more dynamic approach to the question of genre - ie the set of categories to which texts may be said to belong. The concepts of genericity and of the effects of genericity which we develop here are intended to help us think through both the acts of writing and of reading as complex processes. A text does not belong in any predetermined or abstract sense to a genre, but rather it is put in relation with one or more genres both during its production and its reception-interpretation. By studying closely the complexity of the variations, this article shows the generic differences between the tales of Perrault and of Grimm.
Pour une approche linguistique des représentations sociales
Authors: Py Bernard 
Published: May 2010

Bernard Py: Towards a linguistic approach of social representations.
The concept of social representation is currently used in all human sciences, although with different meanings, which vary according to the kinds of research methods and theoretical framework used. We have decided to closely correlate social representations to the speech. Then comes the question about the status of what we have come to name social representation: is it an abstract object deprived of any effective reality, a speech object, or a social object? Social representations originate, scatter, change, dilute and disappear within and through the speech. Their purpose is to give a meaning to daily life circumstances and thus allow decision-making, debate and communication. They may adopt rather complex speech structures, such as two-level structures, depending on whether they are merely used by the speaker as a reference, or whether they depict an experience or personal beliefs. We conclude the article with a short analysis of relevant data.
La culture grammaticale ordinaire : étude de verbalisations métagrammaticales et métacognitives d'apprenants natifs
Authors: Weber Corinne 
Published: May 2010

Corinne Weber: Ordinary grammatical culture: a study on metagrammatical and metacognitive verbalisations of native speakers.
This paper is an overview of the grammatical and metacognitive verbalisations produced by native learners in difficulty with their mother tongue. Erroneous linguistic structures and mysterious behavior are often disregarded in schoolroom contexts as well as in research work. In studying the "end-products" and their meta-interpretation we have tried to clarify the complex network of grammatical representations. If meta-grammatical activity is a powerful means of appropriation and of elaboration of representations, our work shows in what way it can also be an obstacle to learning. At the same time the results we have obtained, have enabled us to bring to the fore the constituent elements of ordinary knowledge and thus to help sorting out the concept of ordinary grammatical culture.
Les Juifs en Grèce au XXe siècle
Authors: Molho Rena 
Published: May 2010

Rena Molho,
The Jewish community in Greece during the 20th century
The Jewish presence in the Greek peninsula has been considerable, notably with the biggest Jewish city in Europe, Salonika, where a significant part of the Spanish Jews settled after their expulsion from Spain in the 15th century. Under their impetus, Salonika, then part of the Ottoman Empire, became the greatest economic centre in the Balkans. However, this prosperous, dynamic and cultivated society could not resist national pressures. Immediately it was conquered by Greece in 1912, Jewish Salonika — and by extension the other Jewish communities in Greece— went into decline, victim of the loss of its hinterland and the desire for Hellenization. Strongly affected, moreover, by the great fire of 1917, the Jewish comminuity of Salonika was already seriously weakened before the Germans wiped it out during the Second World War. Currently there is very little Jewish presence left in Greece.
L'iconographie des vases et objets en chlorite de Jiroft (Iran)
Authors: Perrot Jean , Madjidzadeh Youssef 
Published: May 2010

Résumé : L 'ornementation des vases et objets en chlorite récemment découverts en Iran dans la région de Jiroft permet de dégager un répertoire iconographique apparemment cohérent. En même temps qu 'elle apporte une réponse à la question débattue de la provenance des vases en chlorite trouvés sur nombre de sites archéologiques entre l 'Euphrate et l 'Indus dans le courant du IIP millénaire av. J.-C, la découverte de Jiroft rend caduque l 'appellation de « style interculturel » commodément utilisée jusqu 'ici pour désigner des objets dont il était difficile de reconnaître l'origine à travers la production de centres secondaires sous influence mésopotamienne comme celui de Tarut dans le golfe Persique sur la rive orientale de la péninsule arabique.
La distribution des vases en chlorite, notamment celle des petits vases cylindriques et des hauts vases tronconiques à bord évasé pourrait être liée à l 'exportation, vers les régions basses du Moyen Orient, de substances aromatiques, médicinales, aphrodisiaques ou hallucinogènes, extraites d'une plante commune sur le plateau indo-iranien1.
Un graffito symbolique sur un vase rouge non décoré
Authors:   Groupe de Fouilles Terre Franche
Published: May 2010

Ein symbolisches Graffito auf einem unverzierten, roten Gefüss.
Das Graffito befindet sich auf einer flachen Schussel, deren Form, wenigstens indirekt, von der Form Dragendorff 38 abgeleitet zu sein scheint. Das nach dem Brannen eingeritzte Graffito stellt ein Chrisma mit den Buchstaben J und C auf der einen und A und U auf der anderen Seite dar. Alle Buchstaben sind in einer ungelenken Kursive geschrieben. Dieses christliche Symbol konnte mit den ersten Jahren der Ausbreitung des Christentums in der Auvergne zeitgleich sein.
Quatre vases ovoïdes à engobe blanc provenant de Montfo (Magalas, Hérault)
Authors: Jully Jean-Jacques 
Published: May 2010

Vorlage von vier eiförmigen Gefassen mit weissen Ueberzug. Sie sind unveröffentlicht und stammen aus dem Oppidum von Montfo, Gemeinde Magalas (Hérault). Dieser Fundplatz, der archaeologische Zeugnisse aufweist, die über die La Tène-Zeit zurückreichen (vorallem schwarzen Bucchero), hatte seine Blütezeit vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhun- dert v. Chr. Geb. Der Verfasser vergleicht die Gefässe mit ähnlichen in Form und Technik verwandten von der iberischen Halbinsel, vorallem aus Castellones de Ceal (grabungen seit 1959, Museum von Jaeji). Abschliessend Versuch einer Chronologie dieser Vasen in Languedoc :
2. Jahrh. v. Chr. Eine Fortfiihrung der Chronologie behandelt die Weiterfiihrung der Formen und der Techniken dieser Vasen bis ins
3. Jahrh. n. Chr.
Vgl. den demnachst erscheinenden Aufsatz desselbenVerf. : « Etude générale sur les vases ovoïdes et globulaires à engobe blanc et blanc gris de la Tène et du début de notre ère (Gaule Centrale et Méridionale) ».
Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Epoques proto-historiques en France centrale
Authors: Millotte J.-P. 
Published: May 2010

The Daggers with a massive handle from Bronze-Age
During the ancient and middle Bronze-Ages, the prosperous groups of population living in the valleys Rhine-Rhone, and beyond (South Germany - Valais - High Italy - French Alps) did not extend their influence in. Central Gaul, and the material marks of that civilization are uncommun. — The A. studies three Daggers with a massive handle from the Bronze-Age, two concerning the Central Gaul (Site of « le Puy-de-Corent » Puy-de-Dôme), the other the Parisian region (Site of « Lagny »), all characterized by a certain unity from the points of view of Technics and Chronology. The two specimen from Corent (N° 1 at British Meseum — N° 2 at Musée Bargoin - Clermont- Ferrand) belong, by their general aspect, to the types of Daggers « du Rhône » ; but they show some characters of to the types of North Italy (numerous rivets : 9 to' 12); in fact they constitute a mixed type combining both types. — The specimen from Lagny (at British Museum) is especially singular by its decoration (lines, stripes and a cross at the upper part of the head) ; it seems very like the Dagger from Loriol and it may have as origin the Rome valley. Under such conditions, may be suggested transversal ways between Alps, Central Gaul, Berry, Beauce and Normandy.