bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effects of single bolus injection of pimobendan on cardiac function, hemodynamics, and heart rate variability in healthy dogs
Authors:   , Pichayapaiboon Poonavit 
Published: June 2024

In veterinary medicine, pimobendan has been recommended for management of dogs with congestive heart failure for decades. Recently, an intravenous injectable solution of this drug has been launched. However, the effects of this preparation on electrocardiography, cardiac functions, hemodynamics, heart rate variability (HRV), and the pharmacokinetics (PK) in dogs are still limited. Therefore, the objective of this investigation is to investigate the hemodynamics, cardiac functions, electrocardiographic parameters, the PK profiles and its active metabolite, O-desmethyl pimobendan (ODMP), as well as its effect on HRV of a single bolus pimobendan in healthy dogs. Nine dogs were anesthetized and instrumented to obtained parameters of left ventricular functions, hemodynamics, and electrocardiograms. Bolus pimobendan (0.15 mg/kg, IV) was given to all dogs and the effects were monitored for 2 h. Plasma concentrations of pimobendan and ODMP were quantified using LC-MS/MS. Seven of those dogs were instrumented with Holter monitoring for obtaining heart rate variability while they were conscious and clam. Bolus pimobendan (0.15 mg/kg, IV) was given to all dogs and the effects were monitored for 3 h. The results revealed that single bolus pimobendan fastened the heart rate while the PQ interval was shortened. Furthermore, the results also indicated that pimobendan significantly improves both cardiac contraction and relaxation within 10 to 20 mins after injection. In addition, pimobendan significantly reduced both systemic- and pulmonic-vascular resistances. The Cmax of pimobendan and ODMP were 83.7 and 30 ug/L, respectively, while the Tmax of ODMP was 0.33 h. The volume of distribution of pimobendan and ODMP were 8.9 and 7.1 L/kg, respectively. The half-life of pimobendan and ODMP were 1 h and 2.8 h, respectively. The clearance of pimobendan and ODMP were 5.8 and 2.2 L/kg/h, respectively. In conscious dogs, single bolus pimobendan augmented the cardiac autonomic nervous activity inferred from an increasing of heart rate variability. Moreover, the results also suggested that pimobendan tended to intensify parasympathetic activity more than the sympathetic branch. In conclusion, intravenous pimobendan improves cardiac functions and hemodynamics shortly after injection and enhances a cardiac autonomic nervous activity, which may be a great benefit for dogs with congestive heart failure.
การพัฒนาไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์
Authors:   , โอฬารสกุลวงศ์ สุรีย์พร 
Published: June 2024

การศึกษานี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเปรียบเทียบคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพและองค์ประกอบทางเคมีของไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์ที่ผลิตจากเปลือกหอยแครง (ไบโอซีลเลอร์) กับไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์ซึ่งมีจำหน่ายในท้องตลาด (ไอรูทเอสพี) โดยทำการสังเคราะห์ผงไตรแคลเซียมซิลิเกตจากเปลือกหอยแครง และตรวจสอบองค์ประกอบทางเคมีด้วยการทดสอบการเลี้ยวเบนของรังสีเอกซ์ ผลการทดสอบพบว่าสารที่ผลิตได้ประกอบด้วยไตรแคลเซียมซิลิเกตเป็นส่วนประกอบหลัก จากนั้นจึงนำมาผสมกับสารเติมแต่งเพิ่มเติมเพื่อผลิตเป็นไบโอซีลเลอร์ ทำการทดสอบคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีตามมาตรฐานการทดสอบไอเอสโอ 6876/2012 ได้แก่ การไหลแผ่ เวลาแข็งตัว ความหนาชั้นฟิล์ม การละลายตัว และความทึบรังสี นอกจากนี้ได้ทำการศึกษาค่าความเป็นกรด-ด่าง และปริมาณแคลเซียมอิออนที่ถูกปล่อยออกมาที่ระยะเวลา 3 ชั่วโมง 1 วัน 3 วัน 7 วัน 14 วัน และ 28 วัน รวมถึงศึกษาองค์ประกอบทางเคมีหลังแข็งตัวเต็มที่ของซีลเลอร์ทั้งสอง คุณสมบัติทางกายภาพของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีมีค่าผ่านตามมาตรฐานไอเอสโอ 6876/2012 ยกเว้นคุณสมบัติด้านการละลายตัว สำหรับค่าความเป็นกรด-ด่างของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีในช่วงระยะเวลาที่ทำการทดสอบพบว่ามีค่า 9.23-10.35 และ 8.83-10.39 ตามลำดับ ส่วนปริมาณแคลเซียมอิออนที่ถูกปล่อยออกมาพบว่าไอรูทเอสพีปล่อยแคลเซียมอิออนมากกว่าไบโอซีลเลอร์อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติในช่วงแรกแต่ไม่แตกต่างกันที่ช่วงระยะเวลา 14 และ 28 วัน นอกจากนี้การศึกษาองค์ประกอบทางเคมีของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีหลังแข็งตัวเต็มที่พบองค์ประกอบที่ยืนยันการเกิดปฏิกิริยาไฮเดรชันของวัสดุ ดังนั้นจึงสามารถสรุปได้ว่าไบโอซีลเลอร์มีคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพที่ดีและมีคุณสมบัติใกล้เคียงกับไอรูทเอสพี
ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ СТРІЛЕЦЬКОЇ ЗБРОЇ ПІДРОЗДІЛАМИ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ГВАРДІЇ УКРАЇНИ У ПРОТИДІЇ ВІЙСЬКОВИМ ЗАГРОЗАМ
Authors: ЗАДОРОЖНИЙ КОСТЯНТИН 
Published: June 2024

У статті розглянуто роль та значення Національної гвардії України у забезпеченні оборони і безпеки держави. Вказано, що це військове формування має унікальні особливості, які дозволяють їй швидко втрутитися в будь-якому регіоні країни для виконання військових завдань. Аналіз її статусу дав змогу зробити висновок про те, що Національна гвардія України є правоохоронним органом, проаналізовано правові аспекти її ролі у виконанні правоохоронних функцій держави.
Охарактеризовано нормативно-правові акти, що регламентують питання використання стрілецької зброї представниками НГУ. Зроблено висновок про можливість і необхідність в окремих випадках застосовувати стрілецьку зброю для протидії безпілотним літальним апаратам противника.
ОБ’ЄКТ КРИМІНАЛЬНИХ ПРАВОПОРУШЕНЬ РОЗДІЛУ XV ОСОБЛИВОЇ ЧАСТИНИ КРИМІНАЛЬНОГО КОДЕКСУ УКРАЇНИ: ПИТАННЯ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ
Authors: МОСТЕПАНЮК ЛЮДМИЛА 
Published: June 2024

У статті проаналізовано питання визначення родового об’єкту кримінальних правопорушень, відповідальність за вчинення яких передбачається в розділі XV Особливої частини Кримінального кодексу України «Кримінальні правопорушення проти авторитету органів державної влади, органів місцевого самоврядування, об’єднань громадян та кримінальні правопорушення проти журналістів».
Доведено невизначеність у співвідношенні понять «авторитет органів державної влади, органів місцевого самоврядування та об’єднань громадян» та «управлінська діяльність». Висловлено пропозицію про необхідність перейменування розділу XV Особливої частини Кримінального кодексу України на «Кримінальні правопорушення проти авторитету органів державної влади, органів місцевого самоврядування, об’єднань громадян, кримінальні правопорушення проти журналістів та проти порядку публічного управління».
Hongos Levaduriformes causantes de Onicomicosis en hombres adultos que residen en la Ciudad de Ambato – Ecuador
Authors: Salazar Garcés Dolores Krupskaya , Betancourt Karina Iñiguez , Lituma Jumbo Rosalina De Lourdes , Hernández Quimbiulco Carolina Isabel 
Published: June 2024

La onicomicosis se ha convertido en un problema de salud pública en el Ecuador, que actualmente puede tener un efecto negativo y significativo en la calidad de vida de las personas. Objetivo: Caracterización microbiológica de hongos levaduriformes causantes de onicomicosis en muestras de las lesiones de uña de los trabajadores de la ciudad de Ambato en el periodo agosto 2023- marzo 2024. Metodología: Se realizó un estudio no experimental de tipo transversal, descriptivo y observacional con un enfoque cuantitativo ya que se identificó los agentes micóticos en lesiones de uña de los trabajadores. Resultados: fueron 230 participantes sometidos a la investigación, de los cuales a 213 cumplieron con los requerimientos y se tomó muestras de uñas de los pies, se identificó a T rubrum con el 3,6%, Cándida spp. con el 20,7%, Epidermifitum flocosum con el 2,7%, Aspergillus con el 3,6%, y con el 3.6% sin crecimiento micótico el 79,3%, se debe tomar en cuenta que se utilizó el medio cultivo Mycosel Agar. Conclusión: En las uñas, los principales agentes fueron especies de Cándida, con predominio de C. albicans seguido de C. parapsilosis.
“Brilliant Gathering at Bayreuth”: Early Wagnerism as told by Toronto’s Globe (1857-1876)
Authors: Hurst Emilie 
Published: June 2024

In June of 1887, Torontonian were treated to the local premiere of Flying Dutchman, the first opera by Richard Wagner to be performed in full in the city. Yet while locals had had to wait decades for such an occasion, newspapers had started reporting on the composer as early as 1854. In this paper, I consider Wagner’s reception in Toronto from 1874 to 1876 by surveying mentions of Wagner in the newspaper the Globe, focusing on the years 1875 and 1876. In particular, I ask how the materiality of technology effects its transmission in the era prior to sound recording.
Drawing from the work of Michel Serres, I propose the concept of the parasite as a way of unpacking how the material realities of opera unfold. Parasite refers to a third element—“a mediate, a middle, an intermediary”(Serres 2007, 63)—between sender and receiver which sets the stage for communication to take place. Importantly, the parasite is not a neutral entity: it is transformative by default. I relate the concept of the parasite to that of the paratext, materials which surround but are not officially part of a text. Precisely because of the difficulty of accessing live opera on demand, paratext hold the potential to transform how we understand Wagner.
I explore the role of newspapers in Wagner reception but also widens to theorize how other pre-recording technologies such as sheet music and the telegraph facilitated Wagner’s migration over the Atlantic. Through these media, we can not only glimpse the prehistory of Wagner in the city but also how his music has been continually fragmented and reworked. I argue that when access to live opera is limited such paratexts are charged with the potential to not only supplement but to transform and overtake the original.
Walter Baroni, <em>Contro l’intercultura: Retoriche e pornografia dell’incontro</em>, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2013, pp. 171
Authors: Trucco Daniela 
Published: June 2024

Book review of Walter Baroni, Contro l’intercultura: Retoriche e pornografia dell’incontro, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2013, pp. 171.
“You will be eternal as time and you will bloom every Spring”: The football team as an identity phenomenon
Authors: Branca Domenico 
Published: June 2024

The following article analyses the football game as an identity phenomenon. Football has ceased to be simply a sport to become something extremely complex and articulated, from a politic, economic, social, and cultural point of view. Its diffusion on a global scale has produced and produces identity forms of affirmation and differentiation. These forms concern the name of the team, the geographical and social-economic position of the club and its supporters, the politic-religious identification and the violence and sectarianism that it usually involves. The last part of the article introduces a research – work in progress – about the self-perception, the meaning and the value that Club Atlético Peñarol from Montevideo has for their supporters. The text concludes willing to prove how football is today stimulated by a dialectical tension between two nowadays processes like globalization and identity. At this point, the article mentions the establishment of non-recognized squads such as the ones formed by nations without a state that, through football, claim their voice.
Alexander Koensler, Amalia Rossi, eds, <em>Comprendere il dissenso: Etnografia e antropologia dei movimenti sociali</em>, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, University Press, 2012, pp. 236
Authors: Casula Claudio 
Published: June 2024

Book review of Alexander Koensler, Amalia Rossi, eds, Comprendere il dissenso: etnografia e antropologia dei movimenti sociali, Perugia, Morlacchi Editore, University Press, 2012, pp. 236.
Islamism and terror: A great jihad against the common sense
Authors: Koensler Alexander 
Published: June 2024

What implies the conversion to fundamentalist Islam? What are the repercussions and implications of ‘political Islam’ in specific contexts? The relation between Islam, democracy and violence is often represented in a reductive or simplistic way. In order to contribute to a reasoned debate on these pressing questions, this essay covers some key dynamics stemming from long-term ethnographic observation regarding the conversion to neo Salafism among Arab Bedouin citizens in southern Israel, placing them in the context of contemporary developments of Islamic political thought. The ethnographic sensitivity, combined with the voices of some eminent Islamic intellectuals, allows to go beyond both the rhetoric of cultural complexity and the common-sense view that Islamic terrorism would be a kind of ‘anti imperialism of the losers’, arguments employed often to contest emerging neo-orientalist discourses. In this sense, the essay states the need to shed light on coordinates and interpretative categories that are not placed in an essentially different but in often unexpected ways.
Amalia Signorelli, <em>Ernesto de Martino: Teoria antropologica e metodologia della ricerca</em>, Roma, L’Asino d’oro, 2015, pp. XXII-137
Authors: Fanelli Antonio 
Published: June 2024

Book review of Amalia Signorelli, Ernesto de Martino: Teoria antropologica e metodologia della ricerca, Roma, L’Asino d’oro, 2015, pp. XXII-137.
Scalar holism: Some methodological reflections on Bucharest's religious mega-projects
Authors: Tateo Giuseppe 
Published: June 2024

Questo articolo rappresenta un tentativo di analizzare i recenti sviluppi del panorama religioso a Bucarest utilizzando i concetti di scala e olismo. Nella prima sezione l’autore ripropone una serie di argomenti per riconoscere l’impronta olista di alcune correnti dell’ antropologia urbana contemporanea. Ne deriva che uno specifico approccio metodologico – che chi scrive definisce “olismo scalare” – puo rivelarsi utile nell’analisi di fenomeni religiosi in contesto urbano. Una descrizione piú approfondita di uno studio di caso (ossia la costruzione della cattedrale nazionale) e la presentazione di altro materiale etnografico raccolto nell’inverno del 2015 compongono invece la seconda parte dello scritto. Bucarest è oggi un’arena animata da specifiche forme di revival religioso, strategie di ri-consacrazione del paesaggio urbano e derive anticlericali. Al fine di comprendere come tali processi sociali interagiscano fra loro, l’autore suggerisce che diverse grandezze di scala (da quella delle istituzioni che operano su scala nazionale a reazioni micro osservate nella realtá locale della capitale) devono essere prese necessariamente in considerazione.
Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta, eds, <em>Gypsy economy: Romani livelihoods and notions of worth in the 21st century</em>, New York, Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 263
Authors: Pagura Francesca 
Published: June 2024

Book review of Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Martin Fotta, eds, Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century, New York, Oxford, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 263.
Jon Harald Sande Lie, <em>Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership</em>, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 274
Authors: Quaretta Edoardo 
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Jon Harald Sande Lie, Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2015, pp. 274.
What else to say about the MQB? Re-centring anthropology in art and French museum practices: A vision from an <em>ex-boursier</em>
Authors: Battaglia Giulia 
Published: June 2024

This short piece investigates how “art” and “ethnography” have developed as two separated practices in ten years of existence of the Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac (MQB) and how “politics” has been widely missing. Writing from a personal experience as a postdoctoral ex-boursier and building on recent essays about the genesis of the museum, the author seeks to identify points of raptures existent not only in the MQB as a cultural institution but also within the system of French ethnology, which does not leave sufficient space for art to dialogue with ethnography, nor for politics to dialogue with aesthetics. Rather than depicting the MQB as a “post-ethnographic museum” (de l’Estoile 2015), the author identifies in the Musée a good terrain for creating an “ethno-art-graphic” museum, where creative ethnographic collections will eventually make both art and anthropology.
El lugar de los “otros”: procesos de racialización y construcción de la nación en América Latina
Authors: González Díez Javier 
Published: June 2024

Nota crítica de Carlos López Beltrán, Peter Wade, Eduardo Restrepo, Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds, Genómica mestiza. Raza, nación y ciencia en Latinoamérica, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017, pp. 432; Paula López Caballero, Indígenas de la nación. Etnografía histórica de la alteridad en México (Milpa Alta, siglos XVII-XXI), México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017, pp. 322; Tomás Pérez Vejo, Pablo Yankelevich, eds, Raza y política en Hispanoamérica, México, El Colegio de México / Bonilla Artiaga Editores, 2017, pp. 384.
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds<em>, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI</em>, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239
Authors: Arqueros Francisco 
Published: June 2024

Book review of Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239.
Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, <em>Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives</em>, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335
Authors: Aru Silvia 
Published: June 2024

Recensione di Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.
On the middle class: Auto-anthropology and social class
Authors: Capello Carlo 
Published: June 2024

Review article of Hadas Weiss, We have never been middle class, London and New York, Verso, 2019, pp. 176; Caitlin Zaloom, Indebted: How families make college work at any cost, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 280.
La fine del mondo: A “phantom book” finally resolved in value
Authors: Zinn Dorothy Louise 
Published: June 2024

Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016].
Evaluation of Antibiogram Profile of Vibrio cholerae Isolates from Sea Foods and Water Samples from Cross River State, Nigeria
Authors: Ebob Tarh, Jacqueline , Henry Inyang Ikpeme 
Published: June 2024

Aim: To evaluate the antibiogram profile of Vibrio cholerae [V. cholerae] strains isolated from Cross River State environment.
Study Design: The cross-sectional study was a completely Randomized design because it is flexible and yields maximum degrees of freedom for any experimental errors.
Place and Duration of Study: This was conducted in the Department of Microbiology University of Cross River State Calabar, Nigeria, between 2022 and 2024.
Methodology: A total of 1,155 V. cholerae strains were isolated from water samples and sea foods from the North, Central and Southern geographical zones of CRS. This was done to have a complete picture of the spatial distribution of these MDR strains of the test bacterial strains. A total of 30 samples were assessed from three different locations in each geographical zone, for the presence of V. cholerae strains using conventional culture methods and isolates identified bio/serologically with commercial polyvalent and monovalent antisera. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) protocols, were implored, for testing the susceptibility of the isolates to 10 commercially used antibiotics.
Results: A total of 529±9.90 (45.8%) of the isolates showed resistance to Augmentin 30µg and 83±2.92 (7.17%) showed resistance to Gentamycin 10 µg. The overall percentage mean resistance by source, showed that the lowest resistance was from Cray fish (44.26±18.422%), and the highest was from Periwinkle (2.17±6.10%). It was also observed that the isolates from Ikom (CR Center) were the most resistant, with, 31.93±25.41%, followed by Calabar (CR South) with 24.54± 19.43% and Obanlikwu (CR North), the least with 9.07±18.80%. Statistically, significant differences were observed in the resistance pattern of the isolates from the different sources and locations, with significant values of .00 respectively (P=.05).
Conclusion: There are great Chances that human infections, caused by these environmental V. cholerae strains can arise from contacts with these environmental sources. There is therefore, a need to carry out a surveillance on these MDR V. cholerae strains to help curb any eventual case of cholera outbreak of in the state.
Generative KI und Deepfakes in der KI-VO — Für eine Positivkennzeichnung authentischer Inhalte
Authors: Becker Maximilian 
Published: June 2024

Zusammenfassung
KI-Modelle und -Systeme „mit allgemeinem Verwendungszweck“ (General Purpose AI, kurz: GPAI) haben zwei rechtspolitisch wichtige Ausprägungen: als Gefährdung von Kreativarbeitsplätzen sowie als Generatoren von Deepfakes. Letztere können - anders als noch vor ca. zwei Jahren - nun kostengünstig von jedermann in hervorragender Qualität hergestellt werden. Der Beitrag erläutert die Regeln, die die KI-VO zu diesen beiden Phänomenen bereithält. Angesichts der zu zeigenden, relativ schwachen Maßnahmen gegen Deepfakes durch Negativkennzeichnungen ist außerdem ein Vorschlag für eine Positivkennzeichnung authentischer Inhalte zu skizzieren, der ohne Konflikt mit der KI-VO auf nationaler Ebene umgesetzt werden könnte.
Zum Systemversagen bei der ambulanten Psychotherapie — Ist § 13 Abs. 3 S. 1 Var. 1 SGB V der Ausweg für Patienten?
Authors: Zurawski Leon 
Published: June 2024

Zusammenfassung
Die tatsächliche Versorgung der Versicherten im Rahmen der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung ist seit geraumer Zeit hinsichtlich der ambulanten Psychotherapie unzureichend. Patienten warten regelmäßig mehrere Monate auf einen Therapieplatz, womit die Krankenkassen ihrem Versorgungsauftrag gem. § 75 Abs.1 S. 1 SGBV nicht ausreichend nachkommen. Abhilfe schafft das Gesetz mittels § 13 Abs. 3 S. 1 Var. 1 SGB V, wonach Patienten sich auch außerhalb des Systems der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (also von Therapeuten ohne „Kassensitz“) behandeln lassen können und dann die Kosten von der Krankenkasse erstattet bekommen. Unter welchen Voraussetzungen dieser Anspruch besteht und inwiefern die dahingehende Rechtsprechung bezüglich ambulanter Psychotherapie überzeugt, wird im Folgenden untersucht.
Electrical Properties of Irradiated Rubber‐Clay Composites Based on NBR and SBR
Authors: Radwan R. M. , Mohamed Rasha M. , Abdel‐Aziz Mohamed M. 
Published: February 2012

AbstractThe electrical and thermal properties of gamma‐irradiated rubber–clay composites based on acrylonitrile–butadiene rubber (NBR) and styrene–butadiene rubber (SBR) have been performed. The rubber–clay composites were prepared with different ratios of clay up to 50 phr using melt‐mixing and hot‐pressing methods. The produced sheets were exposed to gamma rays at dose levels in the range from 25 to 250 kGy. The chemical structure was studied by using FTIR technique, whereas thermal stability was tested using thermogravimetric analysis. Variations in the direct current (DC) conductivity (σDC) with both the clay ratio and irradiation dose were studied. The effect of the clay ratio and gamma irradiation on the dielectric constant (εε) and loss (ε″) has also been investigated. The obtained results show that the thermal stability has been improved as a result of clay loading and gamma irradiation of the rubber samples. Moreover, a significant increase in the values of ε′ and ε″ with increasing both the clay ratio and the irradiation dose has been noticed. The values of εε for NBR samples were found to be greater than that for SBR samples. The study shows that clays could be better than ceramics for the preparation of advanced dielectric polymer composites. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Techn 32: E198–E211, 2013; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/adv.21263