bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Facial porokeratosis: A series of six patients
Authors: Gutierrez Ericson L , Galarza Carlos , Ramos Willy , Tello Mercedes , De Paz Patricia Chávez , Bobbio Lucia , Barquinero Alicia , Ronceros Gerardo , Ortega‐Loayza Alex G 
Published: February 2010

ABSTRACTPorokeratosis is a disorder of epidermal keratinization characterized by annular plaques with an atrophic centre and hyperkeratotic edges, and includes a heterogeneous group of disorders that are mostly inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Facial porokeratosis is rare and is not well documented. We present six cases of facial porokeratosis seen over a period of 15 years in a hospital in Lima, Peru. In most of the cases, porokeratosis was found in younger women without any significant past medical history. Oral isotretinoin showed moderate improvement in two of our patients.
ZJM‐289, a novel nitric oxide donor, alleviates the cerebral ischaemic–reperfusion injury in rats
Authors: Zhuang Pei , Ji Hui , Zhang Yi‐Hua , Min Zhen‐Li , Ni Qing‐Gui , You Ran 
Published: February 2010

Summary1. Current studies indicate that nitric oxide (NO) plays a dual role as both a protective and pathogenic factor in focal cerebral ischaemia depending on the level, location, source and environment. The present study hypothesized that the NO donor ZJM‐289 could inhibit cerebral ischaemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury and investigated the mechanism of the beneficial events.2. Adult male rats were randomly divided into four groups: (i) sham operated; (ii) I/R (ischaemia for 90 min and reperfusion for 24 h) treated with vehicle; (iii) I/R treated with 0.1 mmol/kg body weight ZJM‐289; and (iv) I/R treated with 0.2 mmol/kg body weight ZJM‐289. We evaluated the changes in brain infarction, brain‐water content, neurological deficits and histopathology. Western blot analysis was used to study the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) in the brain after I/R. The levels of NO and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) were also determined.3. ZJM‐289 reduced infarct volume and brain‐water content in ischemic brains and promoted functional recovery. Western blotting showed significant inhibition of nNOS in ZJM‐289 treated rats compared with untreated rats. However, eNOS expression in the ischemic brain was enhanced in the ZJM‐289 groups. The cGMP and NO levels increased in the ZJM‐289 groups after I/R. The study showed that ZJM‐289 could alleviate cerebral injury after I/R through inhibition of nNOS and stimulation of the NO/soluble guanylate cyclase/cGMP pathway. Therefore, a suitable NO donor might be an effective candidate for the treatment of acute stroke by neuroprotection.
Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers
Authors: Brooks‐Gordon Belinda 
Published: February 2010

Dangerous and discriminatory new provisions against sex workers' clients have repeatedly been put before parliament in England and Wales. Female ministers keen to punish clients of sex workers eagerly supported the Bill. However, while sex work has become a rights issue it is no longer just about women's rights. Diverse and multiple sexualities and working practices see gay, trans or bisexual workers selling sex to a diverse range of lesbian, gay, trans, and straight clients who may be able‐bodied or disabled. This article critically examines the regulation of clients of sex workers, explores the current legislation against them, and reviews recent research evidence. The ideas that inform policy will be discussed along with the various policy approaches. The latest move to criminalize clients in the Policing and Crime Bill 2009 will be discussed along with the spectre of trafficking, used to scapegoat clients by a government which has undermined civil liberties and the fundamental concepts of a free society.
[A]nyone indulging in sexual activity is entitled to a degree of privacy especially if it is on private property and between consenting adults (paid or unpaid)                          Mr Justice Eady1
Industrial Relations Climate, Employee Voice and Managerial Attitudes to Unions: An Australian Study
Authors: Pyman Amanda , Holland Peter , Teicher Julian , Cooper Brian K. 
Published: February 2010

AbstractThis article examines how employee voice arrangements and managerial attitudes to unions shape employees' perceptions of the industrial relations climate, using data from the 2007 Australian Worker Representation and Participation Survey (AWRPS) of 1,022 employees. Controlling for a range of personal, job and workplace characteristics, regression analyses demonstrate that employees' perceptions of the industrial relations climate are more likely to be favourable if they have access to direct‐only voice arrangements. Where management is perceived by employees to oppose unions (in unionized workplaces), the industrial relations climate is more likely to be reported as poor. These findings have theoretical implications, and significant practical implications for employers, employees, unions and the government.
NARRATIVE AND MEANING IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Authors: Teske John A. 
Published: February 2010

Abstract.Differences of understanding in science and in religion can be explored via the distinction between paradigmatic and narrative modes of explanation. Although science is inclusive of the paradigmatic, I propose that in explaining the behavior of complex adaptive systems, and in the human sciences in particular, narratives may well constitute the best scientific explanations. Causal relationships may be embedded within, and expressions of higher‐order constraints provided by, complex system dynamics, best understood via the temporal organization of intentionalities that constitute narrative. Complex adaptive systems, out of which intentions emerge, have behavioral trajectories that are in principle unique, contingent, and nondeterministic even in stable states and unpredictable across phase transitions. Given such unpredictability, the only explanation can be an interpretive story that retrospectively retraces the actual changes in dynamics. Without narrative, personality traits and human actions are incomprehensible. Such phenomena do not permit a reduction of purposive acts to nonpurposive elements or of reasons to the causes they constrain. Causality does not exhaust meaning. Given the role of narratives in human lives, religion and mythology provide larger stories within which individual stories make sense. Differences between narrative and historical truth suggest how we can be constituted by what we imagine ourselves to be.
GAPS IN THE ARGUMENT: A DISCUSSION OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OF COSMOLOGY
Authors: Ruse Michael 
Published: February 2010

Abstract.In this discussion review of Robert John Russell's collection of essays I agree with him about the necessity of human existence given the claims of Christian theology. I look in detail at his suggestions for speaking to this issue, especially his thesis of NIODA—noninterventionist objective divine action. I end up disagreeing with the suggestion and argue that in respects Russell is tackling the science‐religion relationship in the wrong way.
ROBERT J. RUSSELL'S ESCHATOLOGICAL THEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF COSMOLOGY
Authors: Drees Willem B. 
Published: February 2010

Abstract.The main title of Robert J. Russell's Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science catches the substance of the essays; the subtitle his methodological vision. The mutualis modest as far as the influence from theology on science goes; in no way is Russell curtailing the pursuit of science. Driven by intellectual honesty, he holds that in the end religious convictions will have to stand the test of compatibility with scientific knowledge. And as a Christian he believes core beliefs of Christianity, reformulated as needed, will be able to stand this test. The essays address the origin and contingency of our universe in relation to belief in creation, and his proposal for noninterventionist objective divine action. For him a stumbling block is natural evil; the evolutionary intelligibility of evil falls short of what would be desirable theologically. As steps toward an adequate eschatology Russell seeks to develop a more complex understanding of temporality, and proposes to understand the resurrection of Jesus as the First Instantiation of a New Law of the New Creation. This area is more in tension with current science, but that could be expected when one moves from creation to redemption. Within his self‐imposed boundaries, these essays are well informed and well argued, and together they provide a sincere and sustained research program.
THE NATURE OF EMBODIMENT: RELIGION AND SCIENCE IN DIALOGUE
Authors: Pederson Ann Milliken 
Published: February 2010

Abstract.What is embodiment? And how does this notion apply not only to science qua science but also to the conversation between religion and science? I offer a descriptive analysis of an embodied conversation between religion, science, ethics, and technology. The domain of embodiment is one in which the participants practice humility in the face of others, become aware of their own limitations and finitude, bear witness to the other's finiteness and limitations, take account of the sociocultural atmosphere, and acknowledge the ethical weight of the conversation for all involved. I offer examples of how this tangled knot of emergent practices is put into play, examples that expand upon some notions of what conversations between religion and science should be like.
An UNC‐49 GABA receptor subunit from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus is associated with enhanced GABA sensitivity in nematode heteromeric channels
Authors: Siddiqui Salma Z. , Brown David D. R. , Rao Vijayaraghava T. S. , Forrester Sean G. 
Published: February 2010

J. Neurochem. (2010) 113, 1113–1122.AbstractWe have identified two genes from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus, Hco‐unc‐49B and Hco‐unc‐49C that encode two GABA‐gated chloride channel subunits. Electrophysiological analysis revealed that this channel has properties similar to those of the UNC‐49 channel from the free‐living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. For example, the Hco‐UNC‐49B subunit forms a functional homomeric channel that responds to GABA and is highly sensitive to picrotoxin. Hco‐UNC‐49C alone does not respond to GABA but can assemble with Hco‐UNC‐49B to form a heteromeric channel with a lower sensitivity to picrotoxin. However, we did find that the Hco‐UNC‐49B/C heteromeric channel is significantly more responsive to agonists compared to the Hco‐UNC‐49B homomeric channel, which is the opposite trend to what has been found previously for the C. elegans channel. To investigate the subunit requirements for high agonist sensitivity, we generated cross‐assembled channels by co‐expressing the H. contortus subunits with UNC‐49 subunits from C. elegans (Cel‐UNC‐49). Co‐expressing Cel‐UNC‐49B with Hco‐UNC‐49C produced a heteromeric channel with a reduced sensitivity to GABA compared to that of the Cel‐UNC‐49B homomeric channel. In contrast, co‐expressing Hco‐UNC‐49B with Cel‐UNC‐49C produced a heteromeric channel that, like the Hco‐UNC‐49B/C heteromeric channel, exhibits an increased sensitivity to GABA. These results suggest that the Hco‐UNC‐49B subunit is the key determinant for the high agonist sensitivity of heteromeric channels.
Market Orientation, Ownership Type, and E‐Business Assimilation: Evidence from Chinese Firms
Authors: Li Dahui , Chau Patrick Y. K. , Lai Fujun 
Published: February 2010

ABSTRACTWhile more and more firms have implemented e‐business in business operations, a better understanding of the factors that successfully drive the assimilation of e‐business will provide insights for firm executives and practitioners to develop effective strategies for e‐business. Different from previous studies that focus on individual‐level factors related to business executives and top management teams, this study examines how firm‐level strategic and cultural factors shape e‐business assimilation. Based on the strategy and marketing literature on market orientation and firm ownership, we developed a research model to describe how a firm's market orientation impacts e‐business assimilation. The model also describes the moderating effect of firm ownership type on the relationship between market orientation and e‐business assimilation. Based on data from 301 Chinese international trade firms, we found that two dimensions of market orientation (i.e., customer orientation, competitor orientation) had significant effects on e‐business assimilation. However, the third dimension, interfunctional coordination, was only partially significant. In addition, ownership type was a significant moderator of the effects of customer orientation and competitor orientation on e‐business assimilation, although ownership type was not a moderator of interfunctional coordination. Being one of the first studies of the impact of market orientation and firm ownership type on e‐business assimilation, we conclude with a discussion of the implications for future research and practice.
Brain abscess in children – epidemiology, predisposing factors and management in the modern medicine era
Authors: Shachor‐Meyouhas Y , Bar‐Joseph G , Guilburd JN , Lorber A , Hadash A , Kassis I 
Published: February 2010

AbstractAims:  Brain abscess is rare in children. Predisposing factors are found in almost 85% of cases. Overall, 25% of brain abscesses develop in children, mostly in the 4–7 years age group. Our study aimed to characterize children with brain abscesses treated in our hospital, identify risk factors, pathogens and short‐term outcome.Methods:  A retrospective cohort of 20 years period, (1989–2009) included 27children (0–18 years). Medical records were analysed for age, gender, presenting symptoms and signs, predisposing factors, laboratory tests, imaging, microbiology results, treatment and outcome.Results:  Of all the children, 63% (17/27) were male patients; mean age was 7.9 years and 52% were referred from other hospitals. Predisposing factors were identified in 81%, congenital heart disease and otitis were rare and sinusitis was found in 22% of the children. Main symptoms and signs included headaches, fever, neurological signs convulsions, (41%, 81%, 78% and 41% respectively). In 30% of cases, cultures were sterile. All patients were operated in addition to antibiotic treatment. Outcome was good with low mortality rate (3.7%).Conclusions:  Manifestations of brain abscess may be subtle. A high index of suspicion and early imaging are warranted, different predisposing factors may reflect early intervention for congenital heart diseases. Mortality is rare in the modern medicine era.
GDP RIP (1933–2010)
Authors: Marks Nic 
Published: February 2010

Abstract
When a nation's Gross Domestic Product goes up, politicians glow with pride. When it goes down, headlines shout doom. Yet GDP says nothing about the real health of a nation. It measures nobody's happiness; it tells no one how much we are destroying our environment or our children's future. It ignores all the important measures of human life. Nic Marks says it is time we replaced this outmoded measurement with something more useful.
DETERMINATION OF SUITABLE THIN LAYER MODEL FOR AIR DRYING OF MANGO SLICES (Mangifera indica L.) AT DIFFERENT AIR TEMPERATURES AND VELOCITIES
Authors: CORZO OTONIEL , BRACHO NELSON , ALVAREZ CARLOS 
Published: February 2010

ABSTRACT An air dryer was used for thin layer drying process of green and half‐ripe mango, and moisture ratios at any drying time were compared by 10 models (Newton, Page, Henderson and Pabis, modified Henderson and Pabis, logarithmic, two‐term, two‐term exponential, Wang and Singh, Verma et al. and Midilli and Kucuk). The Midilli and Kucuk model satisfactorily described the drying behavior of mango slices at different maturity stages with highest R2 values and lowest χ2. Parametersκ, n and b for the Midilli and Kucuk model were significantly different (P < 0.05) for both maturity stages and were affected by air velocity and temperature. Parameter κfor green mango was found to be the least temperature sensitive. Parameter n for green mango was found to be the most temperature sensitive. Temperature dependence of parameter b for both maturity stages did not follow a relation type Arrhenius.PRACTICAL APPLICATIONSThis work is intended to provide a significant tool to predict the moisture content of the green and half‐ripe mango slices at any time of drying process, establish the air drying conditions in order to achieve given moisture content of mango slices, and optimize the design of thin layer drying process.
EVALUATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS IN THE INDUSTRIAL SCALE PROCESS OF SOYBEAN OIL EXTRACTION USING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Authors: VALDUGA EUNICE , TONEL ELISABETE , TATSCH PIHETRA OLIVEIRA , SILVA MARCELI FERNANDES , TREICHEL HELEN 
Published: February 2010

ABSTRACT This work reports the use of experimental design for the assessment of the effects of process parameters of the soybean oil extraction in an industrial environment. A central composite rotatable design was carried out and the independent variables were soyflakes (27 to 41 mm), miscella concentration (25 to 39%) and solvent temperature (57 to 63C). The lowest concentration of residual oil was obtained with soyflakes of 34 mm, 32% of miscella concentration and solvent temperature of 60C, resulting in an average level of residual oil of 0.69%, corresponding to a 31% reduction related to the previous average level obtained in the extraction. The responses acidity and peroxide indexes, as well as color, were not significantly affected (P < 0.05) by the independent variables evaluated, showing, therefore, that the efficiency of the soybean oil extraction was optimized without prejudice the quality of the soybean oil.PRACTICAL APPLICATIONSIn the industrial process, also called conventional (extraction by hexane), a deep study of the operational conditions involved to obtain soybean oil and bran, aim to improve the yield of the process. The oil extraction makes possible for the industry to establish, the best operational conditions, that results in energy saving and improvement of hexane recovery. In this sense, the experimental design methodology was used in order to optimize the process of soybean oil extraction in an industrial environment.
Photosensitizing Effect of Hematoporphyrin IX on Immature Stages of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Authors: Pujol‐Lereis Luciana Mercedes , Massaldi Ana , Rabossi Alejandro , Quesada‐Allué Luis Alberto 
Published: February 2010

AbstractImmature stages of Ceratitis capitata were tested as a model for hematoporphyrin IX (HP IX) phototoxicity. The lethal concentration 50 (LC50) of HP IX in the food was determined during postembryonic development until adult emergence as 0.173 mm (95% CI: 0.138–0.209). The corresponding HP IX LC50 during the dispersal period alone was 0.536 mm (95% CI: 0.450–0.633). HP IX toxicity was compared against Phloxine B (PhB) (0.5 mm). HP IX elicited a mortality of 90.87%, which was mainly concentrated during prepupal and early pupal stages. PhB mortality was much lower (56.88%) and occurred mainly during the adult pharate stage. A direct correlation between light‐dependent HP IX mortality, evidence of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lipid peroxidation (conjugated dienes and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances) was established in C. capitata larvae. ROS were found to be very significant in both the brain and in the gut.
REE, Mn, Fe, Mg and C, O Isotopic Geochemistry of Calcites from Furong Tin Deposit, South China: Evidence for the Genesis of the Hydrothermal Ore‐forming Fluids
Authors: Shuang Yan , Bi Xian‐Wu , Hu Rui‐Zhong , Peng Jian‐Tang , Li Hang , Li Da‐Hua , Zhu Chang‐Sheng 
Published: February 2010

AbstractThe Furong tin deposit in the central Nanling region, South China, consists of three main types of mineralization ores, i.e. skarn‐, altered granite‐ and greisen‐type ores, hosted in Carboniferous and Permian strata and Mesozoic granitic intrusions. Calcite is the dominant gangue mineral intergrown with ore bodies in the orefield. We have carried out REE, Mn, Fe, and Mg geochemical and C, and O isotopic studies on calcites to constrain the source and evolution of the ore‐forming fluids. The calcites from the Furong deposit exhibit middle negative Eu anomaly (Eu/Eu*= 0.311–0.921), except for one which has an Eu/Eu* of 1.10, with the total REE content of 5.49–133 ppm. The results show that the calcites are characterized by two types of REE distribution patterns: a LREE‐enriched pattern and a flat REE pattern. The LREE‐enriched pattern of calcites accompanying greisen‐type ore and skarn‐type ore are similar to those of Qitianling granite. The REE, Mn, Fe, and Mg abundances of calcites exhibit a decreasing tendency from granite rock mass to wall rock, i.e. these abundances of calcites associated with altered granite‐type and greisen‐type ores are higher than those associated with skarn‐type ores. The calcites from primary ores in the Furong deposit show large variation in carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions. The δ13C and δ18O of calcites are −0.4 to −12.7‰ and 2.8 to 16.4‰, respectively, and mainly fall within the range between mantle or magmatic carbon and marine carbonate. The calcites from greisen and altered granite ores in the Furong deposit display a negative correlation in the diagram of δ13C versus δ18O, probably owing to the CO2‐degassing of the ore‐forming fluids. From the intrusion to wall‐rock, the calcites display an increasing tendency with respect to δ13C values. This implies that the carbon isotopic compositions of the ore‐bearing fluids have progressively changed from domination by magmatic carbon to sedimentary carbonate carbon. In combination with other geological and geochemical data, we suggest that the ore‐forming fluids represent magmatic origin. We believe that the fluids exsolved from fractionation of the granitic magma, accompanying magmatism of the Qitianling granite complex, were involved in the mineralization of the Furong tin polymetallic deposit.
Characterization and Mineralization Potentials of Granitic Pegmatites of Komu area, Southwestern Nigeria
Authors: Adetunji Ademuyiwa , Ocan Ojok Onesimus 
Published: February 2010

AbstractThe geology of the Komu area, south‐western Nigeria was investigated in order to determine the nature of occurrence, petrography and chemical composition, and to evaluate the mineral potential of granitic pegmatites. The pegmatites are hosted by para‐gneisses, amphibolites and granitic rocks. These host rocks are characterized by low pressure mineral assemblages of upper greenschist to lower amphibolite facies grades. The pegmatites consist of four lithological units: alkali feldspar unit, graphic granite unit, quartz‐albite‐muscovite‐tourmaline unit and saccharroidal albite‐muscovite‐tourmaline‐garnet unit.A K/Rb ratio of below 100 is indicative of a mineralization potential in most pegmatites, except for the saccharroidal albite‐muscovite‐tourmaline‐garnet unit which has exceptionally high ratios. The discrimination diagrams Rb versus K/Rb, Zn versus K/Rb and Th versus K/Rb show a limited range of fractionation, suggesting that the pegmatites belong to the barren muscovite and rare element classes. The rare element class is moderately enriched in beryl, tourmaline and niobium–tantalum minerals. The pegmatite has affinity for beryl columbite sub‐type and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) family. The ores plot mainly in the field of mangano‐tantalite of tantalite‐columbite quadrilateral diagram. These results indicate that the pegmatites are promising hosts for Nb‐Ta ores.