bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Preoperative Serum Osteocalcin may Predict Postoperative Elevated Parathyroid Hormone in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism
Authors: Rianon Nahid , Alex Gillian , Callender Glenda , Jimenez Camilo , Hu Mimi , Grubbs Elizabeth , Moreno Mauricio , Wathoo Chetna , Petak Steven , Perrier Nancy 
Published: January 2012

AbstractBackgroundPersistent postoperative elevation of parathyroid hormone (POePTH) following successful parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is presumed to result from bone remineralization. Predicting which patients may need treatment is difficult. This study investigated whether preoperative serum osteocalcin (OC), a bone turnover marker involved in mineralization, can predict POePTH.MethodsA total of 198 patients (155 women and 43 men) with parathyroidectomy from November 2007 to October 2009 in MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, were included in our analysis. Separate multivariate regression models determined associations between preoperative OC and POePTH at 6 and 12 months postoperatively. Regression models were adjusted for demographics (age, gender, race, height, weight, BMI), preoperative BMD and bisphosphonate use, adenoma weight, serum levels of PTH, calcium, vitamin D, creatinine, and phosphate. Patients with baseline GFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m2 and postoperative serum calcium >10.14 mg/dl at 6 and 12 months were excluded.ResultsPatients’ mean age (±SD) was 60 (±14) years. POePTH (>80 pg/ml) occurred in 13 and 12% patients at 6 and 12 months, respectively. Preoperative serum creatinine and bisphosphonate use were positively associated with POePTH (p < 0.05) both at 6 and 12 months. Preoperative OC was predictive of POePTH (p < 0.05) at 6 months (β 0.35; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.11–0.58) and at 12 months (β 0.79; 95% CI, 0.27–1.31).ConclusionsPreoperative OC may help to predict risk of POePTH in patients with PHPT. Research with longer follow‐up in patients with no known baseline chronic kidney disease stratified by high versus normal preoperative serum creatinine is recommended.
Assessing the Impact of Relative Social Position and Absolute Community Resources on Depression and Obesity Among Smokers
Authors: Aguilera Adrian , Leykin Yan , Adler Nancy , Muñoz Ricardo F. 
Published: January 2012

AbstractWe tested two competing hypotheses—relative social position and community resources—in regards to their effect on two co‐occurring health problems (depression, and obesity) in a sample of smokers participating in an online smoking cessation intervention. Income and education data at the zip code level from the 2000 Census was linked with individual level data. Logistic regression models were used for each co‐occurring problem to determine how each SES variable (individually and interactively) was associated with the presence of co‐occurring health problems. We found that lower individual education was related to poorer health for all outcomes (Depression: OR = 1.25; Obesity: OR = 1.24; Both: OR = 1.46), lower community education was only related to obesity (OR = 1.20). Lower individual income was related to higher rates of depressive symptoms (OR = 1.64) and both health problems (OR = 1.55); a significant interaction of individual and community income (Wald = 6.13, p < .05) revealed that high income individuals were less likely to be depressed if they lived in lower‐income communities and became more likely to be so as community income increased. Relative social position was confirmed for depression, whereas community resources were prominent only for obesity. Higher individual education most consistently predicted positive health outcomes, making it a potentially powerful target to reduce health disparities.
Vorticity forces on an impulsively started finite plate
Authors: Lee Jian-Jhih , Hsieh Cheng-Ta , Chang Chien C. , Chu Chin-Chou 
Published: January 2012

AbstractIn this study, we consider various contributions to the forces on an impulsively started finite plate from the perspective of a diagnostic vorticity force theory. The wing plate has an aspect ratio (AR) between 1 and 3, and is placed at low and high angles of attack ($\ensuremath{\alpha} \leq $ and ${\gt }2{0}^{\ensuremath{\circ} } $), while the Reynolds number is either 100 or 300. The theory enables us to quantify the contributions to the forces exerted on the plate in terms of all of the fluid elements with non-zero vorticity, such as in the tip vortices (TiVs), leading- and trailing-edge vortices (LEV and TEV) as well on the plate surface. This line of force analysis has been pursued for two-dimensional flow in our previous studies. In contrast to the pressure force analysis (PFA), the vorticity force analysis (VFA) reveals new salient features in its applications to three-dimensional flow by examining sectional force contributions along the spanwise direction. In particular, at a large aspect ratio ($\mathit{AR}= 3$), the force distributions of PFA and VFA show close agreements with each other in the middle sections, while at a lower aspect ratio ($\mathit{AR}= 1$), the force distribution of PFA is substantially larger than that of VFA in most of the sections. The difference is compensated for by the contributions partly by the edge sections and mainly by the vortices in the outer regions. Further investigation is made fruitful by decomposing the vorticity into the spanwise (longitudinal) component (the only one in two-dimensional flow) and the other two orthogonal (transverse) components. The relative importance of the force contributions credited to the transverse components in the entire flow regions as well as in the two outer regions signifies the three-dimensional nature of the flow over a finite plate. The interplay between the LEV and the TiVs at various time stages is shown to play a key role in distinguishing the force contributions for the plate with a smaller aspect ratio and that with a larger aspect ratio. The present VFA provides a better perspective for flow control by relating the forces directly to the various sources of vorticity (or vortex structures) on or near the wing plate.
Cuticular and internal n-alkane composition ofLucilia sericatalarvae, pupae, male and female imagines: application of HPLC-LLSD and GC/MS-SIM
Authors: Gołębiowski M. , Paszkiewicz M. , Grubba A. , Gąsiewska D. , Boguś M.I. , Włóka E. , Wieloch W. , Stepnowski P. 
Published: January 2012

AbstractThe composition of cuticular and internal n-alkanes inLucilia sericatalarvae, pupae, and male and female imagines were studied. The cuticular and internal lipid extracts were separated by HPLC-LLSD, after which the hydrocarbon fraction was identified by GC/MS in selected ion monitoring (SIM) and total ion current (TIC) modes.The cuticular lipids of the larvae contained seven n-alkanes from C23to C31. The major n-alkane inL. sericatalarvae was C29(42.1%). The total cuticular n-alkane content in the cuticular lipids was 31.46 μg g−1of the insect body. The internal lipids ofL. sericatalarvae contained five n-alkanes ranged from C25to C31. The most abundant compound was C27(61.71 μg g−1of the insect body). Eighteen n-alkanes from C14to C31were identified in the cuticular lipids of the pupae. The most abundant n-alkanes ranged from C25to C31; those with odd-numbered carbon chains were particularly abundant, the major one being C29:0(59.5%). Traces of eight cuticular n-alkanes were present. The internal lipids ofL. sericatapupae contained five n-alkanes, ranging from C25to C31. The cuticular lipids of female imagines contained 17 n-alkanes from C12to C30. Among the cuticular n-alkanes of females, C27(47.5%) was the most abundant compound. Four n-alkanes, with only odd-numbered carbon chains, were identified in the internal lipids of females. The lipids from both sexes ofL. sericatahad similar n-alkane profiles. The cuticular lipids of adult males contained 16 n-alkanes ranging from C13to C31. C27(47.9%) was the most abundant cuticular n-alkanes in males. The same n-alkanes only with odd-numbered carbon chains and in smaller quantities of C27(0.1%) were also identified in the internal lipids of males.The highest amounts of total cuticular n-alkanes were detected in males and females ofL. sericata(330.4 and 158.93 μg g−1of the insect body, respectively). The quantities of total cuticular alcohols in larvae and pupae were smaller (31.46 μg g−1and 42.08 μg g−1, respectively). The internal n-alkane contents of larvae, pupae, and male and female imagines were significantly higher than the cuticular n-alkane contents (153.53, 99.60, 360.06 and 838.76 μg g−1of the insect body, respectively).
Disentangling the causal inter-relationship between negative life events and depressive symptoms in women: a longitudinal twin study
Authors: Wichers M. , Maes H. H. , Jacobs N. , Derom C. , Thiery E. , Kendler K. S. 
Published: January 2012

BackgroundNegative life events are strongly associated with the development of depression. However, the etiologic relationship between life events and depression is complex. Evidence suggests that life events can cause depression, and depression increases the risk for life events. Additionally, third factors influencing both phenotypes may be involved. In this work we sought to disentangle these relationships using a genetically informative longitudinal design.MethodAdult female twins (n=536, including 281 twin pairs) were followed up for measurements of negative life event exposure and depressive symptoms. Four follow-ups were completed, each approximately 3 months apart. Model fitting was carried out using the Mx program.ResultsThe best-fitting model included causal paths from life events to depressive symptoms for genetic and shared environmental risk factors, whereas paths from depressive symptoms to life events were apparent for shared environmental factors. Shared latent influence on both phenotypes was found for individual-specific effects.ConclusionsLife events and depressive symptoms have complex inter-relationships that differ across sources of variance. The results of the model, if replicated, indicate that reducing life event exposure would reduce depressive symptoms and that lowering depressive symptoms would decrease the occurrence of negative life events.
XX.—On the Coptic Churches of Old Cairo
Authors: Middleton John Henry 
Published: January 2012

The site of El-Fustât, or Old Cairo, lies about a mile and a half from the modern city, on the plain between the Nile and the Mokattam hills.With the exception of the Coptic churches and monasteries little of it now remains, and its site is covered by great heaps of rubbish full of fragments of pottery of various dates.The Coptic churches are grouped together in “dayrs,” or inclosures surrounded by high walls, into which there is only one small entrance; these walls were to protect the Copts from the attacks of the Moslem population.
XXXVIII.—On Horse-trappings found at Westhall. In a Letter from Henry Harrod, Esq., F.S.A., to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Authors: Harrod Henry 
Published: January 2012

I had the honour of exhibiting, at a Meeting in May last, a collection of remarkable antiquities which had been shortly before found in Suffolk.A farmer at Westhall (a small village about three miles north-east of Halesworth) was engaged in draining a field, called the “Millpost Field,” carrying the trenches to a depth of between two and three feet from the surface, in a stiff clayey soil, and in the direction of a small watercourse which ran along the east side of the field. A space of about two acres in extent, in the lowest part of the field adjoining the watercourse, presented, when ploughed up, a much darker soil than the other parts of it; and in making his drains through this part of the field much burnt earth and fragments of pottery were thrown out of the trenches. Near the centre of the space, and about two feet from the surface, he met with a quantity of bronze rings and other fragments, which he gave to a Mr. Hylton, a Norfolk farmer, who communicated the discovery to me, and enabled me to exhibit them to the Society: and in order that every possible information might be obtained, I joined them, on the 2nd of May, and carefully went over the ground with the spade. All the bronze fragments had been gathered together, and my search added nothing to the collection.
Notes on Edward Grimston, Esq. Ambassador to the Duchess of Burgundy
Authors: Franks A. W. 
Published: January 2012

It may be of interest to the Society to collect together such notices as occur of Edward Grimston, the ambassador to the Duchess of Burgundy, and the person represented in the interesting portrait by Peter Christus.By the kindness of the Earl of Verulam, I have been able to make use of various documents, apparently unpublished, which assist in throwing some light on the ambassador's history.
X. Original Letters to the Tremoille family, chiefly from Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia: communicated by Monsieur Paul Marchegay; together with remarks on the same by Augustus W. Franks, Esq., Director
Authors: Marchegay Paul , Franks Augustus W. 
Published: January 2012

M. Paul Marchegay of Angers, ancien Archiviste du departement de Maine et Loire, has forwarded to the Society transcripts of some letters which he has found among the records of the Tremoille family, preserved at Serrant in Anjou.They consist chiefly of twenty-one unpublished letters written by Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, and three by the King of Bohemia, all addressed to various members of the Tremoille family. One letter, however, which is of an earlier date, relates only indirectly to Elizabeth, and should properly be considered before those written by the unfortunate daughter of James I. or her husband.
IV.—Some Remarks upon the Book of Records and History of the Parish of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, in the City of London
Authors: Freshfield Edwin 
Published: January 2012

The original object of the present communication was to present to the Fellows some account of a remarkable Book of Records preserved in the parish church of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, containing, among other interesting particulars, the original constitution under which the parish was governed.As, however, some other of the parish books presented features of exceptional historical interest, I have taken leave to add, by way of illustration to the paper, some particulars relating to the parish and its inhabitants, gathered from its books.
XIII.—Arms and Armour at Westminster, the Tower, and Greenwich, 1547
Authors: Dillon Harold Arthur 
Published: January 2012

The volume from which the following lists of arms and armour are taken is a neatly written MS. of 469 folios, presented to the Society in 1775 by Grustavus Brander, Esq. F.S.A.The volume is complete in itself, but is in fact the larger portion of an inventory of the property of Henry VIII. taken in the first year of Edward VI. 1547. The remainder of the inventory is in the Harleian collection of MSS., and is contained in MSS. 1419 A and B. Of these two latter parts A contains the guardrobes and household stuff in the Tower of London, and at Greenwich, Westminster, Hampton Court, Otelands, Nonsuch, Windsor, and other palaces and houses of the late king. Part B enumerates various deliveries of stuff to different persons during the first four years of Edward VI. and is consequently a partial repetition of part A.
XV.—Observations on an Elizabethan picture of four persons of distinction playing cards
Authors: Scharf George 
Published: January 2012

The curious panel-picture representing four gentlemen in the costume of the time of queen Elizabeth, and evidently persons of distinction, playing at cards, which I have the pleasure of exhibiting this evening by permission of Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi, is not altogether new to the Society.It was described little short of one hundred and three years ago by the Hon. Daines Barrington, in the Archaeologia, vol. viii. under the date May 4th, 1785.
III.—Notice of the Life and Works of Lucas D'Heere, Poet and Painter of Ghent, with reference to an anonymous Portrait of a Lady in the possession of the Duke of St. Alban's and to the Portrait of Queen Mary of England in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries
Authors: Cust Lionel 
Published: January 2012

The fact that the Society of Antiquaries possesses one of the most important and the earliest dated of the portraits ascribed to the hand of Lucas D'Heere, the poet-painter of Ghent, may cause the Fellows of the Society to take some interest in the life and works of this artist.Lucas D'Heere is not one of those painters whose life has fallen into oblivion through want of biographers. Carel van Mander, who in 1604 published his precious collection of biographies of Flemish, Dutch, and German painters, was actually a pupil of D'Heere, and included a full notice of his master's life in his series, which, from the intimate connection between the two painters, may fairly be accepted as authoritative. Further his biographies are avowedly based on a similar collection made by Lucas D'Heere himself.
XIX.—Reginald, bishop of Bath (1174-1191); his episcopate, and his share in the building of the church of Wells
Authors: Church C.M. 
Published: January 2012

I venture to think that bishop Reginald Fitzjocelin deserves a place of higher honour in the history of the diocese, and of the fabric of the church of Wells, than has hitherto been accorded to him.His memory has been obscured by the traditionary fame of bishop Robert as the “author,” and of bishop Jocelin as the “finisher,” of the church of Wells; and the importance of his episcopate as a connecting link in the work of these two master-builders has been comparatively overlooked.
IV.—On the Sculptured Doorways of the Lady Chapel of Glastonbury Abbey
Authors: Hope W.H. St. John 
Published: January 2012

At the west end of the great abbey church of SS. Peter and Paul at Glastonbury are the ruins of a chapel of very remarkable character.It was built on the site of a vetusta ecclesia dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of very great antiquity, which was consumed by fire, together with the great church and nearly all the abbey buildings, in 1184.As the vetusta ecclesia, from its sanctity and the number of relics it contained, was a holy place much resorted to by pilgrims, its reconstruction was forthwith commenced, and carried out with such speed that “about 1186” it was ready for consecration by Reginald, bishop of Bath.
X.—On some fifteenth-century Drawings of Winchester College; New College, Oxford; etc.
Authors: Kirby Thomas Frederick 
Published: January 2012

By the kind permission of the Warden of New College, Oxford, I have the honour to exhibit copies of four pen and ink drawings attributed to the year 1463.They are from a MS. at New College, Oxford, entitled Brevis Chronica de ortu vita et gestis nobilibus reverendi viri Willelmi de Wykeham, which is generally attributed to Thomas Chandler. I do not find him in the Dictionary of National Biography, but he was a man of some note in his day, having been warden, first of Winchester and then of New College; chancellor of the university of Oxford, and of the churches of Wells and York; master of St. Cross hospital, near Winchester; dean of Hereford and the chapel royal; and secretary of state under Henry VI. and Edward IV. He died in 1490.
XX.—The Dolmens and Burial Mounds in Japan
Authors: Gowland William 
Published: January 2012

The Papers which I have the honour of laying before the Society contain a summary of my explorations and investigations of the dolmens of Japan during a long residence in that country.We have but little exact knowledge of the mode in which the Japanese disposed of the bodies of their famous dead in the very earliest times. The somewhat vague statements of their ancient traditional records would seem to point to burial or mere deposition on the summits of natural hills as their earliest practice, but the most ancient remains yet discovered have not been found in such localities, but on the lower grounds bordering the plains, and on the plains themselves.
Comparative hepatitis A seroepidemiology in 10 European countries
Authors: KURKELA S. , PEBODY R. , KAFATOS G. , ANDREWS N. , BARBARA C. , BRUZZONE B. , BUTUR D. , CAPLINSKAS S. , DAVIDKIN I. , HATZAKIS A. , HELLENBRAND W. , HESKETH L. M. , NARDONE A. , NEMECEK V. , PISTOL A. , SOBOTOVÁ Z. , VRANCKX R. , ANASTASSOPOULOU C. G. 
Published: January 2012

SUMMARYThe WHO recommends hepatitis A virus (HAV) immunization according to level of transmission and disease burden. We aimed to identify susceptible age groups by standardized serosurveys to inform HAV vaccination policy in participating countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, and Slovakia. Each country tested national serum banks (n = 1854–6748), collected during 1996–2004, for anti-HAV antibodies. Local laboratory results were standardized to common units. Forty-one per cent of those aged <30 years and 6% of those aged ⩾30 years were susceptible to HAV in Romania; compared to 70–94% and 26–71%, respectively, elsewhere. Romania reported high HAV incidence in children and young adults. Other countries reported HAV disease primarily in older risk groups. The results suggest low level of HAV transmission in most of Europe. Romania, however, appeared as an area with intermediate transmission. Vaccination of risk groups in countries with high susceptibility of young and middle-aged adults needs to be continued.
Unintended consequences: Theatre deregulation and opera in France, 1864–1878
Authors: Ellis Katharine 
Published: January 2012

AbstractThe French legislation of 6 January 1864 which deregulated spoken and lyric theatre nationwide showed little sensitivity to the distinctive financial ecology of regional theatre. Its effects were precisely the opposite of those its architects intended, and caused most disruption to the very constituencies the legislation was intended to help. Comparative analysis of the immediate aftermath of this ‘liberté des théâtres’ reveals a state of near chaos across France. Town councils oscillated between abandoning to the market their traditions of theatre as artistic social service, and pouring in yet more taxpayers' money just to maintain the status quo. Opera, as the most expensive art form, was the immediate casualty, ceding considerable ground to a vigorous entertainment sector based around the operetta repertory (including opéra-bouffe) and the café-concert chanson.
Classic staging: Pauline Viardot and the 1859Orphéerevival
Authors: Willson Flora 
Published: January 2012

AbstractThe 1859 revival of Gluck'sOrphée, reworked for the occasion by Berlioz, was one of a series of operaticrésurrectionsstaged at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris during the Second Empire. Starring Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) in the title role, it was the first major revival of Gluck's opera since the 1820s and attracted considerable attention in the press and elsewhere. Critics and others were fascinated by Viardot's dramatic presence on stage, producing images (both in pictures and words) of her Orpheus that are often striking in their awareness of time past. Indeed, ambivalence about the past and its artefacts might be said to haunt the reception of a work – and performer – many designated as the epitome of theclassique. Contextualising thisOrphéewithin the changing meanings of the termclassiquein the mid-nineteenth century, the article focuses on a particularly revealing moment in the transition between an operatic culture based on new works and one ever more reliant on revivals of acknowledged masterpieces.