bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Applying the Interactive Systems Framework to the Dissemination and Adoption of National and State Recommendations for Hypertension
Authors: Lane Rashon I. , Berkowitz Judy M. , Sullivan Steven T. , Rose John , Bernichon Tiffiny , Favoretto Alessandra , Shifflett Pat , Miles Eileen , Jones MaryCatherine 
Published: April 2012

AbstractThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP), commissioned an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report to identify the highest priority action areas for CDC, state health departments, and other public health partners in their efforts to reduce and control hypertension. To assess the dissemination and adoption of the IOM report recommendations, DHDSP developed an evaluation based on the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation (ISF). The evaluation incorporates data collection at critical points across 3 years. In this article, we focus on the ISF systems to describe the role of funded state partners and their relationship with CDC in implementing public health recommendations. We describe baseline results for three data collection activities: (1) key informant interviews, (2) a Web‐based survey, and (3) content analysis of state workplans to determine the degree of alignment with IOM recommendations. For example, currently 30 % of surveyed programs are implementing most (or all) of the recommendations in the IOM report, however 76 % intend to change hypertension program priorities based on the recommendations of the IOM report. Qualitative data suggest that there are several facilitators and barriers in implementing public health policy recommendations. DHDSP will use these baseline results to provide additional technical assistance and support to state health departments in their efforts to implement the IOM report's recommendations.Special Issue: Advances in Bridging Research and Practice Using the Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation; Guest Editors: Abraham Wandersman, Paul Flaspohler, Catherine A. Lesesne, Richard Puddy; Action Editor: Emilie Phillips Smith
From the “Forgotten Region” to the “Great Game” Region: On the Development of Geopolitics in Central Asia
Authors: Zabortseva Yelena Nikolayevna 
Published: April 2012

Only eight years ago, Central Asian 1 1 In this article Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are referred as Central Asia. region was characterized as being “largely ignored as a scholarly backwater of the defunct communist world system”. 2 2 Luong, P. (2002). Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In Pacek, A.C. (2008). Book Review: Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia, The Journal of Politics, 65. Since then the situation has changed; and the role of the Central Asian region in international affairs has increased considerably. Several developments within the region ushered in new geopolitical approaches, echoing international rivalries for the dominance in the ex-Soviet republics. Kazakhstan's oil export and the Kyrgyz Manas military bases are among those international disagreements that echoed in the “Great Game” vision of Central Asia in the world literature. Could geopolitics be the key approach to frame complex developments in the region? Or is this the case when particular methodological “lenses” 3 3 Baylis, J., Smith, S., and Owens, P. (2005). The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.3. through which one could consider the world are counter-productive?
Estimating time to full uterine cervical dilation using genetic algorithm
Authors: Hoh Jeong‐Kyu , Cha Kyung‐Joon , Park Moon‐Il , Ting Lee Mei‐Ling , Park Young‐Sun 
Published: April 2012

AbstractThe objectives of this study were to provide new parameters to better understand labor curves, and to provide a model to predict the time to full cervical dilation (CD). We studied labor curves using the retrospective records of 594 nulliparas, including at term, spontaneous labor onset, and singleton vertex deliveries of normal birth weight infants. We redefined the parameters of Friedman's labor curve, and applied a three‐parameter model to the labor curve with a logistic model using the genetic algorithm and the Newton–Raphson method to predict the time necessary to reach full CD. The genetic algorithm is more effective than the Newton–Raphson method for modeling labor progress, as demonstrated by its higher accuracy in predicting the time to reach full CD. In addition, we predicted the time (11.4 hours) to reach full CD using the logistic labor curve using the mean parameters (the power of CD = 0.97 cm/hours, a midpoint of the active phase = 7.60 hours, and the initial CD = 2.11 cm). Our new parameters and model can predict the time to reach full CD, which can aid in the forecasting of prolonged labor and the timing of interventions, with the end goal being normal vaginal birth.
Large ureteral fibroepithelial polyp lacking epithelium due to ischemic infarction
Authors: Ye Lin , Zhao Lu‐Jia , Yue Feng , Song Xi‐Shuang , Wei Wei , Jiang Xing‐Jin , Yang Jin‐Yi 
Published: April 2012

AbstractWe describe a woman with flank pain and hydronephrosis. Computed tomography (CT) urography and maximum intensity projection (MIP) reformatted images clearly showed that a long finger‐like intraluminal filling defects mass in the left middle ureter. The pathologic biopsy by ureteroscopy revealed that the lesion mainly consists of benign fibrinoid necrosis. A large soft smooth, spindle‐like, dark brown mass (approximately 13.5 cm in length) was identified in left middle ureter when open surgery was performed. The segment of the ureter part attached to the stalk of the polyp was excised, then a dismembered ureteroplasty was performed. Pathologic examination revealed that the total polyp was an ischemic infarction, characteristic of cellular swelling, tissue degeneration, fibrinoid necrosis, and thrombosis in its vessels. The surface of the polyp was hardly covered with urothelium, but fibroepithelial polyp was still diagnosed. There was no recurrence during the 3 years of follow‐up.
Deglaciation chronology, sea-level changes and environmental changes from Holocene lake sediments of Germania Havn Sø, Sabine Ø, northeast Greenland
Authors: Bennike Ole , Wagner Bernd 
Published: April 2012

AbstractGermania Havn Sø is located at the outermost coast of northeastern Greenland. According to radiocarbon dating, the lake basin was deglaciated in the early Holocene, around 11,000 cal yr BP. At that time the lake was a marine bay, but the lake was isolated soon after deglaciation at ~ 10,600 cal yr BP. The marine fauna was species-poor, indicating harsh conditions with a high sedimentation rate and lowered salinity due to glacial meltwater supply. The pioneer vegetation around the lake was dominated by mosses and herbs. Deposition of relatively coarse sediments during the early Holocene indicates erosion of the newly deglaciated terrain. Remains of the first woody plant (Salix herbacea)appear at 7600 cal yr BP and remains of other woody plants (Salix arctica,Dryas octopetala,Cassiope tetragonaandEmpetrum nigrum) appear around one millennium later. Declining concentrations ofD. octopetalaand the caddis flyApatania zonellain the late Holocene probably imply falling summer temperatures. Only moderate changes in the granulometric and geochemical record during the Holocene indicate relatively stable environmental settings in the lake, which can probably be explained by its location at the outer coast and the buffering effect of the neighboring ocean.
Numerical modeling of tsunami waves generated by the flank collapse of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano (La Palma, Canary Islands): Tsunami source and near field effects
Authors: Abadie S. M. , Harris J. C. , Grilli S. T. , Fabre R. 
Published: April 2012

In this work, we study waves generated by the potential collapse of the west flank of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano (CVV; La Palma, Canary Island, Spain) through numerical simulations performed in two stages: (i) the initial slide motion and resulting free surface elevation are first calculated using a 3D Navier‐Stokes model; (ii) generated waves are then input into a 2D (horizontal) Boussinesq model to further simulate propagation to the nearby islands. Unlike in earlier work on CVV, besides a similar extreme slide volume scenario of 450 km3, in our simulations: (i) we consider several slide scenarios featuring different volumes (i.e., 20, 40, 80 km3), which partly result from a geotechnical slope stability analysis; (ii) we use a more accurate bathymetry; and (iii) an incompressible version of a multiple‐fluid/material Navier‐Stokes model. We find wave trains for each scenario share common features in terms of wave directivity, frequency, and time evolution, but maximum elevations near CVV significantly differ, ranging from 600 to 1200 m (for increasing slide volume). Additionally, our computations show that significant energy transfer from slide to waves only lasts for a short duration (order 200 s), which justifies concentrating our best modeling efforts on the early slide motion phase. The anticipated consequences of such wave trains on La Palma and other Canary Islands are assessed in detail in the paper.
Michigan astronomers discover promethium in star
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A rare element that does not exist naturally on earth has been identified in the spectrum of a star by two University of Michigan astronomers.Working under a National Science Foundation grant, Margo Friedel Aller and Charles Cowley have identified promethium in an unusual star known as HR 465. Promethium is a short‐lived rare earth that previously has been known only as a synthetic element. Although its existence had been predicted as early as 1902, it was not discovered until 1947, among the fission products of uranium.
Title II water resources research contracts and grants
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Twenty additional research projects have been selected for the Fiscal Year 1971 water resources research program authorized under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.The Title II program provides funds to support the work of highly skilled and knowledgeable water research organizations and individuals, both academic and non‐academic, in undertaking research that seeks solutions to urgent water problems throughout the nation.
Books
Authors: Johnson A. I. , Downs C. E. 
Published: April 2012

The preeminence of the computer as a means of managing otherwise overwhelming masses of information is nowhere better illustrated than in this unique 242‐page compilation by the Geological Survey of Alabama.The Annotated Bibliography contains 1462 entries, each consisting of a reference and a brief ahstract, taken from the world literature on limestone terranes, carbonate rocks, groundwater hydrology, and caves.
Stable isotope geochemistry
Authors: Clayton Robert N. 
Published: April 2012

A review of oxygen isotope geochemistry is presented by Garlick [1969] in the Handbook of Geochemistry. Oxygen isotope geochemistry was also the subject of a chapter by Epstein and Taylor [1967] in Researches in Geochemistry.In Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits, a review chapter on the application of oxygen isotopes was written by Taylor [1967], and a chapter on sulfur isotopes was written by Jensen [1967].
Heat flow
Authors: Blackwell David D. 
Published: April 2012

In the preceding few years both the number and quality of heat flow measurements have increased dramatically, and, except for the explosion aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft, we might be able to report the first extraterrestrial heat‐flow measurement [see Langseth et al., 1970].Between 1965 and August 1969, the number of heat flow measurements increased from 1044 to 3564 [Von Herzen and Lee, 1969; Lee, 1970], and new measurements were appearing at the rate of 600 per year. These figures are for all available data, but the proportional increase in activity in this field by investigators from the United States is at least comparable. Even with twice the data, Von Herzen and Lee found no significant changes in selected averages reported by Lee and Uyeda [1965]. A recent tabulation of heat flow data was published by Simmons and Horai [1968] and the same authors [Horai and Simmons, 1969b] presented spherical harmonic analysis maps of heat flow.
Sea Grant awarded to Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

NOAA has awarded a $249,600 Sea Grant to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), Gloucester Point, Virginia. The grant will support the third year's activities in improved management and use of estuarine and coastal resources on Chesapeake Bay.Emphasizing research to improve crustacean and mollusk fisheries, the VIMS scientists are working on the general biology of the blue crab, are assessing rock crab for commercial potential, and are studying the distribution and habitat preferences of larval blue crabs. They are also working to determine the optimum conditions for holding blue crabs for commercial shedding by the soft crab industry. The VIMS group will increase its efforts to stimulate industry use of clam protection methods already developed in the program. VIMS plans to supply seed clams for commercial plantings while encouraging industry to develop commercial sources.
AAPG‐USGS Underground Waste Symposium
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The U. S. Geological Survey and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists will cosponsor a Symposium on Underground Waste Management and Environmental Implications December 6–9, 1971, at the Astroworld Hotel, Houston, Texas. It will include three days of technical sessions and one full day of field trips to chemical plants in the Houston area to observe surface pretreatment and deep‐well waste disposal procedures.The purpose of the symposium is to assess the current state of knowledge about subsurface waste disposal, to identify problems and areas of uncertainty requiring further investigation, and to anticipate realistic regulatory procedures. Among the principal topics to be discussed in the technical sessions will be hydrogeology, surface pre treatment of fluids, mechanics of injection wells, environmental considerations, and legal aspects.
[Comment to] The first Southern Hemisphere tidal observatory
Authors: Sánchez Rafael N. 
Published: April 2012

I read in News section of June EOS, (page 462) an item on ‘The First Southern Hemisphere Tidal Observatory.’The Australian observatory is actually the second one. In January 1971 operation of the earth tides station in Tucumán, Argentina, began, with two horizontal pendulums (Verbaandert‐Melchior) and an Askania gravimeter, under the auspices of the Instituto de Geodesia y Topografía (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnología) of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.
Lockheed experiment will map Sun's X rays
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A daily X‐ray map that will show the source and level of X‐ray activity on the sun is one major objective of a satellite package being developed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.Described as a ‘mapping X‐ray heliometer,’ the package is being prepared under contract to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for flight aboard Oso‐I, which will scan the sun.
Scripps receives funds to construct floating platform for research
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A $2,280,000 government contract has been awarded to the University of California, San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a program of research in advanced oceanographic engineering.A total of $1,600,000 of this is designated for the initial funds to construct a 15,000 square foot stable floating platform complete with steel superstructure and concrete vertical legs that pivot up to a horizontal position to permit towing to an ocean station. The remaining $680,000 will be allocated to other programs in the area of marine technology.
New National Center for USGS
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Construction has begun on the new U.S. Geological Survey national center in Reston, Virginia.The Survey will be the first federal agency to locate at Reston. When the facility is completed early in 1974, it will be leased for the USGS from the developer, Gulf Reston, Inc., by the General Services Administration for 20 years to recover construction costs, and then turned over to the government.
USGS studies effects of underground waste storage
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

A research program aimed at evaluating the effects of underground waste storage on the nation's subsurface water supplies is being conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey.The program was spurred by the growing practice of injecting fluid wastes underground in many areas where present knowledge of the underground natural ‘plumbing systems’ is inadequate to judge the practicality of many specific waste injections.
Notre Dame will assist in development of wastewater treatment system
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Telecommunications Industries, inc. (TII) of Copiague, New York, has asked engineers at the University of Notre Dame to assist in the development of a wastewater treatment system devised by TII.The process uses sonics and ozone to purify drinking water and wastewater, Chairman of the board of TII, Alfred J. Roach, explained. The ozone is an extremely strong purifying agent that acts to destroy bacteria and break down organic pollutants in the water. However, the ozone does not attack solid masses or particles. Sound at varying high frequencies is used to break up the solid blocks of matter in the water, allowing the ozone to purify the remaining tiny particles of waste.
OWRR supports sanitary landfill study at Notre Dame
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

The U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Water Resources Research has awarded the University of Notre Dame $94,580 to support a two‐year study on the effect of sanitary landfills on groundwater quality. The study will be conducted by Philip C. Singer, Assistant Professor of civil engineering.Titled ‘Hydrogeologic Factors Involved in Predicting the Effects of Sanitary Landfill Operations On Ground Water Quality,’ the study is expected to provide guidlines for the design of landfills that will have minimal effects on the quality of well water.
The problem of groundwater discharge into the seas
Authors: Kudelin B. I. , Zektser I. S. , Meskheteli A. V. , Brusilovsky S. A. 
Published: April 2012

Introductory Note: The dynamic equilibrium of the various factors involved in the world water balance or budget is the central scientific problem of the International Hydrological Decade. One of the potentially vital elements of the balance is groundwater discharge to the oceans. To paraphrase the authors of the following Russian publication, the world water budget can't be properly balanced, statically or dynamically, until there are improved values for the amount of groundwater that is discharged directly to oceans, seas, and enclosed lakes. The following report, with its bibliography, presents some Russian approaches to the problem and provides a few bits of numerical information.The report was translated by Frank W. Trainer of the U.S. Geological Survey. The text has been slightly reduced in the interests of saving space but the bibliography is given in full and has been transcribed into more or less standard U.S. Geological Survey bibliographical style.
Notes and commentary
Authors: Anonymous  
Published: April 2012

Dual symposia on the Role of Snow and Ice in Hydrology are scheduled to take place in Banff, Alberta, Canada September 6–20, 1972. The first, the Symposium on Properties and Processes, is to be convened by Unesco; the second, the Symposium on Measurement and Forecasting, will be convened by the World Meteorological Organization.Following the symposia, a mountaineer's tour to a glacier (including a night on the mountain) and four field study tours have been arranged. Banff is in the heart of North American Glacier country, so the tours should be of unusual interest.
History of Hydrology
Authors: Eaton E. D. 
Published: April 2012

Biswas, Asit K., History of Hydrology. American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1970, 336 pp., $16.For some years, hydrologists and natural scientists have welcomed Biswas' occasional papers on hydrologic antiquities. They illuminate the field by identifying the origins of current concepts and, by associating various hydrologic concepts with historical periods and persons, these papers humanize an impersonal technical field.
Development of a Nomarski-type multi-frame interferometer as a time and space resolving diagnostics for the free electron density of laser-generated plasma
Authors: Börner M. , Fils J. , Frank A. , Blažević A. , Hessling T. , Pelka A. , Schaumann G. , Schökel A. , Schumacher D. , Basko M. M. , Maruhn J. , Tauschwitz An. , Roth M. 
Published: April 2012

This article reports on the development and set-up of a Nomarski-type multi-frame interferometer as a time and space resolving diagnostics of the free electron density in laser-generated plasma. The interferometer allows the recording of a series of 4 images within 6 ns of a single laser-plasma interaction. For the setup presented here, the minimal accessible free electron density is 5 × 1018 cm−3, the maximal one is 2 × 1020 cm−3. Furthermore, it provides a resolution of the electron density in space of 50 μm and in time of 0.5 ns for one image with a customizable magnification in space for each of the 4 images. The electron density was evaluated from the interferograms using an Abel inversion algorithm. The functionality of the system was proven during first experiments and the experimental results are presented and discussed. A ray tracing procedure was realized to verify the interferometry pictures taken. In particular, the experimental results are compared to simulations and show excellent agreement, providing a conclusive picture of the evolution of the electron density distribution.
Zooplankton population connections, community dynamics, and climate variability
Authors: Keister Julie E. , Bonnet Delphine , Chiba Sanae , Johnson Catherine L. , Mackas David L. , Escribano Ruben 
Published: April 2012

Abstract
Keister, J. E., Bonnet, D., Chiba, S., Johnson, C. L., Mackas, D. L., and Escribano, R. 2012. Zooplankton population connections, community dynamics, and climate variability. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 347–350.