bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of possible criteria for elective single embryo transfer
Authors: Sato Wataru , Fukuda Jun , Kanamori Kyoko , Kawamura Kazuhiro , Kumagai Jin , Kodama Hideya , Tanaka Toshinobu 
Published: April 2010

AbstractPurposeA major problem of assisted reproductive technology (ART) is multiple gestation, which impacts neonatal and perinatal medicine. The literature contains a number of reports that elective single embryo transfer (eSET) is effective for the control of multiple pregnancies; however, to date, uniform criteria have not been established.MethodsUsing logistic regression analysis based on the results of ART in our department from January 2005 to July 2006, our eSET criteria were established. We conducted a comparative study of the clinical pregnancy rate, multiple gestation rate, and delivery rate before and after eSET (before‐eSET and after‐eSET groups, respectively).ResultsAs a result of the analysis, our eSET criteria included all three of the following: (A) patient age ≤37, (B) previous IVF/ICSI trials ≤5, and (C) acquisition of two or more good‐quality embryos. Based on our criteria, the after‐eSET group was not found to have a decrease in the pregnancy rate; however, the multiple gestation rate decreased as compared to the before‐eSET group. In addition, as a result of various evaluations of the eSET group, interesting findings were revealed.ConclusionsIn the after‐eSET group, our eSET criteria achieved a decrease in the multiple pregnancy rate without a decrease in the pregnancy rate.
Collaboration Between Perioperative Nurses and Sterile Processing Department Personnel
Authors: Seavey Rose E. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractEnsuring patient safety requires collaboration between all members of the surgical team, which includes personnel in the sterile processing department. Because of the close working relationship between the OR and sterile processing department, it is important that employees in these departments work well together.Reducing errors and misunderstandings can contribute to improved relationships between personnel in these two departments. Strategies should include a focus on reducing instrument set errors, fostering teamwork and positive relationships, improving interdepartmental communication, and ensuring compliance with policies that are based on the most current evidence available.
Creating a Culture of Mutual Respect
Authors: Kaplan Kathryn , Mestel Pamela , Feldman David L. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractThe Joint Commission mandates that hospitals seeking accreditation have a process to define and address disruptive behavior. Leaders at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, took the initiative to create a code of mutual respect that not only requires respectful behavior, but also encourages sensitivity and awareness to the causes of frustration that often lead to inappropriate behavior. Steps to implementing the code included selecting code advocates, setting up a system for mediating disputes, tracking and addressing operational system issues, providing training for personnel, developing a formal accountability process, and measuring the results.
A Comparison of two BCG Instillation Regimens for Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Side Effect Profiles
Authors: Wilson J.R.F. , Turney B.W. , LeMonnier K. , Crew J.P. 
Published: April 2010

Objectives: To compare the side effect profiles following different instillation regimens of intravesical BCG immunotherapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Patients and methods: Profile scores for each of the commonly reported side effects of BCG therapy were collected from a total of 70 patients receiving a once weekly, six week course of BCG instillation as induction adjuvant treatment for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Of these patients, 47 received a series of one hour BCG instillations and 23 received a series of two hour instillations. Patients were asked to grade their symptoms each day of the six week course on a four point scale. Data on recurrence, progression to cystectomy and mortality were also collected for each of the patients. Results: The most significant symptoms experienced following BCG therapy were frequency, urgency and dysuria irrespective of regimen. Most patients did not experience significant symptoms following the first instillation. Symptoms were worse in the first two days following instillation in subsequent weeks. Unexpectedly, patients on the two hour regimen recorded lower side effect scores when compared to the one hour group for frequency, urgency, dysuria and arthralgia. These were statistically significant when analysed for variance ( P values of 0.007, 0.0004, 0.02 and <0.0001 respectively). There was no statistically significant difference between groups for the other side effects studied. Over a four-year follow-up period, there were no statistically significant differences detected between the one hour or two hour regimens in terms of recurrence (odds ratio (OR)= 1.13, confidence interval (CI) = 0.41–3.11), time until first recurrence ( P = 0.25) or grade of recurrence ( P = 0.17). There was no significant odds reduction in favour of the one hour group compared to the two hour group in terms of recurrence of carcinoma-in situ (OR = 1.1, CI = 0.33–3.65), progression to cystectomy (OR = 0.98, CI = 0.22–4.30) or mortality from bladder cancer (OR = 0.63, CI = 0.18–2.25). Conclusions: During a six week regimen, the side effects of intravesical BCG immunotherapy become significant in the 2nd week of treatment and are worst on day two post-instillation. The severity of symptoms increases throughout the course of the treatment. A one hour treatment regimen produced a more significant side effect profile in terms of frequency, urgency, dysuria and arthralgia when compared to the two hour regimen. There was no detectable difference in clinical outcomes observed between the two groups. Continuing the practice of a two hour BCG instillation regimen is therefore recommended.
Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder and Urachus
Authors: Aggarwal Ajay , Christmas Tim , Seckl Michael , Khan Sairah , Savage Philip 
Published: April 2010

Primary signet ring cell carcinomas (SRCCs) of the bladder and urachus are extremely rare malignancies with only 28 cases of urachal SRCC recorded and bladder SRCC comprising less than 0.1% of bladder malignancies. These rare cases of urothelial SRCC occur largely in men and the disease characteristically presents in patients in their 40s for urachal SRCC and 60s for bladder SRCC. Despite the rarity of the diagnosis, a knowledge of the natural history and management of urothelial SRCC may be valuable as the illness has a number of important differences from conventional bladder TCC. The characteristic pathological findings of sub-mucosal infiltration and spread are often reflected in the clinical presentation and progress of the disease. Bladder SRCC is frequently characterised by a late presentation at an advanced stage, with dysuria the most frequent presenting symptom whilst haematuria is relatively rare. Metastatic spread can occur with retroperitoneal disease that can be difficult to visualise on imaging and can lead to ureteric or small bowel obstruction. As a result of their rarity there is no structured clinical research in urothelial SRCC and the optimal management of early and advanced cases of this rare tumour is unknown. A number of differing chemotherapy regimens have been reported for advanced disease in various case reports and series with variable responses and generally modest benefits.
SEM with simplicity and accuracy
Authors: Bentler Peter M. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractProfessor Iacobucci has provided a useful introduction to the computer program LISREL, as well as to several technical topics in structural equation modeling (SEM). However, SEM has not been synonymous with LISREL for several decades, and focusing on LISREL's 13 Greek matrices and vectors is not the most intuitive way to learn SEM. It is possible today to do model specification via a path diagram without any need for filling in matrix elements. The simplest alternative is based on the Bentler–Weeks model, whose basic concepts are reviewed. Selected additional SEM topics are discussed, including some recent developments and their practical implications. New simulation results on model fit under null and alternative hypotheses are also presented that are consistent with statistical theory but in part seem to contradict those reported by Iacobucci.
Product formula for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index classes and higher signatures
Authors: Wahl Charlotte 
Published: April 2010

AbstractWe define generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions of product type for Dirac operators associated to C*-vector bundles on the product of a compact manifold with boundary and a closed manifold. We prove a product formula for the K-theoretic index classes, which we use to generalize the product formula for the topological signature to higher signatures.
Pre-empting reference problems in conversation
Authors: Svennevig Jan 
Published: April 2010

AbstractThe topic of this article is how conversationalists deal with emergent problems of reference in the construction of a turn at talk. It analyzes practices for modifying and expanding a turn-constructional unit in progress to accommodate information that will introduce a referent to the interlocutor or check his or her familiarity with it. One set of practices expands the turn after the referring expression has been produced: apokoinou constructions and appositions. A second, and previously undescribed, practice is identified by which speakers insert referent identification before the referring expression has been produced. In this practice, speakers initiate two separate sentence structures and complete them both by merging them in a common complement. This practice has the advantage of embedding the subordinate activity of establishing reference within the main sentence frame, and furthermore minimizes the disruption of sequential progressivity of the talk. (Turn construction, reference, expansions, apokoinou, apposition, progressivity)*
The Lost Decades? Economic Disintegration in Indonesia's Early Independence Period
Authors: Marks Daan 
Published: April 2010

Economic development during the Sukarno period has been touched upon in various surveys of modern Indonesian economic history. Yet, in 1971 Glassburner predicted thatthe period beginning in December 1949, with the transfer of Dutch sovereignty over the East Indian Islands to the government of the United States of Indonesia and ending in December 1957, with the so-called “take-over” of Dutch-owned business property seems clearly destined to become one of those times of struggle and crisis which historians of the nation will analyze and reanalyze over the generations, interpreting and reinterpreting the known facts as the perspective of time changes.
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND PRE-COLUMBIAN MESOAMERICA
Authors: Kaufman Terrence , Justeson John 
Published: April 2010

AbstractThis article presents some of the authors' perspectives on the past 20 years of work that applies the results of research in historical linguistics to the understanding of the histories and cultural practices of pre-Columbian Mesoamericans. It focuses on major cultural transformations to which both historical linguistic and archaeological data can contribute, such as the spread of agriculture, and migrations in Mesoamerican prehistory. It also addresses major culture-historical studies on narrower topics: on Nawa and its place in the prehistory of Mexico, in particular confirming standard views that Nawas were immigrants into Mesoamerica; on Archaic and Formative period interactions involving Oto-Mangeans, which is work that is largely still to be done; on the prospects for work on long-distance contacts between Mesoamerica and North America; on the contributions of historical linguistics in Mesoamerican epigraphy; and on the value and prospects of updating the methodology of glottochronology.
THEORIZING URBANISM IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA
Authors: Joyce Arthur A. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractIn this article I consider recent research on urbanism in ancient Mesoamerica, especially over the past twenty years. I focus on the theoretical perspectives that archaeologists use to address cities, urbanism, and urbanization. I argue that despite some significant advances in how we understand urbanism, most research continues to be embedded within cultural evolutionist, functionalist, and elitist theoretical frameworks. I highlight approaches drawn from poststructural theory that hold promise for developing a more dynamic, complex, and culturally compelling view of Mesoamerican urbanism. Using examples from pre-Hispanic Oaxaca, I discuss how a focus on practice, social negotiation, and materiality draws attention to the actions of people within their social, cultural, and material settings rather than on abstract high-level forces such as cultural evolutionary structures or the functioning of urban centers within broader societies.
ASKING MORE AND BETTER QUESTIONS: OLMEC ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE NEXT KATUN
Authors: Pool Christopher A. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractThe two decades since the publication of Regional Perspectives on the Olmec have seen a great expansion of basic archaeological research in the “Olmec heartland” region of Mexico's southern Gulf lowlands as well as important new work on Formative period interregional interaction and its effects on local economies and polities. Olmec research, however, has not achieved as prominent a place as it merits in comparative research on the evolution of social complexity. In this essay I review this work and make some suggestions for future research directions.
MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE PROGRESS, THE PERILS, AND THE PROMISE
Authors: Demarest Arthur A. 
Published: April 2010

AbstractIn the past 20 years, what were once considered specialized auxiliary subdisciplines or analytical approaches such as bioarchaeology, paleozoology, subterranean archaeology, and material culture studies have become central to all research due to refinements of their analytic tools. Meanwhile, building on earlier progress in epigraphy, work on the Classic period truly has become historical archaeology. These advances provide a much greater understanding of ancient Maya ecology, economy, and politics and insights into the details, not just trends, in culture history. Realization of this potential, however, is imperiled by problems in research design and interpretation. Project structures rarely allows for complete and independent application of these enhanced fields, while the traditional elements of ceramic classification and chronology have not kept pace. The erratic sample of both Maya lowland and highland regions needs to addressed, rather than glossed over by extrapolations or assumptions about interaction and expansionism. Institutional structures and financial limitations have led to many superficial studies masked by quasi-theoretical terminologies. Constructive solutions, most exemplified in some current projects, include the obligation to try to apply all available techniques and approaches. To make that feasible, larger projects should be fragmented into multi-institutional collaborations. Greater emphasis must be given to classifications and excavations that generate ceramic microchronologies. Above all, we must investigate the extensive unstudied or understudied regions. Finally, most challenging is the need to collectively confront academic structures that encourage rapid, incomplete studies and discourage more substantial publications and long term multi-institutional research.
The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages: evidence from John Leland'sItinerary
Authors: LEE JOHN S. 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:The descriptions of small towns in John Leland'sItineraryprovide valuable evidence about their economic functions and fortunes in a period often categorized as one of urban decline. Leland described markets, ports, industries, buildings and transport links. He identified examples of small towns expanding, through new commercial and industrial opportunities, notably cloth manufacture, as well as others in decline, and suggested that investment by entrepreneurs and benefactors had enabled some small towns to prosper. These experiences reflected both the particular functions of individual towns and their role in wider regional economies.
One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp
Authors: DE MUNCK BERT 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:This article examines the problem of illicit labour from the perspective of transformations in the (local) distribution channels. Rather than large masters circumventing the guilds’ rules regarding labour market entry or large merchants shifting from aKaufto aVerlagsystem, early modern manufacturing guilds in Antwerp confronted mercers and wholesalers who entered into production without being masters. In response, the guilds extended their rules, so that their regulations actually matured in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rather than (labour market) deregulation and proto-industrialization, the issue was the disappearance of the straightforward link between production and retailing, tied together by mastership.
Police in civil society: police, Enlightenment and civic virtue in urban Scotland,c. 1780–1833
Authors: BARRIE DAVID 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:Based on how notions of civil society and civic virtue were defined in Enlightenment Scotland, this article assesses how far these ideals shaped police development in Scottish towns,c. 1780–1833. It argues that both concepts provided a framework for the development of ‘police’ as a broad mechanism of urban government. Collectively, civil society and civic virtue offered a wide-ranging, intellectual backdrop presupposing ideas on police, improvement and polite society, with the new police model bearing a striking resemblance to how these ideals were imagined and constructed at the time.
On the wrong side of the track: railways as urban boundaries in the towns of the First Transylvanian Railway
Authors: PURCAR CRISTINA 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:This article addresses the morphological and functional implications of the railway as an urban boundary, by studying seven towns in Romania, connected by the First Transylvanian Railway (1868–70). The research highlights similarities and differences as to the initial railway insertion, the subsequent growth patterns and the differentiation appearing between areas adjoining the railway tracks. The article argues that although a ‘wrong side of the track’ did not emerge everywhere, the segregation and lack of urban amenities affecting the areas which could be thus labelled is rooted in the failure to render the railway barrier permeable and to generate complementarity rather than subordination between the two sides of the track.
Governmentality on the Park Hill estate: the rationality of public housing
Authors: HOLLOW MATTHEW 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:This article evaluates the inherent ambiguity of the landmark Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England. Incorporating Foucault's theories on governmentality and biopolitics, this article explores how techniques of power and control radically affected the way this building was both used and viewed. It shows how conflicting discourses about human needs and desires influenced the way that subjects were housed, managed and regulated in Sheffield during the supposedly homogeneous welfare-state years.
Harbin in comparative perspective
Authors: GAMSA MARK 
Published: April 2010

ABSTRACT:This article argues that historians have largely neglected the dimension of Chinese–Russian interaction, which was central to the development of Harbin from the emergence of this city in 1898 as an outpost of imperial Russia in Manchuria (north-east China). It goes on to propose a new approach to Harbin history, which, integrating its ‘Russian’ and ‘Chinese’ histories during the period prior to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1932, would also place it in a wider comparative context. This comparative approach is illustrated in the article by a consideration of the issue of ethnically segregated living quarters.
Coffee, tea and caffeine intake and the risk of severe depression in middle-aged Finnish men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Authors: Ruusunen Anu , Lehto Soili M , Tolmunen Tommi , Mursu Jaakko , Kaplan George A , Voutilainen Sari 
Published: April 2010

AbstractObjectiveOnly a few cross-sectional studies have assessed the association between coffee, tea and caffeine and the risk of depression. Our aim was to determine the association in a population-based cohort study.DesignThe population-based Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study cohort was recruited between 1984 and 1989 and followed until the end of 2006. We investigated the association between the intake of coffee, tea and caffeine and depression.SettingEastern Finland.SubjectsMiddle-aged men (n 2232).ResultsAltogether, forty-nine men received a discharge diagnosis of depression. We classified subjects into quartiles according to their mean daily coffee intake: non-drinkers (n 82), light drinkers (<375 ml/d, n 517), moderate drinkers (375–813 ml/d, n 1243) and heavy drinkers (>813 ml/d, n 390). Heavy drinkers had a decreased risk (RR = 0·28, 95 % CI 0·08, 0·98) for depression when compared with non-drinkers, after adjustment for age and examination years. Further adjustment for socio-economic status, alcohol consumption, smoking, maximal oxygen uptake, BMI and the energy-adjusted daily intakes of folate and PUFA did not attenuate this association (relative risk (RR) = 0·23, 95 % CI 0·06, 0·83). No associations were observed between depression and intake of tea (drinkers v. non-drinkers; RR = 1·19, 95 % CI 0·54, 2·23) or caffeine (highest quartile v. lowest quartile; RR = 0·99, 95 % CI 0·40, 2·45).ConclusionsCoffee consumption may decrease the risk of depression, whereas no association was found for tea and caffeine intake.