bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating and emotional eating: correlations between parent and adolescent
Authors: De Lauzon‐Guillain Blandine , Romon Monique , Musher‐Eizenman Dara , Heude Barbara , Basdevant Arnaud , Charles Marie Aline ,   Fleurbaix‐Laventie Ville Santé Study Group
Published: December 2008

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine, in a general population, the resemblance in eating behaviour between adolescents and their parents. This study was based on the first examination of a community‐based epidemiological study in Northern France. Subjects were offspring aged 14–22 years (135 boys and 125 girls) and their parents (174 fathers and 205 mothers). The Three‐Factor Eating Questionnaire Revised 18‐item version (TFEQ‐R18) identified three aspects of eating behaviour: cognitive restraint of eating, uncontrolled eating and emotional eating. Familial resemblance in eating behaviour was measured by partial Spearman's correlations, adjusted for age and body mass index.Sons' uncontrolled eating was positively related to fathers' cognitive restraint of eating (r = 0.36), but not to fathers' uncontrolled eating (r = 0.07), nor to mothers' eating behaviour. Sons' cognitive restraint of eating was related to no parental eating behaviour scores. In daughters, cognitive restraint of eating was positively related to mothers' uncontrolled eating (r = 0.26), but not to mothers' cognitive restraint of eating (r = 0.13). Daughters' uncontrolled eating and emotional eating were positively associated with the same scores in mothers. Finally, daughters' eating behaviour was not related to fathers' eating behaviour.In conclusion, correlations in eating behaviour were higher with the parent of the same gender, and eating behaviours in adolescents seem to reflect opposition to parents' behaviour more than familial resemblance.
Nucleotide Variation in the NCED3 Region of Arabidopsis thaliana and its Association Study with Abscisic Acid Content under Drought Stress
Authors: Hao Gang‐Ping , Zhang Xiu‐Hai , Wang Yong‐Qin , Wu Zhong‐Yi , Huang Cong‐Lin 
Published: December 2008

Abstract Drought tolerance is a comprehensive quantitative trait that is being understood further at the molecular genetic level. Abscisic acid (ABA) is the main drought‐induced hormone that regulates the expression of many genes related to drought responses. 9‐cis‐epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED3) is thought to be a key enzyme in ABA biosynthesis. In this paper, we measured the ABA content increase under drought stress, and sequenced and compared the sequence of AtNCED3 among 22 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. The results showed that the fold of ABA content increase under drought stress was highly variable among these accessions. High density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and insertion/deletion (indel) were found in the AtNCED3 region, on average one SNP per 87.4 bp and one indel per 502 bp. Nucleotide diversity was significantly lower in the coding region than that in non‐coding regions. The results of an association study with anova analysis suggested that the 274th site (P↔S) and the 327th site (P↔R) amino acid variations might be the cause of ABA content increase of 163av accession under drought stress.
Distribution of an Ankyrin‐repeat Protein on the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Arabidopsis
Authors: Wei Liqin , Li Yan 
Published: December 2008

Abstract There are many ankyrin‐repeat proteins in plant cells. However, the distribution and function of these proteins are mostly unclear. By reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction, a gene encoding an ankyrin‐like protein was cloned from Arabidopsis and named AtANK1 (GenBank accession no. NM_120340). The 6‐His‐tagged AtAnk1‐N fusion protein was affinity‐purified and its rabbit polyclonal antibody was obtained. Immuno‐blotting with the purified anti‐AtAnk1‐N polyclonal antibody revealed that the relative molecular weight of the AtANK1 protein was about 76 kDa. By immunofluorescence labeling and immuno‐gold labeling with the purified anti‐AtAnk1‐N polyclonal antibody, coupled with confocal and transmission electron microscopy observation, AtANK1 was found to be distributed on the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum in Arabidopsis cells. Based on these results, we suggested that AtANK1 might be involved in endoplasmic reticulum‐related protein localization and sorting in plant cells.
Assessing Ground Water Development Potential Using Landsat Imagery
Authors: Mutiti Samuel , Levy Jonathan , Mutiti Christine , Gaturu Ndung'u S. 
Published: December 2008

Seven villages in southeastern Kenya surround Mt. Kasigau and depend on the mountain's cloud forest for their water supply. Five of these villages have regularly experienced water shortages, and all village water supplies were contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria. There is a need to economically find new sources of fresh ground water. Remote sensing offers a relatively quick and cost‐effective way of identifying areas with high potential for ground water development. This study used spectral properties of features on Landsat remote sensing imagery to map linear features, soil types, surface moisture, and vegetation. Linear features represented geologic or geomorphologic features indicating either shallow ground water or areas of increased subsurface hydraulic conductivity. Regarding soil type, black soils were identified as potential indicators of shallow aquifers based on their relatively lower elevation and association with river valleys. A vegetation map was created using unsupervised classification, and three of the resulting vegetation classes were observed to be commonly associated with wet areas and/or ground water discharge. A wetness map, created using tasseled cap analysis, was used to identify all areas of high ground moisture, including those that corresponded to vegetated areas. The linear features, soil type, vegetation, and wetness maps were overlaid to produce a composite that highlighted areas with the highest potential for ground water development. Electrical resistivity surveys confirmed that areas highlighted by the composite image had relatively shallow depths to the water table. Some figures in this paper are available in color in the online version of the paper.
NMR Imaging of Fluid Exchange between Macropores and Matrix in Eogenetic Karst
Authors: Florea Lee J. , Cunningham Kevin J. , Altobelli Stephen 
Published: December 2008

AbstractSequential time‐step images acquired using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) show the displacement of deuterated water (D2O) by fresh water within two limestone samples characterized by a porous and permeable limestone matrix of peloids and ooids. These samples were selected because they have a macropore system representative of some parts of the eogenetic karst limestone of the Biscayne Aquifer in southeastern Florida. The macroporosity, created by the trace fossilOphiomorpha, is principally well connected and of centimeter scale. These macropores occur in broadly continuous stratiform zones that create preferential flow layers within the hydrogeologic units of the Biscayne. This arrangement of porosity is important because in coastal areas, it could produce a preferential pathway for salt water intrusion. Two experiments were conducted in which samples saturated with D2O were placed in acrylic chambers filled with fresh water and examined with NMR. Results reveal a substantial flux of fresh water into the matrix porosity with a simultaneous loss of D2O. Specifically, we measured rates upward of 0.001 mL/h/g of sample in static conditions, and perhaps as great as 0.07 mL/h/g of sample when fresh water continuously flows past a sample at velocities less than those found within stressed areas of the Biscayne. These experiments illustrate how fresh water and D2O, with different chemical properties, migrate within one type of matrix porosity found in the Biscayne. Furthermore, these experiments are a comparative exercise in the displacement of sea water by fresh water in the matrix of a coastal, karst aquifer since D2O has a greater density than fresh water.
Corporate Leverage and Specialized Investments by Customers and Suppliers
Authors: Kale Jayant R. , Shahrur Husayn 
Published: December 2008

A company's performance in the product market depends in part on the willingness of its suppliers and customers to invest in the relationship—to make specialized investments of human as well as financial capital that may have no value outside that relationship. Consistent with Stewart Myers's concept of debt overhang and underinvestment, the authors hypothesize that companies can encourage their suppliers and other key stakeholders to make such specialized investments by limiting their use of debt financing, thereby addressing their stakeholders' concerns about their long‐term performance and staying power.In this article, the authors report the findings of a recently published study of a sample of U.S. industrial companies during the period 1984‐2003. Using the benchmark input‐output accounts for the U.S. economy, the authors identified supplier and customer industries for each company in their sample while also collecting data on the firm's actual suppliers and customers from Compustat's segment files. Using empirical proxies for the intensity of specialized investments, they find that companies that operate in environments requiring specialized investments by suppliers and customers tend to operate with lower levels of debt. At the same time, the authors report evidence suggesting that the suppliers and customers of highly leveraged companies make lower levels of specialized investment than the suppliers and customers of less leveraged firms.
Ependymoblastoma: Dear, Damned, Distracting Diagnosis, Farewell!*
Authors: Judkins Alexander R. , Ellison David W. 
Published: December 2008

AbstractEpendymoblastoma is a diagnostic label that has been applied to a variety of rare central nervous system (CNS) tumors over the last eight decades. Consequently, there is uncertainty about whether such an entity exists and what its characteristic features might be. The current study, based on 14 cases from our institutional archives and identified by the search terms “ependymoblastoma,”“ependymoblastomatous,”“ependymoblastic” or “PNET with ependymal differentiation,” aimed to test the hypothesis that the ependymoblastoma is a distinct and recognizable entity. Ependymoblastic rosettes are a key diagnostic feature and were present in 11/14 (79%) tumors, eight (73%) of which were embryonal tumors with abundant areas of neuropil‐like differentiation. Three other cases showed rare ependymoblastic rosettes in the histopathological setting of a typical primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET), medulloblastoma (MB) or atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT). The remaining cases were all embryonal tumors with structures that mimicked ependymoblastic rosettes. Our results indicate that ependymoblastic rosettes are most frequently encountered in embryonal tumors with abundant neuropil and less frequently in other CNS embryonal neoplasms, including PNET, MB and AT/RT. We believe that ependymoblastoma as a diagnosis is neither precise nor specific and that it is time once and for all to retire this diagnosis from the lexicon of neuropathology.
Relationship between exhaled nitric oxide and IgE sensitisation in patients with asthma: influence of steroid treatment
Authors: Syk Jörgen , Undén Anna‐Lena , Alving Kjell 
Published: December 2008

AbstractIntroduction:  The influence of the degree of immunoglobulin E (IgE) sensitisation on the fraction of expired nitric oxide (FENO) in asthma patients being treated with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is not well known.Objectives:  To investigate the relationship between IgE sensitisation and FENO, and the effect of a step‐up in ICS treatment on this relationship, in patients with allergic asthma.Methods:  A primary health care centre recruited 20 non‐smoking patients with perennial allergic asthma (18 years–50 years, six male) outside the pollen season. At every visit (0, 2, 4, 8 weeks), FENO was measured and an exposure questionnaire was completed. ICS dose was adjusted according to FENO (≥22 ppb prescribed increase in ICS). Quantitative analyses of serum IgE (eight common aeroallergens) confirmed allergy.Results:  At baseline, FENO and the sum of IgE antibody titres for perennial allergens correlated significantly (r = 0.47, P = 0.04). After a step‐up in ICS treatment, this correlation had disappeared. Nine patients had persistently elevated FENO at last visit (mean 35 ppb vs 16 ppb). This group was more frequently exposed to relevant allergens or colds (89% vs 27% of patients, P < 0.05) and had higher IgE antibody titres (perennial allergens) compared with the normalised group (mean 28.9 kU/L vs 10.7 kU/L, P < 0.05).Conclusion:  Serum IgE against perennial allergens and FENO correlate in patients with allergic asthma. However, this relationship disappears after a high‐dose ICS regimen, suggesting that FENO relates to bronchial inflammation and not IgE levels per se. High degree of IgE sensitisation together with allergen exposure may lead to ICS‐resistant airways inflammation.Please cite this paper as: Syk J, Undén AL and Alving K. Relationship between exhaled nitric oxide and IgE sensitisation in patients with asthma: influence of steroid treatment. The Clinical Respiratory Journal 2009; 3: 143–151.
Individual and Community Factors Affecting Psychological Sense of Community, Attraction, and Neighboring in Rural Communities*
Authors: WILKINSON DEREK 
Published: December 2008

L'échelle de Buckner, qui comporte trois dimensions—sentiment communautaire (SC), attractivité et voisinage—, fut appliquée à 1,995 personnes de 20 villages canadiens afin d'y mesurer le sentiment de cohésion sociale. Le nombre d'enfants, un revenu dépassant 20,000 $, l'âge, le lieu de naissance et le nombre d'années dans la collectivité exercent une influence positive sur le SC et l'attractivité. Le nombre d'enfants, un revenu dépassant 40,000 $, le lieu de naissance et le nombre d'années dans la collectivité influent de manière significative sur le voisinage. L'interaction accroît généralement la cohésion sociale individuelle. La localisation sur une île étant la seule variable communautaire significative, les politiques individuelles sont à privilégier pour accroître la cohésion.One thousand nine hundred ninety‐five individuals in 20 rural Canadian communities were measured on perceived social cohesion by the three Buckner scale subdimensions: psychological sense of community (PSOC), attraction, and neighboring. Number of household children, income over $20,000, age, birthplace in, and years lived in the community significantly positively influenced PSOC and Attraction. Number of household children (positive for income over $20,000; otherwise negative), income over $40,000, birthplace, and years in the community significantly influenced neighboring. Increased interaction generally increases individuals' social cohesion. As the only significant community variable was being on an island province, individual‐oriented policies are recommended to increase cohesion.
Progress, Public Health, and Power: Foucault and the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan*
Authors: McLEAN SCOTT , ROLLWAGEN HEATHER 
Published: December 2008

De 1911 à 1979, les Homemakers' Clubs de la Saskatchewan ont mobilisé et suivi une étude et une action à grande échelle dans le domaine de la santé publique. Cet article examine comment ces clubs ont poussé des femmes à lutter pour avancer et les ont encouragées à considérer de telles luttes comme étant fondamentales pour bâtir leur propre identité. Les techniques utilisées comprenaient des encouragements à partager des buts, à faire leurs de tels buts, à structurer leur démarche, à rendre compte de leurs pensées et de leurs actions, à récompenser certaines conduites et à lier ces dernières à des causes convaincantes sur le plan émotif. En s'insérant dans un cadre conceptuel foucaldien, cet article apporte une contribution à la compréhension sociologique de la gouvernance et de la formation du sujet.From 1911 to 1979, the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan mobilized and monitored extensive study and action in the field of public health. This article explores how these clubs exhorted women to strive for progress, and encouraged women to internalize such striving as fundamental to their own identities. The techniques used included encouraging commitment to shared goals, making such goals personal, structuring action, requiring women to report their thoughts and actions, rewarding certain behaviors, and linking those behaviors with emotionally compelling causes. Rooted in a Foucauldian conceptual framework, this article contributes to the sociological understanding of subject formation and governance.
Writing Experience: Does Ethnography Convey a Crisis of Representation, or an Ontological Break with the Everyday World?
Authors: HO WING‐CHUNG 
Published: December 2008

L'auteur pose comme prémisse la «brisure ontologique», telle qu'imaginée par Alfred Schutz, qui sépare deux champs: le «monde des coassociés», dans lequel la réalité sociale est directement expérimentée en face à face avec le présent intense, et l'«univers des contemporanéités», dans lequel l'autre est représenté selon des «types». Il soutient que cette coupure constitue un véhicule incitant à présenter une méta‐exposition de revendications majeures problématisant l'autorité traditionnelle en ethnographie. À la lumière de cette brisure, les tentatives postmodernistes d'acquérir ou de conserver la compréhension ici et maintenant de la signification subjective, ou de la «voix» des ethnographies, ne forment que des impossibilités épistémologiques. L'auteur conclut que le privilège postmoderniste accordéà une «ethnographie naïve» insistant sur les processus «expérimentaux», «interprétatifs», «dialogiques» et «polyphoniques» ne peut remplir sa promesse sur le plan méthodologique, pas plus qu'il n'est adaptable à la brisure ontologique de Schutz sur le plan théorique.This paper is premised on the “ontological break” as coined by Alfred Schutz that disconnects two realms: the “world of consociates” where social reality is directly experienced face‐to‐face in the vivid present, and the “world of contemporaries” where the other is interpreted in terms of “types.” It is argued that this break is a suggestive vehicle for conducting a meta‐exposition of major claims which problematize the traditional authority of ethnography. In the light of the break, the postmodernist attempts to attain or retain the here‐and‐now understanding of subjective meaning, or “voice” in ethnographies are but epistemological impossibilities. It is concluded that the postmodernist privileging of a “naive ethnography” which emphasizes “experiential,”“interpretive,”“dialogical,” and “polyphonic” processes is neither able to deliver on its promise at the methodic level, nor amendable to Schutz's ontological break at the theoretical level.
Neonatal screening for sickle cell disease in France
Authors: Bardakdjian-Michau J , Bahuau M , Hurtrel D , Godart C , Riou J , Mathis M , Goossens M 
Published: December 2008

Background:As a result of population growth in African-Caribbean regions of overseas France, and now immigration essentially from North and sub-Saharan Africa to mainland France, neonatal screening for sickle cell disease (SCD) has been performed in France since 1985 in Guadalupe and dependencies, as a universal test. After several pilot studies, screening was gradually extended to mainland France in 1996. Since 2000, the test has been performed at national level for all newborns defined as being “at risk” for SCD based on ethnic origin.Methods:A dry blood sample is obtained by heel stick and analysed by isoelectric focusing as a first-line method, followed by either high-performance liquid chromatography or acid agar electrophoresis for confirmation, whenever a variant haemoglobin is observed on isoelectric focusing.Results:In 2007, 28.45% of all newborns in mainland France were screened for SCD. Since 1996, a total of 3890 newborns have been found to have SCD, and they have been followed up by reference paediatricians.Conclusion:Although screening for SCD at birth in France is not universal, it appears that missed babies are relatively infrequent. Despite obvious sociological problems inherent to the at-risk population, the follow-up of SCD babies is rather successful. Due to the birth prevalence of SCD in France, especially in comparison with other common genetic diseases, screening all newborns regardless of ethnic origin is an issue that is being addressed.
Newborn screening for sickle cell disease in the Republic of Benin
Authors: Rahimy M C , Gangbo A , Ahouignan G , Alihonou E 
Published: December 2008

Aims:To develop a strategy for neonatal screening of sickle cell disease (SCD) and effective enrolment of affected neonates in a comprehensive follow-up programme adapted to the socioeconomic conditions, health structures and cultural background of an African setting.Methods:The strategy implemented at the two largest maternity services of Cotonou, the economic capital of the Republic of Benin, involves a team of specifically trained midwives, first to identify pregnant women at risk, and second to provide active and repeated information and sensitisation to these women to encourage voluntary demand for newborn screening and enrolment in the follow-up programme.Results:Among the consecutive pregnant women studied (about 3000), 79.5% of the informed women at risk for fetal SCD asked for testing of their offspring, 85.2% of the newborns who tested positive were enrolled in the programme, and more than 80% were still being followed up after 5 years. The under-five mortality rate in this series was 15.5 per 10000, a figure that is 10 times lower than the general rate recorded in the Republic of Benin.Conclusions:The results demonstrate that this specifically tailored strategy is relevant to this setting, given the unique conditions of this African country.
Risk factors for work related injury among male farmers
Authors: Day L , Voaklander D , Sim M , Wolfe R , Langley J , Dosman J , Hagel L , Ozanne-Smith J 
Published: December 2008

Objective:To identify risk factors for serious farm work related injury among men.Methods:A case–control study was conducted in Victoria, Australia. Eligible cases (n = 252) were males aged ⩾16 years injured while working on a farm and scoring 2 or higher on the Abbreviated Injury Scale. Non-fatal injury cases were identified on presentation to hospital. Fatal cases (next of kin) were recruited via the Coroner’s Office. Two age-matched controls per case were recruited by telephone. Data were collected with a structured telephone questionnaire. Logistic regression was used to compare risk factors between cases and controls, adjusting for design factors and average weekly hours worked.Results:The most common external causes of injury were machinery (26%), falls (19%), transport (18%), animals (17%) and being struck by an object (11%). Increased injury risk was observed for being an employee/contractor (odds ratio 1.8, 95% CI 1.2 to 2.7), not having attended farm training courses (1.5, 95% CI 1.0 to 2.1), absence of roll-over protective structures on all/almost all tractors (2.5, 95% CI 1.7 to 3.8), absence of personal protective equipment for chemical use (4.7, 95% CI 1.6 to 13.9) and a low average annual farm income of AUD$5000 or less (2.7, 95% CI 1.3 to 5.6). Decreased injury risk was observed for several health related characteristics and some farm characteristics.Conclusion:We identified some risk factors possibly relevant to farm injury prevention programs. However, other factors were not associated with farm work injury suggesting these may not be as important as previously hypothesised.