bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Medical Care in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
Authors: Nathan Paul C. , Greenberg Mark L. , Ness Kirsten K. , Hudson Melissa M. , Mertens Ann C. , Mahoney Martin C. , Gurney James G. , Donaldson Sarah S. , Leisenring Wendy M. , Robison Leslie L. , Oeffinger Kevin C. 
Published: September 2008

Purpose To evaluate whether childhood cancer survivors receive regular medical care focused on the specific morbidities that can arise from their therapy. Patients and Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey of health care use in 8,522 participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a multi-institutional cohort of childhood cancer survivors. We assessed medical visits in the preceding 2 years, whether these visits were related to the prior cancer, whether survivors received advice about how to reduce their long-term risks, and whether screening tests were discussed or ordered. Completion of echocardiograms and mammograms were assessed in patients at high risk for cardiomyopathy or breast cancer. We examined the relationship between demographics, treatment, health status, chronic medical conditions, and health care use. Results Median age at cancer diagnosis was 6.8 years (range, 0 to 20.9 years) and at interview was 31.4 years (range, 17.5 to 54.1 years). Although 88.8% of survivors reported receiving some form of medical care, only 31.5% reported care that focused on their prior cancer (survivor-focused care), and 17.8% reported survivor-focused care that included advice about risk reduction or discussion or ordering of screening tests. Among survivors who received medical care, those who were black, older at interview, or uninsured were less likely to have received risk-based, survivor-focused care. Among patients at increased risk for cardiomyopathy or breast cancer, 511 (28.2%) of 1,810 and 169 (40.8%) of 414 had undergone a recommended echocardiogram or mammogram, respectively. Conclusion Despite a significant risk of late effects after cancer therapy, the majority of childhood cancer survivors do not receive recommended risk-based care.
Self-organized nanoarrays: Plasma-related controls
Authors: Ostrikov Kostya (Ken) , Levchenko Igor , Xu Shuyan 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
The paper presents an investigation of self-organizational and -assembly processes of nanostructure growth on surfaces exposed to low-temperature plasmas. We have considered three main growth stages-initial, or sub-monolayer growth stage, separate nanostructure growth stage, and array growth stages with the characteristic sizes of several nm, several tens of nm, and several hundreds of nm, respectively, and have demonstrated, by the experimental data and hybrid multiscale numerical simulations, that the plasma parameters can strongly influence the surface processes and hence the kinetics of self-organization and -assembly. Our results show that plasma-controlled self-organization is a promising way to assemble large regular arrays of nanostructures.
Use of a low-pressure plasma discharge for the decontamination and sterilization of medical devices
Authors: Rossi François , Kylián Ondrej , Rauscher Hubert , Gilliland Douglas , Sirghi Lucel 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
Nonequilibrium low-pressure plasma discharges are extensively studied for their applications in the field of decontamination and sterilization of medical devices. The aim of this contribution is to discuss and demonstrate feasibility of oxygen low-pressure inductively coupled plasma (ICP) discharges for removal of various kinds of biological contamination. We demonstrate the ability of ICP discharges for the sterilization of bacterial spores and the removal of biological contamination from proteins and pyrogens.
Microplasma thruster for ultra-small satellites: Plasma chemical and aerodynamical aspects
Authors: Takao Yoshinori , Takahashi Takeshi , Eriguchi Koji , Ono Kouichi 
Published: September 2008

AbstractA microplasma thruster has been developed of electrothermal type using azimuthally symmetric microwave-excited microplasmas. The microplasma source was ~2 mm in diameter and ~10 mm long, being operated at around atmospheric pressures; the micronozzle was a converging-diverging type, having a throat ~0.2 mm in diameter and ~1 mm long. Numerical and experimental results with Ar as a working gas demonstrated that this miniature electrothermal thruster gives a thrust of >1 mN, a specific impulse of ~100 s, and a thrust efficiency of ~10 % at a microwave power of <10 W, making it applicable to attitude-control and station-keeping maneuver for a microspacecraft of <10 kg.
Kestês und Dêmas, die beiden Schächer am Kreuz – aus einer koptischen Paraphrase der Acta Pilati
Authors: Förster Hans 
Published: September 2008

ABSTRACT
This edition of a fragment of the Coptic text (in the Sahidic dialect) quoting the or being a paraphrase of the Acta Pilati rises new questions about the history of this text. The names of the two criminals crucified with Jesus are reversed here. Usually Dêmas is the good and Kestês is the bad one. In this text, however, the good one is Kestês. Since the names are firmly connected with the tradition of the text, this fragment poses the interesting question as to whether the origin of this textual tradition should not be placed in a time-period, when the names of the two were not yet firmly established. This would probably place the version of the Acta Pilati that is used here around the first decades of the fourth century.
Was lernen wir über das frühe Christentum aus der Archäologie des Heiligen Landes?
Authors: Markschies Christoph 
Published: September 2008

ABSTRACT
The recent broadly debated discoveries, which apparently designate the graves of Jesus of Nazareth's family, force us to deal with an old problem in a new degree of poignancy: what can archaeological research really tell us about early Christianity? The essay shows that the traces of Jesus' family cannot be found in the graves of Jerusalem and that the ossuaries allow at best only onomastic observations. There are, furthermore, no definitive traces of sanctuaries from the pre-Constantine period. The same can be said for the most recent finds at the Megiddo-Junction. The area does, however, offer a great deal of versatile material from the post-Constantine period, for example the so-called “Camp of the Bedouine Bishops”, which allows us to draw interesting conclusions for the assimilation of Christianity into the Bedouine culture.
La fiscalità nel mondo antico: il caso dell’hospitium militum
Authors: Tavolieri D’Andrea Claudia 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
Among many other taxes of the Roman Empire it is a special tax, the so-called hospitium militum the article is dealing with. This hospitium militum consisted in the obligation to offer hospitality to the Roman army and is one of the taxes typical for the time of the Emperors burdening the possessores. So all persons who were able (and obliged) to pay this tax were considered as equal members of the society. In the later time the tax shifted more and more onto a kind of munus (munus hospitalitatis), an obligation for the owners of praedia and domus. The special character of this tax and its character as munus caused not only the long duration of this tax, but, in the time of assettlement of Barbarians in the limites of the Roman Empire, this tax was one of the norms relevant for becoming a member of a certain status in this new society.
Identification de l'auteur des citations néo-ariennes dans le Traité de Basile d'Ancyre
Authors: Morales Xavier 
Published: September 2008

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
Der Artikel befaßt sich mit der Frage nach der Identifizierung anonym überlieferter neoarianischer bzw. anhomöischer Zitate aus dem sogenannten Traktat des Basilius von Ankyra, der eine Reaktion des homöusianischen Bischofs Basilius auf die 4. Sirmische Formel („das datierte Credo“) der homöischen Partei vom 22. Mai 359 darstellt und im Panarion des Epiphanius von Salamis erhalten ist. Der Autor schließt sich der bereits im Jahre 1979 von T.A. Kopecek vertretenen Auffassung an, wonach das von Basilius verarbeitete neoarianische Dokument Aetius zugewiesen werden kann. Er stützt diese These, indem er die sechs bei Basilius erhaltenen Fragmente mit dem einzigen sicher Aetius zuweisbaren Schriftstück (dem ebenfalls im Panarion des Epiphanius überlieferten Syntagmation) vergleicht und dabei sowohl auf inhaltliche als auch auf lexikalische Übereinstimmungen beider Dokumente aufmerksam macht.
‘Hippolytus’ and Magic. An Examination of Elenchos IV 28-42 and Related Passages in Light of the Papyri Graecae Magicae
Authors: Kelhoffer James A. 
Published: September 2008

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
Theologen und Philosophen haben in der Vergangenheit wiederholt darauf hingewiesen, daß der gewöhnlich Hippolyt von Rom zugeschriebene Elenchos (auch bekannt unter dem lateinischen Titel Refutatio omnium haeresium) eine Fülle von Material enthält, das nur im Elenchos überliefert ist und das andere erhaltene Zeugnisse bereichert und ergänzt. Der vorliegende Artikel widmet sich im allgemeinen den Quellen, die dieser Schrift zugrunde liegen. Dabei wird insbesondere die Auffassung von Magie in Elenchos IV 28-42 untersucht: Ein Vergleich des Elenchos mit den Papyri Graecae Magicae offenbart ein großes Maß an Übereinstimmungen vor allem von Elenchos IV 28-42 und zahlreichen Details in den Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die entsprechenden Bezugnahmen des Elenchos sind bedeutsam wegen des Lichts, das sie auf magische Praktiken in der Kaiserzeit werfen. Entgegen der Position Richard Ganschinietz', der davon ausgeht, daß Hippolyt seine Kenntnisse über Magie nicht direkt aus den magischen Original-texten bezog, sondern eine oder mehrere Zwischenüberlieferungen benutzte, läßt die Übereinstimmung zwischen Elenchos IV 28-42 und den Papyri Graecae Magicae darauf schließen, daß der christliche Autor Zugang zu einer Sammlung von Zaubersprüchen hatte, die er für seine Zwecke umgestaltete. Der Artikel prüft außerdem die Anspielungen des Elenchos außerhalb von Buch IV auf die Anwendung von Magie durch christliche „Häretiker“ der jüngeren Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart zur Gewinnung von Konvertiten. Der abschließende Teil des Beitrags beleuchtet die Bezugnahmen auf Magie in Scholien zu den Büchern Daniel und 1 Samuel sowie in der Traditio Apostolica, die jeweils Hippolyt von Rom zugeschrieben werden.
Alternatív módszer a szívelégtelenség reszinkronizációs kezelésére: az elektróda transapicalis beültetéser
Authors: Kassai Imre , Földesi Csaba , Székely Andrea , Mihalik Csilla , Szili-Török Tamás 
Published: September 2008

Absztrakt
Percutan transzvénás úton a sinus coronarius oldalágába vezetett elektródával jelentős arányban sikertelen a reszinkronizációs kezelés, ezért ezeknek a betegeknek alternatív módszerre van szükségük. Célkitűzésünk, hogy egy alapjaiban új lehetőséget ismertessünk a bal kamrába transapicalisan beültetett endocardialis, aktív fixációs elektróda alkalmazásával. Ennek a módszernek a szívcsúcs feltárása, megszúrása és Seldinger-technika szerinti bevezetés az alapja. A bal kamrán belül az elektróda elhelyezését röntgen-képerősítő segítségével lehet nyomon követni. A módszer előnyei, hogy minimálisan invazív sebészi beavatkozás, a bal kamrában endocardialis ingerlést biztosít, és nem érinti a mitralis billentyűt.
Acut appendicitis tüneteit okozó Enterobius vermicularis fertőzésr
Authors: Antal András , Kocsis Béla 
Published: September 2008

Absztrakt
A szerzők egy appendix enterobiasisos betegük esetét ismertetik. Az Enterobius vermicularis fertőzés ritkán oka az appendicitisnek. A fertőzés műtét előtti diagnosztizálása majdnem lehetetlen klinikai gyanú nélkül. A paraziták az acut appendicitisnek megfelelő tüneteket okozhatnak. Az appendixcsonk gondos megfigyelése az enterobiasis műtét alatti diagnosztizálásához vezethet. Az időben történő diagnosztizálás és megfelelő terápia megelőzheti a későbbi komplikációkat.
Persistent Disparities in the Use of Health Care Along the US–Mexico Border: An Ecological Perspective
Authors: Bastida Elena , Brown H. Shelton , Pagán José A. 
Published: September 2008

Objectives. We examined disparities in health care use among US–Mexico border residents, with a focus on the unique binational environment of the region, to determine factors that may influence health care use in Mexico. Methods. Data were from 2 waves of a population-based study of 1048 Latino residents of selected Texas border counties. Logistic regression models examined predictors of health insurance coverage. Results from these models were used to examine regional patterns of health care use. Results. Of the respondents younger than 65 years, 60% reported no health insurance coverage. The uninsured were 7 and 3 times more likely in waves 3 and 4, respectively, to use medical care in Mexico than were the insured. Preference for medical care in Mexico was an important predictor. Conclusions. For those who were chronically ill, old, poor, or burdened by the lengthy processing of their documents by immigration authorities, the United States provided the only source of health care. For some, Mexico may lessen the burden at the individual level, but it does not lessen the aggregate burden of providing highly priced care to the region's neediest. Health disparities will continue unless policies are enacted to expand health care accessibility in the region.
Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use Among Currently and Formerly Homeless Adults Living With HIV
Authors: Rotheram-Borus Mary Jane , Desmond Katherine , Comulada W. Scott , Arnold Elizabeth Mayfield , Johnson Mallory 
Published: September 2008

Objectives. We examined the efficacy of the Healthy Living Program in reducing risky sexual behavior and substance use among adults with HIV infection who were marginally housed (i.e., homeless at some point over a 37-month period). Methods. We had previously conducted a randomized controlled trial with 936 adults living with HIV infection. In that study, 3 intervention modules of 5 sessions each addressed different goals: reducing risky sexual acts and drug use, improving the quality of life, and adhering to healthful behaviors. Participants were interviewed at baseline and at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 months; 746 completed 4 or more assessments. In this study, we analyzed sexual behavior and drug use outcomes for the 35% (n = 270 of 767) of participants who were considered marginally housed. Results. Among the marginally housed participants, there were significantly greater reductions in unprotected risky sexual acts, the number of sexual partners of HIV negative or unknown serostatus, alcohol or marijuana use, and hard drug use among the intervention group than among the control group. Conclusions. Intensive, skill-focused intervention programs may improve the lives of marginally housed adults living with HIV infection.
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
Authors: Kaplow Louis 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
Optimal policy rulesincluding those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalitiesare typically derived in models with homogeneous preferences. This article reconsiders many central results for the case in which preferences for commodities, public goods, and externalities are heterogeneous. When preference differences are observable, standard second-best results in basic settings are unaffected, except those for the optimal income tax. Optimal levels of income taxation may be higher, the same, or lower on types who derive more utility from various goods, depending on the nature of preference differences and the concavity of the social welfare function. When preference differences are unobservable, all policy rules may change. The determinants of even the direction of optimal rule adjustments are many and subtle.
Colour change of co-doped yttrium aluminium borate crystals under illumination with different white light sources
Authors: Fuchs Elmar , Gatterer Karl 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
A colour change of doped YAB crystals and microcrystalline powders takes place upon illumination with different white light sources. This paper presents extensive experimental data on the new materials Ho,Nd:YAB; Ho,Cr:YAB, Nd,Cr:YAB and Ho,Nd,Cr:YAB, resulting in a chart providing the observed crystal colours and chromaticity differences of the materials under illumination with seven different types of white light sources. The microcrystalline powders could be used as coatings in order to produce a special colour changing effect. Furthermore, the colour table presented enables the observer to discriminate the investigated light sources at one glance.
Novel organic material with potential NLO application - electronic and spectroscopic properties
Authors: Koleva B.B. , Kolev T. , Nikolova R. , Zagraniarsky Y. , Spiteller M. 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
Novel dicyanoisophorone derivative, (E)-2-(3-(4-aminostyryl)-5,5-dimethylcyclohex-2-enylidene)malononitrile, is synthesized and its structure elucidated by means of conventional and linear polarized IR-spectroscopy of oriented colloids in nematic host, 1H, 13C, 1H, 1H-COSY NMR, HPLC tandem ESI MS-MS spectrometry, UV-VIS and thermal methods. Ab initio and DFT level of theory are used to theoretically obtain the electronic structure and optical properties, both in ground and exited state, of the compound.
Synthesis by self-assembly and structural characterization of a new co-crystal system {[Cu(NO3)2(H2O)2]L1(NO3)2} (L1 = 1,1′-dibenzyl-3,3′-butyl-diimidazolium-2,2′-diylidene) from copper nitrate and a carbene precursor
Authors: Doimeadios Jorge 
Published: September 2008

Abstract
Herein, the first example of a co-crystal system formed by an imidazolium nitrate, a carbene precursor, and copper (II) nitrate, {[Cu(NO3)2(H2O)2]L1(NO3)2} (1) (L1 = 1,1′-dibenzyl-3,3′-butyl-diimidazolium-2,2′-diylidene) is reported. These two building blocks are connected in the solid state through hydrogen bonds to generate a three-dimensional supramolecular network.
Sintering, microstructures and dielectric properties of Ba1−xPbx(Ti1−xLix)O3−3xF3x ferroelectric ceramics
Authors: Taïbi-Benziada Laldja , Simon Annie 
Published: September 2008

AbstractVarious compositions (1−x)BaTiO3 + xPbF2 + xLiF were prepared, shaped to pellets then sintered at 900°C for 2 h in gold sealed tubes. The purity and the symmetry of the obtained samples were checked by X-ray diffraction. A new solid solution with Ba1−x Pbx (Ti1−x Lix ) O3−3x F3x formula occurs in the composition range 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.20. SEM observations were performed on polished and fractured ceramics. The complex permittivity was measured as a function of temperature (−120°C ≤ T ≤ 250°C) and frequency (50 Hz ≤ f ≤ 4 × 107 Hz). The dielectric performances are the best for ceramic Ba0.97Pb0.03(Ti0.97Li0.03)O2.91F0.09. The real component ε′, exhibits a maximum of approximately 7500 at the ferroelectric Curie temperature T C ≈ -18°C, the dielectric losses tan δ value being 0.012. At room temperature, the relaxation frequency f r is around 40 MHz for this ceramic. This novel ferroelectric oxifluoride is a promising material for applications, in particular in the field of Z5U multilayer capacitors.
Gamidactylus piranhus sp. nov. (Copepoda, Vaigamidae) from the nasal fossae of serrasalmid fishes from the Três Marias Reservoir, Upper São Francisco River, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
Authors: Thatcher Vernon , Santos Michelle , Brasil-Sato Marilia 
Published: September 2008

AbstractGamidactylus piranhus sp. nov. (Copepoda, Vaigamidae) from the nasal fossae of “San Francisco piranha”, Pygocentrus piraya (Cuvier, 1819) and.White piranha. Serrasalmus brandtii (Lütken, 1875) is described. The new species is similar to the type species of the genus, Gamidactylus jaraquensis Thatcher et Boeger, 1984, but differs from it in the following respects: the cephalothorax is shorter, the free thoracic segments are usually longer, leg 5 is reduced to a simple seta and a spine on the second antennal segment is lacking. Gamidactylus bryconis Varella, 1995 and Gamidactylus hoplius Varella et Malta, 1996, do not closely resemble the new species because they are much larger and both present leg 5 reduced to a double seta.
A new species of Sciadicleithrum (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) parasitic on Geophagus brasiliensis (Perciformes, Cichlidae) from Guandu River, Southeastern Brazil
Authors: Carvalho Adriano , Tavares Luiz , Luque José 
Published: September 2008

AbstractSciadicleithrum guanduensis sp. nov. is described from the gills of the cichlid fish Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy et Gaimard, 1824) from Guandu River, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new species differs from all congeners by the accessory piece of the male copulatory organ, which comprises a small, delicate sheath with articulated appearance, and by the presence of a large unique umbelliform membrane on the ventral bar.
Helminth parasites in native and invasive mammal populations: comparative study on the Barbary ground squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus L. (Rodentia, Sciuridae) in Morocco and the Canary Islands
Authors: López-Darias Marta , Ribas Alexis , Feliú Carlos 
Published: September 2008

AbstractA total of 51 and 21 adults of Barbary ground squirrels (Atlantoxerus getulus) were trapped during May–July 2006 from the introduced populations on Fuerteventura Island (Canary Islands) and the native populations in Morocco, respectively. One trematode, 1 cestode and 4 nematode species were recovered belonging to five families: Brachylaima sp. (Brachylaimidae), Catenotaenia chabaudi (Catenotaeniidae), Protospirura muricola (Spiruridae), Dermatoxys getula and Syphacia pallaryi (Oxyuuridae), and Trichostrongylus sp. (Trichostrongylidae). We report for the first time the presence of P. muricola, Trichostrongylus sp. and Brachylaima sp. in A. getulus. Brachylaima sp. was found in the insular population only, as a result of a diet that includes snails. The two oxyurids were found at both sites. The continental population showed higher species richness (5 vs 3 species). This is the first report of helminth parasites from A. getulus from the Canary Islands.
Gastrointestinal helminths from two species of skink from Papua New Guinea, including two new species of Skrjabinodon (Nematoda, Pharyngodonidae)
Authors: Bursey Charles , Goldberg Stephen , Kraus Fred 
Published: September 2008

AbstractSkrjabinodon derooijae sp. nov. from the large intestine of Papuascincus stanleyanus (Scincidae) and Skrjabinodon sheai sp. nov. from the large intestine of Emoia pallidiceps (Scincidae) from Papua New Guinea are described and illustrated. Skrjabinodon derooijae sp. nov. and S. sheai sp. nov. represent the 27th and 28th species assigned to the genus and the 8th and 9th species from the Australo-Papuan Region. The new species differ from other species assigned to Skrjabinodon by egg and female tail morphology. The eggs of S. derooijae are spindleform with one truncate end and the female tail bears 13–16 tail spines in a defined pattern. The eggs of S. sheai are lagenoid and the female tail bears 12–16 tail spines in a random pattern. In addition to the new species, E. pallidiceps harboured Physalopteroides milnensis and P. stanleyanus harboured Mesocelium monas and Oswaldocruzia bakeri.
Description of a new species of Tylodelphys (Digenea, Diplostomidae) in the wood stork, Mycteria americana (Aves, Ciconiidae) from Argentina
Authors: Drago Fabiana , Lunaschi Lía 
Published: September 2008

AbstractDuring the course of a study on the endohelminth parasites of birds, specimens of an undescribed species of Tylodelphys Diesing, 1850 (Diplostomidae) were collected from the wood stork, Mycteria americana L., from Formosa Province, Argentina. Tylodelphys brevis sp. nov. can be distinguished from the other Neotropical species of this genus, T. elongata, T. americana and T. adulta, principally by the smaller size of the body (570–851 μm), by the fewer eggs in the uterus (1–2) and by the smaller ratio of body to egg length (6–8). This is the second report of an adult of the genus Tylodelphys from Argentina and the first record of a digenean species parasitizing Mycteria americana in this country.