bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Multiple norovirus outbreaks among workplace canteen users in Finland, July 2006
Authors: MAKARY P. , MAUNULA L. , NISKANEN T. , KUUSI M. , VIRTANEN M. , PAJUNEN S. , OLLGREN J. , TRAN MINH N. N. 
Published: April 2008

SUMMARYMultiple gastroenteritis outbreaks occurred between 25 and 31 July 2006 in 10 workplace canteens in south-western Finland. One vegetable processing plant provided raw vegetables to all the canteens. We conducted cohort studies in the three most visited canteens and environmental investigations in the kitchens and the plant. Patients' stools, food, water and environmental samples were tested for enteric bacteria and viruses. Of the three canteens, 150/273 respondents (response rate 82%) had gastroenteritis. Consumption of mixed raw vegetables was significantly associated with the illness but no single vegetable explains the outbreak. An identical norovirus GII.1 genotype was detected from all genotyped patient samples. Water, food, and environmental samples were negative for norovirus. The facilities had appropriate hygienic conditions and no staff member had gastroenteritis prior to the outbreak. Tracing back the vegetables to the farm level proved unsuccessful. This was the largest foodborne norovirus outbreak in Finland.
Molecular characterization of the E gene of dengue virus type 1 isolated in Guangdong province, China, in 2006
Authors: ZHENG K. , ZHOU H.-Q. , YAN J. , KE C.-W. , MAEDA A. , MAEDA J. , TAKASHIMA I. , KURANE I. , MA H. , XIE X.-M. 
Published: April 2008

SUMMARYWe determined the genetic relationships and origin of the dengue virus (DENV) responsible for an outbreak of dengue fever (DF) in Guangdong province, China, in 2006. Five DENV type 1 (DENV-1) isolates were obtained from human serum samples collected from DF patients during the outbreak. The nucleotide sequences of the E (envelope) gene were compared with those of 48 previous DENV-1 isolates: 18 from Guangdong province, one from Fujian province, one from Zhejiang province, and 28 from other countries in the South Asian region. The results suggested that four DENV-1 isolates identified in Guangdong province in 2006 might be in general circulation there, although these DENV-1 viruses may have been originally introduced into the province from other countries. In contrast, one isolate from Guangzhou city in 2006, may have been introduced by a recently imported case from Cambodia.
Concurrent but non-integrable currency circuits: complementary relationships among monies in modern China and other regions
Authors: Kuroda Akinobu 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThe coexistence of a number of monies with fluctuating exchange rates in modern China and other Asian regions appeared chaotic to foreign observers. However, behind this apparently confused situation lay a multiplicity of currency circuits, each of which consisted of pairing a trade zone with a particular currency. Their concurrence resulted from the difference of temporality and space in monetary usage. The difficulty of matching heterogeneous demands for money to uneven supplies of currencies made for multiple currency circulation. Such a multiplicity caused some merchants to make use of imaginary units which were alive only in account books. Though complementary relationships between incompatible monies prevailed in China, India and other regions, a combination of a remittance system and local credit supply in some societies happened to synchronise currency streams to make a compatible monetary system. This comparative study suggests that currency streams often had to pass through multiple market layers, and that some friction in the streams meant that the market required plural monies.
Mindfulness Training for Adolescents with Externalizing Disorders and their Parents
Authors: Bögels Susan , Hoogstad Bert , van Dun Lieke , de Schutter Sarah , Restifo Kathleen 
Published: April 2008

AbstractMindfulness training was evaluated as a new treatment for attention and impulsivity problems in adolescents with a variety of different externalizing disorders: attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, oppositional-defiant and/or conduct disorder, and autism spectrum disorder if characterized by externalizing problem behaviour. It was argued that the large overlap between these three disorders may be partially explained by common underlying attention and behaviour control deficits. Fourteen clinically referred adolescents suffering from externalizing disorders followed mindfulness training in a group format. Parallel, their parents received mindful parenting training. Adolescents and their parents were measured before and after waitlist, after 8-week training, and at 8-week follow-up. No improvement occurred during waitlist on most variables. After mindfulness training, children self-reported substantial improvement on personal goals, internalizing and externalizing complaints, attention problems, happiness, and mindful awareness, and performed better on a sustained attention test. Likewise, parents reported improvement on children's goals, externalizing and attention problems, self-control, attunement to others and withdrawal. In addition, parents improved on their own goals. Improvement was maintained 8 weeks after the training. Consistent with mindfulness theory, increased child awareness after training predicted longer-term improvement in parent-rated child symptoms. Concomitant parent and child mindfulness training appears to be a promising approach for clinic-referred adolescents with attention and impulsivity problems.
Linear Groups of Finite Morley Rank
Authors: Borovik Alexandre V. 
Published: April 2008

AbstractThis paper is a brief survey of recent results and some open problems related to linear groups of finite Morley rank, an area of research where Bruno Poizat's impact is very prominent. As a sign of respect to his strongly expressed views that mathematics has to be done, written and pulished only in the native tongue of the immediate author–the scribe, in effect–of the text, I insist on writing my paper in Russian, even if the results presented belong to a small but multilingual community of researchers of American, British, French, German, Kazakh, Russian, Turkish origin. To emphasise even further the linguistic subtleties involved, I use British spelling in the English fragments of my text.
Development of a Novel Membrane Aerated Hollow‐Fiber Microbioreactor
Authors: Villain Louis , Meyer Lina , Kroll Stephen , Beutel Sascha , Scheper Thomas 
Published: April 2008

AbstractA new challenge in biotechnological processes is the development of flexible bioprocessing platforms, allowing strain selection, facilitating scale‐up and integrating separation steps. Miniaturization of such a cultivation system allows parallel use and the saving of resources but makes the supply of oxygen to the cells difficult. In this work we present a membrane aerated hollow‐fiber microbioreactor (HFMBR) which consists of an acrylic glass module equipped with two different types of membrane fibers. Fibers of polyethersulfone and polyvinyldifluoride were used for substrate and oxygen supply, respectively. Cultivation of E. coli as model organism and production of His‐tagged GFP were carried out in the extracapillary space of the membrane aerated HFMBR and compared with cultivations in shaking flask which are commonly used for screening experiments. The measurement of the oxygen transfer capacity and the online monitoring of the dissolved oxygen during the cultivation were performed using a fiber optic oxygen sensor. Online measurement of the optical density was also integrated to the bioreactor. Due to efficient oxygen transfer, a better cell growth than in the shaking flask experiments was achieved, while no negative influence on the GFP productivity was observed in the membrane aerated bioreactor. Thus the feasibility of a future integrated downstreaming could also be demonstrated.
ASPicDB: A database resource for alternative splicing analysis
Authors: Castrignanò T. , D’Antonio M. , Anselmo A. , Carrabino D. , D’Onorio De Meo A. , D’Erchia A. M. , Licciulli F. , Mangiulli M. , Mignone F. , Pavesi G. , Picardi E. , Riva A. , Rizzi R. , Bonizzoni P. , Pesole G. 
Published: April 2008

Abstract
Motivation: Alternative splicing has recently emerged as a key mechanism responsible for the expansion of transcriptome and proteome complexity in human and other organisms. Although several online resources devoted to alternative splicing analysis are available they may suffer from limitations related both to the computational methodologies adopted and to the extent of the annotations they provide that prevent the full exploitation of the available data. Furthermore, current resources provide limited query and download facilities.
Results: ASPicDB is a database designed to provide access to reliable annotations of the alternative splicing pattern of human genes and to the functional annotation of predicted splicing isoforms. Splice-site detection and full-length transcript modeling have been carried out by a genome-wide application of the ASPic algorithm, based on the multiple alignments of gene-related transcripts (typically a Unigene cluster) to the genomic sequence, a strategy that greatly improves prediction accuracy compared to methods based on independent and progressive alignments.
Enhanced query and download facilities for annotations and sequences allow users to select and extract specific sets of data related to genes, transcripts and introns fulfilling a combination of user-defined criteria. Several tabular and graphical views of the results are presented, providing a comprehensive assessment of the functional implication of alternative splicing in the gene set under investigation.
ASPicDB, which is regularly updated on a monthly basis, also includes information on tissue-specific splicing patterns of normal and cancer cells, based on available EST sequences and their library source annotation.
Availability: www.caspur.it/ASPicDB
Contact: graziano.pesole@biologia.uniba.it
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
GeneTrack—a genomic data processing and visualization framework
Authors: Albert Istvan , Wachi Shinichiro , Jiang Cizhong , Pugh B. Franklin 
Published: April 2008

Abstract
Motivation: High-throughput ‘ChIP-chip’ and ‘ChIP-seq’ methodologies generate sufficiently large data sets that analysis poses significant informatics challenges, particularly for research groups with modest computational support. To address this challenge, we devised a software platform for storing, analyzing and visualizing high resolution genome-wide binding data. GeneTrack automates several steps of a typical data processing pipeline, including smoothing and peak detection, and facilitates dissemination of the results via the web. Our software is freely available via the Google Project Hosting environment at http://genetrack.googlecode.com
Contact: iual@psu.edu
‘De nouveaux rythmes’: The Free Verse of Laforgue's ‘Solo de Lune’
Authors: Holmes Anne 
Published: April 2008

Abstract
This article considers Laforgue's ‘Solo de lune’ in the light of the Symbolists' claim that their free verse was inspired by music. After referring to the views of two contemporary poets on the subject (that Laforgue's free verse was psychologically rather than musically determined) and outlining Laforgue's position with regard to music and his counter-claim, his practice is examined in two areas: first, ‘Solo de lune’'s double narrative and consequently contrapuntal structure, alternating free verse with an approximate ‘quatrain populaire’; second, the use of other musical features which work against the random nature of free verse (parallelism, modulation, innovative phonetic repetition). The article argues that Laforgue's musical aspirations influence both the structure and the detail of the text. Finally, Laforgue's interest in connecting the three art forms — music, Impressionist painting, and liberated verse — and his awareness of a parallel modernity, are briefly illustrated.
La Filiation inversée: Annie Ernaux et le ‘corps glorieux’
Authors: Fort Pierre-Louis 
Published: April 2008

Abstract

Cet article s'intéresse à façon dont la filiation est remise en perspective dans l'œuvre d'Annie Ernaux. Plus précisément centré sur
Une femme
, le texte que l'auteur a consacré à sa mère disparue, il montre comment la filiation s'y trouve inversée, la fille devenant la mère de sa propre mère. L'analyse étudie ainsi cette redistribution des rôles et en dégage les enjeux. Elle insiste sur l'omniprésence corporelle de la mère dans le récit avant de montrer, au moyen d'une lecture précise du texte (que soutient une interrogation du paratexte et une lecture attentive de la Bible) par quels processus Ernaux parvient à créer le ‘corps glorieux’ de sa mère.
La Jouissance de la vérité ou le plaisir tragique selon le Chancelier d'Aguesseau
Authors: Brillaud Jérôme 
Published: April 2008

Abstract

Le Chancelier d'Aguesseau, architecte du code civil, était aussi homme de lettres. En réponse à un discours de facture aristotélicienne sur la tragédie prononcé par Valincour, il compose des remarques sur la nature du plaisir tragique qui se situent en marge des théories contemporaines. Nous nous proposons ainsi d'étudier les
Remarques
sur la tragédie de d'Aguesseau en regard des textes de Fontenelle et de Dubos qui abordent également la question du plaisir tragique. L'originalité du texte de d'Aguesseau se situe dans une nouvelle conception du plaisir tragique entendu comme un accès à la vérité signifiée lors de l'émotion produite par la tragédie. La mise en échec momentanée du jugement lors de l'émotion esthétique autorise le surgissement d'une vérité morale provisionnelle. Le plaisir tragique, selon l'hypothèse de d'Aguesseau, consisterait en une ‘jouissance de la vérité’ ressentie lors de la représentation des tragédies.
School-based indicators of tuna population status
Authors: Dell James T. , Hobday Alistair J. 
Published: April 2008

Abstract
Dell, J. T. and Hobday, A. J. 2008. School-based indicators of tuna population status. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 612–622. Theory and limited observation suggest that fish schools consist of more individuals of similar size when populations are large than when they are small. The hypothesis that population size might be indicated by school structure is tested for southern bluefin tuna (SBT), a commercially important large pelagic species, which has undergone an estimated 60% reduction in juvenile biomass since 1960. Fish size data are used to determine whether there have been changes in schooling behaviour that can be used as simple indicators of abundance. During tagging studies, juvenile SBT are removed sequentially from a school, measured, tagged, and released. These sequential size measurements are used here to describe school composition from different years in two locations using simple school metrics (including mean fish size, variance in size, and mean difference in size between sequential fish). Trends were significant in most metrics over the 40-year period analysed, and were inversely related to independent estimates of population size. Simple school metrics are cost-efficient and easily interpreted by stakeholders. Monitoring population trends in near real time through school composition metrics may indicate further decline or recovery of SBT and, therefore, assist future management of tuna and other schooling species.
First Report of Rhizoctonia solani on Mung Bean (Vigna radiata) Sprouts in California
Authors: O'Brien C. A. , Perez K. , Davis R. M. 
Published: April 2008

In March 2007, mung bean (Vigna radiata) sprouts produced in an indoor sprouting facility in northern California developed brown lesions beginning 5 days after germination. Dark brown-to-reddish brown lesions with distinct margins developed on the stem, hypocotyl, and first true leaves of affected sprouts. Although all seed is routinely soaked in 20,000 mg Ca(OCl)2/liter of water for 15 min before germination, approximately 5 to 10% of the bean sprouts in several growing baskets (1.5 × 1.5 m) were affected and had to be discarded. Each basket contained approximately 1 t of sprouts. To isolate the causal organism, symptomatic stems were surface disinfested for 1 min in 0.5% NaOCl and incubated on acidified potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 25°C. Cultures were identified as Rhizoctonia solani on the basis of morphological features including right-angled branching of brown hyphae and the presence of sclerotia. PCR amplification of the internal transcribed spacer region was performed with primers RS1 and RS4 (2). Sequences were identical to R. solani AG4-HG-II in GenBank (Accession No. AF354074). To conduct pathogenicity tests, a 5-mm2-diameter disk from the margin of a culture of the fungus on PDA was placed in the center of 25 5-day-old germinated sprouts placed in a plastic box (15 × 10 × 5 cm) held at 25°C. Two isolates of R. solani cultured from different lots of sprouts were included in the assays. Controls received noncolonized agar. Treatments were replicated four times and each experiment was repeated three times. A moist paper towel was included in each box to maintain humidity. After 3 days, symptoms developed in the inoculated boxes but not in the noninoculated boxes. The fungus was reisolated from lesions, completing Koch's postulates. To our knowledge, this is the first report of R. solani on mung bean sprouts in a commercial sprouting facility. However, R. solani has been associated with root rot of mung bean plants in the field (1). References: (1) T. R. Anderson. Can. Plant Dis. Surv. 65:1, 1985. (2) C. Guillemaut et al. Can. J. Microbiol. 49:556, 2003.
First Report of Dodder Transmission of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ to Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
Authors: Duan Y. P. , Gottwald Tim , Zhou L. J. , Gabriel D. W. 
Published: April 2008

Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) is one of the most devastating diseases of citrus worldwide. The disease is associated with three different species of fastidious α-proteobacteria, namely ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’, Ca. L. americanus, and Ca. L. africanus (1). ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ was first detected in South Florida in 2005 and has spread throughout the citrus-growing areas of Florida. ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ is transmitted naturally by the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, and can also be transmitted by graft propagation and via various species of dodder (Cuscuta). HLB affects most if not all citrus and citrus relatives within the family Rutaceae (2), including the ornamental shrub Murraya paniculata (4). In addition, ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ and ‘Ca. L. americanus’ can infect tobacco (Nicotiana xanthi) and periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) (1,4). Here we report that ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ can infect tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cvs. Manapal and FL47. Manapal and FL 47 plants grown from seed were placed adjacent to ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’-infected sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) plants with dodder (Cuscuta pentagona) already well established on them. Young dodder shoots still connected to the citrus were draped over the tomato plants and subsequently also became attached to the tomato stems. After 1 month, the tomato plants were detached from the citrus and most of the dodder removed. One month later, these tomato plants started to show vein clearing and subsequently the mature leaves became thicker and leathery. Some leaves showed blotchy mottle symptoms and some fruits became lopsided in a manner similar to HLB symptom expression on citrus. PCR amplification of the ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ 16S rDNA with primers OI1/OI2c and the β-operon with primers A2/J5 (1) revealed the presence of ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ DNA. Sequence analysis confirmed that the sequences of the cloned amplicons were identical to those from the HLB-infected citrus source plant. Both conventional and quantitative real-time PCR (3) revealed a much lower abundance of ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ DNA in tomato as compared with ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’-infected citrus or periwinkle, indicating that ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ bacteria multiplied at a lower titer in these tomato cultivars. References: (1) J. M. Bové, J. Plant Pathol. 88:7, 2006. (2) S. E. Halbert et al. Fla. Entomol. 87:330, 2004. (3) W. Li et al. J. Microbiol. Methods 66:104, 2006. (4) L. Z. Zhou et al. Plant Dis. 91:227, 2007.
First Report of Leaf Spot and Blight Caused by Ralstonia pickettii on Bird of Paradise Tree in Italy
Authors: Polizzi G. , Dimartino M. , Bella P. , Catara V. 
Published: April 2008

Bird of Paradise tree (Strelitzia alba (L. f.) Skeels) is an ornamental perennial tropical plant grown in southern Italy. In the summer of 2006 and 2007, a widespread, severe leaf disease was observed on seedlings and 1- to 2-year-old plants in two glasshouses located in eastern Sicily. Disease incidence ranged from 10 to 25%. Symptoms on the leaves consisted of dark brown-to-black stripes of varying length and found between the lateral veins. Lesions sometimes coalesced into a large area of necrotic tissue. Symptomatic tissues were ground in a drop of sterile distilled water (SDW) with a scalpel. Suspensions were streaked on King's medium B (KB), nutrient agar, and yeast extract nutrient agar (2). Isolated strains were gram negative and oxidase positive, non-levan, negative in tobacco hypersensitivity test, white and nonmucoid on yeast dextrose calcium carbonate agar, did not produce fluorescent pigments on KB, and utilized glucose, mannitol, trehalose, arabinose, mannose, and N-acetylglucosamine. Bacterial strains were identified as Ralstonia pickettii by using the Biolog Identification System (MicroLogTM System Release 4.2; Biolog, Inc., Hayward, CA) with a similarity index ranging from 0.52 to 0.67. For an additional confirmation of identity, the small subunit rRNA gene (SSUrDNA) was amplified with primers 530F and Uni 1492R (1). The resulting nucleotide sequence was compared with sequences deposited in GenBank and showed the highest identity (99%) to sequences of R. pickettii strains. Pathogenicity tests were performed on 20 cm tall potted plants. Four S. alba plants were inoculated by infiltrating leaf veins with bacterial suspensions for each of the four isolates (107 CFU ml–1 in SDW) with a 25-gauge needle and syringe. Plants were placed in polyethylene bags 1 day before inoculation and maintained there for 3 days after inoculation. Four control plants were inoculated with SDW. Water-soaked areas in the lateral veins of leaves were observed in all inoculated plants 4 days after inoculation. Within 10 days, dark brown-to-black stripes that coalesced into dark necrotic areas were observed. All isolates induced similar symptoms. Control plants did not show any symptoms. The pathogen was reisolated from symptomatic tissue and identified as R. pickettii by Biolog. A similar disease on S. reginae caused by a Pseudomonas sp. was previously reported from Florida (3). To our knowledge, this is the first record in the world of leaf spot and blight caused by R. pickettii. References: (1) D. J. Lane. 16S/23S rRNA sequencing. Page 115 in: Nucleic Acid Techniques in Bacterial Systematics. E. Stackebrandt and M. Goodfellow, eds. John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1991. (2) N. W. Schaad et al. Laboratory Guide for Identification of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN, 2001. (3) C. Wehlburg. Plant Dis. Rep. 55:447, 1971.