bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Ablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Adults 60 Years of Age and Older
Authors: Wallen Herschel , Gooley Theodore A. , Deeg H. Joachim , Pagel John M. , Press Oliver W. , Appelbaum Frederick R. , Storb Rainer , Gopal Ajay K. 
Published: April 2005

Purpose To evaluate outcomes of ablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in older patients with hematologic malignancies. Patients and Methods We treated 52 patients from 1979 to 2002 with a median age of 62.8 years (range, 60.1 to 67.8 years) using ablative preparative regimens followed by allogeneic HCT from sibling donors. Diagnoses included myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS; n = 35), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML; n = 8), acute myeloid leukemia (AML; n = 6), and other (n = 3). Conditioning regimens included cyclophosphamide (CY) and busulfan (BU) (67%), total-body irradiation and CY (21%), BU-fludarabine (10%), and CY (2%). Results Eighteen (35%) of 52 patients are alive at a median of 4.6 years (range, 0.8 to 9.1 years) after transplantation. Median overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival were 300 and 218 days, respectively. Three-year OS and relapse rates are estimated to be 34% and 24%, respectively. Nonrelapse mortality (NRM) rates at 100 days and 3 years are estimated to be 27% and 43%, respectively. Grade 3 to 4 acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurred in 20% of patients, and chronic extensive GVHD was described in 53% of patients. Fourteen (40%) of 35 patients with MDS are alive at a median of 2.8 years (range, 0.8 to 8.2 years). Four of six patients with CML in chronic or accelerated phase are alive at a median of 6.9 years (range, 4.1 to 9.1 years) after transplantation. None of the patients with AML, CML in blast crisis, or other diagnoses have survived. Patients who underwent transplantation after 1993 had improved survival. Conclusion These data suggest that allogeneic HCT is feasible in selected patients ≥ 60 years of age, although novel methods to reduce NRM while maintaining efficacy are needed.
Ausreichende Bedämpfung von Netzpendelungen, auch bei deregulierter Marktwirtschaft und Verbundnetz-Erweiterung (Sufficient Damping of Inter-Area-Oscillations, also under Deregulated Market Conditions and Power System Enlargement)
Authors: Kurth Marcus , Welfonder Ernst 
Published: April 2005

Abstract
Zur Analyse des schlechten Dämpfungsverhaltens von langsamen Verbundnetzpendelungen, die immer wieder im europäischen Verbundnetz auftreten, sind gezielte Simulationsuntersuchungen durchgeführt worden. Um anwendungsorientierte Ergebnisse zu erhalten, sind die Simulationsuntersuchungen anhand eines detaillierten Dynamik-Modells des europäischen Verbundnetzes durchgeführt und mit entsprechenden, im Verbundnetz gemessenen Pendelungen, verglichen worden.
Darauf aufbauend werden zum einen anhand von Analysemethoden im Zeit- und Frequenzbereich einfach anwendbare Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung des Pendeldämpfungsverhaltens aufgezeigt. Zum anderen wird die vorgesehene Erweiterung des europäischen Verbundnetzes zum mediterranen Ring untersucht. Auch diese prädikativen Betrachtungen führen zu interessanten Ergebnissen bezüglich des Schwingungs- und Dämpfungsverhaltens des derart erweiterten europäischen Strom-Verbundnetzes.
Verified Java Bytecode Verification (Verified Java Bytecode Verification)
Authors: Klein Gerwin 
Published: April 2005

Zusammenfassung
Der Bytecode Verifier ist ein essenzieller Bestandteil der Sicherheitsarchitektur der Programmierplattform Java. Die vorliegende Dissertation stellt eine formale, ausführbare Spezifikation des Bytecode Verifiers vor sowie den Beweis, dass diese korrekt ist. Die Formalisierung, vollständig im Theorembeweiser Isabelle durchgeführt, besteht aus einem abstrakten Framework für Bytecode-Verifikation, das mit zunehmend ausdrucksstarken Typsystemen instanziiert wird. Diese decken sämtliche wichtigen Eigenschaften der Java-Plattform ab. Die Formalisierung liefert zwei ausführbare, verifizierte Bytecode Verifier: den Standard-Algorithmus, wie er auf normalen Desktop-Rechnern benutzt wird, und einen Lightweight Bytecode Verifier für eingebettete Systeme mit Ressourcenbeschränkungen wie z.B. Java SmartCards.
TinyCubus: An Adaptive Cross-Layer Framework for Sensor Networks (TinyCubus: Ein Adaptives Cross-Layer Framework für Sensornetze)
Authors: Marrón Pedro José , Minder Daniel , Lachenmann Andreas , Rothermel Kurt 
Published: April 2005

Summury
With the proliferation of sensor networks and sensor network applications, the overall complexity of such systems is continuously increasing. Sensor networks are now heterogeneous in terms of their hardware characteristics and application requirements even within a single network. In addition, the requirements of currently supported applications are expected to change over time. All of this makes developing, deploying, and optimizing sensor network applications an extremely difficult task. In this paper, we present the architecture of TinyCubus, a flexible and adaptive cross-layer framework for TinyOS-based sensor networks that aims at providing the necessary infrastructure to cope with the complexity of such systems. TinyCubus consists of a cross-layer framework that enables optimizations through cross-layer interactions, a configuration engine that distributes components efficiently by considering the roles of the sensor nodes and provides support to install components dynamically, and a data management framework that selects and adapts both system and data management components. Finally, relevant research challenges associated with the development of each framework are identified and discussed in the paper.
An IPQ Format based Toolbox to Support IP based Design (Ein IPQ Format basierter Werkzeugsatz zur Unterstützung von IP basiertem Entwurf)
Authors: Visarius Markus , Hardt Wolfram 
Published: April 2005

Summury
In the field of IP based design, a SoC designer usually searches for IPs and after he has purchased some, he needs to further process them. To support these steps, a unified data exchange format like the IPQ Format is necessary. Based on this format, a toolbox has been developed which makes use of current Web Service technologies. Its concept supports a dynamic set of usable IP related Web Services. This enables the toolbox to be extended at any time without changing the code of the existing tools. It can be used to search for, parameterize, deliver, simulate, exchange IPs, etc. The results prove the applicability of the toolbox in the field of IP based design.
In the Shadow of Oil: Francisco J. Múgica vs. Telephone Transnational Corporations in Cardenista Mexico
Authors: Dickter Arturo Grunstein 
Published: April 2005

Most historians maintain that Mexican revolutionary nationalism reached its apex during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940), as evidenced by the oil expropriation of 1938. However, British historian Alan Knight recently has dismissed this traditional interpretation. Instead, he suggests, “more than ever oil was a special case,” and that otherwise moderation and pragmatism, rather than doctrinaire nationalism, characterized Cardenista foreign investment policies. This argument is based on insufficient consideration of developments in other sectors. Toward answering the central question, “What were the factors influencing the Cardenista government's divergent policies toward foreign investments and corporations operating in different industries?” this article looks at the (scarcely studied) telephone industry. Between 1935 and 1940, the Cárdenas government, led by Secretary of Communications Francisco J. Múgica, waged an increasingly intense conflict against two telephone transnational corporations over monopoly, tariffs, taxes, and corporate nationality. The partial evidence drawn from the telephone industry tends to weaken Knight's position: oil was less exceptional than he suggests.
Para la mayoría de los historiadores, el nacionalismo revolucionario llegó a su apogeo en México durante la presidencia de Lázaro Cárdenas, tal como lo demuestra la expropiación petrolera de 1938. Esta interpretación convencional ha sido puesta en tela de juicio recientemente por el historíador británico Alan Knight. Éste último sostiene que el episodio del petróleo se trató más bien de una “excepción espectacular,” y que, en realidad, laspolíticas cardenistas hacia el capital extranjero se caracterizaron por su “moderación” y “pragmatismo.” Los argumentos de Knight, sin embargo, se basan en información histórica insuficiente de otros sectores. El objetivo principal del siguiente ensayo, es identificar algunos de los factores que influyeron en las políticas divergentes del cardenismo hacia las empresas de propiedad extranjera, mediante el estudio de caso de la telefonía. Entre 1935 y 1940, la administración cardenista, encabezada por su miembro más radical, el Secretario de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas Francisco J. Múgica, entabló un fuerte conflicto con las subsidiarias de dos grandes transnacionales, a raíz de los esfuerzos de los consorcios extranjeros por monopolizar los servicios telefónicos en México. La evidencia indica que la animosidad del cardenismo hacia el capital extranjero fue menos excepcional de lo que Knight supone.
The Mexican Intelligentsia, 1950–1968: Cosmopolitanism, National Identity, and the State
Authors: Cohn Deborah 
Published: April 2005

This essay explores the positions of Mexico's intelligentsia on the nation's choice of cultural models during the 1950s and 1960s. It traces the consolidation of a hegemonic group of intellectuals who sought to establish a cosmopolitan definition of Mexican culture, and it studies the media and institutions that they used to disseminate their views. It also studies the relationship between the cosmopolitan intellectuals and the State. On the one hand, their internationalism dovetailed with Mexico's political and economic strategies after World War II; on the other, both their projects and their freedom of expression were sometimes supported and sometimes restricted by the State.
Este artículo estudia las posiciones tomadas por un grupo de intelectuales mexicanos respecto a los modelos culturales a seguir durante los 50 y 60. Se deslinda la consolidación de un grupo hegemónico de intelectuales que abogaban por una visión cosmopolita de la cultural nacional, y se estudian los medios y las instituciones por medio de los cuales se diseminaba esta visión. También se analiza la relación entre los intelectuales cosmopolitas y el Estado: por un lado, la orientación internacionalista de aquéllos reflejaba estrategias políticas y económicas oficiales después la segunda Guerra Mundial; por otro, los proyectos y la libertad de expresión de la inteligencia a veces fueron apoyados y a veces restringidos por el aparato estatal.
Conflicto y colaboración entre poderes. La experiencia reciente de los gobiernos divididos en México
Authors: Rodríguez Rogelio Hernández 
Published: April 2005

This essay examinesthe institutional changes undergone by the executive and legislative branches of government in Mexico since 1997 when PRI lost its dominance in congress. It considers the nature of divided government and its potential for conflict as well as the constitutional power of both branches during the period of PRI hegemony. It demonstrates that congress always possessed the right to balance and even control the executive branch while the latter had little power to dominate the former. The traditional subordination of the legislative branch to the executive derived from the political uniformity established by PRI during its period of dominance. Once that uniformity ended, the executive faced a plural congress that it could not control. To demonstrate that reality, the author evaluated the relations between the two branches of government since 1997 and concludes that the friction between the two branches results from the executive's political inability to negotiate with a new autonomous legislature.
El ensayo analiza los cambios institucionales que han experimentado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo en México desde que la alternancia ocurrió en el Congreso federal en 1997. Por un lado, revisa el tema de los gobiernos divididos y su potencial riesgo de conflicto y, por otro, analiza las atribuciones constitucionales de ambos poderes durante el periodo de hegemonía del PRI. Plantea que el Congreso siempre estuvo dotado de facultades para equilibrar y aun para controlar al ejecutivo mientras que éste cuenta con muy pocas para someter al Congreso. La tradicional subordinación del legislativo se debió a la uniformidad política que estableció el control del PRI y una vez que ésta ha desaparecido, el ejecutivo encuentra a un Congreso plural al que no puede imponer medidas. Para comprobarlo, el autor revisa las relaciones de ambos poderes desde 1997 y concluye que las fricciones entre poderes se han debido a una sensible falta de habilidad política para negociar con un Nuevo Congreso autónomo.
Octavio Paz: An Intellectual and his Critics
Authors: Grenier Yvon 
Published: April 2005

Las Guerras Culturales de Octavio Paz. By Armando González Torres. Puebla: Secretaría de Cultura; Mexico: Editorial Colibrí, 2002.
Octavio Paz, A Meditation. By Ilan Stavans. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Octavio Paz y la poética de la historia mexicana. By David A. Brading. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.
Octavio Paz, Itinerary, An Intellectual Journey. Translated by Jason Wilson. San Diego: Harcourt Inc., 1999. Foreword by Charles Tomlinson and Afterword by Jason Wilson.
Two Adjustable Waterfalls for Evaluating Fish Jumping Performance
Authors: Kondratieff Matthew C. , Myrick Christopher A. 
Published: April 2005

AbstractInstream obstacles such as low‐head dams and waterfalls are important in fisheries management because they can restrict the movement of fishes. This can have detrimental or beneficial effects on a fish population, depending on whether a particular structure operates as a barrier to migration or as a barrier to invasion. We developed flashboard‐type and flume‐type adjustable waterfalls in the laboratory to study the effects of waterfall height and plunge pool depth on fish jumping performance. Our ultimate goal was to provide a quantitative method of evaluating pool‐and‐weir fish passage structures and waterfall barriers that could be applied to field situations. The adjustable waterfalls were successfully tested using adult Rio Grande cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis. The flashboard waterfall worked well in experiments where the combined waterfall height and plunge pool depth were less than the depth of the raceway. The flume waterfall worked well for the same conditions, but as designed, its minimum waterfall height was 30 cm. The flume‐type waterfall also worked well for tests where the waterfall height exceeded the maximum depth of the raceway. Of the two waterfalls developed, we recommend using the flume‐type for future studies because of its greater flexibility, even though it has a higher construction cost and is slightly more difficult to operate.
Starch
Authors: Bastioli Catia 
Published: April 2005

AbstractThis article reviews the main results obtained in the fields of starch‐filled plastics and thermoplastic starch with particular attention to the concepts of gelatinization, destructurization, extrusion cooking, and the complexation of amylose by means of polymeric complexing agents with the formation of specific supramolecular structures. The behaviors of products now in the market are considered in terms of processability, properties, and biodegradation rates.
Photorefraction
Authors: Andrews James H. , Zrebiec Karen 
Published: April 2005

AbstractPhotorefraction is the spatial modulation of the index of refraction of a material arising from an intensity modulation of the incident light. The specific mechanism for photorefraction requires the photo‐generation of mobile charges (typically holes in polymers), transport and trapping of the charges through photoconduction, and the modulation of the index of refraction by space‐charge fields through the electro‐optic effect and orientational alignment of molecular dipoles. A model for photorefractive processes, including orientational enhancement effects, is presented. Commonly studied polymer composites suited for photorefractive applications are described along with methods for assessing figures of merit for applications of photorefractive polymeric materials.
Use of the glycophorin A somatic mutation assay for rapid, unambiguous identification of Fanconi anemia homozygotes regardless of GPA genotype
Authors: Evdokimova Viktoria N. , McLoughlin Reagan K. , Wenger Sharon L. , Grant Stephen G. 
Published: April 2005

AbstractA 7‐year‐old girl was hospitalized with pancytopenia requiring blood transfusion. She and an older brother with suspicious symptoms were referred for laboratory testing to confirm a clinical diagnosis of Fanconi anemia (FA). Blood samples from these two children and one parent were examined with the GPA somatic mutation assay. The patient's total GPA somatic mutation frequency of 1.4 × 10−4 was determined despite the confounding effects of her recent transfusion, and was greater than 10‐fold higher than that of a population of pediatric controls, consistent with the known FA phenotype. Her brother was not informative for the standard GPA assay, which requires heterozygosity for the MN blood group, but was analyzed with a modified assay that measured only allele loss mutation. His mutation frequency, 6.8 × 10−4 was also supportive of a diagnosis of FA. Both analyses also showed evidence of ongoing mutation through terminal erythroblast differentiation, a characteristic of patients with DNA repair syndromes which further confirmed the diagnoses. These conclusions were confirmed with traditional DEB‐induced chromosome breakage studies. The quantitative and qualitative aspects of the GPA assay relevant for applying this test for FA diagnosis, and perhaps for carrier detection, are discussed. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
Quantitation and stability of piperacillin and tazobactam in plasma and ultrafiltrate from patients undergoing continuous venovenous hemofiltration by HPLC
Authors: Arzuaga A. , Isla A. , Gascón A. R. , Maynar J. , Martín A. , Solinís M. A. , Toral D. , Pedraz J. L. 
Published: April 2005

AbstractSimple and reproducible HPLC methods for the determination of piperacillin and tazobactam have been developed and a complete stability study carried out. The method for piperacillin plasma samples consisted of protein precipitation with methanol using penicillin G as internal standard. No sample preparation was needed for ultrafiltrate samples. Tazobactam sample preparation involved protein precipitation with acetonitrile and the removal of lipids with dichloromethane. Piperacillin separation was performed on a µBondapack™ C18 column (300 × 3.9, 10 µm) and tazobactam on a Novapack™ C18 column (150 × 3.9, 4 µm) with UV detection set at 229 and 225 nm, respectively. The mobile phase consisted of phosphate buffer–acetonitrile, delivered at 1.5 mL[sol ]min. Calibration curves determination coefficients were ≥0.999 and response factors CV% < 5%. Intra‐ and inter‐assay precision and accuracy of the quality control and limit of quantification were satisfactory. Plasma and ultrafiltrate samples were stable at −20 and −80°C for 2 months and after three freeze–thaw cycles. In the chromatographic rack, tazobactam ultrafiltrate samples were stable for 24 h and plasma samples for 12 h, piperacillin ultrafiltrate samples for 8 h, but plasma samples for only 4 h. Storage of piperacillin samples at 4°C until analysis is recommended. Piperacillin was stable in the presence of tazobactam. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Real‐time update of eye features on the 3D head model texture
Authors: Inostroza Patricio 
Published: April 2005

AbstractIn this paper, a real‐time tracking/synthesis loop is proposed to animate the eye texture of a 3D head model using a video camera. The user's eyes, captured by a video camera, are tracked by means of a frame‐rate pupil detector technique, based on an active illumination scheme. A small area of interest is selected around each pupil detected in the video. These areas contain the eye and eyebrow features. Substituting the captured areas on the texture of the 3D model, animation of the eyes and eyebrows is created. To avoid the ‘collage’ effect, the extracted areas are colour‐corrected, stretched and blended with the texture. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Design and evaluation of Elva: an embodied tour guide in an interactive virtual art gallery
Authors: Yuan Xiang , Chee Yam San 
Published: April 2005

AbstractThe technology of embodied conversational agents provides an attractive approach to achieving natural human—computer interaction if the interaction design is handled sensitively. In view of this, we designed and developed an embodied tour guide, Elva, ‘who’ is able to engage conversationally with users about gallery exhibits and also capable of behaving non‐verbally using gesture and facial expression. The research focuses on the attributes of agent autonomy and believability. To achieve autonomy, we present a three‐layer architectural design to ensure appropriate coupling between the agent's perception and action. With regard to believability, we utilize the notion of schema to support structured and coherent verbal behaviours. We also pay careful attention to the design of non‐verbal interactions that establish social facts within the virtual world. A user study was performed to evaluate user satisfaction and agent believability. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Mapping cityscapes into cyberspace for visualization
Authors: Zheng Jiang Yu , Shi Min 
Published: April 2005

AbstractThis work establishes a cyberspace of a real urban area for visiting on the Internet. By registering entire scenes along every street and at many locations, viewers can visually travel around and find their destinations in cyberspace. The issues we discuss here are mapping of a large‐scale area to image domains in a small amount of data, and effective display of the captured scenes for various applications. Route Panoramas captured along streets and panoramic views captured at widely opening sites are associated to a city map to provide navigation functions. This paper focuses on the properties of our extended images—route panorama, addressing the archiving process applied to an urban area, an environment developed to transmit image data as streaming media, and display for scene traversing on the WWW in real time. The created cyberspaces of urban areas have broad applications such as city tour, real estate searching, e‐commerce, heritage preservation, urban planning and construction, and vehicle navigation. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Using the Diphosphanyl Radical as a Potential Spin Label: Effect of Motion on the EPR Spectrum of an R1(R2)PPR1 Radical
Authors: Cataldo Laurent , Dutan Cosmina , Misra Sushil K. , Loss Sandra , Grützmacher Hansjörg , Geoffroy Michel 
Published: April 2005

AbstractThe EPR spectrum of the novel radical Mes*(CH3)PPMes* (Mes*=2,4,6‐(tBu)3C6H2) was measured in the temperature range 100–300 K, and was found to be drastically temperature dependent as a result of the large anisotropy of the 31P hyperfine tensors. Below 180 K, a spectrum of the liquid solution is accurately simulated by calculating the spectral modifications due to slow tumbling of the radical. To achieve this simulation, an algorithm was developed by extending the well‐known nitroxide slow‐motion simulation technique for the coupling of one electron spin to two nuclear spins. An additional dynamic process responsible for the observed line broadening was found to occur between 180 K and room temperature; this broadening is consistent with an exchange between two conformations. The differences between the isotropic 31P couplings associated with the two conformers are shown to be probably due to an internal rotation about the PP bond.