Titles in Veterinary Medicine research articles

Titles are the first point of contact between authors and readers. They call for attention and provide concise and exhaustive information on the research. State of the art in the medical field shows that titles have a mean word count ranging from 15.48 to 15.85 and that they can be arranged into four different formats: nominal, full-sentence, compound and question. Veterinary Medicine has not been object of study and is an underrepresented field in genre analytical surveys. This research wants to fill in part this gap by discussing a pilot survey on veterinary research article titles. To this aim, six issues from three veterinary journals were scanned and the samples labelled "original research article" were examined. The corpus, consisting of 74 specimens, was analysed to elicit the mean word count and the format. Results reveal a mean length of 14.06 words per title and the prevalence of nominal and compound titles. These data are shared to offer a preliminary framework that can serve to inform on the practices adopted by veterinary researchers to communicate findings

Fear and Joy in the Dance of Death: Re-Interpreting the 14th Century Plague\u27s Artistic Genre

This thesis explores dancing bodies in the Dance of Death genre after the 14th century plague, known today as the Black Death. At that time, Western Europe withstood great losses in body count, with one third of the total European population dying, and in the faith and well-being of its civilization (McNeill 168). Even today, the Black Death continues to be a fascinating area of study because of its political, social, religious, and artistic impact. By considering dance, its images, and mythology, scholars can learn more about medieval perceptions of art, bodies, and faith. Taking as my research objective medieval Dance of Death works that specifically depict dancing characters bringing death, including skeletons and the deathly performer in the Pied Piper, I use the study of dance to look at the meaning of the form and garner insight about the emotional tone of the audience. With both images of the Dance and one prominent dancing story, The Pied Piper of Hamelin,\u27 I explore other possible meanings for this misread art. Previous interpretations of the Dance of Death have been negative or, at best, dismissive. For a more sensitive and thoughtful analysis, it is critical to factor in issues of the body, the spirit, and the faith surrounding the time of the Black Death. Such images and stories have the potential to reveal more than they have in past scholarship. Under this new scrutiny, dance becomes an expression of joy, instead of the ridicule and gloom that many analysts have attributed to it. This latter interpretation is unfair to the history and place of dance amid other arts, as well as the medieval people who struggled to hold onto their faith in a dark time. In the Dance of Death, as shown through visual images and the Pied Piper tale, dance was not another betrayal of God or a morbid mockery of pain, but a way to alleviate the hopelessness of existence and the sorrow of loss

Framing research in Food Science: the state of the art on research article, short communication and poster presentation titles

Titles are the first point of contact with readers and are encoded to provide concise information on the paper’s contents. Data from available surveys show that the structural construction conforms to four different layouts, namely nominal, compound, full-sentence and question, with a prevalence of the former two formats and an increase in the use of the latter ones. The aim of this paper is to discuss the state of the art of title encoding practices in three written genres commonly employed in Food Science: research articles, short communications and poster presentations. Findings indicate the prevalent occurrence of nominal and compound layouts and the lack of question titles in the three genres analysed. Results also show that titles have a mean length of 15.3 words in research articles, of 14.6 words in short communications and of 12 words in poster presentations. The data are shared to offer a framework of current praxis in Food Science and to inform teachers and authors on how to shape informative titles for their research.

Physiological Basis of No-Go Decay with Sod1 Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

With the rise of anxiety within the United States, it is crucial to find safe and effective ways to alleviate symptoms. The purpose of this study was to examine how walking on a treadmill, participating in yoga, or quietly reading impacts state anxiety. This study included 40 (N=40) students studying psychology at Winona State University. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions. Participants completed the STAI-AD, an anxiety inventory measuring state and trait anxiety, before and after receiving their assigned condition. Analysis was done using a mixed between-within subjects’ analysis of variance to see if one condition was more effective than another in alleviating state anxiety. Results indicated that no condition was more effective in reducing anxiety. Results did indicate that time had a significant main effect. A one-way ANOVA was conducted to compare the mean change of anxiety within each condition. Results indicated there was not a significant change in anxiety between conditions. Another one-way ANOVA was conducted to compare mean pre-condition state anxiety for each condition. The results indicated there was not a significant difference between the treatments precondition state anxiety. These findings indicate that anxiety may be reduced by taking 20 minutes to go for a walk, participating in yoga, or reading

Analysis of DTC nutrigenetic services in Italy: state of the art, agreement to the ESHG statement and future outlooks

Background: In both USA and Europe operate companies selling Direct-to-consumer genetic tests (DTC). These tests are offered to healthy people aiming to identify predispositions to complex diseases and to take preventive measures. Several DTC-nutrigenetic tests (DNTs) are available on the market. They propose the definition of a personalized diet, on the basis of the investigated genetic variants, which would reduce the risk of developing those diseases which have been associated to specific genetic markers. However, the risk/benefit balance of exposing unselected population to genetic testing without any medical surveillance is far from be established. Furthermore, it lacks an accepted procedure to select which genetic markers needs to be investigated, to evaluate their specific role and, as consequence, to define a personalized diet. Within this context, the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) released a statement regarding the DTC tests that has been ratified by several national societies including the Italian one. 
In the present study we analyzed the DNT offered in Italy, the state of the art and the abidance with the ESHG statement. 
Methods: We queried web search engine for the DNT offered to italian population, portraying a non-specialized customer. We examined the DNTs vendor websites and/or directly contacted the companies to collect information on: 1) genetic marker essayed, 2) diseases and phenotypes considered and 3) kind of dietary advices provided. Finally, we evaluated the abidance to the ESHG statement. The study was conducted between November, 2010 and May, 2011.
Results: Six companies operate in Italy with a total of seven different DNTs offered. Both studied phenotypes and investigated genetic markers were very different among companies, with a relative higher level of agreement for phenotype than for genes. None of the companies described the methods used to select markers and to define diet advices. None of the companies showed a complete agreement to the statement of the ESHG. 
Conclusion: Although DNT companies' efforts are worthy, a standardization of methods and a more strictly agreement with ESHG statement should be encouraged

InSAR Time Series Analysis of Natural and Anthropogenic Coastal Plain Subsidence: The Case of Sibari (Southern Italy)

We applied the Small Baseline Subset multi-temporal InSAR technique (SBAS) to two SAR datasets acquired from 2003 up to 2013 by Envisat (ESA, European Space Agency) and COSMO-SkyMed (ASI, Italian Space Agency) satellites to investigate spatial and temporal patterns of land subsidence in the Sibari Plain (Southern Italy). Subsidence processes (up to ~20 mm/yr) were investigated comparing geological, hydrogeological, and land use information with interferometric results. We suppose a correlation between subsidence and thickness of the Plio-Quaternary succession suggesting an active role of the isostatic compensation. Furthermore, the active back thrusting in the Corigliano Gulf could trigger a flexural subsidence mechanism even if fault activity and earthquakes do not seem play a role in the present subsidence. In this context, the compaction of Holocene deposits contributes to ground deformation. Despite the rapid urbanization of the area in the last 50 years, we do not consider the intensive groundwater pumping and related water table drop as the main triggering cause of subsidence phenomena, in disagreement with some previous publications. Our interpretation for the deformation fields related to natural and anthropogenic factors would be a comprehensive and exhaustive justification to the complexity of subsidence processes in the Sibari Plain