bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Real-World Outcomes for Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in the Veterans Affairs System
Authors: La Jennifer , Cheng David , Brophy Mary T. , Do Nhan V. , Lee Jerry S.H. , Tuck David , Fillmore Nathanael R.
Published: October 2020

PURPOSE

Increasingly broad patient groups are being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in clinical practice, but few studies have assessed their usage and outcomes in large, comprehensive real-world cohorts. We identified patients who received ICIs in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system and described patient characteristics and survival outcomes across multiple indications.

METHODS

We conducted a retrospective analysis using electronic health record data from VA facilities nationwide. Overall survival (OS) from time of ICI initiation for key indications was estimated by Kaplan-Meier. We also stratified OS by frailty status, as defined by a surrogate index developed in VA data. For select indications, we further compared outcomes to historic and concurrent control patients treated with standard-of-care regimens at the VA.

RESULTS

We identified 11,888 patients who were treated with ICIs and determined the cancer type and indication for which they were treated. The cohort is enriched for patient groups that are under-represented in pivotal clinical trials (PCTs), including older, non-White, and/or higher disease burdened patients. Generally, OS observed in the VA cohort is lower than that reported in PCTs. After stratifying VA patients by frailty status, OS among nonfrail patients is more similar to OS reported in PCTs for some indications. Compared with internal VA control cohorts, patients treated with ICIs generally exhibited longer OS for all indications considered.

CONCLUSION

This study describes ICI outcomes across multiple tumor types in a real-world population at the VA. For most indications, real-world survival outcomes are observed to be lower than those reported in PCTs, but patients receiving ICIs still achieve longer survival relative to patients receiving standard of care.
Epidemiology and Comorbidity of Adrenal Cushing Syndrome: A Nationwide Cohort Study
Authors: Ahn Chang Ho , Kim Jung Hee , Park Man Young , Kim Sang Wan
Published: October 2020

Context

Adrenal Cushing syndrome (CS) is a major subtype of CS and has a high surgical cure rate. However, only a few studies have investigated the epidemiology and long-term outcomes of adrenal CS.

Objective

We aimed to investigate the nationwide epidemiology, long-term prognosis, and postoperative glucocorticoid replacement therapies of adrenal CS in Korea.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A nationwide claim database.

Patients

Adrenal CS patients who were defined as having undergone adrenalectomy, a diagnosis code of CS, and not having pituitary gland surgery.

Main Outcome Measures

Crude incidence and age-standardized incidence rates, long-term mortality, comorbidities diagnosed preoperatively or developed postoperatively, and the pattern of postoperative glucocorticoid replacement therapy.

Results

From 2002 to 2017, there were a total of 1199 new adrenal CS patients, including 72 patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (malignant adrenal CS), in Korea. The crude and age-standardized incidence rates were 1.51 and 1.27 per million person-years, respectively. The overall standardized mortality ratio was 3.0 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.4-3.7) for benign adrenal CS and 13.1 (95% CI, 7.6-18.6) for malignant adrenal CS. Adrenal CS patients had a high risk of having coronary artery disease, stroke, metabolic diseases, and depression. A similar proportion of patients were diagnosed with these comorbidities both preoperatively and postoperatively, suggesting a significant residual risk even after adrenalectomy. The median time of postoperative glucocorticoid replacement therapy was 10.1 months, and the major types of glucocorticoids used were prednisolone (66.6%) and hydrocortisone (22.4%).

Conclusions

Adrenal CS is associated with multiple comorbidities even after treatment, which necessitates meticulous postoperative care.
Adolescent Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes in Young Adulthood
Authors: Bardugo Aya , Bendor Cole D , Zucker Inbar , Lutski Miri , Cukierman-Yaffe Tali , Derazne Estela , Mosenzon Ofri , Tzur Dorit , Beer Zivan , Pinhas-Hamiel Orit , Ben-Ami Michal , Fishman Boris , Ben-Ami Shor Dana , Raz Itamar , Afek Arnon , Gerstein Hertzel C , Häring Hans-Ulrich , Tirosh Amir , Levi Zohar , Twig Gilad
Published: October 2020

Context

The long-term risk of type 2 diabetes in adolescents with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is unclear.

Objective

To assess type 2 diabetes risk among adolescents with NAFLD.

Design and Setting

A nationwide, population-based study of Israeli adolescents who were examined before military service during 1997–2011 and were followed until December 31, 2016.

Participants

A total of 1 025 796 normoglycemic adolescents were included.

Interventions

Biopsy or radiographic tests were prerequisite for NAFLD diagnosis. Data were linked to the Israeli National Diabetes Registry.

Main Outcome Measures

Type 2 diabetes incidence.

Results

During a mean follow-up of 13.3 years, 12 of 633 adolescents with NAFLD (1.9%; all with high body mass index [BMI] at baseline) were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes compared with 2917 (0.3%) adolescents without NAFLD. The hazard ratio (HR) for type 2 diabetes was 2.59 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.47–4.58) for the NAFLD vs. the non-NAFLD group after adjustment for BMI and sociodemographic confounders. The elevated risk persisted in several sensitivity analyses. These included an analysis of persons without other metabolic comorbidities (adjusted HR, 2.75 [95% CI, 1.48-5.14]) and of persons with high BMI; and an analysis whose outcome was type 2 diabetes by age 30 years (adjusted HR, 2.14 [95% CI, 1.02-4.52]). The results remained significant when a sex-, birth year-, and BMI-matched control group was the reference (adjusted HR, 2.98 [95% CI, 1.54-5.74]).

Conclusions

Among normoglycemic adolescents, NAFLD was associated with an increased adjusted risk for type 2 diabetes, which may be apparent before age 30 years.
The New Immaterialism? On Spirituality in Modern Thought
Authors: Wickman Matthew
Published: October 2020

Postsecular thought and criticism involves heightened attention to religious feeling as well as to religious practices. Such feeling, often described as spirituality, enjoys broad cultural currency, though it is far less frequently an object of scholarly attention in the humanities. For this reason, spirituality remains an undertheorized and widely misunderstood category in the humanities, even as it implicitly informs several sites of humanistic inquiry. The aim of this essay, therefore, is to shed light on the presence of evocatively (and sometimes overtly) spiritual thinking in humanities contexts, suggesting different ways that spirituality inflects such areas of thought as the humanities in a posthuman age, tensions between ideological and aesthetic theories, and postcritique.
The Theory of Vacuoles and Low-energy Nuclear Reactions
Authors: Pitard Francis
Published: October 2020

A new version of Francis Pitard’s book, The Theory of Vacuoles and Low-energy Nuclear Reactions: A Correct System of Dimensions and Units has just been announced, and is available from the author’s website: http://www.fpscsampling.com/publicationsnewsletter/books/. TOS Forum is glad to make its readers aware of this publication which takes us all into a very interesting place inside elementary particles, which on closer contemplation are claimed not to exist. What in the world of Physics is going on?
Inclusive Manufacturing: The Impact of Disability Diversity on Productivity in a Work Integration Social Enterprise
Authors: Narayanan Sriram , Terris Ed
Published: October 2020

Problem definition: This study examines the impact of disability diversity on the productivity of apparel manufacturing teams in the context of a work integration social enterprise. Two measures of disability diversity are examined: the number of disability categories employed in a production line and the evenness of disability category dispersion among workers employed in an apparel production line. Academic/practical relevance: The problem has both academic and practical relevance. From an academic standpoint, the current literature does not study the implications of employing individuals with disabilities and their impact on productivity with microdata. The issue also has practical relevance because it ties into recent managerial interest to employ individuals with disabilities in organizations. According to statistics, only 35% of workers with disabilities have some form of significant full-time employment. Methodology: The study uses panel regression analyses to test the impact of disability diversity (number of disability categories and evenness of disability category dispersion) of workers in a production line using detailed multiyear data on the productivity of apparel manufacturing cells. Results: Two key insights emerged from the analyses. First, productivity can be enhanced by increasing the diversity of workers with disabilities in the workforce within a garment-manufacturing cell. Specifically, productivity is best at moderate levels of disability categories in a team. Second, team productivity is higher at greater levels of evenness of disability category dispersion. Managerial implications: The analysis in this paper sheds light on the potential benefits of integrating individuals with disabilities into organizations and its implications on productivity. Specifically, the study finds evidence that having moderate levels of disability categories on a team with higher levels of evenness in disability category dispersion is associated with better productivity rather than having a concentrated team focused on a specific disability. The implications of the results and limitations for the study as well as its potential insights into the context of social enterprises that employ individuals with disabilities are discussed.
Improved Crop Productivity Through Optimized Planting Schedules
Authors: Zhang Ying , Swaminathan Jayashankar M.
Published: October 2020

Problem definition: We study the optimal seeding policy under rainfall uncertainty in rain-fed agriculture and explore its advantage over commonly used heuristics in practice. Academic/practical relevance: Our work is in the area of agriculture operations, and we focus on the improvement of farmer’s expected total profit by optimizing planting schedules. Methodology: We model a farmer’s planting problem under limited planting capacity in a finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program. Results: We show that the optimal planting policy is a time-dependent, threshold-type policy, and the optimal threshold is dependent on the soil water content and planting capacity. In our computational study, we use the well-known Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer simulator used in agriculture to obtain the expected yield when planting in any given period. Utilizing field weather data from Southern Africa, in a real-size, large-scale problem, we demonstrate a significant relative profit advantage of the optimal planting schedule over commonly used heuristics in practice. We show that the relative advantage of the optimal policy increases as the climate condition becomes more severe for planting. We also develop a heuristic based on the secretary problem and demonstrate the increased efficacy of the secretary heuristic. Managerial implications: We show that the farmer should plant down to the optimal threshold of seed amount. However, in practice, farmers start to plant each year after observing enough cumulative rainfall. Utilizing field weather data, in a real-size, large-scale problem, we show significant improvement of the expected total profit if the farmer could adopt the optimal policy.
Exploring the roles and responsibilities of non-medical prescribing leads in the South West of England
Authors: Jarmain Sally , Carey Nicola
Published: October 2020

The aim of this study was to explore the role and responsibilities of non-medical prescriber leads in the southwest of England. A questionnaire was completed by 22 leads in this region in 2019. A total of 2388 healthcare professionals were reported to have the prescribing qualification amongst the 22 participating organisations. Just under half (44.5%) of the leads did not have any designated time to undertake the role, and a third (31.2%) did not have the role included within their job description. The demands of the role were evident in the key areas of activities reported by leads in this study. A total of 21 (95.5%) respondents reported that governance and communication with managers/non-medical prescribers was important or essential to their role, whilst only 11 (50%) described the support of designated medical practitioners in this way. The responsibilities of the leads in the southwest of England are complex, however, many of them undertake the role with limited organisational support. Research is required in order to fully understand the role and responsibilities of the Lead role, so that it can be supported appropriately. Without this, the full benefits of non-medical prescibing are unlikely to be realised, as Leads will not have the time or capacity to undertake the role effectively.
Deterministic full-aperture polishing technology of high power laser components
Authors: Xie Ruiqing , Liao Defeng , Zhao Shijie , Zhang Mingzhuang , Chen Xianhua , Wang Jian , Xu Qiao , Chen Jian , Zhao Huiying , Jiang Zhuangde
Published: October 2020

In order to improve the production efficiency of large aperture laser components, a deterministic full-aperture polishing technology is proposed. The basic theory and experimental results of this technology are introduced in detail.
Micro Fabricated Compound LED System for Global Illumination Needs
Authors: Nag Rohan
Published: October 2020

Development of a micro-fabricated RGBW LED system that can be used in existing optical arrangements of illumination fixtures, to meet the rising global illumination standards in the fields of health, safety and well-being.
PyHIST: A Histological Image Segmentation Tool
Authors: Muñoz-Aguirre Manuel , Ntasis Vasilis F. , Rojas Santiago , Guigó Roderic
Published: October 2020

The development of increasingly sophisticated methods to acquire high-resolution images has led to the generation of large collections of biomedical imaging data, including images of tissues and organs. Many of the current machine learning methods that aim to extract biological knowledge from histopathological images require several data preprocessing stages, creating an overhead before the proper analysis. Here we present PyHIST (https://github.com/manuel-munoz-aguirre/PyHIST), an easy-to-use, open source whole slide histological image tissue segmentation and preprocessing command-line tool aimed at tile generation for machine learning applications. From a given input image, the PyHIST pipeline i) optionally rescales the image to a different resolution, ii) produces a mask for the input image which separates the background from the tissue, and iii) generates individual image tiles with tissue content.
CZY JESTEŚMY GOTOWI NA EKOGLOTTODYDAKTYKĘ W POLSKIM KONTEKŚCIE EDUKACYJNYM?
Authors: Sujecka-Zając Jolanta
Published: October 2020

The trend for eco-linguistics, which has been dynamically developing in the English-language literature since the 1970s, proposes a change in the perception of the relationship between language, nature, and culture, in a sense making language a link which brings together nature and culture, rather than separating them as is traditional. This approach poses important questions: How do languages ​​work in the ecosystem created by the language environment of all users of a given language context? What relationships can they enter into? How should one perceive the development of multilingualism in such an ecological approach, in which not only does "strong" affect the "weak" but “weak” reciprocates? "Weak" has an important place in the language ecosystem, which risks serious changes due to excessive weakening of one of its components.

This paper aims to examine the possible inspirations that eco-linguistics offers Foreign Language Teaching (FLT), highlighting the role of each language and sensitizing the reader to the relationships that arise between languages ​​and their users in a given environment. From this perspective Claire Kramsch (2008) postulates a change in the perception of the main function of the teacher from the "teacher of a code" to the "teacher of meaning", which has specific didactic consequences in how language activities are approached. Is the school classroom a place for activities which have their origin in the trend for eco-FLT?
KOMPETENCJE PROFESJONALNE NAUCZYCIELI JĘZYKÓW OBCYCH Z PERSPEKTYWY PODEJŚCIA LUDYCZNEGO W GLOTTODYDAKTYCE – PROJEKT BADANIA
Authors: Surdyk Augustyn
Published: October 2020

In the pedagogical and glottodidactic literature numerous publications have been devoted to the competences of the teacher, their roles, functions, ways of working with the learner, teaching strategies, teaching styles, class management styles, and finally, models of teacher education. However, it seems that in the vast majority of these publications the authors concentrated on the so-called hard competences, valuing them more than soft skills , and neglecting, or even marginalising, the range and particular components which possibly play a crucial role in the initiation and development of didactic cooperation between the teacher and the learner. At the same time these soft skills are perhaps able to some extent compensate for what is lacking in the range of the teacher hard competences. This article presents the theoretical background and an outline of a research project concerning FL teacher competences. The glottodidactic process is treated as a kind of game where the most important for the teacher in this ludic approach is ludic competence. The article presents hypotheses and research questions which are to be verified in a research planned for the coming year.
Questionnaire - Answer
Authors: Gawryszewska Beata J.
Published: October 2020

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Nature-related experience. Response to the questionnaire concerning human experience associated with nature
Authors: Elzenbeg Henryk
Published: October 2020

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Being in the woodlands: archaeological sensibility and landscapes as naturecultures
Authors: Kobiałka Dawid
Published: October 2020

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Schreber’s gardens and Jordan’s gardens as elements of created nature: the example of Katowice
Authors: Nakonieczny Ryszard
Published: October 2020

The author analyzes historical examples of allotment gardens as well as sports and recreational grounds in Katowice (Poland) to underscore their importance for the appeal of the city and its ecology. Schreber’s and Jordan’s gardens of Katowice epitomize broader relationships between the human and nature observed in a typical contemporary city of the 20th century, where nature has crucial significance for the psychological and physical well-being, ensuring one an opportunity for leisure, promoting health, a sense of comfort, as well as activating all senses, which have become dulled today due to the impact of the virtual worlds. The author also outlines his own urban activities, which attempt to draw attention of city dwellers to the advantages of green areas.
Landscape and the environment
Authors: Wilkoszewska Krystyna
Published: October 2020

The paper analyzes the concept of landscape and its various embodiments in art and nature. On the one hand, one can claim that our understanding of the landscape is constituted by conceptual oppositions like human/non-human, artifactual/natural, culture/nature; on the other, one may notice that landscapes occur in the space “between” these oppositions. Furthering this observation, I lodge an objection to the approach of certain exponents of environmental aesthetics who opt for replacing the notion of landscape by that of environment because I would argue that the former is still informative.
Nonequilibrium landscapes and nature conservation in the Białowieża Forest
Authors: Kowalewska Agata
Published: October 2020

Traditional conceptualizations presume that landscape and nature in general are characterized by a striving for balance. In consequence, environmental protection chiefly consists in conservation of the existing state, without making allowances for the dynamic changes caused by vital processes taking place in those landscapes, human and non-human alike. The current dispute concerning the protection of the Białowieża Forest is nothing but an upshot of the differences between the involved with respect to what should be protected on top of how it should be done. This study outlines the problems deriving from conceptualizations of nature and landscape as static entities and comes forward with a proposal of conceiving landscape not as an “image of the land”1 but a corporeal experience of being in a space, on which climate change, civilizational and social transformation, political decisions, and bark beetles all have their impact.
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Zapamiętane w krajobrazie. Krajobraz kulturowy czesko-niemieckiego pogranicza w czasach przemian, Scholar, Warsaw 2017
Authors: Salwa Mateusz
Published: October 2020

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A landscape embroiled: experience of nature through experience of art
Authors: Milczarczyk Paula
Published: October 2020

The article sets out with the theory of “aesthetics of reality” (created by Maria Gołaszewska) and its related method of transferring artistic structures onto non-artistic reality. The resulting construct, which is dubbed a para-artistic structure, becomes the theoretical basis for the aesthetic experience of nature. The so-called “formalization”—a procedure which consists in inserting nature into artistic frameworks—makes natural phenomena acquire a pretense of artwork. Nature as a picture becomes a landscape, while terms connected with the aesthetics of nature gain artistic qualities, enabling use of such notions as picturesque or kitsch. The methodological proposal by Gołaszewska is subsequently compared with the critical perspective of environmental aesthetics.
A history of non-human lives: social weeds
Authors: Weychert Monika
Published: October 2020

The author analyzes Karolina Grzywnowicz’s installation Weeds (2015): a meadow which the artist replanted from two villages in Bieszczady—whose inhabitants had been resettled in 1944-1950—into a site adjoining a street in Warsaw. The meadow was promptly mowed by the municipal services, and thus became a twofold commemoration. First, it was a deliberately created yet subtle and poetical monument to the displaced people. Second, in a manner unanticipated by the artist, it grew into a symbolic martyrdom memorial of the “green urban anarchists”: weeds in other words. The author analyzes the relationships between non-human lives and history, asking whether the marginal history of plants is ever noticed in scientific and social reflection, as well as wondering about the role of plants in commemoration and why they fail as a medium of memory.
The landscaping of Upper Silesia after 1989
Authors: Kosterska Alicja
Published: October 2020

The paper offers a critical analysis of the representations of post-industrial landscapes in Upper Silesia. It takes a look at the products of visual culture after 1989: feature films set in the region and photographs by Wojciech Wilczyk, trying to detect their embedded ideological mechanism and explain its dynamics. Drawing on the concepts advanced by Tim Edensor and W.J.T. Mitchell, the paper demonstrates that that mechanism consists in using aestheticization tools and sight cropping, following which a comprehensive view is feigned. As a result, Upper Silesia appears to be a degenerate space affected by permanent stagnation. In closing, the requirements that representations of landscape should meet are enumerated in order to provide insights into the diversity of a region, as well as offering a point of departure for reflection on its place in the national imagination. Ultimately, these considerations enable the expression of Upper Silesian identity from a position other than that of inferiority and subordination.
Historia, pamięć i nacjonalizm po katalońsku
Authors: Kubiaczyk Filip
Published: October 2020

The article analyses relationships between history and memory in the context of Catalonian nationalism. Its essential aim is to demonstrate how one makes (i.e. uses and abuses) memory in Catalonia. The author seeks to show that Catalonian nationalism means manipulation of history, falsification of sources and distorted interpretations rather than a discourse about the actual history of Catalonia.
Heterotopie i nie-miejsca w „Cześć Tereska!” Roberta Glińskiego i „Lilji 4-ever” Lukasa Moodyssona
Authors: Svensson My
Published: October 2020

The aim of this paper is to analyse non-places and heterotopias in the films “Cześć Tereska!” (Poland, 2001, Robert Gliński) and “Lilja 4-ever” (Sweden, 2002, Lukas Moodysson). Drawing on the theories of French anthropologist Marc Augé and philosopher Michel Foucault, the author demonstrates that the lives of the protagonists revolve around the ghetto-like housing estates of apartment blocks and non-places of hypermodernity. At the same time, despite the surrounding bleakness and fatalism, the heroines manage to find “havens” which perform the functions of heterotopia, in the sense proposed by Michel Foucault. The significance of both places is ambivalent, which is demonstrated in the discussion.
O cesarzu Makrynie; rec. książki: Przemysław Daniel Dyrlaga, Cesarz Makryn. W cieniu wojen i uzurpacji
Authors: Ruciński Sebastian
Published: October 2020

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O staropolskim wzorcu gospodarza raz jeszcze z punktu widzenia historyka (w świetle poradników rolniczych z XVI i XVII w.)
Authors: Świderska-Włodarczyk Urszula
Published: October 2020

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the figure of a model nobleman-farmer in the 16th- and 17th-century Poland. As a research tool, the author employs an original definition of the model, while relying on farming almanacs from the period as sources. Using this as a basis, the author demonstrates that the model significantly departed from the image conveyed by the literature of the period.
O wieloznaczności monet typu DEAE SEGETIAE albo Segetia versus Segeta
Authors: Kluczek Agata A.
Published: October 2020

The paper offers interpretations of the content of aurei and antoniniani of the DEAE SEGETIAE type, minted for Salonina Augusta, wife of emperor Gallienus (253–268). Apart from that instance, the name Segetia never appeared again in imperial coinage. Meanwhile, the effigy of the goddess on those coins displays traits found in the representations of other deities.
Językowo-kulturowa kreacja starości
Authors: Grzelakowa Eliza
Published: October 2020

The author presents contemporary connotations of the notion of old-age in the context of previous historical and cultural research in that area. Current data obtained from studies of interpersonal relationships is compared with the image of old age created in cultural texts and historical documents. Thus it is possible to verify contemporary axiological attributes of the notion of old age as well as its correspondences with the attributes and connotations established in the cultural memory of Poles today.
Cultural context and learning
Authors: Asdjodi Minoo
Published: October 2020

This study examines English learners in the United Arab Emirates in terms of their attitudes and motivation. Through a two-phased study that adopts both qualitative and quantitative approaches, this paper explores the correlation between students’ socio-cultural values and their learning and eventual success.
Żydzi i obrazy w późnym antyku; rec. książki: Lee I. Levine, Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art
Authors: Maciudzińska-Kamczycka Magdalena
Published: October 2020

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Sztuka katastrofy; rec. książki: Jurgen Kaumkotter, Śmierć nie ma ostatniego słowa. Sztuka w tragicznych latach 1933-1945
Authors: Maciudzińska-Kamczycka Magdalena
Published: October 2020

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Retoryczny aspekt polemiki religijnej z perspektywy listu Stanisława Hozjusza do Marcina Kromera z 15 kwietnia 1551 roku
Authors: Stasiewicz Przemysław
Published: October 2020

The aim of this paper is to show how a 16th-century Catholic clergyman would polemicize in the matter of religion with a Lutheran, whom he tried to convince to abandon erroneous (in his opinion) teachings. The author attempts to demonstrate the means and devices which Hozjusz employed for that purpose, and show the image of a heretic and a defender of faith conveyed in the letter to Marcin Kromer dated 15 of April 1551.
Anglikanizm i odrodzenie katolicyzmu na tle sytuacji religijnej w XIX-wiecznej Anglii
Authors: Kantyka Przemysław
Published: October 2020

The article describes the religious situation in the 19th-century England with special emphasis on the position of Anglicanism and Catholicism. First, it examines the situation of the Church of England with its rise of the Oxford Movement and transformation of Anglicanism into a worldwide community. Subsequently, the paper describes the renaissance of Catholicism in the new circumstances following the enactment of Catholic Emancipation Bill . Finally, it mentions the first attempts at a dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics. All these historical developments are shown in the context of life and conversion of John Henry Newman.
Iluzja i deziluzja. Dążenie do wolności pokolenia '68 i jego konsekwencje na przykładzie próby odnalezienia siebie, dziecka tego pokolenia, w powieści Zoe Jenny pt. „Kwietny pył”
Authors: Wawrzynek Karin
Published: October 2020

In this article, the example of a child of the ’68 generation, in this case Jo, a protagonist in „The Pollenroom” by the Swiss author Zoë Jenny, serves to illustrate the conflict between the ’85 generation and the ’68 generation and its serious consequences, which concern the urge of freedom, the ideals, the anti-authoritarian view of life, women´s movement as well as the overcoming and disintegration of traditional conventions and structures of society. The characteristic traits of the ’68 generation have fatal repercussions for its descendants. The author seeks to show how difficult it could be to live in this estranged world and find oneself for a child abandoned by its parents who pursued their ideals and the fulfilment of their dreams.
Religia w służbie polityki. Mistyka syjonizmu religijnego
Authors: Ochman Jerzy
Published: October 2020

The aim of this article is to present the contribution of Religious Zionism to the strategy and ideology of Zionism. This contribution consisted in conferring a halo of sanctity upon Zionism, nation, state and the territory of Palestine, by means of quotes from the Torah, Jewish prophets, poets and mystics. Thanks to the efforts of Religious Zionists, Zionism as a whole gained its nationalist-religious specificity and later imparted these traits to the state Israel.
Some considerations of the Spanish bishops against the laws relating to personal identity, family and education
Authors: Gérman Zurriarián Roberto
Published: October 2020

The paper discusses the opinions of Spanish bishops concerning a number of selected laws passed in Spain with respect to the identity of an individual, family, and education.
The Overt and Covert Chagall
Authors: Ruth Dorot
Published: October 2020

In this paper, the authors chooses the theory of metarealism as a tool to reveal the worlds of Marc Chagall - the physical and metaphysical ones which function simultaneously. The purpose behind it is to help readers discover Chagall’s magical, mysterious and mystical environments which he so adroitly conveyed via his colourful creations. For this end, I analyzed three of his well-known paintings, each of which helped uncover his world of harsh reality merged with his life of fantasy, both spiced with symbolism.
Narracja subiektywna zapośredniczona. Wokół zagadnienia „mowy pozornie zależnej” w filmie
Authors: Birkholc Robert
Published: October 2020

The paper sets out to describe the “free indirect speech” of film, which the author chooses to cali “mediated subjective narrative”. Based on specific examples, the author characterizes the narrative devices which in a way are analogous to what literary studies define as “free indirect discourse”. The basic indicators of that textual figure include subjectivization of communication on a stylistic level and interference of internal and external focalization.
Ku posthumanistycznej wspólnocie. Eko-logika, czyli myślenie domem
Authors: Markiewicz Miłosz
Published: October 2020

The article is an attempt to review the ecological discourse in the light of posthuman philosophy. The main concept addressed by the author is the Anthropocene; the author observes that the Anthropocene functions as an ambivalent philosophical metaphor, which underlies contemporary ecological discourse. The author advances a new concept which, in his opinion, could replace ecology. The concept is called eco-logics, and may be defined as ‘thinking through home’.
CONDITOR URBIUM TRAJANS URBANISIERUNGSPOLITIK IN DEN DONAUPROVINZEN
Authors: Mrozewicz Leszek
Published: October 2020

The victory in the war with Dacians set off a number of major administrative and administrative reforms conducted by Trajan in the Danubian provinces. Some of the vital elements of the reforms included veteran settlement and establishment of numerous towns – coloniae and municipia. As many as eighteen were thus established in the region during Trajan’s reign.
Viaggiare e vivere altrove. Sulla condizione del migrante nel paese d’adozione nel romanzo „M” di Ron Kubati
Authors: Karp Karol
Published: October 2020

The aim of the article is to present the existential status of a migrant on the basis of Ron Kubati’s novel „M”, and to define the features of the phenomenon of migration. The analysis focuses on two areas. First, it shows the major problems which determine the character’s internal state, namely lack of knowledge about the new environment and the hostility of the local community. Second, it outlines the positive aspects of staying there, highlighting the dominant ones.
Budowanie prestiżu królewskiego rodu. Związki rodzinne Wazów z dyna- stiami europejskimi
Authors: Skowron Ryszard
Published: October 2020

Marriages enabled the House of Vasa to enter into the network of courts throughout Europe and opened a way to participate in the processes of assimilation, reception or rejection of respective cultural, religious, and political paradigms. The bonds of kinship became one of the most effective instruments to raise the prestige and the standing of dynasty, which sought to occupy an ever higher position in the hierarchy of European rulers. The aim of this paper is to show how the House of Vasa functioned within he contemporaneous dynastic networks in Europe on the examples of several selected issues of strictly familial nature: inheritance of names, christenings, family reunions and financial security.
Threat Conditioning and Trait-Based Vulnerability to Personality Disorder
Authors: Conway Christopher C. , Chang Fini , Young Katherine S. , Craske Michelle G.
Published: October 2020

Some personality disorders (PDs) are accompanied by heightened threat sensitivity to benign events, whereas others are associated with minimal reactivity to danger or punishment. Such aberrant patterns of defensive responding may be due to abnormal threat learning processes, analogous to those observed in other fear- and fearlessness-based disorders. We investigated threat learning deficits with a Pavlovian differential conditioning procedure in an undergraduate sample (n = 117) overselected for negative affectivity. Contrary to predictions, maladaptive personality traits, as assessed via the Personality Inventory for DSM-5, were largely unrelated to defensive responding (i.e., subjective and electrodermal reactions to danger and safety cues) during threat conditioning. We discuss the possible boundary conditions of threat learning abnormalities in PD and suggest research designs that could more effectively reveal such deficits, if they exist.
İŞGÖRENLERİN UMUT, İYİMSERLİK, DAYANIKLILIK VE ÖZ YETERLİLİK DÜZEYLERİNİN İÇ GİRİŞİMCİLİK EĞİLİMLERİNE ETKİSİNE DAİR ÖZEL SAĞLIK SEKTÖRÜNDE BİR ÇALIŞMA
Authors: AKDURU Hale Eda
Published: October 2020

Umut, iyimserlik, öz yeterlilik ve dayanıklılıktan oluşan psikolojik sermaye hem bireysel iyi oluş sağlayan hem de iş yerinde başarıya odaklanmayı kolaylaştıran bir kavramdır. Benzer şekilde işgörenlerin görev aldıkları örgütü ve kendilerini rekabetçi kılmalarını sağlayan iç girişimcilik yeteneği ise süreçleri iyileştiren, değiştiren veya yeniden yaratan öneriler geliştirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda işletmeleri hedeflerine ulaştıran başlıca kaynak olan insan ve onları iç girişimci olmaya iten tüm değişkenler yönetsel açıdan dikkate alınmalıdır. Bu araştırmada Uşak İlinde özel sağlık sektörü alanında faaliyet gösteren toplam 268 kişilik evrenden 109 kişilik bir örneklem belirlenerek anket uygulanmış ve işgörenlerin umut, dayanıklılık, öz yeterlilik, iyimserlik düzeylerinin örgütsel iç girişimcilik eğilimleri ile ilişkisi analiz edilmiştir. Analizler sonunda iyimserlik, dayanıklılık, öz yeterlilik ve umudun iç girişimciliği pozitif şekilde etkilediği ve ayrıca iç girişimcilik eğiliminin yaş, gelir düzeyi ve iş tecrübesi parametrelerine göre farklılaştığı sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır.
Differentiating between non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas and sellar meningiomas using ADC
Authors: Zhang Jing , Zhao Zhiyong , Dong Li , Han Tao , Zhang Guojin , Cao Yuntai , Zhou Junlin
Published: October 2020

Introduction and aim

It is difficult to distinguish between non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas (NFPMAs) and sellar meningiomas because of their overlapping imaging manifestations on routine MRI, especially in cases of meningiomas growing into the saddle. Here, we aimed to differentiate between these two tumors using apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values and MRI characteristics.

Methods

A total of 60 NFPMA and 52 sellar meningioma cases confirmed by the pathological analysis were retrospectively reviewed. All patients were examined via routine MRI and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) before undergoing surgery. The clinical characteristics, MRI characteristics, and max ADC (ADCmax), average ADC (ADCmean), and minimum ADC (ADCmin) values were compared between the two tumors via Chi-square test and two sample t-tests. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine the discrimination ability.

Results

The ADCmax, ADCmean, and ADCmin values were significantly higher in NFPMAs compared to sellar meningiomas (P < 0.001 for all). Among ADC values, ADCmax demonstrated good performance with an AUC of 0.896 (95% CI, 0.823–0.969) and accuracy of 88.7%. A cut-off value of 0.97 × 10−3 mm2/s was used for ADCmax for differentiation between tumors. A combination of ADCmax values and clinicoradiological features showed the best discrimination ability for differential diagnosis between the two tumors, with an AUC of 0.981 (95% CI, 0.958–1.000) and accuracy of 96.9%.

Conclusion

A combination of ADCmax and clinicoradiological features demonstrates good discrimination ability and high accuracy for differentiation between NFPMAs and sellar meningiomas, and is a potential quantitative tool to aid in the selection of surgical techniques.
Production of antibacterial filter paper from wood cellulose
Authors: Imani Reza , Talaiepour Mohammad , Dutta Joydeep , Ghobadinezhad Mohammad R. , Hemmasi Amir H. , Nazhad Mousa M.
Published: October 2020

Paper has a visible market-share in hygiene products either in the form of personal hygiene or as food packaging. The designation “hygiene”, though it suggests cleanliness, does not imply antibacterial properties; rather it can be stated that hygiene products do not initiate microorganism growth. Antibacterial products could restrict propagation of pathogenic bacteria either by holding bacteria or by trapping and neutralizing them. Most research in this field has been conducted using textile fibers as a substrate, but the present work uses paper instead. The objective was to produce an antibacterial filter paper capable of trapping and neutralizing pathogenic microorganisms using wood fibers. To produce antibacterial paper, chitosan and nanosilver capped with PAA (polyacrylic acid) were deposited on the fiber surface using a layer-by-layer technique. Samples for the tests were prepared from refined bleached softwood (RBSW) kraft pulp. The deposition of antibacterial agents on fiber as well as paper were monitored using a zeta potential analyzer (ZPA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS). The minimum requirement for deposition of the agents was a multilayer comprised of eight alternating layers. The deposition onto fiber or paper had no effect on tensile strength or the pore structure of the substrate.
Mejora del cumplimiento de fechas programadas en servicios de calibración aplicando Seis Sigma
Authors: Enciso Acuña Zenaida Virginia
Published: October 2020

This article is the result of the application of Six Sigma methodology to improve compliance with scheduled dates in services performed by a calibration laboratory at the customer’s facilities. Through its five phases, Six Sigma methodology makes it possible to define the problem in a specific and quantitative way, measuring the performance of the affected process, identifying and analyzing the root causes, as well as establishing the actions to overcome problems and the controls to maintain the improvements. In this way, the laboratory increases the compliance with scheduled dates from 56.2% to 70.3%, as well as the level of customer satisfaction from 72.3% to 84.6%.
Evaluación de la influencia e impacto del análisis de video en el nivel de comprensión de gráficos en cinemática: una alternativa de bajo costo y de fácil implementación
Authors: Rosas Echevarría Cesar Wilfredo , Hilario Cárdenas Jorge , Perales Flores Roberto , Cerna Cueva Alberto Franco , Prado Juscamaita Justina Isabel
Published: October 2020

Este artículo es un estudio que evidencia los beneficios de implementar el análisis de video (AV) en clase de Física. El objetivo de la investigación es demostrar que la aplicación del AV, además de ser una técnica de bajo costo y de fácil uso, mejora significativamente el nivel de comprensión de gráficos en cinemática (NCGC). En el trabajo se comparan los resultados de la parte práctica del tema de cinemática en una clase tradicional y en una con AV, después de aplicar el TUG-K (Test of Understanding Graphs in Kinematics), para evaluar la influencia del AV en el NCGC a 60 alumnos seleccionados de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Huánuco (30 para cada grupo). Los resultados muestran que existe una fuerte correlación biserial puntual (rbp = 0.809) altamente significativa (p < 0.0001) entre estas dos variables, que el AV tiene un impacto medio en el NCGC (Hake = 32.5%) y que el NCGC es significativamente mayor (p < 0.0001) cuando se aplica AV en comparación con la clase tradicional.
Modelo de gestión para el control de riesgos en oleoductos, poliductos y gasoductos
Authors: Rivas Tufiño Alfonso Eduardo , Núñez Solano Sergio Júlio , Moscoso Jácome Ronal Elicio
Published: October 2020

The hydrocarbon transport industry combines its technical activities with the integrity of the installed operating systems, in addition to the implementation of safety measures for pipelines against failures and leakage of dangerous liquids. Thus, the risk control management model in all product shipment processes arises, which aligns the configuration of technical standards to operate pipelines in compliance with the prevention of substandard conditions and actions, which derive from the obligation to maintain pipeline integrity (installed capacity). This gives origin to a certain level of risk control management, as an achievement of the maximum level of conformity with the facilities, which ensures that all operating units achieve the development of new concepts of proactive, not reactive, work, in the face of unplanned disasters. In this study, significant risk levels were reduced from 30.16% to 10.26% at the end of the 2014-2017 period, which is reflected in a decrease in the consequences of the damages in facilities, a reduction in out-of-court settlements and an increase in environmentally friendly operations in accordance with industry standards.
Lūkesčiai aukščiausio lygmens vadovų kompetencijoms: kaita ir geroji praktika
Authors: Markauskienė Gintarė
Published: October 2020

Keičiantis ekonominei situacijai aukščiausio lygmens vadovų kompetencijoms yra keliami itin aukšti reikalavimai: pradedant nuo funkcinio, formalaus vadovavimo, aiškiai apibrėžto statuso bei darbo funkcijų, baigiant šiuolaikinio lyderio paveikslu, kuris apima savyje begales kompetencijų ir netgi charakterio savybių bei nuolat keičiasi. Nagrinėjant mokslinės problemos ištirtumo lygį, pastebima, kad dažniausiai tiriama kompetencijų svarba, aukščiausio lygmens vadovų bendradarbiavimas, nagrinėjama asmeninio tobulėjimo, lyderystės tema, taip pat, kokios svarbiausios vadovų kompetencijos gali nulemti verslo sėkmę. Moksliniuose darbuose nėra keliami klausimai, kurie analizuotų aukščiausio lygmens vadovų kompetencijų kitimą laike bei lūkesčius kompetencijoms nuolat besikeičiančioje aplinkoje. Šio straipsnio tikslas yra įvertinti lūkesčių aukščiausio lygmens vadovų kompetencijoms kaitą gerųjų praktikų kontekste. Šiam tikslui pasiekti buvo atlikta mokslinės literatūros analizė, naudoti sisteminimo bei apibendrinimo metodai, analizuojama geroji praktika bei atliktas lūkesčių aukščiausio lygmens vadovų kompetencijoms tyrimas. Mokslinės literatūros analizės rezultatai atskleidė, kokios kompetencijų grupės yra labiausiai vertinamos šiandieninėje verslo aplinkoje, taip pat, kokias galimybes atvėrė bei kokius uždavinius iškėlė karantino režimas šių dienų lyderiams. Atlikus tyrimą buvo nustatytos svarbiausios kompetencijos, tai – aukšti etikos ir moralės standartai, greitas sprendimų priėmimas bei atsidavimas nuolatiniam darbuotojų mokymuisi.
Portraying Migrant Families in Academic Publications: Naming and Framing
Authors: Juozeliūnienė Irena , Bielevičiūtė Indrė , Budginaitė-Mačkinė Irma
Published: October 2020

In this chapter the authors set out to examine how migrant families are named and framed in academic publications by Lithuanian researchers published from 2004 to 2017, available in Lithuanian and international academic databases. The authors aim to disclose how Lithuanian academics perceive the change of family boundaries and fluidity of family relations in the context of global migration, and how the meanings of ‘change’ are used within academic publications that have sought to define the migrant family life as ‘troubling’. The analysis of publications presented in this chapter was carried out from January to March 2018. It formed a sub-study of the research project ‘Global Migration and Lithuanian Family: Family Practices, Circulation of Care, and Return Strategies’ (2017–2019), funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. The analysis has revealed that Lithuanian researchers portray migrant families as extended in space, liquid, networked, survived, but unsecure because of ongoing risks as well as experiencing ‘losses’ or/ and ‘gains’. The researchers conclude that portraits presented by the academics are framed by the family ideology, while naming of migrant families highly rely on the images of ‘how a family should be’.
Doing Family Memory in the Case of Emigration Experience
Authors: Žilinskienė Laima
Published: October 2020

This chapter present the importance of memory making in migrant families lives and how emigrants ‘do’ family memory. A representative survey of Lithuanian residents shows that those with emigration experience since 1990 participate in family memory construction more actively. The development of such communicative family memory is family work which demonstrates family solidarity and occurs between and within generations. However, this research shows that gender, age and location influence who is involved in this process with men and younger family members less likely to participate.