bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Chuligaństwo czy ﬁguracja w procesie cywilizowania? Recepcja szkoły Leicester a świat polskich kibiców piłkarskich
Authors: Kossakowski Radosław
Published: May 2021

The main aim of this article is to consider the topicality of the theoretical achievements of the Leicester School, formed by the students and continuers of Norbert Elias’s ideas, with Eric Dunning at their head. The author presents the main theses on stadium hooliganism which Dunning and his team formulated on the basis of a socio-historical analysis. The English researchers connect the behaviour of football fans with their class origins, with patterns of ‘street’ socialization, with masculinism, and with violence constituting an important aspect of daily life. They show that the social environment from which the majority of hooligans originate has not been included in the broader stream of the civilizational process. Then the author, in describing Polish football fans, makes use of certain elements of Norbert Elias’s process sociology (constituting Dunning’s analytical tool). History shows that the sub-culture of football fans is ‘becoming civilized’, although not in a uniform manner. The concept of ﬁguration could be a valuable analytical tool for describing the community of football fans, as it is not a society separated from the outside world, but remains in a speciﬁc interdependence with it. In the analysis, the dichotomy between ‘settlers’ and ‘outsiders’ is also helpful.
Andrzeja Sicińskiego badania stylów życia — spojrzenie z dystansu
Authors: Straczuk Justyna
Published: May 2021

This article attempts a contemporary perspective on the extensive qualitative studies into the life styles of urban families directed by Andrzej Siciński in the 1970s. The author describes in retrospect the historical and theoretical context of the studies, the methodology used, and the manner of their realization in the ﬁeld. She analyses the nature and use of the material collected and considers its potential for reutilization.
Wzory sukcesu w narracjach elit administracyjnych państwa
Authors: Gładys-Jakóbik Jolanta , Post Barbara
Published: May 2021

The article contains a qualitative analysis of statements by representatives of the Polish central administrative elite about the construction of their new roles and identity. It is assumed that one dimension of the new identity is the manner in which department directors (who were interviewed in 2013), define the concept of success, which seems ‘by definition’ to belong to the paradigm of a market economy. What does it thus mean for them and what are the consequences in terms of how they perceive their professional role? The author attempts to answer these questions.
Subiektywny wymiar ubóstwa
Authors: Tarkowska Elżbieta
Published: May 2021

This article is devoted to the relational-symbolic dimension of contemporary poverty, which is personified today in homo sacer, that is, the excluded person. Relations between the world of wealth and the world of poverty are dominated by contempt, rejection, and a sense of alienation. The result is the perpetuation of social inequalities and problems of identity in increasingly numerous spheres of impoverished people. These are challenges that contemporary society must meet. Science and public discourse are thus concentrating less on describing the symptoms of the problem and more on what excluded people themselves think and feel. Researchers are trying to hear the voices of the poor; qualitative research and analyses of memoir materials are useful to this end. In turning to such sources, the author presents the viewpoint of poor people, their feelings and subjective appraisal of their situation, and their strategies for dealing with poverty.
Piekło w komunałce. Analiza praktyk mieszkaniowych opisanych w „Mistrzu i Małgorzacie” Michaiła Bułhakowa
Authors: Gnieciak Monika
Published: May 2021

The author analyzes and interprets the housing practices of Muscovites in Soviet Russia of the 1930s through Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. Literature is here used as a source of knowledge about the social world, and the author also makes numerous references to works on the subject of Bulgakov’s masterpiece. She shows how the fantastical picture presented in the novel, which in large measure corresponded to Bulgakov’s personal experience, brought to the fore those paradoxes of Soviet conditions that testified to the degeneration of the system.
Obcość jako kategoria analityczna w badaniach nad polską emigracją artystyczną
Authors: Ferenc Tomasz
Published: May 2021

Biographical interviews conducted among Polish émigré artists have revealed several key categories. One of them is the feeling of otherness, which turns out to be a complex and multifaceted category. In the artists’ ‘mythologies’ their sense of foreignness, otherness, and even awareness of the hostility of the outside world appears very often and becomes part of their biographies and artistic ethos. Emigration generally exacerbates this condition. In the emigrant experience, the foreignness of the new place of residence and prolonged absence from the home country has its consequences. Very often emigré artists experience a dual sense of otherness: in the home country that they have left and in the new place of residence. However, this does not mean that the feeling is connected solely with suffering. Many artists are able to use this feeling to find subject matter and stimulation for creative work. These artists continually derive inspiration from being an outsider. The author uses  biographical material to show the different trajectories of foreignness and the various creative strategies used by emigré artists. Otherness is shown to be a key category of their experience but not an entirely unambiguous one.
Wrażliwość (nie tylko) artystyczna
Authors: Szpunar Magdalena
Published: May 2021

This article starts with an analysis of sensitivity, which is a two-sided trait. We value and admire sensitive people, but we may also consider them to be weak individuals, unable to cope. An overly intense reception of the world can sometimes lead to alienation. In today’s computerized, rationalized world, where efficiency matters above all, feelings can be a burden; reflection postpones immediate success. However, academic knowledge and artistic creativity require sensitivity to the world and the individualization of thinking and feeling. In considering philosophical ideas and the findings of researchers of the human mind, the author demonstrates that sharpened sensitivity and being different are essential traits of the creative attitude, while their lack testifies to a society’s regression.
O męskości konstruowanej medialnie: zarys zagadnień teoretycznych i przykład analizy empirycznej
Authors: Dziubiński Zbigniew , Organista Natalia , Mazur Zuzanna
Published: May 2021

This article analyzes how the category of masculinity is constructed in sports writing. It uses texts on sports that appeared in Gazeta Wyborcza, an opinion-forming Polish newspaper. The number of such articles was calculated, with distinctions between men’s and women’s sports, and the gender of the journalists or experts involved. Qualitative analysis showed which disciplines are presented and in what manner, and how the roles of male and female participants are characterized. It emerges that the media message varies in regard to the type of sport and manner of describing the participants. It is shown that the texts in Gazeta Wyborcza reproduce hegemonic masculinity.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster, czyli amerykański sen nie jest dla każdego, a sport to jedno wielkie oszustwo
Authors: Kępiński Marcin
Published: May 2021

The author analyses the 2009 documentary film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which investigates the nature of American pop culture and sports. Writing from the perspective of cultural anthropology and sociology, he considers how ideas about the body and physicality are programmed by popular media culture and famous sports figures and celebrities, who are treated as models of masculinity and mass media heroes. He also raises the issue of the influence of illegal pharmaceutical doping on contemporary American sports. All these subjects serve to describe the form and functioning of America’s contemporary collective identity and the connection between the authorities, television, sports entertainment, and politics. The United States described in the documentary is a real and existing utopia, which Americans and other people have dreamt and still dream about, and which everyone believes in—not only the recipients of popular media culture and sports entertainment.
Znaki miłości — praktyki tworzenia związku intymnego
Authors: Czernecka Julita
Published: May 2021

The author begins by addressing theories in which love is either the key bond in intimate interpersonal relations (Giddens, Beck, Illouz) or is a set of everyday practices aimed at generating and maintaining a close relationship (Kauffman) and in which love can be understood through certain signs and symbols and other structures of meaning (Danesi). The author’s analysis conforms to the concepts of the sociology of everyday life, the sociology of the couple, and the theory of social practices, according to which an intimate relationship is built on the basis of a couple’s daily activities, which “produce” that relationship through their repetition. The author analyzes ways of showing love to one another in everyday practices and attempts to embed these gestures and symbols in cultural conditions. The author’s reflections are based on a qualitative analysis of empirical research.
Czy miłość romantyczna jest emocją?
Authors: Dąbrowski Michał
Published: May 2021

The aim of this article is to analyze Raja Halwani’s concept of “romantic love.” Her main thesis is that romantic love is an emotion. The author of the article tries to look at the concept from the perspective of the social sciences, juxtaposing it with selected notions of romantic love from the border of sociology, social philosophy, and theology. He considers that the approach according to which romantic love is presented as an emotional state may be interesting not only for the psychologist but also for the philosopher or sociologist. He points out that love as an emotion is not subject to moral judgments. Finally, he concludes that when considering romantic love from a sociological point of view, its emotional basis should not be overlooked, but closing the phenomenon in the purely emotional sphere seems to be a methodological error.
Materiais Curriculares Educativos E Recursos Tecnológicos: Recontextualização E Identidades Pedagógicas De Professores De Matemática
Authors:   Universidade Pedagógica, Diniz Paulo
Published: May 2021

Atualmente têm ecoado diversas vozes demonstrando alguma insatisfação quanto à qualidade dos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem nos sistemas educacionais. Isso tem demandado alguma preocupação no seio de gestores dos setores da educação, de investigadores em educacão e de outras comunidades que têm afinidade com essas entidades. Diversas questões têm sido pauta de discussões, como é o caso da qualidade de formação dos professores, a qualidade dos materiais que professores e alunos utilizam no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem, a forma como os materiais didáticos são delineados, a maneira como esses materiais são utilizados por professores e alunos, entre outros aspectos.
Análisis De La Motivación Asociada Al Videojuego Calangos Y Al Aprendizaje De Las Ciencias En Actividades De Modelización
Authors:   Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Daza Pérez Erika Patricia , Niño-El Hani Charbel ,   Universidad de Copenhague, Conrado Loula Ángelo ,   Universidade Estadual de Feria de Santana
Published: May 2021

Las ventajas del uso de las tecnologías en la educación así como el auge de la industria de los videojuegos y su trascendencia en la cotidianidad de los ciudadanos ha promovido el interés por usarlos con fines específicos de aprendizaje. Con ello, los videojuegos educativos o serious games constituyen una cuestión de gran importancia dentro de las líneas de investigación de la didáctica de las ciencias. Los desarrolladores se proponen producir videojuegos con alto poder instructivo, que posibiliten el aprendizaje, el desarrollo de competencias o valores y atiendan las expectativas de los jugadores. Investigadores, didactas y maestros analizan el alcance de los videojuegos en el aprendizaje, estructuran orientaciones para un uso más eficiente en el aula y, entre otras cuestiones, analizan la motivación para jugar como una forma de aprender.
DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Authors: Vasanthakumari. S.
Published: May 2021

A research proposal is a document written by a researcher which is a concise and coherent summary that
provides a detailed description of the proposed program. Researcher has to follow a few basic steps in
Research process where development of a research proposal is an important step and rst step. The goal of research proposal
development persuades reader to believe the solution are appropriate, reasonable logic, practicable. Purpose of proposal is to
to educate and convince the reader. Characteristics include length between ten and forty pages , following specic
instructions and criteria for structuring, written in future tense and phrases similar with scientic articles .Research proposal
has components that include Front matter comprising title Page, project Summary , Components of Proposal includes
introduction , body, project proposal with statement of the Problem, proposed solution , program of Implementation,
conclusions / recommendations , Back matter with bibliography , works Cited , qualications of writer and project
implementers . budget , Appendices comprising format, cover page, title page, Lastly Summary brieng entire proposal.
Academic research proposals need to convince the reader for its acceptance , if it is able to convince the reader about the
ability of the Researcher and team in an organization to do the proposed work and how well it has been planned.
HYPOCHLOROUS ION BASED DRESSING: THROWBACK TO THE SURGEONS’ CHOICE
Authors: G Manikantha , Jawale Hemant Muktaram , Kumar Mishra Akshat Awdhesh , Tandur Amarjeet E , Agrawal Pratik J
Published: May 2021

1.1 BACKGROUND : As per Robbin's pathology(Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - 10th
Edition, n.d.) "an ulcer is the breach of the continuity of skin, epithelium or mucous membrane caused by
sloughing out of inamed necrotic tissue." In an era of modern-day fast track surgery and premier practices of medicine,
management of wound remains an archaic, almost omnipresent challenge to a health care provider mediating the need for
solutions. The hunt for an optimum dressing agent has been everlasting, one of which is our point of discussion in this study.
The addition of Chlorine(Cl2) to Water(H2O) gives rise to Hypochlorous ion, a weak acid that has been used traditionally as
disinfectant, sterilizer and beaches. These properties can be utilised for wound disinfection and swifter wound healing.
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
Ÿ To study the efcacy of Hypochlorous ion-based dressing over traditional normal saline based dressing .
Ÿ To study the effects factoring in various associated comorbidities
in patients such as Diabetes Mellitus, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Trauma and
Pressure Ulcer.
1.3 METHODOLOGY: A comparative study was conducted in a tertiary care facility in India that included 101 patients who were
distributed randomly utilizing computerised algorithms into study and control group. The control group received daily normal
saline dressing whereas the study group underwent daily hypochlorous ion-based dressing. The subjects were analysed after 4
weeks and evaluated for decrease in wound surface area and improvement of wound quality and tabulated for analysis.
1.4 CONCLUSION: Hypochlorous ion based daily dressing shows signicant reduction in wound surface area as well as
signicantly better and faster improvement in the quality of wound in patients of Traumatic, Diabetic and Pressure Ulcer
whereas the results in patients suffering from Peripheral Vascular Disease were equivocal.
COAGULATION ASSAYS AND AT-III ON LEVONORGESTREL IMPLANT ACCEPTORS
Authors: Iqsan Muhammad , Adenin Ichwanul , Rizki Yaznil Muhammad , Partogi Pasaribu Hotma , Sudewo Yudha , Dina Sarah
Published: May 2021

Background: Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, so the government has focused
Family Planning Program using contraception. Implants and IUDs are two most effective reversible
contraceptive methods and often used in Indonesia. Implant releases progestin, with most common reported side effect of
abnormal bleeding. Specically for levonorgestrel implants, changes in menstrual intervals, duration, volume of menstrual
ow can occur. Progestins are believed to cause changes in platelet and blood vessel, leading to hypercoagulability state,
which can be assessed through coagulation assays (PT, TT, aPTT) and level of AT-III.
Objective: This aims to determine the differences in coagulation assays and AT-III levels between levonorgestrel implant
versus IUD acceptors.
Methods: This study was an observational analytic study with retrospective cross-sectional design. The population were case
population (levonorgestrel implant acceptors) and control population (IUD). A total of 74 respondents were chosen by
consecutive sampling. Characteristics data were obtained by interview, anthropometric measurements, and medical records;
PT, TT, aPTT, and AT-III data were obtained from blood samples by ELISA method. An independent T-test was used to analyze
the data.
Results: Mean PT was the same for implant and IUD users, 13.11 seconds (SD=0.81 seconds) (p=0.1,000). Mean TT of implant
users was 14.78 seconds (SD=1.18 seconds) and IUD 14.58 seconds. (SD=1.18 seconds) (p=0.75). Mean aPTT for implant
users was 30.22 seconds (SD=4.65 seconds) and IUD 30.55 seconds (SD=2.79 seconds) (p=0.200). Mean of ATIII in implant
users was 92.18% (SD=9.72%) and IUD 84.79% (SD=14.74%) (p=0.250).
Conclusion: No signicant mean differences for PT, TT, aPTT, and AT-III between groups of levonorgestrel implant and IUD
acceptors (p value> 0.05).
Methods for maintenance of neural networks in continual learning scenarios
Authors: Suri Bhasker Sri Harsha , Srivastava Manish , Yeturu Kalidas
Published: May 2021

Neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting problem when deployed in a continual learning scenario where new batches of data arrive over time; however they are of different distributions from the previous data used for training the neural network. For assessing the performance of a model in a continual learning scenario, two aspects are important (i) to compute the difference in data distribution between a new and old batch of data and (ii) to understand the retention and learning behavior of deployed neural networks. Current techniques indicate the novelty of a new data batch by comparing its statistical properties with that of the old batch in the input space. However, it is still an open area of research to consider the perspective of a deployed neural network’s ability to generalize on the unseen data samples. In this work, we report a dataset distance measuring technique that indicates the novelty of a new batch of data while considering the deployed neural network’s perspective. We propose the construction of perspective histograms which are a vector representation of the data batches based on the correctness and confidence in the prediction of the deployed model. We have successfully tested the hypothesis empirically on image data coming MNIST Digits, MNIST Fashion, CIFAR10, for its ability to detect data perturbations of type rotation, Gaussian blur, and translation. Upon new data, given a model and its training data, we have proposed and evaluated four new scoring schemes, retention score (R), learning score (L), Oscore and SP-score for studying how much the model can retain its performance on past data, how much it can learn new data, the combined expression for the magnitude of retention and learning and stability-plasticity characteristics respectively. The scoring schemes have been evaluated MNIST Digits and MNIST Fashion data sets on different types of neural network architectures based on the number of parameters, activation functions, and learning loss functions, and an instance of a typical analysis report is presented. Machine learning model maintenance is a reality in production systems in the industry, and we hope our proposed methodology offers a solution to the need of the day in this aspect.
Metanoia económica desde la complejidad
Authors: Orellana Aldana Oscar Eduardo , Brenes Villeda Axel Esaú , Pérez Yoc Adery Luciano , Gatica Sergio Giovanni
Published: May 2021

Metanoia económica, surge precisamente de la necesidad de analizar nuestro contexto actual y de brindarle respuestas a un ecosistema que hoy más que nunca tiene muchas interrogantes sobre el futuro que deviene a partir de la pandemia COVID-19.  Seguramente los protagonistas de este futuro seguirán siendo los mismos, consumidores, productores y gobierno, pero su comportamiento ante el uso de los recursos que nos provee el planeta, debe ser diferente.  Caer en la misma panacea universal para resolver los problemas, como hasta el momento ha sido el capitalismo, mediante la propensión del crecimiento económico a costa de la destrucción del planeta, en la práctica ya no es una respuesta confiable; se debe precisar un cambio desde adentro, una conversión que conduzca a los protagonistas a la defensa de la vida en toda su expresión y como resultado al biocomportamiento.

En este sentido, surge la necesidad de recurrir a la bioeconomía, y en consecuencia emerge la biotributación como una opción, para desincentivar la inversión, fomentar el consumo responsable y la tributación verde o ecotributación, para la vida y su conservación. Las biofinanzas por su parte, buscan la correcta administración de los biorecursos que son obtenidos de bioactividades; para ello se apoya en las neurofinanzas, con el propósito de entender la racionalidad clásica del ser humano y enfocarla en una nueva racionalidad en la toma de sus decisiones.

Gracias a la creatividad humana y a su fundamental herramienta, la cultura, en donde se incluye tanto a la ciencia como al arte, la civilización actual ha alcanzado elevados niveles de confort. En lo inmanente y material. Todo (quizá) estaría bien a no ser porque en lo espiritual, en lo ético, en lo trascendente como especie y no como individuos literalmente hemos devastado al planeta Tierra. Hemos alcanzado un punto de inflexión que como especie estamos al borde de la extinción y por ende debemos encontrar una solución.
The Effect of Penetration, Availability, and Usage on Bank Profit
Authors: Suci Rizky Wulan , Rikumahu Brady
Published: May 2021

National banking profit growth has been fairly good, seen from the results of the third quarter of 2017, large-scale banks that dominate the market have seen a significant increase. The increase in profit was due to the ability of banks to reduce costs and reduce the provision for bad loans. Financial inclusion, namely efforts to provide easy access, availability, and use of the formal financial system for all members of the economy without social exclusion. Financial inclusion has 3 indicators, namely penetration, availability, and usage. This study aims to determine the effect of penetration, availability, and usage on bank profits at 10 conventional commercial banks listed on the IDX. The independent variables are penetration, availability, and usage. The dependent variable is bank profit. This research uses quantitative methods and the purposive sampling technique. The author uses descriptive analysis and panel data regression analysis using fixed effects. The results showed that penetration, availability, and usage did not have a significant positive effect on bank profits. Banking companies should provide more effective financial services so that they benefit customers and attract investors.
Instruments for Exploring Trauma-Informed Care
Authors: Thirkle Steven Anthony , Kennedy Angela , Sice Petia
Published: May 2021

Trauma-informed care is rising in popularity as services are recognising that traditional models are not offering a capacity for healing once thought. Service providers are becoming aware of individuals facing significant re-traumatisation using their services, and so a practical need to explore and understand approaches that accounts for these occurrences has arisen. Trauma-informed care is observed to be represented as a culture and an understanding of what this means is necessary to begin to understand trauma-informed care and its implementation. At present, there are a wide array of instruments available to evaluate the implementation and facilitation of trauma-informed care in numerous organisational services. A review of existing qualitative and quantitative instruments for exploring trauma-informed care was conducted. Many of these instruments require further validation or are limited in their construction. Foundational and substantial research on instruments were identified and discussed. Future instrument development emerging from such comparison and understanding is proposed.
The Practice of Youth Inclusion in Community Planning and Resiliency: The Case of Post-Hurricane Harvey
Authors: Rauhaus Beth M. , Guajardo Justin M.
Published: May 2021

This research emphasizes inclusive civic engagement by including youth participation in creating a comprehensive plan post-Hurricane Harvey in Rockport, Texas. Traditionally, youth are less likely to be included in civic engagement initiatives; however, the community-based disaster resilience model and the public participation process model stress the importance of inclusion in rebuilding, resiliency, and planning processes. Using these theoretical frameworks to guide resiliency workshops with upper-class high school students, this research offers a unique perspective of what youth desire in community development and disaster recovery. Qualitative data was gathered from youth resiliency workshops and summative analysis was conducted to discover themes among youth responses. The findings indicate that young citizens are prepared to engage in local civic affairs, which contributes to a healthier and sustainable community. This study further highlights that youth have valuable and unique perceptions of their community and a concern regarding social equity and justice in community development and resilience.
COALESCENCES IN THE BOOK OF IVAN IOV “PERIODIC SYSTEM OF WORDS”
Authors: ANDRISHKO Oleh
Published: May 2021

The article deals with the features of word-coalescences in the book of Ivan Iov «Periodic system of words», which is considered to be the most prominent in the author’s work. Ivan Iov belonged to the leading Ukrainian avant-garde poets to the 20th-21th centuries, leaving a significant trace both in syllabic tonic poetry and in experimental poetry (palindromes, graphic poems, acrostic, brachicolons, logogriphs, collage etc.). Ivan Iov was born in 1948 in the village of Kamianka, in the Apostolove District of the Dnipro region in a large family. He graduated from Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University and then worked as a teacher and journalist.
In 1997, he published his most famous and significant collection, «The Periodic system of words», where he continued the traditions of Ivan Velychkovskyi and which became the subject of our research. Particular attention deserves to occasionalisms by the author. In the research book you can identify several groups of coalescences-words, created lexico-syntactical method, on the basis of sued and subordinate phrases, residual phrases (most often prepositions). Also a feature of the creation of neologisms in Ivan Iov is the use of the names and surnames of famous people – friends of the poet, for example, Valerii Basyrov – the editor of this book; Hryhorii Huseinov – writer, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize; Mykola Zhulynskyi – Director of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of NAS of Ukraine. In the «Periodic system of words», the coalescences-palindromes (both commonly used and occasional) are also widely represented, which is a decisive feature of the creative manner of Ivan Iov compared with other avant-garde poets. The top of word-formation skill can be considered the poem that gave the collection its name; in it Ivan Iov showed the inexhaustible possibilities of word formation, which in combination with the original author’s style gave us a wonderful example of experimental literature.
RECEPTION OF THE HERITAGE OF M. T. RYLSKYI IN THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION “CULTURE OF THE WORD”
Authors: GANZHA Anhelina
Published: May 2021

For many decades, Maxim Rylskyi’s artistic texts and scientific achievements have attracted linguistic researchers. This thesis is vividly illustrated by the more than half a century history of publications on the heritage of the poet-academician in the scientific collection “Culture of the word” of the Institute of Ukrainian Language of NASU. Since the foundation of the mentioned edition (1967), its readers are being able to constantly get acquainted with Rylskyi’s works of about history of Ukrainian literary language, lingual stylistics, practice of artistic translation, lexicography, and also with scientific research of linguists about the multifaceted idiostyle of the writer.
The diachronic reception of publications about the scientist and poet in the collection “Culture of the Word” reveals a kind of creative and philosophical discussion by the scientific and artistic generations of the Soviet era, the post-Soviet era and the beginning of the 21st century. Although the immutable “classicism” (in the broadest sense) of M.T. Rylskyi’s legacy lifts it above time, yet the relentless evolution of scientific paradigms and artistic visions of the new era leads to new theoretical reflections on the writer’s works.
«TAKI SVOYI CHUZHISHI CHUZHYNY» (ON THE ISSUE OF EXPRESSIVE POSSIBILITIES OF MORPHOLOGICAL CATEGORIES IN LINA KOSTENKO’S NOVEL "BERESTECHKO")
Authors: DILNA Oksana
Published: May 2021

The article analyzes the expressive possibilities of the words belonging to different parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs) in Lina Kostenko’s novel «Berestechko». The main focusis on the stylistic role of grammatical non-normatives used in the text of the novel in question: non-standard forms of the number of nouns, irregular forms of comparative degrees of adjectives and non-normative pronouns. Such forms are evaluated according to the norms of the literary language regarding their semantics and stylistics hades of meaning (solemnity, familiarity, diminutive form, intimacy, colloquialism, etc.) given to the utterance. There is a detailed description of the metaphoricuse of one morphological form instead of another: singular form of noun instead of plural and viceversa, one pronoun instead of the other one, one tense form and mood of the verb instead of another. The article emphasizes the technique of nounstring (the same noun in different cases and pronouns of different categories). Stylistic aim of metaphoric form usageis clarified; the description is provided how the meaning of the utteranceis changed, what stylistic shades of meaning appearine very separate case and how they influence the communicative aim of the utterance.
A Integração física sul-americana no período recente (2000-2020): situação, continuidade, inflexão e reversão
Authors: Virga Thais , Marques Tomás Costa de Azevedo
Published: May 2021

Diante do processo de globalização econômica e de decorrentes investimentos realizados na criação de eixos de conexão para atender à crescente comercialização de produtos e serviços e à circulação de pessoas, ficam evidentes, em tempo e espaço, enormes diferenças entre países desenvolvidos e subdesenvolvidos, acarretando a maior oferta e integração de malhas viárias em favor daqueles. A América do Sul, apesar de histórica e estruturalmente apresentar expressivos atrasos em termos infraestruturais, com conexões mais voltadas “para fora” que “para dentro”, e haja vista o acúmulo de carências e desafios até a atualidade, nos últimos anos pareceu avançar no quesito integração física territorial, em planos e obras. Partindo da inter-relação entre tais aspectos, este artigo propõe debater sobre a questão dos transportes durante o período 2000-2020, com ênfase em políticas e investimentos efetuados e previstos, em linha com duas iniciativas de integração física regional: a Iniciativa para a Integração da Infraestrutura Regional Sul-Americana (IIRSA), de 2000, e o Conselho de Infraestrutura e Planejamento (Cosiplan), de 2009. Especificamente a partir de um diagnóstico recente da situação da infraestrutura sul-americana, a discussão avançará aos pontos de continuidade e inflexão entre tais agendas entre 2000 e 2016, com maior foco no Cosiplan. Então, com base em um cenário político-econômico complexificado na América do Sul, novas conjunturas e prospectivas sobre a integração física são apresentadas, indicando um movimento de considerável reversão da questão infraestrutural no subcontinente.
ICT MANAGEMENT FOR GREEN COMPETITIVENESS IN THE BANKING SECTOR
Authors: NASSAR Nour , TVARONAVIČIENĖ Manuela
Published: May 2021

Purpose – since ICT is an engine of green competitiveness in the banking sector, we aim to know in what banking field we must focus more on the use of ICT to ensure efficient green competitiveness.

Research methodology – PRISMA-SCR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews) were used to develop a greater understanding of relevant terminology, core concepts, and key items to report for scoping reviews.

Findings – ICT management has a positive influence on banking competitiveness, especially in the digital banking field.

Research limitations – researching the banking sector limits the possibility of generalizing the results to other types of business sectors as well as other geographical areas.

Practical implications – conducted research results have practical value for banks as this will guide the managers to emphasize the use of ICT in the right field which is digital banking to achieve better results.

Originality/Value – this research investigated one of the rare studies in the banking sector, where we study the drivers of green competitiveness, which is the modern version of the traditional bank.
RELEVANCE OF BUSINESS TRANSFERS AS A FUNDAMENTAL PILLAR OF RESILIENT ECONOMIES AND OUTLINE OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A RECENT SURVEY
Authors: HOGEFORSTER Max , HORN Svea
Published: May 2021

Purpose – the article shows the current state of the literature regarding business transfers presents the findings of a survey based on it, that can support the transfer process in the future.

Research methodology – the article is based on three research methods: (a) desk research, (b) surveys and (c) economic analysis. The three methods are highly interdependent.

Findings – the authors conclude that according to literature a lack of appropriate support and services for businesses going through a transfer exist. The survey highlights the challenges and demands that differ quite strongly between old and new member states.

Research limitations – the number from the 283 participants who stated that they had already been involved in business transfers is above average and cannot be extrapolated to all companies.

Practical implications – the practical implications of the study are highly relevant for decision-makers who want to create a structured approach to a sustainable support for business transfers in their countries.

Originality/Value – the article is of high practical relevance. With regards to the evaluation of existing literature, there is a lack of current overviews like this one. The results of the current survey are of particularly importance for the practice of business transfers and their intensive support.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES OF CUSTOMER-BASED INNOVATION THROUGH DIGITAL TOOLS IN SMEs
Authors: HOGEFORSTER Max , HENKE Melanie , MESLOH Melanie , ZAJKOWSKA Monika
Published: May 2021

Purpose – the purpose of this paper is to map out the current state of customer-based innovation through digital tools in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting advantages but also challenges, tools, methods and procedures involved.

Research methodology – a twofold methodology comprising desk research and literature review is drawn upon.

Findings – the authors conclude that customer-based innovation can be crucial for the success and resilience of SMEs and thus, the European economy. In order to provide SMEs with practical advice, further empirical research on the use of digital tools for customer-based innovation in SMEs is needed.

Research limitations – this research paper is limited to a theoretical scope and serves as a preparatory research for quantitative and qualitative surveys that will be run in various EU countries after the publication of this paper.

Practical implications – this research paper is relevant for SME managers, advisors and researchers that are interested in digital customer-based innovation in companies. Based on the theoretical framework provided in this paper, concrete training and education measures in the field will be developed.

Originality/Value – the assessment of feasible customer-based innovation measures in SMEs is crucial in order to se-cure their competitiveness and productivity, especially for companies in north-eastern Europe that are competing with low-wage countries. Based on this paper, further concrete empirical research, training and education measures will be developed.
Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO): Observations and Analysis from Advanced LIGO/Virgo's Third Observing Run
Authors: Paterson K. , Lundquist M. J. , Rastinejad J. C. , Fong W. , Sand D. J. , Andrews J. E. , Amaro R. C. , Eskandari O. , Wyatt S. , Daly P. N. , Bradley H. , Zhou-Wright S. , Valenti S. , Yang S. , Christensen E. , Gibbs A. R. , Shelly F. , Bilinski C. , Chomiuk L. , Corsi A. , Drout M. R. , Foley R. J. , Gabor P. , Garnavich P. , Grier C. J. , Hamden E. , Krantz H. , Olszewski E. , Paschalidis V. , Reichart D. , Rest A. , Smith N. , Strader J. , Trilling D. , Veillet C. , Wagner R. M. , Weiner B. , Zabludoff A.
Published: May 2021

With the conclusion of the third observing run for Advanced LIGO/Virgo (O3), we present a detailed analysis of both triggered and serendipitous observations of 17 gravitational-wave (GW) events (7 triggered and 10 purely serendipitous) from the Searches After Gravitational-waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO) program. We searched a total of 4935 deg2 down to a median 5σ transient detection depth of 21.1 AB mag using the Mt. Lemmon 1.5 m telescope, the discovery engine for SAGUARO. In addition to triggered events within 24 hr, our transient search encompassed a time interval following GW events of <120 hr, providing observations on ∼1/2 of the events accessible to the Mt. Lemmon 1.5 m telescope. We covered 2.1%–86% of the LVC total probability (P
total) for individual events, with a median P
total ≈ 8% within <120 hr. Following improvements to our pipeline and the addition of serendipitous observations, we find a total of seven new optical candidates across five GW events, which we are unable to rule out after searching for additional information and comparing to kilonova models. Using both publicly available and our own late-time data, we investigated a total of 252 optical candidates for these 17 events, finding that only 65% were followed up in some capacity by the community. Of the total 252 candidates, we are able to rule out an additional 12 previously reported counterpart candidates. In light of these results, we discuss lessons learned from the SAGUARO GW counterpart search. We discuss how community coordination of observations and candidate follow-up, as well as the role of archival data, are crucial to improving the efficiency of follow-up efforts and preventing unnecessary duplication of effort with limited electromagnetic resources.
Invasion success on European coastal dunes
Authors: Giulio Silvia , Cao Pinna Luigi , Carboni Marta , Marzialetti Flavio , Acosta Alicia Teresa Rosario
Published: May 2021

Many invasive plants are threatening the already highly vulnerable habitats of coastal dunes in Europe. Setting priority target species to control is mandatory for an effective planning of invasion management strategies at European level. This can be possible after identifying the species that currently have greater invasion success, in consideration of their ecological traits and origin. We quantified the three main components of invasion success for the extra-European alien plants found on European coastal dunes: local abundance, regional distribution and niche breadth, and related them to their life forms and origins. We found that life form was a better predictor of invasion success. In particular, geophytes and therophytes were the species with the greatest invasion success. Quite surprisingly, alien plants from Africa appeared as the group﻿ with slightly higher mean invasion success although this result was no statistically significant. We also highlighted the species deserving special attention. Among these,Xanthium orientale,Erigeron canadensisandOenotheragr.biennisshowed the widest levels of niche breadth and regional distribution, and had overall the greatest invasion success, but other species also had high levels in one of the three components of invasion success.
ANDI @ CONcreTEXT: Predicting concreteness in context for English and Italian using distributional models and behavioural norms
Authors: Rotaru Armand Stefan
Published: May 2021

In this paper we describe our participation in the CONcreTEXT task of EVALITA 2020, which involved predicting subjective ratings of concreteness for words presented in context. Our approach, which ranked first in both the English and Italian subtasks, relies on a combination of context-dependent and context-independent distributional models, together with behavioural norms. We show that good results can be obtained for Italian, by first automatically translating the Italian stimuli into English, and then using existing resources for both Italian and English.
CAPISCO @ CONcreTEXT 2020: (Un)supervised Systems to Contextualize Concreteness with Norming Data
Authors: Bondielli Alessandro , Lebani Gianluca E. , Passaro Lucia C. , Lenci Alessandro
Published: May 2021

This paper describes several approaches to the automatic rating of the concreteness of concepts in context, to approach the EVALITA 2020 “CONcreTEXT” task. Our systems focus on the interplay between words and their surrounding context by (i) exploiting annotated resources, (ii) using BERT masking to find potential substitutes of the target in specific contexts and measuring their average similarity with concrete and abstract centroids, and (iii) automatically generating labelled datasets to fine tune transformer models for regression. All the approaches have been tested both on English and Italian data. Both the best systems for each language ranked second in the task.
GUL.LE.VER @ GhigliottinAI: A Glove based Artificial Player to Solve the Language Game “La Ghigliottina”
Authors: De Francesco Nazareno
Published: May 2021

The paper describes GUL.LE.VER, GUiLlottine gLovE resolVER, a Glove based system developed to solve the game “La Ghigliottina” which participated in the Evalita 2020  task Ghigliottin-AI. The system described positioned #2, with 0.26 of Precision and 0.46 R@10, more than one guillotine is solved every four games, achieving results comparable to human players. The system proved to solve a different kind of guillotines compared to the first classified system ’Il Mago della ghigliottina’ . An approach based on these two kinds of systems may result in a boost in this field of research.
PRELEARN @ EVALITA 2020: Overview of the Prerequisite Relation Learning Task for Italian
Authors: Alzetta Chiara , Miaschi Alessio , Dell’Orletta Felice , Koceva Frosina , Torre Ilaria
Published: May 2021

The Prerequisite Relation Learning (PRELEARN) task is the EVALITA 2020 shared task on concept prerequisite learning, which consists of classifying prerequisite relations between pairs of concepts distinguishing between prerequisite pairs and non-prerequisite pairs. Four sub-tasks were defined: two of them define different types of features that participants are allowed to use when training their model, while the other two define the classification scenarios where the proposed models would be tested. In total, 14 runs were submitted by 3 teams comprising 9 total individual participants.
KIPoS @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Task on KIParla Part of Speech Tagging
Authors: Bosco Cristina , Ballarè Silvia , Cerruti Massimo , Goria Eugenio , Mauri Caterina
Published: May 2021

The paper describes the first task on Part of Speech tagging of spoken language held at the Evalita evaluation campaign, KIPoS. Benefiting from the availability of a resource of transcribed spoken Italian (i.e. the KIParla corpus), which has been newly annotated and released for KIPoS, the task includes three evaluation exercises focused on formal versus informal spoken texts. The datasets and the results achieved by participants are presented, and the insights gained from the experience are discussed.
Predictors of post-operative outcomes in patients with peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: P. Wu Lily , G. Naidoo Nadraj , O. Adetokunboh Olatunji
Published: May 2021

Background: A very small proportion (1%) of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) present with critical limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) with poor prognosis. The present review showcased several pre-operative predictors and key post-operative outcomes. Identification of any modifiable predictors may impact positively on surgical outcomes.Design: PubMed/Medline, Google scholar and Cochrane databases were searched using terms such as “peripheral arterial disease” AND “critical limb ischemia,” “post-operative outcome,” AND “predictors of post-operative outcomes”. Search was for relevant English-language articles published between January 1997 and December 2007 Selected articles were screened first by title and abstract, and selection of full articles was based on relevance using our inclusion and exclusion criteria and quality ratings performed with the MINORS score.Results: The included studies were published between 1997 and 2007. Only six (6) articles out of a total of 2,114 were deemed suitable for analysis. Ambulatory recovery was >70% at six months, 86.7% and 70.0% at one year and five years respectively. Rate of local wound complications was between 12% and 24%. Reported limb salvage rates were >90% at six months, >70% at one year and 70.0-90.0% at five years. Primary graft patency rate at one year ranged from 63% and 76.6%. Gangrene, diabetes and impaired pre-operative ambulatory function are associated with more wound complications, low limb salvage, reduced graft patency and poor functional outcome.Conclusion: Pre-operative ambulatory status was the most important predictor of post-operative ambulatory recovery. Diabetes mellitus was an important risk factor for prolonged wound healing, local wound complications and major amputation.